This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 85 Express Bomb

The evening breeze blew Nie Weiyang's hair again, and the black and white hair swayed gently in the wind.

He walked out of the city and saw that C3510 had changed a lot. Now it had turned from a city into a ruin, with prefabricated slabs piled up like a low mountain. The cordon was slowly and heavily patrolling among them. In the distant sky, rain clouds were piled up like prefabricated slabs. Hills occasionally rose and fell above the vast plain forest.

CSSS security unit?

What have you secured?

Nie Weiyang shook his head speechlessly. He stepped on his Lucky Lottery and drove past a security cordon. It made a slight buzzing sound. The red light swept over him, touching the standard two-handed sword and the security personnel ID card on his chest, and then he left calmly.

Yes, now, as long as Nie Weiyang still carries these two things on him, all CSSS security units will no longer actively attack him. Facilities belonging to the previous civilization will also prioritize him as their own unit, giving him more convenient treatment and even giving him a discount.

After his rebirth, his neighbor asked him if he had found a job. Now that he thought about it, how could that not be considered a job? His three-month internship had already passed.

Incidentally, administrator status surprisingly doesn't come with a discount, perhaps because administrators don't need that little discount. However, when Nie Weiyang casually asked, "Do I get paid?", the host's silence was longer than any previous one, so long that it made people want to join in the silence.

Before going to Shelter 3539, Nie Weiyang left the city first.

Under the night sky at the edge of the city, he found a place with a nice view on the top of the mountain and took out something from his backpack.

It was a skull.

A small skull that hosts a trace of energy fluctuations. In its eyes, there are two strange runes engraved, emitting subtle black energy.

Nie Weiyang gently stroked it, sinking his spiritual power into it. He sensed a broken soul—he awakened this soul, and a thought resonated in his mind, almost calling out: "Dad?"

"..." Nie Weiyang sighed softly. He sat on the ground, holding the skull in one hand, gazing into the sky, his scarlet eyes hidden behind sunglasses, his windbreaker spread on the ground.

"I am not your father." Gentle waves flowed through his spirit.

This communication was not equal. He was there completely, while the other party was a little girl who looked only six or seven years old. Her eyes were blood red, and there was a dark hole where her irises should be. That was the sign of a follower of the Sky Crossing Demon.

The left side of the child's body was shattered, scattered like broken glass, and seemed to be pointing in a distant direction. However, she seemed to feel no mental pain, and just tilted her head upwards in a spiritual space, as if she could see him if she looked up.

But she only saw the sea.

It was a sea of ​​white light that flooded the sky and the earth. It was gentle and calm, not hot, not cold, not dazzling, and not hurtful.

But her instinct told her that if she dared to touch it, she would be crushed to pieces and her soul would be shattered.

"I want to find my dad..." the little girl murmured cautiously, "Dad..."

"..." Nie Weiyang was silent for a moment and said, "He's not here."

"Where is Daddy?"

"In the city, not far away. You'll see him soon." Nie Weiyang said, his voice softer than ever before. "Child, are you okay?"

"I……?"

"You. I noticed that you seem... not very energetic."

"I'm...hungry," the girl muttered. She touched her stomach with her good hand, seemingly unaware that the other half of her body was gone. "Dad said...if I get 100 points on the test, he'll take me out for hamburgers...This time, I only got 99, so Dad got mad, but he still gave me candy...Uncle, I'm so hungry..."

"Sugar?" Nie Weiyang's voice was gentle. "What kind of sugar?"

"It's just... Dad brought Mom and sister... Mom and sister turned into candy, and Dad said they loved me. I love eating... that candy... Mom and sister, when will you come again?"

……

Listening to the childish voice, Guanghai showed a slight fluctuation and Nie Weiyang closed his eyes.

"Child, that..." He paused, not knowing how to tell her that it was not candy.

After a while, he said, "Rest. When you wake up, you will see your father."

"Okay, uncle..." the little girl murmured.

She slowly closed her eyes, and the turmoil in her soul gradually subsided. She didn't realize that the sea of ​​light was gently drowning her and turning her into ashes.

In a mere instant, this half-soul transformed into a wisp of pure energy—a delightful treat for a professional with powerful mental strength. Nie Weiyang quietly watched the tilted runes in the skull's eye sockets vanish silently. At the same time, that wisp of energy, carrying a spark of his mental energy, gently drifted away in the wind.

It passed over the corpse of the leader of the God's Gift, passed between the cordon and the ruins, passed over the sounds of the city, passed over the fields and over the head of the spirit messenger Mei Yan, passed over where the stars and rain clouds were watching, and went straight into the distance.

Nie Weiyang felt a little heavy-hearted, even though he had nothing to do with the child.

He felt bad every time he had to kill an innocent victim who had been demonized by the Return Cult, but he had to do it, because the souls of the demonized were incomplete, and they would instinctively crave to absorb the souls of normal humans. This desire was completely addictive, and almost no demonized person could resist it.

The devouring desire from the soul is completely different from appetite. The pain of human beings starving to death is not even one-tenth or one-twelfth of the pain when the devouring desire of the soul strikes.

A demonized being, especially one with a weak will or undeveloped values, would inevitably devour souls, bringing disaster upon the land. This child had even devoured the souls of her loved ones. After experiencing this brief moment of satisfaction, she might even actively seek out souls to devour.

The Sky-crossing Demon Tolionga is a race that feeds on the souls of ordered creatures. They try to convert humans towards themselves. Those who succeed will become the new Tolionga, while those who fail will become demonized.

The Return Sect will deliberately create demons, and at the same time raise souls that feel and enjoy pain, and even let these souls devour their own blood relatives to gradually purify their energy.

This is the best ingredient and a delicacy in Tolienga's eyes.

Nie Weiyang operated carefully, trying not to damage the skull structure, and took out a complete Netherworld crystal bound by energy from it.

This is one of the main materials of the beacon, and it usually records some information, ranging from the deceased's deepest memories during his lifetime - the Return Sect calls it "material impurities" - to information about rituals, sky magic, coordinates, spells, etc.

He put away the crystal, dug a hole in the beautiful scenery, and buried the skull deep in the ground. Before burying it, he wrapped it with a piece of plastic sheet and put it in a box that was well sealed.

But when he was about to pour the soil, he dug it out, opened it, and put two candies he brought from Langcheng into it.

"This is sugar." Nie Weiyang said softly, "It's quite sweet."

He flattened the ground with his shield, obscuring the appearance of its digging, then stood and headed towards the city. In his mind, a light flickered on the map function, rapidly moving in a familiar direction—the place where Nie Weiyang had once been a guest, the Zhongzhou stronghold of the Return Sect, the Zhongzhou Bone Temple.

As for blood debts, victims have never been able to collect them themselves, and in the new world, the stability of the mechanism that can help victims collect debts has been greatly reduced.

but……

Someone has to settle accounts with them, and Nie Weiyang is used to doing this job.

Nie Weiyang walked into a silver door, and a few hours later, he walked out of the door with an [Artificial Destiny 3539] between his fingers and a gold medal for a speed race hanging on the other finger.

The sky was darker than before, the darkness before dawn.

He signed his name in the City Voice, then grabbed his lucky ticket again and drove off in another direction. The city behind him grew brighter, buildings awakening, and the connection between the mainframe and the shelter was reestablished, but it still couldn't connect to the terrain editor. This must be due to a lack of certain conditions...

As Nie Weiyang pondered, the Lucky Sign sped off into the night, leaving behind a beautiful trail of azure flame.

On the map, the light spot flew to somewhere on the edge of Zhongzhou, suddenly burst out with a bright light, and disappeared silently.

Deep in the mountains, above the gurgling water, lies a magnificent yet mysterious temple.

The main body of the temple, half-embedded in the mountain, resembles a huge and complex folded skeleton. In the spacious hall at the center, a man in red robes holds a broken piece of Netherworld Crystal. His robes are scorched black. He clutches the sun pendant on his chest with his other hand, staring intently at the dissipating crystal. His golden mask, with its downcast eyes and tears streaming down its face, subtly reveals a hint of anger.

Just then, a streak of light flashed from the distant sky and sank into the crystal in his hand. Then, a ray of light imbued with a purifying and sacred aura exploded right in his face. Amidst two consecutive loud explosions, this breathtaking force blasted through his three layers of shields with precise, cold force, nearly shattering his mask.

Several men in black robes rushed in hastily from outside the temple. Seeing this scene, they looked at each other and did not dare to go forward.

The leader hesitated for a long time, then bravely approached and asked, "Your Majesty... what... is going on?"

The Sun Master was silent for a long time, as if he was holding back something, and slowly put down the broken crystal.

"C3510's second target disrupted Plan One." His voice was unusually hoarse, even carrying a hint of calmness and patience. "The beacon has been dismantled, and the other half of the material's soul has been released back, where it merged with the other half here. This allowed the soul to travel to the Netherworld, triggering a displacement wave between the Netherworld and the material world.

"That opponent... is very strong. He has superb skills and advanced awareness."

On the surface, the Japanese Lord praised Nie Weiyang generously, but underneath his red robe, his hands were trembling and clenched, his fists harder than stone.

"Update: That guy... is a Paladin...!"

　Thanks to [子亦愆期] for being the leader!!! To be honest, I never thought I could be the leader, so thank you again!!!
　　The leader's extra chapters will start from tomorrow. After all, today I said I would post as much as I wrote, so it's a bit of a rip-off to count it today x
　　(A group of strange rabbits press

　　
　
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