A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 571 Another Flight (Part 1)

"Ring ring, ring ring, time to get up and go to work! Time to get up and go to work! Time to get up and go to work!!!"

The boy's hand, bearing a few old scars, peeked out from under the covers, groped around for a bit, then raised high and slammed it onto the alarm clock.

The alarm clock stopped abruptly. The boy threw off the covers, sat up in bed, stared blankly for a while, and then finally came to his senses. He turned and pulled back the curtains by the bedside.

As dawn broke, the first rays of sunlight streamed in, illuminating the old wooden house.

The walls are covered with various newspapers and line drawings of kites and birds.

Several wooden planks were nailed in an alternating pattern at the junction of the roof and the walls to reinforce the structure of the house and to prevent too much rainwater from getting in during storms.

Tiny dust particles float in the air, turning the sunlight streaming through the window into beams of warm color.

The boy casually picked out a pair of trousers and put them on. He jumped off the bed. The trousers were wrinkled, but at least they were clean. He wore a yellowish white T-shirt, but it was pure cotton and would be comfortable to sleep in.

With the recent weather, I can just wear this T-shirt and trousers and I won't feel cold when I go out for a walk.

His name is Mailin, he is seventeen years old, and he is a resident of Windmill Town, Daze Township, on the surface of Earth, the third planet of the solar system.

Grabbing his enamel mug, toothbrush, and toothpaste, and draping a towel over his shoulder, Merlin opened the door and prepared to head towards the communal pool.

Inside the various wooden houses lining both sides of the street, many people had already gotten up, and figures were moving around in the windows, but relatively few people were still out on the street.

Merlin walked to the public water fountain, a long row of pools and taps, where only he and a girl two years older than him were using it.

"Sister Yuluo!"

Su Yuluo turned around, took a sip of water, rinsed off the toothpaste foam, and said with a smile, "Mailing, up so early again?"

Merlin laughed and said, "How could I be earlier than you?"

"It's not that I'm early, it's that I haven't slept yet."

Su Yulu raised her hands above her head, stretched her back wearily, and said, "Yesterday, someone from our factory passed the exam and got a job at the township branch of Galaxy Eye. After working overtime last night, the factory manager made us all go to a farewell banquet and we didn't come back until this morning."

Merlin was a little surprised: "Getting into Galaxy Eye, that's pretty impressive."

"Of course."

Su Yuluo's eyes also held a hint of envy. "Our factory manager used to work in a township government agency. Later, he amassed his wealth and opened this factory."

"Alas, it's a pity I'm not familiar with that person, otherwise I could have called out to him, 'Gou Fugui, don't forget me!'"

The Galaxy Eye is the highest organization that rules over the entire interstellar society, and is said to be the oldest and most powerful civilization in the entire universe.

Even if it's just a small town branch of "Galaxy Eye" located on a poor planet like Earth, as long as you can pass the exam and become a formal member, you'll be immediately superior to others.

Su Yulu chatted for a bit, then couldn't stop yawning: "I need to hurry back and get some sleep. In three hours, I have to go back to work. Sigh, three people died suddenly at the factory last month. I don't want to be the fourth this quarter."

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Mai Lin watched her leave, and after washing up, he took the teacup home, went out to buy a steamed bun, and then went to the auto repair shop.

He is seventeen years old this year. According to the interstellar public regulations established by the Galaxy Eye, humans are considered adults at the age of fourteen.

If you don't get into any of the institutions related to Galaxy Eye by the age of fourteen, then you'll have to start looking for a job.

Merlin was very lucky; he learned everything very quickly. Although he didn't take the exam for the Galaxy Eye-related organization at first, he became a skilled worker in the factory within three or four days when he started looking for a job.

Now, besides the factory manager, he is the one whose words carry the most weight in the factory, because his technical skills are the best.

Sure enough, as soon as he arrived at the factory, the forty-year-old, somewhat overweight factory manager peeked out from his office and greeted him.

"Merlin, you're here so early again. Come, come, sit in my office for a while, we'll start work when they arrive."

As soon as Mai Lin walked in, the factory manager handed her another stainless steel lunchbox. When she opened the lunchbox, there was a cake with a cream filling and a few pieces of chopped fruit.

"It was my son's birthday yesterday. You rushed off as soon as you got off work, so I didn't call you. I just left you a cake. I just took it out of the refrigerator this morning. Eat it quickly, it won't taste good if it sits for too long."

The factory manager gave him a few words of advice and then went back to his desk.

A square screen was suspended above the desk, with only a gold coin icon in the center of the dark screen.

The factory manager looked at the screen, sighed, and after a while, as images gradually appeared on the screen, he quickly smiled again: "Dad, Mom!"

The faces of two elderly people appeared on the screen. They looked to be in good health and asked the factory manager how he was doing and about his family situation with smiles.

"Don't worry, everything's fine!"

The factory manager said with some concern, "Wasn't it supposed to be that public communications from the Kingdom of God would be available every three days? Why has it taken fifteen days this time?"

The elderly couple looked a little embarrassed, but in the end the old woman spoke up first: "Last time our contribution to the divine kingdom didn't meet the standard, so we were arranged to live in a different place. Don't worry, don't worry. Apart from the longer wait time for public communication, the other conditions are very good."

The factory manager asked suspiciously, "Really?"

The old man nodded repeatedly, "Of course! Don't you think this is the Kingdom of Gods, the Kingdom of the God of Wealth? We accumulate good deeds and believe in God throughout our lives, and only after we die can we come to the Kingdom of Gods. Even the worst place here is many times better than Earth!"

"Oh, just focus on taking care of things at home, don't worry about this, we're doing fine!"

The factory manager was silent for a moment, then said, "How about I burn more paper money this month?"

"No, those credit cards are too expensive. Even if you burn them for us, we wouldn't be willing to spend them."

The old man quickly said, "Don't worry, this contribution to the divine kingdom isn't just about how much paper money you burn. It also depends on ourselves. If we work harder in the future, chant more incantations every day, and worship the gemstones more, maybe we'll be transferred back to a better place."

The factory manager had no choice but to nod and agree. They chatted for a while longer, but then it seemed like someone on the other end of the Divine Kingdom Communications was starting to urge them, so he reluctantly turned off the communication channel.

He ate cake on the long bench that Mairin made, not looking at the desk, but he heard everything.

Every family has its own troubles.

The factory directors in Windmill Town are already considered very respectable people in the town.

However, the manager of this auto repair shop has elderly parents and young children to support.

His parents both caught a severe cold and had a high fever more than ten years ago. According to the regulations of Galaxy Eye, for ordinary people who get serious illnesses after the age of forty, the first choice is euthanasia.

However, it was also because his parents worshipped the god of wealth so devoutly that after their deaths, they successfully went to live in the god's kingdom.

Throughout history, countless books have described the beauty of the kingdom of the god of wealth, but the topic of contributions to the kingdom is also unavoidable.

The greater one's contribution to the Kingdom of God, the better one's life will be.

Besides the daily efforts of the inhabitants of the Kingdom of God, another way to contribute to the Kingdom of God is through the burning of paper money by the living members of the household.

The paper money being burned is a credit issued by the Galaxy Eye, with an exchange rate of one to one hundred with the interstellar public currency.

It is said that some truly powerful business owners, who were not devout to the God of Wealth while alive, can still go to live in the divine realm after death, as long as their families burn enough paper money for them.

In the homes of those big bosses, they might even burn paper money for their ancestors eight generations back, and the ancestors also have ways to help their descendants.

But for the auto repair shop owner, he didn't even dare to think about where his grandparents and other relatives went after they died. The only people he could care about were his own parents.

However, the amount of paper money that can be burned for one's parents is very limited.

In addition, the daughter of the auto repair shop owner is in her twenties and still refuses to get married.

According to Galaxy Eye's regulations, males who are 16 years old and females who are 18 years old must pay a fine if they have not started preparing to have children. If they cannot pay the fine, they will be taken away for random mating.

Moreover, the fines are increasing year by year.

The boss's daughter is this age now, and the fine she has to pay is no small amount.

Su Yuluo, who had only paid the fines for a year, was already finding it hard to cope.

When Mai Lin was chatting with her, she mentioned that she had been trying to find a blind date in the past few months.

Su Yulu even joked that if things really didn't work out, she would ask Mai Lin for help.

As long as they have mated and shown a positive intention to have children, the fine can be postponed.

After the cake was finished, the factory workers arrived one after another. The factory manager asked Mailin to go out and keep an eye on things.

As soon as Merlin stepped out the door, he heard the sound of the door locking behind him.

Few people know that although Merlin didn't pass the exam for the Galaxy Eye's relevant institutions and didn't obtain the Rainbow Stone and the Ascension Chart, Merlin often possesses some strange abilities.

For example, when the factory manager secretly worshipped the Great Demon God for the first time, Merlin understood the whole thing just by listening and reconstructed the whole scene in his mind.

The Great Demon God is Diablo.

The God of Wealth is a righteous deity promoted by Galaxy Eye, while the Great Demon God is rather strange.

Galaxy Eyes never advocates for the belief in the Great Demon God, but it also doesn't strongly prohibit it.

In fact, almost every book that mentions the God of Wealth also mentions the existence of the Great Demon God, so the Great Demon God has many followers.

However, most of the time, after worshipping the God of Wealth, people will still have a thieving mentality when they worship the Great Demon God, and they will try to do it more discreetly.

The reason why the factory manager worshipped the Great Demon God was quite simple: it was still about what would happen after death.

If the offerings to the Kingdom of God are negative, after death, a person will fall into the hell of the great demon Diablo, where they will endlessly perform hard labor and suffer torment.

Even if someone has already become a resident of the divine kingdom, once their contribution is reduced to zero, they will fall into the hell of the great demon god.

The factory manager felt that his daughter was too spoiled and willful, and that he would not be able to get much money from her after he died.

He himself usually worships the god of wealth, and although he does so with great care, he really can't guess how much his contribution to the divine kingdom is.

Rather than being forced to fall into hell later, it's better to secretly worship the Great Demon God first.

It is said that if you worship the Great Demon God sincerely enough, you can be assigned a position even if you enter Hell, and you can manage a lot of laborers under your command, which is much better than the life of ordinary Hell residents.

Merlin, however, did not approve of the factory manager's plan.

In some of the miscellaneous books that Merlin had read, it was mentioned that the level of a believer of the Great Demon God was not only determined by the sincerity of your worship, but also by the quality and quantity of your usual offerings, as well as many kinds of sacrificial rituals.

In Merlin's view, even the most common of those sacrificial rituals could be described as extremely vicious, so vicious that they were like sores growing on the head and pus oozing from the soles of the feet.

Even if the auto repair shop owner wanted to go astray, he wouldn't go that far. What good would it do for him to secretly worship the image of the Great Demon God every day?

Merlin didn't say much.

After finishing his work for the day, he returned to his hut in the evening, and then, taking advantage of the fact that none of his neighbors were paying attention, he secretly left the house and ran out of town.

Windmill Town is built against the mountain. You can enter the mountains less than three or four miles from the town. A few miles further in the mountains, you will find yourself in the deep forest, where few people ever set foot.

Merlin ran through the mountains, and no obstacle could stop him. He was more agile than a monkey and faster than a tiger or leopard.

Finally, he arrived at a secluded valley.

Below the rock wall of the valley, adjacent to the valley floor, there is a narrow crevice that forms a large cave.

Merlin walked into the cave, grabbed a red trench coat hanging on a nearby tree branch, and put it on, instantly becoming more energetic.

Inside the cave, there was a jumble of tools and a flying device that looked like a large kite.

There is an ancient prohibition on the Milky Way: no living being in the universe, except for members of the Milky Way Eye, is allowed to leave their home planet.

After this ban underwent several transformations, various agencies under Galaxy Eye interpreted it in many different ways.

For example, this ban could be relaxed somewhat when dealing with certain large entrepreneurs.

In some regions, this ban is enforced even more strictly, not only prohibiting flights from leaving the home planet, but also banning civilian flying vehicles that are more than 20 meters above the ground.

But Merlin has always been extremely curious about the feeling of flying.

He always had some strange ideas in his mind, and even though he had no way to learn about aircraft, he successfully tinkered with some small remote-controlled flying toys.

He's seventeen years old this year, it's finally time for him to take his first real flight!

After dragging the jet-powered aircraft made from scrap materials out of the hole, Merlin carefully inspected it again, put on a welding helmet, and welded and polished every flaw to ensure it was flawless.

"We can fly now!"

Merlin took off his welding helmet, grabbed the horizontal bar of the aircraft, and looked up at the sky.

It's already quite late, and unfortunately there's no moon or stars tonight.

It's okay, the starlight is just blocked by clouds.

If we could fly very high, beyond those dark clouds, then we could see the brilliant starry sky anytime, anywhere.

Merlin was ready and pressed a button on the crossbar with great anticipation.

The tail of the steel kite immediately spewed out two streams of scorching air, soaring through the valley filled with only weeds.

Merlin carefully adjusted the angle, watching as the opposite mountain wall drew ever closer. Just as the leading edge of the steel kite was about to crash into the mountain wall, the kite's direction suddenly changed, almost hugging the mountain wall as it climbed upwards.

In Windmill Town, the mayor was carefully receiving the envoy from the city.

The hierarchy within the Galaxy Eye is extremely strict; a higher rank can crush a lower one.

The commissioner from the city, though without a specific official position, was not someone a mere town mayor could afford to offend.

"What exactly are your orders, Commissioner?"

"Don't be so afraid, this is a great thing for you."

A burly man with wild blue hair, brown skin, and dark red bull horns sat at the table, picking at his nails as he said, "I've looked at the file of that Kra who recently passed the test in your town. He's ruthless and has potential."

"I'm actually thinking about retiring soon, so I need to find a successor. I set up a training course, and he can also attend it to see how it goes."

As he finished speaking, he suddenly turned to look out the window, let out a cold snort, and said, "Someone actually dares to violate the Galaxy Eye's prohibitions."

The nail clippers melted in the man's hand into a dark red ball resembling molten iron, and on the surface of the ball, many ancient and delicate black characters split open.

"Wither spell, turn that audacious fellow into dry sand!"

The spell sphere disappeared with a flick of his finger.

Amidst the mountains and forests, a steel kite soars higher and higher, pointing directly at the clouds.

Merlin stared excitedly at the sky, when suddenly he felt something was wrong. He looked down and saw a dark shadow shooting towards him.

In an instant, a large hole was punched in the kite-like aircraft, and it began to disintegrate from the hole, with all the metal parts shattering into sand.

Merlin fell from the sky and crashed into the forest.

Strangely, he was hit by the sphere even before the spacecraft, but he had no injuries, only feeling extremely uncomfortable.

"What happened?"

Merlin crawled out from among the dead leaves, but after taking only one step, he collapsed to the ground in pain, clutching his stomach.

"Would the GalaxyEye really install a no-fly zone in a small, impoverished town on Earth?"

"Wait, there are words on that thing. Could it be the legendary power obtained from the Rainbow Stone?"

Every member of the Galaxy Eye, even those in township-level organizations, is assigned a Rainbow Stone and an Ascension Chart.

It is said that by using rainbow stones as a catalyst and continuously cultivating according to the sublimation chart, one can acquire very powerful abilities.

These individuals with special abilities are more likely to possess high amounts of divine kingdom contributions or hellish contributions, and may even have access to channels for exchanging divine kingdom contributions for use in the real world.

There are also rumors that after these ability users die, the Rainbow Stone will sublimate along with their souls, living a life ten thousand times happier than ordinary residents of the divine kingdom.

The night grew deeper, and Merlin huddled in the woods, seemingly hearing the howling of wolves.

He was covered in sweat and felt his eyelids getting heavier and heavier.

I don't know when, but the blurry vision turned into complete darkness.

However, in the darkness, the water gradually began to shimmer.

Wow, that's a huge body of water! Is that the sea?!

Even the largest sea surface cannot cover as wide an area as this ripple, can it?

In his dream, Merlin suddenly had this thought, and then his perspective rapidly rose.

The vast expanse of water, larger than any planet, quickly became a tiny trickle, and more and more streams of water came into Merlin's view.

There are at least hundreds of millions of such winding streams, and only after you have seen all of these streams do the larger tributaries emerge in a mighty torrent.

Finally, the long river of time, containing destiny and history, flowing through chaos and emptiness, revealed its full form.

However, at that very moment, Merlin realized that this vast and boundless river was being trampled underfoot by a figure.

The majestic yet hazy figure seemed to be holding a crimson lotus flower in its left hand, while its right hand rested against a furnace made of divine steel and beautiful jade.

A massive, rainbow-colored beam of light, invisible to Merlin, bombarded the alchemy furnace from a distance, seemingly intent on shattering it and destroying everything in the area.

However, the alchemy furnace was extremely hard, and because the figure raised his hand and blocked the other side of the furnace, the rainbow beam of light could not continue to advance.

"Ha ha ha ha!!"

Merlin heard that figure let out a long laugh that shook the universe and made the light of the cosmos tremble.

It seems that a shadow, spanning countless dimensions of time and space, is constantly seeking an opportunity to attack from the source of the rainbow beam.

"Even if I suppress Lan Daotianwu with one hand, I still have to hold back the Divine Furnace with the other..."

"With your divine kingdom and hell, you don't have the power to take advantage of any weakness!!!"

(End of this chapter)