The brilliance glittering in Wenwen's eyes spread to Thangka through her gentle eyes like thousands of invisible fireflies, making Thangka feel warm all over. For some reason, a brand-new strength was born in his heart.
"Of course, if you have a different understanding about the future of the Holy League, you are more than welcome to question or even oppose me. After all, I'll say it again. I am not a god."
Wenwen put on the most beautiful smile and said in a low voice, "However, when we are all united, it is possible to build a brand-new god!"
Thangka took a deep breath and nodded heavily.
He returned to his friends.
"What's wrong? What were you talking about with the goddess?"
The 'Devil Children' all crowded close and asked him in a low voice.
"Nothing."
Thangka looked at the planet that was growing larger and bluer on the light beam before him. Then, he looked at his monitor, Chu Zhiyun, and put on the most brilliant smile just like Wenwen.
He summoned his courage and held his monitor's hand. "Wenwen asked us to be prepared. We're going home!"
…
Right when the Blue Ocean Sector and the entire Holy League in front of Wenwen, Thangka, Chu Zhiyun, and all the 'Devil Children' seemed to be embracing a world-shaking new life, the Martial Meritocrats Sector, the paradise on the Land of Sins, at the edge of the Imperium billions of lightyears away, seemed to be embracing its doom.
BOOM!
A deafening explosion shook the world. Stones and debris were splashing everywhere. The entire city wall made of debris collapsed. Countless people were hit by the burning debris and killed before their brains were burnt by the fire.
A large batch of bizarre-shaped bandits, who seemed to be both crazy and walking corpses, swarmed in through the gaps on the city wall and screamed at the Village of Peace, one of the last few towns for civilians in the Land of Sins. It seemed that it would be completely torn apart by the tough bandits and the thugs in half a day.
"Fight!"
Gu Zhengyang, the leader of the Village of Peace, had bloodshot eyes and a hoarse voice. He looked thin and dry, like the lake that surrounded the village that had been evaporated. He was about to be burnt by the brutality.
"Da da da da da!"
"Boom boom boom boom!"
The storm bolters and the crystal cannons deployed on the two sides of the village opened fire at the same time. The firepower of the Village of Peace today was more than ten times stronger than before Li Yao, the Coloured Glaze, and Han Te left. But even the ferocious firepower that was like a tornado could not stop the bandits who had gone on a rampage. Even if the bandits in the front were cut into halves or blown into pieces by the bullets of spiritual energy, the bandits behind would not blink but simply charge forward while roaring.
In their dirty eyes, there was not the slightest brilliance known as "humanity" anymore. Even the brilliance of "bestiality" was dimmer than ever. They were merely driven by their instincts of hunger to lunge at death, or at the last carnival before death.
"Leader, there are too many bandits and thugs. They are like dense locusts. Our defense line at the periphery won't be able to resist them any longer!"
"So, so many bandits. Have all the bandit gangs on the Bloody Plains gathered together?"
"Of course. There are not many valuable villages around the Bloody Plateau that can be attacked. The Village of Peace is the largest and wealthiest one left. Who else can they attack other than us?"
"Have you sent out the rescue signal?"
"What can it do even if it is? Nobody will come to our rescue. This is the doom of the Land of Sins. There are no normal people in the Land of Sins anymore. Our food is running out, too. Even if the gangs don't attack us, we will become a new gang in a few days!"
"Leader! Leader!"
The desperate cries of the villagers were like the bombs of spiritual energy that the gangs threw over. Mixed with earsplitting shrieks, they exploded around Gu Zhengyang, making him see nothing but blood. His ears were humming, and his chest was beating hard, as if something was about to crawl out.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
When it rains, it pours. Under the crazy attacks of countless bandits, the defense line at the periphery was already on the verge of collapse in the first place. However, dozens of bandits, with tremendous crystal bombs tied to their bodies, jumped off from the gliders, trying to reach the area where the defenders were densest. They blew up dozens of people in a row. One of the bandits happened to land next to the ammunitions box and raised a series of explosions, blowing up half of the defense line into the sky.
At the periphery of the Village of Peace, there had been a vast, misty lake.
Even though the weather changes caused by the 'second apocalypse' had evaporated the lake because of the drought, the mud at the bottom of the lake was still the best obstacle.
But right now, the entire bottom of the lake had been filled with corpses and debris. Crushed by the caterpillar, a bloody road leading to the Village of Peace had been created.
"Kill them all! Kill them all!"
"I'm hungry! I'm hungry!"
The bandits were no longer like human beings. They were not even like ferocious animals such as lions and tigers. Instead, they were like a swarm of hungry locusts, insignificant ants, and ruthless mantises. The ants had gathered to attack the city!
"Humph!"
Gu Zhengyang stepped on the last city wall made of the shell of the warship and spat out a mouthful of saliva that contained half a tooth.
His pulp was exposed to the air, cramping in excruciating pain, but he did not feel it at all. There was a blank expression on his face.
Something wet fell from his face. He wiped it with his hand, only to discover that it was red. It was a splashed shrapnel that happened to be embedded in the arch of his eyebrow. He tried to pull it out, only to fail. The shrapnel seemed to be alive and crawled into the center of his eyebrow, deeper and deeper.
Gu Zhengyang gave up the idea of pulling the shrapnel out. He wiped the blood on his face carefully and fed it to his mouth.
It had been a long time since he tasted such sweetness. It was so sweet that his throat was hissing, as if he had placed an ice cube on a burning iron plate.
It's not their fault. Judging from their lousy tactics and equipment, they are not real bandits at all. Perhaps, they were innocent villagers like us not long ago.
The taste of blood and the burning fire made him hallucinate. Gu Zhengyang grinned and thought to himself in a daze. Speaking of which, innocent? Is there really any innocent person in the Land of Sins? Erhu was quite right. Thankfully, the bandits came to attack the city first. Otherwise, in a few days, when the food ran out, we would've joined the bandits and become inhumane zombies.
"A second apocalypse. What a wretched second apocalypse!
"That's fine. That's fine. We have struggled in the Land of Sins without dignity, hope, and humanity for such a long time. The significance of our survival has long withered and turned into the cruelest punishment. Let everything come to an end just like that. A second apocalypse. A real apocalypse!"
Gu Zhengyang's thoughts drifted back to two years ago.
Two years ago, Li Yao and A Boxing Champion had a head-on battle with "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" in "Great Iron City". Later, Li Yao even rampaged inside the so-called "Manjusaka" with his Colossus and blew down the entire fortress on the orbit on a killing spree.
The action ended the tragic fate of the people of the Land of Sins as playthings.
But later, the civil war between the reformists and the four families broke out. Both parties concentrated all their resources, hoping to annihilate each other. They had no time to bother with the testing base and trial field that could've been abandoned a long time ago.
For the people of the Land of Sins, the most direct consequence of the collapse of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" was that it was impossible for them to get a box of food or a water-purifying chip from the orbit.
The Land of Sins, which had been bombarded and polluted, was a barren land in the first place. Even the crops such as "Gold Barley" that were resistant to dryness, coldness, and pollution could barely grow on the land that was brimming with radiation and venom. Almost all the food was dependent on the supply from the orbit.
It was exactly because the "people in the sky" above Manjusaka that the Land of Sins had been reduced to playthings without dignity and hope.
To get rid of the fate of playthings and become real people with dignity and pride, the path was destined to be full of hardships and thorns.
At first, the debris of "Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" made everybody in the entire Land of Sins, or at least on the Bloody Plateau that was right next to the crash point, a fortune that both the bandits and the civilians made.
Theoretically speaking, all the assets that fell from the sky were enough for people to live a couple of years in frugality without having to kill and plunder each other anymore.
However, the appetite of a human being was limited, but the ambitions and greed of a human being were infinite.
"The City in the Sky has crashed. From today on, it will be impossible to get any food from the sky for all eternity."
"The crash of the City in the Sky has brought a lot of the most advanced, cutting-edge weapons. Not just the supersonic armed shuttles, even the most lethal weapons such as the Crystal Suit are available. Not only can we pick up the super weapons, other gangs and even the villages of civilians can get them, too!"
With the two cruel premises, it was self-evident what would happen in the Land of Sins that had been soaked in blood in the first place.
All the gangs seemed to have been injected with excitants and ignited with fire. They all went on a rampage and attacked other gangs before they figured out the usage of the cutting-edge weapons. Their purpose was to loot the food and weapons that the enemy had obtained and to reduce the enemy's numbers as much as possible.
"Manjusaka, the City in the Sky" had collapsed. From today on, no food would fall from the sky anymore, and the Land of Sins did not produce much food in the first place. In other words, the total amount of food on the entire planet was constant and would gradually decrease. The trend was irreversible, too.
Since people had to consume food to survive, the fewer survivors in the Land of Sins there were, the more food that every survivor could get and the longer they could live.
It was a simple logic.
Even a child could figure it out.
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