How could Lan Mu admit that he had been tricked? Therefore, he had to insist that the other party had asked him to come.
However, Themis was also very stubborn, insisting that Lan Mu had chosen to come and save people.
The two of them were in a deadlock for a long time, and just as Lan Mu was about to leave.
An old voice suddenly sounded from a speaker at the bottom of the screen, speaking in American English.
"That's enough, Themis. Didn't you send someone to inform him in hopes that he would come to the moon? "
Themis calmly said, "No one asked him to come, he came of his own accord."
Lan Mu asked, "Who are you?"
The old voice said, "You can call me Broken, Your Excellency Gabriel."
"You're Broken?" Lan Mu asked.
Broken laughed, "You know me?"
"Of course, Gaia is already my Vassal God …" Lan Mu said. In fact, he had known about Broken even earlier, and this old Chinese man was the first leader he knew.
Broken ignored Gaia's situation and continued to laugh, "Although this goes against our principles, protecting humanity is our common goal, Your Excellency Gabriel."
Lan Mu said, "That's right, for humanity, I'm willing to cooperate with you. I just hope that you won't drag me down when I destroy the insectoids. However, you should know that cooperation is only until the insectoids are destroyed. "
After the insectoids were destroyed, the angels would be next. CANC and Lan Mu would have to fight, this was a matter of standpoint.
Both sides knew this, and even Broken and Themis were mentally prepared to face the destruction of their organization.
Broken laughed, "As long as the insectoids can be destroyed, CANC is willing to die with them."
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The far side of the moon could not be observed from Earth, and even if it could be observed, the civilians would not know what was there.
The entire moon emitted a strange light, and this light projected a false image onto Earth. In the telescopes of Earthlings, the moon was eternally unchanged.
However, in reality, hundreds of space bases were built on the moon, and tens of thousands of satellites were spread over the moon.
Three thousand kilometers away from the surface of the moon, there were two huge space stations, and thousands of space shuttles and unmanned probes on long-term patrol.
Even in the unseen underground, there were massive defensive facilities to fend off the Zergs. That was the first line of defense.
The battle between the humans and the insectoids did not stop for even a moment. From underground to the surface of the moon, and then to the sky, there were three warning zones: yellow, orange, and red.
In fact, there was still a layer of interception outside the atmosphere on Earth. Once this last line of defense was breached, the battle would extend to Earth. By then, CANC would be powerless.
Under this passive defense, too many people had died in the past forty years. They had also thought of completely wiping out the Zergs, but the best result they had achieved was only to break through to a depth of 150 kilometers below the surface of the moon. They were still 800 kilometers away from the core nest, which was a hopeless distance.
"Who would've thought that an organization would build such a magnificent base on the moon? It's enough to put every country to shame."
Lan Mu arrived at the Luna 1 space station and couldn't help but sigh.
After learning the details of the moon's situation from Duan, he finally decided to eliminate the insects in advance.
This was a war. Every day that passed, many more people would die.
From time to time, thousands of strange insects of all shapes and sizes would emerge from the moon's surface and attack in all directions. Space stations, satellites, and spacecraft would immediately launch lethal weapons, but the result was that they were reflected or simply absorbed. Once this situation was discovered, the attack would stop, and instead, a group of astronauts would attack with all kinds of shiny fantasy weapons, killing a large number of insects.
Some of these people didn't even need to wear spacesuits, they just wore armor and exposed themselves in space.
Needless to say, it must be a special effect of an anomaly that allowed the human body to be directly exposed to the space environment.
Seeing that the humans had defeated the tide-like swarm of insects, they didn't give chase and instead retreated to their positions.
"It seems that you can still easily resist for the time being" Lan Mu said.
Themis appeared on the screen next to him and replied: "No, this is only the beginning of a large-scale attack. In order to exhaust our stockpile of weapons, they had thousands of insects launch a suicidal attack. When the real attack begins, bugs will appear from almost every part of the moon. There are all kinds of troops. Some specialize in destroying heavy weapons, some specialize in self-destructing formations, and some defend against energy attacks while absorbing damage … Every time that happens, we will be seriously understaffed. We have to give it our all and sacrifice a lot of people in order to defeat them. "
Lan Mu couldn't help but ask: "Don't you have a way to completely eliminate the insects?"
Themis appeared on the screen next to him and replied: "We don't"
"We've used 16 anomalies to deal with the insects, but all of them failed in the end"
"Whether it's a liquid that can dissolve all living creatures on Earth, a painting that can cause anyone to fall asleep, or a doll of misfortune that can randomly cause objects around it to explode …"
While Themis was telling Lan Mu about the history of the insect's evolution, she was also talking about how their resistance had fattened the insect race for so many years!
Among CANC's collection of items, only a few of them were capable of killing large numbers of insects, but that was it, the characteristics of these anomalies had all been adapted to later on.
The various methods of killing insects had allowed the insect race to evolve in almost all aspects. They had emptied the moon and consumed countless resources, their numbers were so large that they couldn't be counted, they became stronger and stronger, more and more unstoppable.
However, to be able to resist for so long, it meant that some of their anomalies were still useful, the most useful of which was the 'Fantasy Right Hand'.
This was a prosthetic arm made of unknown materials, but it was indestructible. It would automatically adjust its size and thickness according to the body of the person who carried it, and when attached to a broken arm, it could be used like a real hand.
And the most astonishing thing about it was that it could reach its hand into a computer screen, television screen, or even a movie screen. If a movie or anime was being played, this hand would be able to take out a supernatural item from the screen, and the program would still be playing as usual. It wouldn't be affected at all.
Unfortunately, it could only take out Divine Artifacts, magical items, and the like, but it couldn't take out anything related to science fiction. Furthermore, the length of the prosthetic arm was limited, so the items it took out couldn't be too big, otherwise, it wouldn't be able to hold them.
After a supernatural item was materialized, its power would be greatly reduced, and its duration would be limited. Once, CANC specifically created an anime in order to create a Divine Artifact to kill the insect race, but the result wasn't satisfactory. The effects were greatly reduced, but the insect race still managed to adapt to it. Even so, this type of derivative provided CANC with a variety of methods to deal with the enemy, constantly coming up with new ways to counter the insect race. It was thanks to the Fantasy Right Hand that the moon's defense line was able to last until today.
The more Lan Mu listened, the more he felt that something was wrong. He knew that CANC had an anomaly that could materialize a weapon, and he had seen it more than once, it was very powerful!
But from the information provided by Gaia, it was something similar to a 3D printer, not a prosthetic arm.
Gaia couldn't have lied to Lan Mu at the time, so either Themis was lying, or Gaia was deceived.
"Themis, I told you, Gaia is now my Vassal God, don't try to deceive me" Lan Mu said.
Themis calmly replied: "I believe what Gaia told you was a printer, right? Its side effect is to absorb a human's imagination … "
Lan Mu nodded: "That's right … you lied to Gaia, didn't you?"
Themis replied: "We did indeed lie to Gaia, because the user of the Fantasy Right Hand, Zero 10, is Gaia's uncle, he has the right to hide the truth from his only relative"
"I remember that Gaia was an orphan …"
"Her parents died in a containment accident, and it was because she became an orphan that we brought Zero 10's daughter into the organization and trained her as an evangelist from a young age, with Zero 8 becoming her mentor"
Lan Mu asked: "Then what truth are you trying to hide?"
"The Fantasy Right Hand's side effect was indeed to absorb a person's imagination, do you know what that means? If it was abused for a long time, it would cause humanity to lose innovation, which is the same as locking down humanity's future … do you think we would abuse such an anomaly? "
Lan Mu immediately understood, but what did she mean by 'was'?
"You mean the side effect can be changed?"
Themis spoke with a hint of sadness: "A human's imagination is a kind of wealth, to obtain the Fantasy Right Hand, one must pay this kind of wealth. But this isn't absolute, the owner of the Fantasy Right Hand can turn off this payment mechanism and accept the punishment of reneging! "
Lan Mu understood, this anomaly could renege on a debt, but in reality, it was only the price of the side effect being changed into a different kind of price.
He asked: "What kind of punishment?"
Themis replied: "The punishment for reneging on a debt is a torment of the soul, which will only erupt intermittently for a short period of time, but if you renege on a debt multiple times, the torment will only increase! The duration will also increase! This is a type of extreme pain that directly affects the soul, there is no way to alleviate this pain, it is more terrifying than any physical pain, a normal person wouldn't even be able to endure it for 10 seconds, the pain is enough to make a person collapse. In our organization, a total of 9 evangelist candidates have used it, other than Zero 10, the highest record holder lasted for half a month before giving up, enduring for a total of 2 hours "
Lan Mu said: "Giving up is …"
"Suicide. Once the Fantasy Right Hand fuses with the body, it cannot be disassembled unless the body dies. Furthermore, the torment of the soul isn't fatal, it won't even harm the body, it is merely a kind of torment, enough to destroy the will of the strongest warrior, almost everyone succumbs to this pain " Themis calmly explained, although he was only displaying a cold image, he was clearly in great pain as well.
Lan Mu couldn't help but ask: "Gaia's uncle … how long did he last?"
Themis said solemnly, "Thirty-nine years and eleven months, a total of 4,579 hours of suffering. This record is still increasing. So far, no one has given up … It is also because of the existence of 0010 that the phrase 'everyone succumbs to this pain' has an additional 'almost'."
"…"
Lan Mu fell silent. He naturally knew about the torment of the soul, the Balrog and Bai Ze's soul contract had it. As a soul that had been sold to the Balrog, he could unleash the torment of the soul at any time.
This kind of pain wasn't fatal, it wasn't a real injury, but it could easily destroy the will of the victim.
The kind of pain that Bai Ze had suffered in the past wasn't even at the highest level, but even so, it was still unbearable, causing him to collapse in just a few seconds.
Lan Mu couldn't imagine how Zero 10 had survived for the past forty years. As he used the Illusory Right Hand more and more, the pain would be magnified to a terrifying degree, and the time he could endure it would be greatly extended.
After forty years of accumulation, every time this kind of pain erupted, it would be a hellish torture.
"Is he still human? What kind of willpower allows him to endure until now and not give up? "
In order to not let humans lose their imagination, and to have the strength to resist the insectoids, there were only two consequences of using it. One was to take turns sacrificing people, letting them fearlessly put it on credit, then commit suicide, and the next one would replace it, then commit suicide again … The other method was what was happening now, using willpower to endure.
Zero 10 chose the latter, bearing all the costs alone, and persisting for forty years.
Lan Mu asked himself honestly, he couldn't do it. Especially when there was no hope in this kind of torment, it was easier for people to give up.
"Humans can always create miracles …"
"I need to meet this Zero 10."
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