Overturned Tower

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"If you are in the executive department and I'm just an uncoded person in the downtown area, I can only cause trouble for Mr. Barber. Mr. Strangling is not the type who is good at taking care of people, and I can't help him. Maybe because of my The existence of the hands and feet."

Paradise Bird said quickly without hesitation: "Now, I have no relatives and no home... You are my savior, the predecessor I admire, and the person I want to follow.

"That's why I want to join the church - I want to use the power of the church to become more useful to help you accomplish your ideals.

"Being able to stay in the same organization as you and move forward with the same fate... This is exactly my wish!"

Paradise Bird obviously thought about these words over and over for a long time before, so now he can say them so smoothly, almost blurting out.

Her double admiration for "the barber" and "father" is beyond words.

But just saying such bold words made the shy Bird of Paradise blush.

Because of this, her bright red jewel-like eyes are even more vivid.The morning dew rolls on the dove's blood ruby.

The middle-aged man who looked only 40 to [-] years old, with deep eye sockets and a mature and handsome face, with two deep nasolabial folds on his face, but no wrinkles on his forehead and around the corners of his eyes, showed a moving expression under the words of Paradise Bird. look.

"Hua Yu..."

He murmured in a low voice, and subconsciously read the real name of Paradise Bird.

He reached out and touched Paradise Bird's head. The familiar touch and stroking technique made Paradise Bird burst into tears.

And Russell also understood Paradise Bird's determination.

From the core of the personality of the "detective", a complex feeling of worry, relief, sadness, loss, and joy emerges.

"Good boy."

He replied calmly but firmly: "No need to worry. No matter where you are, I will protect you."

"I don't want to be protected by Mr. Barber—"

Paradise Bird replied without hesitation: "I want to be your protector."

"It's fine, no problem."

Russell does not argue with children about this kind of question.

He has also been at this age, so he knows very well the strong self-confidence that Paradise Bird has built after suddenly gaining great power.

Confidence is a good thing - she has a light in her eyes because of it.

Russell touched Paradise Bird's head, turned his head to look at Xiang Bad Ri: "I will leave the child's affairs to you."

Bad Ri put his hands on his chest and said with a smile: "Don't worry, your junior is naturally my junior..."

"Speaking of which, I have no direct relationship with you."

Russell complained: "Your teacher is that man, not my mother. According to seniority, my mother should be regarded as your teacher's wife, right?"

"Not now, but maybe later."

Bad Day said meaningfully.

"……Um?"

Russell froze for a moment.

But Bad Ri didn't explain. He just looked back at Tiansonglai, who seemed to have turned into a vegetative state, completely lost life and remained motionless: "What are you going to do with it? Do you want it to bleed to death like this?"

"In that case, let it be what it wants."

Russell shook his head, and stretched out his hand to sprinkle the light of the holy order on the broken body sent by the gods: "Although our Tower of Babel is not a messenger of justice... But at least personally, I can't accept it. A demon that maliciously entraps the host and can use the lives of thousands of people as firewood at will. If you kill it, you will give it freedom instead—killing it is only a gift from heaven, not a disaster from heaven.”

When he said this, his eyes became a little complicated: "In the end, this is also the responsibility of our Tower of Babel.

"The one who released this demon is Miss Huachu. She thinks she can control the demon that she induced awakening, but she doesn't realize that God-sent Misfortune is a 'devil awakener'. In this case, it is our duty to deal with it. We We can’t be less responsible than the company—since we want to fight against the company, we can’t fall into the abyss together.”

Russell said seriously.

"I don't think it's Huazhi's fault," Bad Sun shrugged, "This is the first time God sent me to try to escape... It should be his previous generation host that polluted it. Huazhi probably knew her before It was a godsend of a certain generation, so I didn't think it was dangerous. But I didn't realize that this guy has completely changed."

"Miss Huachu has been swimming on the edge of danger and out of control. Sooner or later, something will happen. The so-called good swimmer drowns, and this is the result."

Russell shook his head stubbornly, frowning: "She promised me that she would not conduct such a dangerous experiment in the future. But she promised too lightly, and I am a little bit unconvinced. This matter must be dealt with ..."

"Okay, okay, I'll watch over Huachu for you, so don't keep preaching."

Bad Ri raised his hand helplessly, and made a gesture of surrender: "You are really troublesome in this form...how about you change back first?"

"This is not preaching, but righteousness. It is what should be done, and what should be followed."

Russell replied seriously, raising his hand.

Under his treatment, God sent misfortune to save his life at least for now.His upper body healed directly, but he couldn't live long like this.

The deep nasolabial folds on his face made him look majestic and stable: "I probably thought of a way to deal with this demon, but I have to hide him for a while first."

"It would be dangerous to lock him here directly."

Bad Ri reminded: "At least his chip must be removed, otherwise this place will be easily located."

"Is the island of happiness also between these roads?"

"Is it there? At present, it is indeed somewhere in the lower city of Happy Island... I will take you to see it next time."

As Bad Ri said, he turned "Tiansong" with his eyes closed, and reached out to tap the back of his head lightly.

The chip sent by Tiansong was easily smashed by him.

Afterwards, Bad Ri turned his head and asked, "What are you going to do with it? Send it to the dream world and let Zhongxiang forge it into a wedge of the soul?"

"That's too difficult. It is now imprisoned in this half of the body, but if it enters the dream world, it will be a complete consciousness. For it, it is home."

Russell shook his head: "And it is an independent consciousness after all, even if it is brought to the dream world, it will enter the original wilderness first... I don't have the means to arrest the devil, the wedge of pain can only extract the source of the holy order .Even if I know the way, I don’t have the confidence to tie it from the wilderness at the beginning to the village at the end. It would be bad if I escaped in the middle.”

"So what are you going to do? Lock it up with your container?"

"No, I'm going to find Director Amyrus."

The middle-aged man with short white hair said solemnly: "As the technical manager of Thoth's psychic power, he must have a way.

"—The 'Mammon' back then has never been born again."

Chapter 38 Mammon and the Pale Incident

"Mammon's specifications..."

Hearing Russell's words, Bad Ri hesitated instead.

He lowered his head and glanced at Heaven's Misfortune, and shook his head: "I don't think it will be possible. Mammon is the highest-ranked demon that has been perfectly hatched, with tenth-level psionic power, it is difficult for even the Elf Director to fight against.

"At that time, the church did not unfreeze the mechanical angels... Even though the forces of all parties were united, they still paid a huge price for defeating Mammon.

"In order to solve this problem, even our Tower of Babel was dispatched.

"I wasn't born at that time. But I also heard the deer head talking about it."

"...What kind of demon is Mammon?"

Russell couldn't help asking: "Is it code-named Mammon, or is it just named Mammon? What is the situation of the pale incident?"

"It is read as mammon."

Bad Day seriously began to tell Russell important information about Mammon, and at the same time, it seemed to be to tell these secrets to the poor and the Paradise Bird: "This seems to be one of the many languages ​​left over from the past era. Miss Flower Touch said, this demon The name translated means 'worldly wealth', from a 'dead language' whose users have all died long ago.

"The host of Mammon is a very greedy and wealthy businessman.

"Since the age on the ground, he has been collecting money at all costs by all means - he is an old businessman who lived from the religious war to the sky island period. It is said that in ancient times, when people traded commodities, it didn't matter credits, but use some specific metals as currency.

"The most expensive currency is forged using 'gold'. And the host of Mammon has hoarded a full 860 tons of gold... You may not understand what this is. But in short, when you are on the ground, He is the richest person in the whole world. He can even buy several kingdoms with ease. Of course, he did not start from scratch, but was the last heir of a certain family at that time."

"Wait," Russell suddenly realized, "Since he is so good, he is also a member of the family. Why is it a short-lived species?

"This kind of person...couldn't be able to become an elf in the end?"

Hearing this, Paradise Bird looked over with some doubts.

But Bad Day just shrugged his shoulders: "The specific reason is not clear, maybe it's because the elves hate him...or maybe they think he's too aggressive. After all, most of the elves are research talents and artists." Talents. Although they are more or less doing business nowadays, I am afraid they still hate this kind of businessman who is too pure in nature. Of course, I am guessing... who knows.

"In short, at the end of the old rich businessman's life, when he used various means, threatened or begged the elves to transform him into an elf, the elves still chose to refuse.

"The elves are only willing to perform various operations on him to prolong his life. But they are still unwilling to give him real eternal life. And he has nothing to do with the elves.

"When he lived to be 120 years old, his offspring had died, ninety percent of his grandchildren had died, and his great-grandson had died of old age. Eighty percent of his organs had been replaced with prosthetic bodies, but he still did not Willing to die, he was almost insane at the time.

"And when he entered his vault for the last time... Mammon came.

"——A gigantic monster made of 860 tons of gold. Glittering in the sunlight.

"People who are illuminated by that light, regardless of whether they are covered or not, their skin and hair will gradually lose their color. The original black hair will gradually change to brown or brown, then gold and gray, and then white. When the hair and skin completely change When it becomes pale, this person will completely lose his 'heart'... From the beginning of fading to completely pale, the whole process will not take more than half an hour.

"Whether it is a brave man or a sage, or even a saint on the ground of the Cyber ​​Church. After they are completely whitened, they will completely lose their existing emotions and memories. The power of the holy order, spiritual power and spells they originally held are all wiped out into a blank.

"Although people are still alive, they can still live, talk and work normally... But they are living like walking dead. Dreams, hopes and love are lost forever, and the face is always so pale, and the light-colored pupils become hollow There is no god. And if the "Pale One" continues to receive the illumination of Mammon, the soul will start to be extracted by Mammon, and will attack the surroundings indiscriminately, plundering all valuables and returning them to Mammon, increasing the size of Mammon. That is to say, they became the familiars of mammon.

"The children they gave birth to also have white hair—even if their relatives don't have white hair. This is why more than half of the residents of Tongshen Island now have white hair."

Just listening to Bad Day's narration, Russell frowned.

He felt a little weird.

"... How did you defeat such a powerful monster in the end?"

"You still want to win?"

Bad Ri asked: "That is to say, Mammon has no desire to fight at all, otherwise its huge body alone can destroy Tongshen Island.

"The result of Shenzhi Heavy Industry's trial is that if you don't directly attack Mammon, you won't suffer a counterattack-if you dig with equipment, it will be regarded as an attack, but if it is a person of flesh and blood...especially if the poor dig it, Mamen Mammon will forgive them and allow them to take some of their gold, but if they take too much at once, Mammon may become angry.

"However, the chaos after the advent of Mammon caused the deaths of more than 1000 people. Basically, these 1000 people were killed by their own people... because at the very beginning, the pale people lost their sanity and attacked indiscriminately. Like a zombie. People suspected that it might be some kind of virus, so they killed all the mutants.

"So Tongshen Island finally sent laborers to dig at night. They only took seven or eight pieces of gold at a time, or turned around and ran away with a dozen gold coins. At this level, Mammon would completely ignore the other party.

"Then they separated these magical gold coins and put them in a completely closed black box. Otherwise, even if they were taken away from the main body, the 'mammon gold coins' would still gradually make people pale.

"Shenzhi Heavy Industry chooses at night because the reflection caused by moonlight is much weaker than sunlight, at least it is easier to approach the past. They also tried changing the sky to cover the sky, but if Mammon can't shine, they will become anxious and start Move towards the light source.

"After all the volunteers in Tongshen Island had their turn once, the size of Mammon had shrunk greatly. But at that time, everyone had entered a critical period of danger, and if they were exposed to the light again, they might fade away... …

"Tongshen Island sent a rescue request to other sky islands, but no sky island responded. Only some lower-level priests of the Cyber ​​Church responded to the call and went to Tongshen Island."

"Where's the dragon?"

Russell couldn't help asking: "Did the dragons not respond?"

Bad Day frowned: "The giant dragon has moved, but the movement is very strange. They seem to know some secrets of mammon, so they specifically emphasize that the directors of the elves are not allowed to forcefully arrest others, and the victims must be voluntary. The dragon is not innocent. Pay attention to this matter, but they neither organize and call for rescue teams, nor prevent others from going voluntarily, but allow any force to force others to participate... We tried to catch some prisoners to do these things, but were stopped by the dragon.

"After another round of Cyber ​​Church moved, there was only a small piece left. Not only did people from other sky islands not come, but many people from Tongshen Island were unwilling to help. In the end, those who had already dispatched After a round of volunteers, they stood up again and completely sealed Mammon after paying the painful price of [-] pale warriors. This time, the pale warriors were not attacked and killed, but controlled.

"After Mammon was sealed, they became relatively normal... able to produce new feelings and memories. However, the previous feelings and memories were still destroyed by the power of Mammon. In order to take care of their lives, Shenzhi Heavy Industry sent them Received as an employee.

"After that, every year in Tongshen Island, because of stealing mammon gold coins, he, his family and neighbors would gradually fade away. It has been like this for seven or eight years, and Shenzhi Heavy Industry repeatedly proposed to hand over all the heavy metals. There was relief.

"It was also after that that 'credit points' completely replaced all the old transaction models. Specific metals can no longer be used as currency... This is also for safety reasons. After all, no one knows whether the precious metals they get are part of mammon.

"In that rich merchant's vault, there are not only gold coins and gold bars, but also some silverware and jewelry. But these things should have been destroyed and recast by Shenzhi Heavy Industry."

Bad Day spread his hands: "I know what you suspect. I also doubted that - the material of the mind protection chip may have a part of Mammon, which is why the chip cannot be imitated. After all, I don't really believe it. It is the use of electric shocks to stun people that can prevent the awakening of psionic energy.

"Would a person in real pain forget his pain because of a brief faint? If that's the case, then why would he use alcohol to relieve his sorrow, and let the chip power up?"

"That makes sense..."

Russell nodded, let out a breath, and changed from the "detective" appearance back to his original posture.Feeling inexplicably lighter.

He had guessed part of it before.

What he couldn't understand was, how could a demon of mammon be used by psykers all over the world?

But it would be understandable if Mammon was said to have such a large size.It also makes perfect sense.

He also knows why the "Pale Incident" has not become a "history" banned by the dragon, but he has not seen any details on Sogo Island and Happy Island.

But this also confirmed that Russell's idea was correct.

"This also proves from the side that Thoth's power does have the technology to turn demons into raw materials to make certain items. And it can also retain part of the properties of raw materials..."

Russell murmured, looking expectantly at Heaven's Sent, his tail wagging slightly.

He wanted to add a buckler to his prosthetic hand.

I hope Mr. God sent misfortune to fulfill this little wish of Mao Mao...