Chapter 112
"How do you think this wasteland was formed?" Lin Lai asked.
"I don't know." Mo Gui replied.
"Guess!" Lin Lai said with a smile.
Mo Gui said: "I never make random guesses about things I am not sure of."
"Okay." Lin Lai shrugged, jumped out of the car, checked the time on his watch, took out an instrument to calibrate the direction using the sun, and said, "I heard from people in town that in folk tales, this wasteland should be called 'the land abandoned by the gods'! Because it was abandoned by the gods in disgust, no life can be nurtured here."
Mo Gui inserted his finger into the sand, and when he pulled it out, his fingertips were already holding a small dark red beetle.
"What is this then?" he said.
Lin Lai glanced at it and said, "The story also says that only 'evil creatures' that are also hated and abandoned by the gods can survive in this wasteland."
"Okay, the logic is pretty solid." Mo Gui said nonchalantly, "But I don't believe there are any gods in this world."
As he spoke, he twirled his fingers, feeling somewhat confused.
Just when he pulled the bug out of the sand, he suddenly felt something strange. It wasn't a bad feeling, it was just...
Very strange.
――What is it?
Mo Gui asked himself in his heart, trying his best to grasp that strange inspiration.
"Heh." Lin Lai laughed. He was also an atheist who had received scientific education, but...
"If there is a God, what would He be like?"
Mo Gui frowned and took a look, and found that he was actually asking the question very seriously.
So he put aside his previous doubts and thought seriously for a while before saying, "Omniscient and omnipotent, immortal, invincible, without selfish desires, does not drink or eat, is spotless, can create life... something like that?"
He said more than twenty things in a row.
Lin Lai had a smile on his face, but the smile did not reach his eyes.
He said, "So... can a person who possesses this ability - or even just a part of it - be called a god?"
Mo Gui said without hesitation: "This kind of question is meaningless, because such people do not exist."
Lin Lai was silent.
After a long while, he said, "You know what? My family started from the wilderness."
He raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the sun and said, "I heard that there is a small village in that direction, in the wilderness. They came out from there, and the one who led them was the ancestor of the Ka royal family."
"My ancestors even married into the royal family."
"Oh." Mo Gui's reaction was indifferent.
Because the Ka royal family was so numerous, each generation had many children and raised many children, and there were even many mixed-race children.
They have so many descendants that it’s hard to count them, so what’s so great about the families that marry into their clans?
Lin Lai smiled bitterly. He did not mention how prominent his ancestors had been, or that he had married the most favored princess of the time. He just turned back to the topic he really wanted to talk about.
"In the wasteland, a true god once descended."
“It’s a saying that’s been passed down in our family for generations.”
Lin Lai said.
Mo Gui frowned, and his tone was filled with doubt: "The real... God?"
"yes."
Lin Lai sighed, "Just like you said - spotless, does not need to drink or eat, is omniscient and omnipotent, does not age with time, is extremely powerful and invincible... It is said that the wasteland was caused by the power of his attack."
“This…how is this possible?”
Mo Gui really wanted to ask Lin Lai if this was the fairy tale his family told him when they were putting him to sleep when he was a child.
Lin Lai added: "Moreover, it is said that it was that god who led mankind out of the wasteland, defeated the alien races, and saved mankind from being enslaved by the alien races."
"But...humans betrayed him."
"The gods have returned to the divine realm. From now on, there are no more gods in the world."
"More importantly, Ka is not the descendant of God or the son of God as they claim."
"Their true identities are—"
"God-traitor!"
"That's ridiculous!" After a long while, Mo Gui said in a dry voice, "I don't believe it."
His expression seemed to be saying - "Tell me more! Show me the evidence! Convince me!"
Lin Lai stood beside the car with a calm expression, as if the shocking words just now were not said by him.
As the sun sets, a few stars in the sky are reflected in his eyes.
“Actually, I have a guess now.”
After a while, Lin Lai said: "Maybe... that's not a god... but an alien?!"
…
Mo Gui and Lin Lai are members of an unnamed group affiliated with a security defense department of Tulip Country. They are talents with special abilities who have criminal records and were recruited by a big shot.
The names of these two people are not included in any official personnel list, and their contributions will not be recognized or rewarded in any form. Even if they die in the mission, no one will know except their direct superiors and a few leaders.
As members of a secret service, they do all sorts of moral or immoral things that are often very dangerous, and therefore have a great deal of autonomy and discretion in their actions.
But at the same time, because they were once criminals, their character is not trusted by their superiors, and there are many restrictions when performing their tasks. For example, they are not allowed to harm innocent people at will, and they cannot violate laws and regulations unless absolutely necessary.
Both of them have micro-monitors implanted in their bodies, and their every word, action and movement will be recorded. Afterwards, special personnel will analyze and evaluate them. If the evaluation results show that they still have strong criminal tendencies or have taken extremely inappropriate means to complete the task, then they will lose their identities that have neither freedom nor privacy, and will be sent to prison, with their sentences extended.
In exchange, the names and faces of the two were removed from all wanted lists, their criminal records were wiped clean, and their families were well taken care of. Even if they died during the mission, their families would receive a large sum of money in the form of lottery winnings.
At the same time, each of their tasks will have a difficulty and importance assessment, and according to the degree of difficulty, part of the sentence can be offset. If all the sentences are offset, they can get limited freedom.
They are partners who trust and rely on each other during missions and cooperate well with each other. They have successfully completed difficult tasks many times and have been highly praised by their superiors.
At the same time, they can keep their distance, not knowing each other's real name, each other's past, or even whether the personality they display is their true self.
But deep down, they both see each other as close friends and believe they can trust each other in any situation.
This time, the two took on a task with an extremely high difficulty rating. If they could complete this task, even if they could not be "released from prison", they would be close to freedom.
However, the only clues for this mission were a crooked hand-drawn map and some .
But with their extraordinary talents and abilities, the two followed clues and found the Khojanik Wasteland.
Then, following some inconspicuous wheel tracks in the wilderness, strange phenomena that some people in the town had seen, animal hoof prints and feces, etc., they found a building hidden underground and successfully sneaked in.
This is a research institute located deep underground. Perhaps because they are confident in the confidentiality level and alarm system, the defense here is not as tight as the two had expected, and the security personnel are obviously lax when patrolling.
After a series of operations such as lurking, following, assassination, disguise, theft, torture, hacking into the system, identity modification, hypnosis, etc., the two men, wearing blue cleaning uniforms and made-up as two unremarkable cleaners, walked openly in the corridor of the institute.
For most people, a cleaner is like a green ivy in the corner or a painting on the wall. Objectively, we know of his existence, but subjectively we don’t pay any attention to him at all.
People from the research institute were coming and going in the corridor. Through the transparent glass walls, one could see many people working quietly in various laboratories. Occasionally, someone would glance at them casually, but it seemed as if their figures were not reflected in their field of vision at all.
From the expressions and conversations of those researchers, Lin Lai quickly determined that what these people were doing were just trivial tasks, and the real was still deep underground.
Mo Gui quickly stole an ID card.
The two avoided surveillance and took the elevator to the seventh underground floor. As soon as they got out of the door, two tall men in black looked over at the same time, but their expressions were rather casual and not very alert.
Mo Gui rushed out!
Two "crackling" sounds rang out almost at the same time, and the two men fell down softly. Mo Gui grabbed their necks and lifted them up to prevent them from falling to the ground.
Lin Lai quickly stepped forward and found that the defense here was tighter, and they also had to check voiceprints, fingerprints, pupils, etc., and there were even weight sensors.
In addition, this floor is equipped with a large number of surveillance cameras, covering every corner. The surveillance here is not in the same system as the floors above, so Lin Lai cannot invade. Therefore, the figures of the two may have already been seen by certain people.
"Time is running out, let's go!"
Seeing that Mo Gui was carrying two corpses and seemed to be looking for a place to hide them, Lin Lai shouted in a low voice, and as he spoke, he had already broken through layers of obstacles.
The heavily encrypted door slid open silently to both sides with a slight "beep" sound.
Almost as soon as the door opened a narrow crack, the two men rushed in sideways!
"We only have thirteen minutes at most! You cover me, I need..."
Lin Lai's voice suddenly stopped before he could finish his words!
It was not because he saw many armed men in black and even more stolen guns. Although if these people opened fire together, they might be shot to pieces as soon as they entered the door, but now all these people fell to the ground, not knowing whether they were dead or alive.
It wasn't because he saw the man in a white coat who looked like the evil villain's behind-the-scenes boss and was sitting opposite them leisurely waiting for them, because he looked like he was about to piss himself with fear.
It was not because of the many figures floating in the light blue liquid in those huge transparent jars...
Okay, it's still pretty shocking.
Among the naked bodies huddled in the tall jars were young men, teenagers, children, babies, and two or three old people.
Some have three hands, some have one foot, some have eyes on their stomachs, and some have fingers on their thighs. They are of all shapes and sizes, and look weird and disgusting.
There are also a few that are normal - at least they look normal on the outside, but they also give people an indescribable sense of weirdness.
The most shocking thing is their faces.
All bodies, no matter how strange and terrifying they look, have very similar facial features.
That kind of eyebrows... that kind of nose... that kind of lips... that kind of face shape...
The similarity with the man who suddenly appeared in front of them, knocked down all the men in black with a wave of his hand, and almost scared the boss-like guy behind the scenes to death... is about 80%.
[Lin...Lin Qingsi...Why is he here? No! It's, it's that...]
Lin Lai was so shocked that he almost bit his tongue.
"Rong Yuan!"
He couldn't help but yell, his shrill voice almost broke, it didn't even sound like his own voice.
Mo Gui was shocked and took a few steps back, looking at Rong Yuan with a blank face, as if he had not reacted yet.
The boss behind the scenes still had a complex expression of [refusing to accept the facts], [this must be a dream], [no, this is impossible], [I want to cry but I have to hold it back], [I will die! I will be shattered into pieces! I will live a life worse than death!], his face was extremely distorted, his face was as pale as paper, as if he would be scared to death in the next second.
Rong Yuan glanced at them, nodded slightly to Lin Lai and the others, then walked straight to a tall jar, put his hand on the glass, and said softly: "I heard your call for help, and I'm here."
The man in the jar opened his eyes.
