Chapter 415: The "Bell of Victory" in the Ancient Prophecy
"It seems that I am narrow-minded..."
Looking at the people in front of him who were willing to continue to stay here, Colin was silent for two seconds. He didn't expect that the other party would refuse.
However, I didn’t think much about it…
He noticed a key word in these words -
"The prophetic bell"?
"You just said... prophecy, right?"
Colin didn't know if this was a passive "machine translation" error of the company, so he spoke up and emphasized it again.
When he first heard “the bell of victory,” he thought it was just some kind of description.
However, if we add the word "prophecy" in front of it, it will be different...
This shows that the so-called "bell of victory" is likely to be a real thing rather than a simple description.
"Yes, the prophesied 'bell of victory'..."
Night Owl affirmed, then looked at Colin and the people around him with a hint of curiosity:
"You, you don't know this?"
"I really don't know. It seems that apart from 2044, I haven't come across any other prophecies..."
Colin shook his head and glanced at the people around him, only to see that they were also shaking their heads.
"Can you tell me what happened?" he asked.
Night Owl did not hide anything about this. The only thing they could not disclose was the specific location and status of the hundreds of "breeding halls"...
Other than that, it doesn’t matter.
Soon, after his explanation, Colin understood the situation of this thing.
The rumor of "the bell of victory" was spread by a senior starship staff member many years ago, but there is not much specific description of it. It just says that if one day they hear a special bell ringing...
That means humanity has achieved final victory.
"Damn it, I can tell at a glance that this was proposed by These guys...will they die if they explain it in more detail?" Colin was speechless.
The only thing worth noting about "The Chimes of Victory" is that it seems to have some connection with "2044".
Because according to the prophecy, the bell will ring at this time, space, place, thing or something...?
"What do you mean?" Colin asked.
"I'm sorry, in the prophecy, we can't accurately describe it with a certain set of words, because it is not necessarily time, it may also be space, or something else... The only thing we know is that the 'bell of victory' will ring at a certain moment. This moment may be that you have found something called '2044', or it may be time..." Night Owl said in an uncertain tone.
This thing is hard to explain , and he feels like there is something wrong with his language organization ability.
“2044 is not necessarily a time, it could be something else?”
Colin was stunned for a moment. This was something he had never expected.
Although it seems that more information has been obtained, the number of mysteries has also doubled - damn Riddler.
Taking a deep breath, he suppressed the inexplicable restlessness in his heart.
At this time, Night Owl, who was sitting opposite Colin, said, "Although things in this regard are a little hazy, overall, we can roughly determine that we are getting closer and closer to victory..."
"Oh? How come?" Colin asked curiously.
He and the other employees have opposite feelings to each other...
With the arrival of a certain time or thing, everything is getting worse and worse, there are disasters almost everywhere, there is suffering almost everywhere, and no normal place has been seen so far.
While he was thinking, he saw Ye Xiao stand up, take out a document, and hand a copy to him and several others.
"You may not be able to easily discover this trend, but we who have been in a state of war have discovered something special. You can check out this file for the details..."
Colin took a stack of dozens of pages of documents and flipped through them.
The first part is about the "Flood", with pictures and text, like some encyclopedia illustrations.
"The changing trend of the Flood..."
Colin muttered to himself, flipped the paper, and checked the condition of this special second-level containment object with others.
The earliest "Flood" was quite different from what it is now. It was a special mist-like life form without much substance. However, after a period of time, they began to grow flesh and blood, and their appearance became extremely hideous and terrifying...
After a period of time, the "Flood" gradually grew various organs, flesh and blood.
Until the one Colin saw recently...
A large number of organs, limbs, internal organs...even the brain.
Compared to the beginning, they now have more abilities such as mind disruption.
The shapes became more and more terrifying, bloody and creepy, as if people were taken apart alive and mixed together again, which made people feel uncomfortable.
"I feel like the original version of 'The Flood' was much better looking than the current one..."
Colin flipped through the contents of "The Flood" and looked at other things, and found that many anomalies seemed to have begun to undergo strange changes in flesh and blood.
Vaguely, he understood why people here said victory was getting closer.
However, at this time, "Foul Mushroom" on the side scratched his head, put his hand on his own document, and said in confusion:
"Excuse me, what does this have to do with...victory is getting closer?"
Apart from seeing that these things were becoming more and more disgusting, he didn't find anything valuable.
However, just after he finished speaking, he found that the eyes of the people around him began to look at him in an inexplicably ambiguous way...
This made him feel like his intelligence was being questioned.
But, then again, isn’t it a good habit to ask when you don’t understand something?
Next to him, the "Son of Sexual Abuse" and "Newbie No. 7" didn't quite understand either, but they also looked at their former teammate to avoid being suspected of having a high IQ.
Night Owl shook his head and was about to speak, but "Life Coach Keaiduo" spoke first and gave his own explanation:
"If you pay attention, you'll find that they are transforming into humans. No matter whether they look like humans at the moment, this is a big trend."
Night Owl glanced at his colleague, nodded with satisfaction, and added: "Not only that, they also showed preferences and emotions that they shouldn't have. Otherwise, their original behavior would be even more disorderly and chaotic..."
After hearing his words, the three people who didn't understand what was going on suddenly understood.
"Whether they like it or not, they are becoming like humans..."
Colin made the final conclusion.
He thought of many things he had encountered, some of which were not human, but inexplicably had a human form...
I'm afraid it's not because it wants to have this shape.
"If this continues, many things will become 'humanized', including some powerful individuals. Tsk, no wonder those higher beings are so nervous..."
Colin still doesn't know what changes will happen to them after they become human forms.
However, the company's top executives are so keen on doing this kind of thing, it's definitely not just for fun...
“It always feels like a big chess game.”
Ke Lin raised his hand and rubbed his chin. According to the company's way...
Could it be that if we turn these things into humans, all suffering will disappear? That doesn't seem likely.
Or is there some other deeper arrangement?
He thought for more than ten seconds, and a bunch of ideas came to his mind. Unfortunately, due to insufficient information, even if he thought of the correct answer, he couldn't be sure.
"It's just a matter of time before we get to the bridge..."
Gathering the scattered thoughts in his mind, Colin glanced outside the command vehicle. The battle with the "Flood" was still going on, but the front line had been pushed further and further away.
Then, he looked at the other party and said, "It seems that there is still more than an hour left... If you don't mind, can you ask about those things, the black fog, the eye at the top..."
Night Owl followed his gaze, thought for a few seconds, and then agreed:
"The eye on the top of the head was originally an important part of the ecosystem here. It once operated as the 'sun'. At the same time, it was also part of the 'defense system' of the mother planet. After the war, they have been using that power to make the abnormalities here lazy and dormant.
"There is a similar 'sun' in each independent area of the 'living layer', but there are more or less problems with each, and some of them cannot distinguish between friend and foe."
"Each independent area?" Colin interjected.
He thought that there was only one such huge space here.
But it doesn't look like it?
"Well, there are quite a few similar spaces, some are completely closed, and some are pretty good, like this one, which is pretty good." Night Owl did not say specifically how many spaces there were, but just gave a vague idea.
Colin didn't ask any further questions and instead asked about the black fog.
He discovered that the black fog seemed to be coming out from here, not from the next level down...
"About this, maybe you need to come with me so that I can understand the specific situation. Otherwise, it will be difficult to understand with just a verbal explanation."
Night Owl seemed to have known that they would ask this, so he stood up and pointed outside.
Colin nodded, stood up, and then, under the guidance of the other party, walked towards a place in the temporary base.
There, from afar, one could see thick black fog rising into the sky...
A few minutes later, Colin and the others saw what the smoke-spraying thing was.
A series of extremely special large armored vehicles.
Judging from visual evidence, there should be about sixty or seventy of them. On both sides of each armored vehicle, there are some cylindrical "cans" with many pipes on the top of the "cans", connecting to the center of the armored vehicle.
At this time, after walking in, Colin saw that each "jar" was filled with people.
Wisps of abnormal and polluted aura were drawn out from them.
Colin narrowed his eyes slightly, focused his gaze, and found that the polluted aura was not black fog, but after being extracted and filtered by something, it turned into black fog and was discharged?
Just as he was about to ask about the situation, he saw an armored vehicle make a "click" sound.
Rows of cans are opened on this armored vehicle...
The people inside came down.
"It seems to be a little 'cleaner' than before. Is the black fog actually coming from the abnormal polluted aura on them? But I don't know how they deal with that aura."
Colin nodded secretly. Just as he was thinking this, he saw the rear of the armored vehicle open after everyone left.
The space inside contained more than a dozen human skeletons...
The pale skeleton looked as if it was brand new, without a trace of flesh or blood.
"What's going on?" Colin raised his eyebrows.
Night Owl looked at the place and said, "If you stay here for a long time, you will definitely be contaminated by various pollutants. If it exceeds a certain critical value, mutations will occur...
“In order to avoid this, we select people who have reached their physical limit.
"Let them act as 'filters', filtering out the pollution from other people and then rendering it harmless..."
He pointed at the skeletons calmly and said, "After these are inspected, if there are no problems, they will be processed and crushed together, and then ejected outside through a special pipe..."
After hearing his explanation of the situation, everyone fell silent.
"So, how did the surface of the starship get covered with a layer of bones? But how many people died to get such a thick layer?"
Colin could no longer imagine how many lives would be lost in this long war.
"Is this the only way to deal with abnormal aura?" said the "life mentor Keaiduo" on the side.
"Not only that, but this is the only way we can solve the problem at the lowest possible cost and use it on a large scale." Night Owl briefly explained the problem:
"This method cannot be sustained forever, because no matter how much we transfer, there will always be contamination left, and these residues are deeply rooted. So after a certain period of time, if no one is sacrificed due to abnormal events, then everyone's final destination will be to become a 'filter element'..."
It was at this time that another group of people who acted as "filter elements" were sent over.
Colin looked over and immediately noticed that one of them was a member of the team that had just broken through with them...
The person who had just acted together seemed to have suffered some injuries on the way back, the biggest of which was a serious opening in his abdomen.
At that time, Colin did not help with the treatment, thinking that these people should have their own medical camp or something, but he did not expect that the seriously injured were just wrapped up and sent away as consumables.
Here, "serious injury" is almost the same as death.
However, Colin did not see any reluctance on the part of the man lying on the stretcher. Instead, he looked calm and at ease, ready to die...
When Night Owl saw this batch of "filter elements", he also did not express any different thoughts.
Because, after a period of time, when he reaches his limit, he will also become a member of the "filter element" and contribute the remaining strength to the stability here.
But at this moment, Colin suddenly spoke up and asked the teams to stop.
Then, he walked a few steps to the stretcher of the acquaintance, reached out his hand, and grabbed the injured person who had just broken through together: "Perhaps, there is another way."
As he spoke, the power of fire burst out from his body, covering the people on the stretcher and even the entire group of people...
He could clearly feel that a trace of abnormality was being melted by the flames.
At the same time, an illusory tree shadow was outlined beside Colin, with several tentacles hanging down and taking root on the other side.
Quickly repair the opponent's injuries...
Night Owl, who had been watching from the side, had a blank expression on his face until now. He finally showed surprise and widened his eyes. He was not surprised by the effect of the treatment, but was surprised by another thing:
"Actually, the pollution has been completely cleared? Completely..."
However, thinking of what the other party said, he shook his head again and persuaded quickly and clearly:
“I know you mean well, but this method can’t help us much.
"You will have a tougher battle later. Don't waste your energy here. It's not worth it.
"Because there are too many of us. You can save one person, ten, a hundred, or even thousands, but can you save millions, tens of millions, or even more people who are about to be born..."
"Yes, I really can."
Colin interrupted the other person and pulled out a flaming long knife from his pocket.
