Chapter 423 "Give up obsession and become an adult instantly"?
"The thing I didn't remember... wasn't the staff... but..."
"There is another 'Fire Bearer' here..."
"It's such an important matter, but I don't think I asked any questions during the whole process?"
Colin suddenly understood who the "end of observation" on the incident sign referred to...
Not him, but the one who is here...
A former "fire bearer"!
As for that group of employees… they did forget, but when they remembered it halfway, it wasn’t really forgotten.
He subconsciously looked back at his surroundings and found that all four employees were unconscious.
But he couldn't take care of this. Colin was shocked. According to the mission, there was a "fire bearer" who might be alive here.
And the other party has been observing him?
I couldn't help but think too much. At this moment, in the deep darkness before my eyes, a flash of fire suddenly burst out, as if it was the first explosion in the universe, lighting up all the darkness.
The originally dark vision was finally restored, and all the scenes came into view again.
It was at this moment that Colin was stunned.
He did not see the figure of the "Fire Bearer", but he found that the "meteorites" in the sky had been burning at some point, and the limbs of the first-level containment objects all over the sky were constantly twisting, as if they were making invisible screams...
"Coal is screaming..."
Colin looked at the scene and couldn't help but have this thought in his mind.
With his special super vision and powers similar to those of the "Fire Bearer", Colin concentrated his attention and vaguely "saw" that these first-level containment remains were not simply dismantled and randomly packed with rocks and soil and thrown into space.
On that body, there is a special stamp that is difficult to wash off, similar to the "quarantine passed" stamp on pork.
"'Containment Protocol P-…' What? It's too far away, the words are so small, and there's glare and light pollution, it's hard to see clearly."
Colin grumbled in his heart, but the situation here still shocked him anyway.
However, since they are high-level containment objects and there are so many of them, even if they are ignited by the bonfire, it is difficult to destroy them directly and it is difficult to solve them all at once.
But at this moment, under the scorching flames, a lot of essences similar to "grease" emerged from the remains of a large number of limbs...
After these essences emerge, they are absorbed by the special seal above.
Then, a special force spread from the stamp of the "Containment Agreement". Under its spread, they began to petrify and continued to grow more granite-like stones...
Finally, they were completely wrapped up and floated in the sky just like before.
The resuscitation that made everyone dizzy seemed to stop so easily.
"Yes, judging from the current situation, it is difficult to stop this large group of high-level beings by relying on just a few ordinary C-level employees to 'return as kings'. The real key is the backup plan left by the 'Fire Bearer'."
Colin was shocked.
As the debris of the past stopped moving, inside the starship, behind the invisible crack, the various wills gradually weakened after failing to run in both directions, and they expressed resentment, anger, etc.
"Give me back the Fire Bearer..."
"Let me out..."
"Let me return here, and I will grant you supreme glory. Just release me, and I will help you solve your 'hunger' and let you truly control it..."
“…”
Colin could once again hear the whispers of various things, which sounded like human but not human.
Some threatened him, some yelled at him, and some tried to promise him something to get him to release these guys.
A strong sense of pain hit my head over and over again as I spoke...
At this moment, Colin vaguely felt that the campfire beside him seemed to be speaking...?
"When I come, you should bow your heads. I will allow you to speak, and then you can speak..."
Invisible words are passed on.
Colin was shocked. What happened? Did his flame become a spirit?
No, it's... that Fire Bearer who is responding through his power?
"Where is he? Why can't I sense him at all?" Colin was puzzled.
From the beginning, he had been trying to sense the exact location of the "Fire Wielder", but to no avail.
He could only roughly know what the other party had done, but he couldn't see the person.
Normally, the Fire Bearer is dazzling and not good at hiding.
But so far, I still haven't seen where the real body is...
However, as soon as this response appeared, the terrifying voices in his brain that would kill ordinary people no longer produced a bloating and pain...
But at this moment, a mass of deep darkness took advantage of the weakening of the other Old Wills, squeezed them apart, occupied all the cracks, gathered some kind of power again, and stretched out a huge black hand towards Colin.
It was more condensed than before, and it was unimpeded all the way. Even the special starship steel that was difficult to destroy even by the power of the ancient gods and seemed to be able to repair itself could not stop it...
During this process, the black hand continued to expand and called out to the "Red Moon", but its target was Colin.
But this time, it only reached halfway...
Colin once again felt that there was an uncontrolled bonfire at the edge of his flame.
It condensed into a ball, and then was kicked out.
This fireball was also very strange. It was much brighter than when Colin controlled it himself. It seemed to be walking in another dimension, not restricted by real matter, and could penetrate steel and most substances.
The target is the black hand...
Soon, the two sides came into contact.
The expected explosion did not happen, and the dark hand retreated directly under the light...
Just like the sun rising and the night retreating, there were no twists and turns.
Colin and the others felt a gentle warmth in the light and fire emitted by the flames, but the old beings felt the exact opposite, and what they experienced was an extremely terrifying, violent, burning heat.
All the unclean smells left over from the past were burned up under its illumination.
"What's going on... The 'bonfire' didn't receive any other amplification, except that it seemed to be moving on a different track. Why couldn't I do that just now?"
Colin felt very confused.
He could clearly feel that the other party had some special way of using fire, but the gap was too big. Colin found it difficult to see anything valuable and could not learn anything at all.
And just as the dark things disappeared in the firelight, other wills surged up again from beneath the cracks.
"If you go against the divine will, one day you will fail utterly and be completely destroyed!"
"You are trying to destroy this universe. You are destroying the path of sublimation of all things..."
"Why, you have already ascended, why would you betray yourselves..."
“…”
The horrible whisper lingered in my ears again, but compared to before, it sounded like some kind of question.
At the same time, Colin also realized that a part of his campfire that had escaped had "spoken" again in response.
This sound is not a language in the general sense and is difficult to describe.
It goes straight to the point. After some understanding, Colin feels that it is probably...
"We have never disobeyed divinity from the beginning. It is still allowed to exist. However, only divinity that has been approved by human rationale, after extensive discussion and public opinion, and after... the company's final in-depth research and discussion, is allowed to exist, is it... a good divinity?"
"Let go of your obsessions... embrace your humanity... become an adult on the spot, and regain your freedom and new life?"
Colin had a strange look on his face, feeling that these words were a little bit abstract.
At the same time, the cracks continued to disappear as the darkness faded, but after a few seconds, there was no trace of anything left.
After all, the original crack was opened because of "darkness".
It stopped moving and the cracks disappeared naturally.
On the starship, except for some minor anomalies, all the chaos disappeared.
"These chaotic existences happen to be within the scope of the garrison corps' handling. But then again, what is the situation with the 'Fire Bearer' who is responsible for handling the local area?"
"Why do I feel like I'm here, yet I'm not here?"
Flames floated on Colin's body as he tried to sense the other party, but he found nothing.
However, through some feedback and the inexplicable task just now.
He was certain that there might be... a "Fire Bearer" here.
"Hello, are you there? Can I ask what happened here? What do those special beings mean by divinity?" Colin tried to ask before leaving.
Unfortunately, no clear response was received...
But just when he thought the other party would not show up, an inexplicable inspiration appeared in his mind.
"Let 'people first' replace 'everything has divinity'..."
This analysis seems to be nonsensical, but it vaguely explains the root of the conflict between the two parties.
Suddenly, Colin remembered the "Flood" with more and more human limbs. This guy, from some special form, is approaching humans - the company seems to want to open up some new track?
But the old days seemed to have voted against this.
Then it was cleaned up...
However, before Colin could figure out the reason further, another "inspirational" response appeared.
"This conversation is a bit like communicating with the Snow Woman. You have to interpret it yourself. However, the Snow Woman has a low intelligence. She has the body of a young woman, but looks like a little girl of eight or nine years old. Her ability to express herself is far from this high."
Colin interpreted the inspiration as he thought about it, and soon finished interpreting it, then read it out to himself.
"Yes, there is no choice but to enter the Legion's safe area and escape through a special passage by sacrificing them..."
No response to the previous question, huh? Go to a safe area and sacrifice them? Isn't that a dead end?
Colin was subconsciously confused, but soon he understood the reason - in the safe area where the Legion was hiding, there was a special passage for sending ashes to the outside world.
If they took this passage, they could leave two or three times faster than before.
The price is that part of the garrison will disappear completely...
"Luckily it doesn't seem to be able to read minds, otherwise it would be a bit embarrassing."
For a moment, Colin suddenly felt a little guilty, because the reason he didn't go that way was entirely because the situation was critical at the time and he didn't know there was such a road.
It’s hard to say what I would have chosen if I had known.
However, Colin also realized that this person here, whether dead or alive, was in a somewhat special state.
It’s a bit like “conceptualization”…
“Boom!”
At this moment, a huge pillar of fire suddenly fell from the sky, interrupting Colin's thoughts.
The exit passage was opened again...
It was successfully established without the intervention of the Old Ones, and there seemed to be invisible bells about to be rung.
But before the bells sounded...
Colin suddenly realized something and turned his head to look to the side. He saw flames spinning and condensing into something that looked like an eyeball. Then, it was dragged by a hand and slowly moved towards him...
Then, seeing its appearance clearly, Colin couldn't help but be speechless.
This thing seems to be a real eyeball, not an image!
An inspiration came to me:
"The eyeballs of the Fire Bearer in a certain form, plug and play, convenient and fast..."
Looking at it floating in front of my eyes, it looks like a gift from the human body.
Colin was very sure that he was a professional Bonfire Company agent who was highly skilled and was on high-level missions to relieve disasters. He was not an organ dealer or human body recycler. He was not interested in organs at all...
But his hands would not listen to him.
Colin stretched out his hand honestly and grabbed the crystal-like eyeball formed by flames.
The moment I got it in my hands...
The ancient bell representing the "Advent Protocol" rang out slowly.
Colin and others disappeared in an instant.
After he left, the starship was once again shrouded in darkness, as if the silence of the past had returned once again.
But within it, the war that no one knows about will continue.
And at a distance from here, the existence that was initially attracted by Colin, after sensing the breath of the "Fire Bearer".
He turned around silently and left as if he knew nothing.
…
After a moment of trance, Colin opened his eyes and saw the familiar ceiling.
“I’m back.”
Colin propped himself up, sat up in bed, and shook his head.
"I passed through the 'Starlight Girl' when I went there, but when I came back, it seemed that I came back directly without passing through it. I don't know what its current situation is."
Colin grumbled, and suddenly remembered something. He seemed to have forgotten to ask the employees what happened to them...
"The four guys who acted with me should still be alive. After all, although they are unconscious, the amplifier effect is still there, and they just left together. As for the others... it's hard to say."
"But it's not a big problem. Let's open the parchment and take a look. If they are not dead, one or two of them should be able to brag about it in the internal channel this time..."
"If I'm correct, even if he died just now, it was within the prescribed time, and his death was not complete. He will have a chance to come back to life in the future."
Colin prayed silently and took out the parchment immediately.
First, the evaluation points for this mission, etc.
A simple 50,000 points, three gold mission certificates, and some ordinary rewards.
"Not bad, save more points, and upgrade a golden item next. As for the mission voucher, use it to upgrade the attributes of the basic panel."
This time, Colin didn't complain about having too many points.
After all, if it were to be upgraded to C-rank by then, it would logically be possible to unlock a golden item.
This must require a huge amount of points...
Now I have to save more.
Afterwards, Colin first opened the communication hall and took a look. He found that most of the employees had returned successfully, and judging from the time they spoke, they were much earlier than them...
He should be back much earlier than them.
"It must be the Fire Bearer who did it."
Colin nodded, and then stopped looking. The next step was to open the "storage room", and then he found that the out-of-control "Time Reverse" was not inside.
He was not surprised by this, after all, it was a semi-out-of-control thing...
Even if you give it to him, he may not be able to use it.
It will also cause a large part of the earth to fall into catastrophic consequences.
but……
"Hiss, why is the scepter I just picked up gone..."
Colin couldn't help but complain.
For the sake of that special scepter, he risked his life to return to the still-living corpse and pick it up...
But it was snatched away by the company!
In Colin's opinion, this thing has a certain probability of replacing bone spurs!
However, the emergence of an "inspiration" made Colin feel relieved again. The company is turning it into a "prop" and will return it to him in due time.
In addition, the special eyeball given by the "Fire Bearer" was lying inside.
"What's wrong with these 'fire bearers'? Why do they like to use their own body parts to make props?"
Colin muttered as he took it out and opened its detailed information panel.
