Chapter 66 "This is a gift from greed to you."

In the south area on the second floor, it was raining heavily. The fishermen offshore were rushing to fish out the fishing nets that had sunk in the water. The small boat was floating in the water. Waves were constantly beating against the surface of the ship, stirring up bursts of crystal water. The entire sea seemed to be in some kind of rage, and even the dark clouds in the sky were making low muffled thunder.

The fisherman only felt that he was unlucky today. He had been out at sea for decades, but this was the first time he encountered such bad weather. Half an hour ago, this sea area was calm, but now it is like a huge ship hitting an iceberg. The situation is... It took a sharp turn, but it was irreversible.

The waves were lapping in waves, even raising waves several meters high. The fisherman looked at this scene. At that moment, he was so shocked that he lost his breath. He stared at the scene in front of him, and his legs couldn't stop shaking. Trembling, this is the most instinctive fear of nature and the sea. In the waves, a figure covered with scales loomed, and the next second, a sweet and gentle song came to the ears of the fishermen. The person who looked so frightened just now suddenly lost consciousness for a moment.

The boat was floating in the sea like a leaf. The fisherman ignored the bumps and walked to the side of the boat. He raised his head and looked around. At that moment, the man saw the things under the boat: they were densely packed, as if they were sinking in the water. The dark figure on the bottom of the sea raised its face and looked up at him. One after another, hideous corpses sank in the water. They all had similar faces. They stretched out their hands and slapped the boat, constantly making waves in the process.

Under the turquoise water, there was a darkness as oppressive as a nightmare, like an abyss. Countless corpses looked at the fishermen at that moment. A sweet song came from the man's ears, and arms slowly stretched out. For a second, the fisherman stretched out his hand and held the scaly palm.

As a sound of water came, the fishermen were dragged into the sea and became one of the corpses. The waves are getting higher and higher, from one meter to two meters at the beginning, and then to nearly dozens of meters high. People who were at the beach just now stared at this scene blankly. Under the water, there were scales all over their bodies. The figure chuckled, and the next second, the waves rushed in all directions, completely engulfing everything in sight, and roared all the way into the city, causing irresistible tsunamis and floods.

On the east side of the second floor, bursts of laughter suddenly came from the crowd, as well as cheers and applause that seemed to be from the audience in the grand theater. A corpse rushed out of the sewer along with a large amount of treasure and gold. His skin was pale. , his cheeks were faintly cracked, reflecting the colorful luster of gems like the cracked mouth of a jar inside. He was wearing the uniform of the Life Factory, and had an illusory smile on his face that seemed to realize a long-cherished wish, making people think of nothing but happiness and joy.

If you look closely, his hair seems to be woven with gold, his eyes are engraved with diamonds, and his hands and feet are also covered with jewelry of various colors. They shine brightly in the dirty mud, attracting others. gaze.

As if something was bewitching passers-by, a group of people gathered in this direction involuntarily. After seeing the corpse, everyone's breath was suffocated, and their eyes glowed with golden luster, and they couldn't help but look towards He ran towards him, stretched out his hand, and started tearing at the corpse's torso.

"This is mine!"

"No, it's mine!"

A group of people fought for it, and the body was soon torn to pieces. There were faint screams, but the treasure fell out of the flesh and blood body. The passerby completely lost his mind. The moment he was completely torn apart, a music box fell to the ground and released a pleasant melody.

In front of their eyes, a gorgeous and perfect theater shone brightly, in which singers stood singing among gold and gems, clowns stood on the stage and laughed wildly, theater actors walked back and forth in gorgeous costumes, and the audience screamed With uniform cheers, this scene was before our eyes. A young man couldn't help but stretched out his hand. Then, the grand theater really appeared in reality, and at that moment, all the people in the city were transformed. People are pulled into the field.

At this moment, O-16-NM-Curse of Siren; O-17-FG-Absurd Drama; O-18-YU-Group Instinct; appear together. These three pollutants are all level five pollutants, and At the same time, they are aggregates. In a field of pollutants, there are one or more fifth-level pollutants coexisting at the same time. Except for the most powerful fifth-level pollutants, the remaining fourth-level and third-level pollutants are also in quantity. numerous.

Just the moment they were born, three cities were destroyed, and the people living in them were reduced to ashes. The entire city was reduced to an empty city. But I don’t know whether it was lucky or unfortunate. Some of them may have just been dragged away. After entering the realm, he did not die.

I don’t know if it was an illusion or not, but branches of Life Factory were stationed in these three cities. When the disaster struck, some of the employees died immediately. The person in charge of Life Factory and the bishop of the Trial quickly rushed to the scene. But even they, who were already accustomed to all kinds of monsters, were shocked for a moment by the scene in front of them.

"... Sikyong." The surviving employees of the Life Factory climbed out of the rubble and dialed Sikyong's phone number immediately: "What should we do?"

"Oh? Such a thing happened?" The man's voice sounded like Extremely calm, even as if he had expected it: "It's only now that it broke out. It's already very good."

"What on earth is going on?" After hearing his words, the employee's eyes tightened. For some reason, he felt the other party's There was no surprise in his voice, and he was almost unnaturally calm.

The ruins behind him, the monsters raging in the city, and the thrill of escaping from death made the employees ask this question uncontrollably. Sikyong had no intention of explaining, nor was he angry, but it was strange to ask at this time. He said:

"Did you recover the 'core' of the branch when the accident happened?"

The employee did not reply for a long time. Sikyong's voice became colder: "Have you?"

"...We didn't have time to recover it, and the person in charge of the branch was swallowed up. "I don't know where the core is." The employee's voice trembled.

Sikyong did not answer. After a long time, the man sighed: "Then there is no other way."

"Sir Kyong... my colleagues may still be inside. Please save them."

"The people from the trial will be there soon. " Come and recycle the core." The man gently reminded: "You can ask them for help, they will need you."

After saying this, the communication was hung up before the employee could say anything more, and he looked embarrassed. The employee with blood on his face stood in the rain, his body gradually getting wet.

At this moment, he felt something suddenly sound behind him, and a long gun was suddenly pressed against his back. The man turned his face stiffly, and saw a bishop standing behind him, signaling the other person to put down the gun:

" We must treat them gently, these people are the lambs of the Lord."

The bishop looked at the employees in front of him with a gentle smile: "Are you a survivor of the Life Factory branch?"

"Me. Yes." The employee replied word by word, his voice trembling a little.

"Poor child, we are here to help you - No. 1, put down what you are holding, you scared him."

The man with the hideous scar on his face took a step back, and the bishop looked at the person in front of him lovingly, That look made the employees shiver: "I think you must know where the branch of Life Factory is and remember the internal structural diagram, right?"

"You want to go back to the branch? There are monsters there." The employees stepped back He took a step forward and trembled non-stop: "Those are like nightmares, terrifying and ferocious monsters...I...I will never go back!"

"This believer, you don't have to be afraid, you just need to respect our Lord. Be redeemed."

The bishop patiently tried to persuade him, but the employee remembered the scene that had just happened. Ubiquitous ferocious monsters crawled out from various areas of the branch, and mechanical flying insects flew towards him. Everything in front of them was destroyed by them. After chewing the food, the employee shivered and his eyes were red: "I won't go back!"

"Oh, there's nothing we can do about it." The bishop sighed helplessly, and then he stretched out his hand, and invisible tentacles stretched out from his fingertips. , the employee hissed like he was exhausted, and there was a sound of something squirming in his head. He flew in the air, tentacles emerged from his head, the bishop looked at him, and then wiped his hands in disgust, He returned to his amiable appearance:

"Come, take us back to the Life Factory and recycle the core there."

"Yes, Master." The man fell to the ground and staggered towards the building behind him, where , a giant insect nest floating in the air emitted a neat buzzing sound, as cold as a machine, and as creepy as a swarm of insects.

-Punya

hasn't had a dream for a while.

In the pouring rain, a purple-haired figure walked towards the manor. The head of the Heniya family greeted him personally, and Punia saw a face.

That was the most perfect face he had ever seen. Words could not describe his beauty. The figure with a pair of beautiful green eyes was enough to attract anyone's attention just by standing there.

Even the most famous singer in the opera house could not sing the praises of his appearance. At that moment, Punia was so shocked by that beautiful face that her soul was taken away. She only remembered to look at the person in front of her, He thought, is this the rumored seven sins?

……so beautiful.

Punia thought that he had also been shocked by the queen in the theater, but compared to the person in front of him, the other person was nothing. Even the head of the Heniya family was shocked for a moment until the visitor walked into the manor. After taking a look at the dim sky, he suddenly looked at Punia, and then stared at him without blinking.

The man stood in the rain, his whole body was wet, thunder falling from the sky struck behind Greedy, the man's purple hair was blowing in the wind, and his beautiful green eyes stared at Punia, Greedy suddenly Pointing his finger at him, he then asked:

"Who...are you?"

After his eyes turned on Punia's face, his pupils suddenly turned into depressing horizontal lines.

"What... is that on your hand?"

At that moment, the pure white bracelet on Punia's wrist emitted pure white light. The next second, her greedy eyes turned around Punia's body. , and suddenly showed a smile.

It is difficult to describe the beauty that bloomed in an instant, like a flash in the pan, making everyone who saw it lose their breath in an instant - Punia really lost her breath, because at that moment, the sickle that suddenly appeared in Greedy's hand penetrated directly. His chest then turned and hooked upwards. Punia's heart stopped beating instantly, and blood droplets splashed on Greedy's face. Punia, who was watching this scene from a close distance, did not even have the fear of death. , just staring at the flawless beauty.

"——Thief."

He heard the man say.

"Kill you." Greedy's voice was sweet and melodious: "Prepare a gift. After I take you back, he will definitely praise me."

A joyful, happy laughter came, and at that moment, I lost my breath. Punia was suddenly enveloped in a strong feeling of jealousy, so jealous... of the person who could make him so happy.

The purple-haired man happily slaughtered the entire manor. Even the pollutants falling from the sky could not stop him. Instead, he was strangled by it. The people of the Henia family came to ask him to eliminate the threats here, and Greed did it. But the reward is their lives.

After Greed killed everyone, he carefully selected the gifts and put them in boxes and brought them back to the laboratory. In the dead of night, the sound of the doorbell ringing came. Shu Mo, who was sleeping, looked confused. When he opened the door, he saw a purple-haired man standing in front of the door, smelling of blood and exuding a strong sense of ominousness.

"This is a gift from Greed to you."

The man said softly. There were several boxes at his feet.

"?"

The black-haired young man looked a little confused. His hair was slightly messy and his expression was a little confused. At first glance, he knew that he had just fallen asleep and was woken up from his dream.

"You will definitely like it."

Greedy smiled shyly, and then opened the gift box in his hand. At that moment, Shu Mo took a few steps back in shock, because in his box, there was a head with a similar face to his.

"What on earth...did you do?!" Shu Mo looked at Greed, who was approaching step by step, as if asking for a reward from him, and then looked at the thing at his feet. He was so frightened that his legs almost weakened. This was not him. You are not afraid of greed, but if your dog returns from a hunting trip and dumps several bloody corpses at your door, you will also be afraid of the pet still holding the stumps in its mouth and trying to rub your thighs as usual. .

"Greed has brought you a gift, Shu Mo." The purple-haired man approached Shu Mo. In his open hand, he was holding a pure white bracelet that exuded holy light. The top of it had an unprecedented luster. The ground was dazzling, as if it was brand new. The closer it got to Shu Mo in front of him, the more unimaginable brilliance erupted.

The bracelet trembled slightly, and in the next second, it almost seemed to fly up on its own and approached the black-haired young man. But the moment it was about to touch Shu Mo, Punia opened her eyes, and then gasped in horror. With.

The beautiful armband shone brightly, and then dimmed again. Punia looked around in the room, then hurriedly walked towards it and held it in her hand.

The moment Punia came into contact with it, the bracelet seemed to be eroded by something on his body and became a bit dimmer. But the man didn't care about this. He put the bracelet on his body and covered it with clothes. After doing this, Punia came back to her senses with lingering fear and said:

"It was you... who made me do this again. A dream." Punia recalled the content of the dream, and the greedy face kept reappearing in his mind. Just a glimpse of that face was enough to make people lose consciousness, but Punia's chest hurt and he Lowering his head, as if a sickle was about to pierce his chest at any time, the man raised his face, never daring to think about that face again.

I don’t know if it was a warning or a precursor, but an idea appeared in Punia’s mind for no reason. He couldn’t let the Seven Sins of Greed come to his manor, otherwise they would all die in his hands and be treated as gifts... No, more like A sacrifice, given to someone.

Punia paused for a moment. The dream that seemed extremely clear just now suddenly became blurred in an instant. The appearance of the black-haired young man was also forgotten by him in an instant, as if it had been erased by some kind of force. He couldn't remember what that person looked like, and could only vaguely feel that the other person looked familiar. Punia couldn't remember it no matter how hard she thought about it. She could only remember holding his head in Greedy's hands and saying like a sacrifice:

"■■," the man said softly, with almost fanatical admiration for the other person in his eyes: "This is greed A gift for you."

"Please praise me." The other person said this sweetly, as if with honey in his mouth.

Those eyes and gestures will make people involuntarily realize what the person in front of them means to Greed, as if they are God, everything to him, and his life-saving straw, a preference that makes people jealous.

Punia gritted her teeth and finally stretched out her hand to touch the bracelet: "Thank you for saving me again."

"You must not want me to be like that." Punia said: "After I know What's going to happen?"

The bracelet was pressed into the clothes, and then flashed twice silently.

Punia didn't see it, but he murmured to himself: "It can't go on like this. I have to tell my father that I must... I must avoid this ending." Thinking of this, Punia hesitated for a moment, greedy His face lingered in front of him, but the bloody rainy night made him even more frightened. He stayed in the room for a long time before he finally found the strength. The man got up, put on his pajamas and walked to the study. Outside the window, the sky is getting darker and darker, dark clouds are gathering, and heavy rain is about to pour.

This night is destined to be a sleepless night.

——Shu

Mo no longer remembers how he fell asleep.

The moment he saw the precious treasure that had been lost and sought after by everyone reappearing in his hand, Shu Mo felt an indescribable excitement in his heart.

Presumably, it must be intense joy.

As for whether he believes in the cost of the truth, Shu Mo can only answer in two words: Haha.

He stared at the book in his hand and said: "Then how do you explain what you have done to your superiority and greed before?"

A line of writing quickly appeared on the price of truth: [Those are some small means to achieve the goal, from As a result, you actually benefit from it and gain their trust. 】

That’s what I said, but the words “The Price of Truth” somehow make me feel more uncomfortable the more I listen to them, making me want to go to the sink, turn on the faucet, and then sink this damn book into the basin. , help him take a bath.

Seemingly realizing something was wrong, Price of Truth said: [Don't sink me into the water, that will bring you bad luck. 】

Shu Mo sneered, and it knew it was afraid: "Misfortune, what misfortune?"

Although this was the case, he was just pretending and didn't really want to do it. The black-haired young man walked to the bathroom and pretended to turn on the faucet. The next second, the faucet suddenly failed and the tap water started flowing like crazy. He let out a sigh of relief. He coughed, his clothes were soaked, and his black hair was as wet as a wet puppy. He had just wiped his face, but at this moment he stepped on the water, slipped and fell to the ground, but he fell to the ground. Before he really hit the ground, he was wrapped in tentacles emerging from the pages of the book, and his body was floating in the air.

"...Is this the bad luck you are talking about?"

Shu Mo's expression looked a little numb. The Price of Truth slowly lifted him up and returned to his hands. The young man turned over a page and saw the words:

[Obey =)]

At that moment, Shu Mo felt a strange feeling in his body for some reason. An inexplicable anger was surging. In a state of extreme anger, he argued with a book for half the night. However, the price of truth seemed gentle, but his words were extremely venomous. Shu Mo was tired of the quarrel and finally gave up. Somehow I was sent to bed, and then I covered myself with quilt and fell asleep.

After waking up, Shu Mo fell into deep thought.

Q: What is the most incredible thing that has ever happened to you in your life?

Answer: Quarrel with a book.

And lost the argument.

At that moment, there was more of an indescribable sadness than anger. Shu Mo didn't even want to take a look at this crappy book, but he couldn't get rid of it. He always said that he was on Shu Mo's side. Of course, this didn't stop him from arguing with Shu Mo last night. During the process, he praised Shu Mo vividly for several hours in an extremely elegant and non-expletive tone. Instead of being praised, Shu Mo was more like: shut up.

Shu Mo sighed and finally accepted the current reality. He carried the price of truth with him. The other party would come looking for him anyway, so what's the point of escaping.

Greed followed him, his eyes turning around on the notebook that reappeared, as if he remembered something, and a faint joy overflowed from his eyes.

Shu Mo was just about to start today's work when he suddenly heard a few experimenters arguing about something, as if they were complaining about the increasing number of pollutants being transported to the laboratory. At the same time, several injured hunters were walking along. He walked through the corridor, took one look at them, and left without looking back.

There was something wrong with the atmosphere in the laboratory. Shu Mo looked at this scene and saw Ouya walking towards him. The man's expression also looked a bit ugly. After seeing Shu Mo, Ouya seemed to have found a savior. Said:

"Shu Mo, something bad happened."

Shu Mo said: "?"

Ouya pondered for a moment. His generous and generous character suddenly behaved like this. You can imagine what happened now:

"Second floor A new batch of fifth-level pollutants appeared inside. They were not single pollutants, but a collection of several fifth-level pollutants combined together.

"...What?"

Ouya glanced at him. For some reason, the man sighed: "I don't know why, but I always feel that this matter will be related to you later. After all, you are the most famous breeder in the laboratory."

Ouya continued: "This matter happened yesterday. It happened at night, but because of the fall of several big cities, including City C, people from the Tribunal, the Corona Organization, and the Laboratory were all gathering manpower to rush to suppress those pollutant areas. "

This has also led to a sharp increase in the number of pollutants in the laboratory. Many people want to transport those level five pollutants to the laboratory, but the director does not agree." He rubbed his eyebrows and continued: "Of course, I don't know why he disagrees. Shu Mo, you still have to do this."

Shu Mo looked at him. Ouya's body was also covered with scars. He knew it in such detail. It must have been removed yesterday. One of the members who suppressed the pollutants. As for why Shu Mo was not transferred, one of the reasons was that he was not a combatant. I am afraid it was more because of the director's opinion.

He turned his eyes behind him and saw Greedy looking at him unblinkingly: If he didn't go, Greedy probably wouldn't be called away, so the director simply ignored him.

Thinking of this, Shu Mo comforted him a few words, and then hurriedly walked towards the director's office. Along the way, the injured hunter and the experimenter who were discussing the matter were also hurried. Shu Mo even observed many shelters. Chambers are opened and new contaminants are introduced into them. The entire laboratory was running at high speed, and Shu Mo could vaguely feel the breath coming from the containment room. The contaminants that had just appeared and been escorted here had some indescribable special feelings.

Shu Mo's heart tightened. He walked to the door of the laboratory and opened the door. Greed followed closely behind him without saying a word, like a tail that couldn't be shaken off.

The room was full of laboratory technicians at work. The director was sitting in front of the table, supporting his chin with his hand. Looking at him, Shu Mo felt that the current situation was very bad, because even the director's appearance showed that Something didn't feel right up there, so he walked up to the man and said,

"Director, what happened?"

The black-haired young man suddenly stopped mid-sentence. As he spoke, his eyes suddenly looked suspicious, and then he came closer. After a while, Shu Mo looked at the man in front of him and heard a subtle voice. Shu Mo's eyes widened and he realized that he heard it correctly.

He looked at the person in front of him again.

Director: "ZZZ..."

Shu Mo: "..."

Shu Mo took a closer look and finally realized.

This man, who seemed to have a serious expression and a change in his demeanor, seemed to be observing the experimenter's work, but at this moment he was actually... sleeping with his eyes open.

Slept soundly.