From the end of the world

Chapter 399 Aftermath
After the independent reality space was shattered, the Humanitarian Department's headquarters was destroyed.

Fa Zheng has already located the locations of the Humanitarian Bureau's bases in various places. Fa Zheng is determined to completely eliminate the Humanitarian Bureau. I guess this organization will never appear again in the future. Even if it still exists, it will only be a new organization of similar nature born on the ruins. As for whether it is the "just organization that sincerely fights for the mortal masses" that Fa Zheng hopes for, that remains to be discussed.

With the end of the Humanitarian Department, Ying Lingyun's madness also came to an end. Looking back, all my adventures since I entered the strange world have been closely followed by Ying Lingyun behind the scenes. His death made me feel that my adventure had come to an end.

However, there are still many questions that I haven't had time to get answered.

It's not just the question of why the Taoyuan Village Lord cooperated with Ying Lingyun, there are also clues related to the doomsday, and the details of the "blessed monk" who once gave Ying Lingyun the future doomsday technology... Many problems have become difficult to investigate due to Ying Lingyun's death.

If possible, I would have wanted to take it slow, extract all the information value from Ying Lingyun before killing him, but the reality is that I can't spare that much time and energy. In the battle of the Humanitarian Division's headquarters, I could only focus all my attention on saving Chang'an, and I had no time to collect clues related to the doomsday.

Perhaps I could also have let my own people join the battlefield like Shenzhao and Mingzhuo did, and collect the information I wanted from all over the Humanitarian Bureau’s headquarters, but the facts proved that not doing so was the best choice.

The entire battle of the Humanitarian Department's headquarters took only a few minutes. I have to say that they were worthy of the demon hunter team from Luoshan Headquarters. Afterwards, I learned that they had carpet-searched a huge amount of information from the Humanitarian Department's headquarters in just a few minutes. The results were very rich; but the price was also quite painful. Nearly half of the demon hunters died on the battlefield.

Life and death are common on the battlefield. The Humanitarian Division headquarters is heavily guarded, with a large number of resident-level and even some level-level monster guards. It is not surprising that the demon hunter team suffered heavy casualties. The problem lies in the cause of the casualties. The conflict with the monster guards is only a secondary reason. The biggest cause of death is being caught in the aftermath of the destruction of the Great Impermanence.

Mingzhu, the Sheep and the Rabbit fought almost from one end of the Humanitarian Department to the other. During the fight, the aftermath of their power swept in the surroundings without distinguishing between friend and foe, causing many casualties among the enemies and their own people. Later, when the Lord of Taoyuan Township appeared, the aftermath of the power caused by the attacks of Mingzhu, Shenzhao and Fazheng destroyed a large area of ​​the Humanitarian Department, causing another large-scale casualties without distinguishing between friend and foe.

It is important to note that unlike Mingzhuo and Shenzhao who used energy attacks, the huge ice spear that Fazheng threw at that time did not produce an explosive effect as it looked. Although the situation was urgent, he still thought about not harming his friendly forces, but he was too late to stop the other two.

The two men had no feelings about the casualties of their allies, especially Mingzhu. Although they were his own team, in his opinion, casualties among demon hunters at or below the Cheng level were not something worth mentioning.

It seems that for the great impermanence like Shen Zhao and Ming Zhuo, if their subordinates cannot survive on their own battlefield, it is their subordinates' problem. Even the demon hunters under Ming Zhuo seem to have accepted this value.

As for me, they helped me when the Taoyuan village chief attacked me, so I have no right to blame them. I don't have the inner motivation to blame them, but I just feel that this is not good on a general moral level.

Besides, there are more pressing issues waiting for me to deal with than thinking about those moral issues.

That is the fragment of the divine seal that was taken from Ying Lingyun and bound to me.

According to the spoils distribution plan agreed upon in advance, if the number of fragments of the divine seal we obtained at the headquarters of the Humanitarian Department is an even number, Fa Zheng and I will split it in half with Shen Zhao; if it is an odd number, Fa Zheng and I will get one extra piece.

When evacuating the independent reality space, Ming Zhuo picked up the bodies of the Sheep and Rabbit and took out two fragments of the Divine Seal from them. Together with the fragment of the Divine Seal I got from Ying Lingyun, I got a total of three. Two of them belonged to me and Fa Zheng. According to the agreement, these two fragments of the Divine Seal belonged to the collective ownership of the Hegemony Camp in name. I, Fa Zheng, and Jian Feixian only had the right to use them, not the ownership.

However, I have formed a binding relationship with one of the fragments of the divine seal. I cannot throw it away. If I leave for more than a short distance, it will automatically return to me.

I really don't know how to explain this "mysterious phenomenon" to Fa Zheng. If I'm not careful, my identity as a Void Realm Apostle will be exposed. I don't want to reveal this truth yet. After all, the Void Realm Apostles and Luoshan Dawuchang are hostile to each other in their current positions. There are many deep and complicated involvements, which makes me feel troubled by the subsequent impact of exposing my true identity. By the way, I still want to continue to be a cadre of the mysterious villain organization who conceals my true identity.

Shenzhao and Fazheng did not see me harvest the fragment of the divine seal. I may have suppressed the report, but Mingzhu was present at the time, so I don't know if he witnessed it clearly. This behavior of concealing the spoils is not in line with my character. I don't know if it will "explode" in the future, so it's better to be honest.

Although I have thought about changing the agreement at the last minute, it is something I promised myself. I don't want to break my promise for no special reason. More importantly, I feel like I will lose to the navy Xuanwu if I do so.

So after leaving the independent reality space, I used the right to use this God Seal fragment, thinking of taking it back first under the pretext of "needing to use it for something", and then exchanging it for the ownerless God Seal fragment I had on hand. However, in this way, it seemed that the God Seal fragments on hand all had their own tasks, and I had to collect another ownerless God Seal fragment and try to hide it, specifically to guard against the God Seal Master... Although such a simple strategy should be thought of by other virtual realm apostles, it seems that there is no difference between one more or one less.

It may be because it was mainly Mingzhu and I who were fighting on the front line this time, and I only had the right to use one of the two fragments of the Divine Seal, so it was very easy to get Fa Zheng's approval. Not only that, from what Fa Zheng said, it seems that I not only have the right to use this fragment of the Divine Seal, but also the right to use it indefinitely.

Unlimited use rights - doesn't that mean it becomes mine?

"It's just a single fragment of the Divine Seal. You can use it as long as you want." Fa Zheng said to me, "There are a total of four fragments of the Divine Seal in the Governance Camp. Even if you, me, and Jian Feixian each hold one for a long time, we can still have one more free fragment of the Divine Seal, so there is no problem.

“As long as all the fragments of the Divine Seal are handed over when they are collected, the Divine Seal can be restored to its complete state.

"The complete divine seal must be used to prevent the end of the world, and I will be the user. Do you have any objection to this?"

The hegemonic camp now actually only has four fragments of the divine seal. You should know that Shen Zhaoguang has given four fragments of the divine seal to me and Yuchi.

And if you include the fragments of the divine seal obtained from Ying Lingyun, the total number of pieces in my circle of friends is five - although three of them were given by Shen Zhao.

I felt the gap.

It is very likely that it is not that Fa Zheng and Jian Feixian did not work hard. The work of collecting the fragments of the divine seal has a strong element of "fate-driven". Great impermanence like Fa Zheng and Jian Feixian can only touch the fragments of the divine seal by relying on their own powerful strength, which is a kind of "fate forcibly established by force"; and Shen Zhao, as an apostle of the virtual realm, is likely to have a much greater affinity with the fragments of the divine seal than ordinary great impermanence, and it is also easier to collect.

I am Fa Zheng's ally, but not a true like-minded partner, so Fa Zheng's wish to collect the complete divine seal is most likely unattainable.

"No objection. But is it just a verbal agreement?" I asked.

"It was only a verbal agreement. After all, even if we signed a contract like ordinary people, there is no higher power to arbitrate between us..."

After saying this, Fa Zheng paused for a moment and then said the next sentence, "...at least that's the case now."

The law is not applicable to the great impermanence. Even if relevant laws are enacted against all odds, they are meaningless if there is no actual punishment. Forcibly enacting laws that cannot be enforced will only reduce the majesty of the law.

That being said, in the vision of hegemony that Fa Zheng had in mind, the Great Impermanence would eventually become part of the social order. Before human civilization's technology soared and became an interstellar civilization where even the Great Impermanence could not do whatever it wanted, this seemed to be a contradictory wish, and he obviously did not intend to wait until then to implement hegemony.

Unless there is a law... a law that is far more powerful than existing human civilization, hovering over everyone's head like a sword of Damocles, and even the Great Impermanence can punish it equally.

I seemed to have vaguely guessed what kind of wish Fa Zheng wanted to place on the Divine Seal.

I sincerely hope that all my friends can live in such an orderly and peaceful society. On the other hand, what I yearn for is a world full of chaos.
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Afterwards, I took Chang'an back to my residence at Luoshan headquarters.

Because his soul had suffered extremely severe damage, Chang'an remained in a coma, and the next step was to find a way to treat and revive him.

(End of this chapter)