My Endless Life.

Chapter 431 Stand-in Doll
For the next month, Li Qi did not stop being busy.

There are currently thirty-six underground cities in China, which corresponds to the number of Tiangang Thirty-six.

Among these thirty-six underground cities, there are five with a population of tens of millions. In peacetime, these five cities are either political centers, economic centers, or municipalities directly under the central government or special economic zones.

It can be said that these five cities are the most important cities in China.

Among them, the two underground cities of the capital and the devil city were not affected by the disaster of power outage because they were protected by the great formation of the Twelve Golden Immortals, but the remaining cities all fell without exception.

If they had not made countless emergency plans beforehand and if there were not rare objects protecting various places, the death toll would probably have risen exponentially.

Of the more than 200 million people originally left in China, at least one-fifth would die.

But even so, Li Qi was busy for a month to restore electricity in major cities. According to official statistics, millions of people died in the blackout.

Fortunately, most of those who died were suffering from terminal illnesses and needed life-sustaining equipment.

These people didn't have much time left, so dying in the doomsday period was actually a kind of luck.

Another two months passed, and all the major underground cities were safe and sound, and initial order was restored. Only then did the capital's underground city take the lead in holding a national mourning event.

The closer we get to the end of the world, the more we need to unite people’s hearts.

The dead cannot come back, but the living still have to struggle forward in this doomsday. In order to give these people hope, mourning activities are necessary.

One is to enhance cohesion, and the other is to let the survivors know that the country has not given up and will not give up on anyone.

On the day of the public memorial, Li Qi wore black and stood in front of the black cemetery built for the dead.

Because so many people died in this doomsday disaster, and most of them had no bodies left, the country only erected tombstones with words on them.

The tombstones are filled with the names of the victims.

Every city has such a cemetery, on which are written the names of the victims of that city.

Countless lives, countless people who once existed in this world, have become cold names engraved on tombstones.

Even though Li Qi had witnessed the cruelty of war, he couldn't help but bow his head in silence when looking at the names on these tombstones.

After all, even in times of war, there has never been a loss of life counted in the billions.

This time, China suffered heavy losses in the doomsday, and the world also suffered heavy losses.

If there were souls in this world, then the entire world would probably be filled with wronged souls by now.

After the memorial service, everyone dispersed in an orderly manner.

Li Qi still stayed in front of the tombstone. He was wearing a black suit and his short stature made him particularly conspicuous, but no one approached him.

Except for Wu Miao, the director of Bureau 057.

"I'm sorry, there's not much information left about the organization you're looking for in the bureau. We can only find bits and pieces."

Wu Miao stood beside Li Qi. He was wearing a uniform similar to an officer's uniform and a hat with a five-pointed star on it. He stared straight at the tombstones in front of him without moving his eyes away.

Li Qi was not very surprised by this. He said softly:

"When I realized I couldn't pronounce their names, I knew they were probably in hiding."

"So you can be sure that they are the ones who made the world what it is now?"

"Not sure, but... it should be close."

Li Qi looked up at the sky.

The sky created by the LCD screen shows blue sky and white clouds, giving people the illusion that they are still living in a normal era.

But Li Qi has good eyesight, and the particles on the LCD screen and the unnatural light projected down only make Li Qi feel that the show is out of place.

So he didn't look for long, and soon withdrew his gaze to think about the matters of the Ancient Relics Society.

I've heard people say before that the fundamental reason for the end of the world is that the ancient monuments did something wrong in the ancient monuments, triggering the end of the world.

Zhao Hong even contacted Zhang Fengyun for this, hoping that she could take Li Qi to seek refuge with him.

At that time, Li Qi also thought that the ancient monument was not intentional.

After all, who would want the end of the world to come?

Being able to live in a peaceful era is always better than being in power in the freezing cold of doomsday. What's more, the people in the Ancient Monuments Society are powerful people themselves. Once the doomsday comes, their power will actually shrink.

No normal person could do this.

But now...

Nuclear bombs, viruses, and global power outages are coming one after another, and it is certain that they will all be related to ancient monuments.

This inevitably makes people wonder whether the end of the world was part of their plan from the very beginning.

They wanted to do something, so they dragged the whole world into it, regardless of the loss of life.

This is what Li Qi wants to figure out now.

Compared to the Light-Chasing Society in the Fog World, the existence of the Ancient Monuments Society is probably really anti-human.

Li Qi thought that the ancient monument might be the mastermind behind this, and Wu Miao had a similar idea to Li Qi.

In his opinion, if an organization really has no problems, then there is no need to hide or cover up.

Now the ancient monument will be erased along with its existence and all related information, which is enough to prove that they have bad intentions. Even if we take a step back and say that the doomsday has nothing to do with them, they are the ones who created the nuclear bomb and the virus, and even the blackout is inseparable from them.

These alone are enough to charge them with crimes against humanity!
So after thinking about it, Wu Miao said to Li Qi:

"Later, I will contact the supernatural departments of other countries and issue a wanted order for this organization. Before that... you can read more information about ancient ruins to get a general impression of them. This will save you some trouble when you enter the ruins."

With such a big thing happening in the world, the exploration of ancient sites has to be put on hold for the time being.

And there are no extra people to explore the ancient ruins now, so before that, Li Qi became an idle person with a lot of free time.

Wu Miao's suggestion to Li Qi was to read more information about ancient relics. Li Qi agreed with this and planned to accept Wu Miao's suggestion and find some information to read.

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The ancient monument was first discovered in the last century.

It is located in America, but it was not taken seriously at the time. Through testing with age detection instruments, people found that the building was only built thirty or forty years ago.

It was not until several decades later, when retesting revealed that the site was still only thirty or forty years old, that people finally began to take it seriously.

Later, due to the activeness of major archaeologists and unknown organizations, more than 20 ruins were discovered around the world.

But in fact, everyone concluded that there were only twelve truly important ancient monuments.

Because only among these twelve ancient monuments is there a creation that looks like a door.

Then around 05, someone touched the door for some unknown reason, and a strange object was born. Then countries began to pay real attention to the ancient monument with twelve doors.

They recorded the information of these doors and ancient monuments, and tried to find out the reasons for the birth of these strange objects.

However, due to the mutual vigilance of countries and the interference of unknown organizations, everyone is unable to share the information they have obtained.

China only has the authority to explore and investigate two ancient monuments, the United States has two, the Soviet Union has two, the two major powers of the European Union have one each, and Japan has one within its territory, so it also has the qualifications to explore the monuments.

Of the remaining five, three are public monuments, located in Africa, Australia, and near Southeast Asia.

The last two are located on islands offshore and are occupied by unknown organizations.

Originally, everyone was exploring the ancient monuments peacefully, but that organization, whose name is no longer known, did something that caused the twelve major monuments to collapse one after another, and then the Dark Day came.

Hua Guoben wanted to restart the exploration of ancient sites to find out what caused the Dark Day to occur.

However, every time they were about to take action, an accident would occur in the country.

Either the pollution was spreading, or someone was holding a strange object to do something evil. This situation dragged on until the end of the world, and China was unable to restart the ancient monument investigation.

As for after the end of the world, China will have even more headaches.

The pollution within the country, the post-disaster reconstruction work in various cities, and the triple blow of nuclear bombs, viruses, and power outages some time ago.

To this day, China is still carrying out reconstruction work, and the exploration of the ancient sites has been repeatedly postponed.

Li Qi looked through the relevant information about these ancient monuments and looked at the photos above.

The photo seemed to be damaged, and most of the images inside were blurry. Li Qi guessed that this should be the impact of the collapse of the ruins, and an unknown force was affecting the previous records.

However, judging from the remaining photos, the words carved on the "doors" of these ancient monuments seem to be the same as the words on the stone tablets that Li Qi saw in the rain forest.

But if that were true, then the exploration team from the Alien Management Bureau would not be unable to recognize the text above.

Li Qi was not sure whether it was because the texts in each ancient monument were different, or if there was something that made people who had seen the ancient monuments gradually forget the knowledge inside the monuments.

Looking at the damage and blurriness of the photo, Li Qi felt it should be the latter.

Then he looked at the information again, and after a moment of silence, he wrote down the number "twelve".

There will be twelve stars in ancient monuments, and China has the Twelve Golden Immortals Map left over from the previous civilization.

Today, there are twelve ancient monuments that mainly have doors.

Li Qi felt that the number twelve should have a special meaning in this world.

Otherwise it wouldn't be such a coincidence that several important matters encountered one after another all involved the number 'twelve'.

I just don't know what the meaning of this number is.

However, when mentioning the Twelve Golden Immortals, Li Qi turned his attention to the ink painting scroll that he had placed aside.

The ink painting scroll is stretched out, 1.2 meters wide and 3.6 meters long, with twelve "immortals" dressed differently painted on it from left to right.

Among them, Zhu Xingyuan of the Wenxian Sect ranked first.

The remaining eleven people include five men and six women, all of whom are the chosen ones of the major sects in the immortal cultivation civilization.

Li Qi looked at them, not knowing if it was his illusion, he felt that these "immortals" were also looking at him.

After a moment of silence, Li Qi placed his hand on the calligraphy and painting, and then used the observation method taught by Ye Yue to look at the lines of rules on it.

Finally, he took out a palm-sized puppet, injected part of his soul into it, and used spiritual power to make the soul grow stronger. Then he placed the puppet on the calligraphy and painting.

This doll was a prototype that Li Qi used to transfer costs.

Li Qi calls it a 'stand-in puppet'.

(End of this chapter)