Cyber ​​Sword Immortal Iron Rain

"To complete the plan, there can't be any other big demons."

"The Daoguo Axis, the Grand Opera Troupe, the Wanshou Ganges, the Merlion Holdings, the Java Group... the Nine-Child Ghost Mother cannot be killed. From the beginning, each side in the melee was fighting a losing war; they also did not realize where the truly valuable things were."

"This is not surprising: just like my other patients... none of them understood how important it was to go back to the past; nor did they think about the bleak future that Patient Zero had prepared for us."

"But I am the only one who knows: the gap between people can never be so huge and deep...it can't be like this. I want to correct all this."

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Patient Zero.

Just like it is difficult for the native language to directly describe a foreign word——

The four words "Patient Zero" were uttered directly from the 1.5-meter-long square array of mouthparts, with overlapping noises: this was extremely rare in all the exchanges between the Snow Ghost and the Patriarch in the past few decades. This shows that these four words are not just to describe the "initial case" or "marker case", but a nickname for a single individual.

The flesh-like mountains before me undulated and rippled:

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Chapter 307: Nine: Greed (Twenty-two)

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Even though his heart was almost filled with confusion and terror, the Snow Ghost could vaguely distinguish that this seemed to be a "shudder" -

When the words "Patient Zero" were mentioned, the Patriarch seemed to feel fear...

Probably: After all, for the king-level demons, whether their hypothalamus will stimulate the pituitary gland to secrete adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) to feel fear "physiologically" is still an unknown - and is there the word "fear" in the language spoken by the ancestor of the throne?

But as a collection of individuals, in the overall mood and emotions... demons still have similarities with humans.

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If Fang Bailu, who has a body of iron and steel, were here and had the medium that stored his memory, he would be able to recognize the individual and meaning represented by "Patient Zero":

This is the first hibernating dragon to wake up among the so-called "dragon group"... the first hibernator to cross the river of time that spans hundreds of years and reach the future.

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Of course, in the eyes of the Snow Ghost who knew nothing about this, these four words only represented the literal meaning.

At least, Xue Gui himself felt fear: this fear was not because of what the Patriarch said - but because of this detailed explanation. He had never explained the reasons so carefully to Xue Gui, nor shared the thinking behind his decision; when it came to actual actions, the Patriarch always just issued orders.

The strange abnormality caused a slight tremor in the Snow Ghost's heart.

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"Then... what's next?"

Snow Ghost quietly asked this question in his heart: Is it okay to lie dormant in the dead city underground? Is this what the future will be like?

In the past, the Patriarch was enough to make her feel at ease and no longer have any distracting thoughts - but today, she still felt a trace of uneasiness growing in her heart like a poisonous flower.

The Snow Ghost propped up his body from the ground and looked at the machine embedded in the ancestor's chest, which was still howling and rotating.

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At this moment, the ancestor's response just met the snow ghost's anxiety:

"I have more to tell you."

"The next plan... also requires your knowledge in order to be completed."

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The Snow Ghost straightened up slightly and put his center of gravity back on his thighs and calves, which were fitted closely together, to balance the sudden jolt: the torso of the Patriarch was rising and falling.

She took Park Wenzhi off the connector at her waist and stretched the umbilical cord extending from her body so that she could place the head on the ground in front of her. It was not until this moment that Xue Gui realized that the conversation or sermon in front of her would be quite a long way from over.

The old ancestor's faint voice came out through Pu Wenzhi's mouth -

This is a picture that is weird, yet also a bit sacred and gorgeous: at least, that's how it looks to the Snow Ghost.

In this huge body of flesh and blood, mixed with rose and gray-brown, as huge as a mountain, there is a pagoda-shaped machine that can predict the future. As the only remaining controller in Luzon, which was once omnipotent, its words have to be conveyed through a lonely head with its eyes removed and seven orifices replaced: finally reaching the ears of the lonely listener, the Snow Ghost.

If everything today can still survive the coming storm, then the Snow Ghost and everything she sees and hears may become the story of a god and the prophet who has followed him for many years in the next new world.

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The Patriarch squirmed his body, and his voice came out through Pu Wenzhi's mouth:

"The appearance of the Nine-Child Ghost Mother - and the functions it displayed and the technology it contained... confirmed a guess I made a long time ago."

“The formation of each region has its origins in the past.”

"Caifu, do you remember the origin of Li Ren?"

"Disciple remembers, it is the One Person Method."

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One-person method

Multiple souls in one body can collect various taxes as a single person - this was a law enacted by the Taihai Chain in Luzon when it was first established.

At first, civilians just used it to avoid taxes. Gradually, it evolved into a tradition, a culture, and even the current variety of forms. Countless new surgeries and techniques were born around it.

And finally, until now, the Luzon celestial beings filled the whole country. Those orphans who were alone and had never undergone relocation surgery became widows and widowers who were despised.

As for why such a strange law came into being, there are many different opinions: in fact, not many people have explored the reasons, and everyone just accepted it naturally.

"Isn't it because of the One Person Law that we are what we are now?"

Snow Ghost did not answer this question - she had never even thought about it. She just nodded slightly, and regarded herself as a pure listener.

The Patriarch did not expect to get an answer from her - he did not even pause:

"but……"

“I finally got the idea.”

Suddenly, from those countless neatly arranged mouths without upper and lower lips, a long, steam-like sigh burst out:

"The world has become this ugly, like a drunkard licking the filth he just vomited—"

"It's because of power and misunderstanding."

The Snow Ghost did not respond to the words of the Patriarch, but only piously and respectfully pressed his forehead against the soft ground. The air was filled with the unique smell of the demon's body - a slight stink caused by excessive saliva secretion, enzymes reacting with microorganisms in the air; the pungent smell of excrement after being reprocessed and entering the secondary cycle, like disinfectant...

Snow Ghost has become more accustomed to all these tastes.

When the head ancestor gains more insights and begins to preach, it is best not to interrupt him: and Xuegui can feel that the head ancestor's talkative mood is unprecedentedly high.

"The reason why Luzon is in its current state is because of something hidden under this rotten outer shell..."

"It can be traced back to an even more ancient time: long before the emergence of the Law of One Person and the establishment of the Taihai Chain."

The head ancestor is in deep thought.

"The immortal - this immortal belongs to Luzon. No, they are more like a group of stray dogs, peeing everywhere to mark their territory... So, he just happened to choose this archipelago in Southeast Asia."

The content of the topic once again gradually deviated from the scope of what the Snow Ghost could understand - just like "Patient Zero", the word "immortal" was also uttered by the 1.5-meter square array of mouthparts on the old ancestor's body.

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I was almost cured of the flu, but I attended a friend's family funeral this morning. Then I climbed a mountain carrying a wreath and was sweating all over. The mountain breeze blew me away. When I got home my temperature rose sharply again... Now I have a fever again. Fortunately, I have finished this chapter with the debuff. I should be able to revive tomorrow after taking some medicine!

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Chapter 308: Nine: Greed (Twenty-three)

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But when he said the word "immortal", the old ancestor clearly no longer had the complicated and inexplicable emotions he had before: his narration was still steady, and without any unnecessary emotions.

"So he also had a chance to realize his own vision for the world... and that's how Luzon became what it is today."

Snow Ghost could sense that the old master had paused deliberately: perhaps to think, or to make the following summary more powerful.

"I have a guess about him: he probably wants every individual to be connected - to make every single human no longer lonely. At the very least, he wants to make the relationship between humans closer."

"But the result was the opposite: or was it achieved in a distorted way?"

A brief pause -

"Have you ever heard the story of 'The Tower of Babel'?"

The chief ancestor did not wait for Snow Ghost's answer.

Although Xue Gui had never heard of this story from ancient times, he had no intention of explaining it - perhaps because the story was insignificant, or perhaps it was a sign that the ancestor's thoughts were wandering.

The old master's words continued:

"Language... Language is indeed a chain that can connect everyone, but it is also a barrier that can separate everyone. The way to immortality in this corpse is indeed the most important weight for me."

“He is trying to bring all people together…both physically and linguistically—in a way, language is the soul of a person.”

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"I can understand him very well."

"I just didn't expect that in the end - I don't know if it was in line with his original intention?"

The snow ghost could see the trembling of the "technicians" connected together below the torso: they stretched their arms and shortened the distance between each other - she looked down from a high place; from this angle, the technicians were like humans leaning against each other.

But compared with the ritualists and demons, these people who blend together - the distance between these technicians is obviously too far.

"Or was it that his original intention was simply to create a group of monsters...? It's hard to say: unless the corpse can speak and tell me what he is thinking."

"But at the end of the day, this is just my conjecture."

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Snow Ghost could sense that the Patriarch's interest was dull: rarely, he set his sights on these lowly orphans and remnants - in the past, the Patriarch always used transformation technology as the theme of his sermons.

During these decades of long life and service, Snow Ghost often forgot that the ancestor of the head sect was once like himself, with only one person in his body... Just like in many legends, the gods were originally just untested mortals.

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"Caifu."

Once again - the head ancestor called his disciple Caifu instead of Xuegui: this was extremely rare in Xuegui's memory.

"I have something very important to tell you—about your birth and appearance."

"There are many people in this world who don't understand who they are, where they come from, and where they are going..."

"Caifu, you are different: I have the answers to these questions ready for you."

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Different: Snow Ghost is naturally different - she knows this very well. From the beginning, she was so special and outstanding that she was not even accepted by Luzon.

But she also tasted it - tasted the ominous meaning contained in the words of the head ancestor.

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"Before... you should have also experienced the Guixu incident: the incident that left only two of us survivors."

"Yes."

The snow ghost answered respectfully.

Just a slight reminder, the memories from not long ago surged in the Snow Ghost's mind again -

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The first smell that appeared was a burning smell: a bit like the smell that wafted from the smoke when the villagers outside the city of Manila used magic reagents to melt the treasures washed up on the beach.

At that time, Xuegui had just completed the last step of transforming Park Wenzhi; so much so that she wondered whether this breath came from Park Wenzhi, who was unable to withstand the transformation and burned himself to a crisp.

But then... white mist emerged from deeper within Guixu - from the Snow Ghost's perspective, it was white that suddenly covered his eyes.