Why play in a band if you don't form one for life?

"Get out of here, you bastard! I'll do it when I say so!"

However, before CHU? could successfully break away, she felt a huge shock from behind and then fainted instantly.

She had a dream.

In her dream, she seemed to be heading towards the Tower of Babel in the center of the world with a strange yet familiar companion. They spoke ancient and different languages, but they could understand each other's meaning.

She rode on a giant eagle, soaring in the air, appearing taller than her companions. She was in a good mood because of this. She lowered her head and patted the giant eagle's body: "Phil, we will be able to go home soon."

The giant eagle was silent, as if concentrating on flying. However, a calm female voice finally sounded in my mind: "That's great, Belle."

She chuckled, raised her head, and squinted her eyes to try to see the top of the tower.

How could she not know what Phil was thinking after being together for so long? God would have mercy on her naivety, but she had to stick to her faith.

They are going to jihad.

Then, it failed.

They barely survived and fled south.

CHU? woke up in a daze. After a moment of confusion, she felt a sharp pain all over her body. It seemed that several ribs were broken. Her left hand seemed to be broken, and the flesh and metal were stuck together. She tried to move it, but the pain immediately made her face twisted and she stopped trying. There were also injuries on her legs, but it seemed that the bones were not injured. The display screen was completely black, and the mask was shattered, so she could see the situation outside with her naked eyes.

CHU? turned his head with great effort, and with the help of the light from nowhere, he could see his surroundings clearly: there was a stone ceiling above his head, and outside of that tiny bit of light, it was all pitch black, and he couldn't tell the size of the room. He didn't know whether he was above ground or underground.

CHU? struggled to recall some things that happened before he fell into a coma and sorted out the current situation.

"(Right, I have to escape...)" She forced herself to sit up. Then, she saw the source of the light: a complex magic circle was painted on the floor with some unknown paint, emitting a faint golden light. With the light, she could see complete or half-destroyed skeletons lying around. The ground was full of rotten berries and the like, emitting a disgusting stench, but the figure standing outside the magic circle seemed to be unaware of it.

There was a figure standing outside the formation, facing the other side, motionless. CHU? recognized it, it was Beilu. The wound on her head seemed to have healed, and the spear fell beside her. She did not pick it up, but moved away from it.

CHU? narrowed her eyes and stared at that direction carefully. In the direction where Belu was looking, she seemed to see an outline, which seemed to be an exit.

She looked at the spear again. It was still intact.

CHU? is not a person who is blindly confident. She knows very well that her ability ranks last among everyone. It has nothing to do with talent, but the result of lack of accumulation.

Moreover, I was at my weakest, and it was difficult for me to even stand up.

The other party was the best among the previous generation, and had just forced himself into the tower from the outside.

Even if Apocalypse was down, she knew the chance of winning was definitely less than 0.0000000001%.

Most likely, she would be torn to pieces before picking up the spear. Although I don't know why the other party hasn't done so yet.

But there was only one way. CHU? looked around without making any noise and confirmed this.

CHU? managed to stand up. In order to reduce the noise, she almost dragged the broken armor closer to the spear. Although the armor was scrapped, the bonus to the panel was still there, so CHU? did not try to take it off.

The spear lay quietly on the ground, the sound of the gun was clean and without a single stain. CHU? endured the severe pain, squatted down, and held the spear with the hand that could still move. During this whole process, Belle did not move at all, as if she were truly dead.

She stood up tremblingly. Not because she was weak. She had been shaking uncontrollably since a while ago. CHU? stepped on the rotten berries, stepped over the horizontal and vertical skeletons, bypassed Belle, and stepped sideways towards the exit. She pointed her gun at Belle's head, but she sincerely hoped that this defensive action would not be used.

The next step was to step out of the formation. Outside was solid darkness. Beilu was still unaware.

CHU? Stepped out with his right leg.

The next moment, the vision seemed to be distorted.

She and the remaining people settled down on a land surrounded by two long rivers.

Several healers in the team merged into the earth and together they became the Tree of Life, so those who were seriously injured or dying were saved. Crops grew on the earth, animals grew on the mountains, and fish grew in the rivers.

Another person was transformed into the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Then the shining and the filthy were separated.

This is the first day.

Someone touched the tree of life, and fruit grew from it. The shell split open, revealing a baby. The baby quickly grew into an adult, with strength similar to that of its mother.

Someone said: "Raise children, they will be able to do what we cannot do."

So, this place was named the Garden of Eden, and that's how it happened.

This is the second day.

They forged a sword that turned in all directions and shot out flaming fire, and gave it to their leader, who made her a cherubim to guard the trees of life and good and evil, and used the boundaries of the Garden of Eden as a border of fire.

This is the third day.

More children were born, and soon there was not enough space. Some people began to leave with new people. They drove out the local monsters and built a new city.

This is the fourth day.

The barrier used to protect the Garden of Eden was set up and handed over to the Chao Wu family to guard, both inside and outside.

This is the fifth day.

All the poisonous insects and ferocious beasts in the garden were driven out. The age of man had arrived.

This is the sixth day.

Everything was ready, and yet they had not rested from their work.

The seventh day, which lasted for hundreds of years, began.

CHU? Seeing himself working diligently, wearing armor, and building the initial residence with Phil from brick to tile. Some time ago, they had been locking up the newly born people in it, fighting monsters day and night to exchange for peace.

Now that the Garden of Eden has been completed, it is time to release them, educate them, and encourage their development.

They did so without slacking off for a single day. Decades later, this place had developed into a prosperous town, and the original residence had become a throne that could reach the sky.

She was very serious about the plan. Many of her people had been given the Holy Spirit, and she believed in their potential. However, some of her original partners did not think so.

Differences in concepts gradually led to contradictions.

That day, a white dove landed in front of her window: "She left and didn't come here."

Her face turned angry: "Just go! Don't come back for the rest of your life!"

This little episode left no trace in the city. She hadn't even taken off the clothes she wore to the morning court, and she was in a hurry to deal with official documents. This year's wheat should be planted, and she also wanted to go inspect it. In short, there was a lot of things to do.

They seem to have endless years, but their people can only live for a few decades. They survive, expand, and reproduce. The city develops rapidly.

Decades later, the Eden Project was proven to be ineffective.

Chapter 54: Death of the Guardian

Only a small number of people have a little holy light power, and they are not strong. At first, Beilu didn't care, because at the beginning, her strength was not much stronger than theirs. She believed that as long as she practiced, it would be fine.

However, those people never made any progress in this regard throughout their lives. Beru taught them everything she had learned throughout her life, taught them skills, taught them tactics, taught them how to train the Holy Light, but it was useless. They did their best to become warriors who could fight one hundred people among mortals, but the total amount of Holy Light remained unchanged. Whether it was praying, practicing, or even taking them outside the Garden of Eden to fight demons, it was all ineffective.

Among the next generation of people, there are even fewer who possess the power of holy light, and their strength is also weaker.

In fact, she already had a premonition in her heart: the radiance is a power that comes from deep within the soul and is proof of piety, and it cannot be passed on by blood.

However, at this moment, facts cruelly proved this to her with a hundred years of wasted time and heavy responsibilities.

She climbed to the top of the tower and looked around the city, which had changed greatly: streets, residences, workshops, farmland, parks... The terrain had been changed, imitating the shape of the world. She could see all kinds of people on the streets: mighty nobles, busy civilians, kind old people, running children. Tailors, craftsmen, farmers, merchants... There were even drunkards, swindlers and thieves.

There's no way to stop.

She continued to do this for decades.

"Xingdou has passed away." One day, in the bedroom, a white dove came to report. Over the past few decades, Belle was used to calling her companions by the names of gods given by mortals, because she liked it. Phil naturally followed suit.

Beilu was still in her pajamas. She was startled when she heard this and lowered her head and sighed. Xingdou Xianzun had a hidden injury that even the Tree of Life could not cure. Fate was not a force that could be easily controlled. She died early, and she had no choice. She herself... She looked in the mirror. The person in the mirror still looked like a girl, and she could not see the passage of time.

The funeral was held soon, and all the companions, unless they were really unable to leave, gathered in Qingyu Town. Except for one or two people who were with the dead Xingdou, this was a reunion for all of them in a long time. In order not to affect mortals, they gathered outside the city, in the Taoist temple where Xingdou once lived.

During the conversation, she learned that Xingdou finally used her soul to cast a tripod and left it in the city, sleeping in the form of a residual soul, and would wake up again at the end of the world. Therefore, she could not be considered completely dead.

What did she see in the end?

After returning home, she stepped into the bottom of the tower and opened the long-sealed door, which led to the original shelter when the city was first built.

There was a loud noise from the outside world. CHU? woke up. She saw that Belle's eyes were emitting red light. She grabbed the gun barrel and prevented it from moving forward. Instead, she lifted it and CHU? together and threw it towards the center of the magic circle. However, the door behind her was smashed open. CHU? saw a flash of fire behind Belle, and with a loud shout, a flash of knife light took advantage of her unpreparedness and cut into the exposed part of her armor, the shoulder blade. The blade cut into the flesh, but it had no effect on her. She roared and turned around.

However, a book flew out, emitting infinite and perfect precious light. The pages were filled with scriptures, flying out one by one, surrounding Beilu. It seemed that there was a distant Zen chanting coming, which suppressed the black energy all over her body.

The guitar flew up, and the fire lit up again, setting Belle's body on fire.

"CHU? Sir! Can you still move?" PAREO's anxious voice came.

CHU? smiled, and all the pain in her body seemed to disappear. She stood up, gripped the gun tightly, took a step forward, and pierced the wound on Belle's head.

She stood outside the tower with Phil.

The day predicted by the stars has come. There is no one on the street, and everyone has been sent to the Holy Blessing House that Bellow had renovated in advance. Of course, there are only a few dozen people there.

Because most people died in the first moment, Beilu saw that scene: she received an urgent message from Qingyu Town and was about to summon troops and arrange for the people to evacuate. However, as soon as she went out, she saw those well-equipped soldiers falling to the ground, silently.

The white dove flew onto her shoulder, and they went out together. On the street, nobles, commoners, old men, children, tailors, craftsmen, farmers, merchants, drunkards, swindlers, thieves... they all fell to the ground like the warriors. Black air came out of them. Belle recognized what it was at a glance - she had thought that this kind of thing had been completely eliminated in the Garden of Eden - it was filth.

They searched the entire city and only found a few dozen people who were still barely holding on.

Phil turned around and looked down at the ground worriedly: "Can they make it?"

Belle did not look back. She was wearing armor from the pioneering period, holding a spear in her hand, looking towards the horizon: "I have done what I can, it's up to them." Above the Tree of Life and the Tree of Good and Evil, there was a snake shadow covering half of the sky.

She knew that it was a pursuit from Satan, and He finally could no longer tolerate their survival.

Several rays of light flew up from all over the place and headed for the center of the Garden of Eden. She could recognize the name of each ray of light, and she was very happy about it.

Phil turned his head and watched the scene with her.

"Do you want to go?" Phil asked, "Now, the center is the most important thing."

Beilu shook her head slightly: "The power of the Holy Blessing House comes from me. If I leave, they will really have no hope."

Phil nodded without commenting. The giant snake slowly opened its mouth, and she could see the fangs inside that were almost as big as the crown of the tree of life.

"We are still doing the same thing as at the beginning," she said suddenly.

Beilu turned her head and smiled at her: "Then do it just like you did then."

The giant snake's eyes emitted a light of doom, and countless black and gray meteors fell from the sky.

On the streets, black smoke gradually rose from the countless piles of corpses and condensed into shapes.

CHU? woke up. The tip of the spear had pierced through Belle's head, and her body was burning silently. The light of the magic circle under her feet gradually dimmed.

But she did not feel much joy after surviving the catastrophe. Beilu's memory was transmitted to her mind through resonance. She watched silently as a white light flew out from PAREO and hugged Beilu's body tightly. Two blurry figures flew out from the flames, waved to them, and gradually merged into the smoke.

Outside the tower, Kita stared into the tower with lifeless eyes: "Actually, there aren't that many contradictions. I also regret not being able to see each other for the last time."

The magic circle under his feet was completely extinguished. Before the filth came, PAREO took a few pieces of equipment and grabbed CHU?: "Master CHU?, let's go."

CHU? was taken out of the former Holy Place and returned to the ground.

In the pale desert, the speedboat parted the waves and headed towards the next city.

CHU? was wrapped in bandages, and PAREO was helping her pick out foreign objects buried in the minced meat. To be honest, even though Lisa gave her some cookies for pain relief, it still hurt. But she endured it and didn't scream.

They were almost out of the city. The tower was getting farther and farther away, and the darkness hanging over it was the same as when they arrived.

The spear, Rhongomyniad, lay beside her, spotless.

CHU? I don’t know what I was thinking, I said to myself: “She does better than me…”

Chapter 55 PAREO! Beef Jerky!

After leaving Saint-Sunil, the abstract space changed: the river of light turned into a dark river, the glass floor turned into turbid marble, and the clouds floating in the sky, piled up in the matrix, became more illusory and hazy. Everything seemed to be the opposite of the previous world. Only the black sun above their heads remained unchanged, and the dying light made everyone feel at ease.

This time, the journey was longer than before. When LAYER held the Spirit Sword Rain, she could see the world that LAYER No. 2 could see. Under her observation, the speedboat had been sailing for at least half a month, but there was still no sign of reaching the next stop.

However, thanks to this respite, CHU? can recover with peace of mind. Hongxia and Lisa are by her side, and PAREO never leaves her side, always taking care of her. At first, CHU? was wrapped up like a mummy, unable to move, and could only moan under PAREO's hands. However, after five or six days, she had removed the bandages, revealing her new rosy skin, and her face showed a comfortable look.

During this time, she often turned to other people who took care of her, especially PAREO, and her face turned red, as if she wanted to say something to thank them, but in the end she forced herself to hold it back and couldn't say anything, which made Shizi, who was watching everything, laugh.

On the tenth day, at lunch time, the boat stopped at the shore. CHU? stood up with the help of others and tried to walk ashore for a step or two.

She was happy: "I'm fine! PAREO, beef jerky!" In the past two days, for her health, the three people in charge of food have crossed beef jerky out of her diet.

PAREO was happy for her and was about to take it, but Lisa stopped her and said, "Wait, try the armor first."

Hearing this, CHU? used his eyes to look for the earphones that he had not worn for several days. But PAREO was fast. Before CHU? found them, she had already handed them to him.

CHU? put it on and pressed the side as usual. The black iron flowed and her figure instantly rose taller, her whole body wrapped in sharp metal. As CHU? recovered, the armor was completely restored without a scratch. The light strip was also shining well, but it seemed to lack a little agility and even looked a little cheap.

CHU? A disappointed voice came from inside: "Everything else works, but the AI still hasn't recovered." Without AI, she could only passively receive signals from the outside world, and couldn't even zoom in or out. To be honest, this was the first time she activated Apocalypse since receiving treatment, and this recovery progress was already good. But she was still not satisfied. The journey was getting more and more dangerous. If she couldn't recover all her combat power before reaching the next stop, she would only become a burden.

"That's pretty good!" Lisa encouraged him by handing him a piece of beef jerky. "You can only eat one."

CHU? stared at the beef jerky for a while, snatched it away, took off her mask, and turned around to eat it before anyone could see her face clearly. When she turned back, her hands were clean and her mask was put back on.