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

CHU? stood up from the ground. The damage and dents on the armor were quickly repaired.

[Genesis Agreement Passed]

The spear glowed with holy light, flew up from the ground and returned to CHU?'s hand.

"I'll go find her." As CHU?'s voice was followed by light bursting out from the gaps in the armor, and she seemed to be bathing in the miracle of creation.

God said, “Let there be light”

Light flew up from the ground, cutting through the stagnant smoke and chasing the direction where PAREO left. LAYER looked at her and smiled.

She is a light seeker, always chasing that beam of light.

But, CHU?, can you be the second light?

Thick fog began to rise. The zombies that had not been completely killed before gradually appeared in the fog.

"Xiduo, can I trouble you this way?" Lisa shouted towards the entrance above her head.

However, the response came from the rooftop next to us: "Leave it to us!"

First, thorns grew all over the sky, and Yukina's figure fell to the ground. She stood up and put away the thorns on the vines. Several figures fell along the vines: Kita, Ichiri, Ryo, Rinko, Nijika, and Sayo on her back. They had freshly healed scars on their bodies, and their clothes were a little damaged, obviously they had experienced a war.

"You are..." Yazi opened her mouth wide.

"After the warm-up, there's no need for us to wait there, just come over directly." Yukina came over with steady steps. When Rinko saw Ako's injuries, she showed a colder expression she had never had before, and glanced at the zombies gathered around her.

"So, Xiao Shizi is..." LAYER's eyes turned to the distance, towards the direction of the waterway.

Liuhua and MASKING chased to the river. On the other side, they could see a group of zombies chasing in one direction. There seemed to be a person there, but it was unnecessary to say who it was.

"Damn it! How did she get over there?" MASKING looked upstream and downstream, but couldn't see the bridge.

Liuhua estimated the width of the river. Even in her prime, she would have to burn herself to jump over successfully, let alone now. Moreover, even if she could jump over... She looked at MASKING beside her and the shadowy corpse nearby.

However, in the bloody river, a small boat slowly came. The man on the boat held a bamboo pole, his face was tired, and it seemed that he would fall down in the next second, but he still persisted. The two hurried over: "Xiao Shizi! (Shizi!)"

Shizi raised his head, looked at the two of them, and gave a forced smile: "Hey, ladies, do you want to take a gondola ride?"

Liuhua leaped forward and bumped into Shizi's arms, almost knocking her down. "Hey, be careful." Shizi smiled with her swollen eyelids squinting, hugging Liuhua with one hand and fist-bumping with MASKING who came to her with the other hand.

The boat reached the other side, where there were relatively few zombies. "Thank you very much, Shiko!" Rikka jumped ashore, turned around, and bowed sincerely. MASKING also nodded sincerely.

"Go quickly..." Shizi waved to them and sat down on the boat, "I have no strength left... You must come back in one piece."

PAREO gasped and ran on the street. Behind her, the zombies were moving slowly, but they were everywhere and she was not familiar with this place. After many twists and turns, she was already stuck in a small alley. The way out was blocked. The leading zombie had space distortion around him, and from time to time he cut off a part of his companion's body.

PAREO fell to the ground.

Is it over?

But, there's nothing wrong with that, right?

I'm tired...

The zombie raised his hand, and a distorted space rushed towards PAREO.

PAREO closed his eyes.

"PAREO!" A shout suddenly came. She opened her eyes and saw the familiar figure of MASKING standing in front of her. Her right arm was empty and bleeding. The broken right hand fell to the ground, the broken end was even. However, MASKING was still standing, blocking PAREO. The shadow of the corpse tide disappeared completely, only the back figure and the flashing golden light.

A roar was heard, and another blood shadow flew over, instantly chopping off the zombie's head. Liuhua's eyes were bloodshot, and she raised her guitar, hacking at the zombies like an ancient berserker. Her axe light seemed to cut through space, and she was invincible.

"MASKING, Rika..." PAREO's eyes trembled and she murmured. However, she reacted immediately, and two beams of light flew out to support the two of them. She also took out the remaining cookies from her arms and tried to stop the bleeding for MASKING.

During this time, Liuhua has been guarding the alley entrance, not letting any zombies pass. She fights with MASKING's double, and the blood of the zombies is gushing out, and the stench is everywhere.

However, she could feel her strength decreasing rapidly. Was it too much to burst out twice in such a short time? She kept retreating and was about to be squeezed together with PAREO and the others.

An extremely strong corpse fist attacked. Liuhua slipped and fell backwards.

"(It's over!)" Rikka thought in despair.

However, a brilliant beam of light pierced through the enemy in front of them.

From the sky, several rays of extremely pure light shot down, turning all the other enemies in front of them into ashes. Immediately afterwards, a green figure swooped down with dazzling light, shaking the venue. The holy fire was lit, and within a hundred feet, everyone was equally purified.

The mecha holding the gun slowly stood up and looked at the girls on the ground.

"Master Chu?" Pareo stood up tremblingly, then staggered forward, "Master Chu——!" Tears flowed through the blood and dripped onto the iron armor. In the armor, Chu bit her lower lip, tears flowing freely. She hugged Pareo tightly: "I'm sorry..."

Hongxia paddled the boat and came to the alley. Layer was still worried and came to the river. So was Shizi, so they supported each other and came. Hongxia came with them.

This scene just happened to catch Shizi's eyes.

Hong Xia saw that her face was shining with the purest light.

That's right.

After working so hard for so long, this is what Shizi wants...

This is the stage she wants to see...

Chapter 63 The Last Journey

The bow of the boat parted the blood and water, leaving a leisurely wake. The rowers were Hong Xia and PAREO, who were in better condition. The others were lying in the boat in all directions, masturbating quietly. Hong Xia treated them as much as possible, but the narrow speedboat was obviously not a suitable treatment room.

She rowed very carefully, making sure not to wake up the person sleeping on her lap. That was Shizi. After over-consumption of mental energy, she urgently needed a good sleep. Occasionally, she lowered her head and saw Shizi's sleeping face, and she would smile unconsciously: Shizi looked like a little child.

Behind her, PAREO also paddled carefully - lying on her thighs was CHU?, who had taken off her armor. The Genesis protocol activated by CHU? would also burn her life force, and her current state was not much better than that of Rikka.

Before falling asleep, Chu? assured the rest of the RAS: "I will drive you as before. Anyone who dares to oppose will see the consequences!"

The original CHU?-sama has returned. PAREO thought, that's enough. She rowed the boat quietly, resisting the urge to rub CHU?-sama's sleeping face. Not only was she afraid of disturbing her sleep, but it was also a bit crowded here. Rikka - no, now she should be called LOCK, which was the title given to her after CHU?-sama officially recognized her - leaned on her left hand, while MASKING and LAYER also leaned on her back, one on each side. It was a bit hot, but the feeling of being relied on was not bad.

Even Hongxia was unable to fix MASKING's broken hand. She said, "Even if I could fix it, it would probably leave sequelae and I might not be able to continue playing drums." MASKING just remained silent at the time.

Moreover, this is to protect her...PAREO thought of this, and a layer of haze appeared in his heart again. I hope that they can find a solution in the next journey. For example, isn't there a tree of life in the center of the Garden of Eden? Although it seems that a child will grow out of it if it is used...hiss...MAS classmate takes care of the child...

On the shore, others had already come to greet them.

The thick fog had long since dispersed. Everyone gathered at the entrance, and those who were in good condition carried the wounded on their backs. They wanted to rest for a while before setting off again, but this zombie-filled environment was really not suitable for recuperation. Shizi had recovered, but she was simply short of mental strength. After sleeping, Hongxia would replenish some energy, and she would be basically fine.

LOCK was the first to wake up. She woke up on Ichiri's back. Shiko thought that the reason why Ichiri chose to carry her on his back might be because LOCK's personality made her feel more at ease. Ryo was carrying MASKING on his back. MASKING's severed hand had been barely reattached, but it was just put together like playing with building blocks. Kita came back to his consciousness and carried LAYER on his back, Rinko carried Ako on her back, and Yukina carried Saya on her back. The latter could only hit people with her guitar because she could not exert her combat power. She was also seriously injured in the battle on their side. Nijiga and Lisa were not having an easy time either. They carried the most luggage. All the things that they had brought out from CiRCLE and had always been carried by means of transportation, now they had to carry them by themselves.

However, they had fought for so long, and they had gained something. Kita recovered more time power, but Zusu's power was restored a little. LOCK, LAYER, and MASKING all gained a little space power. As long as they put more effort, each of her attacks could shatter space. The same goes for Ako, who seems to be able to use this power for magic development. The same goes for Shiko, but she hasn't figured out how to use this power yet.

"Are you ready?" Shizi looked around and finally looked at Kita, "Sanmori... Bah, Miss Ke Zusu, are you sure that the opposite side is the center of Eden? Will it be more dangerous?"

Kita's eyes were blank: "It's okay. I can feel that although the filthy aura is strong on the other side, it is suppressed by someone, and the environment is much better than here."

Shizi nodded, and the gray platform lifted everyone up slowly, reaching a position where they could touch the entrance with their hands. She seemed to feel a weak suction pulling her. Some of her hair floated up and touched the light film.

"Let's go." Yukina said to the people around her, raised her hand, and touched the light film. In an instant, she and Sayo on her back turned into a ray of light and disappeared into it. Others followed suit, and the number of people on the platform continued to decrease. Soon, only Kita, LAYER on her back, and Shiko were left.

LAYER was still awake. She looked at the situation and asked, "How about I go over first?" She raised her hand, touched the light film, and disappeared.

Now, only Shizi and Kita were left. However, it was still Kezusu who stood there, silently standing on the edge of the platform, overlooking the quiet city. Shizi walked to her side and stood silently. The wind from nowhere blew their hair, and the pain and fatigue on their bodies melted away in this unknown breeze.

But Zusu turned around: "Let's go too."

"Would you like to look at it for a while?" Shizi asked, "From this angle, it's quite beautiful."

But Zu Su's mouth curled up slightly: "Thank you. But I have to leave sooner or later."

Shizi also turned around: "Next, it's the last leg of the journey, right?"

"Yes." Ke Zusu stood still. "Our former leader is still guarding that place. She should be there too." She did not explain who that "she" was, and Shizi did not ask.

But Zusu continued: "After that, I should be gone for good. Don't worry, I will leave everything I can for this child."

He showed his son a smile in return.

The two men stretched out their hands and touched the light film above their heads.

Her vision was distorted in an instant, and Shizi felt as if she was infinitely stretched and infinitely shortened. The two were now the same thing. She could hear clearly the distorted figure of Kita beside her, and also saw clearly her own distorted voice. From the appearance, to the muscles, to the bones, to the internal organs, everything was visible at a glance.

The light is flowing. The silence is silent.

The next moment, Shizi returned to her normal perspective. She looked up and saw that everyone was around her, safe and sound.

The sky was almost black. But unlike before, this time they could see the normal dim sky and black sun. However, the sky was almost completely blocked by the charred treetops, and the sunlight could only shine through countless layers of branches and leaves, forming countless mottled light spots on the ground. The ground was covered with gray embers, and it felt soft when stepped on, like a stove that had been burned countless times.

Before them, there were two more majestic tree trunks, growing side by side. The diameter of either tree was almost comparable to the underwater city they had just left. The trunks were dead and lifeless, but the roots stretched hundreds of meters to Yukina's feet. Behind them was the scorched, cracked earth, with nothing in sight.

Youxina looked into the distance and seemed to see a figure holding a sword and kneeling on one leg between two trees.

But Zusu said nothing and walked ahead. The others followed. Walking in this wasteland, they inexplicably felt like they were on a pilgrimage. What they were facing now was the one who had been guarding the Garden of Eden for thousands of years, the guardian of the guardians, the first and last Cherubim.

The cherubim holding a flaming sword guard the entrance to paradise.

Everyone walked up to her.

Hundreds of years after the destruction of the Garden of Eden, she raised her head for the first time.

ps: I was pleasantly surprised to find that I had almost forgotten all the battle rewards written in this chapter...

Chapter 64: The First and Last

From a distance, it was just a figure kneeling on one knee. When you get closer, you can't see her appearance clearly. When you get closer, you can see that she no longer has any appearance.

On her head, blonde, gray, red, black, and yellow hair were randomly spliced together. Some were waist-length, some were shoulder-length, and some were like new buds that had just emerged in spring; some were smooth as feathers, and some were messy as nests. Her skin was yellow, white, and brown, some were rough, some were delicate, and there were clear boundaries between the different color blocks. Her left eye was black, her right eye was blue, and the left eye was obviously larger.

At least, from her overall figure, it can be seen that she was once a woman.

Several people stood there in shock, not knowing what to say.

But Zusu walked up and said, "I'm back."

She moved her head stiffly, her eyes of different sizes staring at Ke Zusu. After a long time, she opened her mouth, and Shizi saw that one side of her teeth was white, and the other side was yellow: "Welcome... back..."

Shizi didn't understand the language they spoke, but he could guess the general meaning.

No one disturbed this moment, everyone stood in the back, waiting quietly.

"As soon as you came back... we knew..." Her voice was very hoarse, as if she hadn't spoken for many years.

But Zusu's face flashed with surprise, but he recovered immediately: "Is it really so?"

The other person moved her head stiffly, as if nodding. Then, her eyes passed Ke Zusu and fell on the others.

"Everyone," an androgynous voice that was completely different from the hoarse voice appeared in everyone's mind, "the twenty elders of the Garden of Eden greet you."

"Twenty..." Lisa repeated the number with a look of surprise.

But Zusu turned around and explained to everyone: "She is one person, and also twenty people. All those who rushed to the center of the Garden of Eden that day were probably merged." Her tone was calm, as if those who did this had nothing to do with her.

Fusion... Shizi suddenly realized. She looked at the man's whole body again, trying to distinguish the characteristics of twenty people.

"That's right." The voice admitted this. "With the cherubim as the center, all people merged their souls, bodies, and radiance into one, and I was born."

"Why...do it have to be like this..." Hong Xia couldn't imagine what it would feel like to merge herself with someone else.

"That's exactly what I'm going to say." The voice began calmly.

That day, the revenge from the devil wolf Satan reached the Garden of Eden, and most of the mortals in the garden died in an instant. But there were still many things in the garden that needed to be protected, so the original companions gathered under the trees of life and good and evil, vowing to protect these last hopes. Only a few people did not come. Some had other tasks, some had already passed away, some were unable to come, and some chose to protect the last mortals.

But most of them came. And they fought.

The result can be said to be a success or a failure.

Facing the incarnation of Satan, although it was not as desperate as it was hundreds of years ago, it still had to pay a huge price. The most basic structure of the garden was preserved, such as the fire road and the barrier covering the entire garden. But the incarnation was not completely destroyed. In the end, everyone merged into one, and used up the last bit of strength to suppress Him here.

Until now.

After hearing this, everyone reacted differently, but they all remained silent.

"However, our power was insufficient, and some filth leaked out, causing the phenomena you saw before. So, I'm sorry."

"Why are you sorry?" Yukina asked.

"We could have sent you here directly, but we ended up using you and putting you through all that danger," the voice said. "In order to bring our companions here."

Zusu silently waved his hand, and the stone statues of immortals, portraits of great scholars, relics, scepters, LAYER's spiritual sword, and CHU?'s spear that he had collected before all flew up. A ray of light flew out from them, forming a human shape in the air. Zusu closed his eyes, and a few starlights also flew out, forming a human shape in the air. Seeing that the filth on Xiduo's body was about to run wild again, Shizi frowned and was about to go up to stop it, but the black air was quickly repelled and attracted to the ancient long sword in the hands of the cherubim, drilling into the ground without causing a ripple.

Kita's body fell backwards, and Shizi hurriedly caught her. She turned to Kezusu's spirit and said, "What are you doing..."

"Do the same thing as them." But Zu Su's erratic voice was very calm, as if he had been prepared for it.

Everyone understood: they were to merge into the cherubim and together suppress filth.

Shizi wanted to speak, but had nothing to say, so she lowered her head. Even if she didn't do this, how long could they survive with just a few remaining souls?

"So, please wait a little longer as promised before." When Kita woke up, the first thing he saw was the scene of several residual souls rushing into the stitched body.