Blood of Mercury

Under everyone's gaze, the ground beneath Marcus cracked like the mouthparts of a vicious beast, and flaky rubble burst and flew out.

The large orange **** that flew out together with the flying stones rolled randomly in the air with golden-orange flame ribbons wrapped around them, like a red lotus blooming in the air, swallowing Marcus directly.

Before the deafening explosion sound had subsided, while the ground was still shaking slightly, the terrifying high temperature rolled up a wave of air that exploded with Marcus as the center.

The people in the circle closest to Marcus were scorched black in one breath, fell to the ground and lost their breath. The skin of the people nearby became dry and yellow at a speed visible to the naked eye. They wanted to escape, but were unconsciously blocked by the stunned crowd in the outer circle, making a painful wailing sound.

At this point, the temperature of the surrounding air began to drop gradually, but the surrounding houses had been ignited. The crowd in the outer circle seemed to finally realize what had happened, and the confidence that had just been gathered in Marcus was completely dissipated in just one breath.

After the fragile hope was shattered before their eyes, these people were even more desperate than before. Even after the flames faded, the unharmed figure of Marcus reappeared in the air again, and the people of Broken Throat Avenue no longer had the same expectations for him as before.

No, maybe it can't be said to be unscathed.

Since the orange liquid flame engulfed it and burned the surrounding people alive, at least Marcus' credibility has been severely damaged.

People yearn for the leadership of the strong because the strong have the ability to make them live better. But even if the explosion happened right next to Marcus, he was powerless to stop it. He could only watch other people get killed. As for Marcus's magic power and attention at the moment, it was distracted by the ritual. No one would care. The people only know that Marcus cannot protect them, and thus deeply feel the fear of death.

In fact, the explosion controlled by Roland was not to attack Marcus, but to kill the group of people closest to him.

People gather around him because of their enthusiasm and trust in Marcus, the explosion happens under Marcus, and the people closest to him die the worst—when other people subconsciously link these three things together , it will start to reject Marcus unconsciously.

In this way, Roland can take this group of panicked and powerless people away from Marcus without causing any harm to Marcus. Now that this purpose has been achieved, it makes no difference whether Marcus is really injured or not.

Roland's move was like cutting off the last suspension bridge connecting the island. To make people feel desperate and jump off a cliff, first make them realize that the easier and less expensive solutions are no longer effective, and their lives are already on the line, and if they don't make changes, it means To pay the price of life.

Only then will they look for new solutions. Even if they fail, they will pay the price of their lives, which is better than dying right away.

"So, everyone is a cheap life..."

Under the shadow of the hood, a happy smile bloomed, but Roland didn't reveal the slightest on the outside, just hunched his body like an ordinary passerby, and ran along with the screaming and crying crowd.

In Roland's view, although the strategy of the long-term mentor is extreme, it is very scientific in practice.

If Roland came up and rescued them, trying to save them from fire and water, these people would not appreciate it. Even if they reluctantly accept it, they won't feel that their lives are getting better, they will only realize the inconveniences, and attribute all the factors that make their lives unsustainable to the changes that Roland led them to make. Complaints arose—not that Roland was alarmist, this kind of thing happened almost every day.

Therefore, Roland very much agrees with a statement made by the long-sleeping mentor, that is, "If you want redemption, you must first pay the price."

Getting it too easily can make people no longer cherish it. Only by letting them know the price of redemption, and letting them realize how many people have sacrificed their blood and lives for their redemption, will they feel guilty because they are the "surviving part". Start thinking about the value of this redemption before realizing what you have gained.

Roland believes that those who are betrayed by the people he saves are good people without brains.

He didn't mean to kill all those ungrateful people—that would be too stupid, and it went against his original wish. Killing people to save lives ends up in a hopeless endless loop.

After all, when angels start killing people, how can they ask humans not to believe in demons?

What is the way...

"Of course there is," Roland murmured, "Fear, as long as it is fear."

Fear is the original power of human beings and the original carrier of the law of "evolution".

Because of fear of being killed by something, human beings have the power to keep themselves alive; because of fear of being killed by disease, people have medicines that can cure diseases.

And when people begin to fear the forces of necessity, and begin to hesitate between will and ability, desire and acquisition, purpose and result, imagination and reality, thinking and being, when people realize When some things are unbearable in human life, in order not to be crushed by despair, people choose to entrust the burden of their souls to God and sell their souls to God.

Then, recreate what they lost, take them back to take back what was taken away, and save them from the hell-like desperation covered with red lotuses—this kind of grace is probably enough for them to pay their own souls to take Roland Worship you as a god?

The smile on Roland's face faded, and he squinted at the corner of the street ahead. Those eyes hidden in the shadow of the hood were as dark as abyss, and there was no light at all.

According to the previously set time, the front here will be detonated soon.

The only remaining safe area is within ten steps from where Roland is standing now.

If there is only one bomb, a circular area with a radius of about fifteen meters will be directly destroyed.

Because Roland detonated several consecutive bombs this time, after the continuous explosions, the sewer of this road would be completely destroyed.

After the soil layer is damaged by the impact force, under the action of gravity, the buildings above the ground will collapse in layer by layer, like a knife cutting the Broken Throat Avenue, Rib Ren Street, Golden Lion Avenue and Baiye Avenue into two sections. , the collapsed area can even approach the length of a street.

"Wait! Everyone back! There are bombs on the wall in front!"

Suddenly, a loud and clear voice came from under the black robe.

Just listening to this voice, the image of a mature and steady yet passionate young man suddenly appeared in everyone's mind.

Almost subconsciously, the people closest to the boy and those in front stopped their steps. Amid the constant, aimless, unwavering march of the crowd, there has been considerable confusion, and even stampedes, just because the footsteps of people here have suddenly stopped.

Before the people who were puzzled and dissatisfied by the sudden stop found Roland's figure, the scorching red lotus suddenly rose from the ground and bloomed in the crowd.

At that moment, in the utterly pure roar—even the roar enough to crack the eardrums, UU reading www.uukanshu.com scolding, crying, screaming, and whimpering instantly disappeared, turning into Quiet.

It's even different from the one at Marcus's before. The first people to die were not blackened by the scorching, but orange beads that rolled around in the air as solids—the strange flames of orange-red **** produced by a large amount of sodium thrown into water engulfed directly.

After another blink of an eye, dozens of people curled up and fell down.

After another breath, dozens of people fell down, screaming and screaming.

But those survivors who were unscathed, but their hair was a little scorched and sticky, immediately turned their grateful eyes to Roland. Because Roland, who "found the bomb with sharp eyes" shouted, at least a dozen people were saved because of this.

In fact, to be honest, not many people were saved because of Roland, that is, the two rows of people on the edge of the explosion danger line. It only takes a second, even if you are walking fast, you will not go too far.

But seeing the charred corpses a few steps ahead of them and the inhuman cooked meat howling on the ground, these people who were just a step or two away from the same fate as them couldn't help but feel even more grateful to Roland.

Although Roland will probably be pushed to the forefront next, but as long as the operation is good, it is probably not difficult for this group of people who have been on the verge of collapse in the continuous torture to sacrifice their souls.

"If you want redemption, you have to pay the price first."

At that moment, Roland seemed to overlap with the figure of someone behind him, and said this sentence in unison.

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