Doomsday courtyard begins to survive by planting pea shooters

“Boom…”

A pea-sized bullet exploded at Xiao Jian’s feet, blowing up a lot of dirt, but at the same time, the force of the explosion also sent Xiao Jian and the knight he was dragging into the fog.

Outside the fog, a lot of noisy voices were shouting, making meaningless sounds - anyway, the knight couldn’t understand, so everyone just shouted a few times to deal with it.

But the problem was that some idiot among them was shouting “So-and-so, I love you”, which was considered to be a confession of love...

… Xiao Jian almost laughed out loud.

But fortunately, Xiao Jian still maintained the hooded “mage” outfit, which basically hid his expression, and the situation was really urgent, so he was able to fool around.

I must teach that kid a lesson when I turn around!

Xiao Jian swore secretly.

The fog quickly retreated from both sides.

Xiao Jian dragged the knight deeper and deeper into the fog.

The surrounding space gradually became unstable. Although no space cracks appeared, the violent fluctuations still made the knight feel uneasy.

"Sir! Sir, we can't go any further... If we go any further, we will reach the space crack explosion zone!"

The knight shouted loudly.

"Shut up! I know..." Xiao Jian imitated the tone of the hooded "mage" and said, "What we want is the space crack... Only the space crack can stop the enemies behind us!"

"..."

The knight paused slightly, then said with a sad face: "But sir... I, I am just a mortal..."

"So what?"

Xiao Jian asked deliberately, and even quickened his pace to continue moving towards the danger zone.

"I can't bear the tearing of space... Sir, put me down! I can delay time for you..."

"..."

Hearing this, Xiao Jian stopped and turned around to look at the knight suspiciously.

"You... are you going to surrender? And sell me out by the way?" Xiao Jian took the initiative to criticize.

"No, how could it be! I am a noble knight! How could I betray you and the church!" The knight said with a face full of grief and indignation, as if he had been greatly insulted.

"Oh? Really?" Xiao Jian used rhetorical questions to avoid answering. After all, he didn't even know the other party's organizational structure, and it would be easy to be exposed if he answered rashly.

"I swear!" The knight turned around with a tragic face, "My lord, please witness my loyalty!"

"Burn! Let me burn! Great Sikamoya Hela!"

With a loud shout from the knight, white flames ignited on his body, burning the surrounding mist.

At the moment the flames ignited, his attributes doubled across the board!

At the same time, there was an additional feature in the knight's feature column:

[Burn] During the burning period, all attributes doubled, and after the burning ended, he died completely.

"Use your body as a candle, your life as a fire, and dedicate yourself to the great Xikamoya Hela."

...

"Hey, wait a minute..."

"No need, sir! Witness my loyalty!"

"Hey!!"

Then the knight roared and rushed back out of the fog.

"..."

Xiao Jian was dumbfounded. He didn't expect that an ordinary person without the [Faith] attribute could instantly ignite faith and borrow a trace of the power of the gods...

When the flame on the knight was ignited, his life had already entered the countdown.

Xiao Jian could only follow him silently...

Then he saw the knight rushing out of the fog, and then suddenly stood at the edge of the fog and became confused.

After all, there were not many people in the "atmosphere group" just now, and now they have all gone off work.

So this knight who [burned] himself could only stand at the edge of the fog, staring at the four tall defense towers and the stone prisons surrounded by the defense towers in a daze.

"Uh..."

Xiao Jian was about to go over to comfort him, but the knight suddenly turned his head and charged at a defense tower.

A Don Quixote-style charge with bare hands.

Then...

"Puff!"

A pea bullet hit him, instantly clearing his health.

The knight fell to the ground helplessly, the flames on his body burning more and more, and finally burned his body completely.

"Hmm?"

Xiao Jian suddenly discovered something - after the body burned out, something seemed to fly out and disappeared instantly!

This phenomenon looked more and more familiar to Xiao Jian - how could it be so similar to the items burned in Lao Nanmu's stone bonfire?

It's just that Lao Nanmu's offerings were the remains of various spirits and gods, while the offering of the white flame was the knight himself.

As for the process of the disappearance of the thing that looked like a ball of light, Xiao Jian was also very familiar with it - he felt the fluctuation of the faith link!

In other words, after the knight burned himself, his body automatically became a sacrifice, and then the "relics" that were burned were directly taken away by the god through the faith link! ?

This...

... This is a big deal!

Before, because all the captives did not have the [Faith] characteristic, Xiao Jian was a little careless.

But now it seems that there must be something deeper in the faith of these people... After all, no one can establish a faith link with a god without believing in any god!

For Xiao Jian, who is a [True God], this kind of thing is as unshakable as the truth!

Then, this "technology" that can establish a faith link without a faith relationship once again reminded Xiao Jian of the other party's identity as a veteran god.

"Hmm..."

Xiao Jian stood at the edge of the fog, looking at the shallow layer of charred black on the ground and thinking.

"My Lord God, what happened?"

Because of the attack by the [Pea Sniper], the sentry stationed on the defense tower immediately reported the news.

Then, Zhang Weidong and others gathered around Xiao Jian again.

"It's a bit unexpected." Xiao Jian sighed and told everyone what had just happened.

After listening, everyone was silent. It's not because they think this matter is difficult, but because... they don't understand.

What faith, link, sacrifice, etc., all of them are familiar to hear the nouns alone, but when they are put together, they are completely unclear about how important this is.

"Should we find Shao Youxian as well? I heard that the recent faith research of the institute has begun... I don't know if they will have any new results."

Zhang Weidong suggested.

Professionals, of course, should be handed over to professionals.

"Well, call them... Also, don't move other prisons for now, let me think about it carefully."

"..."

The farce was temporarily over, and everyone returned to the monitoring room.

Not long after, Shao Youxian came with his team.

"I heard about it, but we don't have any other opinions for now... After all, the data collection is too little, and we need more data."

Shao Youxian pushed his glasses, and the reflection of the glasses covered his eyes, making him exude a villain's aura:

"It just so happens that we have brought all the instruments here. Please, Lord God, pick another person out and stimulate him. It's best to let him reproduce the scene you said."

After this, Zhang Weidong and the staff didn't react much, but Xiao Jian, Zhang Jinyu and the two researchers brought by Zhang Weidong opened their mouths wide.

"Director! Director, what are you talking about... This is an inhumane human experiment!" A little girl wearing glasses looked at her familiar yet unfamiliar director in shock.

"No, how can scientific things be considered human experiments..." Shao Youxian pushed his glasses again, and this posture was more like a villain, "He volunteered to dedicate himself to their god, this is called freedom of belief, understand? You have to respect other people's beliefs."

"But..."

"There is no but." Suddenly, Zhang Weidong interrupted the researcher, "Facts have proved that this is a struggle involving life and death... If you don't eat him, he will eat you."

"The world after the apocalypse is so cruel. We can't say that we still have a trace of civilization inside, and we want to rely on this little light to illuminate others..."

"...What do you think?"

Zhang Weidong forcibly took the responsibility on himself, and his words were not actually to convince the female researcher, but to convince himself, and of course more to convince Xiao Jian.

"Maybe." Xiao Jian was silent for a while, "I can get the person out, but whether to reproduce... Let's discuss it later."

At this moment, Xiao Jian was not thinking about the Virgin Mary, mercy, etc., but something more utilitarian.

These things were suddenly touched by Zhang Weidong's words just now.

The words were "Do you still want to illuminate others with such a little light?"

This was originally a question from Zhang Weidong, but Xiao Jian's attention was attracted by the word "light".

This word reminded Xiao Jian of the experience of the blind saint - her world collapsed and fell because it "exhausted the sunlight".

Before this, Xiao Jian always thought that the "sunlight" she was talking about referred to the fake fireball on the sky that emitted light and heat.

But at the moment when Zhang Weidong said the word "light", Xiao Jian was touched for no reason, and immediately remembered the experience of the blind saint.

This is the intuitive body type from the [True God] characteristics, and his intuition tells him that this "light" is very important.

Thinking of the giant continental world that is chasing after the fortress town, the gods entrenched there seem to care very much about occupying the moral high ground...

They even disguise the plunder of other worlds as "justice" behaviors such as "going to dungeons" and "brushing secret realms".

Could it be that the so-called sunshine refers to the light of civilization?

Or, for the blind saint, her sunshine is just ordinary sunshine, but for Xiao Jian, light is civilization, and civilization is light?

Otherwise, how to explain the [True God] characteristic that was triggered by a word?

Thinking about it again, the merging of other small world fragments seems to be a special case that only Fortress Town can do.

And what is special about Fortress Town?

Xiao Jian suddenly turned his head and looked at the unknown martyrs' monument in the center of Fortress Town in the distance...

"..."

"Lord God?"

Zhang Weidong asked cautiously.

"It's okay... I just thought of something." Xiao Jian thought about it, and told him about his [True God] characteristic being triggered by the word "light", the subsequent speculation, and finally the matter of the unknown hero monument.

After all, brainstorming.

Everyone present is the elite among the elites, and they are also the lucky ones who can survive until now in this doomsday. It is much better than Xiao Jian thinking hard alone.

However, after Xiao Jian said this, everyone fell silent.

The one who showed the most was Shao Youxian.

He seemed to be a little disdainful at first, but soon he seemed to think of something, and his expression became more and more stern, and finally it was so dark that it was scary.

"Shao Youxian, what are you thinking about? Tell me." Xiao Jian keenly noticed that Shao Youxian's mood was a little wrong.

"I... am becoming unfamiliar." Shao Youxian said with a sullen face, "Maybe I have been exposed to too much technology and things from other civilizations, and my thinking has gradually been assimilated by their thoughts..."

"I didn't pay attention to it before, but now I think about it, I was actually excited about human experiments just now... This..."

Shao Youxian was more and more scared the more he thought about it, and he felt bad all over.

"...Why don't you go sit at the monument?" Xiao Jian suddenly suggested.

Although he didn't know why he suggested it, as soon as he said this, he felt that this might be a good idea.

"......Okay."

"Never mind, let's go to the monument together!"

Xiao Jian waved his hand and interrupted all the processes. After leaving the most basic guard force, he brought all the high-level officials of the fortress town back to the foot of the monument of unknown heroes.

Shao Youxian saluted the monument and then found a chair to sit down.

"It seems to be useful... I feel that the darkness in my heart is being dispelled." Shao Youxian scratched his head, "I don't know if this is an illusion?"

"No, I have this feeling too." Zhang Weidong frowned.

"It seems that we are all mentally polluted unconsciously... Maybe it's because the pressure of survival is too great." Shao Youxian smiled bitterly.

"Maybe."

After the conversation between the two ended, no one continued to speak.

Even Xiao Jian found a bench and sat down. The sun was very comfortable and the whole person became calm.

Suddenly, Xiao Jian felt that his hand was held by someone.

Turning around, he saw Zhang Jinyu sitting next to him.

Xiao Jian shook her hand vigorously, and the two sat side by side in the sun.

"I suddenly felt that the so-called light could be many things...many things we cherish." Xiao Jian said with emotion, "For example, this sunlight, how warm it is...if one day it really runs out, I really don't know what to do."

"And the reason why people are human is that they are different from beasts...the light of civilization is also a rare light."

"A race that loses light can only become islanders worse than beasts."

"..."

Everyone listened silently, without refutation, just staring at the Monument to the Unknown Heroes, enjoying the moment of tranquility in this post-apocalyptic era.

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