Scarlet Falls

"I'm finally back..."

Wei Wei took Ye Feifei out of the deep space. Under his feet was a long road covered with blood, like a scarlet carpet, extending to a mysterious and unknown place.

When Wei Wei took his first step into the deep space, this scarlet road also gradually faded away. He was chanting like a low voice, as if his ears were released from the surface of the water, like a dream. .

Ye Feifei was so excited that he opened his eyes and saw the familiar streets of Scrap Iron City.

It was hard for her to imagine this experience. Not long ago, she was still in Ye's Manor on the second city's defense line, and she was still going through that nightmare experience. But soon, Wei Wei arrived, and she was removed from the scene. He was pulled up from the deepest nightmare and followed him into this weird space. When the real perception returned to his body, he found that he had arrived in the Scrap Iron City thousands of miles away.

All kinds of unreal experiences made her doubt whether she was still in a dream.

However, she subconsciously turned her head and looked at Wei Wei. Looking at his slightly furrowed brows and tightened corners of his mouth, she felt that this was not too important.

It seemed that by staying by his side, I felt safe enough, and even the weird experience just now was nothing.

"It's okay, this kind of thing won't happen again."

Wei Wei smiled and said to Ye Feifei, and then the two of them walked forward side by side, and soon they were back in front of the Scrap Iron City Security Base.

"Captain, we..."

Ye Feifei arrived at the gate of the base and subconsciously wanted to tell the captain that he was back.

However, she only shouted halfway before she suddenly stopped. She had a bad premonition that made her feel a little worried.

It's too quiet in the base.

Although it is a bit late now, the lights are usually on in the base, and Uncle Gun and Captain Ouyang are people who like to stay up late, and Brother Piggy likes to eat late night snacks, so the impression given by the base is Yes, no matter what time it was, as long as they came over, there would be lights on. But when they came back this time, they saw that there was no light in the yard, and they could not hear anyone talking.

Even Captain Ouyang's sidecar motorcycle, which was usually parked by the door, was gone.

With a thump in their hearts, Ye Feifei and Wei Wei quickly walked into the base. After looking around, they both felt a little disappointed.

The entire base is empty, Captain Ouyang and the others are no longer here.

The base became empty, and their mood also became a little empty, just like children who had experienced wind and rain outside and returned home, but there was no one at home.

"Captain, where have they gone?"

Ye Feifei still muttered subconsciously, pushed the door open and walked into Captain Ouyang's unlocked office.

"Do you have any temporary missions?"

"..."

Wei Wei did not follow her in, but sat down next to the billiard table. He saw that the billiard balls that were usually scattered around had been put back into their boxes.

It looked like the people in the yard were preparing for a long trip.

He seemed to have had a premonition of this scene.

This personal action actually met my expectations in many aspects.

The foundation's task of investigating the reactions of wandering church members has now been given an intuitive, simple and very accurate answer. The report is particularly easy to write.

The wandering church is gone.

Since the Wandering Church is gone, there will naturally be no more reactions. There is no need to even investigate the reactions of believers, because the sacred realm has also disappeared along with the Wandering Church.

It's such a coincidence, there's no way.

What he had considered before, to find the meaning of scarlet and to make an investigation report about scarlet, was successfully completed. Although there were many twists and turns in the process, Wei Wei could already feel that he was now in a certain situation. He knows Scarlet the best in the history of his species, and is extremely familiar with Scarlet's various properties and powers, to the extent that he can even use them to harvest the power of other demons for his own use.

For example, cutting off a person's head and sewing it together with blood threads to gain loyal servants.

Wei Wei didn't know how to do this before.

Others, such as meeting Calamity, helping Ye Feifei get rid of the shadow brought by his family, etc., were not planned, but also surprising experiences.

Now, he successfully brought back Ye Feifei and built the most powerful Blood Scythe, but he was actually not happy in his heart.

why?

Wei Wei thought in his heart, but he could also vaguely understand.

Probably because, in this operation, I experienced the most blows and worries, and even the fact that I was able to successfully win in the end was because of Calamity's own plan and Scarlet's previous layout, not on myself, right? Precisely because he was not relying on himself, there were great uncertainties and risks. However, in this situation, neither his old classmates nor Captain Ouyang came to help him.

Wei Wei didn't care about this at all before, or in other words, he doesn't care much now.

However, it seems that because I insisted on saving Ye Feifei this time, I have a little more in my heart.

There is actually a feeling of worrying about gains and losses.

It’s really strange, I’m obviously not a child anymore, or rather, I’m not a human anymore…

Thinking about these perhaps ridiculous questions, he took a low breath, raised his head, and looked at the sky obscured by smoke and dust, and a face appeared in front of his eyes.

It was Ye Feifei's face, but Ye Feifei was not far away, seemingly preparing to boil some water to make tea, but Wei Wei still felt that this face was very distant and unreal.

He realized that this was the face of disaster.

When this face appeared uncontrollably in front of him, he also remembered the words he whispered to himself before the disaster disappeared:

"Mom is about to wake up..."

"..."

"call……"

Wei Wei suddenly felt as if he had been immersed in the cold sea water for an instant. The air around him seemed to have become thicker and was being squeezed from all directions. When he looked at everything around him, he felt misty and cold. A sense of panic emerged from the deepest part of his heart, starting to emerge from the bottom of his heart, giving him an unreal loneliness and an indelible sense of panic...

Mother……

Wei Wei has abandoned the memory and knowledge of scarlet before, so he doesn't even know what this means.

However, once he remembered the way Calamity first said these words to him, and when he thought of this word, he felt deeply horrified.

It seems that this fear is hidden deeper than memory.

What does this mean?

Why did Calamity look so mysterious and desperate when he told himself this sentence?

…

…

"In the eyes of many people, the decisions we made were not positive enough."

Similarly, at the first city defense line at this time, the three founders of the foundation came to a place like a prison with curious spiders on their faces.

This is the foundation's holding center and the place where the most secrets are hidden.

Spider has permission to come here to study and understand some things, but her permission is limited, so she can only access the parts under A-level permission, but she did not expect that she would be so lucky. , under the leadership of the three founders, she went straight to the deepest part of the shelter and came to a secret place that was far beyond her own authority...

Here, in the center of the layers of protection, she only saw a glass box.

There was only a box as big as a boxy TV, with a strange black and red sphere floating quietly inside.

Just by looking at it like this, the spider can't even tell whether it is solid or not.

"But that's no excuse. We don't want to make decisions that seem right but are just lazy."

One of the founders of the foundation subconsciously lowered his voice when speaking, as if he was worried about disturbing the contents of the box.

"Because we feel deeper fear than others."

"..."

Spider didn't know if he was defending something, but he felt inexplicably frightened because he was close to the box, and his expression was a little unnatural:

"You said, this is..."

"..."

"This is the rose, the origin of everything."

The three founders looked at each other and gave an answer that horrified Spider.

Rose represents mystery and evil, and also represents the greatest threat facing the foundation today. As intelligence agents, a large part of their job is to investigate everything related to roses.

Even so, it was because she had helped Wei Wei investigate Qiangwei before, so she was given this task.

Otherwise, according to her own upgrade route, she would not even be qualified to hear the name Qiangwei as she had just graduated from the training camp.

"The problems in this world appeared very early, long before the mysterious explosion."

The three founders did not seem to have any intention of directly explaining to Spider. Instead, they sighed softly and said, "Do you know?"

"Our world, or rather our race, seems to have always had a strong tendency to self-destruct."

"Looking at our long history, it seems that we are always experiencing the same thing, perhaps prosperity, perhaps growth, but in this short period of stability, violence and despair will always accumulate, and whenever such violence and When despair is accumulated to a point close to the limit, wars or disasters will occur. In this way, the accumulated violence can be vented, and this desperate ethnic group can be given a chance to be reborn."

"Of course, a lot of people are going to die in the middle, but that doesn't even matter."

"The important thing is that this seems to have become a conclusion. If our group can be compared to a life, then this is similar to the instinct of life."

"..."

"The instinct to self-destruct..."

Spider didn't know why they suddenly mentioned this to him, but he felt that this topic was a bit heavy for some reason.

"Through this kind of self-discharge, life continues for many years, until, when our civilization develops to a certain level, this kind of discharge suddenly can no longer be used..."

Another founder continued indifferently and said: "Because the power controlled by humans is too powerful."

"When there are too powerful weapons between each other, they will no longer dare to vent in such a violent way, which will accelerate their own demise."

"So, from very early on, people who understood this began to look for a new way to solve the problem."

"..."

"..."

The three of them explained quickly. As an intelligence officer, Spider's response was fast enough and his understanding was very strong, but at this time it was actually a bit difficult.

She could only ask subconsciously: "Have you found it?"

"Oppression and injustice are inevitable in human society."

The third founder seemed to have some helpless emotions on his face, saying: "No matter what kind of social structure it is, these things cannot be eliminated, so group violence will inevitably brew in it. In addition to self-destructive catharsis, There is no other way. Although some people are willing to look for answers to solve problems, many people understand that some problems are destined to have no answers, and no matter how hard they look, it will be in vain..."

"So, there are actually many such institutions, but no one expects them to really give any answers..."

"only……"

"..."

When he said this, he subconsciously glanced at the glass box.

The first founder sighed and said: "It's just that no one thought that they would actually discover this thing..."

The three founders all looked at the glass box, and there seemed to be some difficulty in their voices: "It was born from the collective subconscious of mankind..."

"…the first creature."

"..."

Spider was stunned for a moment, and she doubted her ears.

Just now I heard the word human collective subconscious, and then I heard the word "biology"?

"This should be called a conceptual power..."

One of the founders seemed to be trying to make the spider understand, trying to find words that were easier for her to accept: "And his function is to trigger the brainwave resonance of everyone in the world, even all living things, and even through this resonance , to affect a person's will, thoughts, and desires, and these affected people will not even be aware of the changes that have occurred in themselves..."

"And this discovery is regarded by many as the most precious discovery in the new century..."

"Because this perfectly solves the problem that many people have troubled, and it seems to really solve the root cause of all troubles..."

"..."

"etc……"

Spider couldn't help but interrupt him: "A thing that can distort other people's will and thinking, but they regard it as the answer?"

"certainly."

A founder with a colder expression said: "What do you think is the root of the problem?"

"Just like the consortium this time, with their status, they risked everything to pursue the immortal contract. What do you think their purpose is?"

"..."

Spider didn't know how to answer. After a while, he said: "Then what?"

"Then……"

The three founders sighed lowly and said, "The mysterious explosion happened."

I got up at 11:30 last night, which is considered noon, so I can’t eat steamed buns and tofu, but noodles!