The world-devouring dragon

The year of the galactic calendar is 20763, and the end of the calendar is 1862, around the world.

"Let's see what interesting things happened recently... Well, two galaxies ago, the famous planet sculptor Yu Lulu showed her latest work, a planet transformed from a gaseous planet, but It’s very interesting that this planet is not made of soil but of candy. On this wonderful food planet, it is said that everything is edible. The desert is an endless expanse of sugar, the volcanoes are spewing bean paste, and the sea is It is composed of a large number of drinks, and what falls from the sky is not rain but wine..."

"Yululu said that her purpose of sculpting this planet was to satisfy her childhood hobbies and create her ideal food paradise. I have to admire this person's handiwork..."

In the message, a man seemed to be chatting with friends, laughing and cursing, and there were also laughter and responses from the audience.

"Something About Ring World" is a program with a large audience. The man is famous for his humor and casualness. He has influence in many areas of Ring World. But the reason why Rande likes this show... is because the world he describes is so peaceful.

It was so peaceful that one could hardly imagine living in the same world as him.

Looking at the virtual image, Ranlande just remained silent. Although he liked the show, he never interacted with men like other viewers.

Silently turning off the image displayed in his mind by the auxiliary brain, the warrior took a deep breath, and hot air exceeding 200 degrees suddenly poured down his throat into his artificial lungs. The nanorobots in his body continuously dealt with these external overheats. Gas to prevent mechanized organs from being damaged by high temperature deformation.

"The temperature is abnormal...please keep..."

The auxiliary brain calmly analyzed the warrior's physical condition. Through nerve transmission, a voice that only he could hear sounded in the warrior's mind, but the warrior didn't care. What does this temperature mean compared to the gamma beam? Is it more serious than artificial brains and auxiliary brains that were once close to scrapping? Is it more dangerous than being hit by a railgun and smashed to pieces with only the head left?

Perhaps due to past experiences, soldiers are extremely insensitive to these small incidents.

He raised his head and saw that under the gloomy sky, the world was gloomy. He could only see a long, thin line at the end from a distance. The warrior knew that it was other areas of the ring world. Unlike a spherical planet, all you can see is the horizon and sea level, but standing on the ring world, everyone can distinguish the faint thin ribbon in the distance.

At this moment, a weak spiritual energy wave came from his feet.

"If you don't believe it, you will..."

"Snapped!"

With one kick, he easily crushed the head of the Snake Cult believer who was still talking just now. The machine was mixed with flesh and blood and exploded all over the floor. Among the fragments, there were some extremely tiny nano-robots following the program, trying to continue to repair the machine. A head that can no longer be repaired.

Looking around, there are hot lava, countless potholes, and all kinds of strange mechanical fragments everywhere. In front of the warrior, there is an abyss with no end and no bottom.

Of course, this is the result of being hit vertically by the Second Republic's space weapons.

"Snake cub."

Looking at the Snake Worshipers at his feet, Ranande cursed and spat on them. Due to the injuries to the organs in the battle just now, some of the fusion material blood that had not yet fully reacted was spat out along with Ranande's movements, corroding the mutilated corpse with little holes.

After venting, Ranande fell silent and returned to his usual paralyzed face.

Not far away, a shuttle flew over in the gloomy sky, and finally landed slowly in front of Ran Rande.

…

No one knows exactly when the Snake Cult appeared. Many people hold different opinions. The only certainty is that it was a terrorist organization that was born along with the Devourer of Worlds and has been dormant in secret for hundreds of years.

Evil, despicable, crazy, unscrupulous, mobster, weak but disgusting...

The Ring World is so large that its living area is equivalent to hundreds of millions of ordinary habitable planets. However, such a large scope also means that even if the Second Republic of the Ring World is created by itself, it cannot control all areas.

In this ring world, many areas are very prosperous and stable, and there is no danger. However, some areas are like the craziest purgatory. Numerous opponents are fighting against the Second Republic on this miracle world. They infiltrate, corrupt, control, and eventually fight against the security forces of the Second Republic.

In terms of frontal strength, no one will be the opponent of the Second Republic. If the human sea tactic is effective, the current Second Republic will not eliminate the profession of soldiers. But in the face of complex and corrupt administrative areas, no matter how powerful the army is, they are at a loss. The Second Republic can only use security forces and mercenary troops to clean up these disgusting rats.

Among them, the Snake Cult is the most terrifying one in the past few hundred years.

These cult believers who believed in the Devourer of Worlds and were convinced that the Devourer of Worlds was the only god used their various strange abilities to corrupt and infiltrate administrative regions one after another. On the Ring World, hundreds of millions of administrative areas have been destroyed in the hands of these snake cubs, and the population affected is in the trillions. And these areas were only discovered because of infiltration exposure, and how many areas are still being destroyed? The control of these snake cubs is probably not even clear to the Second Republic.

However, Ran De was born in an administrative area fully controlled by the Snake Worship Cult...

In a silver-white spherical room, Rande stood silently, and the general in front of him looked at him carefully.

Until now, he still didn't understand why a space fleet general found him, but the general seemed to have his own considerations. After thinking for a long time, the general began to read his information.

"Ran Rande was born in the TVIK-6386572 Administrative District in the year 20682 of the Galaxy Calendar... In 20693, the TVIK-6386572 Administrative District was confirmed to be fully infiltrated by the Snake Worship Cult, and an extermination order was implemented. Later, he moved to the TVIK-6395465 Administrative District to engage in private mercenaries... … Extremely hostile to the Snake Cult, he has carried out 4,239 prosthetic transformations, most of which were illegal, with 97% of the body parts made of machinery…”

After reading to the end, the general looked at him and put the information aside.

"Do you know why I'm looking for you?"

Ranlande remained taciturn, maintaining his accustomed slumped face.

"I have no interest in dealing with private mercenaries like you, but the Republic has a plan recently, and you have a trait that fits our requirements."

"What do you want me to do?"

A weird mechanical sound sounded.

Unlike most people in this era, in order to pursue power, Rande's transformation was so severe that even his psychic abilities became very weak, and machines were unable to communicate with psychic powers.

"Go somewhere."

"Where."

"On the back of the World-Eater."

"..."

Until Ranande left, the general couldn't see any more emotions on the face of the guy who looked more like a machine than a human.

"General, I don't understand, why would you choose this kind of person?"

A voice from the side sounded.

"There is a fire in his heart, and the fire of hatred will only be extinguished when it dies. Compared to those calm and outstanding warriors, maybe this kind of hateful person is more suitable?"

"Are you willing to erase your own consciousness for revenge? What a miserable guy."

The general sighed.

More than two hundred years ago, an unprecedentedly large-scale psychic force launched a surprise attack on the monster, but in the end almost all of them died. The elites that the Republic had cultivated for thousands of years were burned to the ground, causing an uproar. Of course, this is only what the public knows.

But in a confidential document with extremely high authority, it was written that one person actually survived. The person who had been blacklisted said something, "In the eyes, someone has entered..." and everything happened after that. Blackened content.

Eyes, eyes again, just like the former General Tilloan, both of them mentioned eyes invariably.

What's in that eye?

In order to find out the truth, a brand new plan was started. The Republic will send a large number of people to settle on the monster to find out the truth.

At this point, the Republic no longer expects to find the truth quickly in a short period of time. Perhaps this plan will be very long and will take hundreds of years, but the Republic has enough patience to wait... until the final battle after 1862. .

"The final...battle?"

He murmured in his heart, and the general could feel that until now, there are still a large number of warring factions at the top. Humanity's pride of not having an opponent for 20,000 years does not allow them to escape, but deeper down, some alternative ideas are also floating.

Thinking about it, he glanced at the proposal in his hand that had just been submitted by a certain technology executive.

"Extrasolar Galaxy...Escape Plan"

…

On the spaceship, Ran De remained silent.

Ever since he grew up, he has been fighting in those occupied areas. The dark sky and purgatory-like earth often make him forget that most people in the ring world will not experience this, which is why he sees it. The reason for "Something About the World", for no reason, he actually envied those ordinary people.

Well, he thinks he should be "envious".

Scenes from childhood appeared in Ran Rande's mind, but Ran Rande was unusually indifferent.

In his memory, a long time ago, every time he recalled these things, he would have an uncomfortable and painful emotion. This was also the biggest motivation to support him to go on, but now it is gone.

Pain, sadness, sorrow, joy, happiness... As the transformation deepens, less than 3% of human body parts make these emotions less and less. Only when seeing snake worshipers, the invisible feeling of disgust will be felt. It made him realize that he still had feelings, even though there was only a little bit of hatred left.

And now, what he was about to see was the only idol of the Snake Cult—the Devourer of Worlds.

It's a wonderful feeling. I can't tell if it's hatred or something else. I just feel a little excited? Excited to give it a try? Probably this is the feeling.

"About to enter...prepare..."

With the voice of AI, Ranande knew that the destination had been reached.

Through the window, he could see the incredible behemoth moving forward in the void.

In their ears, one after another spiritual energy fluctuations occurred. Not everyone was able to remain calm in front of the World Devourer. Some people saw this legendary monster for the first time.

The World Devourer, its body is still clearly visible even from such a long distance, and in the future, he will settle on the scales of this monster together with other people on the spaceship, expand with difficulty, and explore the details about this monster. secret.

Rande stared silently at the monster in front of him.

"Rande, our war has begun."

He said it calmly in his mind, both to his past self and to his current self.

Standing up, the warrior prepared to meet his fate, but a girl next to him was knocked down by his movement.

"ah……"

Sitting down on the ground, the girl grinned with pain on her face.

"Hey! Why are you..."

She raised her head angrily, and was about to ask the other party to apologize to her, but found that the other party ignored her. The girl paused for a moment, then became angry and annoyed, and quickly chased after her.

"Stop..."

This begins the story of a facially paralyzed man and a violent woman.