Tokyo.
Pure land.
An Qingyu sat in the center of the main control room, surrounded by flickering screens. He stared at all the screens at the same time, as motionless as a sculpture.
"Qingyu, you have been reading for 5 hours, it's time to take a rest."
Suddenly, Jiang Er's figure silently walked up to him, waved his hand gently, and plunged all the images on the screen into darkness.
An Qingyu slowly closed his eyes, rubbed his temples with both hands, and sighed, with extremely complicated eyes:
"You really know something incredible."
"what have you found?"
An Qingyu didn't speak. He stood up silently and walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, looking down at the bright neon city below him.
"Jiang Er, how many kilowatt-hours of electricity do you think such a big country uses every year?" he asked Jiang Er.
Jiang Er was startled. After hesitating for a moment, he replied: "Probably, around 5,000 trillion watt-hours?"
"It should be much more than this." An Qingyu shook his head, "So, how is electricity generated?"
"Nuclear power, natural gas power, oil power, wind power, hydropower? These should be all available, right?"
"Yes, but didn't you find a problem?" An Qingyu said calmly, "This country's own mineral resources are extremely scarce. Where do the gas and oil used to generate electricity come from?"
Jiang Er froze on the spot.
"Or, let me ask another question." An Qingyu paused, "How do the power stations here generate electricity without fossil fuels? Nuclear power, wind power and hydropower alone cannot support such power. Huge power usage.”
"How is this going?"
"The answer is that the power stations here are just decorations. They can't generate electricity at all." An Qingyu glanced at the ground under his feet. "All the electricity they output comes from here. Everything in this country The sources of electricity are all pure lands.”
"Here?" Jiang Er frowned slightly, "But there is no power generation device here either, so where does the electricity come from?"
An Qingyu stretched out his hand and pointed at the figures below the clouds, densely packed like ants walking through the streets:
"People, or rather, dead people."
"Eternal torture after death?" Jialan didn't seem to understand this sentence.
"For example." The knight continued to explain, "Human beings need water, air, soil, food, and energy to survive. The artifact itself will not automatically generate these, but it can create them out of thin air by absorbing souls.
For people living in this 'human circle', every drop of water they drink, every breath of air they breathe, and even every kilowatt-hour of electricity they use are driven by dead human souls.
Igniting the corpse of a living thing will release a large amount of heat, and igniting the soul of a human being will produce an astronomical amount of energy. "
"In other words, if you want to maintain the operation of this 'human circle', you must kill a large number of people and use their souls as nourishment?" Wu Xiangnan thought thoughtfully, "But if the natural environment in the 'human circle' Why can’t the number of deaths keep up with this consumption rate? Isn’t this cycle broken?”
"It's not that easy." The knight shook his head, "Have you forgotten that in order to protect themselves, the gods sacrificed most of their lives, and the number of these lives can be calculated in the order of tens of millions or even billions .
The lives they sacrificed alone were enough to keep the 'human circle' running for a long time.
Therefore, to a certain extent, the reason why people in the 'human circle' can live and dedicate their beliefs is because there are tens of millions or even billions of ancestors' souls in the world they live in. Fuel burns. "
Jialan frowned and said, "This is too crazy."
"Yes, so the existence of the 'Human Circle' is evil in itself." The knight continued, "The more humans are kept in the 'Human Circle', the greater the energy consumed, and the greater the number of human souls used as fuel. This means The more sinful a city becomes.
And harassing, attacking, and even destroying the 'human circle' is one of the core goals of our evil association. "
"Destroy?" Wu Xiangnan asked doubtfully, "After destroying the 'human circle', what will happen to the humans in captivity?"
"Generally speaking, we rarely carry out 'destruction'. At most, we just blow up the temples or statues used to collect faith, and save some of the people there.
If we really want to carry out 'destruction', it depends on the size of this 'human circle'. "
The knight shrugged and replied, "If the number of people in captivity is less than 500,000, we will extradite them to the utopia created by the president and continue to live there. If the number exceeds this number, we have no other choice but to put them in captivity." 500,000 women, children, and young adults with special skills were extradited, and the rest could only be allowed to be destroyed along with the 'human circle'."
"Does that mean everyone inside will die?" Wu Xiangnan frowned, "Isn't this indiscriminate killing?"
"'Indiscriminate killing'?" The knight raised his eyebrows, "It's okay if you understand it this way, but I hope you understand that this is a fog, and our evil association has never been a Holy Mother organization, we are 'evil'.
It is impossible and we have no obligation to save everyone. Being able to extradite 500,000 people as fire seeds and bring them to Utopia is already the greatest respect we have for these countries and their cultural heritage.
Moreover, destroying the 'human circle' means saving those tens of millions of burning and painful souls. It may be destruction for the people living in it, but for those miserable souls, this is salvation! "
The knight's voice fell, and the entire cabin fell into deathly silence.
The sound of the howling wind mixed with the hum of the waves lapping against the ship's hull, echoed in the dim cabin. After a long time, Wu Xiangnan slowly spoke:
"I understand. Anyway, I will cooperate with your actions according to the mission."
"Long live understanding." The knight smiled slightly.
"So, what do we do next?"
"Every time we, the evil society, want to attack a 'circle of people', we will first carry out a series of infiltration preparations." The knight said unhurriedly, "Among them, the two most important types of people are called 'Paratroopers' and 'Sentinels'.
Since the 'Human Circle' is very important to the Kingdom of God, it is not that easy to enter the 'Human Circle'. The most critical point of penetrating the 'Human Circle' is to find the connection between it and the outside world. gap'. "