Hearing this, Luo Ling always felt that this description was inexplicably familiar...
Moreover, since Lu Manqing is involved, there is a high probability that "Homeland" is also involved...
All in all, An Yu is now considered one of the medical security personnel.
"Old Granny Lu should be upstairs now. Do you want to look for her?" An Yu asked.
Luo Ling hesitated for a moment and shook his head.
"No need."
She and Old Lady Lu were not particularly familiar with each other, and there seemed no need for them to meet in person.
"By the way, where is Cen Xiangyun now?" Luo Ling asked again.
"Ms. Cen... should still be in Victoria. I haven't seen her for a long time." An Yu replied.
Luo Ling nodded thoughtfully, waved and was about to say goodbye to An Yu, but found that An Yu's expression seemed a little embarrassed at this time.
"An Yu, is there anything else?" Luo Ling asked with concern.
"No, nothing..."
An Yu waved her hands repeatedly, lowered her head slightly and said,
"Actually... I just wanted to say thank you. Later I realized that you did so many things for us."
"Forehead... "
Because there were too many things, these memories were squeezed deep in Luo Ling's mind. If he didn't look them up carefully for a while, he wouldn't know what An Yu was referring to.
However, it is most likely something related to Jiangcheng County.
"But they are just small things."
Luo Ling shook his head and said.
“… … .”
An Yu raised her head slightly and saw that Senior Sister Luo Ling was still as cool and indifferent as she remembered. Even her appearance and expression had not changed at all. She couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
She couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.
"Senior, where have you been all these years? There were a lot of rumors before... They were all speculations about your whereabouts."
An Yu looked at the black-haired girl in front of her until she saw the corners of her mouth slightly raised, revealing a faint smile that she had never seen before.
"I... went to save the world."
I don’t know how long I was in a trance. When An Yu came to his senses, the girl had disappeared.
Past events and a series of rumors about the girl kept emerging in his mind. An Yu raised his head slightly, looked towards the place where the girl last disappeared, sighed, but said nothing.
She had a strong premonition that this might be the last time she would see Senior Sister Luo Ling in her life.
Victoria.
After the Victoria Change, the traces of the Awakeners disappeared from this long-traveled city of origin, but due to a series of changes that followed, countless Awakeners re-emerged.
These awakeners were called weird apostles in the past and were the most intolerable existences. However, after an incident, they completely replaced the ecological niche of the awakeners.
Among these newly emerged strange apostles, some were awakened ones in the past, but some were not - because not all beings with the qualifications of being awakened can get the opportunity to be chosen by God.
This is the case with Cen Xiangyun and Eve. After the Victoria Incident, they completely lost their abilities and became ordinary people again.
Ordinary people who do not know the truth about the world may be able to live their lives peacefully in ignorance. Even if they encounter unimaginable disasters, they will not be able to understand the meaning of them and will die in obscurity.
But having seen the truth of the world, one cannot face it all calmly. When disaster approaches, the fear of powerlessness will only be further intensified. This is the case for some former awakeners who do not have the qualifications to be chosen by God.
Fortunately, although Cen Xiangyun lost her ability, at least she did not lose her relationship with Luo Ling, and the same was true for Eve.
When Luo Ling saw them, the two were fighting with each other behind the Guang** Church. No one knew what they were arguing about.
Luo Ling sat beside them with his chin propped up and watched for a long time. Only after their quarrel came to an end did he make some noise to attract their attention.
"Eh..."
Cen Xiangyun and Eve simply couldn't believe their eyes. They rubbed their eyes at the same time and pinched each other's cheeks. Only when they felt the pain did they confirm that this was not a dream.
"Miss Luo Ling, you... are still alive?" Cen Xiangyun murmured slightly absentmindedly.
"Xiangyun, you are so rude." Eve patted her head, then turned to look at Luo Ling, "Ms. Luo Ling, you are really not dead!"
"This is not the first time I've heard this." Facing the elegant and easy-going words of the two, Luo Ling said helplessly, "Tell me, how did I get 'killed' this time."
An Yu doesn't quite know the inside story, but Cen Xiangyun and Eve should know something about it.
The two looked at each other, and then Eve spoke first.
"You have been missing for a full ten years. In the past few years, various news about you have been revealed, including the truth that you are the 'White Witch'. I don't know where it came from.
"Then there were all kinds of speculations about the reasons for your disappearance and whereabouts, some of which even reached a level of... slander. Finally, Aunt Fiona, who was closest to you, announced your death. We went to verify it, but Aunt Fiona looked very sad, and it did seem a bit true..."
Then Cen Xiangyun immediately added, "Of course, I never believed it, mainly because you tried to die several times before but failed..."
The wolf has come three times, and now even the sheep don’t believe it.
Hearing this, Luo Ling was speechless again.
"I almost always end up being 'killed'..."
She has never faked her own death.
"That's what I said..."
Cen Xiangyun said embarrassedly.
"So, Ms. Cen, Ms. Eve, how have you been these past few years?"
Luo Ling saw at a glance that they had become ordinary people, and asked curiously,
"Didn't Alyssa give you some life-saving power?"
Alisa is her God's favored one and should have a portion of her power, so she can make the God's choice on her behalf.
In this case, even if Cen Xiangyun and Eve do not have the corresponding qualities chosen by God, they can be forcibly infused with Luo Ling's power.
Hearing this, Cen Xiangyun and Eve looked at each other and shook their heads.
"Are you talking about Her Highness the Saint? She never mentioned this to us, but... she has always been protecting us."
After the Victoria Incident, Cen Xiangyun and Eve, who have lost their abilities, need to face the truth of the world alone, which is quite dangerous.
They can clearly see things that ordinary people cannot see, and they know they are powerless to deal with them.
At this time, the Guang** Society opened its doors to them.
At first, Cen Xiangyun and Eve were not very interested in this "cult organization", but they were soon influenced by the Saint Alyssa - it must be said that Alyssa was indeed very talented in this aspect, and more importantly, she maintained a holy heart from beginning to end, and she could indeed be regarded as a true saint.
It was worth it that Luo Ling rescued her from being dismembered.
Today, Cen Xiangyun and Eve are both nuns of the Order of the Light, but they are the only two nuns among all the nuns who have not been blessed. They once thought that they had violated some taboo.
After trying to ask Alyssa several times, Alyssa just shook her head and didn't tell them why.
In fact, Luo Ling could probably guess that, because Cen Xiangyun and Eve had a closer relationship with him, Alyssa probably felt that they should be blessed by Luo Ling himself, and as a person favored by God, she was not qualified enough.
But it doesn’t matter.
Luo Ling nodded slightly to them and said,
"I understand. Please try again."
After the words fell, Cen Xiangyun and Eve were a little confused and asked curiously,
"Try what? Go ask for the Saint's blessing again?"
"Of course not," Luo Ling said, "Try to use your previous abilities now."
Cen Xiangyun was confused and still wondering when Eve next to her exclaimed and said,
"Oh my god, how did my ability come back?"
I saw her easily picked up a stone as big as a millstone. For an ordinary person like her, it would take all her strength to even lift it, but now it was as light as a feather.
After seeing this, Cen Xiangyun quickly waved her hands, and in an instant many ice crystals condensed in the air and then fell down. Even she, who always paid attention to her image, couldn't help but swear.
"Fuck, I'm really back!"
They were excited for a while, then turned to look at Luo Ling, somewhat doubtful.
"Ms. Luo Ling, this is... you who did it?"
"Yeah." Luo Ling did not deny it. "I am a little bit stronger now than before. I can probably do... that's all."
In fact, she did not return the abilities of Cen Xiangyun and Eve.
Because in essence, Cen Xiangyun and Eve did not lose their abilities, they just lost the path on which their abilities depended.
So to be more precise, Luo Ling returned Victoria's path and re-endowed the order-side path of "Metamorphosis" to the place of origin that once caused Metamorphosis's mother to completely collapse.
From now on, not only Cen Xiangyun and Eve, but all those who have awakened will be able to regain the abilities they lost in the past.
Listening to Luo Ling's extremely calm words, Cen Xiangyun and Eve heard a different meaning in them.
Although they are not the closest to Luo Ling, they are teammates who have spent time together day and night and have a certain understanding of Luo Ling.
"Ms. Luo Ling..."
A slightly relieved smile appeared on Cen Xiangyun's face, and she seemed to recall the first time she met Miss Luo Ling more than ten years ago.
At that time, Luo Ling and her sister were walking in the shopping mall. She saw Luo Ling's qualifications and took the initiative to recruit him - although it was more because of the year-end bonus at that time.
So many years have passed, and even after experiencing so many things, Miss Luo Ling seems to have not changed much from the past.
It's really... enviable.
"I heard that you seem to be saving the world."
Cen Xiangyun said softly.
"That's about right."
A faint, barely perceptible smile seemed to appear on Luo Ling's face.
"If that's the case, please succeed."
Cen Xiangyun let out a long sigh and looked into the distance.
"I have always felt that although this world can be annoying sometimes, most of the time... it is pretty good."
Chapter 6 Before the Light (5k)
In front of the Cathedral of Light, where people come and go.
Even though Victoria is now on the verge of doom and everything looks desolate, this cathedral, which was built twelve years ago, is still bustling with people. Both the hungry poor people and the well-dressed dignitaries are received equally.
Since the complete collapse of Victoria's state religion more than a decade ago, the emerging Church of Light has directly replaced the state religion's ecological niche. The Church of Light's most famous Saint is a legendary figure who is regarded as a living saint.
Not only was he expelled from the church for his dissent, left on the streets, and even sacrificed, but he also had the legendary experience of miraculously returning to life and leading the Church of Light to gradually defeat the pedantic and bloated state religion, completely becoming the new state religion of Victoria.
More importantly, Her Highness's love and kindness are well known to everyone. Everyone in Victoria, from the bottom to the top, admires her highly. Her influence even exceeds that of the former "company", not to mention that there is only one director left now, and it is just a "company" that is barely surviving.
Luo Ling witnessed this magnificent cathedral and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.
In fact, this Cathedral of the Church of Light was her work. She mobilized countless cult puppets to work day and night, and it was built in almost a month.
Before this, it was just a dilapidated church that the cult under the religious leader found in the slums and used as an altar for their sacrifices.
The entire Holy Church of Light was almost established by Luo Ling alone, but he later handed it over to Alyssa. Even Luo Ling did not expect that the Church of Light could grow to this extent under Alyssa's hands.
You know, the Church of Light not only has a huge influence in the world of ordinary people, but also because Alyssa herself is Luo Ling's favorite. She can use Luo Ling's power to a certain extent and give him the qualification to be chosen by God.
Even though this qualification is extremely limited, the abilities that can be mobilized are very few, and all require a price to be paid, it is a real and powerful force.
Moreover, as Luo Ling's status rises step by step until he becomes a true god, Alyssa, the God-favored One, and even the Chosen Ones of the Church of Light will be able to share certain benefits.
Of course... the price these God-chosen followers paid for using their abilities is the benefit to Luo Ling. Although it is negligible for Luo Ling now, she can benefit from the six order-side paths she extended, and all the abilities related to the order side are sourced from her.
Alyssa does not grant the qualification of God's Chosen One casually. She is very strict in screening in this regard. It can be said that every God's Chosen One is trustworthy and has reasons to become God's Chosen One.
Because she also knew very well the price to pay for gaining power. Even if the god she believed in was the kind-hearted Luo Ling, not everyone was suitable for this path.
Some memories flashed through Luo Ling's eyes. Even though the past experiences were always filled with a hint of sadness, she did not hate these memories in Victoria.
Just as she was slightly distracted by reminiscing about the past, she suddenly felt her skirt being slightly pulled.