Opening his eyes again, Ning Xingzhou saw a translucent arc-shaped barrier. Beyond the barrier, there was a sky full of black flames, and that very familiar guy who was being engulfed by the black flames.
There was a vague spiritual thread between them, and the moment he woke up, that spiritual thread was completely broken.
The black flames that were eager to try all around roared in an instant, engulfing the dormant cabin he was in in an instant. With the erosion of the black flame, this so-called top-level dormant cabin gradually turned into nothingness.
However, Ning Xingzhou, which was located in it, was not damaged at all, only the flame mark on his forehead was still deep and shining under the terrifying black flame.
Ning Xingzhou's expression was still somewhat astonished and bewildered. He raised his hand and touched the hot temperature on his forehead, his nose was sore, and his heart was bitter.
He remembered it all.
Because of this, I have mixed feelings.
As long as he can remember, he has lived under the envious eyes of everyone. Because the blood of the Ning family flows in his body, he was born to stand at the finish line that countless people can't reach in their entire lives.
The Ning family, for generations, are all S-level spiritual power users, with awe-inspiring record and countless meritorious deeds. And he, Ning Xingzhou, inherited all the excellent genes of both parents, and achieved an unprecedented SS rank, which is the pride of the whole family.
Since he can remember, the elders in the family will instill many principles in him.
They told him that with great power comes great responsibility.
They told him that abilities are born for protection.
They told him that the strong should protect the weak.
They told him that the world will respect and love him only if he cares about the common people.
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Such principles, although boring, are also the truth in the heart of the young Ning Xingzhou, and they are the code of conduct that he should follow. He is extremely talented. From childhood to adulthood, he has won various medals and honors. As long as there is a ranking, he is the first.
The family has always been proud of him, and he is also proud of being born in the Ning family. But all of this is just in the past.
After getting acquainted with Sikong Yuan, he gradually discovered that this world was completely different from what he knew.
He had heard about the existence of Sikong Yuan from his elders, and knew that he possessed SSS-level mental power, and his mental value had reached unimaginable strength, which was difficult to measure with instruments. I just don't know why, he can't use fusion skills, and he can't use F-level to S-level armor.
Ning Xingzhou was curious, but it was only limited to curiosity. He didn't go out of his way to understand it, nor did he specifically get to know him, but by chance, he saved the other party from a group of fellow disciples.
he is very angry.
Shocked at the treatment Sikong Yuan received at school, angry at the fact that the school knew this but ignored it, and annoyed at the fact that the group of bullies pretended to be righteous in front of him, but they only bullied the weak behind their backs.
Only then did he realize that this world is not as simple as it appears on the surface.
The same person, in front of him and in front of Sikong Yuan, can behave completely differently.
Very hypocritical.
For a long time, he was unable to communicate normally with those hypocritical people, instead he got closer and closer to Sikong Yuan. Because the other party's emotions are very real, whether they hate it, be angry, be unwilling, or like it, they are all pure.
He likes being with the other party very much, he can let go of his identity and ignore his rank, and the other party also regards him as his only good friend, not because his surname is Ning, but because he is Ning Xingzhou.
The strange thing is that the elders in the family knew that he had a close personal relationship with Sikong Yuan, so they didn't stop him. Instead, they told him that Sikong Yuan was too weak but occupied the special class, made many enemies, and asked him to protect him more.
He didn't think much about it, he just thought that Sikong Yuan was a friend and a weak person, and it was only natural for him to protect Sikong Yuan. Perhaps there was this psychological implication, and when he encountered countless unnecessary dangers, he just regarded Sikong Yuan as having a rough life, fortunately he was there.
Until the accident later.
That day, he took Sikong Yuan to play in the family training base, and accidentally encountered the fire of disaster.
In front of the absolute energy body, all the training he did on weekdays was in vain. If there was no Sikong Yuan, he would have died long ago.
The elders of the clan comforted him, that in such a terrible accident, both he and Sikong Yuan were still alive, which in itself was the greatest blessing. They also said that although the disaster was terrible, the existence of Sikong Yuan gave them hope—the hope of saving mankind.
They told him a story about the replacement of human age and the existence of disasters. In fact, these are not really stories, but just the history that everyone keeps secret in textbooks.
It is said that in the past, all human beings in the world were incapable. Until the glaciers melted, viruses under the permafrost ravaged the world, and under extreme weather, fierce beasts ran rampant, and mankind entered the era of catastrophe.
At that stage, countless human beings died under the claws of ferocious beasts. Weapons with low lethality could not break through the defenses of ferocious beasts, while weapons with high lethality would always injure the enemy by 800 and self-damage by 1000.
In just a few years of the cataclysmic era, the population dropped by half. Then, by coincidence, humans discovered the X element, which can be integrated into the human body and bring about genetic mutations, enabling humans to have the power to contend with fierce beasts.
But there is a little side effect - human beings who use element X for a long time will lose their lives prematurely, and within five years, they will die of organ failure.
Fortunately, after decades of evolution, the X element has found the optimal solution - the armor. Integrating the X element into the armor, supplemented by the armor fusion method, human beings have the power to fight against beasts, and they will not die from exhaustion due to excessive use of the X element.
Humanity has entered the age of armor.
High-level mental power not only means that they can control higher-level armor, but also means that they have higher resistance to X elements and have a long lifespan.
It is said that the ancestors of the Ning family were the first generation of people who directly used the X element. They left offspring in a limited lifespan, and because of this, they have good genes.
In a pure competition of combat power, human beings are still inferior to ferocious beasts, but in terms of numbers, human beings occupy an absolute advantage, generation after generation, continuously.
It stands to reason that humans should have won this racial war between humans and ferocious beasts. However, there are accidents in everything. For human beings, the biggest accident is the emergence of disasters.
No one can explain how the disaster was born. They only know that in the history of mankind, once a disaster occurs, more than half of them must be killed or injured, and it will be difficult to recover for hundreds of years.
Everyone in the world believes that disasters are evolved from humans with too strong mental abilities. The process of catastrophe gradually erodes the main consciousness of human beings, and finally the consciousness of disasters completely dominates.
As for the Ning family, as a veteran family with many achievements, they know more. In fact, disasters are born in nature, and they hold absolute malice towards human beings, but they always love to attach themselves to the human world, and then devour human consciousness, using human bodies to create disasters.
After years of changes, human beings have more or less mastered some disaster information. There are many spiritual bodies born naturally, but only when they reach the level of extermination, will they be called disasters by humans.
The catastrophe discovered by Ning Xingzhou and the others, numbered 003, is the third world-destroying spiritual body born since the War Armor era.
However, after the fusion of the disaster body and Sikong Yuan, a subtle check and balance was formed, and the omnipotent disaster consciousness was unable to swallow Sikong Yuan for a long time, which made the time of the disaster outbreak infinitely postponed.
However, not many people know this secret.
Everyone in the world thinks that Sikong Yuan is the disaster itself, so they hate him, but fear him. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, he bears the malice of the whole world.
Only Ning Xingzhou knew what kind of pain Sikong Yuan was enduring. He watched the other party's skin and flesh bloom again and again, and healed again and again. He watched the other party tortured by the consciousness of disaster, day and night, unable to sleep peacefully.
The other party did everything possible to suppress the sense of disaster, in order to protect that group of people who kept calling him a monster.
For the first time in his life, Ning Xingzhou questioned his family and his beliefs. Was his ability really born for protection? Protect those ungrateful guys
In Ning Xingzhou's eyes, Sikong Yuan is a real hero. However, no matter how he explained or persuaded, no one believed him.
People only say that Sikong Yuan is the incarnation of disaster star.
He stayed by Sikong Yuan's side, full of guilt, because he should have borne all of this. Seeing the other party wandering on the edge of madness countless times, I feel very distressed.
He comforted each other countless times, there are countless capable people in the clan, and they will definitely find a way to return to normal.
The other party just looked at him tenderly, and said, half jokingly but seriously: They... how can they count on it. What's more, there's nothing wrong with being like this now.
He was still a little puzzled at the time, and foolishly boasted about the glorious deeds of the Ning family, so as to cheer for Sikong Yuan.
But later, when he overheard the conversation of the elders in the clan, he realized that he was wrong.
How wrong.
"Calamity 001 caused the number of humans to drop sharply by 40%, and Calamity 002 dropped another 60%. Now there is Calamity 003. After the energy body erupts, the front line will inevitably be tight. If there is another 004, the human race will really be extinct."
"Therefore, we have to seek change with a sharp knife, which is also a helpless move. Xing Xing... just don't let him know."
"Sacrificing the small self to achieve the big self. It is worthwhile to preserve the inheritance of mankind. This should also be the only value of that Sikong Yuan who was born in this world."
"Yeah, I thought it would be the child of Xing Xing... luckily..."
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He couldn't express his shock when he heard the truth. He rushed in like crazy to confront those elders, crying hoarsely, his eyes swollen like walnuts.
Looking at the thoughtful and majestic faces in his memory, he felt that the world was spinning and the world was collapsing.
He should have realized earlier that they had discovered the Calamity Species at the family training base. In such a rigorous and private place, there are special personnel to clear the field every day, and every corner of the training base is under the surveillance of the family.
How could a disaster befall the world, no one noticed anything unusual!
The accident that happened to him and Sikong Yuan that day was simply caused by someone behind the scenes!
No, not only that.
When he acted alone, he hadn't encountered any danger for more than ten years. Why did he encounter frequent dangers during the time he was with Sikong Yuan? The elders in the clan asked him to protect Sikong Yuan more, was it just talking
That was someone who was testing him, and also testing Sikong Yuan.
Before Sikong Yuan appeared, Ning Xingzhou was the best "container" selected by thousands of people, but after Sikong Yuan appeared, they had a more suitable "substitute".
It was only later that Ning Xingzhou found out that his father and mother were not married for love, but after countless rounds of matching, the best genetic pairing was selected to give birth to such an SS-level genius like him.
His birth was all deliberate, in order to trap disasters and prolong the survival period of human beings. The appearance of Sikong Yuan was a surprise to them. And in these years, the direction of all resource research is how to completely integrate the host body with the disaster, and eliminate the disaster through the destruction of the host body.
From the very beginning, he, Ning Xingzhou, was a victim.
If it weren't for Sikong Yuan, he would be the one suffering from burning every day.
He was at a loss, puzzled, and unwilling. He didn't understand why the elders of the clan treated him like this. Didn't they have any affection for him for so many years
The answer is yes, but no matter how great the feelings are, they are not as big as morality. In the eyes of this loyal family for generations, how could the life of Ning Xingzhou alone be worth the lives of all the people in the world.
It was just because of an accident that Sikong Yuan suffered this crime for him.
Only then did he realize that Sikong Yuan was the only companion standing beside him from the beginning to the end.
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