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Chapter 328 Apocalypse Crisis (33)

In June 779 on Terra, the 'Apocalypse'-level biohazard appeared around Port Harrison in the South Ridge Province of the Setar Empire.

The giant parasite swarm named as 'heartworm' has spread throughout the entire South Ridge of the Empire, and has a tendency to continue to spread at a high speed.

The infected will fall into an abnormal state of frenzy, and then become violent, becoming a bloodthirsty beast, looking for all edible nutrients to eat, and will be good at obtaining enough flesh and blood by killing people.

After obtaining enough nutrients, the infected will enter a 'transformation' state and be wrapped in a huge cocoon - the transformed infected will break out of the cocoon, restore the state of youth and prime, and possess normal wisdom, but However, it was completely controlled by the insect swarm and became the flesh shell of the heart-eating insect.

Or in other words, a strange semi-independent individual.

At the same time, the derivative of the swarm named 'creep' is assimilating the local plants, although the Archbishop Tianyan of the Huaiguang Church has tried his best to prevent the spread of the creep, and the governor of Nanling, Marquis Barton, and No The 19th and 23rd legions all assisted in the attack, and several third-level powerhouses wandering in Nanling also came to help, but they could only barely guarantee that the creep would not continue to spread in Nanling.

At present, the fourth level of the empire has been mobilized. The head of the Cangyun Knights, the Thundercaller, and his knight attendants have left the Baisen Fortress, but there is no guarantee that the insect nest can be completely contained. diffusion.

The Setar Empire, the countries of the Absalom bloodline in Feiyan Land, Whale Song Cliff and the Canaan Moore Federation all received the highest level of alert from the Huaiguang Church in just two hours. The person in charge and the top management have already met together under the auspices of the Huaiguang Church, the Spirit Tool Church and the Hall of All Souls.

Whether it is a crisis or a disaster, it is divided into three levels.

The third level is 'turmoil', the second level is 'catastrophe' and the first level is 'apocalypse'.

'Turbulence' is just like the original meaning, a powerful monster, an out-of-control armed force of pre-era civilization, and a large-scale spread of poisonous disease will cause an area to malfunction, and elements of turbulence belong to this class.

Among them, the most common ones are probably the totem master monsters at the peak of the second energy level controlled by the Sequoia natives lost control and started madly attacking all the settlements of intelligent life in Nanling... This is a typical 'turmoil'.

But in fact, whether it is a group of monsters at the first energy level, such as a group of thunder-hunting jellyfish migrating, or a large monster at the third energy level attacking a city, they are all at this level.

As for the second-level 'catastrophe', there is also no fixed level standard. As long as it can cause a large-scale local ecological system imbalance and cause large-scale casualties, whether it is an earthquake, a volcanic eruption, or a disaster like Dawn City, it is classified by the fourth level. Energy-level attacks on Titans and Warcraft are all 'catastrophes'.

However, the first level of 'Apocalypse' is different.

Regardless of whether the disaster it represents is a bacteria, a virus, or a fifth-level dragon or other titanic beast, or even a war of destruction between two countries, the disaster at the level of 'Apocalypse' actually represents only one thing.

That is, it is enough to threaten the normal functioning of human society as a whole.

Therefore, no matter how high the reputation of the Huaiguang Church is, some people will choose to question it.

"Is the heart-eating worm really an apocalypse-level threat? As long as a few powerhouses of the fourth energy level take action, it will be enough to easily eradicate it?"

Such questioning is not uncommon, and it is not an accountability that would arouse public outrage—after all, the Huaiguang Church often 'scaremongers'.

They always like to adjust the danger level by half a level, and when everyone is tense, they use a more relaxed method to suppress the disaster.

In the final analysis, although the heart-eater swarm is dangerous, it is still much inferior to the "Qijiela Karin incident" that happened in Yanjiang that year, and it should not be regarded as an apocalypse-level crisis.

Even, compared with the many insect nests that Huaiguang Church wiped out in the past, it is slightly inferior.

300 years ago, a third-level Yanjiang sublimator named 'Qijiela Karin' unearthed an ultra-ancient plant that can enhance human activity from the ruins.

The pollen of the ancient plant "Karin's Flower" named after the discoverer can make people active and full of energy, no matter day or night, so it was favored by all men, women and children in the Yanjiang countries at that time. Welcomed, and mass planting was carried out.

It is said that in the first year after the 'Flower of Karin' was excavated, the birth rate of the countries in Yanjiang increased by [-]% immediately, and there were almost no side effects - except maybe a little tired.

Obviously, the flower of Karin cannot be blocked, and it spread rapidly to all parts of Yanjiang within a few years.

This special pre-era civilized plant can indeed improve people's work efficiency. Some sublimators even said that using the pollen of the flower of Karin as a supplementary material for potions can make it easier to advance, and this method Known as the 'Pollen Road' and 'The Way of Pollen', those who use this advanced sublimation even formed a holy flower knight order, aiming to spread this peculiar plant.

But it was at this time that some Yanjiang residents said that they began to connect with other people's minds in their sleep, and they began to feel endless happiness and peace, all of which were brought by the flower of Karin.

A huge religion took shape quickly, and in a short period of time formed a political entity capable of influencing the policies of the countries in Yanjiang. Even in some remote towns, the Sacred Flower Knights replaced the basically paralyzed official and became the local practical significance. rulers above.

This aroused the vigilance of the Huaiguang Church and the Ming Religious Mission stationed in Yanjiang, and the high-level leaders of the Yanjiang countries also noticed that this matter was wrong.

Anyway, it all happened so fast, and a lot of people didn't react to it at all.

But they have been unable to stop.

On a seemingly ordinary night, tens of millions of Yanjiang residents fell into a coma in their sleep and never woke up again.

And a huge psionic plant appeared in the dreams of all the people in Yanjiang.

It was a giant flower of Karin that had not yet fully bloomed, and in its buds, the heart light body of the discoverer of the Flower of Karin, Qijiela Karin, was undergoing transformation, and a large number of souls were transformed into The river is flowing into the bud, accelerating the sublimation of the heart light body.

At this moment, some normal Yanjiang people finally realized in astonishment that many people around them were no longer the original 'they', but had been swallowed up by the 'Flower of Karin' and replaced them. Manipulated psionic offspring.

And those newborns born after the flower of Karin spread, all of them have no normal mind!

They are born to be the carriers of Karin's flower.

The substrains of this spiritual plant can almost perfectly imitate all the daily actions of the devoured mind. They can even conduct scientific research, participate in entertainment, and appreciate art normally, just like normal humans, and even more empathetic.

Because the flowers of Karin deeply understand human beings, they will not provoke others, and keep the harmony and stability of the entire society as low as possible.

The only flaw is that they will take the initiative, ardently and even almost compulsively, to recommend the flower of Karin to everyone around them.

The matter has come to this point, and conventional means can no longer eliminate the influence of the flower of Karin, and Qijiela Karin, or in other words, the matrix of the flower of Karin has reached the fifth energy level, and is still growing stronger.

This terrible psionic plant has taken root in the depths of the earth and the soul space of human beings, and has forged its own lair.

Its heart light body 'Dead Styx Akron' flows in the collective will of the tribes in Yanjiang. Wherever it passes, the grass and trees are all withered and there is no life, only Karin Flower's own spiritual river is left silently. circulation.

The minds of millions dissipate into nothingness and converge into one.

in the quiet stillness.

　Recommend a new book to a friend! "A Bite of Hogwarts"

Dahlia Dursley was lost in thought as she watched the recipe for "Avada Eats a Big Melon".

Gryffindor doesn't like spicy food, Ravenclaw follows the sauce rules, Slytherin respects the original taste of ingredients, and Hufflepuff says it's okay to eat!
Voldemort killed around more than ten years ago just to resist microwave ovens in the non-magic world?

Is there something wrong?
What about Hogwarts and the wizarding world? !
Dalia took out her beloved kitchen knife and waved it, "Ma Po Tofu!"

The next moment, raging flames surged out.

She sighed.

"This should be considered magic, right? It's just that there may be something wrong with my way of traveling..."

(End of this chapter)