Flowers Blooming in the Wasteland

"Why...you want to attack him." Celeste looked at the frozen frame in the video, and his fingers unconsciously grabbed the edge of the table, leaving deep marks on the metal table, "I hid myself I have already been injected with the T-virus, and choosing an undisciplined person like Dandy as a guard has left a lot of loopholes for the Devourer to use, just to attract it to attack me, but why does it still target Blue? .”

"Calm down." He Xiao had never seen Celeste so out of control.

"How can I calm down? You don't understand, I should have dealt with Beethoven as you suggested, instead of acting emotionally, because Beethoven doesn't look like a bad guy so I let my guard down..." Celeste couldn't calm down, But at least let go of the innocent table, "It's my fault, I hurt Lan."

"Thinking about these things now won't help, the most important thing is to think about how to find Fu Yunlan." He Xiao tried to make him face the reality, "At that time, there was only air in the space that was exchanged. According to the composition of the air, there are more volcanic ash particles that should not be there. On the whole, Fu Yunlan should not have been taken far away, but near a crater in the Alps."

"Then look for it quickly, we have to find him no matter what!" Celeste looked at the screen coldly and said, "Let the ground troops march faster, before tomorrow, I will not leave a single True God cultivator in the east of the Alps." live!"

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When Fu Yunlan's consciousness gradually became clearer, he found that he was in a place where he could not distinguish between up, down, left, and right. There was only light around him. The pure white light illuminated every corner of the world, making everything invisible. Hidden, bright and uncomfortable.

He quickly remembered what happened, he was attacked by Beethoven, he lost consciousness, and then?Did he die, or fell into the hands of the True God Cult, did Celeste know that something happened to him?

When Fu Yunlan was in a hurry, she inexplicably found herself sitting next to a familiar table, and opposite the table was another self, who was exactly the same as him in every detail.

"Who are you?" Fu Yunlan knew that it couldn't be him.

"You generally call me the Devourer." The opposite "Fu Yunlan" said with a blank expression like Celeste, "We are communicating in your spiritual world, I think humans are generally more used to being able to see I hope this can relax your spirit, too nervous is not conducive to our communication."

Fu Yunlan "watched" him warily in her own spiritual world, but said nothing.

"You are afraid." The Devourer said in a statement of fact, "You are afraid that I will torture you with some terrible tortures, or torture you with methods that are completely unimaginable for human beings."

"Yes, I'm scared, but I won't give in to you." Fu Yunlan realized that her thoughts had nothing to hide from the Devourer, and even the most unknown thoughts deep in her heart would be swallowed The feeling of peeping made him uncomfortable.

The Devourer remained expressionless, and said in a flat voice: "I don't need to torture you to tell me anything. You have no secrets in front of me, unless it's purely for torturing you. Only weak people like to torture others. It makes no sense to me to make you suffer."

Fu Yunlan looked at him incredulously.

"You find it unbelievable because in your mind, I am a very evil existence. Evil also means despicable, shameless, perverted, vicious, etc. All negative adjectives in human minds can be used for me. "The Devourer said calmly, "But good and evil are often just a matter of position, if you step outside the position of human beings, you will realize that I have never been a villain whose ultimate pursuit is to do evil , but a more advanced and civilized life form."

"Advanced and civilized?" Fu Yunlan snorted coldly and said, "Swallow all other beings, leaving only you in the entire universe, do you call this civilization?"

Facing his questioning, the Devourer just said without changing his face: "Civilization needs to survive and develop, and the ultimate pursuit of all intelligent civilizations is to expand outward, but the total amount of matter in the universe remains unchanged, so the competition for resources must be all Inevitable contradictions between civilizations. In the face of this kind of competition, your approach is to prey on the strong, relying on enslaving and killing other lives to make yourself survive and grow, while my approach is to integrate."

"You mean 'devour'."

"It depends on how you understand it. Human language is always full of ambiguity and uncertainty. Using such words to describe my behavior can make me look more evil and cruel, but in essence, it directly destroys life , and allowing life to exist forever in a brand-new form, which one is closer to the cruelty you define? The goal of the Guardian Alliance is to keep the universe as it is, because they are relatively powerful civilizations themselves, allowing different civilizations It is far more beneficial for them to continue this never-ending war, killing, and slavery among them, while my object is true unity and peace among all civilizations."

Fu Yunlan was a little dazed, he couldn't figure out why the Devourer would tell him this.

The Devourer knew what he was thinking, and directly answered his doubts: "I explain this to you because I want to merge with you. As long as you are willing, you will become me, and I will become you."

"Is it important whether I am willing or not? If you want to swallow me, I can't resist at all." Fu Yunlan clearly knew that in front of the most powerful will in the universe, he might not even be considered an ant, but This powerful will asked for his "consent" in a negotiating tone before eating him, which was very strange no matter how you looked at it.

"Indeed, human will is insignificant in front of me. I can forcefully fuse you, but to me, since I choose to fuse, then forcing you is tantamount to forcing myself. Your anger is my anger, and your unwillingness is I am unwilling, I will not hurt you, just like I will not hurt myself, after all, all the negative emotions you have will eventually become a part of me."

"Don't tell me you want me to be swallowed by you willingly?" Fu Yunlan looked at him in astonishment, "Stop dreaming, it is absolutely impossible for me to make your wish come true!"

"Don't rush to refuse. You must first realize what kind of opportunity is in front of you. You have always longed to have power, to control your own destiny, and to bring some changes to the world. Now, you have the opportunity to be The most powerful existence in the entire universe, no one or anything will hinder you anymore, as long as you are willing, all your past wishes can be easily fulfilled."

Although in the spiritual world, Fu Yunlan shook her head vigorously to strengthen her will to refuse: "No, it's impossible, these are all lies! My wish is to save human civilization, and I want the earth to restore its past prosperity , These are completely contrary to your approach, how can you let me get what I want? Once I am swallowed by you, I will not be able to retain my independent will at all, don't try to lie to me!"

"Cheating is the only behavior of beings like human beings whose thinking cannot be shared. I never cheat, and I never need to cheat." The Devourer said calmly but unquestionably, "After merging with me, you will not only retain your will , and at the same time, you will also have the knowledge accumulated over tens of millions of years of those civilizations that have been integrated, as well as powerful power that you can't imagine. You can do this easily. It's just that when your position changes, when you have knowledge and power that you didn't have in the past, and you no longer think as a short-sighted human being, maybe your goal will also change. Whether you want to save or destroy at that time, no matter what you decide, it is your choice after thinking about it, not my will to enslave you."

"I won't believe you!" Fu Yunlan stubbornly resisted the enticement of the Devourer, "You must have a conspiracy in trying to persuade me to surrender, since you won't cheat, then tell me, what exactly do you want from me?" What am I getting here?"

The Devourer really told the truth: "The 'Guardian' race has always been the biggest obstacle to the true unity and peace of the universe, because they only exist in one-dimensional space and have no entity. It is difficult for me to deal with them, but it is different now. Now, there is an unprecedented weak among them, the Celeste you are familiar with. Its current spiritual power is not even much stronger than that of an ordinary human being. You can escape He Xiao’s surveillance and protection and approach it. Find an opportunity to integrate it, and use it as a key to decipher the secrets of their race, and through the gap it opens, you will be able to deal a devastating blow to this race."

"You really want to attack Celeste, and I will never let you succeed!"

Regarding Fu Yunlan's obvious resistance, the Devourer was not in a hurry at all, and still said persuasively: "You defend him so much because you think you love him very much, but in the end, what you love is nothing more than him. Seeing the illusion displayed by the human body, the real thing is actually an invisible and intangible electric wave, and this body named Celeste can be changed at any time like changing clothes. If it takes off this beautiful dress 'Clothes', replaced by an alien monster dripping with slime, can you still love it like this?"

Following the words of the Devourer, a very disgusting tentacle monster appeared in front of Fu Yunlan.

Fu Yunlan gritted her teeth and said, "If he becomes like this, maybe I will find it difficult to accept it for a while, but as long as he is still inside, there will be no difference."

"It's a pity that this affection can only touch you, but it is an insignificant existence to it." The Devourer said lightly, "It is difficult for human beings to adapt to such a big change in identity in a short period of time, so you still subconsciously regard Celeste, as the weak boy with mysterious superpowers, needs your protection and love. But in fact, you also know how weak you are in front of the real it. It is gradually recovering its memory and strength , and you will always be just a humble and weak human being. Even if your body is strengthened with their technology, it will not change your essence. Not only He Xiao, but any of its kind is like a god in front of you. You can't compete with them at all. His attachment to you now is just a matter of habit, as he gets more and more comfortable with who he is, you will lose it sooner or later, unless you make it a part of you, you can have it forever It, from now on its memory is your memory, its thoughts are your thoughts, and you will never be separated again."