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The black hair of the young man in the capsule was floating in the blue liquid, scattered like weeds.

Perhaps it was because Meng Huai felt Yue Yun's departure, the moment tears rolled down the corner of his eyes, Meng Huai's body couldn't help shaking, and the capsule cabin, which couldn't be broken even with an iron fist, swayed slightly.

The alarm buzzed, and Meng Huai felt as if his brain had been split open.A hoarse voice murmured in his head.

"Is he gone?"

With anger, pain, mania and unwillingness.It was like a heavy hammer hit the heart.

The guy lurking in Meng Huai's body seemed to want to break free and fight for the control of Meng Huai's physical strength and spirit.

"What are you going to do?" Meng Huai tried his best to resist the exhaustion coming up from his limbs.

"You fool, what's the point of being locked up here? Letting others draw blood is like a slaughtered animal."

"What kind of animal, this is saving people!"

The voice sank, half sigh, half mocking.

"Such a character will kill you one day. I don't want to let you do whatever you want."

"Am I fooling around? It's a strange thing coming out of your mouth. Who can't stop killing people when they are crazy?"

The voice trembled in pain, "My blood... will never be handed over to the devil."

demon?What's the meaning?

"Do you want to know?" the voice said indifferently.

A dark passage appeared in front of Meng Huai's eyes, and he nodded.

In the blink of an eye, Meng Huai felt himself falling into a whirlpool of colors.The stars in the sky are changing, the clouds are thousands of years old, and the sea is changing.

He opened his eyes and saw himself in the tall room of the Crystal Vault.The crystal ball emits a soft halo.In the middle of the room is a circular altar, on which kneels a man in a white robe.There are four tall guards guarding the horns, with long swords one foot wide on their backs.

Meng Huai stammered, "What kind of place is this?"

The man on the altar stood up: "Come in."

Meng Huai was startled, when he heard footsteps behind him, he turned his head suddenly, but a person passed through his body and walked towards the center of the room.But he felt nothing.

Meng Huai clicked his tongue, only to realize that his body had no shadow under the light of the crystal ball.It exists like a ghost.

At this time, the guy's voice sounded in his mind.

"The place you see is my brother's palace."

Meng Huai was surprised, "Are you the younger brother of the king? What dynasty?" He looked at the clothes of those people on the altar.Both gowns have wide sleeves.The four guards didn't wear armor either, and two had blond hair, one had brown hair, and one had silver-white hair.

The man kneeling in the middle of the altar got up, Meng Huai saw his face clearly, and was shocked again.

Her shoulder-length black hair, cold black pupils, blade-like eyebrows, and thin lips.He has a seven-point resemblance to Meng Huai.But Meng Huai's gentleness was missing between the brows, and there was more sharpness.

The person who came was dressed in woven feathers, and blood was dripping from the silver feathers.Putong knelt down in front of the altar.Said to the king: "Your Highness, please leave with us."

The man shook his head resolutely, with a cold gleam between his sharp brows: "I will not run away."

The voice rang in Meng Huai's ear.

"My name is Tino Mai, and my brother Atlas is the king of the Sea God Kingdom."

Meng Huai thought he had seen a ghost, and swore to heaven that ever since he was urged by Yue Yun to memorize the dynasties and countries, he had an impression of the major civilized dynasties in China and abroad, but he had never heard of the Sea God Kingdom.

As if piercing Meng Huai's thoughts, the voice continued to explain in his mind.

"Our kingdom is on a huge island in the ocean. It is a very beautiful place, full of spices and jewels, and grass and green fields. The center of the island is a temple, the streets are full of traffic, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. The island is surrounded by mountains and valleys. There are many rare and exotic animals, and the products in the forest are rich. The outer edge of the island is the sea, which is isolated from the world."

"At that time, our life was very luxurious. We had magnetic crystals. We didn't need to work at all. We only needed to design the magnetic torque, and the food would be automatically watered, fertilized, harvested and transported. In the city, there was a clear spring river that could be drunk at any time, and there were fresh fruit and vegetable streets. There are also captive livestock, which fly from the sky to swim in the water, and are only used to fetch and eat, without spending money at all." お稥冂苐 Meng Huai looked envious, and coveted: "Is there really such a place? ? I really want to live there.” The world is so big, it’s normal to have such a strange and unknown country.I don't know when this happened.

"Unfortunately, the good times don't last long. What you see now is what happened in the year my kingdom was destroyed."

Meng Huai was shocked. "Why would it be destroyed?"

"I'll tell you slowly." The voice was melancholy and distant.

"We have no obligation to work since we were born. When we grow up, except for the gods who pray and the scientific and technological personnel who study crystals, most of us only need to dance and party every day, and we don't even need to read or study, because knowledge can pass Crystal, absorbed from a special device."

Meng Huai couldn't laugh or cry, "It sounds good, but it's a bit boring. What does this have to do with your destruction?"

Meng Huai suddenly saw the surrounding scenery retreating rapidly, as if being dragged into a run.When the foreground was clear, he found himself under the dark galaxy, under the tall pillars in front of him, a square temple similar to the Parthenon, with reliefs engraved on the huge pillars, and a beam of light in the temple gently diffused, Light up the surroundings.

There was a young man in white feather fur on the steps. Although he was young, his whole body was cold and inviolable.

Under the steps in front of Atlas, there was a young man in black kneeling.Similar to Meng Huaiyou Qifen, a strand of hair deliberately leaked from the hat he was wearing.Although kneeling, the waist does not bend at all, appearing unruly.Meng Huai clicked his tongue secretly, feeling that although this person looked like himself, his personality and temperament were basically two extremes.

"Your Highness, can't I also borrow the rough crystal?"

Atlas said coldly: "As a senior researcher, you are not qualified yet. As your younger brother, you have no right to do so. Let's go."

The voice sighed heavily: "Brother Atlas, since he started serving God, he has abandoned secular emotions. I am a scientific and technological person who studies crystals. I don't indulge in pleasure like others. My character is very rebellious and rebellious. , only knowledge can fill the hunger and thirst in my heart. He was very close to me at first, and I thought he would agree to lend me the rough crystal stone because of his former affection."

"What is a rough crystal?"

"It is the center of all crystal moments in the kingdom. We enshrine it in temples. Other crystals are cut from this crystal to serve as an introduction, and other crystals are made according to the arrangement of atoms, which cannot be compared with the original stone. .That original crystal is the most precious thing in our kingdom. Only brother Atlas can open the box that stores it."

Atlas turned to leave, but Tenomai reached out and grabbed the hem of his robe.Hoarsely said: "You don't even ask me why I borrowed it? Now you have become so cold, like a machine on the throne. Brother."

The king who was grabbed by the hem of the white robe said lightly: "No reason."

The young man in black was resentful, his voice trembling slightly: "I have found a way, as long as you give me the rough crystal stone, I can make the elixir. If the energy of the rough crystal stone can be transformed into vitality, we can all live forever... King!"

Atlas walked up the steps without hesitation, and the corner of his robe shattered with a "crash".The young man in black looked at the fragments in his hands and shouted excitedly: "Rejuvenate, never die! We don't have to worship any goddamn gods. We don't need it for all of this, and you don't need to stay in that place every day. You can too Live in paradise like a normal person..."

Atlas didn't look back, and a voice came from afar: "You don't understand anything at all. The rough crystal stone is a gift left by God. It must not be defiled except as an introduction to energy and power. Otherwise, God will punish you. .”

The young man in black looked at his back, his black hair gradually covered the shadow in front of him. After a long time, a secret smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Meng Huai looked at this scene and murmured: "Are you willing? I always think it's not that simple."

"That's right, I haven't been obedient since I was a child."

The scene turned to the temple, the lonely lamp in the long night, Atlas, the king of the Sea God Kingdom, was kneeling on the altar.The twelve man-made crystal stones next to it envelop the young man with delicate eyebrows.Every night, every year, I spend alone here.Although there is no need for guards because of the protection of the crystal force, the king must use spiritual power to connect with the original crystal to ensure that the energy and power will not go wrong.It seems boundless and lonely, but it bears the burden of the people.

Meng Huai was moved and sighed, "It's not easy for your brother."

"Noble status means more responsibility. That's what he said." Tino Mai gritted his teeth and said, "But I... everything is ruined."

The voice trembled uncontrollably, as if under a vicious curse.Meng Huai held his breath and moved his gaze to the inside of the temple.

The crystal stone did not go out.The star river in the dark night hangs high above the temple.A shadow fell, and the young man in black jumped down from the dome and landed lightly behind Atlas.

The crystal stone beside Atlas emits light, magnetically blocking the young man in black robe.

"Tino Mai, you have exceeded the rules too much. You have offended the majesty of God. Don't be obsessed with it, go to the White Tower for training."

The black-robed young man shook out a small knife inlaid with gemstones from his sleeve, and he filed the crystal stone at the corner, the air vibrated, and the barrier of a magnetic force disappeared.Tenomai smiled triumphantly, and said arrogantly: "There is no god at all. These crystals are also dead, and they can disappear if they find the right pattern."

As for artificial crystals, its scientific principles are known to many researchers in the Sea God Kingdom, but so far only Tino Mai can skillfully cut off the magnetic moment.

As he said, he swiped several times in the air, his black robe fluttered, and his eyes were excited.The magnetic moments in the air shattered one after another.The young man in black strode straight to the back of Atlas, strangled his neck, placed a knife on his back, and punched him on the back of the waist, whispering in his ear: "Did you see it? , can’t protect you, my brother.” After that, he kissed him on the earlobe. "Give me the rough crystal."

Atlas was shocked, and the claustrophobic life in the temple all year round made his physique weaker than ordinary people, but Tenomai was trained as a knight and was much stronger than him.Atlas couldn't get rid of Tinomai.He said coldly: "The rough crystal is not what you think, it will only destroy you."

Tenomai snorted, and reached into Atlas' clothes, "If you don't give it, I'll get it myself." He fumbled for the key in the rustling fabric.He stroked the cold body of Atlas under the white robe, which became smoother and more delicate due to years of abstinence and claustrophobia.This made Tenomai feel a strange excitement.It made his heart throb.

Atlas sighed, and responded with even colder words: "Don't be stubborn, or I won't be able to save you."

"Who do you want to save? I'm your savior——" Tenomi's eyes were frantic, his face was flushed, and he finally touched the pendant under Atlas' neck, on which was a small brass key.He tore off the key and put it in his mouth.I don't know why looking at Atlas, I want to bite him, hurt him, strip him from the confinement of layers of white clothes, and show him naked in front of him.The punch just now made Atlas' body hurt so badly that he couldn't move.But Tinomai's desire deepened, and his eyes became more and more strange.

Tenomai didn't think too much about it. He climbed up to the altar, stuffed the brass key into the box, and saw the most primitive and precious crystal rough.The oval crystals are so smooth that there is no gap.In the past, a small piece was knocked off from the top to make a primer, and it would grow back in less than a month.Tenomai used a knife to file a few times on the rough crystal.Holding it in his hand excitedly, he laughed.

"I thought... how difficult it is." He suddenly turned around, looking down at the faintly breathed Atlas.

"It's mine now. God damn it."

The corners of Atlas' mouth were cold: "You're done."

The picture stopped at the back of the young man in black robe walking out of the temple holding the rough crystal stone.

Meng Huai broke out in a cold sweat and asked, "What happened later? What happened?"

The voice beside the ear sighed: "Every time a person touches the crystal stone, if he does not apply holy oil or burn incense, he will die suddenly. It secretes a highly poisonous substance. Every generation of kings keeps this secret. Others do not I know. I asked for it, and Atlas watched me go without saying anything."

"Are you dead?" Meng Huai felt that this question was really silly.

His voice trembled, as if he was talking about the most painful thing in his life.

"I went back to the room... and broke the crystal rough. I was very excited at that moment. I added them to the medicine, and saw that the elixir was finally ready. I just wanted to prove to them that there is no need to rely on God, we I can also live in heaven forever. I took the medicine, but... I died, and I lived again."

Meng Huai was confused, he watched the scene change, when Atlas led the temple personnel to arrest Tenomai and broke into his room.

Tenomai had a weird smile on his lips, resting on a table full of crystal shards.Those fragments seemed to be alive, like countless pairs of eyes looking at them coldly.When the guards approached, Tenomai suddenly jumped up and bit them.Magneto's sword slashed his limbs and stabbed him in the chest, but he did not die.His skin was dry as if dehydrated.People who have been bitten by him, like him, have lost their consciousness and can only bite. "

Meng Huaiteng thought of something very similar. "Zombie...zombies?"

"Yes." The voice became light and melancholy: "The broken crystal rough stone was added to the research. Instead of making an undead medicine, it made people into monsters. Atlas said...that is God God's will. God is punishing me, and he is also punishing him who indulged me. Let me become the messenger of the devil."

Meng Huai would rather believe that the problem was caused by the drug itself. He neither agreed nor despised Tenomai's behavior, nor did he agree with Atlas's words.How could there be gods and devils in this world?

"Later, many people were infected. The country was in chaos and terror was everywhere. The raw crystals were useless and could not be restored, and the automatic production equipment relying on the crystal force was paralyzed. The people would not be able to do anything. Tens of thousands of people died. The living are less and less. Man-made crystals cannot resist the mighty zombie hordes. Atlas begged for deliverance in the temple. After seven days of his prayers, floods, volcanoes erupted, our The island nation and that drug, buried in the depths of the ocean."

"Civilization disappears, and disasters disappear. My body has long been annihilated, but my soul is immortal. Because I am a researcher who studies crystals in the Sea God Kingdom, I know how to use crystal fragments to store spiritual power. I don't know how much time has passed outside. , until someone salvaged the crystal fragments from the sea, I passed through many hands. Until I met you. You are the descendants of our race. I am attached to you."

Meng Huai was stunned: "Ah? But in the research institute, He Ming said what I am... I was differentiated 600 million years ago..."

"That's right, 600 million years ago was a blank period for the branch of human ancestors. They didn't know that one branch branched out and did not exist on land, but entered the sea. In the island country on the ocean, it formed its own civilization. The country and technology. Although isolated from the world, we will also send people out of the island to look for it, and gradually some ethnic groups will stay on other continents.”

Meng Huai was speechless for a long time, and said: "You asked for all this, have you ever repented?"

Tino Mai said: "Hmph, confession? I don't know why that drug reappeared and infected so many zombies on your continent. It has nothing to do with me... As for the past..."

The sound gradually faded away, and in the chaotic fog, a dry figure stood on the avenue full of zombies, his eye sockets were sunken, and his limbs were bleeding.But not like the unconscious zombies around.He reached out tremblingly to touch the phantom that did not exist in the air."My blood... will never be handed over to the devil. Atlas..." Tenomai raised his big sword with his backhand, grabbed it with dry bones, chopped off his own head, and Gululu rolled aside , with blank eyes.

Meng Huai was moved, he didn't expect that at the last moment, he could still retain his consciousness after turning into a zombie.

Tino Mai said: "I didn't want to wake up when I was attached to you, but the person you like really looks like my brother."

When Meng Huai heard this, he became furious and roared, "Don't talk nonsense—so you put him...you madman!"

Tenomai laughed wildly: "So what? He has dedicated his life, can God save him in the end? All people are no different from ants! I want him, but I want to know what will happen to blasphemy."

Meng Huai has completely lost his temper: "You are really crazy."

"What is freedom? If I succeed, I can free them all from God's slavery. That's what I'm after. Even if I die in such a tragic way, I don't regret it. I don't want to change! "

Meng Huaileng said: "You ruined a country, even a civilization, and you dragged everyone to be buried with you for your own whims—"

"But how did I know it would be like that! The rough crystal is such a noble treasure, who knew it would make people look like that!"

"How the hell did it stay?"

"I don't know. We have passed it down from generation to generation. It has been there for thousands of years. My brother said that it fell from the sky."

Could it be aliens?Meng Huai was completely powerless, so he asked, "By the way...what's the name of the place you live in?"

"Daxizhou." The voice was devoid of emotion.

Five words popped out of Meng Huai's mind instantly: Atlantis.

He knew this, an ancient continent with a highly developed civilization according to legend.Once Plato confirmed its existence and said that it was destroyed by natural disasters 8000 years ago.

Is it true that, as Tenomai said, the rough crystal in Daxizhou is the source of the zombie virus?If the remnants of that kind of thing can be found, will it be possible to develop a symptomatic antidote?