Twenty six

The tenth district is a purely religious city, and Wei Yuan has been to its capital, Caleb City, and it is completely a peaceful and quiet ivory tower.Moreover, the high priest has not cared about the military strength of the district at all these years, so most of the residents in the tenth district are unarmed believers.

Once a war broke out, the tenth district basically had no power to fight back.

"Why did you declare war so suddenly?" Wei Yuan's drowsiness dissipated immediately.

Although he has not yet fully realized what this war means, but just based on the current battle situation, he does not feel very good.

If the tenth district really falls, what will happen to Oracle, the capital of faith and spiritual leader who ruled the entire republic?

"At present, no one knows why the Seventh District did such an illogical thing." Luo Xiaolan scratched his messy hair, obviously just woke up from sleep.

"The economy of the Seventh District is not developed, especially during this period of time. Erthia's move is likely to cause a major collapse of the Seventh District's economy. Of course, war can destroy the economy, but it can also pull it back up."

In any case, from the perspective of the analysis team of the Sixth District, this shocking move in the Seventh District was illogical, and they couldn't find any reason why Erthia would die like this.

"Everything is done for a reason." Wei Yuan stared at the cup on the tea table and murmured, "I heard that Erthia and the high priest had a lot of trouble..."

Luo Xiaolan sighed: "Yes, there is indeed such a thing."

The birth of Erthia was just a few years after the high priest solved the drought and famine. It was a moment when theocracy reached its peak. Almost every city erected a statue of Oracle. In people's eyes, the high priest is the incarnation of God.At that time, the Seventh District was a frigid region in the northwest of the mainland of the Republic. The winter was long and cold, and the economy was not developed. Occasionally, travelers would go to the Seventh District to see the aurora. Other than that, there was only a gray cold wilderness, majestic and dead. snow-capped mountains, roaring and howling winds.

The only thing mentioned more in history is the avalanche that happened in Alfred City. The entire town was buried under the astonishingly thick snow flow, and all [-] residents were killed.

Then Erthia was born.

Contrary to the halo of the high priest's salvation, the oracle's birth was accompanied by endless suffering, and the surrounding areas of the Seventh District were extremely active during that time.And the seventh district continued its silent and oppressive development under Erthia's dictatorship, and the gray sky even had a touch of black.

"I dare not speak rashly about those two adults, but I have heard about it after working in the government for so many years." Luo Xiaolan took another sip of water.

Just as Wei Yuan had guessed before, Erthia was burned alive, and the stake perfectly fit the way the extremist churchgoers dealt with dissidents in that period.In a closed and backward area like the Seventh District, it is not just the plot of a horror story.

"There are rumors that those people are the congregation of the high priest." Luo Xiaolan glanced at Wei Yuan, "There is no more news about the rest."

Those terrible scars resurfaced in Wei Yuan's mind again, making him shiver in the early morning, feeling very uncomfortable.

"What happened decades ago, why did it suddenly start fighting now?"

Wei Yuan knew that this sudden war must not be just the past entanglement, there must be something that became its turning point.

"Something big is going to happen."

Luo Xiaolan looked at the water in the glass sparkling under the light of the ceiling chandelier. During this period of time, he could feel that the atmosphere of the entire Republic had changed subtly, and there was something different in the air.

But this young oracle still doesn't have enough experience to deal with such things.

"The Congress District and the Tenth District have already sent a request for help to the Ninth District." Luo Xiaolan looked at Wei Yuan, observing the change in the other's expression, "I believe that Lord Slaughter is already on his way to lead the troops to the Tenth District."

Only then did Wei Yuan think of taking out his mobile phone to check the news of ISA, and sure enough, shortly after he fell asleep, S sent a message, telling Wei Yuan that he had to go to the tenth district to fight the fire first.

The sixth district is too far away from the battlefield, one is in the southeast and the other is in the northwest, so the distant water cannot save the near fire.Wei Yuan knew that the armament of the Sixth District had been greatly improved during this period. After all, the original foundation was too weak, but it was almost impossible to send reinforcements to S from the Sixth District.

S's army is so powerful, it should be fine, Wei Yuan guessed in his heart, after all, it is enough to settle any large area of ​​​​the Republic.

But what Luo Xiaolan said next made Wei Yuan shaken.

"The news we received was weird. Lord Slaughter didn't bring too many people with him. The number of followers obviously didn't match the number required for the battle. It seemed that he only brought his own troops."

Something is wrong in District Nine, this is the first thought that popped into Wei Yuan's mind when he heard the news.

"If you need to go to the front line, I can arrange a plane for you now." Luo Xiaolan already knew how Wei Yuan would react, and the private planes were already ready in advance.

"But the sixth district..." Wei Yuan still hesitated, although he knew that he would be able to function well whether he was in the sixth district or not, but it seemed a little bad for him to run away like this.

"do not worry."

Luo Xiaolan's simple three words dispelled all Wei Yuan's worries.

"And, even if you don't go, I must go."

Wei Yuan looked at him, not understanding the reason.

Luo Xiaolan smiled: "When I was six years old, I was almost eaten as rations, and Mr. High Priest is the only reason why I can survive to this day. Now that the tenth district is in trouble, even if I want to play in person, I will never Nothing else."

During that period of famine and drought, the ever-bright sunshine in the sixth district seemed to be a curse from the heavens. Pile after pile of people died under the dazzling sunlight and rotted in the sticky night.

They don't want to live, they just don't want to die.

"I can see that Mr. High Priest recognizes you very much, so I will always assist you."

Wei Yuan looked at the smiling middle-aged man in front of him, and nodded for a long time.

The plane took off in darkness, and as the altitude climbed, a layer of faint light illuminated the sea of ​​clouds outside the cabin.The latitude of District [-] is low, and its sunny, warm and long summer is on its way, but this plane turned its back on the Gold Coast and flew in the direction of winter.

In the cabin, Luo Xiaolan and his team were urgently sorting out the materials on the front line, while Wei Yuan sat on the side nervously fiddling with the buttons on the seat.Lu Feixing was leaning on the seat and wearing a blindfold, he didn't know whether he was closing his eyes to rest his mind or really fell asleep, there was no movement at all.

A few hours later, the small screen on the plane showed that they had entered the airspace of Caleb City, but Wei Yuan did not feel the mental defense shield like last time at all, which made him take a deep breath and looked out the window .

The tenth district is still at night, and it is dark outside the glass window, but Wei Yuan can still vaguely see the flickering red flames in the darkness in the distance, revealing an ominous atmosphere.

Wei Yuan's heart suddenly lifted. Under the prosperous silver age created by Anesidora, he had never faced a war, and at most he had only seen reports of regional armed conflicts on the ISA.But he knew what war meant. The ten-year scuffle in the early days of the founding of the Republic took up a lot of space in the history books. War meant that the lives of the people were ruined, that it meant that the people were devastated, and that all the nightmares he feared and hated would be brought into reality.

The plane landed at a small airport in Caleb, and the flashing red warning lights around made Wei Yuan's already tense nerves more sensitive. Some staff members seemed to be transporting something, and everyone was in a hurry.

"Follow me, let's go to Lord Slaughter."

Luo Xiaolan walked in front of Wei Yuan, clearing the way for him.Lu Feixing followed closely behind Wei Yuan, always alert to the surrounding environment.

There was an unknown smell in the air, like blood, like ammunition, until Wei Yuan sat in the car waiting for him and it got better.

The open space outside the airport was full of people, some were lying on the bare concrete floor, some were standing aside, some were howling loudly, some were crying.

Since there were too many people, they had already occupied the original road, so the car had to pass through the crowd slowly.Wei Yuan was sitting in the back row of the car, he didn't dare to look at the scene outside the window at all, he didn't dare to look at those people who were described as embarrassed, sitting in the car and walking among such a group of people was like a pampered coward.

The glass of the lathe is very dark, and the inside cannot be seen clearly from the outside, and it is also black and white from the inside.But for Wei Yuan, the noisy and huge mental fluctuations around him are unavoidable, he has nowhere to escape, and this sea of ​​pain and confusion almost drowns him.

A man lost his pregnant wife forever because of a missile that successfully passed through the city's defense shield, and a crying child didn't know where his parents went... Human emotions are inherently They don't communicate with each other, just like Luo Xiaolan and Lu Feixing in the car, they don't have too much emotional fluctuations about the scene outside the car.

But Wei Yuan was already on the verge of being forced to collapse, just now, the mental fluctuations of a teenage beta girl fell into silence forever, and disappeared in Wei Yuan's perceptual world.

"Are you okay?" Luo Xiaolan noticed Wei Yuan's abnormality.

Wei Yuan shook his head, but his body was trembling uncontrollably, and his palms were covered with sweat.No one can understand what he is suffering, he has only one soul and now bears a hundred times the negative emotions.

"Persist a little longer, we'll be there soon." Luo Xiaolan didn't know what was wrong with the other party, and could only roughly guess that it was related to the boy's unique abilities.

Wei Yuan held back tears, gritted his teeth and tried to adjust his breathing, his whole body was covered in cold sweat.

Just when the car was about to leave the crowd, Wei Yuan was startled by the sound of a heavy object hitting the car.Somebody smashed the rear window of the car, the whole car shook, everyone in the car was on guard, and Lu Feixing even pulled out a gun.

"Get out! Oracle get out!"

Wei Yuan didn't see the person who smashed the car from the rear window, but he could feel that it was a young man standing not far behind the car and roaring in the direction he left, and at the same time he felt the young man's deep resentment and despair.

Why did the oracles fight among themselves, but their own relatives died?

Luo Xiaolan glanced at Wei Yuan, his lips moved, but in the end he didn't speak,

The atmosphere in the car suddenly dropped to freezing point.

"Look at you, you can't even shield the souls around you." The only thing Wei Yuan could hear was his other voice.

Yes, I am still not proficient in controlling power.This made him wonder what the significance of coming to the front line of this battlefield is, is it to add to S?

"Stop it." The voice sounded again, "Only I can mock you, no one else, including yourself."

Wei Yuan reached out to wipe away the tears that did not fall from his eyes, thinking that this person was sick.

"I'll show you what you're really capable of. You just have to sit and be scolded by me."

It's really wrong.

But Wei Yuan is really not in the mood to quarrel with himself now.

A loud noise exploded outside the city, the flames reflected half of the sky red, and the sound of the explosion made Wei Yuan's eardrums ache.The car has already driven very close to the fire-intensive area, Wei Yuan can almost feel the bright spots of souls that are fighting in the distance.

Some flicker in Wei Yuan's perception network, and some are extinguished and can no longer be found.

The black car drove into a very tightly surrounded building area, and the tallest building in the middle was brightly lit, like a giant ship sailing in the Black Sea.

A familiar fuzzy figure stood quietly at the gate, the orange flame suspected to be a cigarette flickered in the dimness, just such a simple shadow made Wei Yuan feel that he had finally sucked in a breath of fresh air, pain His chest finally calmed down for a while.

Before the car came to a complete stop, Wei Yuan opened the car door and staggered towards the black shadow.The upper part of his knee hadn't fully recovered yet, and at this moment, he gasped in pain for such an intense exercise, his body was unstable, and he almost fell to the ground.

Fortunately, someone caught him, followed by a warm hug that was so tight that he could suffocate, the cold night and entangled depression were instantly blocked by the smell of tobacco.

Fucking breath, Wei Yuan still cried out.