Chapter 761: Eternal Kingdom (please vote for the big chapter)
Chapter 762 The Eternal Kingdom (please vote for the big chapter)
However, they did not enter the city smoothly, but were stopped by the city defense troops at the door. (Due to caching reasons, please visit the browser directly.\nCOM website to watch the fastest chapter updates)
At this time, Willy also woke up, and fiddled with her hands under the blanket, seeming to be searching for something.
At the same time, a city defense soldier came over, knocked on the window, and asked in a low voice,
"Miss, are you the person in charge of this caravan? We received notification that a group of gangsters calling themselves the Twilight Society attacked the caravan outside the city. We suspect that they will enter the city in disguise, so we need to check your caravan in detail.
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The rear window of the off-road vehicle was lowered, and a long blanket covered Willy's body. She raised her hand, stretched out the blanket with her smooth arms, and showed a work permit in front of the soldier, "Do you still need to check?"
"You are United Industries..."
The soldier took the work permit and looked at it, then gave it back to Weili with a look on his face, "Wait a moment, I need to ask for permission from the higher ups."
The soldier then retreated away from the convoy and said something on the walkie-talkie.
After a while, he came back and said respectfully, "Please come in."
"Do you still need to check?"
Willie looked cold and snorted coldly.
"no, I'm fine,"
The soldier wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Please come in!"
He immediately took a few steps back to distance himself from the off-road vehicle, and the caravan vehicle began to restart.
Willie pulled up the car window with a straight face, and almost as soon as the car window was closed, she let out a long sigh of relief.
Then she put her hands back into the blanket,
"Are you from United Industries?"
He Ao leaned on the chair and asked curiously.
United Industries is the largest consortium in Winter City. Most of the factories and mining ships in Winter City are owned by United Industries.
"In a sense," Willy smiled, and the blanket around her body slowly moved, "but I just made an identity for use in emergencies."
He Ao nodded lightly and asked casually, "Are you the Twilight Society?"
Wei Li's movements suddenly froze, and she turned her head to look at He Ao, "How did you..."
"It's easy to guess, isn't it? Normally, wanderers in the wilderness have no need to enter the city, and there is no need to set up special cards to intercept them, unless these so-called 'Twilight Society bandits' come from the city,"
He Ao looked at Weili's expression as if she was looking at a monster, and said calmly, "The Eternal Secret Cult attacked your stronghold and knew that you were going back to the city, so I specially set up a blockade to intercept you and see if I could catch you. There should be people in your convoy now.
It contains a lot of things brought from the stronghold? There are even weapons that cannot be completely placed in the wilderness?"
"Are you really only twelve?"
Willy's eyes widened and she forgot her movements for a moment.
"Actually, I'm quite old." He Ao raised his head and said, "Call me brother."
"childish."
Willie glanced over her face.
Then she suddenly remembered that she had asked He Ao to call her sister before, and her face turned red.
"Look, you don't believe me when I say I'm older."
He Ao sat on a chair, watching the motorcade slowly drive into the city, and gradually became silent.
Willy sat beside him, calmly looking at his childish side face.
She moved her palms and put on the combat uniform under the blanket.
In order to prevent her combat uniform from being exposed, she had just taken off one sleeve and handed over her work ID card with bare hands. She had to take off the sleeves of the jumpsuit and even her shoulders were exposed, so she kept covered with a blanket.
After the combat uniform was completely put on, she carefully opened the blanket and pulled out a small box from under the seat.
She rummaged through the box a few times and pulled out a brand new bracelet box and handed it to He Ao, "Did you lose your bracelet? This is for you."
He Ao turned his head and glanced at the box that Wei Li handed over. This is the latest smart bracelet from Tellison Group. It is top-of-the-line and costs almost more than 5,000 federal coins.
He Ao directly took the box, opened it, took out the bracelet inside, activated it, and bound the account.
Then he raised his bracelet and looked at Willie, "Turn on the payment mode."
Ilo's father taught him since he was a child not to accept gifts from others easily.
"ah?"
Willy was stunned.
But when she saw He Ao's calm and firm eyes, she still raised her bracelet and turned on the payment mode.
With a soft sound of 'di--', Willie glanced at the payment reminder on her bearer collection account and was speechless for a moment.
The 'young man' in front of him still adheres to his principles even if he is in the most dangerous situation.
He Ao was sitting on a chair, curiously playing with the bracelet in his hand.
For him, it was actually a new bracelet, but the difference was whether he bought it in a store or at Weili.
Yiluo's previous bracelets were all children's bracelets and did not have so many functions. However, his account was bound to his father's credit card sub-card. Although Yiluo's family had a lot of debts, it also had a lot of assets. This was enough to pay for it.
The ability is still there.
Although Yiluo's parents have passed away, in federal banks, the account will not be canceled immediately after death. Instead, relatives need to bring the death certificate to the bank to cancel the account, or wait until the debt is overdue and the bank will sue. After all, the bank does not know someone
Is the individual really dead?
He Ao clicked on the various icons in the bracelet interface one by one. After studying them for a while, he downloaded a few of Ilo's favorite games.
Willie calmly watched the boy's side face carefully looking at the bracelet, and watched the faint smile on the boy's tender cheeks.
She retracted her gaze and looked forward. Unconsciously, a smile appeared on her face.
He Ao, who was next to him, after playing for a while, took his eyes away from the bracelet and looked out the window.
At this moment they had entered the city, taking the south gate.
Entering Winter City from the south gate, the first district you enter is Aka District, which is a civilian area of Winter City and a poor area.
He turned his head, looked at Willie, raised his bracelet and said, "Do you have information on the Eternal Secret Cult? Can you send me a copy?"
The main mission this time is very clear, it is something related to the eternal light, and the organization that He Ao is currently in contact with is strongly related to the eternal light, which is the 'Eternal Secret Cult'.
And this organization seems to be involved in the death of Ilo's parents.
"certainly!"
Willie came back to her senses from some kind of memory, then raised her bracelet and turned on the wireless transmission function, "I sent it, you can receive it."
"good."
He Ao nodded, opened his bracelet, received the document sent by Wei Li, and began to read it.
"Although the Eternal Secret Cult preaches on a large scale in Winter City, there is actually not much information that can be collected, and most of it is only superficial,"
While He Ao was reading, Wei Li slowly explained beside him, "The current main propaganda point of the Eternal Secret Cult is the 'Eternal Divine Kingdom'."
"Eternal Divine Kingdom?"
He Ao raised his head and looked at Willy.
"This seems to be a special kind of afterlife,"
Willy explained, "After they claim to believe in the eternal light, after death they will enter an eternal kingdom without hunger, where they will never have endless food to eat, endless performances to watch, and a magnificent palace that will never be full.
There is no cold winter, no scorching heat, and no night, there is always light and spring.”
"It sounds wonderful, even a little extreme,"
He Ao thought of the 'phantom' he had just seen in those lights, "So, what do believers need to do? Only by faith can they enter the 'eternal kingdom' after death?"
"It would be nice,"
Wei Li seemed to remember something, and let out a long sigh, "The Eternal Secret Church holds 'sacrifice' regularly, usually every one to two weeks. Sacrifice is 'held' by core believers, and believers need to offer certain property or food.
, to 'please' the eternal light.
"Most of these believers of the Eternal Esoteric Cult are poor people in the Storm District and Aka District. They don't even have enough food to eat, and they have to offer sacrifices to the Eternal Esoteric Cult. Some people with more fanatical beliefs will overdraft their credit cards and take out loans to buy property.
The goods are dedicated to the priests of the Eternal Esoteric Cult.
"We tried to persuade them, but they were unwilling to listen. Some fanatics even scolded us for trying to destroy their way into the eternal kingdom."
"Is there anything special about the esoteric rituals themselves?"
He Ao then asked.
"We have very little data on this,"
Willie shook her head, "The places where these 'sacrifice' are held are usually very secret. Except for the priests and core believers, no one knows where each of the sacrifices is held, but we 'checked' the place where a 'sacrifice' was held not long ago.
venue, went to raid that venue,
"The priests inside are very strong, and we lost a lot of people, but in the end, their sacrifice was not successful."
"Did you find anything?"
He Ao asked in a low voice.
"There is a relatively 'big' discovery,"
Willy thought thoughtfully and said, "We found that from recently on, they will attract more believers who have made more contributions and have more 'fanatic' beliefs to participate in the 'sacrifice'. In fact, we are looking for traces of a certain 'fanatic' believer.
Found their sacrificial site.
"Usually, most of these fanatical believers never appear again after participating in sacrifices. There are rumors that they were absorbed into the Eternal Secret Cult and became servants of God, because many core believers are former fanatical believers.
Believers 'converted', but there is another rumor,"
Willy paused and looked at He Ao, "These 'believers' have all been brought into the 'eternal kingdom'."
"Let living people go to the 'afterlife'?"
What a meal.
There is only one way he can think of to let a living person go to the afterlife.
"Yes," Willy nodded, "but these are just rumors and have never been confirmed. The followers of the Eternal Secret Cult are extremely fanatical and keep secrets. The information we can obtain is very superficial."
"You were attacked this time because you attacked the Eternal Secret Cult's sacrificial site before?"
He Ao asked thoughtfully.
"It should be," Willie sighed, "I didn't expect them to respond so quickly and find our stronghold so accurately."
"Perhaps you have been in their 'vision' for a long time,"
He Ao said thoughtfully, and then without waiting for Willy's reaction, he looked back at the high wall that was gradually receding behind him, "Have their power reached the point where they can influence the city defense army?"
"According to our investigation," Willy sighed softly, "the organized Eternal Secret Cult has existed in this city for at least more than ten years. Their influence is so intricate that we don't know how deeply entangled it is."
The atmosphere in the carriage fell silent.
Willie lowered her head and looked at the small box containing the bracelet that she had just dug out next to her. She stretched out her hand to put the box away.
And He Ao also looked at the small box at the same time.
The things in the box were very messy, including several unopened smart bracelets, some simple daily necessities, and even hair ropes and facial masks.
And in the middle of the box, among these messy items, there was a black and white 'mask' quietly placed.
"Do you know 'K' too?"
Wei Li noticed that He Ao was looking at the mask, stopped what he was doing, and said curiously.
"K?"
He Ao looked at her.
When Iroh was lying in the coffin, he heard his father talking about 'K', but he didn't know much about it.
"'K' is a big hero!"
She carefully took out the mask and stroked the lines on it, seeming to fall into some kind of memory, "He changed a lot of things and saved a lot of people. It's because of him that the 'Twilight Society' exists."
She lowered her eyebrows, "Most of the people in the Twilight Society are 'exiles' whose families were destroyed by the Eternal Secret Cult. 'K' gave us the courage to come together to establish this organization and try to change some things.
"
Then she gave a wry smile and put the mask back into the box silently, "But it turns out that not everyone is a 'K'. It seems that we can't change anything. Even if we expose the atrocities of the Eternal Secret Cult, the belief is eternal.
The Esoteric Cult still believes in the Eternal Esoteric Cult, and none of us have been able to save them, and now we have even lost the stronghold we finally established."
"If a person can eat well every meal and live in a house that is sheltered from the wind and rain and as warm as spring, will he still pursue the illusory and eternal kingdom where there is no hunger?"
He Ao looked up at her and said calmly.
Iroh went to Storm Tower with his father, and he knew what kind of life the "ordinary people" in Winter City lived.
Willy raised her head and stared blankly at the twelve-year-old boy.
Those clear and clear eyes seemed to reflect this deep and dark world.
She seemed to have seen such a look somewhere.
He Ao reached out, picked up the mask in the box, and put it on his face.
"What are you and K..."
Willy looked at him blankly.
Then she watched He Ao take off the mask from her cheeks and gently cover her cheeks.
"Perhaps, everyone can be K."
The young man's gentle voice rang in her ears.
Then he turned and looked ahead, "Sister Carrie, stop at the intersection ahead."
The off-road vehicle is parked at a T-junction.
He Ao opened the car door, jumped out of the off-road vehicle, and walked into the light of dawn.
Willie held the mask in her hands and looked at the young man's back as he disappeared into the dawn, his eyes were confused and deep.
She had watched K's videos many times and knew that 'K' could not be a twelve-year-old boy, but in a daze, she saw a temperament similar to K's in that boy.
"Everyone can be K?"
She lowered her head and stared at the mask in her hand.
Then she slowly raised the bracelet.
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[Willy]
[No. 2 Songlin Street, Yunduan District]
[Tel:976-357-3372]
He Ao glanced at the electronic business card delivered to him on his bracelet, saved it, closed it, and looked up at the surrounding streets.
This is the neighborhood where Iroh last saw his parents fall.
As he moved forward, he opened the web page, logged into Eve's website, and entered the password one by one.
After a short pause, a cute image of a girl in a white dress appeared on his bracelet.
