Chapter 255 The Dominance of Xi'an City (7,000 words)
"So that's it..."
Xiao Xiao listened to the old and unattainable old man across the table talking, full of confidence, and felt a little enlightened in his heart.
It doesn’t matter who sits in God’s seat, as long as you make sure you are shepherding the world for God.
Is it because the usual mysterious sources cannot directly interfere with reality and require strangers to carry out their instructions, so these people have hallucinations and believe that the mysterious sources will always be inseparable from them?
But what if the mysterious source swallows up the entire world and there is no need for such guardians anymore?
What will happen if the authority they receive afterwards is not as powerful as they imagined?
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For a moment, Xiao Xiao had a lot of questions in his mind that he wanted to ask, but in the end, he just lowered his head slightly and kept these questions unspoken.
There are probably a lot of questions in the world, and if the questioners are given enough time to think, they will realize that they don’t actually need to ask.
What can I do if I ask?
He has determined what he believes in and his theory, which can allow them to rest in the city and let the strangers in other cities live well, but he thinks that his theory is stupid.
, once the whole world is swallowed up, I can even see a funny expression on his confident face, but at least now, I am not convinced by him. He represents the city of Anxi and has been deeply involved.
In this theory, it is impossible for me to die together with him, so we will discuss it at the end.
It is hard to persuade others, and those who try to persuade others are pitiful.
So Xiao Xiao simply hid all the words he subconsciously wanted to refute. He just remained silent for a moment, then smiled at Mr. An opposite him and said, "No wonder in your eyes, the old president is naive."
"That's why you have a good temper!"
"If I were in your shoes, I would even think he is stupid."
"I don't care about such a good position and power, but I want to go back to the original world and be an ordinary person..."
"..."
As he spoke, he even felt that he understood the old president somewhat.
He remembered a case that Yang Jia once told him: a patient who lived in a nursing home thought that he was a big shot. He thought that he was in the hospital just to temporarily avoid risks. He thought that all the doctors and nurses were him.
The bodyguards and assistants who hide their identities are just to protect themselves. They think that the medicines they take are just nutritional supplements and that all the programs on TV are related to them. Therefore, they insist on meeting with nurses every day and insist on taking meeting minutes and preparing speeches.
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He lives in a fantasy world, in which he has unlimited power.
But if he really wakes up, he will find that he is just a forgotten and ridiculed patient in the real world.
So, even if someone can tell him in his fantasy world that he can actually wake up, will he choose to wake up or continue to sink?
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"You said it very well."
After listening to Xiao Xiao's words, Mr. An showed a faint smile on his face and said, "The way you described him is exactly how I feel about your old president."
"how about you?"
"Are you willing to believe in that childish persistence, or are you willing to accept everything God has given you?"
"..."
When he looked at Xiao Xiao, his eyes seemed to be profound. There seemed to be some kind of invisible power that made people dare not look directly.
But Xiao Xiao looked directly at him, paused slightly, and then smiled: "I'm here to return the information card of the Great Knight of Heart in Anxi City..."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand.
Next to her, Ruanruan was in a daze. Xiao Xiao waved his hand in front of her, and she finally reacted and hurriedly took out the information card from her backpack.
It could be seen that Ruanruan was actually very nervous. She put the information card into a delicate paper box, and even had an awkward bow tied on it, making it look like a gift.
Xiao Xiao took it, placed the cardboard box on the table, pushed it gently, and slid it across the entire table, stopping right in front of Mr. An.
He smiled and said: "Now, I have returned this card."
Mr. An lowered his eyes and looked down at the paper box tied with a bow. There was no emotion or anger in his eyes hidden by wrinkles. After a long time, he said silently: "Red heart, what a pity."
"She was supposed to be the third archangel of the Kingdom of God."
"However, this is also her fate. For a branded person like her, whose destiny and will are controlled by a mysterious source, she is indeed not suitable to stay in the Kingdom of God."
"But the four archangels are a perfect structure."
"so……"
"..."
He said, paused slightly, and suddenly looked up at Xiao Xiao: "President Xiao, are you willing to come over and take her place?"
"I?"
Xiao Xiao was slightly surprised: "Only the third child?"
These words have already shown his arrogance, dissatisfaction, and even some provocation.
But unexpectedly, Mr. An didn't get angry. He seemed too slow to feel the ridicule in Xiao Xiao's words, but looked at him seriously: "Even if you want to be ranked higher, it's not impossible to talk.
"
"The point is just what you can win for the city of Rest."
"..."
Xiao Xiao was really surprised this time and said with a smile: "I thought you had arranged everything in Anxi City."
"Everything in Xi'an City has indeed been arranged."
Mr. An said slowly: "But if you want to build a true Kingdom of God, you can't just stop at Xi'an City."
"Since the outbreak of the Singularity Crisis, the world has been in great disarray. Parliament has lost control of the world. Each city administrative department exists independently. They have also placed their hope in the Black Forest, hoping that the Black Forest that caused everything can end again.
All of this, it is a pity that Black Forest is just the one who opened Pandora's box, but does not have the ability to close the box. The changes in the world are unstoppable, but the administrative office of Xi'an City has begun to build a new structure in this world and is ready to promote it.
A new election.”
"Once the general election is completed, the Administrative Office of the City of Rest will become the highest official of the Parliament."
"At that time, the city of Rest will represent this world, and at that moment, our Kingdom of God will exist independently on the back of reality, watching over the entire real world."
"President Xiao, can you imagine what kind of picture this is?"
"At that time, we will have supreme power. The Hell Organization has no roots in the city, so they are not worth mentioning."
"Dante's organization has always stayed out of the affairs of the cities, so they can't get the support of the cities. Only we can become the cornerstone of the Kingdom of God."
"At that time, your abilities will no longer be limited to one city, but to the entire world. Do you think that in this new world, the status of the third archangel of the Kingdom of God will be lower than that of your current little black door?
City president?"
"..."
Such a fascination brought with it some strange descriptions, and even Ruan Ruan felt vaguely afraid.
She heard a kind of fanaticism from Mr. An's description.
And fanatics are scary.
"The city of Anxi is indeed farther away than other cities in some places..."
Even Xiao Xiao couldn't help but sigh in a low voice.
Nowadays, there are still quite a few foreigners in various cities who keep a distance from the indigenous people, thinking that they are monsters in human skin, and that they are flesh and blood monsters created by the will of the city.
They have no regard for power in the real world and are vulnerable to attack.
Even the Night City that I saw before was just a matter of using the pollution ability of the strangers to control the administrative power of the local city so that I could make some arrangements more conveniently.
The city of Anxi not only accepted all this, but even began to dominate it all.
At least so far, among the forces that Xiao Xiao knows, there are only two parties that have begun to use the power of the real world and the abilities of strangers at the same time.
One side is oneself.
On the other side is the current city of Rest.
At this moment, it was really hard for Xiao Xiao to imagine what kind of situation would happen once the plan of Xi'an City was successful and the Administrative Office of Xi'an City that they supported gained the highest power in the world.
The highest realistic power is combined with the largest mysterious source power.
Will we finally create a true kingdom of God, or will we completely destroy this world?
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Many thoughts were running through his mind, but Xiao Xiao couldn't see it on the surface. To outsiders, he always had a faint smile on his face.
After listening to Mr. An's description, he immediately smiled and said: "That's very good, but I'm not very interested. I just came here to return the card and attend the banquet."
"Now, I have paid back the card."
"banquet……"
"..."
He lowered his head and glanced at the empty table without even a plate. He smiled, picked up the napkin, wiped his mouth, and said, "The food is also very good."
"So, it's time for me to say goodbye!"
"..."
As soon as he said these words, the expressions of those present suddenly changed.
Ruanruan glanced at Xiao Xiao in surprise, then lowered her head, a flash of excitement and expectation flashed in her eyes.
Next to the round table, the little knight who had picked them up and showed him the city suddenly raised his head and stared at Xiao Xiao coldly.
Mr. An stopped talking and tapped his black and slender index finger nails on the table.
Xiao Xiao looked at their reactions and suddenly laughed and said: "Nian'an City can't be so unreasonable and detain those who come over to try to get stuck, right?"
"In a foreigner's circle, this seems to be a very rude thing..."
"..."
These words made everyone present feel a little moved in their hearts.
There is a habit of returning information cards in the foreigner circle, so naturally there is an underlying rule that does not disadvantage the person who returns the card.
Once such a thing is done, it means being rude and will be despised by various cities. This is a very big blow to the reputation of Xi'an City, which has always prided itself as the leader of the cities.
Benedict, Benedict, Benedict
Mr. An tapped his black and curly nails on the table. After hearing the words for a long time, he looked up at Xiao Xiao and said with a smile: "Reputation in the circle of strangers?"
"Actually, I don't agree with the title of stranger."
"Those who call themselves strangers are all lunatics and lunatics. They live in hallucinations, so they have no sense of belonging to the real world, so they think they are strangers and even want to escape from the real world."
"But Xi'an City is different. We want to be the masters of the real world, so we are not strangers."
"..."
When he said these words, Ruan Ruan felt slightly nervous. He did not admit that he was a stranger. Does this mean that he was not prepared to abide by the agreement of the stranger?
But then, Mr. An said again: "Of course, we really don't have to keep President Xiao. I still disdain this kind of bullying of the small ones..."
"It's just that before President Xiao leaves, we still need to make certain things clear..."
"...President Xiao, it has been many years since I have spoken so condescendingly to a young man like you."
"..."
With a strange smile on his face, he looked at Xiao Xiao grimly: "Now, more than 70% of the cities have joined the Parthian Alliance and are ready to build the Kingdom of God with us."
"And now, I am using the sincerity of a first-tier city to invite Black Gate City, which is only a second-tier city, to join the Parthian Alliance. I even promised you the position of one of the four angels. Isn't this very sincere?"
"..."
Xiao Xiao nodded: "Yes."
Mr. An whispered: "Then do you believe that more cities will join us, and even your Black Gate City will be the only one left in the end?"
Xiao Xiao nodded: "Yes."
"You described it so well. There are indeed very few people who would refuse to become gods...even if they are just slaves of gods."
"..."
Mr. An was silent for a moment: "Then why did you refuse?"
"Just because you described it so well..."
Xiao Xiao said with a smile: "Anything that is too beautiful can easily trigger a war..."
Mr. An kept looking into Xiao Xiao's eyes, as if he wanted to see through his eyes his true inner thoughts, but all he saw was peace and relaxation.
After a long time, he sighed in a low voice: "No wonder you can inherit Kuang Juemin's position. Your stubbornness and naivety are exactly the same as his."
"I have no shortage of people here to take up the position of Archangel. However, since you also know that no one can stop our plan, then we will not allow some things in Black Gate City..."
"..."
Xiao Xiao looked indifferent and said softly: "Then what does the old gentleman want to do?"
"It's not about how I want to do it, but it's already been done..."
Mr. An spoke indifferently, as if by this point he had lost all interest in continuing the conversation and waved his hand lazily.
The little knight who stood next to the round table and had never sat down, standing like a servant, raised his head and gently clapped his hands.
The next moment, the secret door on the right was opened, and a row of slender women wearing slim cheongsams filed in. In their hands, they all held a wooden tray covered with black silk.
The little knight patted his palm lightly, and the black silk on the tray slowly slid to the ground.
The things on the tray were horrifying. They were all pale and stiff dead heads. They actually looked fresh. They should have died not long ago.
And at the moment when the silk was slipping away, these dead heads seemed to have been stimulated by something, they blinked slightly, tried hard to open their dimmed eyes, and looked at the wall next to them.
Suddenly, a vague picture appeared on the wall.
Ruanruan saw the picture on the wall and immediately stood up. She grabbed the metal wrench on her short leg and clenched it loudly.
Xiao Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly.
The images projected by the three heads in front are of three strange cities.
In the first scene, red-eyed Lingping is wearing an old-school British style suit, holding a civilized stick in his hand, slowly walking on a wet stone path, but what is different from his elegant gentleman style is that his back
On the way, he was carrying a white, plush backpack. From time to time, a fat cat's head poked out of it. He glanced at the surrounding scene with disgust, and then retracted into the backpack.
At the end of the street, under a dim streetlight, there was a person waiting quietly.
He seemed to be very tall, but he stood just under the shadow of the street lamp, as if he merged with the black shadow.
"Mr. Taylor, we haven't seen each other for four years. I feel very honored that you are willing to meet me and even talk about the Nightmare Anchor."
"..."
The red-eyed Ling Ping came under the street lamp, about three meters away, stopped, and politely extended his hand to the other party.
In the black shadow under the street lamp, a pale and wet palm stretched out and shook hands with Ling Ping. His voice was hoarse: "Mr. Ling Ping, to be honest, I am more curious than I want to trade."
"You know, it was by chance that I strengthened the Hug Pillow into the Anchor of Nightmares. This is my lifeblood."
"You have always been a sensible and gentleman. What is the reason that makes a person like you actually want to come over and ask me if I want to give up such a valuable thing?"
"..."
"Come here on command..."
Ling Ping, with red eyes, smiled and said: "You should have heard that our new guild president in Black Gate City is a person with a bad temper. I will definitely do my best to fulfill his orders."
"How about it? The price is easy to talk about. Are you willing to sit down and talk about this deal?"
"..."
The shadow under the streetlight laughed: "To be honest, I am willing. After all, this S-level taboo item is not suitable for confrontation, nor is it suitable for solving aberrations."
"It's a very good deal to sell it and exchange it for something that suits me, and I can get an extra point."
"Unfortunately……"
"..."
He paused slightly, and in the black shadow, two dark red eyes vaguely appeared, with a little ridicule in them: "A few other friends found me, and they mentioned another business to me...
"
As he spoke, the buildings around the wet path began to soften and melt.
Four or five people in black robes slowly walked out of the melting building, blocking Lingping's escape route.
The shadow under the street lamp laughed softly: "I think it is more cost-effective for them to keep you and then pay me 100,000 points..."
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In another city, in a garbage-strewn alley, Lao Zhou was wearing a black top hat under a bridge, holding a box of braised beef-flavored instant noodles and eating slowly in the drizzle.
The rain kept falling into the instant noodles, but it didn't seem to affect his appetite.
He kept eating, eating every noodle, and even drank the soup and rainwater in the bucket. Then he wiped his mouth, put down the paper box, flattened it, and filled it with a mineral water bottle at hand.
Into the snakeskin bag.
He stood up, held a small flashlight in his mouth, illuminated the map in his hand, drew a cross on it, and prepared to continue to another place.
But at this moment, he suddenly stopped. At some point, scattered footsteps appeared around him. The footsteps were getting louder and more complicated, but no one could be seen. Under the bridge, Lao Zhou was just
He stood silently for a long time before saying:
"I am Old Zhou, the black hat of Black Gate City, and I came out to look for something on the orders of our president."
"I passed by Guicheng. I just bought a bowl of noodles to eat and rested for a while. I have to leave now. I don't want to get into trouble. Please let me go."
"..."
"Are you looking for the Eternal Helmsman?"
Scattered footsteps sounded around, but a high-pitched voice rang out: "Then there's no need to look for him, we already know where he is."
Under the bridge, Lao Zhou silently raised his head and said, "Tell me the price."
"Our president has plenty of money and is willing to spend money to buy this news from you."
"..."
"Haha, no need..."
The voice hiding in the dark laughed: "Let your president think about how much money should be spent to buy your life..."
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In another place, the big snake sisters, who were dressed in a coquettish and sexy manner, with a pair of slender thighs and a pair of sky-high high heels, were sitting obediently in a dark red room. They worked hard and found the city where the Desolate Sail was located.
They directly found the local Stranger organization and put forward the conditions for exchanging the S-class special item. But in the end, a dozen silent people came at once and blocked them in the room. They were both in danger.
eyes, staring at them.
Sister Orochi suddenly panicked, and her elder sister trembled: "Why are there so many people?"
"One or two is fine, but a dozen or so...it's too much for the two of us..."
"..."
My sister was also a little sluggish, and then she subconsciously licked her lips and said hesitantly: "Sister, how about you give it a try first?"
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The second step of Noah's plan required seven major components. Xiao Xiao sent out Red Eyes Ling Ping, Bridge Bottom Lao Zhou, and the Orochi Sisters to find three of them.
But I didn't expect that now in Xi'an City, I saw the shadows of the three parties, and it was obvious that the three parties were in trouble, and even their lives were in danger.
Ruanruan knew that this was no coincidence, and finally understood where all the people in Anxi City had gone.
She usually didn't have a good relationship with these people, but after all, they were from Black Gate City. She suddenly became angry and clenched the metal wrench in her hand.
Xiao Xiao, however, kept his expression calm. He carefully looked at the picture projected on the wall, then looked politely at Mr. An across the round table, and said with a smile: "Mr. what does this mean?"
"President Xiao, you are too young..."
Mr. An said calmly: "Not long after you awakened, you have already been promoted to the fourth stage. You even inherited the mysterious guide left by Kuang Juemin, and won a great victory in the gambling battle with the hell organization. In the city
With the support of strength, he hunted down the secondary mysterious source, and even expelled Dr. Anti, one of the four great mentors of the Dante organization, from the city... You are so successful, so it is normal to be proud, but I want to remind you.
, your understanding of this world is too shallow..."
"You have misunderstood the world!"
"..."
As he spoke, he suddenly waved his hand again.
Then, on the tray in the hand of the fourth cheongsam woman, the black silk was peeled off, and there was also a pale head, with blurry shadows cast in the eye sockets.
A deep and dark city appeared in front of everyone. From some landmark buildings in this city, Xiao Xiao and Ruanruan immediately recognized that this city was Black Gate City, and the position of this perspective was slowly changing.
Three figures slowly appeared.
These three figures may be tall or short, but they all give the impression that they are powerful.
Ruanruan even saw patterns of spades, clubs, and diamonds on their bodies or shoulders, which were similar to the patterns of hearts she once saw on the Knight of Hearts.
So, she immediately recognized the identities of these three people.
The three knights of the City of Rest actually appeared in front of the Black Gate City. With a certain aura that was so cold and despairing, they walked side by side towards the Black Gate City which was now called an empty city.
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"So, I don't actually intend to keep you by force."
Mr. An was sure that Xiao Xiao knew what these pictures represented, especially the last one.
He looked at Xiao Xiao indifferently and said slowly: "But I need you to know that Kuang Juemin's Noah plan will make many people unhappy."
"If you must betray the majority of the theocratic people and fight against the Kingdom of God."
"Then, maybe after you leave the city of Rest, what you face is just a dead city."
"..."
"Brother Xiao, he..."
Ruanruan suddenly became a little anxious. One of her short legs stepped on the chair, the other on the round table, and the other metal wrench was also in her hand.
She was extremely nervous in her heart. She didn't know how Anxi City could do it, so accurately blocking all the people in Black Gate City from outside, but she knew clearly that there was no reliable person in Black Gate City now.
Sitting in charge... I and Xiao Xiao have left, and now the only person guarding the house is the useless Xiaosi... What else can that guy do besides squatting in the trash can and picking up cigarette butts? He is facing the three powerful people in Anxi City.
Knight, I guess he might not even dare to show his face...
What should I do? If I go out, my home will be gone?
Facing her panic, Xiao Xiao waved his hand slightly to signal her not to panic.
After pondering for a moment, he looked at Mr. An strangely: "You can actually arrange for people to block our people there so accurately. Does this mean that you already knew that these seven parts are what we need?"
"Do you even know the specific locations of these seven items, and the information we can get now?"
"..."
Mr. An was silent, as if he didn't even bother to answer these questions.
Xiao Xiao slowly laughed, glanced at the huge, cold round table, and said, "Originally, this table can be filled with people, right?"
"But now you have all sent out, three big knights and thirty-six little knights..."
"Then I want to ask..."
"..."
He pondered for a moment, then looked at Mr. An, with a polite smile on his face: "If all these people died, would you feel bad?"
I need to do some design work later on. Battles are the most difficult to write. You can’t just use scissors, rock, paper and decide the outcome when two people meet, right?
Let’s keep the number of words small for now and design it first.