This is a 'big city' with a population of just over 200,000. It belongs to the Sultanate in name, but is actually controlled by a warlord named Mukhtar, while the Nile State is controlled by the armed forces of a petrochemical alliance.
, the two sides are in a state of war.
Neither the European Union nor the corporate alliances behind it wanted to see the Suez Canal-interrupted area controlled by the Petrochemical Alliance, so Mukhtar received large sums of coveted overseas ‘investment’.
Mukhtar was born in the Federation and grew up in the European Union. He pays close attention to overseas news, especially the impact of the superhuman wave.
Mukhtar has been building his own superhuman guard for a long time. His people are recruiting superhuman children throughout North Africa and intend to train them from an early age.
Mukhtar believed that the existence of superhuman beings was the beginning of another industrial revolution for mankind... However, Mukhtar's dream ended today.
The Seven Deadly Sins - Jealousy entered the city of Atbara on this day, and at the moment of meeting Mukhtar, controlled Mukhtar and his entire ruling class, a total of one hundred and twenty-one people.
And this number is constantly increasing, and soon expanded to the size of 1,500 people. At this time, it had only been three minutes since Envy entered the city of Atbara.
"Continue your work, Mukhtar is right, we need more superhumans." Envy sat on Mukhtar's leather sofa, blowing on the 24-degree air conditioner, watching the TV unfolding the happenings.
In the scene of the nuclear explosion in the Petrochemical Alliance, his eyes were cold.
He had met Tang Ji, and he was not even a super human at that time, so he let Tang Ji go easily, just like he had let other intruders go before, just to get the blood of greed and repair his suffering.
of injury.
Originally, in the eyes of jealousy, even others who are also guilty of the Seven Deadly Sins are just like that. Don't let him see them. As long as they see them, they will become their puppets.
Then Jealousy met Tang Ji through the apostle in Paris, and for the first time he tasted the pain that burns the soul.
What was burned that day was not only Jealousy's soul, but also his confidence. Since his debut, Jealousy has never encountered a consciousness that he cannot control.
But now, Tang Ji is not only immune to his mind control, but also successfully survived a nuclear attack. Jealousy suddenly finds that he has nothing to do against Tang Ji.
The ability of mind control is so special. Since jealousy awakened, he has become the dinosaur hidden among the crowd.
At the beginning, it was just a couple of colleagues and bosses he didn't like, and he was jealous and carefully made them ignore his existence. Then there were less jobs and higher salaries. This is how people's desires accumulated little by little.
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When Envy first realized that his life was completely different, he was sleeping at his boss's house, with the boss's wife lying on his bed, and all the female colleagues with whom he had had dirty thoughts.
And his boss is working hard to make money for him, and he is happy with it, because the new personality he gave to the other editor is this twisted dedication personality.
That night, Jealousy had been involved in a fierce spiritual confrontation. His remaining moral values were shouting crazily that he was heading towards chaos and the unknown, while the women who had gathered together stood on the other side, posing, reminding him that as long as he was willing,
, the whole world is at your fingertips.
The final result was obvious. Jealousy began to devote himself wholeheartedly to his new role. He spent three months gradually controlling the entire company's employees and their families, writing new behavior patterns and new goals for them.
In order to cover up the abnormalities of these people, Jealousy had to continuously expand his control network, from business partners to colleagues' neighbors, tax collectors, and building security.
The number of people under his control soon expanded to nearly a thousand. Envy's own spirit was gradually stretched to the limit. More and more messes made him unable to stop for a moment. The entire control network was full of flaws, making Envy walk on thin ice.
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Soon something happened to the controllers. Some were arrested by the Law Enforcement Bureau due to chaotic behavior patterns. Some were physically violent due to inner consciousness resistance. Others fell to the ground and died without warning. The entire control network instantly looked like...
Broken toys were in a mess.
Jealousy finally gave up the network he originally weaved and erased his own existence in people's memories. He left the familiar city alone and planned to start over in a different place, but this time, he would be more careful and cautious.
The moment he disconnected the control network, one-third of the nearly 1,000 controlled persons fell directly into a state of brain death, and another third permanently lost their memory or became mad.
Their consciousness was shattered into pieces during the process of being controlled, and they can never recover.
Only a few lucky people have completely regained their consciousness, but they can never get rid of those nightmares...
And Jealousy's plan didn't go smoothly either. The mess he left behind was so big that it quickly attracted the attention of the pioneers, and then, Jealousy became that caged bird.
Now Envy is no longer the little rookie. His mental power has been greatly enhanced during the experiment. Those pioneers tried to steal his abilities through rewards, but they all failed.
In fact, for a long time, the relationship between Jealousy and the Pioneers was complicated. He was their prisoner, confined to the experimental base with special explosives and not allowed to leave.
But because of the special nature of Jealousy, the control of the experimental base has changed hands. As Tang Ji saw, Jealousy is the ruler of the base.
In this case, the pioneers met most of Envy's requirements and improved his abilities. In return, the whole city of Envy participated in the Trailblazers' body collection plan, and he was responsible for erasing the personal consciousness and memory of those bodies.
, ensuring that they become blank bodies ready to come at any time.
Jealousy doesn't feel that his behavior is a betrayal at all. From the bottom of his heart, he no longer regards himself as a member of the human race, because he can deprive humans of their free will at will.
What is the difference between those shells that have no free will and animals? There is no difference!
What's more, in the heart of jealousy, is there any difference between the behavior of those players occupying the body and controlling human individuals to become puppets?
Absolutely not, and it's even worse, because after the player's consciousness leaves the body, the body remains intact and can still be used. Once the puppet he has programmed is separated from the consciousness, it depends on luck.
Therefore, Jealousy sided with the pioneers without any psychological burden and became a traitor. The traitors' psychology is generally the same. They are often more hostile to the determined resisters.
Similarly, jealousy does not look down on greed. He feels that the other party has lived in vain for hundreds of years and has no first-mover advantage at all. He is simply a waste. If he is given that ability, he can rule the world by himself. Even the players have to look at his face.
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The Lord of Happy Dreams is an opponent. Jealousy has already tried it. He cannot have any influence on the other party in the dream. On the contrary, the other party can influence his consciousness to a certain extent by shaping the dream and influencing the subconscious.
As for Tangji, Tangji is a different story entirely, and he is the main reason why Jealousy comes to the fore.
The flame that completely negates other supernatural abilities can not only burn one's soul across thousands of kilometers, but can also be used to burn the body. This is not counting Tang Ji's other weird abilities. Jealousy doesn't understand that everyone
It's the Seven Deadly Sins. I awakened a few years earlier than him. Why is there such a big difference in intensity?
Atbara City is just the beginning. During the years when Jealousy was being studied, he had been thinking about how to use his abilities more efficiently.
Directly depriving a person of his will and turning him into a robot-like puppet is only the most rudimentary application. Envy has already experienced the sequelae. Once the number of puppets exceeds three digits, their overall efficiency will drop rapidly.
After satisfying the most elementary desires, jealousy has set its goal on a higher level, that is, how to use its own abilities to influence the entire world.
It took him twenty-nine hours to control the entire city of Atbara. From newborn babies to octogenarians, from men to women, the entire city was unified under one will...
But this is not the end. Envy stood by the window, looking at the lifeless city outside. He pressed his hands on both sides of his temples and squinted his eyes for a moment. The sights of all the puppets in the city were synchronized in his mind, and bright red nosebleeds appeared.
Instantly flows out along the nostrils.
Through the perception of one hundred and ninety-eight thousand nine hundred and sixty-four puppets, a three-dimensional city of Atbara appeared in Jealousy's mind!
As his consciousness swept across the city, with the general's mansion as the center, the puppets on the nearby streets that were originally like wooden sculptures suddenly started to move. From being unfamiliar to being proficient, the puppets gradually found their own life trajectory.
The driver started to obey the traffic rules again. Although there was a victim lying on the hood who was killed, he had learned how to drive again and how to avoid obstacles.
Vendors and customers in the vegetable market were haggling with each other. Although they lacked the life-and-death struggle they had before, they seemed harmonious at least at first.
In the school, the teachers resumed teaching. Although most of the children in the classroom were shaky due to the lack of water in the past twenty hours, they still tried hard to appear to be paying attention to the class.
Bloody tears began to flow from the corners of Jealousy's eyes, and the blood vessels at his temples bulged. The general's daughter gently wiped the back of Jealousy's head with an ice pack from behind to cool him down.
And the entire city of Atbara came to life again, street by street, and the dead silence in the puppets' eyes gradually dissipated, becoming more and more like normal people.
Eventually, the thoughts of jealousy extended to the city border. The soldiers at the city border checkpoint got smart and suddenly walked out of the post and fired into the sky to calm down all the truck drivers who had been jammed outside the border checkpoint all day.
"All the rebels have been wiped out and the traffic control has been lifted." The soldier's tone was a little cold, but considering the special situation of rebellion in the city, most drivers don't want to get into trouble now.
As the gates opened, cars filed into the city, and only a few people chose to turn around and leave.
"Take care of my kingdom." Envy patted Mukhtar's dark face, and the other party stood at attention and saluted him without saying a word.
Atbara city is just the beginning, then Port Sudan, jealousy will not stop its pace.
He may have been just a miserable little clerk, weak at heart and ignorant of the ways of the world, but as he manipulated and controlled one interesting or unique soul and will one after another, the human will no longer had many secrets left in front of him.
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Jealousy really can't deal with Tang Ji now, and he can't escape the joint pursuit of Mikkelsen, Wang Zhengdao and the others, but he can hide himself in a city full of his own puppets.
After all, the city of Atbara is too small, and he is jealous and worried that the people will use atomic bombs against him like the pioneers, so he plans to control the entire Sudan first, and then expand his territory along the Suez Canal, and finally occupy this golden road
Air routes hold the financial lifeblood of the entire world and hundreds of millions of people hostage, and if one loses, both will suffer.
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Antarctica, Ross Sea.
The calm sea surface was suddenly broken by a dark red tentacle. It had a sunflower-like mouthpart, which slowly opened in the sunlight, showing off its fangs and sharp teeth, and slowly changed its direction according to the angle of the sunlight.
An albatross soared down, intending to rest, but was swallowed by the tentacles in an instant. Then the tentacles slowly sank and disappeared under the sea. A few minutes later, another tentacle surfaced and started a new round of business.
Gluttony's body is floating at a depth of about forty meters under the water. Compared with the body Tang Ji saw before, its current size has only recovered to about half, but its entire body is in the shape of a shuttle, with fins symmetrically distributed on both sides.
shape structure.
A dozen tentacles that were forty to fifty meters long became soft and thin, and the underwater part even emitted fluorescence. Following the direction of the water flow, they were smoothed around Gluttony's body. Every time they floated, large numbers of small fish and shrimps would swarm in.
move.
The main mouthpart of Gluttony grows on the back of the body, a round hole about 60 centimeters in diameter. As the body squirms, it continuously sucks in seawater and discharges it through the hole on the lower side of the body.
Those small fish and shrimps will soon be caught by the current while swimming, sucked into the mouth and disappear without a trace.
In the front part of Gluttony's body, a human face that has already taken on the appearance of a giant is inlaid on the central axis like a relief, like the prow of some kind of weird biological warship.
A pair of dull eyes occasionally moved, and a few bubbles came out of its big mouth, proving that this thing was not entirely a decoration.
"I'm hungry..." In a somewhat sad voice, Gluttony's body twitched, and some kind of pheromone was secreted by the tentacles, which spread rapidly in the ocean with the swing.
More fish and shrimp gathered quickly. In the distance, a sperm whale that was avoiding the whaling ship suddenly turned around, passed the whaling ship in a violent manner, and swam towards the ice shelf in the distance.