Chapter 143: Heavenly Punishment
Green crops thrive in fertile fields. The www.biquge.info fields stretch one after another, rendering the endless plains green.
In the plains, silver-white rivers crisscross the plains, and crowded houses are scattered everywhere. The thick or thin roads are like blood vessels, flowing large and small cars and horses and groups of people.
Deep in the plains, a towering mountain stands alone. The mountain is called a sacred mountain by the humans who inhabit the plains, and the official name to the outside world is the Glorious Mountain. This name, naturally, was later changed by the Radiant Temple. Because, the external headquarters of the Radiant Temple is built on the halfway of the mountain.
At the foot of the Glorious Mountain, tall and low houses are lined up one after another, almost surrounding the entire holy mountain. To the south of the mountain, the houses are especially dense and aesthetically pleasing. This is Kolos, the capital of Middle-earth.
The sun is shining, and a dense flow of people is moving around the city. From time to time, there was a clear thunderclap overhead. The people of Kolos have long been accustomed to it.
Since about five days ago, the people around the holy mountain have faintly heard a slight thunderclap. At first, some people wondered: how could thunder come from overhead when there was no lightning or clouds in the blue sky?
The thunder is slight, and it only appears at intervals of half a day. The people did not see the impact of the thunder, and gradually left it behind.
Now, the thunder had become clearer and more intense, and the people of Kolos had long since become numb. Except for the few elemental envoys and forbidden armies who received orders, no one explored the source and cause of the thunder.
It was noon, and in the palace halfway up the holy mountain, a rapid bell suddenly sounded. The bell flutters, as if igniting a node. Everywhere in Kolos, dull bells rang one after another.
The dense sound of bells echoed around the holy mountain, covering an area ......of twenty or thirty miles.
The hurried bell rang, and most of the Li people were stunned for a moment. Thanks to the recent publicity of the temple and the royal court, someone quickly discovered the cause of the alarm. More and more people pointed to the northwest sky and shouted, "Floating City, it's Floating City!" The Lich King is here! Run......
Everywhere in the city, the crowd was instantly chaotic, and almost everyone rushed to their homes: the vendors hurriedly packed their goods, the parents picked up their children and galloped, the chariots and horses galloped into the flying people, the outsiders begged the nearby residents to enter the houses, and the guards rushed to their posts or barracks......
The whole Kolos was a mess, with all kinds of cries and screams mixed together. It was as lively as a sudden rainstorm in the whole city, crackling.
Floating City is fast. On the ground, the crowd had only diminished slightly, and a large number of figures were still running in all directions. The Floating City has already flown over the city.
A loud voice rang out, spreading for miles: "People of Kolos, please don't panic. We are here to save everyone! Please stay calm and ......."
A huge shadow swept over the heads of the crowd. The people below heard both the propaganda of the floating city and the departure of the airship. However, no one is calm, let alone stopping. Li Min's knowledge of the Lich King and the airship basically comes from the propaganda of the temple and the royal court.
Not to mention, Du Shen's subordinates have never done anything good. The Sanctuary and the royal court advertise the Lich King, which is naturally exaggerated and exaggerated. At this time, although the floating city above the head kept saying "save everyone", how could the panicked crowd believe it?
The airship gradually slowed down and circled around Mount Radiance. Most of the time, the airship travels in an arc to and from the main town of Kolos. The airship moved slowly, and repeatedly proclaimed: "The people of Kolos, our lord the Lich King, have come with good intentions. There is a group of hypocrites who call themselves the Temple of Light. They serve false gods, deceive the people, and fool the people. Their evil deeds have angered the will of the world. Our world is about to send heavenly punishment and destroy the entire Glorious Mountain. ”
The airship cast a large shadow and slowly swept across the land: "My lord Lich King, favored by the world, is the only true god appointed by the will of the world. My lord sensed the wrath of the world, and could not bear to harm the innocent. Therefore our Lord sent us with the gospel. Flee, people of Kolos, no matter how late it is, the punishment of heaven will come, and everyone will die here. ”
The airship flies around, repeating similar content over and over again. Li Min on the ground, not only was not frightened, but gradually calmed down. People were looking up at the airship in the air through windows, doors, or under the eaves.
For the heavenly punishment preached by the airship, some people are indeed uneasy because of this. But many more people just silently prayed that the temple would take down the Floating City sooner, or that the Floating City would fly away on its own as soon as possible.
Floating City doesn't seem to care about people's reactions. The soft female voice continued to repeat unhurriedly: "Aren't you surprised, people of Kolos? Why has there been so much thunder in the last few days? That is a warning of the will of the world." The hypocrites who call themselves temples die unrepentant. The will of the world is unbearable, and heavenly punishment is about to fall. Please stay away from Guanghui Mountain and avoid accompanying the funeral ......"
I heard the airship repeatedly mention the unknown source of thunder. More and more people are worried about it. The people in the house began to pay attention to the movement on the street.
Soon, outsiders came out of the house. Under the cover of their houses, they ran and stopped, avoided airships, and fled to the outskirts of the city. The men did not flee far, and most of them ran into patrolling or garrison guards.
Some guards turned a blind eye and let the outsiders continue to run. Some guards blocked it and stuffed it into nearby houses.
In the palace on the Shining Mountain, the elders of the temple gathered. Their faces were gloomy and dull. Of course, they were furious at the slander propagated by the airship. But the airship was always far away from the mountain. Although the temple still had a few means of counterattack, it was too late to set it up.
In the royal palace in the center of the city, the elderly king led his family and children to hide in an ordinary palace. Outside the palace, it was crowded with guards. They kept a close eye on the airship's movements. Fortunately, the airship is empathetic and always bypasses the palace from a distance.
The airship circled, constantly publicizing. Whether it is the elders of the temple, or the royal family, the important ministers of the palace, or the ordinary residents. Everyone seemed to be pretending to be turtles, huddled in their respective homes without moving.
The airship was noisy for more than an hour, and suddenly a particularly loud thunder sounded in the air. The thunder was deafening, and many houses trembled.
The voice of the airship changed, apparently changing the speaker again. Before, it was a soft female voice, but now it was replaced by a deep male voice: "Ladies and gentlemen, the punishment of heaven is coming, now run away, there is still one last chance." In order to avoid contagion, we will retire first. ”
The man's voice, apparently specially processed, traveled farther than before.
The airship did not make a sound again, and flew in a southwesterly direction, faster and faster. More and more figures came out of the house. Everyone looked at the airship flying farther and farther, or looked at each other, or was distracted.
Someone said in a trance: "The floating city is flying away! That heavenly punishment, is it true or false?"
"Boom!" the thunder rolled in, masking the questions of the scattered figures. Someone looked up into the air and saw black lightning in a blur.
"This thunder," many people were worried, "this thunder is indeed very wrong!"
The city on the ground gradually became lively. A few began to flee outside the city, and most returned to their homes, either packing up their belongings, inquiring about the royal court and the temple, or continuing as usual.
More and more people are going out of the city in groups. Compared to the entire city, they are still only a minority.
About twenty minutes after the airship left, the men of the temple and the royal court were trying to reassure people. Suddenly there was an explosion in the air. The intermittent thunder suddenly became coherent. It was like a minecart rolling from east to west and from northeast to southwest.
The thunder grew louder and louder. There was a flash of black lightning in the sky. Lightning can be thick or thin, short or long, and appear for an extremely short time. The lightning was so dense that at first glance it seemed that night had fallen early.
The crowd on the ground instantly became chaotic, like headless flies, scurrying around. Before the crowd could run, the sky suddenly darkened. It was as if it had suddenly rained inside and outside the city. Blurry objects suddenly appeared in mid-air, crackling and falling down.
The crowd on the ground immediately resounded with screams and screams. What falls from the sky is not gentle rain, but hard sand. As the sand and gravel get bigger and bigger. Some people can clearly see that what is constantly falling from the sky is man-made masonry and even broken stone pillars.
The stones seemed to be pouring down, and the people on the ground naturally hid in the nearby houses. However, it didn't take long for the people in the house to feel the earth start shaking.
A slight "boom......" sound came from underground. The ground shook more and more violently, so that cracks slowly appeared. Houses in the city are collapsing in large numbers.
The earthquake spread to Guanghui Mountain, and the palace halfway up the mountain gradually collapsed. Slowly, cracks appeared in the towering mountain, from head to toe, widening and widening.
Stone rain and earthquakes last only five or six minutes. The damage caused was horrific. Twenty or thirty miles around Guanghui Mountain, there is not a single intact house. Most of the houses were flat in ruins, and a few barely left in ruins.
The crowd on the ground, with heavy casualties. Some were killed directly by the boulders that fell from the sky, and some were buried in the rubble. The few who survived, and everyone was injured.
The thunder disappeared, and the stone rain and the earthquake subsided. In the air at the top of the Shining Mountain, a huge pitch-black sphere appeared. The orb connects a secret realm, and many of the precious materials of the Radiant Sanctuary are stored inside, among which there must be a Radiant Core.
The secret realm is the secret vault of the Radiant Temple. In fact, the disaster just now was caused by the collapse of the secret realm. The sand and stones that fell from the sky were lost from the secret realm.
The disintegration of the secret realm is still proceeding slowly. The airship, which was originally hiding in the distance, quickly returned and drilled into the black ball, struggling to rescue the materials in the secret realm.