Chapter 002: Do You Believe in God?
22:00。
Xiao Yang is in his own gym, practicing the body strengthening technique and dragon walking.
I saw that his feet were extremely nimble, and he easily swam between obstacles in the gym.
"Drink!"
Every time he passed by the strength tester, Xiao Yang would punch the tester.
Shocking numbers flashed across the strength tester.
“180KG”
“215KG”
“200KG”
“195KG”
Suddenly.
The overhead light flickered, and after a few seconds, the room was completely in darkness.
"Grass! What the hell! ”
Xiao Yang was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but scold, then stopped cultivating and groped towards the distribution box.
Right now.
In the dark, Xiao Yang's pace of exploration came to a sudden pause.
Just because in front of him, a line of text suddenly appeared strangely.
……
Do you believe that there is a God? 】
【YES/NO? 】
……
The strange lines of writing, exuding a gray ominous aura.
But at this moment, there seemed to be a voice in Xiao Yang's head, like the whisper of the devil, urging him to make a choice.
“YES。”
At the moment when Xiao Yang made his choice, his body suddenly disappeared in place.
……
A minute later.
Xiao Yang, who disappeared from the house strangely, appeared silently again as he did when he disappeared.
"Whew...... Call...... Whew......"
Xiao Yang reappeared in the darkness, but he threw himself on his knees, gasping for air.
No one saw it, and his forehead was covered with bean-sized cold sweat, dripping to the ground.
A few seconds later, Xiao Yang, who was shocked, let out a strange laugh: "I survived...... Hey, haha, hahaha, I survived! I'm a genius! ”
Tick.
"From today onwards, I, Xiao Yang, am no longer a mortal! Hahaha......"
Tick, tick.
Xiao Yang suddenly felt a little strange.
The sound of his sweat dripping on the ground was incomparably clear in the room.
Did he sweat that much?
“……”
A hand silently poked out from behind Xiao Yang, with a cold light like a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, elegantly sweeping over Xiao Yang's neck.
Flutter.
After a few seconds, Xiao Yang felt that something was wrong.
"How is the neck wet...... Whoosh...... Whoop......"
Xiao Yang originally felt a little strange, and subconsciously touched his neck.
It's slimy, it's wet, and it doesn't look like sweat.
He wanted to talk to himself, but when he opened his mouth, Xiao Yang found that somehow, the breath that should have been spit out from his mouth and nostrils leaked out of his neck inexplicably, making a fluttering sound like a deflated tire.
After a few more seconds, Xiao Yang fell to the ground weakly, his eyes full of horror.
Who am I?
Where is this?
What's wrong with me?
Xiao Yang clearly felt the rapid passage of life, and every inch of skin in his body was turning from warm to cold at a terrifying speed......
"Did You Know ......"
In the dark, Yi Rin walked out from behind Xiao Yang, and then slowly squatted in front of Xiao Yang.
The tone is as calm as an old friend's reminiscence, talking about family life.
"It took me 832 days to become good friends with you in the eyes of my classmates."
"I envisioned 26 poses and angles for you to return to the real world."
"In the past three years, I have taken advantage of the opportunity given to you by returning homework, and I have recalled the structure of your home in my mind 2,542 times."
"With a dummy of your height, I practice cutting your throat 41,600 times."
"I also made 18 plans to make up the knife in case the throat cut failed."
Xiao Yang tried to stretch out his hand to the black shadow in front of him, his eyes wide and full of fear.
His consciousness gradually blurred, but Xiao Yang could still vaguely distinguish that it was the voice of his "good friend" Yi Rin in the dark.
Voices that are both familiar and unfamiliar.
"All the preparations I made were for this day."
"In order to be able to kill you one hundred percent, foolproofly, you who have just become an apostle."
"You haven't had time to become the head of the [Eight Shadows] under the [Death Knight]."
"Why do I know so much about you, you may ask? Oh, four years later, as the public enemy of all mankind, you have even found out how many times you wet the bed when you were a child......"
"Few people know what it takes to be an all-powerful apostle...... Actually, there are two ways. ”
"One is that a genius like you with a total attribute of more than 10 has a certain chance of being [summoned] ......"
"And the second is the weak power of human beings...... Kill the Apostle with your own hands. ”
Yi Rin suddenly smiled: "Ah, I'm sorry, some words have been held back for too long, and it's really a little unhappy not to say them, but now it's much more comfortable, thank you, my good friend." ”
Right now.
A gray card, emitting a trace of gray weird streamer, floated silently from Xiao Yang's head.
"Oh? He's dead. ”
Irin's eyes were still as calm as a pool of stagnant water.
"Your death posture is the same as I guessed." Irin smiled slightly, and without hesitation, reached for the gray card floating in midair.
……
Do you believe that there is a God? 】
【YES/NO】
“YES。”
……
[Unregistered personnel kill the "First Order Apostle", and the qualification is being transferred......]
【Registration Successful!】 】
[Registration Area: Tower of the Dead.] 】
[Registration ID: 1010.] 】
[Detected that "Preparatory Apostle 1010" has an "unknown mod", is it loaded?] 】
【YES/NO】
……
"Unknown mod?"
Irin moved and took out the white card that had been sitting snugly on the inside of his clothes.
……
Four years later, in the future, in 2125, four horsemen of the apocalypse with terrifying powers appeared in the sky, bringing disaster and war to the world.
Everywhere the Apocalypse Knights passed, there were corpses everywhere and devastated eyes.
That was the real end times.
The only one who can fight against the Knight of the Apocalypse is the Apostle.
However, under the overwhelming power of the Knights of the Apocalypse, the apostles gradually split into two opposing camps.
Order and Scourge.
The Camp of Order fights for humanity.
The Scourge camp succumbed to the power of the Apocalypse Knights and was willing to become a butcher's knife to kill humanity.
One day in the future, thousands of apostles in the order camp, including Irin, crusaded against the [Conquering Knight], one of the Four Knights, and suffered heavy casualties, and finally Irin and the Conquering Knights died together.
After that, Irin's inexplicably reborn in the year 2118 of the Tower Era.
That is, three years ago.
Irin never felt the calling.
He remembered that in the future [Eight Shadows] materials, the time when Xiao Yang became an apostle was around 10 o'clock in the evening on July 8, 2121.
This is where this series of preparations arises.
All the preparations that Irin has made, for the past three years, have been for this day.
Only by becoming an apostle can you have the strength to face the end of the world that will come in four years.
……
And this white card has been in Rin's hand since he was reborn.
In the past three years, Irin's also tried to study the white card, but found nothing.
But according to his experience, perhaps only after becoming an Apostle can he unlock the secret contained in that mysterious card.
Irin knew in his heart that becoming an apostle meant that Irin would still embark on a path paved with thorns.
Maybe he couldn't change anything.
There is no way to prevent the end from coming.
But Irin's had no other choice.
He just wanted to live.
Even if there is only a faint glimmer of light, he wants to see with his own eyes the bright future that may exist in four years.
In order to find yourself, let her ......
can live in the future!
Everyone knows that a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a storm across the Pacific.
But no one knows how much effort the butterfly put into flapping its wings.
……
“YES。”
At the moment when Irin made his choice, the white card melted into Irin like flowing water, bringing a hint of coolness.
[Parse ...... in "Unknown Mods"]
【Successful ......】
[Loading the module "Apocalypse Knight (Broken)" ......]
[The mod has been loaded successfully!] 】
Apocalypse Knight Template!
The moment these lines of text appeared in front of Irin's eyes, his face changed slightly.
The Knight of the Apocalypse, but the most powerful existence in four years, the terrifying power like a natural disaster, Irin still remembers it vividly, as if it were yesterday.
"This is the secret of the strength of the Apocalypse Knight!"
But the breakage ......
What is the meaning?
Without waiting for Irin to carefully analyze what this so-called Apocalypse Knight mod does, it soon came time for Irin to miss it a lot.
Xiao Yang landed into a box, and Yi Rin happily opened the box.
[Now the "First Order Apostle (Xiao Yang)" relics are randomly selected......]
[Acquire the skill "Breath of Concealment"!] 】
……
[Coming soon to the 'Preparatory Apostle' trial mission!] 】
The next moment, Irin saw a flower in front of her eyes and disappeared in place.
"I'm back."
Irin smiled.
……
……
When Irin regains his sight, he finds himself sitting in a long, narrow cabin.
His entire body was wrapped in a soft, comfortable seat, and the seat belt held Irin firmly to the seat.
Irin meditated in his heart as fast as he could.
"Apostolic panel."
In an instant, a holographic virtual interface that only he could see appeared in front of Irin.
……
[Irin] ID: 1010
[HP] 100% (cannot be quantified, deducted as a percentage according to the apostle's physical strength)
Psionic Value: 510 (Affected by Spirit Attributes)
【Mod】Apocalypse Knight (Broken)
【Level】LV0 (Apostle Preparation)
[Strength] 1.8 (positively correlated with muscle strength, constitution, explosiveness, and resilience)
Dexterity 3.0 (Positively correlated with strike speed, reaction speed, agility, and movement speed)
Spirit: 5.1 (Positively correlated with memory, imagination, calculation, psionics, precision, perception, cast speed, and psionic regeneration speed)
[Will] 7.0 (Embodiment of willpower, positively correlated with various types of resistances)
[Lucky] 4.0 (under normal circumstances, it is extremely difficult to improve, and Europe is cherished)
[Charm] 2.5 (Extremely difficult to improve under normal circumstances, handsome and cherished)
【Skill】Concealment aura
【Enhanced】None
……
For Irin, the scene in front of him has been absent for three years, and in the past three years, Irin has habitually recited the "Apostle Panel" in his mind countless times, but there is no response.
Now, Irin has re-registered in the Tower of Death, and finally sees his panel attributes again.
It's still a familiar recipe, a familiar taste.
He quickly skimmed through his properties......
"The three attributes of strength, agility, and spirit add up to 9.9? No wonder I wasn't 'called'......"
The dual attributes of strength and agility are hovering at the level of ordinary people, which is reasonable and expected.
But what Yi Rin didn't expect was that his spiritual and volitional attributes were far beyond the level of ordinary people!
The timing of Irin's rebirth from 2125 was just after the "initial test" in 2118, and the initial test tested Irin's attributes before he was reborn.
After being reborn, Irin's stats were never tested by the "Official Instruments" again.
Although I knew that there was a certain difference between the attributes of the instrument and the apostle panel, I didn't expect that the spiritual and volitional attributes would be so high.
"Is it because of the rebirth? The soul and memory of the two lives merge ......"
Irin quickly came up with a possibility.
Lucky 4.0...... So-so, a little lucky.
Charisma......
Well, it doesn't matter.
After a cursory glance at the Apostle panel, except for an extra [mod], the others are not much different from the impression.
Irin hurried up to check on the relics left behind by his best friend after he "landed in a box".
……
【Concealed Breath】
【Grade】Grade C
Cost: 2 psionic energy per second
[Effect] Reduces presence by 40%, and once the effect of the movement skill disappears, the cooldown time is 300 seconds.
【Description】You can watch silently!
……
Skills that are hard to describe.
When Irin first wanted to study what the "Apocalypse Knight Mod" was.
There was a violent tremor all around.
At the same time, a sweet voice came from above Irin's head.
"Welcome to Flight 444."
"Flight 444 is about to enter the thundercloud area, and it is predicted that it may encounter unstable air currents, so please do not move around and fasten your seatbelts......"
"During the passage through the thundercloud area, the fuselage may have varying degrees of turbulence, please do not panic."
"In general, not dead."
"I'm Britney, the purser of Flight 444, and I'll always be with you on this journey......"
"If Britney isn't there, then it's ......"
"Zizizi-"