Before everyone could recover from the tragic scene in front of them, in less than a few seconds, another elder of the Academy of Sciences was swept into the water column with a wail. Soon, the elders except Bai Hexi and Meng Ge were all dead, and the water column began to infect the trembling black people.

Qiu Xuan noticed that all the elders and blacks who were brutally murdered were all people who were directly or indirectly affiliated with the Academy of Sciences. Seeing this, she put down her snack a little, and saw that the unfathomable infinite power was really unable to break free, so she simply relaxed and stopped trying to struggle in vain.

The eroded and rotting corpses fell one by one, and Luo Shui paced among the plague and death, as leisurely and quiet as if walking through a garden path.

"Wu Leyi, Gu Qing, Shen Fufeng, Jing Zhichi, ......" she counted them one by one, and laughed when she counted them, looking extremely psychopathic but elegant and inexplicable.

"My children...... "She sighed softly, repeating in an aria the words of the previous canon—

"When the flood is overflowing, the Lord sits as king."

“……”

When the elders and soldiers belonging to the Academy of Sciences were basically left with rotting bones everywhere, the merciless flow of life-devouring water gradually had a tendency to subside. Qiu Xuan was still swept up high in the majestic waves, wrapped in the familiar turbid waves, and a ridiculous idea suddenly welled up in her heart.

“…… Wei River? ”

"What did you say?" Xi Hanting hung on the other side and moved with great effort to look at her, "I can't hear you. ”

"......" Qiu Xuan was silent for a long time, and finally sighed lightly, "It's nothing, maybe my mind is not clear for a while." ”

“…… Teacher, it's all over, isn't it, what are you doing now? Punish the world with the hand of the gods, and play the role of a savior from above, what is the difference between you and Zhao Mingsi? As one of the few people who hadn't been touched by the monstrous waves, Shuying stiffened as if he had just reacted. Her voice was choked and hoarse, and it was evident that she hadn't recovered from One's thoughts, and now there was a deep sense of disappointment and disbelief in it.

"Heaven is constant, and karma is just a matter of karma." Luo Shui still looked like she was familiar to everyone, but she said words that didn't match her quiet appearance. "I'm not 'doing something', I'm fulfilling my destiny. You know, my child. ”

"All this time, I wasn't playing the savior, I was playing the human being." (Note 1)

……

On the eve of the technological revolution, the Dark Descendant Industry flows through the edge of the Wei River in the Nona Wasteland.

"My lord, the 13th test failed again, and the research team is still analyzing the reason." A man in a familiar white robe frowned and scribbled on the parchment, and said to the man with blood-red eyes next to him with a complicated expression.

The second prophet Fu Zeqi's expression darkened when he heard this, and then he waved his hand seemingly casually. "Dispose of the test subjects that have completely failed and can no longer be converted, according to the old rules. Get the guys ready for the research team, I'm going to extract the curse gene again and try it out. ”

"My lord, my body is important, the progress of the experiment is ......"

"Do as I say!" Fu Zeqi suddenly turned hideous and roared, "Shall I use you to teach me what to do?!" The less people know about this matter, the better, and handle it secretly, you know? ”

"Yes, yes......" The white coat bowed his head in fear and ran away. Dozens of minutes later, a small gray and low-key steam car slowly drove into the embankment, and two soldiers stepped out of the car and opened the trunk with cold and numb expressions and began to work.

The trunk, which was almost stuffed, was full of black corpses with twisted limbs and rotting skin, some of them staring wide-eyed, some of them looking so hideously twisted that they didn't dare to think about how they had been treated in their lives. The two black soldiers clearly and calmly carried the corpses down one by one and threw them straight into the Wei River below the embankment. The tumbling tide swallowed up the layers of evil in the blink of an eye, and a few ups and downs disappeared completely.

"Let's go." After disposing of the last body, one of the soldiers said to his companion. "Mr. Fu is in a very bad mood after the experiment fails, let's hurry back and don't be angry."

"Okay." Another soldier chimed in. Immediately, the two of them quickly got into the car one after the other, and with bursts of white condensation vapor, the vehicle sped towards the location of the factory, and soon disappeared from view.

As a result, except for all the researchers who had been withdrawn, and only a few large experimental instruments that had time to be removed in the future, no one saw that the Wei River, which had swallowed the last few corpses, suddenly rushed and surged and gradually took on a strange dark red color. Immediately afterward, the tide swirled into spiraling columns of water and rushed into the sky, boiling and screaming faintly to reveal the appearance of a human face in the turbid water that was infected with countless corpses and metal waste from the steam industry.

A day later, all of the Darkspawn who were at a loss for the plague plan suddenly received a text message from the Academy of Sciences. It was written that through the joint nomination and decision of many elders, they had selected the executive of the research group of the Academy of Sciences for this selection competition and to be determined, and it was a woman who no one had ever heard of, and her name was Luo Shui.

Fu Zeqi sneered absurdly when he saw it, and slammed his hand to shatter the glass instrument on the table next to him. "Academy of Sciences, what an Academy of Sciences. It's still a woman to choose such an unknown source...... Heh, hehehe, it's ridiculous. ”

Fu ...... Mr. Fu. The standing agent hesitated for a while, and seeing that Fu Zeqi was silent, his face seemed to ease slightly, and he finally swallowed his saliva and carefully handed another piece of parchment. Along with the letter, this watch was also supposedly ...... It is said that the plague preparation method written by the woman named Luo and Luo Shui herself, and the Academy of Sciences asked our research team to try it first......"

In the end, he himself suddenly distorted his complexion, and immediately stopped his mouth, eager to slap himself twice, it was nothing more than Fu Zeqi would be angry. Not to mention that the Academy of Sciences let Fu Zeqi, who was the second prophet, choose such a woman of unknown origin as a pending executive, and it is said that she is a magician. It is this indifferent behavior of using the dark industry as a guinea pig is enough to explain the attitude of the Academy of Sciences.

The atmosphere of dead silence once spread in the pure white space on the 88th floor, and when the agent was trembling and sweating coldly, Fu Zeqi spoke in a deep voice, and he couldn't even hear the angry emotions in his tone. He said softly, as if suppressing the last madness, "Okay, call the people from the scientific research team." Let's just do what she provided, go ahead. ”

As expected, the experiment was a success. The Darkborn's research team succeeded in researching the virus-spreading virus that spread the plague according to Luo Shui's methods, and no one knew that at the end of the final experiment, Fu Zeqi took a protovirus from the cold room and injected his curse gene into it.

A month later, the technological revolution broke out.

This irreconcilable war between the Magician Association and the Academy of Sciences finally kicked off in Nobel, and Luo Shui, who joined the Academy of Sciences as a magician and served as a pending executive, became the target of public criticism for a while, although no one knew who she was before, where she was from, and why it seemed to have landed on the Steam Continent out of thin air. But there was always someone to be pushed out as a target, so Luo Shui became that person.

At first, the elders who had selected Luo Shui were worried about whether her mentality would be skewed, but soon, another near-perfect modification of the plague virus dispelled their concerns.

Luo Shui is always quiet and warm, and even though the plague she developed has become a disaster for all mankind, she is still as gentle and loved as her name. Luoshui Luoshui, flowing Luochuan, diving abyss water for a long time. She has always been ethereal and ethereal, like the god of water in Luoshang, but she has always been in the world.

She always used to say, "Well done to my kids." "You don't understand yet, kid." Qiu Xuan had always thought that it was a means for her to maintain her amiable image, but now it seems that this is not the original truth?

For all the aborigines of the entire Steam Continent, isn't that river the ancestor who forged their backbone and fed their flesh and blood for irrigation? The river that runs through the entire age of steam, the river of sin and blood, the river of tolerance and hatred, into the hands of its children.

Wei River.

Luoshui.

She is the river itself, and all the places through which it flows are her people.

What a simple puzzle. Qiu Xuan closed his eyes, there was no way, and he was also not qualified to judge who was right and who was wrong between Luo Shui and the Academy of Sciences with his own subjective thoughts. She was deeply infected by such the most primitive and deep love and hatred, but it only stopped there.

"It's too strong...... Xi Hanting beside him muttered in a low voice, "So how about the name of the Easter egg chapter be called 'The Mission of a River'?" However, it should be over, when will we be able to go back? ”

"Where are you going?"

Qiu Xuan stiffened and turned her head, and at some point, Qin Jiuyuan was standing on the ground behind them, his completely soaked hair still dripping down. "Where are you going?" He asked again.

"......" Qiu Xuan opened her mouth silently, but the familiar perfunctory sentence of "go back to your hometown to help herd the sheep" was choked in her throat and could not be spoken. In the end, she had to say, "We'll see you again, probably...... Ahem, it will. ”

The next second her voice landed, several blinding white lights that were invisible to others refracted and sinuted to form an arch, and above the light, the outline of this world could be faintly seen. After a pause, Qiu Xuan suddenly stepped forward a few steps and quickly walked to the door, stretched out his hand to pick something from it, and then the only two executioners present who could see the arch were eerily silent, and looked at the glowing LED tube in Qiu Xuan's hand.

“…… Has the Proving Ground always been like this? ”

"I don't know." Xi Han Pavilion looked really confused, "Before you, which executioner with no roots would go to tear down the door, I grass those rulers so ...... So, is it keeping pace with the times? ”

She thought hard about it, and finally chose such a compromise word.

Qiu Xuan casually stuffed the lamp into the tattered but super-large backpack, and without too much confusion, he turned around and looked at Qin Jiuyuan again. "Brother Yuan, uh, let me confirm, can you see that?" She pointed to the arch that was still shining.

Qin Jiuyuan squinted his eyes and looked at it for a while, but finally shook his head.

I don't know if this is the answer she wants, Qiu Xuan pursed her lips, and when she wanted to speak again, she was pulled by Xi Hanting. "What are you waiting for, you can't leave when the door is closed, do you want to spend your life in this world and then go back to a desperate situation, let's go!"

"I ......" she subconsciously stretched out her hand and pulled it towards Qin Jiuyuan, but as far as her ears and eyes could see, it was just a heavy and unclear sigh. Immediately, her wrist slammed down, if it weren't for the arm strength exercised by these two worlds, I am afraid that she would be dragged directly to dislocation by this blow.

"Then say okay, I'll wait for you in the next world."

"My grass?! You say......"

Before she could ask a rhetorical question, in the next second, a familiar female voice that was even more thought-provoking sounded, clearly belonging to Luo Shui's voice. "It's interesting, it's worthy of being a executioner who can make 'deception' mad. Looking forward to the day when we meet again, darkness. ”

“……”

The two of them fell out of the door because they were too shocked to control their balance, and they fell to the ground without an image. After being speechless for a while, Qiu Xuan didn't even have time to observe the environment around her, which was absolutely unfamiliar to her, but still maintained a sitting posture and stared at Xi Hanting, "What the hell are you/...... What do you call this an easter egg? ”

"So how do I know...... Wait, wait, let's not talk about your old lover. Xi Hanting also forgot to get up and sat face to face with her. Because of my personal abilities," she pointed to her eyes vaguely and without mentioning too much, "I can be sure that there are no other executioners in that trial ground besides us, so what about that Luo Shui?" ”

"What else is going on, haven't you reacted yet?" Qiu Xuan sat on the ground in a figureless posture and spoke calmly, "She is the Dominator 'Plague'. ”

"Oh, oh, I see, she's the 'plague'...... What the are you talking about, don't make such a joke on me!! ”

Xi Hanting collapsed and hit his head against the hard wall twice, "Really, don't be kidding, I've said it before." Some people have played dozens of trials - it's good enough for us, isn't it, but it's nothing to his ruler, how can the ruler say see it and return it to you in one of the proving grounds! ”

"Believe it or not." Qiu Xuan no longer tried to convince her of anything, patted her ass and got up to observe the rumored transit station "Desperate" that should have been opened after the end of the first world. Because of the concern for the angry Lu Xingzhou, after the end of the villa, Nightmare directly skipped the step and teleported her to the next proving ground, and she didn't know whether this choice was good or bad, she sighed lightly for a moment, but she missed the nightmare of being out of the "deception" of the Dominator.

Readjusting his mentality, Qiu Xuan pulled up the Xihan Pavilion that was still muttering unrelentingly, and looked up at the majestic desperate situation.

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