501. Sword of Damocles
Immediately afterward, two more sharp sounds broke the air.
She had just taken on the form of a human, and it was clear that her body was still in the adjustment period, and she had not thought about how to defend herself. In fact, even if she deployed her defense, it was just a mantis arm blocking the car, and the result was the same.
The firestorm came so suddenly, the explosion made her teeth burst into the corners of her mouth, her cracked skin covered with tiny crystals like scales, and her bones were instantly peeled away.
Even the color of his pupils turned blood-red like a wild beast.
"Boom-" The skin is torn.
The green liquid soars into the air and vaporizes instantly!
The terrifying shock wave tore through her body, and the tens of thousands of degrees of heat washed everything like a wild wave, and the body that had just changed into a human form instantly became torn apart.
"Whew-"
As soon as the screams began, they suddenly subsided.
The entire town was mostly destroyed, and the wreckage of houses billowing with smoke was everywhere. The black creature in the form of a man was nowhere to be seen, with large dark green marks on the ground and on the walls.
Come to think of it, the monster was swallowed by the huge explosive energy.
At this time, about a dozen kilometers away from the monster's location......
In fact, a saline-alkali land of dozens of kilometers has been formed here, because it has been eroded by the ebb tide of the sea for a long time, and large areas of Suaeda grass grow together to form a sea of red.
In the boundless sea of reeds, thousands of birds of dozens of species usually live, wandering towards the redder part of the red beach.
Home to most of the birds, it is also a great place for the townspeople to encounter romance, and the winding river carries the dreams of countless creatures who run to the sea every summer.
But today, there isn't even a single seabird in this place!
Under the gloomy sky, this lifeless and empty land makes people look goosebumps, and the withered Suaeda grass disease slumps its torso, and it has long lost the romantic atmosphere of the past, replaced by an eerie tranquility.
In the turbid salt water of the wetland, the sea of reeds of Suaeda grass keeps rolling in the headwind, which is obviously an unnatural vision, which makes people suspicious.
Then, in the sea of red, several huge figures writhed and stood.
After seeing the flames and explosions, they froze and coalesced into several eerie postmodern sculptures. Like the creatures that appeared in that town, they also had countless tentacles on their bodies.
Then, as if butter had melted, the sculptures soon fell to the ground and became one with the earth.
A few minutes later, a buzzing sound was heard in the air about two thousand meters above the northwest of the ruined town, and more than a dozen small flickering red dots appeared on the skyline one after another.
The energy of the explosion and the aftermath of the monster's destruction were faithfully recorded by the drone.
Thousands of miles away over a cliff lake.
"Is this what the master calls otherworldly creatures? Amazing, amazing! ”
"There must be more of them coming to Earth." Dongfang Lu's pupils staring at the light screen contracted into small dots, and countless tiny circles of light converged towards the center of the pupil.
Beside Dongfang Road, a pretty and slender figure stood silently.
Everything that had just happened was reflected in Joyna's pupils, and through the images transmitted by the drone, her expression was calm.
The order to launch was given by her.
In fact, she is extremely familiar with the destructive power of this attack, and she has no bottom in her heart, has that monster been destroyed?
Hearing Dongfang Lu's words, she nodded, "It should be it, let's search for the survivors there...... By the way, how long will it take for the Bloodline's troops to get there? ”
"About twenty-three minutes." Dongfang Lu replied without thinking.
"It's less than an hour left...... The otherworldly intersection that the master said has begun, and the mutant energy is about to reach its peak, and perhaps the survivors of that place will not be able to survive. Joyna sighed softly.
For the task assigned by Zhuge Yun, she knew early on that it was not so simple.
The number on the light screen has only reached 83%, and the rest of humanity may end up with only one result.
Although there was still an hour left, the current numbers still surprised her. This is far more than originally expected, and Joyna originally thought that this figure would be at least 90% or more, but now it seems that it is simply an extravagant hope.
"Maybe with time and the right operation, this number should be able to increase by another 5 to 8 percent." Dongfang Road said.
When Joyna heard Dongfang Lu's answer, she just spread her hands and shrugged her shoulders, "Maybe, if the survivors in this place are not eaten by those monsters...... It shouldn't be difficult. ”
"Well, yes."
Dongfang Lu's tone was cold, full of electronic synthesized voices, "What do you mean, can you also understand it in this way, if those people die before they are completely dominated by the virus......"
"Die before being dominated by the virus?"
Joyna was stunned for a moment, repeating Dongfang Lu's words, not realizing that there was anything wrong with this sentence.
Two seconds later, she suddenly came to her senses, and it was this sentence that made her eyes light up.
"No, you can't do that!" Joyna shook her head decisively, "In that case, what is the difference between us and those monsters?" ”
"However, we have ...... time," Dongfang Lu said with some hesitation.
Joyna looked at the light screen again, and judging from the image of the drone, the nameless town had completely disappeared from the map.
The drone fired three loitering missiles in a row, turning the town into ruins in the blink of an eye, which she personally ordered, but she never expected to be tortured by her conscience.
The Eastern Way means that the best thing to do is to kill the survivors.
"Although they may not be saved, this devastating means can turn us into bloodthirsty madmen, murderers and thugs...... No, I can't do that! Joyna's voice seemed to be a little agitated this time.
For some reason, something suddenly touched her heart.
"So, are we going to save even those bloodthirsty thugs?" Dongfang Lu suddenly asked.
"What did you say?"
Joyna was stunned again, looking at Dongfang Lu's cold mechanical mask, and was speechless for a while.
"I mean, no matter who it is, good or bad, we have to bring it all together?"
"Hmm—good guys, bad guys......?"
Hearing Dongfang Lu's question, Joyna's heart trembled suddenly, and she couldn't hear it clearly in her small voice, more like she was muttering to herself.
After a few moments, she swept her long hair with her hand and said calmly, "We were thugs too, no, we're still gang thugs!" Nothing has fundamentally changed. ”
"I don't think we're much better than those guys on the ground, to be honest...... If we don't have a master, we're no different from those people, and the 'Flame Gang' was built by me, haven't you forgotten? ”
Joyna's tone was raised, but her answer was not very firm.
Dongfang Lu was indifferent, and seemed to be still thinking about the data.
For every human on the ground killed, that number can be increased a bit, there's no doubt about it.
Even Noah, the saint of the Bible, could not save everyone with the ark, he simply followed the will and prophecy of the Supreme One and prepared a great ship for the coming calamity, nothing more.
Joyna now wields the power of life and death, but she knows that since saints can't save everyone, the problem may not be a problem.
But having said that, Joyna's mood can be said to be extremely bad now, and she seems to know what the crux of the problem is.
There was not enough time for her to bring everyone to the Flying Fortress, it was an ironclad fact.
It is also true that people on the ground either become enemies of the walking dead or humans, or are eaten by monsters.
But in the area of her mind that she doesn't want to touch, in the soft space deep inside, she always seems to be avoiding this big question.
It was the ultimate question, so much so that she didn't have time to think about it, and she didn't know how to think about it.
The purpose of this transfer is to preserve the fire of mankind and fulfill the master's entrustment. Although she had never thought about it more deeply, some things were just like that, and they were so close that they couldn't be avoided even if they didn't think about it.
The "Sword of Damocles" hanging above her head cannot be seen or touched, but it does not mean that it does not exist.
The question came at a timely time as she was about to take her next step.
At the same time, it also made her feel very desperate.
This is the case in this era, if anyone who has killed or robbed someone is considered a thug, then who here is not?
Who hasn't had blood on their hands and doesn't have a few lives on their hands?
Although she has been saying to herself that this is forced by the times, if she doesn't be ruthless first, someone will be ruthless, the weak will eat the strong, and the loser will turn into dirt - when she crawled out of the hibernation warehouse, she understood this truth early on.
Instead of being treated as a lamb to be slaughtered, it is better to turn yourself into a beast and fight your way out to survive in the troubled times.
Dongfang Lu, Daddy, Raven, Chen Liuwang, and those of the Blood Clan and the other masters' men, of course, including themselves......
All people are the same, in order to survive, their hands are stained with other people's blood.
The good people will definitely live, and the bad people will be destroyed? It's a difficult question to answer.
What is a good person and what is a bad person?
It's also a naïve question that never exists in the adult world. Everything is for profit, and ensuring maximum profit is the fundamental principle of what people do.
Dongfang Lu may be right, Joyna finds that his mind and personality are becoming more and more like a machine. All he had in his head was data, and the analysis was very organized, cold, rational, and sometimes even cruel.
Whether ordinary people or vicious thugs, are these human beings entitled to live?
The answer is not known at all, just like the mutation that happened to me, is this the evolution of humanity or something else?
I don't know what to think of, and there was a sudden nameless throbbing in Joyna's heart, enough to make any sane person crazy.
She even thought of a phrase from the Bible—"I was blind, but now I see."
In any case, these people will not be able to survive on the ground at all, and as the master said, they will be turned into blood food and enemies of otherworldly monsters.
"Kill those people so that they can finally be freed?"
Is this the ultimate solution?
Joyna's heart shook violently, as if at this moment, her breathing also stopped with the beating of her heart!