Chapter 2: The Gate of Truth

The mission issued by the Great Will is to "preserve the flame of human civilization", but to what extent does it need to be regarded as preserving the flame of human civilization?

Is it possible to preserve the spark of human civilization as long as hundreds of healthy pairs of fertile men and women are guaranteed to survive, and at the same time the data stored in human civilization is retained and handed over to them at the last time?

Or, like in mythology, as long as there is a man and a woman, let them keep popping and creating another nation?

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No one dares to say that their answer to this esoteric philosophical ♂ question is correct.

But, at the very least, the vast majority of those present thought that what the current coalition government of Earth was doing was not kind.

From the memories of more than a dozen Manhattans, everyone learned that at the G8 summit two years ago, the government passed a plan called "Ark" to secretly build ten giant arks to survive the apocalypse.

Where are these 10 arks? What does it look like? How many people can a ship carry? ……

According to a spokesman for the coalition government, each ark can accommodate five million people, and the government assures that the vast majority of those who will be on board are citizens who have been scientifically tested for good health and good genes...... Therefore, the government hopes that everyone will not be excited, remain calm, show the dignity of human beings in the face of natural disasters, and let the world see the positive energy of human beings in this world~~

Who are you fooling with this?!

No one with the slightest sense of common sense would believe that a broken ship can fit five million people! You should be stuffing a corpse!

But—

But many people believe it!

In other words, self-deception, self-anesthesia.

Bloody repression by force, fear of chaos, nostalgia for life...... And so on and so forth, these complex emotions are intertwined, and nowadays, many people have "returned" to a "normal" "life......

Especially in the Qing Kingdom, which has thousands of years of fine Shunmin tradition (we don't even use the word heaven and dynasty, who can harmonize me, hehe), the general cities and towns have long been restored to calm, and even the big cities have temporarily become harmonious under the strict patrols of the military and police......

However, in the United States, where the people have become accustomed to demonstrations, these people are naturally not so easy to speak, and confrontation with the government has been carved into the bones of these guys, and almost every second, violent clashes between citizens and the military and police occur in American cities.

Because of this, not long ago, the coalition government made a ridiculous decision -

Barrier!

That's right, just like the Berlin Wall between East and West Germany, the government used tall barricades to enclose living quarters, and there were military patrols outside, prohibiting residents from coming and going at will!

At the same time, in order to appease the emotions of the police, soldiers and other armed personnel so that they can "work" with their hearts (which in the eyes of Zhang Shen and others is more like provoking confrontation between the two sides), their families and relatives have been taken out and lived in specially circled areas, so that they have no "worries".

This kind of terrible thing, if the news of the end spreads, will definitely trigger a lot of messy things such as "strong condemnation" from people around the world and "solemn protests" and "urging" from various governments. But now, everyone is in debt, and they can't handle their own affairs, who is in the mood to take care of your affairs?

It is precisely because of the establishment of the isolation zone that Zhang Shen and others saw the extremely desolate and dead scene of Manhattan.

However, the more repressive the upper echelons, the more revolting the lower strata became. The dozen or so people who were captured by the guards slipped out of the quarantine area. Some of them were looking for supplies, but most of them were out to attack the patrolling soldiers and police, and two even tried to get into the area where the families of the officers and soldiers lived and threw homemade bombs inside......

After freeing the dozen or so guys who had become stupid because they had injured their brains, everyone found a wide place to discuss the follow-up.

The huge venue was a little noisy because it was crammed into more than 200 people.

Perhaps with extraordinary strength, everyone instinctively released their own breath and spoke according to their strength.

All 222 people, there are no super powerhouses in the "Law" realm, of which there are 23 strong people in the "Spirit" realm, 65 people in the "transcendental" realm, 21 people in the "non-stream" realm, and the remaining 113 people are all in the "mortal" realm.

By the way, Ouyang Tianqi had already broken through the "mortal" realm and became a member of the "extraordinary" realm.

Even if they are both in the "spirit" realm, there are strong and weak differences.

After a brief breath contact, the strongest seven were tacitly appointed as the commanders of this urgent mission.

Coincidentally, it happened to be one of each of the seven continents. They are Yan Huang's Long Tao, South Asia's Jin Sanxing, Africa's Masknuya, South America's Bydrik, North America's Sam, Europe's Skarnov, and Central Asia's Muhammer.

Most of the people who came to this world were in squad mode, and there were very few scattered people. So, Long Tao and the others discussed a few words, and asked each team to send one person, and the scattered people selected three, and then these people preliminarily agreed on the next action together.

Zhang Shen's four-person team sent Ouyang Tianqi.

In the enchantment, Long Tao and the others were discussing the follow-up plan warmly and seriously, and the other side was equally enthusiastic and noisy.

Even, I don't know who started the live trading first, and after that, it simply became a temporary trading place.

Everyone knows that this mission must be dangerous, and in order to get more survival chips, everyone will take out the temporarily unimportant things for exchange, hoping to exchange them for items that are beneficial to them.

Zhang Shen and Bu Lichen and Li Jing walked around the stalls, looking extremely hot, but unfortunately this is a barter, and the common points of several people are all used to exchange for the inheritance of strength and related things, even if other props are low-level goods in the "newcomer gift package", no one wants it at all.

In fact, it's not just Zhang Shen and the three. Since most of the people who came to this world were newcomers, everyone had little money left to buy props that they couldn't use for the time being, and they could only wander around like Zhang Shen and the three of them.

In the process of "shopping", Zhang Shen found a very frustrated guy.

It was a young man in a suit and leather shoes, with his hair parted and his head waxed and shiny. There was only one thing in front of him, and that was a very common silver metal lockbox. However, there are five big characters floating on the metal box -

Nuke Controller!!

Damn, do you know how to hang your family??!

Five words, blinded everyone's eyes, and he was immediately worshiped by onlookers. From the excited talk of others, Zhang Shenzhi said his name - Tang Tian! (Salute to the arms maniac of pure technology stream, friends who like infinite stream should have seen it)

At first, there were still people who didn't believe it, but when the guardian "seniors" heard the news and walked towards this side, and greeted Tang Tian with a smile, everyone's eyes looking at him suddenly changed.

Tang Tian is a big celebrity in the Guardian Space. He is a loose person, insisting on taking the route of science and technology, and has experienced more than a dozen missions in the world, and no one knows his real strength. Although he is only a "mortal" realm, it is said that if he is fully fired, it is enough to completely destroy the real earth in just one hour.

"I'll go, Tang Tian, what are you doing with a nuclear warhead, are you really going to exchange it?"

"Don, you're not just trying to be in the limelight, are you?"

"Don, are you interested in joining our sect?"

"Don, it's better for you to put away such a dangerous item."

"Local tyrant, let's make friends."

"If you don't mess around, we're still good friends."

"Will warm the bed and beg for support."

In the face of everyone's ridicule, talking, and teasing, Tang Tian sat on his little pony and smiled a little smugly.

"Don't forget that the betrayer has left a back hand in this world, you are so conspicuous, be careful to be the first to find ......" From the conversation of the dragons, Zhang Shenzhi said that this guy likes to be in the limelight, but he didn't expect him to be like this at this time, and he suddenly thought of it maliciously.

In addition to Tang Tian, a guy who took the opportunity to be in the limelight, Zhang Shen saw something that made him very excited in the process of getting over his eyes.

The Gate of Truth!

For anyone who wants to become a powerful alchemist, the "Gate of Truth" is an indispensable item.

The operation of alchemy is based on the application and analysis of the laws of the world, however, in different worlds, the laws are similar or even very different, and the techniques that can work perfectly in this world may not be able to start at all or even become very strange and dangerous things in another world.

If there is no Gate of Truth, the alchemist must first spend a lot of time familiarizing himself with the basic rules of the world, and it is very troublesome to modify and revise the original technique.

Moreover, what if there was a fierce battle just after entering that world?

A bolt of lightning struck, and what was intended to be a wall of ice blocked it turned into water...... The consequences can be imagined.

But with the Door of Truth it's different.

The "Gate of Truth", as its name suggests, contains a great deal of "truth" – that is, the rules of the world.

Summoning the Gate of Truth, he can distort the rules of the world world on a small scale, ignore the rules of the world world, and directly follow the rules he is familiar with...... Because of this ability, it is also known as the [Pseudo Realm Gate].

In addition, it has the functions of "amplification" and "parsing".

"Amplification" is easy to understand, and as for "analysis", it plays a function such as a microscope, magnifying the operating rules hidden under the performance of the world and displaying them for alchemists to see clearly, so as to adjust their own techniques in the shortest possible time and adapt to the rules of the world world, so as to avoid big oolongs when using alchemy.

The one who took out the door of truth in exchange was a middle-aged man with a full beard, gray hair naturally curled, and he looked a lot like the famous musician Pavarotti in Zhang Shen's memory.

What is even more commendable is that his door to truth is still "blank", and no truth has yet been carved and imprinted.

Zhang Shen had seen the blank door of truth on the exchange list of the Great Will, and he needed to contribute 1,000 general points and 60,000 general points from the World Realm, which was terrifyingly expensive. Even the pure Gate of Truth refining method required the World Realm to contribute 400 general points and 10,000, which discouraged Zhang Shen. (The knowledge of the Gate of Truth in the "Encyclopedia of Alchemy" is the cognition of it in the world of steel refining, and naturally there is no such "high-end" thing as the refining method)

"This friend, I see that you are also an alchemist, why, are you very interested in my door of truth?" The bearded man smiled at Zhang Shen, who was staring at the Gate of Truth with shining eyes, and beckoned, "As long as you can take out an item that contains enough life force, it will be yours, how about it?" ”