There is only one thing in the world that is fair.

That is death.

In the face of death, no matter the power or the poor, whether the peerless beauty or the bell tower monster, whether the wise or the foolish, all beings bow down in front of it.

Shuji Tsushima knows that there is a saying in the East: Heaven and earth are not benevolent, and all things are used as dogs. That's what it means. In the face of great power, human beings, the advanced species that claim to rule the earth, are no different from pigs, dogs, horses and sheep.

As he stepped out of the helicopter, Shuji Tsushima saw Persephone walking towards him. This nobleman of the demons had a feminine appearance, and looked like a young blonde woman with a few sparse freckles on her face. Shuji Tsushima respectfully kissed her hand, and the two touched it as soon as they touched it.

Persephone is one of the most influential people in the joint conference so far, and because of his area of competence, he has been appointed as the general director of the cleanup of downtown Manhattan.

Around them, heavily armed army soldiers trotted past in a line, helicopter gunships flew over their heads, and the wind pressure from the fan blades blew Persephone's blonde hair up and down to form a pale golden flag.

"Good afternoon, Your Highness Persephone." Shuji Tsushima bowed gently.

"Good afternoon, His Highness Shuji Tsushima." Persephone returns the favor. For demons, "ritual" is a simplified "ritual," a deep-rooted cultural tradition of respect for ritual.

"Commissioned by the Flame Man, I will oversee the process of suppressing the entire territory of North America." Shuji Tsushima glanced at the soldiers around him, "They're efficient, in terms of humans. ”

Persephone's freckles smiled as if they were wrinkled.

"His Royal Highness Shuji Tsushima. Do you really think that this mechanized transformation is our best strategy for domination? ”

"I don't see a flaw." Lu Mengyao's envoy responded insincerely.

"From an animal and social point of view. This transformation is a leap forward...... Evolution, if you've been as concerned about the direction of human evolution as I am. Well, I'm afraid you've heard of the concept of 'psychic networks'. Persephone, dressed in a black military uniform, lit a cigarette, "In terms of the evolution of the human species, psychic power may appear in a highly developed mind. Then there was Darwin's natural selection, a gene expression that would begin to spread widely thousands of years later – if they hadn't already ruined themselves. ”

"You think the mechanical spider forcibly accelerated the process?" Shuji Tsushima walked past an armored personnel carrier with her, the tracks slowly turning on the concrete pavement, the cold-eyed soldier sitting on the roof of the car, and the assault rifle on his back had more silver lines and a few more mysterious colors.

"It's obvious." Persephone stopped two steps and tucked his blonde hair into his collar. "We are essentially beings who rely on the power of the mind, polymers walking in hell...... We feed on the desires and sins of our souls...... According to the original trajectory, we will reach the peak of our power in the era of the rise of psychic abilities - after that, perhaps, the age of the psychic network of all mankind, and civilization will be completely transformed...... Will our race continue to exist at that time? Will it become part of this network, or will it die out entirely? ”

"We were born at the beginning of civilization, and as long as humanity does not die, we will not die. We are the opposite of light, the embodiment of original sin and desire......" Shuji Tsushima thought about. "If we leave this world, the Light will also depart."

"We are nothing more than a collection of fragments of minds." Persephone scoffed, "I remember what I was, nothing more than a broken soul. Hunger devours the fragments of a qiē it comes into contact with to sustain itself, a mixture of man and beast - as is the case with many powerful demons. ”

"And you're human again." Shuji Tsushima smiled.

Persephone shook his head and said, "No." We are not human. It's just something that looks a lot like a human. You know, we don't have souls. Our structure is a collection of deformed, anomalous, and countless pieces that come together...... We don't have a heart, only an empty shell supported by logic and desire. There is only one way. It can give birth to a new soul in us. ”

Shuji Tsushima was speechless for a moment.

"You're talking about giving birth to an heir."

"Yes, only the strongest demons have the power to condense into new life, and out of nothingness is born a new soul, an entity born out of emptiness and emptiness."

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[Codename "Purification"]

【Location: New York】

[Time: D-Day, D+3]

[Time 1530, the number of troops put into the city has reached 25,000 people, one mechanized infantry division, one armored division. and the bombing forces of the Air Force, which operate in tandem. Due to the complex terrain and the variety of enemy forms, progress is very slow. 】

Shuji Tsushima wrote in a report on his tablet. He sat in the cabin of the helicopter, and the whistling of the fan blades was slightly annoying. Bird-like low-level demons frantically attacked the fuselage, being smashed to ashes by the cannons, and many more were twisted into slag by fan blades.

Outside the porthole, the blue sky was dyed a dim yellow by the demonic aura of war, and the temperatureless daylight shone on the shoulder-to-shoulder buildings, like the glint of dead dragon scales. The massive figure moved slowly from building to building, howling sharply under the concentrated fire, and the stumps of the deceased were detached from the massive polymer and moved like corpses glued together. Spider Web's armored forces ran over abandoned vehicles in the streets, and the artillery roared, firing shells into huge piles of corpses, blasting foul-smelling craters.

[The key areas marked on the satellite where the enemy has gathered have been repeatedly attacked by bombing crews. Only a very small number of vital signs can be detected at this time. His Highness Persephone's overall strategy was to expel them, and the intelligence of the low-level demons was not much different from that of the beasts, and as long as they were driven away by force, they would leave the city and enter the wilderness. 】

The communication channel in the headset echoes with an orderly information return, and the spider web has a unique electromagnetic communication system, and this official communication channel is more used for the recording and backup of war logs.

[At present, the main task of the combat unit is to annihilate the stubborn and tough wild demons at designated points. and rescuing the surviving human ...... It is estimated that 5 per cent of the total population remains in the city. Hundreds of thousands of refugees have been accommodated in the outer defense line before, and the search and rescue team is advancing with the armored forces in the city......]

Halfway through the write. Shuji Tsushima felt irritated inexplicably. He took off his headphones and turned off his tablet. Lean against the wall of the cabin and take a deep breath. This feeling is like confusion, uneasiness, and sadness, watching the world crumble in a freak of flames, and every common sense leaves me, like a sea fish that has entered the shallow water from deep water, and is blown into a blurred pool of flesh and blood by the "bang" of air pressure.

The world in the traditional sense has been destroyed, and with the general collapse of the social fabric, human civilization will be set back hundreds of thousands of years - as fragile as ice and snow on coal. This beautiful flower, like the rest of the world, was destroyed in the upheaval of the world.

The Great Demons, who are still hungry for power, try their best to maintain order and try to re-establish the authority of the government. Pretend to turn a blind eye to the fragile foundations of the world...... In this karmic fire that burns out the world, you may also become ashes.

The demon recalled the hundreds of years he had lived as a human being, and he saw the fragility of humanity, the fragility of the world, and in the midst of those brutal, tremendous forces, civilization slowly and slowly advanced, crawled, and blossomed into brilliant flowers...... He remembered that one day he was strolling under the cherry blossom trees with a bottle of wine, and the passers-by looked happy and innocent, completely unaware that his life might be ruined with the whole world in the next moment. These are the weak things. But there is a small beauty that those great powers do not have.

And the beauty of this peace is gone forever, and the earth has fallen into the abyss with the screams of demons, and has become the chessboard of the strong who stand high above the heavenly dome, and the splendid civilization has been wiped out in the movement of the chess pieces. Only the cold gods of the starry sky remained. Just as ever.

Shuji Tsushima closed his eyes and dialed a number from his satellite phone.

[Hey? 】

“…… Mandus did not die. He became one with the soul of his heir, and possessed a true soul. He has surpassed the demons. Became a ...... The god of hell. ”

【…… You wait. 】

The Man of Flame seemed to give the call to another person as he spoke. Shuji Tsushima recognized the voice, the man with long hair.

[Describe how much you know.] 】

"In order to completely control its empire. Mandus has always held my real name, but in turn, I have a ...... with it Contact. When it died, I couldn't really feel its breath for a while. But after a few days, the sensation returned...... But it became so weird that even I couldn't confirm if it was really Mandus. ”

Shuji Tsushima swallowed, his face haggard and aged from mental pain.

"I'm not afraid of death, and that's a relief for me. But I'm scared of how it makes me feel. It feels like you're seeing the abyss itself...... It's like touching hell, there's something more about it that makes it deeper and more terrifying than before. ”

There was silence on the other side of the call for a moment.

【…… Does it give you a feeling of "infinity"? 】

"Yes."

Shuji Tsushima spat out the word, and his heart suddenly became lighter. In the spiritual connection, the weight of the black shadow almost overwhelmed him, not only him, but all the archdemons experienced fear in silence, and intelligence from Eastern Europe said that several cities had been completely cleared.

On the map, a line representing death lies across the mountains and deserts of the continent, and at this moment when there is no communication, tens of millions of souls may have been destroyed by the demons walking on the earth, and the "infinite" thing devours all life along the way, including demons.

[Looks like we're going to deal with a new ...... God. (To be continued......)

PS：…… It's been relieved.

It took five days to finish fifteen days of design, squatting in the corridor in the middle of the night to draw, and only stumbling and sleeping for three hours at noon. Then I caught a plane and returned to Hangzhou at 12 o'clock in the evening, so tired that I slept in bed all day......

It's a relief......