Book IV, 160: Liberation from Hell's Gate

The way up was much easier than the way down, the flames had burned everything in the vicinity, and with the destruction of the bones, the Night's Watch legionnaires had all disappeared, and it didn't take long for them to reach the bottom of the Gates of Hell.

"It looks like we arrived in time, if we come a little later, when the chains are completely lifted, it will be difficult to find the [Gates of Hell]." Looking at the filthy air mass that swayed above and seemed to be about to fly away, Fredlin said happily.

With the collapse of the forbidden art, the [Divine Purification and Demon Purification], the golden chains that had penetrated into the [Gate of Hell] and fixed them in mid-air had been shattered one by one due to the loss of their magical power. Of the original hundreds, there were less than fifty left when they arrived, and the [Gates of Hell] had already been dangling in the air constantly because of this reduction in control.

"Without further ado, I'll begin the ritual of transferring inhibition now."

As he spoke, Fredlin was already flying into the air, placing himself a little below the Gates of Hell, and then jerked out his arm and plunged into the filthy air mass above.

Suddenly, with the generation of this action, Fredlin suddenly unfolded the huge bone wings behind him, the scarlet wing surface covered a range of dozens of meters, and a black light deeper than jet black emerged from the surface, but it was a strange rune. It worked as if to connect Fredlin's body to the [Hell's Gate], and after the black light gradually spread all over his body, Fredlin's entire form suddenly became illusory and transparent, looking from below. You can see the huge swirls of clouds that cover the sky above.

At this moment, the most conspicuous sign of the devil's arrival on earth has also changed dramatically.

The clouds became thicker, but the color changed from black to gray, the same as that of ordinary red-eyed devils, but the electricity in them became denser and denser, and the flickering and intertwined power grid slowly forced the huge fireball in the center upwards, seemingly farther and farther from the ground.

On the other hand, the Gates of Hell are no longer moving around, and are completely fixed in the air, and they should be in an illusory form. It has gradually developed towards a sense of substance. At best, this is a little slower.

It was only then that Fredlin had time to solemnly advise Chen Xi and Fisher below: "This time doesn't take too long, after an hour, I will be able to transfer all the inhibition of the [Hell Gate] to me." At that time. There will be a steady stream of troops from hell to earth. But I can't move or do anything else in the process, and it's up to you to keep anything in check that can interrupt me. ”

"Containment?" Fisher asked, puzzled.

"Do you think that the Holy Communion is all that the people who have been with Gubernard have not seen it? These guys will have some of the Church's forbidden arts, and don't forget, with the collapse of the forbidden arts, the [God Purification Demon Crusade], the restrictions that could not be teleported to Fieldland have also been lifted, even if it is difficult for the church to send a large amount of power at once, and they are worried that the sudden departure of high-end power will cause the headquarters to be empty, but the Templar Order and the Inquisition can still send some people to do it. ”

Fredlin reminded the two: "The Devil Cloud Map that now looms over the Staple region can only prevent them from using spells to investigate, but it cannot restrict them from teleporting, so we must race for time to open the [Gates of Hell] before the church organizes a greater force to come here, so that the reinforcements from Hell can continue to be sent over." ”

"Isn't that a little too dangerous?" Chen Xi said hesitantly.

"You want to slip away?" Fisher said with a cruel smile, a particularly dangerous look appeared in his eyes at the same time, and it seemed that if Chen Xi answered yes, he would have to make some kind of decision.

"Of course not, but if there was anything in return, I would be a little more motivated." Chen Xi is very justified in asking for compensation.

"Well, I can promise you that if you can do your best in this process, I'll give you another good thing later." Fredlin readily agreed, "Fisher, you too. ”

As long as it successfully opens the [Gate of Hell] and releases countless aliens from hell, then for the human world, they are already half of the victory. Compared to this, it is nothing to give up a few things.

Fredlin's expectation was good, but the unexpected came very suddenly.

"Lately, I've been tossing and turning and having trouble sleeping"

"Looking forward to the day when we can break through the darkness"

"Don't hide in a dark, damp sewer"

"You don't have to be afraid, you can only cry silently"

"For the sake of my family, I began to pray as sincerely as I could"

"I'd rather give up the world of drunken gold"

"I'd rather give up that materialistic life"

"If only we could break through the darkness and look to the light, yes, to the light!"

……

When an ethereal chorus of singing came faintly out of nowhere, the apocalyptic scene that hung over the entire sky over Fieldland suddenly changed.

The dark clouds exploded, the dawn broke, and a large amount of light rain fell from them, and they gently blended into the ground, giving warmth to this dilapidated world with a moist color. And in the places where the manhole covers are distributed on the ground, there is gradually a kind of indescribable brilliance, like hope, like faith, and like a kind of wordless love.

It's just that one thing is different from what Friedlin imagined, this kind of mutation does not come from the church represented by the Holy Father, but from the ordinary underground people who were not taken to heart by it.

……

According to a report from the ZF Statistical Survey of later generations, declared.

In the Doomsday Crisis of Fieldland, the nearly 500,000 citizens who originally went underground, after continuous destruction and restrictions by various measures, as of the time when the forbidden art, [Divine Purification and Demon Hunting], opened the third form, less than 300,000 people were still able to move freely.

Of the 200,000 people who lost their ability to move freely, only 80,000 died unnatural deaths, and less than 10,000 of them died due to some alien invasions occasionally leaked out by the [Gates of Hell].

In this regard, the main reason is that the citizens living in the passage generally lack the enthusiasm to visit the door, that is, the indifference between the neighbors, which leads to the untimely detection of dangerous situations, so that those aliens can take advantage of the opportunity to complete the process of rapid encroachment on some citizens with weak mental will. The rest is that sanitation is not in place. Many citizens are still accustomed to not changing their clothes, sleeping with shoes, and not bathing at night, which makes the living environment distributed with a lot of insects and small animals, which becomes the main source of demonic creatures when the mutation occurs.

However, fortunately, usually when an incident occurs, our city management and the guards can quickly arrive at the scene in time to punish these evil creatures that threaten the safety of the people.

Of the remaining 70,000 people, 40,000 died due to mutual avoidance and untimely reporting of the abnormal process. This accounts for the vast majority of the deaths.

This part of the citizens mainly did not believe in ZF, did not believe in the work ability and sense of responsibility of the chengguan and the guards, and also had fear and suspicion of frontal lobotomy and vegetative measures, so they adopted a passive and evasive attitude in various temporary examinations, and were not active in carrying temporary residence permits.

Due to the above-mentioned reasons, this led to the fact that in the environment at that time, the urban management and the guards could not accurately monitor and count the abnormal changes of the general public, and then some citizens could not eliminate the hidden dangers in time through frontal lobotomy and vegetative measures in the later stage of the abnormal process, until it caused a tragic incident that affected individuals and others.

As for the 20,000 people who died at the end of the day, it was all due to personal psychological and behavioral resistance to radio content, and even affected others.

This segment is mainly young citizens between the ages of 15 and 35. Considering themselves rock music lovers, they not only disagree with and do not listen to the radio songs with healthy, positive, and optimistic content, resulting in the inability to feel the love and warmth of positive energy from the songs in this regard, but even hide and play the theme of the song that is banned by ZF, and absorb the content of the song containing a lot of negative emotions, resulting in emotional instability and an early outbreak of abnormal madness. Not only hurt yourself, but also others.

Comparatively speaking, most of the citizens who believed in ZF and the work ability and attitude of the chengguan and the guards survived.

According to statistics, only 5,000 of the 120,000 citizens who had undergone vegetative measures and frontal lobotomy were killed, and the vast majority of them were guards equipped with self-explosive devices who died heroically in the line of duty to protect people's property.

Among them, eighty percent of them were in the last battle of the Doomsday Crisis in Fieldland, facing the opponent's powerful outliers and dying with the enemy. (To be continued......)