Chapter 51: The Last Question
Lu Yuansheng's eyes lit up when he heard his words, and he lifted the wine glass in front of him and splashed it on his face.
Artiste reached out to block the oncoming drink, but the gown on his body was still inevitably wet. However, the material of this fabric is special, and when the wine is sprinkled on it, it immediately rolls off the surface, leaving almost no obvious stains.
"Shut your mouth and explain how to get them back to normal!"
The dress that had just escaped from the drink was pulled by Lu Yuansheng by the collar in the blink of an eye.
"Mr. Judge, don't be so excited, okay?"
Atiste pushed his hands forward, signaling Lu Yuansheng to calm down.
"Let's talk, I owe you a question, and if you want to know the answer to it, then I'll be happy to answer it for you."
He carefully pressed the other party's arm again, but this time, Lu Yuansheng did not let go of his strength.
Lu Yuansheng could see that the battlefield situation below that had just begun to collide head-on was extremely bloody, and the polluters who had just rushed up were beaten into a ball of blood by an orderly salvo, and in a short time, dozens of shapeless corpses appeared on the border.
But the equally enraged polluters unleashed their potential, relying on their mutated inhuman abilities to suppress gunfire and successfully wound and even crush one soldier after another before they died.
The countermeasures bureau is caught in the middle, neither advancing nor retreating, and it is difficult to distinguish which camp it wants to help for a while.
In desperation, Artiste deliberately accidentally flicked the thunder lamp next to him with his elbow.
The thunderbolt suddenly fell with a thud, and it was about to roll off the guardrail to the vertical wall next to it.
Lu Yuansheng let go of his hands for the first time and entered the still world, seeing that the thunder lantern was still stopped in the air that could be reached out, he breathed a sigh of relief.
He didn't know what would happen when the lightning lantern fell from a high altitude, but if it exploded due to damage, the power of a small nuclear bomb would destroy everything in the underground space.
At the moment of disarming the power, he managed to get the thunder lantern back, and this time, he held the dangerous thing in his hand while looking at Atiste indifferently.
Artiste straightened up in front of him, straightened his neckline, and still maintained that hypocritical smile.
"It's a pity, I thought I would see a brilliant fireworks before I died. Did you know? When it explodes, it emits a beautiful blue-silver chain of flashes that bloom one after another in every part of its effective attack range. Except for the mountain god festival once a month, I haven't seen such beautiful fireworks again."
Seeing that Lu Yuansheng didn't react, he immediately said again.
"Mr. Judge, if you really want to get them back to normal, then I can do that too."
As he snapped his fingers, the radio speakers in the cave sounded a gentle tune.
"Let's think of this as the entrance song to tonight's concert."
After hearing the soft music, the charging polluters gradually stopped, and the pale pink in the whites of their eyes had begun to fade.
But looking at the tragic death of their companions, what arose in their hearts was an endless deep fear.
"But do you think they will die faster when faced with unrivaled high-powered weapons without the help of medicine?"
As Artiste said, although their movements stopped and they fled in fear, the army's clearance did not stop. The fear of the polluters made it easier for the army to slaughter them.
"And not because of you?"
Lu Yuansheng was angry, and the green tendon of his right hand that grabbed the thunder lamp appeared, as if he was about to crush the thunder lamp, and his eyes were also full of killing intent.
"Mr. Judge, what you said is not right, you are the one who asked me to remove the collar, and it was you who asked them to return to normal, but in the end, it was me who was wrong."
Artiste scratched his head, looking like he couldn't figure it out.
However, in the face of the judge's murderous gaze, he quickly changed his tone again.
"It's okay, Mr. Judge, you can think whatever you want, and I'll do you a small favor to stop this battle for the time being."
Another crisp snap of the fingers, and all the video equipment in the cave showed the image of the hostage.
The image signal was also transmitted to the communication band that had been beating randomly in the army, and the engineers in the rear also received this picture.
Before the army's engineers could figure out how this random and secret communication band had been deciphered, Artiste's voice rang out.
"Please stop attacking all the polluters at once, or one more of them will die, and I will kill two hostages."
The silver-armored warrior standing in the air also received this relay message, and it was a voice that he was very familiar with.
"Cheng Jiang?"
His gaze swept over the tallest building, and then, with the help of the AI, he located the location of Atyste and Lu Yuansheng.
As his vision zoomed in, he noticed that Artiste's outfit was very different from the Cheng Jiang he knew, and his intuition told him that it was a despicable pretender.
"No need for a ceasefire, continue to clear."
The Silverarmoured Warrior continued to maintain his original commands, and he continued to say in the open band within the team, "I know you can hear that all the staff here are from military backgrounds, and they have signed a life and death agreement, and they will not fear death."
"Mr. Judge, did you hear that?"
Atiste shrugged his shoulders and signaled his helplessness.
With another polluter tragically dying below, Atiste's specially arranged personnel immediately selected two hostages nearby and shot them in the head, and the footage was also broadcast live at the same time.
But that wasn't enough, and the footage received in the army then shifted to the vast underground laboratory of the battlefield, and the researchers didn't know when they were rushed together, and the muzzle of the black hole was pointed at them.
A number of vicious polluters have taken over the underground research area under the arrangement of Adis, bringing all research to a standstill. And the last experiment, the progress is always stuck in the last few steps.
However, except for the internal channels of the army, no one else received this picture.
"Ceasefire!"
The silver-armored warrior's face sank when he saw this scene, and he had to shout to stop. Because these researchers are very valuable resources, and the knowledge in their minds is incomparably rich.
Even if they also signed a life-and-death agreement, it doesn't mean that they can really give up easily.
"You see, Mr. Judge, people always have to pay a little price to know how to restrain."
In response to Artiste was a resounding slap in the face.
Although Lu Yuansheng didn't see what was happening in the underground laboratory, in the blink of an eye, he saw that Artist had killed a new hostage, and he couldn't control his anger.
He was already very restrained, otherwise he would have been greeted by a sharp knife now.
"Hahaha, Mr. Judge, you are so kind-hearted, completely different from the scum of our dark world."
Artiste climbed up from the ground and laughed heartily in satisfaction, not caring at all what the other had just done, and deliberately belittling himself.
"But I can't help it, look at the weapons of those armies, these are all high-energy weapons based on the core of Yaojing, and they are completely different from the guards we have seen before. Unless they come up with something to make the other side fearful, how can they be stopped from continuing to slaughter these poor polluters?"
"Tell me, what the hell do you want me to do?"
Lu Yuansheng held back his anger and didn't want to waste time, so he asked straightforwardly. He knew that the other party had gone to great lengths to get him here, and there must be another purpose.
"It's up to you, what do you want to do?" Artiste shook his chin, "Also, is this your last question?" I've answered a lot of your questions free of charge, and from now on, I can't reveal any more unless that's your last
Question."
"You can ask me how I saved everyone here, you can ask me about my secrets, and of course, you can continue to ask, 'What is our purpose?'"
Lu Yuan was born into a still world, and he needed more time to think about this issue, which could determine many important things.
He was really concerned about what had happened more than a decade ago, and he had been ready to put it aside, but it wasn't until this trip to the cave that he rekindled his interest in it.
But after so many years, I don't seem to care about this day or two.
Not to mention, looking at the polluters scattered below, he hesitated.
He still owes Xiaobai a promise, clearly saying that he will let those innocent polluters have a chance to go out and let them apologize to Xiaobai, but now I don't know how many people are still alive.
It seems that colleagues in the countermeasures bureau are trying to bring together and rescue these polluters as much as possible, but with a dozen of them, facing an elite force of more than 1,000 people, can they really succeed?
In addition, he is also concerned about what conspiracy he is involved in, which may determine his future life.
Obviously, he just wants to spend the rest of his life in peace, but why does trouble keep coming to him one after another.
"I want ......"
The world returned to normal, and Lu Yuansheng was about to speak, but Artiste interrupted him.
"Remember what I kept for you temporarily, I wonder if you took the time to take a look?"
Lu Yuansheng hadn't taken it out since he stuffed the envelope into his pocket along with the strange scriptures, so he naturally didn't know what was inside.
"Since you don't, you'd better take a look at it now, and then tell me what you want to ask."
According to what he said, Lu Yuansheng took out the envelope, and inside was a black lacquered letterhead, but there was no decoration, and on the front of the reverse, a sentence was written in Juanxiu's font:
After opening this envelope, you will join us, and all the truth of the world will be opened to you. All the difficulties you encounter, you can find a way to get rid of. In this world, both the poor, the weak, and the desperate can be redeemed. 】
"I know you have many, many questions that you want to ask and are struggling to decide at this point. But it doesn't matter, as long as you join us, then I can guarantee that all doubts will no longer be doubts, and all the people here will be saved according to your will."
"If you're willing to join us, please open this envelope."
Atist's demonic whisper rang out from the side, tempting Lu Yuansheng to open the envelope.
"So, what about the cost?" Lu Yuansheng snorted coldly, "Could it be that I want to become a dirty worm like you who only knows how to kill?"
"Ugh."
Artiste sighed and shook his head.
"I can be a filthy rat, but don't look down on us for an organization with lofty ideals, my master will save the world. However, it seems like I've answered the question for free again, and now it's up to you to decide, and you can go ahead and ask what we need to pay to join."
Lu Yuansheng pinched the envelope and only looked at it one more time, then spun it like a flying blade and threw it back, but it was also accurately picked up by Atiste with two fingers.
"I remember trading this for your permissions, right? Then I think the permissions are more suitable for me."
He declined the invitation.
"At the same time, my question is: how can I save all the innocent people here?"
After all, he still chose to save people, obviously he had other concerns that he wanted to ask, but looking at the corpses all over the ground, he still changed his mouth and asked this question.
He believed that if more support from the countermeasures bureau arrived, the situation would be brought under control in the end, but before that, how much sacrifice would it take?
You must know that the high-energy batteries on the dozen or so combat vehicles have almost completed a new round of charging.
Ironically, however,
The person who answered the question was clearly the culprit behind all this.
Atiste asked in a surprised tone, "You actually asked this most useless question?" Obviously, there is a ready-made answer just now. Of course, I understand what you mean, and my answer is: it is almost impossible for you to save them alone."
"Unless, you become a hero."
"But even if you become a hero to everyone here, you won't be able to save them all."
"In the same way, even if you can save them, as a killer living on the dark side of the world, you are destined to face the rest of the darkness and filth of this world in the future, and when the time comes...... Can you still be saved?"
"You must know that since Yaojing advanced the weapons of this era to the high-energy era, everything has changed, except for the equivalent technology, no people, no living beings, and even this earth cannot resist the advanced weapons of human beings, otherwise why should these things be added with a 'restricted-level prefix.'"
"In the face of restricted-level technological weapons, we humans who have gained a certain amount of strength by mutation are not enemies at all, and we, as a small killer, are destined to have no way to change the fate of those innocents, or even the fate of this world."
"It's a pity that you missed an opportunity, an opportunity that was destined to change your fate."
After saying that, Artist lowered his head slightly, reached out and took out the small control panel with permissions from his arms, and handed it to the other party.
When Lu Yuansheng wanted to take it, he held the other party's right hand tightly with both hands, making sure that the control panel was stuffed into the palm of the other party's palm, which was also the last respect he expressed to the judge.
He kept his promise.
"Mr. Judge, it's time for you to become a hero."
"Heroes have the power to change the world."