Passing through rows of automatic turrets and defense machines, Zhang Su came to the entrance of the capital's bunker.

The Generalissimo used to command the Global Defense Program here.

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Su walked towards the huge retinal scanner, which could scan the eyes and even record the soul, and then guard against all spies.

He stared at the scanner's shimmering grid of scarlet lasers.

For a long time, nothing happened, and the silence was extreme.

So Zhang Su gave it a punch, and the anger surged, blowing it to pieces.

The bunker door buzzed and reluctantly opened.

Zhang Su walked down a wide passage and entered an open circular conference room.

It's huge, full of malfunctioning computer servers and monitoring consoles, equipment that hasn't been running in years, like black tombstones.

Zhang Su's gaze fell on the central strategic display platform.

It shone slightly, and as soon as Zhang Su approached, it functioned and rose again, forming a three-dimensional image of the Earth.

He reached out and stroked it, and it turned tamely, revealing the report for the last few days before the record stopped.

Zhang Su silently let it turn around, the earth was all marked red war zones, and the demons crushed everything.

His gaze fell on the dense mass of crisis reports, which were records of casualties, distress signals, and battle damage of troops during the apocalypse, which flashed and flashed due to the erratic work of equipment, forming an endless loop.

All of these reports came to an abrupt end, no longer recorded, frozen in time, the date of the last human resistance on Earth.

With a wave of his hand, Zhang Su put this virtual earth back in its place, and he didn't need numbers to prove it, he had already seen enough disasters with his own eyes.

"I knew you were coming." The Generalissimo's voice came from within the walls of the command center.

Didn't the generalissimo die?

Zhang Su turned his head and saw the wall covered in stains.

"You're still alive?" Zhang Su asked.

"I knew you were coming." The Generalissimo repeated, his voice deeper, "You came unscathed, stronger than you used to be." I know there's only one reason to get you back to the Capital Bunker, and that's Edith's Contract. ”

"I'm going to destroy that contract...... Mr. Zhang said.

Before Zhang Su could finish speaking, the generalissimo continued:

"I watched you walk through the streets of the ruins of Castle Jun, and watched you overcome all odds to get here alive, all you want is to end Edith's service? But you forgot, Edith betrayed humanity! When we needed her most, she fled to the Crimson Gardens, leaving the fragile human civilization to the demon army that came from the Ours. My army, my people, the eight billion people on the surface of the earth were slaughtered and exterminated! And all of this is because of her. ”

"Then when you first signed a contract with her, didn't you also hope that she could help humanity? Without Edith, humanity would not even be able to withstand the pressure of these hundred gates of hell. When the natural disaster came, she was also bound to lose in the war against the demons on Earth, but she persevered in the Scarlet Garden for a few years until I had the strength to help her. Now it's just the last breath, and just releasing her will solve the problem. Zhang Su said.

"All human hopes, intellects, and passions have perished, and you still think you can turn defeat into victory?" The Generalissimo's voice was very stern, the same as Zhang Su's impression.

"Absolutely." Zhang Su said, "Now tell me where the contract is." ”

"Go down." The Generalissimo said abruptly, "Edith's contract is there, go and destroy it." ”

The ground cracked, and a spiraling staircase appeared.

Zhang Su descended step by step and came to the core refuge room of the capital bunker.

He looked around and saw some simple decorations.

The file room next to it was stockpiled with mountains of top-secret information, very close and rich in content, Edith's contract was among them, and he could even feel the thick demonic aura.

Zhang Su went over to check the contents of the contract, and soon understood it.

As early as the 17th century, humans discovered the wandering Edith and signed a contract with her, promising to protect her, but she must help humanity develop, and its original intention was to balance the witches of the spirit world.

Edith did help humans kill a large number of high-risk witches, so it's no wonder that she later became a member of the Witch Countermeasures Bureau.

It's just the same way, to this day, Edith's identity has caused a demonic catastrophe that completely buried humanity.

"Generalissimo?" After Zhang Su learned the inside story, his attention was temporarily on the contract.

He wanted to see the Generalissimo himself, he had never seen him in his previous life or in this life.

The Generalissimo is tough, brave, very old, has persevered in resisting demons for nearly a hundred years, and has the courage to lead the entire earth to fight hard, and is definitely a hero among mankind.

However, such a tough guy, the toughest man ever, has no prestige and is unable to purge the team, causing traitors everywhere in the organization to fall apart.

Many people are just using the empty shell of the human defense plan to do their own thing, each finding a way to save themselves, and they are not cast into a monolith.

There are many mysteries about the generalissimo, and Zhang Su wants to see what such a person looks like.

However, there was no sound here except for the buzzing generator, and Zhang Su took a few steps forward, feeling that only a ghost was with him.

"Generalissimo? Generalissimo Shepard? He shouted one last time in the empty hallway.

At this point, the sound in the room at the end became brighter.

"I'm here!" said the generalissimo.

Zhang Su strode over and saw a place that resembled a private office.

An artificial intelligence program is working.

Its avatar is a mighty soldier in military uniform, with no medals on him, because no one has a rank greater than the Generalissimo, and no one is qualified to award him a medal.

It's exactly three o'clock in the afternoon.

"Our compatriots, we must not lose hope." The artificial intelligence shouts at regular intervals, repeating loudly and in a sonorous tone.

As it spoke, a city-wide radio announcement rang out from the ground in the distance, inspiring the empty grey streets.

The signals here can still be heard by human settlements, and on distant planets, there are human survivors who silently listen to the eternal signals from the castle, to the familiar, strong, and eternally harsh calling.

"Even now, you have to keep fighting! Keep fighting! I didn't give up, so you can't give up either! ”

On the desk, lying on his stomach was a skeleton in the same military uniform, with a bullet hole in his temple.

Zhang Su walked over to inspect and found that the generalissimo had been dead for fifty years.

……

……

Zhang Su passed through the airtight lock and returned to the moon base, and the demons quickly fled along the way, waiting for the high-level demons to arrive before fighting Zhang Su.

A handful of defense soldiers were also in place, waiting to fight the demons on the moon, their eyes gloomy and obviously lacking in confidence.

Zhang Su took Edith's contract and had mixed feelings.

"With your help, we have hope of fighting the demons." Zhang Su was holding Edith's contract in his hand, and it was piping hot.

"Good." Edith said, smiling at Ms. Zhang.

Lotus Mist is on guard to prevent Edith from taking advantage of the chaos to kill or escape.

Edith was neatly dressed, just like Zhang Su had done the first day he saw her.

Dressed in a white shirt, black trousers, black silk and red high heels, and long hair tied into a single ponytail, his gaze is soft, secretive and likable.

That's nice. Zhang Su thought.

Lianwu snorted.

"The contract stipulates that you must serve the Human Defense Program and cannot work for a third party. Just break the contract and you can help the surviving humans survive. Zhang Su inspected the contract.

"Yes." Edith whispered, "I knew you would be able to help me get it back." ”

Looking at Edith's expectant eyes and Lianwu's suspicious gaze, Zhang Su sighed and held up the contract, ready to destroy it.

"Be careful!" Lianwu couldn't help but say, "......"

"The enemy has arrived at the door." Zhang Su held it with both hands.

Edith looked at Zhang Su intently, as if she was expecting something.

"Once the contract is broken...... Edith would be completely free. Lianwu feels that it cannot be overemphasized.

"Don't be afraid." Edith said, "Don't be afraid. ”

"I know, I believe you're telling the truth, otherwise we wouldn't be where we are today." Zhang Su used his hands to destroy this long-sealed contract.

Soul liberation.

Edith let out a wail of near-relief, and she laughed.

"Now I ...... The last contract that controlled my soul is gone, and I can do whatever I want now. She said.

“！” Lotus Mist aimed her moon magic at Edith and was ready to do so.

"You saved my soul." Edith stood up, her body collapsing rapidly.

"Edit?!" Zhang Su rushed over and hugged her in his arms, feeling that there was not the slightest warmth on Edith.

Edith closed her eyes, bleeding from all her orifices, but her expression was sincere.

A large amount of blood flowed from her body, and it floated into the air like red threads, woven into a huge and intricate pattern, like an inverted cross.

More blood threads intertwined with each other, adding pattern and weight to it.

"Edith, this is ...... Your essence ......" Zhang Su's eyes widened.

Edith didn't open her eyes, but replied softly in the brilliant blood light.

"Yes, this is the true meaning of the massacre, and I have been preparing for it for a long time. I can't completely give up this power and turn it over to you under the constraints of my oath, but now I'm free. Listen to me, you're going to be a murderous demon. The world is not only slaughtered here, we are not unique, and there is no end to the objects of the sword. The mission of the Holocaust is to find the right weapons and imprint the true meaning of the massacre. Infernal Hell is your killing ground, and demons are the prey to chase compared to unarmed mortals. And the slaughter has a great effect, if you have ever seen the killing field, you will know that the most powerful demons can survive the slaughter, so when the wind of slaughter sweeps through hell, the surviving demons will walk behind the massacre in awe of this power. At that time, a new army of blood was created. Edith's body melted.

"If you give up your strength, isn't that death?" Zhang Su shouted, "I don't want you to die!" Don't want this kind of power either! ”

“……！” Lian Wu was also surprised.

"Look, I did it, Lianwu, I didn't say it, you allowed me to survive, I can let you win." Edith looked at Lian Mist, "Now, I won't compete with you anymore. We can all be remembered, but only you can walk into his heart. My time has come to an end, and the new Slayer will turn hell upside down. You and I both won. ”

What about me? Zhang Su's heart was shocked.

“！” Lian Wu reached out to grab Edith, but her body had melted into a pool of blood.

Lian Mist's eyes flickered, she didn't think so.

"I'm destined to die, Lotus Mist, you did see the anomaly reading, which actually means that I wasn't cured at all. No matter how potions or sunlight magic or Zhang Su's blood were, they couldn't reverse my annihilation. I've been wounded too badly to die the day I was rescued from the Crimson Garden, but I had to give something before I died, and I know now that you love me. The blood cross flickered violently, and as Edith's body collapsed, the outline of the cross became clearer.

Her image is gradually imprinted on the cross, her hands spread, no longer levitating by her own power, but being nailed to it, and finally retreating, merging with it.

Radiant.

"Goodbye. Now this proud power, all for you, for your use, to complete the slaughter, but not to reach out to mortals, but to demons, you want to become, the slaughterer of demons. Edith's voice faded away.

Lian Wu let out a whimper, she didn't think so, not at all.

Zhang Su lowered his head, and pairs of blood lines appeared on his hands. Edith, did you really love me?

As if born with instinct, he raised his hand and used two interlaced figures of seven to form a cross, aiming at the demons who were about to move outside the moon base.

"The birth period is ruined."

(End of chapter)