Tokyo.

[Pure Land].

An Qingyu sat in the center of the main control room, surrounded by flickering screens, his eyes staring at all the screens at the same time, motionless like a sculpture.

"Qingyu, you've been scrolling through for 5 hours, it's time to take a break."

Suddenly, Jiang Er's figure silently walked to his side, waved his hand gently, and plunged all the images on the screen into darkness.

An Qingyu slowly closed his eyes, rubbed his temples with both hands, and let out a long sigh, his gaze was extremely complicated:

"Really, I know something amazing......

"What did you find?"

An Qingyu didn't speak, he stood up silently, walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window, and looked down at the neon city at his feet.

"Jiang Er, you say...... How many kilowatt-hours of electricity does such a large country consume each year? He asked Jiang Er rhetorically.

Jiang Er was stunned, hesitated for a moment, and replied: "It should be, around 5,000 trillion watt hours?" ”

"There should be much more than that." An Qingyu shook his head, "So, how is the electricity generated?" ”

"Nuclear power, natural gas power generation, oil power, wind power, hydropower? There should be all of these, right? ”

"That's right, but didn't you find a problem?" An Qingyu said calmly, "The country's own mineral resources are extremely scarce, where does the gas and oil it uses to generate electricity come from?" ”

Jiang Er froze in place.

"Or, I'll ask another question." An Qingyu paused, "In the absence of fossil fuels, how does the power station here generate electricity?" Nuclear power, wind power and hydropower alone cannot support such a huge amount of electricity consumption. ”

"What's going on?"

"The answer is that the power stations here are simply decorations, and they can't generate electricity at all." An Qingyu glanced at the ground under his feet, "All the electricity they output comes from here, and all the sources of electricity in this country are [Pure Land]. ”

"Here?" Jiang Er's brows furrowed slightly, "But there is also no power generation device here, where does the electricity come from?" ”

An Qingyu stretched out his hand and pointed to the figure under the clouds, densely packed like ants walking through the street:

"People...... Or rather, the dead. ”

……

"Eternal torment after death?" Garan didn't seem to understand the words.

"Let's take an analogy." The knight went on to explain, "To survive, humans need water, air, soil, food, energy...... The artifact itself does not automatically generate these, but it can create them out of thin air by absorbing souls.

People who live in this 'circle of people' drink every drop of water, every breath of air they breathe, and even every kilowatt-hour of electricity they use...... Behind the scenes, it is the dead human soul.

Igniting the corpse of a creature will release a large amount of heat, and igniting the soul of a human being, the energy generated is even more astronomical. ”

"In other words, if you want to maintain the operation of this 'human circle', you must kill a large number of people and use their souls as nourishment?" Wu Xiangnan thought thoughtfully, "However, what if the number of people who die of natural causes in the 'human circle' can't keep up with the speed of this consumption?" Isn't this cycle broken? ”

"It's not that easy." The knight shook his head, "Have you forgotten that the gods sacrificed the vast majority of lives to save themselves, and the number of such lives ...... But they are all calculated in the order of tens or even billions.

The lives they sacrificed alone were enough to keep the 'human circle' running for a long time.

So, to a certain extent, the people in the 'circle of people' are alive and dedicating their faith because there are tens of millions, if not billions of ancestors, whose souls are burning as fuel for the world they inhabit. ”

Garan frowned, "This is too frustrating. ”

"That's right, so the existence of the 'human circle' is evil in itself." The knight continued, "And the more humans in captivity in the 'human circle', the greater the amount of energy consumed, and the greater the number of human souls used as fuel, the greater the evil of the city.

Harassing, attacking, and even destroying the 'human circle' is one of the core goals of our cult. ”

"Destruction?" Wu Xiangnan asked suspiciously, "After destroying the 'human circle', what will happen to the humans who are in captivity inside?" ”

"Generally speaking, we rarely carry out 'destruction'. At most, it's just to blow up the temples or idols that are used to collect beliefs, and save some of them.

If 'destruction' is really going to be carried out, it depends on the size of this 'circle of people'. ”

The knight shrugged his shoulders and replied, "If there are fewer than 500,000 people in captivity, we will extradite them to the [utopia] created by the guild and continue to live there, if they exceed that...... We have no choice but to extradite 500,000 women and girls and young adults with special skills, and the rest ...... They can only be allowed to perish with the 'human circle'. ”

That is to say...... The people in it, will all die? Wu Xiangnan frowned, "Isn't this indiscriminate killing?" ”

"'Indiscriminate killing'?" The knight raised his eyebrows, "It's okay if you understand it like this, but I want you to know that this is a fog, and our Evil Society has never been a Holy Mother organization, we are 'evil'."

We cannot, and are not obliged to, save everyone, and being able to extradite 500,000 people to be brought into Utopia as a spark is already our greatest respect for these countries and cultural heritage.

Moreover, the destruction of the 'circle of men' means the salvation of tens of millions of souls who are burning and suffering, perhaps for those who live in it, but for those miserable souls, this is salvation! ”

The knight's voice fell, and the entire cabin fell into a dead silence.

The whistling wind mixed with the hum of the waves crashing against the hull of the ship echoed in the dim cabin, and after a long time, Wu Xiangnan slowly spoke:

"I see...... In short, I will follow the task and cooperate with your actions. ”

"Long live understanding." The knight smiled slightly.

"So, what do we do next?"

"Every time we go to the evil society to attack a 'circle of people', we will first carry out a series of infiltration preparations." The knight spoke unhurriedly, "Among them, the two most important people are called 'paratroopers' and 'sentinels'.

Since the 'human circle' is very important to the kingdom of God, it is not so easy to enter the 'human circle', and the most crucial point of penetrating the 'human circle' is to find the 'gap' that connects it with the outside world. ”