Human beings are animals with feelings, but where there are feelings, there are emotions, and emotions are a virus that can be quickly infected.

Since ancient times, even in the most difficult times, human beings have not forgotten the scramble for deceit, land, resources, money, and even face, and mankind will not let go.

So when the system announced the 32 countries that made the cut and the 98 countries that didn't, the end of the global riots was doomed from the beginning.

Many dangerous madmen with bad intentions, many frenzied opportunists, they broke out at about the same time, like locusts among the human race, quickly spreading all kinds of anger, fear, insecurity, and suspicion, and plunging everyone into an uncontrolled and disorderly riot.

Xiao Qiang also asked Li Jianguo at that time why the Central Military Department had not informed the people of the truth about the national war earlier, since the Central Military Department would have expected this situation at the beginning.

Li Jianguo replied with a wry smile at the time: "People, most of them are still selfish creatures, sometimes in the face of common dangers, most of them are not thinking about how to work together to solve the problem, but how to fight for their own survival. To put it nicely, it's the instinct of human survival, and if it's not good, it's selfishness. If the truth had been told to the public at the beginning, it would have been necessary to fight a brutal civil war before the national war round-robin had started, because most of them would not be willing to put their lives in the hands of others......"

When Xiao Qiang heard this, he didn't come back to his senses for a long time, Li Jianguo's words may not be absolutely correct, but they are a good interpretation of the past and ...... of mankind Status quo.

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On December 21, 2014, the national war round-robin ended, and the system announced 23 hours and 50 minutes later.

Located in a top-secret space of "Destiny", Tian Yihan was elegantly drinking tea in front of him. Lei Jun, Luo Qingyan and another old man who had not appeared were standing there reporting something.

"The round-robin tournament of the national war has ended, and the list of the top 32 has also come out, as for the eliminated countries, the player data and IP belonging to their territory, we have locked it, and we can start ......clearing it in ten minutes," Lei Jun closed the report in his hand and concluded after the most gloomy statement.

"According to the monitoring data of our system, within 23 hours of the system announcement. Whether it is the top 32 countries or the 98 eliminated countries, there have been riots of various sizes on their lands, and more than 77.2% of the world's national government associations have been dismantled by rioters. More than 200 million civilian players died in this short period of time. As soon as the other old man finished speaking, a hint of mockery appeared on his face. "Huh. It's ironic that these idiots start beating up in the nest before we even start doing anything. ”

"This is the inferiority of human beings. Tian Yihan put down the teacup in his hand and said lightly.

"When this purge is over, I don't think there will be more than 300 million players left in the world, when the time comes. We begin the second phase of the sub-national war. Luo Qingyan said.

"I'll leave this to you. Tian Yihan smiled.

"Yes. All three replied at the same time.

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On December 21, 2014, the national war round-robin ended, 24 hours after the system announcement.

System: Note that the purge now begins. For countries that do not qualify for the National War Round-robin, the player's HP will return to 0 after 60 seconds

Beep System: Please note that the clearing will start now, and the player's health will be reset to 0 after 59 seconds for countries that have not been promoted in the National War Round-robin

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When this bright red system prompt popped up, every crazy person on the planet, or every calm person, they stopped all the movements in their hands.

There is despair, fear, and anger in their eyes, but none of this can change their outcome.

60,59,58......

Looking at the countdown popping up in front of you is like a time bomb installed in their hearts, reminding them that your life is coming to an end.

One may not be afraid of death, but one cannot be free from the torture before death.

"Oh, no, I can't die!" A man who had been wreaking havoc everywhere, armed with his own weapon and a mace, was smashing everywhere, trying to smash the terrible time bomb in front of him, but no matter how much he struggled, the countdown box hung in front of him like a ghost.

Burst!

A poor woman next to her, who was stunned by fear, was hit by the man's wildly dancing mace, and her head exploded like a watermelon, ending her life prematurely.

Then, the man's movements also stiffened, not because he had woken up from his madness, but because the countdown in front of him had completed the countdown in the first moment.

3,2,1,0......

Almost at the end of the countdown, the health bar on the man's head instantly returned to 0, and his name turned black, and then, unlike the usual appearance of the player when he died, the man's body did not explode, but a trace of black smoke came out of his eyes, ears, mouth and nose.

As the black smoke came out, the man grabbed his throat and let out a cry of pain, then fell to the ground with convulsions.

When the last trace of black smoke left the man's body, his body seemed to have lost its soul, and its whole body turned gray-white, like a sculpture cast in cement, and lost its vitality.

Almost the same scene appeared in the territory of the 98 eliminated countries, whether it was the people gathered in the streets or the people hiding in the houses, their bodies changed like this.

First the health is emptied, then a large amount of black smoke comes out of the players' eyes, ears, mouths and noses, and then the body turns gray and white and loses its vitality, in addition, even those who flee to the homes of the 32 countries are no exception, their data and IP have long been locked by "fate", so it is the same wherever they flee.

The black smoke floating from the player's body did not dissipate immediately, but wriggled and coalesced like a living thing, and slowly, the black smoke began to drill down into the ground.

A surprising scene appeared.

Wherever the black smoke penetrated, the ground near it, whether it was a building or a tree on the side of the road, turned black.

When all players in these 98 countries are drained of health, the territory of these countries has become a single hue - a desperate black.

At the same time, a strange black moon appeared in the sky above the city where almost all players in the world were located, obviously at different latitudes of the earth, but the black moon seen was exactly the same.

The moon was larger and rounder than they were used to seeing, and there was even a sense of oppression that was about to fall to the ground.

When the Black Moon appeared, its surface emitted a strange cold glow and sprinkled on the land that had turned black.

Soon.

There was a violent tremor on the ground, and I saw that on the originally pitch-black ground, black crosses suddenly rose, each of these crosses was 100 meters high, densely covered with these cities or towns that were originally for human beings to survive.

What's even more bizarre is that the center of the cross suddenly cracks, and a creepy eye emerges from the inside. There was a black ripple on their surface, and then, beneath the crosses, black statues suddenly appeared.

The statues were lifelike, like living people, and they were exactly the same as the dead players, except that their faces were hideous, as if they were suffering a great deal of pain.

"Night Feast!?"

In the base of the Central Military Department, through the satellite signals transmitted by the dragon online system, elves and others can also see the live situation of players from various countries being cleared by the system.

Especially when those black crosses appeared, Su Xiaomei and Shi Qingqing's eyes invariably showed expressions of fear and let out a low cry.

These crosses are all too familiar to those of them who have gone through the elite closed beta of Dragon Online, which is clearly the final feast opened by Gruda, that is, Honin, to collect the Truth Unit ritual on the player, and judging from the scale of the current "fate" control.

This night banquet was much bigger than Gruda's.

"Little sister, Qingqing, what's going on?" Hearing the voice, Xiao Qiang and the others all looked at the two of them in unison, although the scene in front of them was beyond imagination shock, but they didn't know the inside story of the road, and they didn't understand the horror of the night banquet.

Bang!

Su Xiaomei couldn't bear it at first, she fell to the ground and covered her mouth to prevent herself from crying.

Shi Qingqing sighed, and took the initiative to explain to everyone: "The statues on those crosses are the souls of those players who died, and they are also the core of the truth unit, when the black moon completely absorbs their truth unit, their souls will also disappear, and naturally there will be nothing left at that time, and they are really disappearing into this world, if there is really reincarnation in this world, then they may even lose their qualifications for reincarnation......"

Hearing this, the top officials of the country, including Li Jianguo, all showed shocked expressions, and Xiao Qiang and the others also looked ugly.

Something more cruel than death is probably the soul is gone. But they couldn't stop it.

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Since the system cleared the players belonging to the 98 countries, less than a minute has passed, and more than 67.1% of the world's land and seas have been dyed black by the mysterious power of the Black Moon, and more than 700 million players have died (referring to the number of humans left after the cataclysm), and the places where they have lived have become black dead cities, and there is no trace of life.

And the souls of these dead have all become black crosses, like trees in the forest, towering over the place where they died.

It looks like the tombstones of the dead. (To be continued......)