Chapter 1: The Vulture
Early February 2020, Atlantic Ocean, Bermuda Triangle Sea.
Somewhere on the bottom of the sea in this millions of square kilometers of sea, there is a triangular boulder lying quietly, lying on the bottom of the sea in the darkness for a long time, almost merging with the darkness.
The interior of the monolith, however, is brightly lit.
The internal structure is still triangular, with hundreds of layers down, leading to the deeper depths of the seabed, as if the boulder was a manhole cover, covering the huge triangular prism space below, adding another camouflage to the already dark and lightless underground.
The ubiquitous white light illuminates every corner of the place, and at the top is engraved a huge symbol, which is composed of the earth and the mandala flower, which is a white flower that blooms on the other side of hell and leads the soul from hell to the earth, and is a flower that represents the spirit.
The red flower is called Manju Sawa Hua, which is a legendary flower that blooms on the Yellow Spring Road, leading souls from the human world to hell, and is used in the spiritual world to represent those spirits who have gone astray.
Below the logo is a string of "UNITED GHOSTERS", or "Soul Alliance", or UG.
This is the UG headquarters in the Bermuda Triangle.
The corridors on three sides of the surrounding area are lined with countless doors, and people come and go. At the corner is a transparent elevator shaft, a total of three elevators, connecting each floor of this huge triangular prism space, and the space behind the door of each floor is not visible at all.
At the bottom of this triangular prism space, seven specially shaped pavilions are arranged in the distribution of the Big Dipper, and each pavilion has the name of a continent written on it, corresponding to the seven continents on Earth.
At this time, the interior of each pavilion was shrouded in white light, and from time to time someone walked out of the white light in the pavilion, they were dressed in suits and leather shoes, with a solemn demeanor, and were divided into three teams in an orderly manner, taking three elevators, and marching to different floors.
Although the floors are different, there is only one destination. In this triangular prism space of hundreds of floors, the entire face of the east is the entrance of a large space, and entering from any floor will reach the first floor of this space, which is arranged in a stepped manner, like a huge movie theater, extending to a huge stage at the bottom, on the stage is a large round table, seven seats are evenly around this round table, and there is no distinction between dignity and inferiority.
On the other side of the stage is a huge wall, corresponding to the hundreds of floors of seats on the opposite side, this huge wall is also hundreds of stories high, a huge sky blue curtain completely covers this wall, in the middle of the curtain is painted a large white sign, composed of the UG logo and an olive branch representing peace, below is the English "Ge".
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al Assembly of the U
ited Ghoste
s" stands for the General Assembly of the Spirit Alliance, or "GAUG" for short, and this huge conference room is the venue of the conference.
With the continuous increase of participants, soon the seats on the hundreds of floors were all filled, and there were tens of thousands of people, all of whom were members of UG, from various ghost towns and institutions around the world, representing spirits from every region.
At this time, the seven people sitting around the round table were Secretary General Daniel Windsor, Chief Flag Master Mo Ran, and representatives of the five major powers of China, the United States, Russia, Britain, and France.
In the 70 years since the creation of UG in 1950, GAUG has been held six times, but with the development of technology, the conference has been held in the form of video conference since the third edition, after all, more than 10,000 people from all over the world have arrived, even if there are intercontinental portals on seven continents, it is very time-consuming and labor-intensive.
The headquarters of UG is called the "Sanping Tower", which consists of three huge conference rooms, in addition to the venue of the Spirit Alliance Conference, the other two sides are the Spirit Inquisition Court and the Spirit Symposium, and the three sides of the Triangular Pagoda represent peace (Spirit Alliance Conference), fairness (Spirit Judgment Court) and equality (Spirit World Symposium), which is the "Three Flats".
For decades, Sanping Pagoda would only summon all its members to be present in person when the Spiritual Tribunal was in session, and there were not many international criminals in the Spiritual Realm, and it had been more than ten years since the last trial, so at this time, Sanping Pagoda had been idle for a long time, and all the members present were all talking about it, and they all expressed their wonder about this sudden face-to-face meeting.
As the people arrived, the meeting began, and the sound of discussion gradually disappeared.
"Ladies and gentlemen, before the meeting begins, we would like to invite a special guest from this conference. The loud voice of the Secretary-General of Windsor came from the surrounding stereos, and everyone in the meeting looked at each other, but no more voices came from the discussion.
As the words fell, a man stood up from the first row, dressed in a suit and leather shoes like the others, and it was impossible to tell which one it was by looking at his face. He slowly stepped onto the stage and shook hands warmly with Daniel Windsor.
Daniel said, "This one is here on behalf of Dongzhou this time, the head of the Genji clan of the Juhe Association, Minamoto Sutra, Mr. Minamoto. β
It was definitely the first Japanese to set foot here in seventy years, and everyone's face was full of surprise.
I heard that Emperor Lingdi of Dongzhou recently had plans to establish diplomatic relations with UG, but I didn't expect it to be true.
Only Dongzhou in the spirit world in the world has not joined UG, so this is also the first diplomatic ally since the establishment of UG, and at this time, Minase Jing sat on the side of the stage in this capacity, facing the round table and facing the meeting seats.
After everyone was seated, Daniel began his opening remarks: "Everyone present must be wondering why we are inviting everyone to the venue of the Sanping Pagoda this time. It was natural, but it easily attracted everyone's attention, and they no longer looked around, but quietly listened to his next explanation, "I want to tell you that the spirit world has entered a period of war at this time. β
The audience was in an uproar, there was no wind at all, and they didn't even know who the enemy was, so they inexplicably announced that they had entered the war, and everyone was stunned.
If Minamoto hadn't come this time, then almost everyone would have guessed that Dongzhou was the hostile force in this war, but when he came, the nature would be completely different. This not only illustrates the mystery of the enemy, but also proves that even Dongzhou has to participate in this war, and the whole spiritual world is really fighting the enemy together, so how powerful is the other party, and even Dongzhou is offended?
"Presumably, the vast majority of you here don't know who our enemies are, or even know that they exist. They are a bunch of ambitious, arrogant people. Daniel stood up abruptly, pointed to the more than 10,000 delegates in front of him, and shouted, "At this time, their members are among us!"
After the start of the previous meeting, no matter how shocking things happened on the scene, it would not be as noisy as now, everyone looked at the people around them in a panic, and people were panicked for a while, no one knew who the secretary general was referring to, and some people in the crowd couldn't help but blurt out, "Who is it?!"
There was a first, then a second, and a third, and countless questioning voices followed, asking who he was talking about.
The scene was chaotic beyond Daniel's expectations, and he tried his best to signal everyone to be quiet, but it was soon buried in the noisy venue, and some even began to identify each other, and all kinds of doubts and rebuttals resounded throughout the huge space.
At this time, the chaotic sound began to subside from the top, and the people at the lower level noticed that the voice behind them was much quieter, and they all looked back curiously, and the moment they saw the person, they also quieted down. In this way, as the man gradually walked down from the top floor, the quiet aura instantly spread to the audience, and after a while, silence was restored, and everyone's eyes followed her and gradually moved to the stage.
The girl was dressed in a fez uniform and the iconic sunglasses on her face made her instantly recognizable.
Since the establishment of Fez, there is only one person who dares to wear sunglasses in Sanping Tower.
She is a legend in Fez, and even in the entire UG, appearing in front of the world for the second time since joining Fez, and the last time was in Fez's headquarters, and the Demon Spirit King who eliminated the defenders of Fez in one move, only one person has seen her face. Since then, she has had only one code name in the hearts of all spiritsβMoli.
At this time, most of the people's movements were, quietly pointing at her, and then making a look at the person next to him: "Is it her?", and then the person next to him nodded woodenly. No one spoke, as if they had forgotten to speak in shock, or for fear of offending the most mysterious legend in the spirit world in front of them.
This mysterious girl who has existed in Fez for half a century, but no one has ever known what she looks like, suddenly appears, and almost everyone thinks that this is a conference that will go down in the history of UG, and even decades later, they can proudly say before they die: I have seen Moli.
This is not an exaggeration, because she does have this qualification to be admired by all spirits, and has helped UG many times when she is in danger, but she never shows up, in everyone's heart, she is the patron saint of the spirit world, and she will never be mortal until the moment of crisis.
She walked up to the conference stage under the gaze of 10,000 people, and did not look at the few people in front of the round table, but turned her back directly to them, facing the towering and vast conference seat, and said loudly, "There are one thousand and eighty-three snake god cultists in UG, and anyone who wants to turn himself in can stand up now." β
Mo Li's words were similar to Daniel's words that caused a commotion just now, but the difference was that there was silence at this time.
"Nobody? Because the one thousand and eighty-three of you, even they themselves don't know that they are cultists. Saying that, Mo Li didn't plan to talk nonsense anymore, "Today, I'll let you see their true colors." As soon as he said this, a drizzle of liquid fell on the roof of the venue and fell on everyone's face.
No one noticed this change, but she raised her right hand, and slowly moved to the left with her palm facing the far right side of the seat.
As her arms moved slowly, one after another people in the table suddenly collapsed in their seats, motionless, their souls jerked out of their bodies and flew to the conference platform.
Until Mo Li's hand moved to the far right, more than a thousand people in the audience had fallen one after another, and their souls flew towards Mo Li, lined up beside her.
Suddenly, Mo Li slapped a palm towards the more than a thousand souls lined up, and a black shadow actually shot out of those souls, and the moment the more than a thousand black shadows were shot out, they pounced on Mo Li again.
With a wave of Mo Li's hand, all those black shadows dissipated. Then Mo Li waved his hand again, and those souls flew back into their respective bodies, and the more than a thousand people woke up on the spot.
All this happened in just five minutes, but everyone clearly saw that the Mo Li in front of him had pulled out the souls of more than a thousand people with a wave of his hand, and this kind of power to manipulate souls could no longer be regarded as spiritual magic, it was simply divine magic.
After doing all this, Mo Li stepped down without saying a word, and left the venue in full view of everyone.
Until the last trace of her breath left in the venue disappeared, everyone still couldn't come back to their senses for a long time as if they were in a dream.
"Ladies and gentlemen...... The black shadow you saw just now is the snake god cultist. Mo Ran's voice finally pulled them back to reality, and then there was another sigh.
Already anticipating their reaction, Mo Ran said without waiting, "This is the secret discovered by the main Trane Moyin, and although it has gone through twists and turns, it still sent this secret to us." The secret is that the snake god cultists, evil spirits. β
In the shocked eyes of everyone, Mo Ran continued to explain, "Originally, we thought that this cult relied on undercover agents or missionaries to infiltrate all over the spiritual world, but we also knew that they were a group of evil spirits that took the opportunity to sneak into our bodies and coexist with our souls when we were weak. They are not infiltrators, but a group of parasites. So no matter how we trace, we can't find any strange spirits, because even they don't know that they are members of the cult. Now with Mo Li's help, the evil spirits of the cult have been eliminated, and now is the time for us to fight back. β
Daniel continued, "Delegates, the Serpent God Cult has deliberately infiltrated the UG and poses a great threat to us. Some time ago, Dongzhou also experienced a war that was almost wiped out under the conspiracy of the cult. The meeting was convened today, first, to eliminate the eyes of the cult, and second, to vote on whether we should formally start a war with the snake god cult. β
Everyone looked at each other and was noncommittal, after all, they had just learned about these things, and they had just learned that there was such a mysterious cult in the spirit world, and it was too sudden to immediately ask them to vote to start a war.
According to the rules, this is the time to enter the open discussion stage of the Council, that is, the conversation between the representatives of the five countries at the round table.
The representative of the US Council asked, "Do we know where this cult is located?"
Daniel nodded, and spread his hand to Mo Ran, motioning for her to answer.
"We don't know about them, but what we do know is that they're not in this world. β
Mo Ran's words were not only understood by the people at the round table, but even by the more than 10,000 delegates.
Mo Ran continued, "This is actually the result of Mo Li's decades of investigation. A long time ago, Mo Li proposed that there are eight mysterious underground palaces in the world, and the gods worshiped by this snake god cult are related to these eight palaces. Until recently, her investigation made a new discovery - the eight dungeons were not in this world, but in another parallel world. And the entrance to this parallel world has also been investigated. β
Mo Jun, the representative of the Chinese council, asked, "Could it be...... One of them is in Lop Nur?"
Mo Ran nodded, "To be exact, it was the former Lop Nur." There was indeed an entrance there, but it was removed and blown up a few months ago. β
Mo Jun suddenly realized, "Intercontinental portal?"
"Not bad. It was the prototype that UG used to invent the intercontinental portal. The so-called parallel world, that is, the 'snake world' proposed by Hakumataki back then. β
There was another commotion at the scene, when Hakumataki proposed the concept of "snake world", everyone thought he was crazy, but they didn't expect it to really exist, and the cult that threatened the entire spiritual world came from this snake world.
The representative of the Russian council said in a deep voice, "In this case, we can't wait, it's time to take the initiative!"
Everyone present nodded in unison, and everyone knew in their hearts that the other party's intentions were obvious, and if they didn't take the initiative, they would face a greater disaster.
"Since they're testing our bottom line. Then let's pull out the bottom line and show them!" Mo Jun said coldly.
The next vote was also unanimously.
The war has been declared the beginning.
Daniel announced, "The 7th Spirit Alliance General Assembly has passed a resolution, and Fez, together with the Dongzhou Habitat Association, will carry out combat operations together, enter the snake realm from all entrances of the world, investigate and wait for opportunities to destroy the snake god cult, the operation code name: 'Snake Vulture'!"