PFC Chapter 550: The Stars Are Dim, the Star of the Dead Country
Chapter 550: The Stars Are Dim, the Star of the Dead Country
Chapter 550: The Stars Are Dim, the Star of the Dead Country
"The stars dim, death is approaching, and all organic life will return to nothingness..."
"Pray to Chernabog, the god of darkness. When the world returns to darkness, we will be reborn in his body..."
"No longer relying on the fragile sun, no longer needing the protection of temperature, look, the exploits I have made today have allowed me to shed my broken body and gain a new life!"
A middle-aged man in a black robe with insect-like mouthparts on his lower jaw was standing in front of a human remains that looked 80% like himself, preaching at the top of his lungs, as if he was part of some evil religious pyramid scheme.
He had short brown hair and a beard. The only difference on his square face was his serrated mouthparts, like an insect, and a huge crack that cut the body in half.
The huge crowd gathered outside the square, leaving an empty area in the middle. The sky was gray and gloomy, as if it had just fallen at night, with a little light remaining in the sky.
The buildings around the square seem to be a patchwork of modern and medieval styles. You can see some steel structures as well as attics made of earth, wood, tile and stone.
On an execution platform built of wood, four hemp ropes hung down, suspended above the heads of two men and two women. Their hands were restrained by some transparent crystals, and they stood on the gallows with their backs handcuffed.
"When suppressing the heretics from outer space, the Hades Guards captured an experimental creation from Perron's direct lineage!"
"This group of filthy and despicable false gods enslaved us when they ruled the earth, and even now they still want to destroy the construction of our dark homeland and hinder our hope of survival in the fertile land of Chernabog."
The man in the black robe and the insect mouth was speaking tirelessly, and shouts for execution gradually appeared around him. The eyes of the onlookers were full of fanaticism, and they seemed to be united in their hatred of the enemy.
"Hmph." A long-haired man with wheat-colored skin and an unkempt beard on the far right side of the gallows sneered:
"The food that is the hybrid of the evil creature of the Plague Ancestor and the offspring of the moth-eater is still brazenly talking about survival. Isn't it ridiculous, two beautiful ladies?"
"I'm sorry, Irena-chan~, I seem to have become a light bulb." Kaguya Houraisan said with a guilty look on her face:
"This kind of journey through another world is a major development in Gal, but don't worry, as long as Su Lin doesn't follow Kaguya's path, there will be no problem!"
Irena: “.”
Su Lin muttered to himself: "If you two got lost in the Milky Way, no one would guess that it was me, right?"
Irena: “.”
At this moment, the black-robed insect man was still reading the script, there was a stranger chattering beside him, and Su Lin didn't know what dangerous plan he was planning.
This place always feels dangerous.
"It's always sad to see beautiful flowers wither, but in order to eliminate the hidden dangers in the worlds, I will go to the underworld with you today. I'm sorry, I can't save you." The bearded man said resolutely.
Su Lin said in embarrassment: "Speaking of which, how about blowing up this planet?"
"I can die to atone for my sins. I just haven't experienced the death method of hanging before." Kaguya Houraisan said, "Please don't mind me. I can hang here to dry."
She used her abilities of eternity and a moment to follow Irena the moment she disappeared. As a person from Penglai, she will not die no matter what she does.
"Did you notice anything when you came here?" Su Lin asked.
"My eyes were blinded by the light, they just opened again." Kaguya smiled slightly and said, "But I seemed to see an angel, yours?"
"I don't know him either. Maybe he's a local of Beloberg." Su Lin turned to look at Irena. His voice remained calm, but he showed a hint of a smile. He asked, "You should know what's going on, right? He's so close to Klein and the angel."
"Who knows? I thought Klein would mistake you for an ether spirit, haha." Irena teased. She slowly turned her head away and didn't look at Su Lin.
If I had known what would happen in the end, I wouldn’t have rushed to help Su Lin cover his face. Even if I said I didn’t know now, I don’t think the other party would believe it.
So, it’s all Klein’s fault.
“Let’s put Klein in the Sea of Holy Light to clean up the bugs when we get back.” Su Lin thought about it and decided, “No… He is suitable to be the protagonist.”
For example, the little things between a literary girl with a bookish air and a thief with a bad taste.
"You are such an enviable boy. When I was young, I had the same luck with women as you." Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, the bearded man sighed slightly and looked up at the sky:
"Actually, whether you come to save me or not, the outcome will be the same for everyone. Some sacrifices are necessary for the safety of the universe..."
"Uncle, I've been wanting to ask you this since a while ago." Su Lin glanced at the man and said, "Who are you?"
Bearded man: “…”
The air suddenly became quiet, just as the black-robed man from Insect Mouth had finished his impromptu speech.
Some armored soldiers exuding divine aura and with branches wrapped around their bodies came over. They stood behind Su Lin and others, lowered special ropes used for hanging and put them around everyone's necks.
"I can give you a chance." A middle-aged man in a black robe came over holding a blurry portrait. "Tell me where she went. I will let you go as long as I get her."
During the search for the alien heretics just now, these beings with the aura of Perun's power suddenly appeared on the battlefield. Although they were arrested without resistance, there was still a woman who disappeared without a clear glimpse.
According to the analysis, it is very likely Perun's direct creation.
Su Lin stared at the other person and smiled slightly without saying anything, but that look made the man in black robe very uncomfortable, because the other person looked at him as if he was looking at a corpse.
"You dare to do that even though you're already a prisoner... Never mind, I'll find her myself." The man in black robe felt that there was no need for him to talk to the dead.
He raised his hand to signal, and the soldiers all took a step back, ready to begin the execution.
"Shouzhou, logically speaking, no one on this planet should be able to heal the injuries of a wanted criminal like you, but I didn't expect you to be so lucky." The black-robed man with a scarred jaw clamped twice in front of the man on the far right:
"But you are really good at hiding. Whatever you were doing in that underground ruins, it's all gone now."
It is no exaggeration to say that those teeth can crush an ordinary person's head in an instant.
"What's the use of having a long life? Everyone will die eventually~" Shouzhou shook his head, not caring about the rope around his neck: "You will die too, a hybrid of abundance and a borer."
"Hahahahahahahahaha, I now have an immortal body, and you actually said I'm going to die?"
As if he heard something funny, the man in black robe waved his hand, signaling the soldiers to stop.
"It's you who are going to die, along with the rest of you who don't know what's good for you and are colluding with the alien heretics to try to overthrow everything under the protection of the great Chernabog!"
"Yes, I'm going to die, and everyone will die, including you and me." Shouzhou nodded, pulled up the corner of his mouth and said, "I successfully sent out the coordinates, you hybrid idiot, just at the moment when the space-time curvature of this star field returned to normal."
"Coordinates?" The man in black robe was puzzled.
"Yao Qing has received the message. The arrow of the Emperor Bow Siming has been shot. You, me, him, and these beautiful celestial maidens will all die together with the evil creatures on this planet!" Shouzhou said.
"Who is Di Gong?" The man in black robe waved his hand: "Nonsense, execute the trial."
Shouzhou: “.”
The soldiers and the man in black robes behind him walked down from the wooden platform, and the onlookers below began to cheer.
"I forgot that when this star field entered the range of the starquake, Emperor Bow Siming had not yet been born." Shouzhou explained to Su Lin.
"You just said." Su Lin's mouth twitched: "The Emperor Bow Siming is aiming here?"
Shouzhou nodded and said, "Of course I will. I thought I would never be able to send a message in this lifetime. I didn't expect that the space-time curvature of the star field would return to normal in a moment, just in time to send the message and coordinates."
"One more way to die." Kaguya Houraisan said with emotion.
Shouzhou looked at everyone with a little apology and said:
"This planet has become a hotbed for the rich evil creatures to recuperate and thrive with the offspring of the moths. Although there are still resistance, if we give them time, the consequences will be disastrous."
"I'm Shouzhou from Yaoqing Xianzhou. I have no choice but to make this choice. Look, we're all going to die anyway, so we might as well take a few people with us."
I wanted to see what was going on here and collect some information, but you turned around and told me that the hunting patrol fired at this place?
Su Lin was stunned: "How long will it take for the attack to arrive?"
“I don’t know the current verification speed of the Yaoqing Immortal Boat. Maybe tomorrow, maybe now.” Shouzhou’s feet were empty, and the rope tightened around his neck.
Just this moment
Within Su Lin's perception, a ray of light suddenly split the dome and fell with a rainbow-like tail. The light quickly split and then turned into a sky-high arrow of light that fell from the sky. Its speed was so fast that any normal creature would not even be able to perceive it.
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Time and space seemed to have completely stopped at this moment. In the silence, a figure with six light wings on his back walked out from behind Su Lin and disappeared from the spot.
When time flows again, a dazzling sun suddenly appears in the sky.
Infinite light and infinite heat completely engulfed the arrow of rainbow light before it fell. The strange phenomenon caused by its explosion made the sky, which was just gray, suddenly bright as day.
Naturally, it also attracted the attention of others.
A violent explosion suddenly spread among the huge crowd. For a moment, the whole square was filled with flying blood and thick smoke.
"This way!" A masked head popped out from the opening in the floor under Shouzhou's feet and waved to everyone.
The noose around Su Lin and the others' necks broke. Irena opened a dimensional crack and threw the fairy boat man with a purple face into it. Several people jumped into the wooden platform one after another.
A second later, Su Lin suddenly turned back, glanced at the man in black robe, snapped his fingers, and went back in.
A broken arrow fell from the sky and engulfed the black-robed man who was looking up at the sky.
The last ray of light sank into darkness, like the struggling hand of a drowning person.
Complete darkness fell, the sky became darker, and the white snow on the mountains appeared and disappeared.
"It's great to meet all of you friends again in this strange place." Giovanni said thankfully.
This is a valley, but you can see towering spires, rough brick chimneys, winding pipes and huge gears, just like a small town.
"Shouzhou? I haven't seen him for more than 70 years. I thought he was dead a long time ago."
A tall red-haired woman with pointed ears and a charming face was pouring clear light into a glass container. When she saw Shouzhou who was thrown out by Irena, she was visibly stunned.
Su Lin looked at the Masked Fool and said with a smile, "Why are you here too, Mr. Giovanni?"
"Of course it was because His Excellency the God of Light's game was so exciting that I wanted to get closer to watch, but when I came to my senses, I found myself in an underground ruin." Giovanni patted his chest in fear.
"Luckily, I was brought here by these kind friends. That place is full of believers of abundance, and they seem to be a little mentally unstable."
"Unlike those mercenaries I've met before, at least they can do business."
"When we arrived, we just saw you being taken away, and we only found Mr. Giovanni." The pointed-eared woman handed the glass container full of light to a middle-aged woman, and closed the door after the other party left.
"I have learned some things from Mr. Giovanni's account."
Frost has begun to appear on the glass windows, and the temperature is dropping every minute.
"I forgot to introduce myself. I am Midnight Star, the third daughter of the Skyfire God Dazhiberg." When Midnight Star looked at Su Lin, her eyes were filled with uncontrollable excitement. She came close to him and stared at Su Lin's face:
"You're late, Belloburg."
Who is Belloberg?
Isn't that a place name?
Wait, it seems to be a god's name in Earth's Slavic mythology.
Su Lin looked at the other person, took a step back slightly without leaving a trace, and said: "You recognized the wrong person, Miss Midnight Star."
"How could I recognize the wrong person?" Midnight Star shook his head, put one hand on Su Lin's chest, closed his eyes and said: "This is the power of light. You are the God of Light, Beloberg. Perun actually succeeded. Yalilo and Morana's child was born."
What does it mean to have an extra parent for no reason?
I wanted to gather the three mythical gods, and for the sake of localization, I borrowed some names according to local conditions, but this is not allowed to be said randomly.
Just as Su Lin was about to reply, he found someone tugging at his sleeve.
He glanced at Irena and took two steps back at her signal.
Midnight Star suddenly felt his hands empty, and when he opened his eyes, he saw a gray-haired human girl letting go of the hand that was pulling on 'Beloberg's' clothes.
"I'm sorry to disturb your touching moment, but I'm more concerned about how to get back now. Can you please help me take a look?" Irena took out half of the silver medal and handed it to Midnight Star.
They tried to use the cross-border symbol to leave, but there was no response from other group members who were not from this world.
"This is what surprises me." Midnight Star smiled bitterly.
"How did you enter the range of the starquake that turned the space-time curvature into reverse? As far as I know, the teleportation device left by our parents only works when the space-time curvature is normal."
"Where is this place?" Su Lin's eyebrows jumped when he heard the word "Xingzhen".
Midnight Star said, "The Star of the Dead Country, Chernobog."
"In the core area of the Plenty Star Region." Giovanni snorted and laughed twice, seeming a little helpless: "We just took an interstellar journey."
(End of this chapter)