First Player

Chapter 4 · "Ji Zhen is destroyed."

Feng Qiqi left the inner city and climbed up the mountain road.

The flames began to spread across the back mountains, and the woods below were already burning.

The back mountain is a magical mountaintop. Above it is a volcanic crater, and below it is a dense forest. The temperature around the crater is not hot, and people can stand around it.

At this time, the sister wearing a sacrificial crown was standing among a group of adults, near the crater.

The adults looked at her as if they were prey.

Feng Qiqi looked at this scene with some sadness.

...The reason why humans are superior to other animals is rationality.

When an antelope is chased by a lion, it will subconsciously run towards the group and harm its companions. However, human rationality allows humans to defy instinct and nature. It gives humans the courage to wait for death, or even run in the opposite direction.

People who are afraid of death can die for their beliefs. People who desire to survive can die for spiritual independence.

This is the greatness of humanity.

At this time, in Feng Qiqi's view, the sister who wore the sacrificial crown and did not run away was more humane than these beast-like elders.

He gripped the black knife tightly and immediately wanted to rush forward——

"——What are you going to do?"

Suddenly, a male voice came from behind him.

He looked over blankly and saw a young man with black hair who had just climbed up the mountain and looked at him.

"Is it you?" Feng Qiqi recognized Su Ming'an: "I'm going to save Sissy."

"Don't go." Su Mingan said.

"You want me to give up Sissi and let me go?"

"Otherwise, can I keep you for dinner?" Su Ming'an said.

After hearing this, Feng Qiqi smiled instead of getting angry: "I thought you were a sensible adult, but it turns out you are no different from those elders!"

"..." Su Mingan looked at him: "You'd better leave now. Because your sister won't die, and you are the one who is in danger."

"Why?"

"Have you forgotten that talent transformation array?" Su Mingan said.

Feng Qiqi's expression was slightly stagnant.

He knew that before each succession ceremony, the person chosen to be thrown into the lava would be the most talented child in the clan.

Lord Baishen gave people instruments to detect talents, allowing them to accurately select the beings with the best talents.

In this class, the most talented people are him and his sister. Their talents are equally matched, so they have to choose one of them to throw into the lava.

But now, after trying the Talent Bloodline Awakening Array, Feng Qiqi's talent has become better than that of Sissi, and he has become the most talented person in the clan.

Feng Qiqi stood there and suddenly realized this.

...The person who will be pushed into the magma is no longer Sissi.

But him.

Not far away, the elders' preparations have entered the final steps.

The great elder raised the talent detection instrument, which glowed like a radar. Its modern style seems a bit out of place in the sky.

A ray of light shone on the astonished Feng Qiqi's body. It was no longer Sissi beside the crater.

The instrument's pointer pointed in his direction.

The great elder saw Feng Qiqi hiding in the woods at a glance. Under the detection radar, Feng Qiqi had nowhere to hide.

"——It's Feng Qiqi! There he is!" he shouted loudly.

"What's going on? How come the talent has changed? Why did Feng Qiqi's talent suddenly surpass that of Sissi?" Someone was surprised.

"Don't worry so much, let's change the candidate first! Act quickly, the fire is almost coming!"

They let go of Sissi and rushed towards Feng Qiqi.

Feng Qiqi turned around and ran away.

The reason why he came was because he wanted to replace Sissi, but now that Sissi was no longer a candidate, he no longer had to stay.

The flames gradually spread from the bottom of the mountain and approached the top of the mountain. This fire burned extremely fiercely and quickly. During the natural disaster period, it spread like an overwhelming mountain.

He couldn't outrun the five elders.

Fifth Elder Michael just flashed the light in his hand, and Feng Qiqi's steps slowed down. The blue light pulled his steps, making him unable to even rush through the flames.

"Don't run! Do you want to see the First Tribe destroyed? Think of those tribesmen in the sea of ​​fire!" The Great Elder said in a shocked voice: "You are the son of the Young Patriarch, do you want your tribe to be destroyed?"

Feng Qiqi gritted his teeth.

"——The Baishen will not care about us at all! I set the fire and it has nothing to do with the Baishen!" He shouted: "The Baishen has never appeared! You have been deceived. You are researchers from the outside world. I lied to you!"

He hit the right note and guessed the truth. But the elders didn't believe it at all.

The Great Elder stretched out his hand, and a dazzling light rose from his body. A big golden hand formed out of thin air and caught Feng Qiqi, who was unable to move.

At this critical moment, Su Mingan stretched out his hand.

"boom--!"

Under people's gaze, the big golden hand was suddenly shattered by an invisible wave.

He blocked the Great Elder's attack.

"Okay, that's it." Su Mingan said.

He knew that the ritual of worshiping gods was indeed fake.

At this point in time, Baishen has not yet been formed by people's beliefs, and He indeed does not exist yet.

So far, all the so-called oracles, divine sacrifices, myths and legends are just forged by outsiders.

Not to mention the talent detector in the hands of the great elder, which is obviously a modern craft.

The Divine Sacrifice Ceremony is currently just a method used by outsiders to weaken the power of Qiongdi and remove the strongest talents. Facing this fire, whether Feng Qiqi died or Sissi died, it would have no effect at all.

Ignorant beliefs make these people lose their humanity, turn into beasts, ignore reason, and do extremely cruel things. It is inculcated and ingrained in ideas in a designed way, whether it is a method that sounds absurd or not.

It is now vividly displayed before our eyes.

Even in the original world, there were people who, for the sake of superstition, would kill living people to match ghost marriages, or drown babies for a good omen. Even these things will develop into industrial chains, allowing people to benefit from them.

For some kind of superstition, the method of turning a living person into a dead person is extremely despicable.

"——What nonsense are you talking about! Master Baishen, Master Baishen——" The great elder's beard trembled with anger.

"The gods don't exist yet." Su Mingan interrupted him lightly: "You have just been entertaining yourselves for hundreds of years."

He raised his hand and activated gravity suppression.

"—Bang! Bang! Bang!"

An extremely strong gravity pressed down on the people. Except for the most powerful elder, the other four elders were suddenly pressed to the ground, and their knees were bleeding.

Su Mingan took out the amber knife, swung it with force——

This time, he activated Amber's active skill and injected almost all of his mana.

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[Active skill (condensation): The next attack will have a "space fragmentation" effect, causing additional slashing damage to the enemy. 】

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"boom--!"

In front of people's shocked eyes, violent vibrations broke out.

Volcanic ash and thick night fog obscured people's sight, and crack-like bloodstains began to appear on their bodies.

"Pah, pah, pah—"

A strong explosion sounded, buzzing like exploding beans.

Branches fell to the ground like snowflakes, and even the surrounding trees began to topple. Before the elders could get up, their limbs were pulled by a violent force, as if countless hands were tearing apart their muscles and skin.

Blood flowed out from the twisted muscles and dyed their clothes red. They fell to the ground before they could even raise their hands.

Su Ming'an picked up Feng Qiqi and Qian Qian, turned around and ran away.

The great elder will definitely save the four elders on the ground as soon as possible. This is their chance to escape.

With his strength quadrupled, he could really try to compete with the Great Elder and use the damage transfer skill of Long Glory to find opportunities. But now he is not alone, the surroundings have begun to burn, and Feng Qiqi and Sissi are in danger.

Once they die, the main mission will fail.

He led Feng Qiqi and Sissi into the fire. The flames were particularly fierce, but they couldn't help him in his shadow state, but Sissi couldn't bear it.

"You guys wait, I'll open the way in front!" Feng Qiqi shouted, holding a black knife and splitting the flames.

Intense black energy spread around him, rising into the sky as if it was shaking the whole world. The wave of fire was forcibly cut open with his blade, just like Moses parting the Red Sea.

He rushed at the front, swinging the blade in his hand continuously. His small body had explosive power that could almost disrupt the world. The flames that touched his blade were annihilated, leaving a linear safety zone behind him.

After being enhanced by the bloodline magic circle, the ultimate destructive power of "The Destroyer" has already begun to emerge.

The smell of old dust from the wooden structure mixed with the scalding heat flowed around them, and the smell of burning food and burnt human bodies spread all around.

Since his vision was completely obscured by all kinds of fog, Feng Qiqi could only rely on some unburnt buildings to find his way.

Suddenly they heard a cry.

"——Qiqi!"

"——Sissi! Where are you!"

"Sissi, Qiqi! Cough, cough, cough, cough!!"

Several shouts came from the thick smoke, including the voices of middle-aged people and the immature voices of children.

"Yes..." Sissi's eyes lit up, and she immediately pulled up Feng Qiqi's clothes: "——It's mom! It's mom and dad! And Changsheng and the others——"

The flames were cut open, and the figures of the middle-aged man and woman were faintly visible in the bright red. Behind them, they were protecting four children. Leading the way was a boy with a scarred face, who was Sissi's playmate "Shadow".

The flames surrounded the shadow and did not hurt him. The shadow seemed to be resistant to this kind of flame.

"——Sissi! Qiqi!"

"Dad! Mom!"

When relatives meet, they are extremely excited. Xi Ke and Chu Shan were still under house arrest, but the clan suddenly caught fire.

Taking advantage of the lack of defense, the two of them worked together to break out, and happened to meet the shadow and children who came to see them.

"Quick, go this way!"

Chushan's ability was a protective shield. She followed the child and held up the shield to block the flames.

"How did you find us?" Sissi asked Shadow as she ran.

"He has the smell of Baishen." The shadow pointed at Su Mingan: "I can smell it from a distance."

"Baishen?" Several people looked at Su Ming'an in surprise, but now was not the time to ask further questions.

They ran all the way out of the tribe, and the fire began to gradually diminish.

But a few people were not happy.

Because they had already seen something as bright red as blood flowing down from the top of the mountain at an extremely fast speed. Even the air on the top of the mountain began to crackle.

"...No way." Feng Qiqi realized something terrible.

Originally, even if the tribe caught fire, it would not be completely destroyed, but now... it seems that a terrifying chain reaction has occurred.

……volcanic eruptions.

Looking at the scope of this, if a volcano really erupts, a large amount of hot gas and pyroclastic material can completely submerge the area where they are located.

"No -" some children shook their heads desperately: "The volcano will not erupt, no! We will all be safe, no one will die..."

"Don't worry, everyone, we will be fine. Lady Chushan's ability is very powerful, she can protect us..."

"Master Zewan, the volcano will not erupt, right! This volcano has been quiet for so many years, and it will not erupt now..."

"..." Looking at these chirping children, Su Mingan fell silent.

at this moment,

He suddenly remembered a letter home from Zhao Weidong in the laboratory.

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[Pingping:

Zhan Xinjia.

Qiongdi fell into a period of natural disaster very early. The volcano erupted and we couldn't get out. The ground was covered with hot soil and high temperature. 】

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Period of natural disaster.

volcanic eruptions.

……I see.

...It turned out to be this time.

Su Mingan looked at the volcano that was burning red, as if he was witnessing a sad history.

It was like watching a hammer of fate strike towards them with an unstoppable force.

"...No, it's going to break out." He said, "It's going to break out."

It's like the hand of fate is pushing all this to happen.

He stood in the midst of the blazing flames, surrounded by screaming people.

He looked up.

The violent sound, at this moment, erupted like the end of the world.

volcanic eruptions.

Bright red filled his vision.

At this time, he seemed to have understood why his parents, who clearly loved Feng Qiqi and Sissi, had not appeared after several years.

He suddenly understood why, after a few years, none of these children appeared next to Feng Qiqi except Changsheng.

He understood why there were burn marks on the back of Future Changsheng's neck.

...He understood why Siboer's arms were covered with horrific burns.

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He understood everything.

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