Chapter 248: Rebuilding a New God

Lin Yuan cleared his throat, and the subtle discussion behind him suddenly stopped.

He continued to ask, "Did you create the 'Lost One'? How did you operate it specifically?"

There was a thoughtful look on the man's face. He paused for a moment and then slowly said, "We did not create the 'Lost'. They are all voluntary."

Everyone was startled, some of them didn't understand what the man meant.

"I was originally the city lord's guard, named Ding Liang. About three years ago, the city lord took me out and handed me over to that weird man along with dozens of other sixth-level walkers.

The weirdo asked us to search for those awakened people who hate monsters in major cities, and emphasized that we should not look for those with official backgrounds.

Because that would easily attract official attention.

We spent a lot of time gathering all those awakened people who meet the requirements.

Some money is spent, some is given to crystal nuclei, and some is given to women.

For those who don’t want anything, we build churches and recruit them with various beliefs.

At first, we didn't know what the point was.

Until two years ago, that weirdo gave us a lot of strange devices and asked us to brainwash ourselves with the awakened people he had won over.

Tell them that as long as they use part of their superpowers, they can complete the great cause of annihilating the demon clan and avenge them.

At first, the plan went very poorly. Although those awakened people do have a deep-seated hatred for the demon clan, they still don’t quite believe what we say.

About half a year ago, weirdos re-upgraded the artificial crystal core and distributed it to us.

This time the plan is progressing very smoothly. We don't need much guidance at all. We only need to tell them that this is the latest technology of Sun City, which can perfectly replace the crystal core of the demon clan.

They will happily take it away and use it quietly.

What they don't know is that once these latest artificial crystal nuclei are used. They will be irreversibly affected, gradually strengthening the hatred in their hearts until their will is destroyed.

In the end, they will all actively donate their souls and store them in the artificial crystal core.

All we need to do is give them the crystal core and recycle it after it is full of energy.

Sometimes one Awakened One cannot fill it and we are again left in the hands of the next Awakened One.

Everything was fine and nothing happened. Because once those awakened people have their souls extracted, they will become delirious and talk nonsense, so there is no possibility of leaking the secrets.

But in the past month, the weirdo suddenly asked us to speed up the collection of souls. We had no choice but to extract the souls of the same person repeatedly.

That's why they gradually turn into completely inhuman lunatics.

They are what you call the ‘lost ones’. "

Ding Liang finished speaking in one breath and returned to his confused look.

There was dead silence.

Although Ding Liang's words did not specifically refer to Li Junchang, everyone present was an experienced fox who had been working hard for many years.

How can you not hear who is behind the scenes?

Although Li Junchang and Lin Yuan are not at odds, it is not a big secret.

But no matter how we fought before, it was still within a certain reasonable range. Everyone followed the unspoken rules and did not do anything particularly outrageous or use any particularly extreme means.

But this incident was really too bad.

Sun City does not care about the life or death of ordinary people. The number of "lost people" is increasing every day. God knows how many souls of awakened people Li Junchang has sacrificed.

Although most of these people are awakened people in the extraordinary stage, they are scattered throughout the human race.

Walking time bombs, to a certain extent, are even more harmful than the half-demon infiltrated by the demon clan.

This is no longer a simple struggle, it is completely using the lives of all human beings as a bargaining chip.

The atmosphere in the cell suddenly became tense, and everyone could feel the weight on their chests.

What Suncity did this time could even be said to be a betrayal of the human race if we take it seriously.

Attempting to cause civil unrest.

Since ancient times, the government has only one method to deal with such people...

But Sun City is also the main city with the most abundant resources among the four main cities of the human race.

Li Junchang is not someone who will sit still and wait for death.

The storm is coming...

Compared with everyone else, Lin Yuan's expression did not change much, making it difficult to see his true thoughts. He waved his hand calmly, "Except Director Xia and Peipei, everyone else will return to the headquarters first."

"Waiting for my notification at the combat headquarters. No one is allowed to leave. No one is allowed to reveal what they heard today. Anyone who disobeys the order will be executed."

The bosses from each department looked at each other and left the cell one after another, their steps a little hurried.

【Combat Command】...

It has always been the place where the Demon Slayer Division discussed war matters.

It seems that the military lord is really going to be ruthless this time...

After everyone left, a figure suddenly appeared on the empty seat.

None of the three people still present showed any expressions of surprise, obviously they had known about it for a long time.

"Director Xia, do you still remember the transaction between the Fortune Bureau and Sun City?" Lu Changsheng looked at Xia Lin thoughtfully and said, "That transaction happened half a year ago."

Xia Lin frowned slightly, habitually pushed the gold-rimmed glasses on her nose, and said, "Sir, you mean that the real purpose of that transaction is not to develop a demon-suppressing device."

"It's that Sun City needs relevant technology to upgrade the artificial crystal core."

"Harvesting the souls of awakened people is what they really want to do?"

Xia Lin patted her forehead as if she had suddenly realized something, and said belatedly, "No wonder the artificial crystal cores we made can't reach the level of Sun City no matter how we improve the process."

"It turns out that the most critical step is missing..."

"But this is not right. Although Li Junchang's ideas are particularly radical on weekdays, it's too costly to directly transform awakened people into artificial crystal cores, right?"

"No matter how you calculate it, even an awakened person in the extraordinary stage is better than... A fourth-level artificial crystal core should be more valuable, right? "

"Sending all these casual cultivators to the battlefield as cannon fodder is more like what he would do."

Lu Changsheng thought for a while and slowly said, "I have always had an idea since just now."

"Since the value of artificial crystal cores is far less than those awakened ones..."

"What Li Junchang wants is not artificial crystal cores at all."

"What he wanted from the beginning was the souls of those awakened ones."

"I know something that requires a large number of awakened souls to do it."

"And someone has tried it before..."

Lin Yuan seemed to have thought of something. With his cunning, he couldn't help but show a solemn expression, "Boss Lu, what do you mean..."

Lu Changsheng took a breath silently and said word by word.

"[God-making Ceremony]"

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