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The last time the door was opened was because God did not want his people to suffer at the end of the world, so he chose Jing Lan’s great-grandfather and left him the method to open the door again. If mankind faces an unsolvable crisis again, this door will be opened.
Now that resources are depleted, it is the best time to seek God’s help once again and become the Supreme Being that all mankind worships.
Jiang Lu...actually refused?
"Did you know that I'm the only one who can help you open the door?!"
Bai Bai was a little exasperated: "Let me be frank, the key is with the exiles, and they are on their way here. If I tell their leader what you did, he will never be able to open this door even if he dies!"
"Ah this..."
Jiang Lu was indeed a little panicked.
But I’m not worried about not being able to open the door, but it’s in front of the other person’s brother...it’s hard to comment.
Thinking of this, he looked at Jing Lan in his arms.
The radiation she had been exposed to due to negligence was gradually cleared with the help of Jiang Lu. Jiang Lu said softly, "Why don't you come down first?"
Jing Lan pouted and hooked her hands tightly around Jiang Lu's neck.
"What? Are you scared?"
"It's so funny, I'm afraid? I'm super brave, okay?"
Although Jiang Lu said this, he still asked Bai Bai, who was speculating about the relationship between the two, "How long will it take for them to arrive?"
"It's almost there." Bai Bai checked the time. "They sent me a message an hour ago. They should be here in half an hour at most."
He added meaningfully: "You don't have much time left to make a decision. Now only I can help you."
“Not many.”
Jiang Lu took a deep breath and activated the [Open Door] function which had already been activated on the CD. At the same time, he said confidently:
"Darkness covers everything. I will be the last ray of light in the darkness. I will use thunder... to shatter the darkness!"
After a brief moment of distraction, Bai Bai couldn't help but laugh and said, "If you think..."
Boom——
Bai Bai, who had his back to the stone gate, was shocked.
No way...
He turned around mechanically and swallowed dully.
Are you serious?
"You are the chosen one?!"
Bai Bai blurted out in disbelief.
In fact, he never knew what the so-called key was, but he was also certain that Jing Ting, the current leader of the exiles, would never give the key to anyone.
Therefore, the only possibility left is that Jiang Lu is like the savior many years ago, the chosen one who can open the door to the kingdom of God without relying on the token left by the gods.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Lu was not proud of such an honor, but said indignantly:
"What I hate most is the so-called chosen one! Am I a round-cornered person and still waiting to be chosen as a concubine?"
"Uh..."
Before he could ask what rounded corners were, Bai Bai saw that the stone door had been completely opened.
A golden light film blocked the outside world, making it impossible for people present to see the scene inside.
Jiang Lu walked in without thinking.
But at the same time, a loud and solemn warning came from inside the door.
"Mortals, you are not yet worthy of setting foot in heaven!"
At the moment when the voice came from the door, the exorcist panel that only Jiang Lu could see seemed to be infected by a Trojan virus, and the word "warning" began to appear on the screen continuously.
[Sin Seal: You have been marked by Heaven as a sinful rebel. Do not reveal your identity, or you will become the priority target of Heaven’s camp.]
[Warning: Your sin mark has entered the perception range of the Heavenly Camp. The level of existence you are facing is immeasurable. It is expected that you can be wiped out in an instant.]
"Fuck!" Jiang Lu Ren was stunned: "Am I really unlucky?"
At this time, the person who was speaking inside the door seemed to have noticed: "Huh? Why did my followers die? Who are you and how did you open the door?"
Sensing the pressure from the people inside the door, not to mention Bai Bai and Jing Lan, even those infected people who didn't know what fear was didn't dare to breathe.
Fortunately, Jiang Lu is worthy of being a person from the underworld. After he realized that he could not make close friends with the people in the door, he immediately gave up his plan to open the door, become the savior, and solve the source of the disaster, and then hold a month-long party in Paradise City. Combined with the information that the people in the door seemed to be unaware of everything happening in the outside world, he thought of plan B almost instantly.
"I am your great-grandson-in-law. We used to live well, but there are more and more people. Now there is no land to grow crops, and we are all starving to death. Before his death, our ancestor said that if he encountered problems that he couldn't solve, he would come to open the door. You will help us. Do you think my wife can be the savior?"
Bai Bai and Jing Lan looked at Jiang Lu in surprise almost instantly.
Bai Bai was surprised by Jiang Lu's accent and his neither humble nor arrogant attitude towards the gods.
Jing Lan was surprised: He said I was his wife...
"..."
The being on the other side of the door fell into a brief silence: "No."
"Eh... you watched someone die without helping him." Jiang Lu was shocked: "Coward! Coward!"
"You...you dare to challenge my authority?" The person inside the door was a little angry.
"We burn incense and pray for you during festivals, why are you like this?"
"......" The person inside the door sighed, seeming a little helpless: "Perhaps you can try to pray? We don't like burning incense here."
"Don't worry about praying or burning incense, we are starving and nothing will help."
The people inside the door sensed it and indeed sensed the blood of the descendants of the gods from Jing Lan. After thinking for a long time, they finally said:
"Well, if there are no more humans in this world, it will indeed cause me a lot of trouble. However, I can only grant new gods' favored ones extensive knowledge and noble character, but I cannot grant them endless life. The price is that they need to spend their entire lives fighting for this world."
Jiang Lu breathed a sigh of relief, lowered his head and asked, "Are you ready?"
"what to prepare?"
Jing Lan's mind was filled with the thought "He said I was his wife" and he didn't hear the subsequent conversation between him and the person inside the door.
Jiang Lu's eyes were full of tenderness: "Be ready to be the savior."
"Ah? No, no, no, I can't." Jing Lan waved his hands in panic.
"But this is the best gift I can give you."
"Well...then I'll give it a try."
Chapter 46 Paradise City is not Paradise
Outside the city of bliss, in the desert.
Almost all the exiles came out, and the great leader, with thousands of fully armed exiles, planned to cooperate with the Lord of the Oasis to break through the defense of Paradise City.
"Brothers, success or failure depends on this. Today we may shed a lot of blood, but after today, our names will definitely be praised!"
The great leader passionately mobilized the warriors behind him.
Some of them are native exiles, while others are former residents of Paradise who were exiled here for various reasons and are extremely disappointed with their former homes and eager for change.
They gathered here, firmly believing that they would accomplish great things.
"Done!"
"Everyone is here!"
But just as they were approaching Paradise City, the military advisor discovered something was wrong.
"No, the city gates are wide open and there are no guards on the walls. I'm afraid there's a trick!"
The chief looked solemn and called the communicator.
"Still no news?"
The answer is the same as before.
They couldn't contact the Lord of the Oasis an hour ago, and they didn't know what happened, so their eyesight went dark.
"I'll go and take a look first." The commander-in-chief volunteered, and with the approval of the great leader, he led a vanguard team to the city gate first.
They knew very well that if this was a trap, there would be no return once they entered the range, but they still went forward without hesitation.
But surprisingly, even though they were almost under the city wall, there was still no reaction from inside the city, and it didn't look like there was a trap at all.
After receiving the message from the commander-in-chief, the leader led the large army forward.
After meeting outside the city gate, the commander-in-chief was full of doubts: "It's strange, it feels like there is no one inside."
"How to say?"
The military advisor looked at the chief.
The latter sighed: "The arrow is on the string, we have to shoot it, go ahead!"
They thought there might be a fierce battle, and they also thought there might not even be a chance for a fierce battle, and they would be wiped out before they could break through the city gate, but they never imagined that this would be the case.
This strange anomaly made them even more uneasy.
All the exiles entered the city gate carefully with heavy hearts.
The semi-elliptical city gate, nearly twenty meters wide, thirty meters high, and thirty meters deep, was an eye-opener for the local exiles who had never been to Paradise City.
This is just the city wall. It is hard to imagine how such a huge project was built from the desert.
As soon as they reached the inner city, all the exiles were on high alert and their nerves were tense to the extreme.
Suddenly, a cry of surprise came from the front, and the leader's face darkened.
Is there really an ambush?
But the sound of gunfire did not sound as imagined.
The troops in the rear quickly moved in three steps at a time and formed a battle formation, but they saw a scene that was incredible to them.
Countless people wearing the military uniforms of Paradise City were stripped of their weapons, tied up and lined up at the corners of the city walls. Their faces were pale, and they did not react at all even when they saw the exiles, as if they had experienced some hellish scene and were overly frightened.
Not only that, the usually bustling and prosperous Paradise City was now deserted. It was dead silent and you could hear a pin drop, as if everyone in the city had disappeared out of thin air.