Chapter 3420: A Story of the Era
Iluna's expression became even more complicated at this moment. Although the eighteen-year-old girl had seen all kinds of things, she was still young after all. Relatively speaking, the doctor who had made up his mind to carry the devil was truly calm. What he had to do was more dangerous and terrifying than these people.
The man sitting on the flatbed cart sighed to the five people:
"Mimics are really good. I know they are monsters, but low-level mimics really inherited all the lifestyles of the original humans. They don't understand that they have to love their families, but they know that they have to love their families. This is actually enough."
Although there was money from selling some fixed assets, in the four months from autumn to now, everyone here has earned more money for their families than they have earned in decades before. It feels so good not to eat wages, but to work for yourself. I even felt happiness and a sense of achievement. It was this constantly increasing positive emotion that made me not completely assimilated by that part of the mimic body for a long time.
I originally thought we could work until spring at least, but I didn't expect you to come so fast. But that's fine, after all, I don't want Tobesk to really become a city of mimics. When they left, I promised to help them protect their families. Everyone knows that this situation won't last too long, but at least I have fulfilled all my promises."
The five people standing there didn't speak for a while, because the situation here was even more incredible than the 【House of Resurrection】.
Everyone thought that the 【House of Resurrection】's method of reasonably replacing ordinary people was quite exquisite, but they didn't expect that here... here even obtained the consent of those who were about to be replaced.
For a short moment, yes, just for a moment, the Outsider felt that he, who was about to destroy everything here, was the villain.
"Mimic's House, doesn't it know your true thoughts?"
Xia De asked when the sound of fireworks exploding appeared in the distance outside the window for a long time. The man laughed:
"Of course it knows, but it doesn't care. Because it has harvested the most precious things in Tobesk, and it even tried a second time and succeeded—after me, it gave another person with a strong wish half a mimic body, and then let him see his wife who had been dead for many years, so that person also voluntarily helped the 【Mimic's House】 to expand. I have seen that person, but it is a pity that his wish is not as strong as mine. Three weeks after seeing his 'wife', after walking the path they dated when they were young with his 'wife', he lost himself."
But I know he is not relieved, but he found that what he got was just an appearance, and his soul would never come back."
The man asked the Ringed Shushi again:
"However, that is not important. What is important is, do you know what the 【Mimic's House】 got from me?"
This time it was Luweiya who gave the answer:
"It got an unusual means of expansion. It's not secret breeding like cockroaches, but using human love, human emotions, and human wishes to let humans actively pursue becoming mimics. Mimics now know that they should give the initiative to humans."
The man nodded:
"Yes, so the 【Mimic's House】 doesn't care what I will do at all. The return it got from me is enough. Since then, as long as human civilization still has love, still has oppressed people, and still has people who are eager to obtain, the 【Mimic's House】 will no longer be afraid of being unable to expand rapidly."
Love, hate, sorrow, joy, life, death, parting... Fortunately, they still only imitate human emotions. They know how to use them but still don't understand them. However, when mimics truly understand these emotions, I think they will no longer be monsters, but a new species."
He sighed again, looked at the factory workers who were still working behind the crowd in silence, and finally took out a notebook from the wide pocket of his suspenders:
"I don't want to evaluate my own behavior, nor do I regret what I did, but I know how much danger this will bring to future generations."
So I finally did some things that humans should do. You take this, it records everything I know about the 【Mimic's House】, as well as the internal situation of the 【Mimic's House】. But I have never been in contact with mysticism, so I can only record what I see and hear."
He threw the notebook to Xia De, he could see that Xia De was the leader:
"In addition, the fourth-stage mimics already know that they have gone too far in Tobesk this time. Whether it is this factory or the 【House of Resurrection】, they have exposed too many traces. After all, it is easy to find the problems here by checking taxes."
So the mimics split the main body of the 【Mimic's House】 in advance. Now the one being eliminated over there is only one-third of the main body of that thing. The remaining two-thirds of the 【Mimic's House】 have been taken away from Tobesk by a powerful fourth-stage mimic. Having mastered the means, they want to experiment with this harvest in a relatively remote city."
Tobesk has been abandoned in a factual sense. Now here is just used to make more mimics to distract human attention. Sorry, I don't know where the main body of the Mimic's House went, they are hiding it from me, but I know it went to a place far south."
So Xia De also knew that the main body was likely taken to the Island of Fatumunster by the delegation. The delegation's departure was after the Year-End Festival, and the time was just right.
"You can control these mimics, right? That's why they didn't go to support the battle over there, nor did they go to the city to create chaos."
Luweiya asked again, the man nodded gently:
"Most of them were propagated using my body components. As a higher-level mimic, I can control them to a certain extent, not to mention that everyone here has a common wish, which greatly strengthened my mental control. By the way, just now, seeing through your illusions also relied on mental power fluctuations."
He stood up:
"But you don't have to worry, I know how to deal with them. The income from half of autumn and the whole winter is enough to pay for the lives of everyone here. Even if they know, they will understand that this is to protect everyone's family—I placed bombs in the factory in advance. The agent of the Gray Gloves who sold me the bombs thought I was a b/a, o. d/on. g element."
I will blow up this place and end this scene started by me. But please use fire to clean up the traces here afterward. After all, the regeneration ability of mimics is very strong. In addition, you should have already obtained the list of factory workers from the factory owner. Remember to check everyone's family afterward. Don't be soft-hearted."
He turned around and smashed the wall behind him with a punch, revealing the bombs and detonators buried in it. Except for not expecting the 【Mimic's House】 to be discovered so quickly, he really had planned everything.
And the discovery of the main body of the 【Mimic's House】 is ultimately because of the matter on the Island of Fatumunster. This is a story of fate, and it is not his fault.
Xia De looked down at the notebook in his hand, still thinking about the words the man just said. The source of the mimic chaos in Tobesk seems to be settled tonight, but these words of the man should affect the Outsider for many years.
The man regarded mimics as tools, and mimics also regarded him as tools. Mimics are definitely monsters, but the guys who force people to become mimics seem to be monsters too. Dorothy didn't follow in, otherwise she would definitely summarize some very powerful words. And the Outsider just thought about the stories of his hometown in his heart, and thought about the stories of this world again.
This is a story of the era. Regardless of whether there is extraordinary power, humans are so similar.
Seeing that they were standing still, the man asked:
"You don't believe me, right?"
"No, I believe you."
Xia De said:
"I don't want to evaluate what you did either, this is not my business... However, after the end of the world is over, I think this world will be better, I promise."
The man smiled and shook his head, not knowing whether he didn't believe it or felt it didn't matter:
"The detonator is here, and my corpse should also have some research value. If you don't need it, just destroy it. If you need it, just dispose of it."
Xia De asked the last question:
"May I ask what your name is?"
The man crossed Xia De's shoulder and looked at the people who were still working with their heads down behind him:
"It doesn't matter, I don't need to leave a name specifically, I am the same as them."
Xia De nodded, so half a minute later, a shocking explosion sent the entire factory to the sky, but because of the spellcasting of Xia De and others, this explosion only shattered the glass of the surrounding adjacent buildings.
The sea of fire engulfed everything here, and the corpse that was two-thirds fused with the mimic was put into the 【Coffin of the Underworld】 by Xia De for a short seal. Iluna will hand it over to the church. The Church of the Five Gods needs this thing to study the 【Mimic's House】 after "evolution."
"Young man, very emotional, right?"
On the roof of a three-story building one street away from the "Murray Textile Factory" that exploded and caught fire, Xia De stood at the forefront and watched the sea of fire with everyone, as well as the people who appeared around to put out the fire. The question was Old John, who stood behind Xia De, and the faces of both were reflected red by the sea of fire burning in the distance.
【Present · Sixth Era, General Calendar 1855 Winter, Month of Birth. The fire of civilization illuminates your face, this is a noble and sinful fire. You saw people carrying burdens forward in the firelight, saw the present and the "future", saw the abyss of human nature and the light of human nature. The firelight intertwined into a spiral, that is the arc of rising. Life is not as good as money, but protecting family is still greater than protecting oneself. At this moment, what you see is the most real and most horrific scene of this world and this era—Outsider, do you understand this world?】
"You saw the flash of human nature, the fragility of human nature, and also saw the darkness and indifference of the era. What is the feeling now?"
"Her" voice and Old John's voice sounded almost at the same time. Xia De watched the sparks in the fire field rising to the night sky at this moment, as if they were going to become stars in the sea of stars:
"No feeling, this is just part of the story. Old man, I don't not understand this era. Listening to your tone, why does it seem like you are worried that I will be disappointed in humanity?"
Old John is one of the few people who knows that Xia De only truly became a Ringed Shushi in the summer of 1853, besides the young ladies and friends close to Xia De, and the old man also guessed Xia De's relationship with the God-Caller. Because of this, he would worry that the young man would lead his thoughts to extremes because he saw things that were not pleasing to the eye. ===== CHAPTER 3421 =====
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