Chapter 155: False Paradise

Maria was one of the people that Shiraishi Kou conducted pill-taking experiments on in various hospitals and prisons before the animal supernatural disaster.

At that time, Bai Shihang felt a strong sense of sadness when he saw her. He thought that one of her relatives was suffering from illness in the hospital, but he didn't expect that she was actually sad.

She even had to be carefully cared for in the hospital by the person who caused all this.

Her ability is called [Flower of Evil], and her ultimate ability is to gather all the sins within herself, thereby expanding the coverage of pollen and slowly forming a sinless land. Unless the people here are truly free of sin, they will voluntarily insert the umbilical cord of the vine, and their spirits will always remain in that woven paradise of happiness.

It is an ability that will become terrifying once it spreads.

And Shirai Anko's new ability is even more complicated.

False Paradise

Accommodate the souls of the deceased and learn about their memories before death. The more devout the belief in "God" before death, the higher the soul strength. Consume a group of souls to obtain a "Heaven Beacon". After granting the Heaven Beacon, the recipient will learn the basic content of "Divine Grace". When the primary construction of Divine Grace is completed, the false paradise will be upgraded to [Original Paradise].

The performance of this ability on Shiraishi Hang seemed to be slightly enhanced.

And another ability has also been updated.

【saint】

As long as your heart is pure, your words will be more acceptable to others. Death is not your end. In the [false paradise], you can be reborn.

This is similar to Shiraishi Hang's original prediction. It seems that if Carlos dies in the future, as long as his soul is recovered, he can be reborn.

I just don’t know if this new life has any price.

He originally wanted to try using a parasite, but he found that the soul of the parasite would be annihilated the moment he chose to parasitize it, and the death of the parasite would not affect the soul of the original body, so he concluded that it would be useless to use it.

Then we can only wait and see when Carlos has time to die again.

Overall, the most important gain this time is the ability [False Paradise], which can be upgraded and the conditions are clearly stated.

This is much better than studying it yourself along the mutation thread.

"Having fewer characters doesn't necessarily mean having no potential." Bai Shihang reflected on himself.

I didn’t expect the mutation route of light to be so strong.

But collecting souls was too much trouble. Would he have to control the parasites and run around every day? He didn't want to torture himself, so he might as well torture others.

Use [Moth] to create a creature, and then use [Forgery] to create a soul collecting item that connects to the fake paradise. This should work.

Then there is the so-called Heaven Beacon, which requires the consumption of souls to create.

No wonder it is called a false paradise. Isn’t this just tricking pigs into being killed?

After thinking more carefully about the so-called divine grace, he had a general understanding of it.

The paradise in the false paradise is a chaotic space, like an operating platform system with the most basic rules.

Divine Grace is a development tool that can produce executable applications based on this platform.

When these applications are able to build a most basic ecological framework, the most original paradise will be born in this chaotic space.

So, the ultimate heaven is that after death the soul can access the heavenly internet?

It seems to be in line with modern people's thinking. In a sense, this can also be regarded as digital immortality.

His interest was aroused, so he rented a hotel in Shiraishi Aerospace Corporation in Hans Country, intending to concentrate on research for a while.

Japan.

The Osaka Monster Flower incident has caused a lot of panic among many citizens who are not in Tokyo and feel that they are safe.

Almost all of Japan’s previous supernatural disasters occurred in Tokyo.

It’s not that there aren’t any in other places, but they’re just not as conspicuous in comparison.

But this extraordinary disaster involved most of the city. Hundreds of thousands of people temporarily lost their memories. After waking up, they inexplicably appeared on the streets or next to the collapsed Tsutenkaku Tower. More than 10,000 people claimed that they saw heaven.

Where is our Chaofan? Give us some strength!
The Special Affairs Bureau was under great pressure. After briefly finishing the work at hand, Takeshi Noguchi took some time out and flew to the vicinity of the Fukushima nuclear power plant by helicopter.

On a reef somewhere, he found Toyokawa Kamikiyo staring at the sea in a daze.

chug.

The helicopter found an open space to land. Noguchi asked the crew to wait there, and then he walked towards Toyokawa's position alone.

Crash.

The waves hit the reefs.

"You can't see the sea anywhere else? Why do you have to come here to see it?" Noguchi came and sat next to Toyokawa and lit a cigarette.

Fengchuan looked at him, then turned back: "Shouldn't you be busy?"

"Busy, but comforting you is also part of my job. It's written in the contract." Noguchi shook off the ash from his cigarette. "The last time you came here, you were still fighting with Ito Makoto. Now that you're here, don't tell me you're missing him?"

Fengchuan lowered his head: "No, I understand him a little bit." Noguchi was silent for a while, and finished smoking the cigarette in his hand before speaking: "Fengchuan, do you know why I became a policeman?"

"Defend the country?" Fengchuan replied absentmindedly.

Noguchi smiled, which was rare.

"When I was a kid, my family ran a 24-hour convenience store."

"It was 11 or 12 o'clock that day. My mother was the only one in the store. My father and I went out for a midnight snack and then came back with some fried dumplings."

"When we got back, a person who was lingering at the door walked into the store before us, seemingly ready to buy something. Then, a moment after the entrance bell rang, a person I didn't recognize walked out of the warehouse and stood at the counter."

"My father realized something might be wrong, so he casually asked for something that the store didn't have, and then hurried out to call the police."

"He didn't dare to call his mother, fearing that something unexpected might happen."

"But in order to delay them, my father asked me to hide in the street corner while he pretended to go back to buy something."

"That customer is indeed in the same group. He has not left yet."

"But until we couldn't delay any longer and they noticed the problem, the police still hadn't arrived."

Having said that, Noguchi stopped talking.

But Fengchuan couldn't help but be curious: "So, what happened next? Are uncle and aunt okay?"

"It's okay. My father was slightly injured. My mother was tied up in the warehouse. After hearing the fighting, she bit the straps and took out a mop from the warehouse to fight together. She successfully beat the two thieves away. Isn't it surprising? When I talked about this incident before, everyone would fall silent halfway through and ask me to accept my condolences."

Toyokawa was speechless. He didn't expect that Noguchi had such a bad taste.

"But the situation was still very dangerous. They all had knives, so my purpose as a police officer was to solve the case as quickly as possible," Noguchi said calmly.

Fengchuan felt a little confused after hearing this. He did not deny that he did feel secretly happy when he helped others and was admired.

But compared with the price to be paid, these secret joys seem to be nothing.

"Fengchuan, you must remember that it's not that the country and the people need you to protect them, but someone has to stand up and at least work hard for order."

"The eyes of the people are sharp, but also narrow-minded. The 'people' you are protecting is a collective concept. Don't be influenced by every person, every account, and every piece of malicious words."

“Because once it becomes concrete, you will not be able to tolerate their ignorance and coercion.”

Toyokawa stared at Noguchi's eyes, not knowing whether he understood or not, but he nodded anyway.

"Actually, what should bother you most is Nanako's matter." Noguchi looked at the sea and changed the subject.

"Yeah. I guess she won't be able to be an idol in the future." Fengchuan sighed, "She has worked so hard for so long."

"Without you, she would probably be unknown now."

"Maybe, Boss, is there any way to help her?"

"As for the media, we can think of a way. The last press conference was quite effective. Now the incident of the Osaka Demon Flower has not yet passed. You can say that you and Nanako were in Osaka to investigate this matter, but because of the public opinion, you were forced to return to Tokyo to explain, so that Osaka lacks an extraordinary person to help." Noguchi said lightly.

"Will this backfire?" Fengchuan was a little worried. Isn't this just putting the blame on the netizens?

"It's different. We were passive before. To use your words, it's hard to wash away the shame. Now if we take the initiative, all media will make efforts to mobilize emotions, and you can apologize again. There is still a high chance. This is the risk you need to take if you want Nanako to continue to pursue her career as an idol."

"But remember, everything has a price, and we will not help you solve these things without limits."

After hearing what Noguchi said, he didn't care about the cost or not. At most he could just work for the rest of his life. As long as Nanako could continue to be an idol, he would feel relieved.

"It has to be you, boss! Um, are you cold? How about we go back?" Fengchuan returned to his usual playful smile.

Noguchi shook his head. "I came to see you this time for one thing. On the other hand, the monitoring department recently found that the radiation concentration near the nuclear power plant has dropped on a large scale, which has far exceeded the purification speed of nature."

"Really? I was wondering why I didn't feel the tingling sensation on my skin anymore." Fengchuan nodded in realization, "Do you suspect it has something to do with the supernatural?"

"Well, the Self-Defense Forces have already sent a submersible to search, and there should be results soon."

As soon as Noguchi finished speaking, his cell phone rang.

"Yeah, okay, let me take a look."

After hanging up the phone, I opened the video, which was a video of underwater footage sent by the other party.

The searchlight illuminates a dark seabed, which seems to be normal. However, when the searchlight switches modes, a large radial-shaped pit can be seen below, which looks like the remains of a giant starfish.

But now, there are only pits and no living creatures.

Noguchi frowned and put down his phone. The ocean that had just given him a feeling of grandeur and boundlessness suddenly became terrifying and unknown, as if a prehistoric behemoth was hiding in the dark, waiting for its chance to strike.

"Do you like radiation?"

It is still unclear whether this pit was left by some kind of creature, and it is even more uncertain about the relationship between it and radiation, but Noguchi always prepares for the worst.

And yet, when faced with extraordinary events, his thinking was almost always accurate.

(End of this chapter)