Chapter 416 Knight Plague

Chapter 416 Knight-Plague

The White House, underground command post.

In a spacious conference room, several senior officials from the federal military and government were sitting on both sides of a long table, and in front of them was an unfolded projection screen, which displayed detailed data of a giant sentinel and some bloody actual combat videos.

"Please look, after many days of research and development by our group, a new version of the sentinel robot has been manufactured. After testing, all the data, including its actual combat power, have greatly exceeded expectations. In terms of cost..."

Beside the projection screen, an Asian young man in a suit and leather shoes was talking to everyone in the room. Suddenly, his speech stopped abruptly, and his originally concentrated pupils slightly enlarged. In the depths of the black pupils, the image of a light blue virtual screen was faintly revealed.

[All Notice: The hidden character Apocalypse has awakened in the current world. Because Apocalypse's strength seriously exceeds the balance of the camp, the main tasks of all contractors have changed accordingly...]

[Reminder: The contractor belongs to the human camp Trask Industries. The final ring of the main task has been changed from "Destroy Kiyo Island" to "Eternal Sleep"]

[Main Task: Eternal Sleep]

Difficulty Level: Lv.14~Lv.18

Task Introduction: Give the mutant god who awakened from the depths of history the most thorough eternal silence.

Task Information: This is the final link of the main task. Before Apocalypse causes serious damage to the human camp, it must be completely killed.

Task Deadline: 20 natural days.

Task Reward: The specific reward depends on the degree of damage to the human camp and the individual contribution of the contractor during the killing process.

Task Penalty: All attributes -5.

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"Apocalypse..."

The Asian youth in the conference room suddenly flickered his eyes as he glanced at the changed main task and whispered in a low voice.

The people on both sides of the long table opposite also noticed his abnormality. After looking at each other, an old white man in military uniform spoke first.

"Dr. Richard?"

The question interrupted the Asian youth's drifting thoughts. After coming back to his senses, he was not panicked, but just smiled apologetically at everyone in the field.

"Sorry, I was a little distracted!"

"Nothing, it's just that simply explaining the data is indeed a bit boring. Let's talk about something practical, doctor."

While speaking, the old man crossed his hands, his expression was solemn, and his originally calm tone began to gradually rise.

"The Ministry of Defense has invested at least tens of billions of resources in the Sentinel project, but it has not achieved much results so far."

"Now that the new Sentinel has been developed, how long will it take to put it into the battlefield in large quantities, so as to completely destroy the headquarters of the Brotherhood of Mutants!"

"We have delayed long enough, doctor!"

"Any time, general!"

Staring at the cold eyes of the white veteran, the Asian youth on the podium shrugged slightly, and then changed the subject.

"But now the Brotherhood is no longer the most serious problem. Our group's intelligence department in Cairo has just received a message that a guy who is more troublesome than the mutant bipolar has been awakened!"

"Awake?"

"Have you heard of Apocalypse?"

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As the entire Paradise's notice spread, the Federation, which was already undercurrent, became more and more agitated. Although the forces of all parties were calm on the surface, the forces in the dark began to shrink and mobilize.

As the source of all these changes, Cairo quickly returned to its former calm after the shock that affected the entire city disappeared.

Compared with the city war that caused heavy casualties more than 20 days ago, it is now just a landslide in the slums. Although it is slightly louder, it still does not attract much attention from the people of Cairo.

In the west of Cairo, in an area on the edge of the city where low-rise houses and high-rise buildings meet, people and vehicles shuttle back and forth, and the stalls and shops on both sides of the street are densely packed.

It was already afternoon, and the day and night were about to turn, but the whole street seemed more and more prosperous. In the noisy and bustling crowd, a tall figure with a temperament that was out of tune with the people around him was particularly obvious. He was wearing a wide black robe that covered his whole body and walked slowly in the crowd. Under the hood, a pair of indifferent and detached eyes were scanning this new world that had been separated by thousands of years.

For Tianqi, he just slept for a short moment, but the outside world had been thousands of years of time, and it was fleeting. It was no exaggeration to describe the different changes before and after as "the sea has changed and the fields have changed".

Whether it was the strange buildings in the shape of high-rise buildings in the distance, the endless stream of iron vehicles on the side, or the dazzling image light source in front of him, the noisy language music in his ears...

In Tianqi's view, these were all unfamiliar things he had never come into contact with. In his long reincarnation career, he had changed many identities and experienced many times of changes in the times, but this was the first time he felt so confused.

From the primitive age of ancient Egypt in 3000 BC to the information age in 2006 AD, the gap in between is far more than just time, but also the several civilizational eras that have been crossed over one after another, which can be said to be earth-shaking.

Everything around him is completely different from the First Dynasty of Egypt he once lived in, but the only thing that remains unchanged, except for the eternally bright sun in the sky, is perhaps these inferior and chaotic human lambs.

Apocalypse's eyes fell on the two waves of street thugs on the right side of the street who were shouting and confronting each other, and were about to turn into a physical fight. No matter how long it has been, the human species has always been the same. They are stupid and aggressive. Although they are weak, they always like to fight against each other.

Just like the flocks of sheep scattered on the grassland, if they lose the correct leadership of the head sheep, the only outcome is to go to extinction together under mutual aggression.

Now it seems that even if they lose his rule, these humans who choose to betray have not become better, but are running towards an increasingly impetuous and bad direction.

In this case, let everything now be destroyed. Only on the ruins can he build a new world.

The wandering footsteps paused slightly, and Apocalypse's red eyes were gradually covered by pure white, and then the huge perception began to spread rapidly with him as the center, and soon the massive amount of disordered information emitted by the entire city was all taken into his mind.

The hawking and bidding of merchants in shops, the casual conversations on the streets, the strange film and television news on the screen, the secret and dirty transactions and violence in the dark...

In just a few minutes, these huge amounts of information involving all aspects of the current society, which are even enough to paralyze a large server, were analyzed and absorbed one by one by Tianqi with unimaginable thinking speed until they were completely understood.

"2006 AD... Cairo... presidential republic... industrial revolution..."

After a moment, Tianqi's understanding of this new world began to deepen rapidly at an astonishing speed, and more importantly, in just a few minutes, he automatically learned the most common voice system of this era through the massive information he collected, and was able to use it flexibly.

The next moment, Tianqi's paused steps started again, and he walked quickly to an open-air screen near a shopping mall. The moment his palm touched it, the advertisement that was originally rolling on the screen disappeared immediately, and instead appeared on it were a variety of fast-flickering pictures and information materials.

"Internet... Information Age..."

"War... Technology... Weapons... Humans have never possessed such a powerful force..."

"Weak humans rule the world... They betrayed me... They betrayed God..."

"Countries... False Gods... Leaders... Will no longer exist..."

"I... am back... A brand new future... Begins from now..."

"From economic culture to political history, world structure, and all weapons and wars since records began...

These contents involving all aspects of current society appeared one by one on the electronic barrier at a very fast speed, and soon attracted the attention of a large number of people around the mall. Equally conspicuous was the tall figure in a black robe in front of the screen.

"This is bad, it looks a little wrong, it seems that the black-robed man is controlling it..."

"How did he do it, mutant?"

"Mutants?! These monsters again!"

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The crowd around was filled with chatter, and the atmosphere near the mall became chaotic as the term "mutant" came out. The damage caused in the city by the annihilation of mutant terrorists more than 20 days ago was still vivid in people's minds, and the hatred caused by the heavy casualties of nearly 100,000 Cairo residents was not easy to dispel.

Now, after hearing this term again, the stress response caused by the trauma made the crowd around them excited. Some people began to retreat in fear, while others had red eyes and reached out to the black-robed man in the middle of the crowd with hatred.

"You damn mutant monsters, you want to do it again..."

The angry words stopped before they were finished. Those who rushed forward were horrified to find that they had just approached the suspicious mutant and had not even touched his robe. His outstretched arm turned directly into a handful of yellow sand and was blown away by the wind, and then his whole body irreversibly followed the arm.

In an instant, with the black-robed mutant as the center, the area within more than ten meters around was suddenly empty, with only yellow sand floating everywhere.

All the noise around stopped immediately, and the air seemed to be stagnant. The next second, screams of fear came one after another, and the crowd gathered in a circle exploded and ran away frantically in all directions.

And at the periphery, a team in military uniforms forcibly separated the fleeing flow of people and went upstream towards the center of the riot.

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Near the mall, when Apocalypse's hand finally left the electronic screen in front of him, the surrounding commotion had already disappeared without a trace, leaving only silence.

Raising his hand to pull open the black hood that covered his face, Apocalypse slowly turned around, and the first thing that caught his eye was a gentle figure in a straight tuxedo, and dozens of neat soldiers kneeling on one knee behind him.

When their eyes met, Ah Fu's eyes showed extreme reverence, and then he bowed decisively.

"Your loyal follower for thousands of years, Alfred, welcome His Majesty to your country again!"

The light breeze with a little yellow sand spread the voice far away, and the indifferent sight fell on Ah Fu who saluted respectfully in front of him. Apocalypse's eyes moved slightly. In the short information collection process just now, he also learned who woke him up.

He was not surprised that there were still beings who remembered him after thousands of years.

Jehovah, God, the sun god Ra...

In his long reincarnation career, he left too many legends. As long as civilization continues, the mark he left in history will never fade.

As for the loyalty shown by the other party, after the last betrayal, he no longer believed in such an illusory thing as loyalty, but he always believed in power.

And more importantly, in his perception, this guy named Alfred was a mutant, and he had a good talent.

Looking at the soldiers who were still coming to kneel and worship in the periphery, Apocalypse could clearly perceive that many of them were mutants with special talents, and most of them had been transformed by Alfred's talent.

Weak mortals were not qualified to serve him, but the extraordinary strong were different. This person's talent plus the merit of awakening him qualified him to become one of the four knights following him.

As he took a step, Apocalypse's broad blue-skinned palm gently pressed on Ah Fu's slightly bent shoulder. A warm energy surged from his palm, instantly spreading to Ah Fu's whole body and penetrating into his bones.

"Well done, kid."

"You awakened the true God. As a gift, I will lead you into a brand new future."

"From today on, you will no longer have to fear or get lost. Now, accept your true power. It is far more than that..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ah Fu's upper body, which had been bent low, immediately raised high. His lake-blue eyes had turned scarlet at some point, and at the same time, an invisible wave burst out from his body to the outside world.

"Ka-ka-ka-ka-ka..."

Accompanied by the dense sound of wood friction, Ah Fu's flesh and blood instantly turned into hard wood with strange patterns, starting from his head and face. At the same time, at least two-thirds of the group of soldiers behind him, which had quietly expanded to hundreds of people, also turned into wood at the same time.

Then, many puppets in the back began to automatically stand up from their half-kneeling bodies, and then walked towards Ah Fu in front of them.

At the moment when the wooden limbs touched each other, all the puppets collapsed into wooden parts one after another. First, the friction sound of "click, click, click" intensified again, and finally the parts on the ground quickly climbed around Ah Fu like living things, and continued to splice, combine, and expand while wriggling.

Ten seconds later, many soldiers near the mall had disappeared, replaced by a nearly ten-meter-tall wooden giant.

Tianqi quietly floated in front of the giant, watching with amazement as the giant's wooden skin squirmed for a while and then turned directly into real tough flesh and blood.

"This is the power you should have, you will become my new knight-Plague!"

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Federation, X College,

When Ah Fu turned into a giant, Xu Yue, who was still teaching, suddenly paused, and several familiar paradise prompts rang in his ears.

[Tip: The detected Servant Alfred has joined the Mutant Apocalypse camp. The final ring of the Hunter main quest can be changed from 'Independence' to 'Judgment']

[Tip: There is no penalty for this change, yes/no to accept]

[Tip: After the main quest is changed, the quest progress will not be affected, and the final reward will be changed accordingly...]