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Chapter 64 Zuo Yi’s Ambition (Happy New Year)

Zuo Yi's answer set off huge waves in Ji Xiu's heart, which could not be calmed down for a long time.

The Black Hole Organization turned out to be founded by Zuo Yi.

Before that, he, Lei Yan and other divine warriors all believed that Zuo Yi had taken refuge in the Black Hole God, and that the power he gained came from the Black Hole God.

"why."

Facing Ji Xiu's inquiry, Zuo Yi, who looked weak, did not answer the question directly. With a wave of his hand, the scene in the study room moved, and the snowy scene of the northern border was projected into the room with interlaced light and shadow.

The sky is covered with snow, as if you are actually there. The towering bronze door not far away is the entrance to the mysterious ruins.

"Do you think Yu Jingguo still has a future?" Zuo Yi looked up at the flying snow in the sky, a hint of exhaustion in his dim eyes.

After this year of study, Ji Xiu has a very good understanding of the situation in Yu Jingguo.

He clearly understands that Yu Jingguo is gradually declining. Pollution sources, the arrival of the shadow world, black hole Thousand Faces and other troublesome forces, foreign races outside the sea... various problems are intertwined, but each problem cannot be solved.

Although the Divine Legacy Team, a special organization that inherited the power of the gods, was protecting Yu Jingguo, it was unable to stop Yu Jingguo from sliding into the abyss of weakness. Even the most powerful An An only had the strength to fight against the low-level original gods. They are no match for those powerful primitive gods from the outer sea.

Seeing that Ji Xiu didn't answer, Zuo Yi didn't continue to ask and thought to himself:

"Many years ago, I realized that the decline of Yu Jingguo was a foregone conclusion. Even Shenshu and others understood that this was Yu Jing's fate that could not be changed. But I was not willing to end up like this. I wanted to take a path that others dare not A path that I don’t even dare to take….”

Ji Xiu said nothing and listened quietly to Zuo Yi's words.

The truth of history is gradually revealed in Zuo Yi's narration.

It turns out that Zuo Yi was a staunch follower of Yu Jing's faith and had a grand dream of leading Yu Jing to rise.

When he was young, Zuo Yi saw signs that the Yu Jing Kingdom was already weakening, saw the low management efficiency of the Yu Jing Church, saw the disorganization of the subordinate institutions of the Yu Jing Church, saw the depletion of Yu Jing's military equipment...

Drastic reform of Yu Jingguo's system is the driving force for Zuo Yi's progress. He believes that his efforts can give Yu Jingguo a new look and usher in a new future.

But as he gradually ascended to the core of Yu Jing's power, he discovered that the root cause of Yu Jing's decline was not internal institutional problems, but the disappearance of the powerful gods who once protected Yu Jing.

Yu Jingguo completely lost its support against powerful foreign threats.

Being bullied by foreigners and constantly losing resources, the future development of Yu Jingguo has become an endless cycle of constant blood loss.

At that time, Zuo Yi realized one thing. If the root problem is not solved, Yu Jing will never be saved.

Having said this, Zuo Yi's eyes were covered with a layer of white mist:
  "I have never given up my faith in Yu Jingshen. He is the beacon that leads my human race to prosperity, but he has disappeared for too long. The future of the human race cannot continue to rely on expectations and endless waiting for him... I I want to create a new path that can continue human civilization without Yu Jingshen."

Having said this, Zuo Yi's eyes showed unprecedented firmness and dominance:

"They all say that mortals cannot fight against gods, so I will create a new god to replace Yu Jingshen and become the pillar of my human race. I just want to do things that others dare not do or think of."

"They all think that I care about the power in my hands and are eager to climb up. But in my eyes, power is just a tool for me to achieve my ideals..."

"Except for the Divine Tree, no one understands me...but he ultimately chose to go against me."

In Zuo Yi's narration, the truth about the imprisonment of the sacred tree emerged.

The former high priest Yu Jing was Zuo Yi's greatest help in internal reforms. He admired Zuo Yi's decisiveness, which was why he continued to promote Zuo Yi, but soon their ideas diverged.

The origin of the contradiction comes from a question, how to create a god.

Zuo Yi once struggled to find the answer to this question and learned about the birth stories of the gods of each tribe through the information provided by the allies.

But it turns out that the birth of the original god cannot be achieved by the intervention of ordinary people.

It wasn't until the ruins of the Northern City were discovered that the fog of history was dispelled. With the help of the former director of the Institute of Prehistory, Zuo Yi learned the dust-laden historical truth.

I also understood that behind the high wall was the surging black tide of natural disasters.

In that ruins, the archaeological team discovered that the ancestors of the human race left four marks for them that could become gods, namely fear, rage, trickery, and darkness. They were the condensed divinity of the two ancestors of the human race in the eighth era.

But except for the fear seal, the other three seals have long since disappeared.

After learning the news, Zuo Yi realized that the god-making plan finally had hope.

He wanted to use the Seal of Fear to create a new god to counter the oppression of Yu Jing by foreigners.

But this plan was opposed by the sacred tree.

Because the process of creating a fear god requires the intake of a large amount of fear power, but at this time, Yu Jingguo did not have the ability to spread fear to the outside world.

Zuo Yi's plan is to create fear internally. As long as he creates a god of fear, the human race will have the confidence to compete with foreign races, and will also have the ability to open up a way to absorb fear from the outside world.

This plan means that this generation of people will become tributes to the growth of the God of Fear.

Hearing this, Ji Xiu suddenly thought of the bloody primitive accumulation process of capital, which grew through internal exploitation and accumulation, and gradually evolved into external plunder.

Before there is enough strength to spread fear externally, squeezing internally is the only feasible channel to obtain the power of fear.

Zuo Yi's choice is to create fear internally, so as to accumulate the fear energy to create gods. He wants Yu Jingguo to first have a god who can support the continuation of civilization, and then learn from foreign races and expand the channels to obtain the power of fear. transfer.

This was a result that the sacred tree did not want to see, and the two had serious differences in their ideas.

If Zuo Yi's ideal is the continuation of Yu Jing's civilization, then Shenshu's ideal is to fulfill the responsibility of the high priest and make people's lives rich and happy, one looking to the future and the other looking to the present.

They all hope that Yu Jingguo will become better, but they are only loyal to their own ideas on how to plan for the future.

One is a rational and pragmatic idealist, and the other is a radical reformer.

They love Yu Jing from a completely different perspective. From this point of view, the sacred tree at that time had actually accepted that Yu Jing's civilization would gradually decline, and did not believe that it had the ability to go against the trend and change Yu Jing's future. .

But Zuo Yi is different. He wants to completely change the established destiny of the human race and is unwilling to accept the end of human civilization's destruction, even if he cannot see this future at all. It is an issue that future generations should consider.

Zuo Yi knew very well that this evil plan would inevitably sacrifice a large number of people, but in his eyes, Yu Jing had the hope of changing his fate.

Due to the conflict of ideas, Zuo Yi could not carry out his plan at all, because the sacred tree was the real controller of Yu Jingguo.

To this end, Zuo Yi took action.

The first step of the plan is to imprison the sacred tree with the power given by the Seal of Fear, and completely remove the mountain that is pressing on the head. From now on, you can free up your hands and feet to do it.

The reason why he did not choose to kill the sacred tree was because in Zuo Yi's eyes, the imprisoned sacred tree was the only divine agent in Yu Jing's country besides the sacred warriors. Zuo Yi regarded it as encouraging the fear of the ancient tree. of nutrients, allowing it to never see the light of day, providing divine power to the ancient tree.

After this, the black hole organization was born.

While creating fear and chaos, Zuo Yi deployed a huge fear formation underground in each of the five major cities to absorb the power of fear released by the people in the five major cities and use it to create the God of Fear.

The end point for these formations to convey the power of fear is the demon statue in the mysterious ruins.

No one thought that behind the black hole and the chaotic forces in their eyes was Zuoyi, who was regarded by the people as the eagle of the new era.

But the development process of black hole power has not been smooth sailing.

Yu Jing's domestic resistance is not small, including the in-depth investigation of the previous generation of Shenyi No. 4.

This investigation almost goes to the heart of Zuo Yi's plan.

Realizing that Shenyi No. 4 had gradually revealed the truth about the black hole organization, Zuo Yi took the initiative to find him.

Deep down in his heart, Zuo Yi hoped that the Shenyi warriors could understand him, support him, and join his plan, but his persuasion was opposed by his predecessor Shenyi No. 4 "Le Yi".

In order to ensure the normal progress of the plan, Zuo Yi chose to use the power of fear given by the divine seal to set up an ambush offshore and kill Le Yi.

But Zuo Yi knew very well that every member of the Shenyi Team was a treasure of Yu Jingguo, and losing any one of them would cause immeasurable losses to the future of Yu Jingguo.

So after killing Le Yi, did he choose to take Le Yi's body back to Starlight City, return it to the guardians of the Divine Relic, and let them recast the Divine Relic No. 4?

The reason given is that Leyi died in a battle with the original god in the open sea. This accidental exposure of secrets made Zuo Yi realize a problem. The existence of the Shenyi Team would be an obstacle to the implementation of his plan.

So how to deal with the Shenyi Squad became Zuo Yi's key consideration.

Until news came that An An was seriously injured, Zuo Yi found an opportunity. He thought of controlling An An and making her a helper in his plan.

But it was not easy to control the divine warriors, so Zuo Yi thought of seeking help from the Thousand Faces Force.

Having said this, Zuo Yi took the initiative to talk about his views on the Thousand Faces Force.

He said that the Thousand Faces Organization is by no means as simple as it appears on the surface. They are indeed a force of trouble, but in many cases they can also become a knife in their own hands.

The members of this organization are completely independent existences. They only believe in the God of Trickery and there is no such thing as "one of their own." The relationship between members of the organization is not harmonious.

All goals achieved through trickery can gain the power of trickery from the god of trickery behind them, and they will also be granted corresponding power by the god of trickery.

Allowing one's own tricks to achieve their goals, or destroying other people's tricks, can be channels through which tricks gain power.

This leads to members of the Thousand Faces Organization concealing their schemes from each other to ensure that their plans are not destroyed by other members of the organization, resulting in failure.

When the Saints APP was originally designed, it was considered that the chaotic organizational structure of Qianmian Organization could be exploited.

Choosing to publish the detailed case on the Saints APP not only records the progress of the case investigation, but also allows members of the Thousand Faces Organization lurking in the Saints group to see the details of the case.

There are many cases that go surprisingly smoothly precisely because members of the Thousand Faces organization stabbed members of the same organization in the back.

Speaking of which, Zuo Yi gave an example.

He said that the Kuiwucheng village pollution incident that caused a sensation in Yu Jing was able to be stopped in time because members of the Thousand Faces Force provided intelligence to the Saints Group and Yu Jing Church in time, betraying the plans of the organization members and allowing the spread of pollution to begin. stage is contained.

Zuo Yi couldn't find any way to control the members of the Divine Heritage Team, but he thought of using the Thousand Faces Force to realize this plan.

For this reason, he set up a bureau for the Thousand Faces Organization.

He used trickery as an attraction to get members of the Thousand Faces Organization to actively participate, and finally obtained the source of divine pollution that the Thousand Faces Organization had requested from the God of Trickery.

Then through this divine source of pollution, An An was gradually corroded while undergoing treatment, and finally An An was completely controlled.

In this regard, An An became a trump card in Zuo Yi's hand, and would not use it unless absolutely necessary.

Having said this, Zuo Yi turned to look at him:
  "Do you know why I chose you?"

Ji Xiu shook his head. In fact, this was what he still couldn't figure out, why Zuo Yi chose Xia Gengzhu.

Before learning the truth, he even thought that Xia Gengzhu would be Zuo Yi's illegitimate son.

"Because you passed my test."

"What test?"

At this time, Ji Xiu no longer cared about exposing his identity. He just wanted to know Zuo Yi's detailed plan, or he would have to start over from scratch.

"Wisdom, kindness, perseverance, courage... you have achieved every one of them. While possessing these characteristics, you are just like me in the past. You can sacrifice everything to achieve your goals, especially in order to hide the secrets lurking around me. When I personally killed your long-time friend Ke Xin, I knew you were my choice."

Although Ji Xiu didn't know who Ke Xin was, he understood what Zuo Yi wanted to express.

Zuo Yi is a radical reformist who hates conservatives like Shenshu and believes that the Yujing civilization under their leadership will have no future.

Therefore, Zuo Yi does not want any conservative to take over Yu Jingguo after him, which will cause Yu Jingguo to return to its original state of chronic death.

But Zuo Yi never found a suitable successor.

Until he met Xia Gengzhu, who was approached by an undercover agent.

All of Xia Gengzhu's disguises were transparent in Zuo Yi's eyes, including the list of secret undercover operations, but Zuo Yi did not reveal the truth. He was always secretly observing Xia Gengzhu's performance.

In the process, Xia Gengzhu accidentally passed Zuo Yi's test again and again.

As Zuo Yi once said:
  "In you, I see my former self."

Zuo Yi believes that Xia Gengzhu can inherit his ideas well and push Yu Jingguo to new heights after him.

Thinking of this, Ji Xiu couldn't help but ask:
  "If I take over, what about you?"

Facing the inquiry, Zuo Yi smiled and shook his head:

"There is not much time left for me, my future is there."

As he spoke, Zuo Yi raised his hand and pointed to the towering sky-high wall at the end of the snowfield:

"Before I learned the darkest historical truth about Yu Jing, my dream was to create a new god and use him to establish a powerful Yu Jing country in the new era. But after I knew the truth, my mind changed and I had to fight against the alien race. Than, that is the biggest crisis in the future of mankind."

"The frequency of the arrival of the Shadow Realm is accelerating. The reason is precisely the result of the surging black tide of natural disasters behind this high wall. A crack has been torn out in the high wall. If I am not wrong, there are still three years for this high wall to come. The wall will collapse, the Kuroshio natural disaster will come, and the sleeping sequence disaster will wake up at that time, and human civilization will come to an end."

Ji Xiu was instantly stunned when he heard that the Kuroshio natural disaster would arrive in three years.

How could he not know what the Black Tide Natural Disaster was?

The predecessors of the members of the Divine Heritage Team all established powerful human civilizations, but they all fell under the sweep of the Black Tide Natural Disaster.

Now that we hear that the Kuroshio natural disaster will come in three years, doesn't this mean that there are still three years left in the future of mankind.

Only now did he understand that the arrival of the Shadow Realm was caused by cracks in the high wall. The power of the Black Tide Natural Disaster was projected into the real world through the cracks, causing a spreading and sweeping world of corruption.

"I want to plug this crack, let the disaster continue to sleep, and buy time for the development of my human race."

"How do you want to block it?" When he asked this question, Ji Xiu had a vague premonition of Zuo Yi's next answer.

"Although the black hole god I created has a divine body, he does not have the soul and divinity to control this divine body. Such a god cannot become the pillar that I ideally want to support the continuation of the Yujing civilization. In order to control this power, I I thought of a way...I want my soul to turn into a god, and then use the power of the God of Fear to block this gap."

As he finished speaking, the scene around him advanced towards the mysterious ruins. A statue of the bloody demon god standing in the underground palace hall appeared in front of him. There were four huge bloody formations above the demon god's head that were slowly operating, absorbing the power of fear.

Zuo Yi pointed at the Demon God and explained:

"This is the God of Fear created by the power of fear I have accumulated over decades. It is also the Black Hole God as you understand it."

"Transferring my soul into the body of the God of Fear is a key part of my plan. For this reason, I started research and experiments in the field of soul transfer very early, and my soul is always enduring the corrosion of the power of fear. To adapt to the future god’s body.”

When Ji Xiu heard about the soul transfer plan, he immediately thought of the robot dad from the Saints group.

According to You Hong's description, Robot Dad once participated in a soul transfer project with a very high fatality rate, and was the only survivor of one of the soul transfer experiments.

(PS: The foreshadowing of related content is in Chapter 27.)
  It turns out that behind this plan is Zuo Yi, whose purpose is to transfer his soul into the body of the Black Hole God, combine with the body of this god, and become a true god.

He finally understood why Zuo Yi, who clearly had decades to live, seemed to be getting weaker and weaker, and even had the idea of ​​​​cultivating a successor.

Because Zuo Yi's life span is at most three years.

Corroded by the power of fear for many years, he could no longer suppress the power of fear in his body, and his body deteriorated severely.

But he was not willing to give up the plan halfway, so he thought of cultivating a successor who had the same ideas as himself, and would do anything to continue the continuation of Yujing civilization.

This person is Xia Gengzhu.

And Zuo Yi will transform into the God of Fear before the wall collapses three years later, guarding the cracks, delaying the awakening of the disaster, and buying more time for the development of human civilization.

The last part of this huge plan is to sacrifice Zuo Yi himself.

Looking at Zuo Yi with dancing white hair, Ji Xiu suddenly felt a sense of sadness that he had never felt before.

What he thought was an evil plan turned out to be so tragic.

　Brothers, happy new year~
  　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)