High Above

  The predecessor of Rongying was an ordinary fisherman in the Land of Light among the kingdoms ruled by the Nemathus blood system of Feiyan Land.

  Because of the empire's biological warfare offensive, the coastal fishing grounds of Yuguang Land were almost completely destroyed, and the fish population died.

  The tide of red poisonous algae swept hundreds of kilometers of coastline, his hometown was completely bankrupt, and countless fishermen watched the blood-red sea, wanting to cry without tears.

Although it is said that the self-purification ability of Terra's oceans is disturbingly fast, after all, Kudura algae is a biological weapon specially manufactured by the Empire to target Flameland. The red tide lasted for nearly a month, severely damaging the coast of Flameland production work in the region.

   One month is enough for many things to happen.

  For example, a family is desperate in a disaster, and a fisherman who has to support his family can only sell himself to the Nemathus Rough Stone Research Institute, and go to be an experimental product by himself in exchange for some food and money so that his family can survive.

  In the laboratory, he underwent all kinds of cruel tests and tortures, and was finally determined to have a certain degree of spiritual talent.

  Because of this talent, his dilapidated body was not disassembled and used as raw material for other experiments, but was sent to the "Psychic Awakening Experimental Group" for further experiments.

   While there, he received an extraordinary 'entertainment'.

The nations of Terra have their own spiritual awakening experiments. The empire's "deductive method" catalyzes the emotions of the "experimenters" step by step through various coincidental encounters. When great joy turns sad, psionic energy is born.

Yanjiang's "hard training method" is to select individuals with psychic talents, and go through hard training that is absolutely impossible for ordinary people, such as "reciting ancient classics without sleep and rest for seven days without interruption", "persisting under the icy waterfall for a whole day" Day and night meditation', in such a process where the death rate exceeds 80%, psionic energy may be born naturally.

   Flameland is very simple.

   They are 'Pharmaceutical Laws'.

The fisherman was injected with more than 300 milliliters of testosterone, a large amount of serotonin and adrenaline, and a large amount of psychedelic stimulant substances including cocaine—he fell into extreme excitement, extreme rage, and extreme aggressiveness almost instantly psychedelic state.

   Then, in dying despair, anger and hatred.

  He awakened psionic powers.

   And, shaped the soul.

Then…

  The psionic power he awakened was just the most common 'spiritual blade sharp blade'.

Due to the limitation of imagination, most of the awakened psionic abilities of adults without much education are like this. They are not as strange as young children, nor are they as sophisticated and terrifying as educated old people and scholars. Adolescence has its own exaggeration, and small emotions can be sublimated into the whole world.

  He just wanted to split the unwillingness in his heart and the enemy in his fantasy.

so awkward.

   What was even more embarrassing was that he was regarded as a defective product and thrown into another psionic experiment to fuse with a 'demon'.

   Fortunately or unfortunately, he succeeded.

   has become today's 'Shadow of Shadows'.

   Today's Rongying still has human feelings and memories, and loves his family, but his other half is a cold demon named 'Gluttony'.

  The sharp blade and gluttony have produced unexpected effects. He can pierce the soul defenses of other human beings, and then cannibalize others from the inside of the soul, turning others into his own nourishment.

   Not only that, he can even get the complete memory of others, and can perfectly imitate the person who was swallowed by him.

   This is the most powerful spy candidate.

Fusion Shadow was originally supposed to be placed in the imperial capital or Wusha Port, which is an important border area of ​​the empire, but because a "big operation" is about to be launched in the southwest plain recently, it is also to test the data related to fusion demons, so it was put in to the southwest of the Empire.

   Coincidentally, during this period of time, in Xiahui Territory, many dark men who had been lurking safely were arrested, and even the deep-level moles who had infiltrated into the city hall were arrested without even a single action.

  The intelligence network around the Baisen Mountains, together, sent out a message.

   "Be careful of Ian Yinfeng, drastic changes are taking place inside his territory!"

   This is a disturbing sign.

  At the critical moment when Flameland was planning the autumn offensive, they had to figure out what the Prophet Lord was doing.

  The fusion shadow they sent was a fusion of demons that wouldn't cause too much damage. As a result, even the "Prophet of Crisis" couldn't really predict his existence.

   January 775 was a rather refreshing day.

  Nanling’s winter was supposed to be icy and freezing rain, but before the New Year, the city hall used weather cannons to reduce the rain in advance, so everyone can have a pleasant and clear seven-day holiday.

  Rongying carried her bag and walked on the streets of Xiahui City.

   Around the sunlit square, there are bursts of hawking in full swing.

  At the exit of the shadowed alley, there were enthusiastic voices.

   "Hot scones, baked potatoes..."

   "New law-woven cloth from the city of Naumann, cheap, strong and durable...".

   "Flower juice! Local specialty!"

The cities in the mountains and forests are not as cold as they used to be. On the contrary, there are a lot of vendors and pedestrians. The streets and alleys are full of various vendors, who sell goods, flowers, leather farm tools, and insect repellants. …and so on.

  —Really extraordinary.

  Seeing this scene, Rongying couldn't help but secretly praised in his heart, even though he was no longer a human being, he could understand the happiness of ordinary people, this was the life he dreamed of, but no matter how hard he lived.

   It is precisely because of this that, out of hatred for the imperial people, the dark emotions in his heart piled up deeper and thicker.

  Yes, he also suffered inhuman torture in Flameland, but all of this was due to the destruction of the Empire... From the standpoint of Flameland, the Empire is the source of all evil and the root of all suffering.

   (If it wasn't for the empire destroying my hometown...hateful!)

   After finally suppressing the hatred in her heart, Rong Ying fell into deep thought: (How can I meet with the officials of the city hall?)

  Thinking about his mission, Rongying's current performance is a typical visitor from other places. He walks on the edge of the street, shrinking back and forth, and can vaguely see his yearning for a better life.

   At this moment, on the front of a tall building, a crystal board as long as two people was broadcasting news.

  【Qingyue Tower, the capital of knowledge, Dr. Carlo Vikas, chief of the material department, visited Xiahuiling. The two sides had a cordial and friendly conversation and fully exchanged opinions, which greatly enhanced the friendship between the two sides. 】

  【During the second meeting, Dr. Carlo pointed out that Xiahuiling is similar to the capital of knowledge in terms of system, and has quite unique insights in the field of alchemy... The two parties decided to carry out a certain degree of research cooperation and jointly promote...】

   Rongying doesn’t understand official Chinese and political slang, but he can understand that a tower in the “City of Learning” has cooperated with Xiahui Ling, and there are actually similarities in the system between the two parties... What is the similarity?

   Regardless, this is important information anyway, so write it down.

   Staring closely at the photo of a purple-haired doctor shaking hands with Ian Yinfeng on the crystal plate, Fuying suddenly heard a very loud mechanical sound.

   Ka—Boom!

It was extremely huge, and the sound of something weighing at least five or six tons was heard on the other side of the street, but the residents of Xiahui collar were not surprised at all, they just showed joyful expressions, and then looked at the surrounding friends , cheered: "There is also a Coke tasting today!"

   "Hurry up, hurry up, if you slow down, you won't have time to line up!"

   Hula la la, almost instantly, the direction of the crowd reversed, heading towards the place where the loud sound came from.

  Caught off guard, Rong Ying was even staggered by the bump, and the strong man who bumped into him kept saying sorry, but he didn't stop, and continued to walk towards the entrance of the street.

"what's the situation…"

  Rongying was stunned, he couldn't figure out what happened, why the people led by Xiahui suddenly went crazy and acted like a cult ritual.

  This kind of thing happens every time, Rong Ying must go to see the situation.

On the main road, there are two giant mechanical armors with a height of three meters and five standing like statues at the intersection. With the twisting hot wind visible to the naked eye, the thick armor made them look like indestructible mobile fortresses.

  It looks similar to the 'Magnetic Storm Armor' in the Flameland intelligence, but the overall flow is smoother, somewhat similar to the reduced version of the 'Giant Battle Unit' of the pre-epoch civilization.

  —A brand new mechanical battle armor? This is a big piece of information worth uploading, that researcher lord is really amazing.

   Keeping the information in mind, Rong Ying frowned and looked at the details of these two 'new battle armors'.

   Then, he froze.

"nobody?!"

  He subconsciously exclaimed in his heart: "There is no one in this armor?!"

  From the demon's perspective, Fuying can see the souls of all people and creatures, and the mere armor can't block his soul perspective at all.

  However, when he saw through the structure of the battle armor, he found that there were no pilots inside the two brand new battle armors!

   Apart from a strange octahedron crystal terminal, there isn't even room for a human pilot inside the armor!

  Automatic combat armor without a driver? Has the technology of the empire reached this point? Or is it just to look good and just walk around?

  Rongying was extremely shocked. He kept these materials in his heart and understood why Feiyan's headquarters chose to send him to investigate.

  At first, I thought it might be a bit overkill, but looking at it now, the importance of the Xiahui collar is fully worthy of it!

  Looking back, after the initial shock, Fuying gradually moved his perspective to the back of the two automated battle armors.

   It was a box of red beverage cans placed along the street, stacked neatly like bricks.

  Thousands or even tens of thousands of beverage cans.

  The goods guarded by two automated battle armors are used, and there is a huge advertising hanging cloth on the back, [Xiahui Ling-Happiness Brand Coke], the bright fonts flutter with the wind in the form of exaggerated advertisements, arousing the enthusiasm of the crowd.

  【Each person is limited to two cans of trial drinking, repeated recipients are warned once, and those who receive warnings three times or more in a month will be sent to the 're-education center' for 15 days of civic code of conduct study】

  In the battle armor, there was an electronic sound without ups and downs: [Citizens who want to try Coke, please come forward in line and get them one by one. Welcome to give professional drinking advice, if Xiahuiling Xingfu Beverage Factory adopts your opinion, you will be rewarded by the city hall and get the right to consume Xingfu Coke for free for life]

  After declaring their requirements, the two battle armors took a step towards the sides, and then, the citizens who had automatically lined up happily stepped forward to receive two cans of Coke one by one.

Rong Ying mixed into the team in a daze, because everyone received it quickly without any disputes or noises, so it took a few minutes to arrive in front of the pile of drink cans, nervously standing in front of the two battle armors. The one-eyed 'under the gaze' picked up the two cans, and stepped aside.

  Seeing many people around happily opening the cans to drink, she hesitated for a moment, Rong Ying also imitated them, unzipped the zipper on the drink cans, and then aimed at it to drink.

  —The irritating feeling explodes in the mouth, and countless small bubbles burst slightly on the tongue, up, down, left, and right, bringing a feeling close to 'spicy'...but then, it is sweet!

Sugar... The sweet taste rarely seen in the common people of this era filled the mouth. This made Rong Ying, who grew up by the sea and had never eaten sweets even after becoming a half-demon, subconsciously opened her eyes wide, and swallowed this mouthful. 'Sweet Soda'.

  The sweet but irritating liquid fell down the throat and into the abdomen. After taking the first sip, Rong Ying even stayed in a daze for a while.

  Then...he looked at the beverage can in his hand with incredible eyes.

  【Happiness Coke】

   "...Xiahui Ling, are you so rich that you can share sugar with everyone?"

  He muttered to himself, his tone full of shock: "This is still a free trial drink... I don't know how much it will be officially sold in the future!"

  He completely understood why the people in Xiahui Territory put down all their work when they heard that there was a drink to try.

  The owner of the shop is not working, and the hawker who set up the stall invites familiar friends to look at the stall.

  Yeah, a simple carbonated sweet drink, a simple sense of well-being and joy...Happiness Coke lives up to its name!

   "Why, you're surprised, outsider?"

  And a resident with the hair color of a mountain dweller, who could tell at a glance that he was a native of the Xiahui Territory, came over enthusiastically and patted Rong Ying's shoulder whose shock had not subsided.

  His enthusiasm was somewhat beyond Rongying's expectations, and he had already begun to talk: "Believe me, choosing to come to Xiahui Ling is the most correct choice in your life!"

   "Although our place is not big, and it is not particularly rich and lively at present, but believe me, as long as you live here, you will definitely feel happy!"

   "There is also this Coke. After you drink one can, you don't have to drink the other can directly, but to burn some chicken legs and chicken wings... Our territory has reached a cooperation with the chicken farm in Nauman City, and there are often cheap chickens to buy!"

   "Listen to me, this is delicious!"

  Although the tone of the local resident was full of pride and pride, it made Rongying vigilant.

-what happened? Why are you so enthusiastic?

  The Xiahui leader must be the person who added addictive substances to the drink to control the entire territory, right? !

  As a member of Feiyandi, it is understandable for Rongying to think so. After all, the empire in the eyes of Feiyandi is the same as Feiyandi in the eyes of the imperial people.

   But in fact, Ian is really simple. He is just giving out sugar water to supplement the simple and happy carbohydrate drinks for the territorial people.

   Of course, it’s true that sugar is also an addictive substance.

With the Agriculture Building addressing some of the basic crop and vegetable needs, the Xiahui Collar Agriculture Department began building some entirely new Agriculture Building structures to grow a host of polysaccharide crops including corn, sugar beet, short cane, and sweetroot, among other , and various beans.

   What followed were simple refined sugar and syrup workshops, oil mills and protein powder workshops.

  What Rongying sees now is only Coke.

  But in fact, the drinks that Ian took out for testing included orange juice, herbal tea, sweet fruit wine and many other drinks.

  These delicious drinks that contain sugar and stimulate the secretion of dopamine in the brain were synonymous with obesity, addiction, diabetes, fatty liver and even a variety of unspeakable diseases in the past.

But in Terra, not to mention that everyone is transformed from a pre-epoch civilization, it is difficult to get fat... If you can really gain weight, then it means that the material of life is extremely rich, and people don’t have to worry about food and clothing. Proof of enjoyment?

  Laughing to death, I wish I could get fatter.jpg

   And Ian didn't have the slightest idea of ​​making money in this regard.

   Either it’s a free gift, or it’s a cheap sale... because Ian didn’t intend to use these drinks to become a drink tycoon, making money with cheap sugar happiness.

  What he wants to do is to make a name for himself—let everyone in Nanling, and everyone who drinks in Terra in the future, know about Xiahui Ling and his name, Ian Yinfeng.

  As a madman who has already begun to think about how to rule Terra in the future, Ian has started to pave the way for his fame and prestige from now on.

  Although we don’t know why, the empire will be divided in the future, and other countries will also have various internal problems. With the outbreak of the world war, the entire Terra will be smashed into a pot of porridge.

  Using this chaotic farming to unify Nanling, I stayed in my hometown and flew to the sky, and flew directly to Terra's Jupiter star (a giant gaseous planet), and built a fuel base with the remains of the civilization of the previous era.

   This path proved useless, so this time Ian was going to conquer all of Terra.

  By that time, being ruled by someone whom you have heard of and liked in the past, and being ruled by someone whose reputation is unknown, maybe very cruel, are two completely different feelings.

   Of course Rongying couldn't figure out the way behind these things.

  He simply finds it difficult to understand the current situation in Xiahui.

  This place is different from any city in Terra...not the appearance, not the wealth, nor the people who live...

  The logic here seems to be completely different...

  Why do the lords here hand out these drinks for free? Why are people in this place so happy and joyful?

  The half-demon who borrowed the shape of others looked around the surrounding streets in confusion—here, people came and went in a hurry, but their actions were orderly.

One or two thousand people lined up at the entrance of the street, but there was not even a single queue jumping incident... The worst behavior was nothing more than a foreigner who had just arrived in Xiahui City like himself and wanted to secretly line up again. Grab one more Coke.

He was quickly spotted by the automatic combat armor, and the three-meter-high giant suddenly moved, pinched the man's back collar precisely, and then threw it aside with a gentle way, making a thunderous announcement: [warn once]

  —Can these battle armors really identify people’s faces? ! The movements are still so subtle and delicate?

At this moment, Rongying fully understands why the spies in Xiahui City disappeared... This is a matter of course. Xiahui leader who has mastered this automatic identification technology, if he does not use some special methods, basically It is impossible to be infiltrated by spies!

  However, how were those hidden people who didn't take any action on weekdays discovered?

  Rong Ying didn't know this, but the anxiety in his heart began to grow again... He drank the 'Coke' in his hand with some annoyance, and after thinking about it, he still put the remaining can of Coke into his pocket.

  The Imperials are guilty, but Coke is not.

  Thinking of this, he started to walk and continued to walk in the city led by Xiahui.

  He wants to complete his mission, find a 'city hall official', and then try to 'eat him', get his memory, and lurk inside the Xiahui Territory.

  Wait until he understands the secret behind the Xiahui collar, he will devour other people and use their bodies to leave this place.

  What Rongying didn't know was.

  Ever since he entered the urban area of ​​Xiahui City, there has always been a 'line of sight' suspended above the city that has locked on him and stared at him.

   That's a sun...

  A silver-white, icy sun.