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Chapter 476: Chapter 476: Metamorphosis

"Wait, why would the survivors move onto the Celestial Patrol?" Honglian’s voice suddenly rose eight pitches, "What are you planning to do!? Are you planning a great migration of races?"

"It’s hard for me to explain, but you’ll naturally understand the reason once the ascension begins," Will said indifferently. "Please believe me, this is not a bad thing. Compared to being directly thrown into the vast cosmos, having a temporary place of refuge is the mercy of our Lord."

While speaking, the Water Strider had already climbed to the top of the machine, transitioning from a vertical climb to a horizontal run.

From the top layer of the "city machine," the view was breathtakingly different.

These machines almost maintained the same height, appearing like a vast metal plain. The distant light, blocked by a sandstorm, was evenly spilled over this plain, reflecting the unique silver-white and orange-red gleam of metal, giving an inexplicable warm feeling.

Though the plain seemed flat, there were many straight "fissures" distributed across it, each fissure made up of the gaps between machines, extending up to four or five kilometers long and as deep as the machines’ height.

And the mechanical long legs of the Water Strider could easily stride over these fissures, gracefully as if ice skating.

Chen Xuan also discovered evidence that this was the back of the Celestial Patrol.

Not far away, an incongruous pit disrupted the uniformity of the metal plain, sinking inward, with surrounding machines tilting. Many Water Striders gathered near the large pit, cleaning up the broken parts like ants moving house.

There was no doubt that this pit was created by the moon-earth projection weapon of the mechanism.

"If it’s hard to explain, you’ll have to explain!" Honglian relentlessly questioned, "You don’t intend to destroy the whole world, do you?"

"How could that be," Will immediately denied, "This world is also part of our Lord."

"Then tell me, how do you plan to let the survivors live in the city below? I see it’s either through forceful threats or enforced enslavement!"

Will looked at Honglian with a compassionate gaze, as if looking at an ancient person who knew nothing, "The ascension is about to begin, do you think we can force all the living to gather in Jiang City within half an hour?"

"So fast?" Honglian was stunned.

"Indeed, whether Mr. Chen accepts the invitation or not, the process of ascension is irreversible. If you don’t want to watch, I can send you back at any time. If you don’t believe it, you can even kill me, it doesn’t matter..." He paused, "I am merely an envoy, telling you about a determined future, nothing more."

Everyone fell silent.

Chen Xuan scrutinized Will, "I’m curious, how did you transform from an evangelical to an Angel Envoy of the Celestial Patrol?"

"I wonder where Mr. Chen heard about my kind of person?" He didn’t answer but asked back.

"From an evangelical named Ma Kang."

It seems he wasn’t fully aware of what happened in Jiang City.

"Ah... so it was that friend." Will nodded.

"But he said you were already killed by a nano-living body." Chen Xuan continued, "You sacrificed yourself to a nano-living body called Pure White, just to verify a result: if humans worship nano-living bodies as gods, they will be accepted by them."

"He definitely didn’t say it that way." Will showed a gentle smile, as if recalling his past, "Because I communicated with him in secret code, he knows I wasn’t truly dead."

"You’re not considered human anymore, right?"

"In terms of race, yes. I guess normal humans can’t turn semi-transparent either." He admitted frankly, "But it’s fine; I feel extremely light and free. Since Mr. Chen knows my background so well, it’s easier for me to explain."

"There’s not much to say about joining the Evangelical Association. As a victim of the Dimensional Limit Mechanism’s suppression of illegal Ability Users, I have only hatred and anger toward the mechanism."

Honglian couldn’t help but show a complex mix of emotions at this sentence.

"But unlike other companions who attempt to use abilities to fight the mechanism, I think it’s like striking an egg against a stone. The history of the Dimensional Limit Mechanism is much longer than that of the Evangelical Association, and its foundation surpasses ours. Instead of relying on abilities, it’s better to rely on technology."

"As far as I know, that’s also what the mechanism believes." Chen Xuan said.

"Oh? You actually saw this point?" Will said in surprise, "Most people think they’re just a superpower organization, but in reality, their technological level is equally frightening."

This world line doesn’t reveal it.

But Chen Xuan has seen another world line.

The reason why the mechanism invests so much energy and resources in prosthetics is that they realized the uncontrollability of Ability Users, intending to use mass-produced warrior prosthetics to suppress the occasional Ability Users.

"My chosen target was nanobots, which I believe have immense potential as well as immense risk. The mechanism was actively advancing the nanobot project at that time, mainly using it for artificial limbs, precision machinery, and intelligent weapons. If the Evangelical Association could hack into the network to seize control of nanobots, we could use their resources to counter the mechanism."

"Fortunately, by a twist of fate, this plan underwent a miraculous transformation. I personally witnessed nanobots, under the influence of life force, aggregate into more ordered entities and gave birth to self-awareness—this was the original nano-living body."

"Fortunate?" Honglian couldn’t help slamming the coffee table, "Do you know how much disaster these nano-living bodies have brought to the world!"

"I’m sorry, this wasn’t the scene the Evangelical Association wanted to see." Will calmly replied, "But it’s unfair to solely blame the Evangelical Association. It was the Dimensional Limit Mechanism that escalated the war; it was their inhumanity that brought nuclear weapons and modified warriors to the battlefield. The Evangelical Association’s release of nano-living bodies was a reciprocal response to the mechanism. Do you think evangelicals should just stick out their necks to be killed by the enemy?"

"The world has fallen to this level because countries and organizations allowed the mechanism to expand recklessly. They craved the most advanced scientific research technology and wanted to monopolize Ability Users like the mechanism, which allowed the mechanism to ultimately swell into a monster."

Honglian gritted her teeth, knowing that what the other said wasn’t unfounded, "But the root cause of the world’s destruction is still you—"

"Please don’t misunderstand." Will interrupted, "I am not trying to defend the Evangelical Association; like any human organization, it perhaps maintained its original intention in the early stages, but with the inflow of power and resources, it too would degenerate like the mechanism."

He turned to Chen Xuan, "Mr. Chen, you asked how I transformed from an evangelical to an Angel Envoy of the Celestial Patrol. This process felt quite natural to me. Initially, I sacrificed myself with the faith of pinning all of the Evangelical Association’s hope on the nano-living bodies, but the more I saw and heard, the more my feelings for the Evangelical Association faded."

"Now I am convinced that humanity cannot reach the so-called ascension realm by relying solely on themselves. Humans are too divided, ephemeral, and insignificant... Countless people, like countless sands, may appear overwhelming, but in reality, they are insignificant."

"To ascend, one must rely on the power of external objects."

"Our Lord has given humanity such an opportunity."

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