Chapter 595: Those Who Believe in the Red Star

To say that Liu Qingyan didn't want to go in and watch Chen Ling would be a lie, but in her mind at this moment, the previous conversation surfaced involuntarily.

"Special Envoy... Do you think if I find him, he will agree to let me follow him?"

"Maybe not."

"Why?"

"Some people are used to being alone and don't like having people around... Especially people from the Twilight Society."

If she went in to watch the performance, even if she had disguised herself like this, she believed that Chen Ling would still be able to recognize her at a glance. Maybe he would think she was haunting him... Since Chen Ling had clearly stated that he didn't want her to follow, she would just watch from afar. This was something she had decided long ago.

Liu Qingyan didn't want to cause trouble for Chen Ling, nor did she want him to think she was troublesome. It didn't matter if she saw him or not, as long as she knew he was there, that was enough.

Liu Qingyan walked through the crowd, passed the entrance of a cheap hotel opposite, and suddenly stopped.

She looked up at the small black windows on the second and third floors of the hotel, then looked at the brightly lit theater directly opposite, and a flash of hesitation flashed in her eyes... After struggling for a long time, she still touched the silver notes in her pocket.

"Here, should be able to hear it, right?"

Liu Qingyan pursed her lips and walked into the dim hotel entrance.

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Jinghong Pavilion.

Jian Changsheng, who had checked all the tickets, finally let out a long sigh of relief, followed the Ten of Diamonds back to the theater, and sat on the threshold.

"Right, where were we just now?"

"Jiangtian Sect."

"Oh right, I've heard of it. Isn't that the same as the Twilight Society and the Fusion Faction, all of which are the highest-level wanted forces in the Nine Domains, the enemies of humanity?" Jian Changsheng was stunned. "What? The power outage... could it be related to them?"

"From the perspective of the Nine Domains, that's indeed the case, but we are different from those guys," the Ten of Diamonds said seriously. "The goal of our Twilight Society is just to reverse the era and restart the world. Our path is correct and beneficial to all humanity! It's just not recognized by the Nine Domains... But the existence of the Jiangtian Sect is purely a parasite of humanity.

Do you know what the people of the Jiangtian Sect believe in?"

"I remember it is... believing in the Red Star?" Jian Changsheng recalled.

"That's right." The Ten of Diamonds nodded slightly. "The Jiangtian Sect crazily worships the Red Star. They believe that the existence of human civilization is a mistake, a virus civilization bred on this planet. Since it is a mistake, it needs to be corrected...

They regard the Red Star as an envoy sent by God, shouldering the responsibility of correcting everything and restoring everything. Wherever the Red Star passes, civilization will regress, and everything will flow back to the most primitive starting point."

"Believe in the Red Star and destroy civilization?" Jian Changsheng couldn't help but speak. "These are the real lunatics... How can anyone believe these??"

"Actually, it's very normal. The more chaotic and dark the era, the more prevalent various religious beliefs are... The regression of material civilization is beyond the cognition of ordinary people, and coupled with the successive crises in the domain, people need faith as a spiritual sustenance."

The Ten of Diamonds shrugged and continued, "Believing in the Red Star, believing in fusion, believing in science, believing in various metaphysics and witchcraft... In this era, there are too many miscellaneous beliefs;

I heard that in other domains, there are people who believe in... 'Silent Angel'? It is said to be a great existence from outside the world, with six gray wings on its back, and it can destroy the world with a snap of its fingers... Anyway, the more it spreads, the more mysterious it becomes."

"Angel? Is it true..."

"Don't know, anyway, so far, not many people have seen him."

"Wait... so, what does the Jiangtian Sect have to do with power outages?" Jian Changsheng was still puzzled.

"The Jiangtian Sect believes in the Red Star, and the believers will obtain some kind of power from the Red Star, using themselves as the carrier of the Red Star." The Ten of Diamonds paused for a moment. "Every Jiangtian believer is a mobile miniature Red Star. Once they stay in a place for too long, the breath they emit will cause the 'tools' around them to fail. For example, circuits will inexplicably fail, and electromagnetic signals will be blocked...

If it takes longer, things like tables, chairs, beds, and cabinets that are assembled by manpower will break, turn into parts and fall apart on the ground, let alone slightly more precise things like explosives or firearms... Even a quilt will be dismantled into countless threads, and it will scatter and fly away with a light touch.

The breath they emit can even affect the operation of the God Path. The richer the Red Star breath they carry, the more serious this influence will be.

If facing an enemy at the bishop level, the God Path skills of Tier 6 and below will be completely chaotic, and even if we are not careful, we will be killed by our own skills."

Jian Changsheng's eyes widened. "This is too evil, right??"

"This is not the most evil... Because Jiangtian believers carry the Red Star breath, once they appear in groups, they can release the Red Star breath in their bodies through suicide rituals. As long as the number is large enough and the position follows a certain pattern, they can actively attract Gray World intersections.

In other words, they can affect the surrounding environment while alive, and can also summon the Gray World after death, leading to the descent of a large number of disasters... Theoretically, as long as there are enough Jiangtian believers performing rituals, they can even summon world-destroying disasters and their dependents to descend and destroy a domain."

Jian Changsheng gasped!

He finally knew why the Jiangtian Sect was listed as one of the enemies of humanity... Their very existence was a threat to the Nine Domains of humanity! Even if they just stayed in the domain and did nothing, they would cause irreversible and bad effects on the domain!

"Then the frequent power outages recently, could it be..." Jian Changsheng swallowed his saliva.

"I hope I'm just overthinking it." The Ten of Diamonds looked at the dark night sky above his head and muttered to himself, "If the Jiangtian Sect is also involved... things will be troublesome."

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Hotel.

Liu Qingyan took the key and kerosene lamp from the counter and walked slowly toward the second floor along the narrow and old stairs.

Creak—creak—

A harsh sound came from the wooden stairwell, as if it were about to shatter from age at any moment. Liu Qingyan stepped onto it, her brow furrowing involuntarily...

Because the inn had lost power and there were no windows in the hallway, it was almost pitch black. As she walked up to the second floor, a faint, musty smell hit her nose. The flickering light of a kerosene lamp dispelled a corner of the darkness in the corridor, revealing several wooden doors marked with room numbers.

Liu Qingyan glanced at the key number in her hand, walked straight to the room at the very end, and slowly inserted the key.

She turned the key gently. Before she could even apply force to open the door, a crisp sound came from the lock, and the entire door handle fell off, hitting the old floorboards with a dull, heavy thud.

Thump—!

The door handle, which had appeared perfectly fine, had just shattered into a pile of parts on the floor.