Soul of Burning Steel

This is a story about a teenager that happened a long time ago.

That year, the boy was fourteen years old. Wearing a black mourning suit, he dug a hole in the back mountain of his hometown. He put the remains of his parents in it, and let their tombs and his sister's small graves to accompany him. The boy prayed to the gods, and he prayed to the gods to reunite the three of them underground.

The teenager is sad for the departure of his parents, but they are also glad that they can finally leave this malicious world with their legs disabled, but the teenager is alone now, and there is no warm thing to linger in the world.

This is the second year after the all-out war between the superpowers and the world government. After the radical superpowers launched suicide and destruction raids on major cities, many prosperous cities in the world of Siberia were destroyed. The world government 37 Twenty-two capitals of the participating countries were destroyed. More than 250 million people were killed in the “Three Days of Darkness” at the beginning of the war, and several times this number died in the subsequent chaos and small-scale attacks. ——The following two years of total war even reduced the total population of the entire Siberian world by one-third.

Radical superpowers believe that they represent new humans in the future, and mortals without superpowers are old species that should be eliminated, and these old species dare to plan to deprive them of their superpowers, which is undoubtedly immortal. Enmity-these crazy super-powers use their abilities without any psychological burden to destroy everything they can see. They don't let anyone off, including the old and the weak, and even specifically target the old and the weak.

In fact, once a superpower with a small target but a very powerful person puts down the moral bottom line and starts to attack indiscriminately, there is almost no thing in this world that can stop them. On the frontal battlefield, the army of ordinary humans may have the power of a war. However, no matter how the security war in the city is fought, the world government suffers more severely. Because it is difficult to prevent destruction and attacks, the super cities with a population of more than 10 million in the past basically no longer exist. The world government divides their major cities one by one. , And then build a fortress to watch each other, but even so, it is impossible to defend against.

If it weren’t for the fact that some superpowers subordinate to the world government were able to restrain and prevent radical attacks, the world order would have collapsed. Unlike now, the world government still controls more than half of the world and often sends out mechanized armies to clean up. The super-power societies located all over the world, and the reason why these super-powers are willing to stand in the same camp with most ordinary people who are hostile or even hostile to the super-powers is because everything they cherish has been taken by the radicals. Destroyed by the attack.

The world calls these superhumans who hunt superhumans for revenge as ‘hunters’, and the teenager is one of them.

Although he is one of the youngest hunters, the boy has already experienced many battles. At the beginning, he would still be confused by the murder, and even fear the blood in his hands, but thinking that it was the radical super-powers who destroyed his home. After killing his family, the boy never felt softer. He became Cold-blooded and cruel, never forgive anyone.

The teenager and several hunters formed a squad to act together. They hunted down the lurking superhumans in the city, and fought against the members of the radical super power society in the wilderness. With their own abilities, the teenagers wandered between life and death again and again. Going and defeating powerful enemies, it is precisely because of this that he has also fully realized the nature of his abilities while he is using his abilities again and again.

That is ‘stagnation’.

It is not the ‘self-acceleration’ that the teenager himself previously imagined. On the contrary, his ability essence is to freeze everything within a very large range centering on himself. And in this stagnant space, only he himself can move. In most cases, the boy is almost invincible in the duration of his ability, because no matter how quickly he attacks, he will definitely be slowed down. Can dodge the point.

It sounds unbelievable, but for the Siboyans, this is not something to be amazed...because superpowers do not need to follow any rules. This is the conclusion that the Siboya World Government has obtained after years of research.

The superpowers of the superpowers are strange, some are fairly ordinary and can be explained by science, while some are completely against common sense, even ignoring various laws, even super awakening is like this-so far, no matter if it is radical Neither the superpower sender nor the world government has found any law of awakening. The superpower awakened person may have been a beggar begging on the street a day ago, and the descendants of the two superpowers may not be able to awaken the superpower for life.

There is no doubt that there must be some inherent law in this, but because the Central Institute of Siberia, which has the deepest research in this area, was destroyed by the most powerful super-powers at the beginning of the war, so this law has been so far. No one has discovered it so far.

Because of the juvenile's subconscious vigilance and deliberate concealment, almost everyone thinks that his superpower is instantaneous movement. In terms of external performance, it does not seem to make any difference. In actual combat, stagnation may not be able to cause large-scale killings, but it is really convenient to target vulnerable superpowers. In the past two years of hunting, the teenager killed more than 80 radicals with his own ability. The number of superpowers sent is almost the number of the entire team of other squads. Among these superpowers, there are many strong enough to defeat the army alone, but in the stagnant space without defense, their end will be head to the ground and become Young man's merits.

In this way, time spent another two years in disputes, and the world population continued to decrease, but the war situation gradually stabilized.

If the war continues in this way, then the radical superpowers will inevitably usher in defeat-although they have a number of destructive powers comparable to the strongest superpowers of the fusion bomb, they also have enough hunting and killing not to mention the world government. Those without population support are ultimately rootless duckweeds. Years of total war not only reduced the world population by one-third, but also sharply reduced the number of radical superpowers. Today, except for the biggest ones. Except for the dozen or so super-power fairs, most of the super-power groups have been wiped out.

On the other hand, with the numerous awakened people brought by the huge population base, the world government has a steady stream of super-powered troops, and the war seems to have not lasted long...In each fortress, the TV stations have already begun to carry out all aspects. The countdown to the counterattack, exciting speeches are broadcast on every broadcast, and the chaotic era of super power is about to end. Everyone believes that the dark days are about to pass, and a new order is about to be established.

The young man was also one of them. At this time, he was seventeen years old. He had several hunters and comrades who were incomparably tacit and could rely on each other. Because of friendship and fetters, that cold heart had regained the warmth, and he couldn't help being a young man. Start looking to the future-how should I live after the war? Are you looking for a lovely girl to marry? If you want to get married, who will be invited to the banquet at the wedding? How many children will you have after marriage? What should the child do in the future?

This is the case with the Siberians. They like order and a life that can be predicted and controlled. The young man is no exception. He has even begun to prepare for parenting. He has bought several pre-war nursery books in the second-hand market. He even began to plan the decoration of his new home, waiting for the arrival of the future hostess... The laughter couldn't stop him from thinking about it all, and that might be the taste of happiness.

If everything is really as beautiful as imagined, it would be great.

On a cold and humid autumn afternoon, as if the light rain that can penetrate into the bones fell, under this gloomy sky, the last few large super-power fairs were eradicated by the Siboyan World Government forces and the hunters. This world There is no longer any large-scale radical group of super-powers in Shanghai, only the illegal powers scattered all over the world.

A young man who has been fighting hard for many years-no, it should be said that it is a man now. The grown-up man breathed exhaustedly on the last battlefield full of gunpowder. He used his abilities again and again to help his team overcome dangers and protect his comrades who had been fighting together for many years. He showed more than 20 consecutive exhibitions in one day. In the stagnant space, the man feels that his abilities have been completely overloaded, but he does not feel any hardship, because this is the last battle. After this battle, the world will return to order, and the night of war will pass, peace The dawn is near.

The man at this time is already one of the high-level hunters, and he has the strongest hunter squads. This time, in order to deal with the only remaining, the strongest batch of crazy super-powers, the hunters. Almost all came out, but even so, the battle was extremely difficult.

Those superpowers who can survive the war to the present have no weak ones. Each has the power to fight against an entire army alone. They can call for wind, rain and thunder, create tornadoes and earthquakes, and some can absorb all physical shocks, and some can absorb all physical shocks. There are many mind-manipulators who can control the energy of the entity, and even can control the human heart. If it were not for the full support of the world government, it would never be possible to defeat the opponent by the power of the hunter alone. The casualties on both sides were extremely heavy, almost They all ended up at the same time, and several government corps completely lost their numbers.

But in the end, the hunter still won. The most powerful of the radicals, the superpower with the destructive power of the fusion bomb, was attacked and killed by a man, while the others are now being killed by the Siboyan aircraft and other hunters outside the atmosphere. The strong besieged, the man looked up at the cloudy sky, he looked at the flickering light behind the clouds, and couldn't help but laugh.

The war is about to come to an end, and he even began to think about how he should hold a peace banquet tomorrow. The faces of men and comrades in arms are filled with happiness, which is the smile that only those who have tomorrow and hope will show.

But the next moment, the happy smile solidified.

Because the original ally, the army that belonged to the World Government of Siberia, suddenly turned to the hunters.

Ruthless bullets came from the unsuspecting back. In an instant, one-third of the remaining hunters died on the spot, and the remaining hunters were furious. They looked at the indifferent Siboyan World Government army. The inexplicable cursing the opponent loudly, these experienced super-powers immediately began to prepare to counterattack, but before they began to release their super powers, a steel facility that looked like a signal tower was erected from the army’s array, invisible The field spread, and almost all the hunters lost their superpowers.

After many years, when all super powers almost forgot about this, the anti super power interference field was successfully developed in countless specious rumors over the years, and their first target was actually a former comrade-in-arms.

"This world doesn't need superpowers."

The man could hear the cruel voice, he could see the comrades beside him fall down one after another, the bullets penetrated their brains, the shrapnel of the bomb shredded their bones and internal organs, the man looked around blankly, everything stagnated, Before the anti-superpower intervention field could touch him, he was blocked by the stagnant space. This allowed him to survive an unprepared raid, but it also allowed him to witness his comrades'gradually' dying in front of his eyes.

At this moment, the man felt that he was back to the day when he was twelve years old. He once again witnessed the destruction of his cherished things, and he could only sit back and watch everything happen-the difference is that the last time he shot was super Those who are able bring bitterness called'powerlessness', and this time, ordinary people bring the evil result called'betrayal'.

Is this betrayal abrupt? Actually not. At this moment, the man has already recalled all kinds of omens-the budget cuts of the hunters, the propaganda in the dark, and the public opinion put all the faults on the'super powers' instead of being Pure radicals... When everyone is immersed in the narcotic called Victory, the world government has already prepared a butcher knife.

The man left the battlefield in a muddle-headed manner. No one noticed his departure. After the World Government troops who completed the task had processed all the bodies of the superpowers, they hurriedly returned to their respective camps. They still had many tasks to do, annihilate them. The remnants of the hunters are just one of them. They have to rush back to the fortress and capture all the superhumans living in the city.

The man who couldn’t understand all of this was exhausted. As he was speeding all the way and lurking back into the fortress where he lived in the past, a riot was taking place in the fortress—countless ordinary people madly attacked the homes of those superpowers who lived in the city. , And then drag these superpowers with little combat ability out to kill... Powerful superpowers are either radicals or hunters. The remaining bits are basically serving in the world government. They have long been After being swept away by a single net, all those who are left are weak and superpowers who basically have no effect.

These weak and superpowers are powerless to resist. They don’t even know why their former kind neighbors suddenly attacked them. There are even some superpowers who call for everyone to stop. There is absolutely no misunderstanding among them—their heads are without exception. All were cut off, as the embellishment of this carnival riot, this scene happened in every part of the world, whether it is the high-level government or the slums, without exception.

As for why...it’s very simple, because superpowers can receive far more subsidies than ordinary people, because superpowers do not regard themselves as the same as ordinary people, because superpowers always have a proud face, it seems that he is different from the crowd. different.

The most important thing is that superpowers have superpowers, but they don't.

The man who sneaked back to the street where he lived was able to see that the cozy hut, which had just been renovated for a few days, had already ignited a hot flame, and on the nearby street, a mutilated, headless corpse had been exposed to high temperature. Smoked shrinkage.

Whose body is that?

who knows.

Seeing the raging fire that was almost the same as the day when his sister died eight years ago and his parents lost their legs, the man was silent and then laughed. He didn't know why he laughed, but he laughed happily.

On this day, 90% of the superpowers in the world died. Both the radicals and the hunters were completely wiped out. The superpowers were almost extinct from the world of Siberia. The lucky surviving superpowers were in panic all day long. They can't see the future, can't see hope, and even begin to doubt the meaning of their existence, and the patrol that hunts down the remaining superpowers searches every corner of the world.

But the world left behind has not become as better as the world government expected. In fact, it has become worse.

Because with the death of a large number of superpowers, the world has undergone various ‘mutations’.

——It is rumored that super powers can swallow each other's super power essence to improve themselves.

But except for the most powerful super powers, no one knows what super power essence is. Even those super powers say that the whole world is full of countless super power essences, and no one else can see it. Don't talk about swallowing.

But there is no doubt that this essence exists, and it has a great connection with the awakening and birth of superpowers... The deaths of countless superpowers seem to have set off a frenzy throughout the Siboa world, and the invisible frenzy is surging. However, ordinary people who were crazy in the past were horrified to discover that they also seemed to have super powers, and they seemed to have become part of the prey, and this super power was born ten times faster than in the past.

This is something the world government never expected.

The birth of super powers was originally unpredictable, but the birth speed of super powers was not fast in the beginning, so it is possible to completely eliminate them and use anti super power interference field to suppress their birth. The world government believes that the whole world will overtake Under the action of being able to stand back to the original appearance. But the position cannot be opened twenty-four hours. As a powerful superpower and hero who can rival the radicals, the hunters will surely become a brand new privileged class after the war, allowing superpowers to get along with ordinary people on an equal footing? Even super-powered people don't believe it.

Therefore, the world government that stands on the side of ordinary people will never sit back and watch the power of super powers grow. The new order must use the blood of super powers to sacrifice.

But now, when the contradiction between ordinary people and superpowers has intensified, and there is no room for relaxation and coexistence, the world government has discovered with horror that their rule has begun to fall apart...because of the greatly accelerated proliferation of superpowers, no one knows themselves. Will the next moment become a super power, will it become a prey, the super power extermination plan that everyone cheered has become the source of self-destruction of the world government, because the super power who awakened naturally at the beginning is still inclined to order Yes, but now they are forced to become outright anti-socialists.

Try to think about it, if you suddenly possess superpowers and possess the power to control the lives of ordinary people at will, the law cannot restrain you, but ordinary people without superpowers are hostile or even hostile to you. They want to deprive you all the time. Your super powers want to kill you and other super powers to an end-what would you do?

There may be some people who will be slaughtered by others, but there will always be people who want to resist, even if they were the ones who wanted to kill the superpowers before—the shift of human positions is as fast as light.

So... the order collapsed.

Anyone can kill anyone, and can't stop anyone. When the number of superpowers increases by an incredible amount, the world falls into a cycle of faster and faster collapse... There are more and more types of superpowers. Their abilities are becoming more and more powerful and peculiar. In order to protect themselves and not to be preempted by others, everyone madly fights with each other and destroys everything they can see. The world collapses in an improper way, and the ecological cycle completely collapses. The earth turned into scorched earth and the sky was pitch black. Under this true doomsday, humans are still fighting each other.

The man witnessed all this. He witnessed the collapse of civilization and turned into chaos. He finally understood that what can destroy order and happiness is never a superpower, but a human heart.

That being the case... Since the heart is like this, so is the world. That being the case, since the order is like this.

Then it can only be so.

The enlightened man finally made up his mind here. Since this world is so unbelievable, let him completely transform this crazy world. Since people's hearts are so dark and selfish, let him be the most selfish one. Since the order is so fragile, let him come. Create the most complete and firm order.

Even if it takes ten, twenty, thirty, or even a lifetime, he will surely do it.

Thus, time flies by, the moment when the metal throne is formed in the center of the world——

The iron-like cold and firm order ~www.novelmtl.com~ is born in the hands of the strong.

The ripples of the power of steel spread, and information begins to interact.

Joshua, who should have been turned back in time, watched all this. He stared at the dreamlike past. The soldier was silent. He watched the man create a new order with his own power. He watched the man create metal. As his servant, he watched this man indifferently treat everything equally, forging his soul into a tool.

Joshua stared at the destruction and rebirth of the old Siboa world.

He turned his head and looked at the man behind him who was watching all this with him.

"The 320th observation failed...This is the end again."

The man murmured like this. He tilted his head slightly and looked at Qiao Xiya. His eyes were indifferent, but not high above. The man just watched without any emotion, and then whispered: "The Adventer."

"Leave my world."