43: Chapter 46 The eternally burning wings carried me away from the descent into mortal depravity.

"Ring～"

Met with Allen's burning gaze, Paper Kite merely swayed casually, and a sound like silver bells chimed from its body.

"Is it really you?"

Allen raised his hand in hesitation and doubt.

As his fingertips touched Paper Kite, it immediately dissolved into fluorescent light and scattered.

Gathering and dispersing to form shapes.

It reconstructed in another corner of the space.

This obvious abnormal phenomenon made Allen even more certain of his guess.

However, before he could test it for long—

Boom——

Inside the cabin, a violent vibration suddenly erupted.

The strong inertia forced him backward, and he almost stumbled and fell to the ground.

The starship had started moving!

But inside the entire starship—

Other than him, who remained unexpectedly sober because of Paper Kite,

everyone else should have been infected and turned into terrifying mutated entities.

How could anyone be operating the starship?

Could it be?

The starship's unmanned piloting module?!

Allen's pupils constricted. As if guessing something, his face turned flush red.

——

That's right, the abnormal change of the starship

was precisely the directive from America's army high command.

"Return to base!"

"Activate the hidden program and have the Artemis return!"

A deep voice rang out in the conference room, carrying an urgent tone.

Even the elderly army general widened his eyes and stood up from his seat.

His murky gaze

stared straight at the starship in the footage, filled with greed.

Of course, he wasn't crazy

to be interested in the mutation of the Nightmare Entities inside the starship.

No matter how crazy they were with bioweapons, they wouldn't be crazy enough to court death themselves.

The greed in the depths of his eyes was for the shimmering Paper Kite!

This was solid extraordinary power, gathering and dispersing into starlight—definitely not an ordinary kite. Moreover, judging from Allen's reaction, Paper Kite seemed capable of resisting the Demon Dragon's power?

When everyone else fell asleep, black smoke would emit from their bodies, infecting them into Nightmare Entities and causing mutation.

But with Paper Kite present,

Allen, who was in a light sleep, was not affected in the slightest.

Specks of fluorescent light scattered over him, helping him enter dreamland while keeping him uninfected by the Demon Dragon.

Among the one hundred thousand people on the entire starship,

he was the only one who could sleep peacefully in front of the Demon Dragon!

This was obviously inseparably connected to Paper Kite.

"The treasure belongs to the Empire!"

A hawkish major general growled excitedly, voicing the consensus of the army high command.

Paper Kite, this anomalous item!

Since it had actively come inside the starship, how could America miss such a treasure.

They didn't need to do anything.

They just needed to activate the hidden means, trigger the autopilot module, and have the starship return according to the original plan.

This special treasure would belong to America!

As for the threat after the return?

They could just have the starship separate!

The Paper Kite they coveted was only in the upper half of the starship, which at most contained a dozen or so Nightmare Entities. With firearms at their disposal, they could easily suppress them.

As for the hundreds of thousands of Nightmare Entities in the lower half of the starship?

They could just casually select a few small countries to drop them into.

They wouldn't be stupid enough to bring such a huge trouble back to their own territory.

As for whether the small countries would protest?

Heh~

The weak have no right to clamor!

——

"F*ck, how shameless!"

"Are they crazy? They're actually having the starship return? There are still tens of thousands of Nightmare Entities on this thing, right?"

"Damn! If you want extraordinary power, go get it yourself. What do you mean by bringing the Nightmare Entities back to Blue Star? You still want to drop them into other countries? What the heck, are they traitors to humanity?!"

"I seriously suspect that America's high command are accomplices of the Demon Dragon!"

"No need to suspect, they obviously are!"

"..."

There was no lack of bigshots in the livestream chat.

Following the starship's abnormal actions, someone quickly noticed the clues,

and they posted their guesses via the live comments,

instantly causing an uproar.

——

Not just the netizens in the livestream,

even the military brass, upon seeing America's action plan, almost couldn't help slamming the table.

Especially when a certain flank separated from the main starship

and showed a tendency to make an emergency landing within Daxia's territory—

"Don't stop me!"

"Quickly haul out the star-destroying cannon we scraped together and blast those bastards for me!"

America could tinker together a colossal star-ascending flagship with a load capacity of one hundred thousand from the debris dropped by a black hole, and Daxia wasn't without gains either. Technology sharing was technology sharing, and saving up ultimate moves was saving up ultimate moves.

The black technology they researched from a ruined heavy artillery piece might not reach the level of destroying a star in one shot, but blowing up this starship was definitely not a problem—at least they could blast it into smithereens!

"How many times have I said it? Stay calm when encountering issues!"

"Look at you, getting impatient again!"

The bigshot sitting at the head glanced over disapprovingly.

His peripheral vision fell on the livestream.

The raging flames illuminated their faces.

There was no need to take action!

The starship had already run into trouble on its own.

——

It was Allen!

Proficient in spaceship piloting technology,

he knew what the high command had done and deduced from experience what would happen once the starship operated next. The whole person felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave!

Enlisting to conquer the starry sea and march toward lofty ideals,

he could not accept bringing tens of thousands of Nightmare Entities back to Blue Star for ridiculous benefits, staining this azure planet with mutation.

Therefore, he chose to burn away the sins with fire.

"Hey, soldier!"

"What are you trying to do?"

"Bastard, stop right there!"

The voice of the army high command rang out in the communicator.

The voice became increasingly urgent, finally turning into an angry growl.

But Allen turned a deaf ear.

He just went about his own business.

Prying open the energy compartment, he took out the alcohol-based fuel from inside and casually splashed it all over the interior of the cabin.

The internal automatic return had already been activated, and he lacked the authority to change it.

Then he would do whatever he could as much as possible,

attempting to use the fire of innovation to burn up the tens of thousands of Nightmare Entities, destroying the mutation infection while granting his fellow shipmates the promised peace...

This was the reason why the army high command panicked.

He wanted to blow up the starship using fire.

However, the good news was

that the security check was reliable; he didn't have a lighter on him.

The bad news was that he had a short knife and intended to create sparks by friction to ignite it.

Clang——

Clang——

Clang——

Three friction impacts all ended in failure.

Just as the army general breathed a sigh of relief, rejoicing that the security check was reliable,

Clang——

another friction sound rang out.

This time, however, a wisp of spark burst forth,

splashing onto the fuel.

Boom!

Flames soared into the sky.

The already small cabin was swept by the flames.

Allen, standing inside the cabin, naturally could not be spared either.

However, he did not wail hysterically.

He merely gritted his teeth to endure the pain and quietly spat out the words:

"World peace!"

Crimson flames followed the wind waves, transforming into a single-sided wing on his body as his form was swallowed by the flames.

Eternally burning wings, take me away from the mortal depravation.

——

Above the moon, the star-ascending flagship exploded like fireworks,

adding a touch of color to the cold universe.

Nightmare Entities...

Horrid mutations...

Ugly greed...

All turned to ashes along with the scalding flames,

gradually burning out completely, turning into space junk drifting across the starry sky.

Just when everyone thought

that this crisis had ended just like that,

Xijing, crisis erupted!

News suddenly came in of a large number of suspected Nightmare Entity infections.

Zheng Fei, who was still handling the aftermath of the [divine toxicity] and hadn't had time to leave, was once again forced to accept a commission in a time of crisis,

taking on the role of the local commander-in-chief.

However, the spread of the infection did not stop.

Cases of suspected Nightmare Entities poured in like snowflakes.

The vicious phenomena of mutated creatures attacking innocent citizens also intensified.

Just when Zheng Fei was about to reach his limit,

Vulcan! Awoke!

Crimson flames soared into the sky, carrying a warmth that reassured people's hearts.

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