Norton 3275.
Humanity's sky has darkened!
The massive war of resistance launched by the Pale Holy See, led by the Pale Church, was hastily halted by the Central Holy See.
This massive war, which had lasted for a century, came to an end with this sudden order.
It is said that even the battle situation at the front and the orders issued to the outside world are conveyed by the Pale Church through space jumps. Given that they are willing to violate Church rules in this way, one can imagine how corrupt the situation at the front is.
Three months later, amidst the Pale Church's forceful suppression of order and the widespread fear and anxiety among the people, news finally arrived from the front lines.
"Reality Soul Infestation, and a large number of unknown and bizarre life forms have been born. The Adam Three Star System has been completely overrun, and a total of 1.26 trillion people on eleven planets and sixty-three space cities have perished. Garden of Eden- like planets have mutated into planetary-level bizarre life forms. The Pale Church fleet and the Human Federation fleet have suffered a crushing defeat, with less than one in ten survivors and up to 70% of the armed forces destroyed."
The end of the world has come, and reality will eventually crumble...
A message was spread by an unverified online marketing account, accompanied by several photos, seemingly taken by humans in a city in the Adam Three Star System before their deaths, and a short video clip.
Accompanied by a desperate murmur, a thirteen-second video clip appears.
The filming location appears to be in the Adam Three Star System, and the filming site seems to be in the ruins of a planetary city that has undergone a mutation.
From the perspective of human eyes, look around.
The sun seemed to have been completely eroded, and the sky was a deep crimson.
The enormous, twisted bodies blotted out the sky. Towering buildings thousands of meters high contorted their waists, extending countless tentacles from within, climbing outwards like vines, swirling up human figures from the ruins, and then coiling towards the gaping maw at the waist of the fleshy towers.
Human tissues and blood drifted in the wind, screams and cries filled the air, and countless human figures were shoved into the gaping maw by tentacles, or directly pierced through the skull, then sucked up human tissues and flesh like straws.
"Cleanse these demons that corrupt reality, and wash away the sanctity of the Pale Church!"
The resolute cries of the Pale Church knights echoed through the sky, and countless Church knights leaped high into the air, fearlessly charging towards the massive, twisted, fleshy skyscraper using their propulsion devices or their own flight abilities.
Explosions and flames filled the sky, and countless figures rushed headlong into the deadly battlefield.
A vine seemed to reach out and wrap around the photographer's legs, and his screams and cries could be heard in the footage.
His body was rolled upside down, and the brain-computer interface recording ended at the last moment in the sky.
If you capture and zoom in on the image above the sky during those final two seconds of the countdown, you'll see a scene that is both terrifying and despairing.
The scarlet sun in the sky seemed to have sprouted fleshy tentacles and deformed, twisted limbs.
A colossal, winged figure, a third the size of the sun, charged headlong into the distorted sun...
Once the news and video were released, the number of questions and likes skyrocketed.
However, within just half an hour of the message being posted, the marketing account was banned, the video was completely removed, and it was deleted from the entire internet.
However, in this era where the internet encompasses galaxies and even the speed of light cannot spread across the entire human settlement in a short time, the current internet regulatory environment is still far too weak compared to when the internet first emerged 10,000 years ago.
The excessive distance greatly extends the time and intensity of limitations imposed by technical means.
This resulted in short videos that were difficult to fully regulate being captured and then circulated throughout the Pale Church territory within just one week (those closer to the church received the news even earlier).
As this news spread, extreme panic began to spread wildly throughout the city and the galaxy.
Some people cry out that God is dead and the end is near, leading to extreme mental states or even mental breakdowns.
Some people panicked and began digging caves under their homes, attempting to build makeshift shelters in a way that resembled a war to prevent the so-called apocalypse.
Furthermore, powerful and wealthy individuals began publicly soliciting bids, claiming they wanted to build the Norton Ark for cosmic escape, and that this ark would be a true space city, eternally drifting in the endless starry sky to avoid the arrival of corruption.
Furthermore, large numbers of wealthy individuals frequently appeared at spaceship sales locations, and large spaceships took off one after another from spaceports around the world, never to return.
Prices soared, hoarding surged, some supermarket owners were forced to close and stop selling supplies, and some pharmaceutical companies took advantage of the chaos to raise prices. A box of medicine that was once affordable for ordinary people was now being sold for more than a hundred times its original price in just a few months.
People are feeling listless and dizzy at work, and some are even taking leave or skipping work altogether.
In just over a month, the Pale Church's production efficiency plummeted, its economy nearly ground to a halt, and even worse, before the expeditionary fleet had returned, graves had been dug, flowers to comfort the dead had been bought, and even the Church's funeral rites had been booked three months later.
Although the fleet has not yet returned and the specific casualty list has not been released, the number of people conscripted alone is in the trillions. With less than one in ten surviving, one can imagine how high the mortality rate must be.
It was only because they were drawn from various planets, with each planet representing a very small percentage, that the entire city would have been draped in mourning.
Such widespread unrest was naturally intolerable to the Pale Church.
How can it be proper for our own country to be in chaos before the war has even fully begun?
Therefore, as public opinion intensified, the Pale Church had no choice but to deploy a massive force to patrol the city, maintain order, arrest those who took advantage of the situation to break the law, arrest those who spread rumors, arrest those who maliciously raised prices and hoarded supplies, force personnel to return to their posts, issue daily work requirements, and even blockade the spaceport to strictly prohibit all personnel from leaving.
Meanwhile, to ensure the accuracy of public opinion, a series of embellished messages were widely disseminated online.
"The root cause of all this is the Human Federation Government! Back then, His Majesty sacrificed himself to seal off Heaven and Reality, precisely to prevent souls from overflowing into Reality! We humans are all immortal. If we had obeyed His Majesty's will, prohibited space jumps, prohibited reproduction, and prohibited war, then humanity could have lived forever in a blissful Heaven of milk and honey! The result is all because the Human Federation was insatiable. To divert internal conflicts, they lifted the ban on reproduction, and to divert the conflict between reproduction and expansion, they vigorously developed space jump technology. Under such circumstances, even without any war, human souls would continue to expand, and Reality would rapidly accumulate Soul Matter with space jumps, until destruction and rebirth!"
We could have enjoyed Heaven of eternal bliss, but instead we have fallen into this purgatory of the soul!
" The Human Federation Government has done a great deal of harm! Under the rule of the Pale Church, everyone can enjoy the government's eternal life support, and everyone is born free. As a result, the Human Federation Government launched a sneak attack on the Pale Holy See on the day of His Majesty's mourning, killing countless people in the process!"
Its high-ranking officials are insatiably greedy, possessing vast wealth yet still unsatisfied. They abolished the old, Pale Church's policy of universal support, sending everyone to factories! Furthermore, to satisfy their own greedy desires, they exploited all the people into slavery, supported the false religion to split the Church, and recklessly sent people to the battlefield to achieve their goals!
Civilians perished in the catastrophe of gunfire, while politicians ate their fill of wealth, shook hands with each other, and spoke with smug satisfaction about their despicable schemes, their laughter revealing even more exploitation and oppression!
The people's grievances remain unaddressed, and the shifting of the conflict has only led to greater disaster! Ultimately, this catastrophe stems from the greed of the powerful and wealthy; all this destruction is attributable to the baseness of human nature!