Nobody 016

"Less showing off during battles. Guns are given to you to be fired, not for talking." Fang Zhiyi's voice reached his ears. Then, he saw a perfectly square stone flying straight at him, leaving him no time to dodge.

The stone made intimate contact with his mouth, interrupting his spellcasting.

Fang Zhiyi clapped his hands. "Continue."

Even ability users were not immune to harm, especially this solid physical damage. Soon, under the dense covering fire, more than half of the ability users were dead or injured. Some wanted to surrender, but the civilian army, their confidence greatly boosted, had absolutely no intention of leaving any survivors.

The royal family's God of War army fled in defeat, and the assassination squad led by a Level One ability user was completely wiped out.

The succession of news made it impossible for the Divine Council and the royal family to sit still.

The royal family began preparing to abandon the royal capital and flee, while the Divine Council pleaded with their gods for help.

Fortunately, they received a response. Those high and mighty gods were inexplicably furious.

Fang Zhiyi, who was preparing to take advantage of the momentum to attack the royal capital, was still on the march when Little Hei suddenly spoke in a serious tone, "Trouble is coming."

"Hmm?"

"You showed off too much. Although they can't descend directly like that incomplete Heavenly Dao, they have sensed a massive loss of faith..."

A scene of the uproar inside the royal city was projected into Fang Zhiyi's mind by Little Hei.

"They have granted abilities to all humans who believe in them... There might even be an oracle commanding them to kill you."

"What the hell? If they can't afford to play, they shouldn't play!" Fang Zhiyi was shocked, then could only smile bitterly. "I guess I'll just have to endure it. You wouldn't abandon me, would you?"

Little Hei replied in exasperation, "Do you think I'm a genie?"

However, the development of the situation somewhat deviated from both sides' expectations.

These gods underestimated human nature. After suddenly gaining abilities, the first thing their believers thought of was not executing the oracle, but seeking revenge against those who had bullied them, burning, killing, and looting to vent their dissatisfaction with life.

The entire royal capital descended into chaos.

When everyone had an ability, it meant no one had an ability. In the end, it was the former ability users still active in the royal capital who suffered. The civilians who suddenly gained abilities directed their attacks at them.

No one was a fool. Everyone remembered perfectly well how these ability users and their lackeys threw their weight around on a daily basis.

Thus, this farce lasted for a day and a night. Many buildings in the royal capital were destroyed, the rich and powerful, as well as the ability users, were almost entirely killed or injured, and even the royal family was strung up. By the time those gods realized their power was being recklessly squandered by these ants, it was already too late. They withdrew their divine power, turning everyone back into ordinary people. However, by then, Fang Zhiyi's rebel army had already marched into the royal capital without shedding a single drop of blood.

In the Divine Council of the royal capital, Fang Zhiyi stood with his hands behind his back, looking at the more than twenty guys in white robes before him and shaking his head. "I told you all to believe in science. I'm very scientific, you know?"

"You heretic!" the priest shouted loudly, but his raised hand could not be brought down. None of them had expected that this blasphemer would actually dare to casually walk into the Divine Council alone and toss down the head of the ability users' captain.

And what left them most dumbfounded was that he actually remained completely unscathed facing the siege of more than twenty people.

This was impossible!

Fang Zhiyi waited a moment longer. "Are you not going to continue? Then it's my turn."

Seeing his dangerous smile, everyone's heart tightened.

Behind Fang Zhiyi, a squad of soldiers with loaded firearms surged in and skillfully set up their weapons.

"You, you will be punished by the gods..."

Gunfire silenced their mouths.

The cheers of the royal city almost resounded through the clouds. Even the civilians who had previously doubted Fang Zhiyi and his people finally believed everything before their eyes. Although there were sacrifices, those ability users had almost all died here, and the Divine Council had perished!

When Xing Bugui found Fang Zhiyi, Fang Zhiyi was staring blankly at the roof of the Divine Council. The elaborately decorated roof featured portraits of the twelve principal gods, but at this moment, they showed no signs of movement.

"You should go out and take charge of the overall situation," Xing Bugui said. "Everyone is waiting for you."

Fang Zhiyi shook his head. "Taking charge of the overall situation is something you can do too." He sighed. "I originally thought that if I came here, those gods who hide their heads and show their tails would reveal themselves."

"You actually want to confront the gods directly? You..." Xing Bugui suddenly thought of the fate of the evil god and subconsciously shut his mouth.

Fang Zhiyi suddenly remembered something. He reached out and pulled out a few wads of paper, the kind that were casually crumpled into balls.

"Take these. Give this dirtier one to Mo Xuan. Tell him that what he wants is inside, but I take no responsibility for it."

"Then what are you going to do?" Xing Bugui suddenly realized something.

Fang Zhiyi turned to look at him and pointed a finger upwards. "To the heavens."

"Ah?"

The following ten years were marked by history as the Decade of Godslaying. The people of the empire became the masters of their own house, beginning to eradicate everything related to gods, vigorously developing science and technology, and restoring a stable life for the people. At the same time, the spark of godslaying spread across the entire continent.

The newly formed high command strictly advanced according to the strategic plan left behind by Fang Zhiyi. Soon, various fruits of industry appeared, and the empire gradually restored its prosperity—no, it became even more prosperous than before.

Mo Xuan became the new military commander. Xing Bugui could not understand why, after reading the wad of paper Fang Zhiyi had given him, Mo Xuan cried for a long time and then laughed for a long time, like a lunatic.

As for Fang Zhiyi... he seemed to have become a different person. Or rather, he hadn't changed, but he resigned from all his posts and devoted himself to staying with his parents. Everyone went to ask him to come out of retirement, but he always refused. And Mo Xuan, who previously liked following him the most, only visited once and never went again.

Xing Bugui faintly felt that Fang Zhiyi was no longer the same Fang Zhiyi.

Mo Xuan must have noticed this too.

Just as Fang Zhiyi had expected, the gods, having lost a massive amount of faith, became incredibly weak. This also caused the ability users of other nations to lose their combat power one after another. Facing Fang Zhiyi's cannons, they had almost no power to resist.

However, only a few top-level officials knew that the so-called Decade of Godslaying was actually only on the surface. Mo Xuan spent his entire life slaying gods.

The words Fang Zhiyi had said came true. Even those Old Gods, after losing the soil they parasitized on, would be destroyed by artillery shells and explosives all the same. It was just that Mo Xuan had not expected the true forms of those gods to be unlike the statues and picture books created by the Divine Council. Instead... they looked like some kind of deformed monsters, making one's scalp tingle just looking at them.

It was not until the successful launch of a satellite that those monsters were completely eradicated. Watching the footage transmitted back through the lens, as the last Old God hiding beyond the heavens shattered into pieces, Mo Xuan felt as if he had exhausted all the strength in his body.

The lieutenant beside him cheered, "It's finally over! It's over! I'm exhausted!"

The entire base was boiling with excitement. Heaven knew how much they had sacrificed to completely wipe out these threats.

Mo Xuan, on the other hand, was even more direct; he simply collapsed to the ground and died right then and there.

"Big Brother, please don't mess with me..."

Not long after his death, the original owner of the body came to his grave and silently laid down a bouquet of flowers.

When Mo Xuan opened his eyes again, he looked down at his clothes and was instantly hit with a wave of excitement. "As expected of the protagonist, he really didn't lie to me! I'm back! And I'm back at the exact age I was, eighteen! Hahahahaha!"

He ran toward his home in sheer excitement and knocked on the door. Yet, as he waited, his heart began to tremble. After all, he had spent an entire lifetime with a girl who looked exactly like his older sister. What would happen when he saw her... Forget it, it didn't matter!

However, the door remained shut.

Suddenly, a voice from behind asked, "Who are you?"

Mo Xuan turned around to see an old man looking at him with a wary expression.

"I'm Mo..." He suddenly remembered that he was already back. "I'm Liu Qiang. This is my house."

The old man's expression grew even more suspicious. "You're a scammer, aren't you? The family living here moved away a long time ago. Word has it their son went missing, and the whole family packed up and sold the house to go look for him..."

Mo Xuan froze. "How is that possible..."

"Why wouldn't it be? I remember it clear as day when Liu Qiang disappeared. He was my childhood friend, after all... Though now that you mention it, you do look an awful lot like him..." The old man narrowed his eyes, scrutinizing Mo Xuan.

Mo Xuan's heart plummeted into an endless abyss.

He recognized the old man standing before him.

Abruptly, he turned around and sprinted away. He had to go back! Back to that other world! Fang Zhiyi would definitely have a way to send him back to that specific point in time, the time when his mom, dad, and sister were still around!

A torrential rain began to pour. Liu Qiang's tears mingled with the raindrops as they splattered onto the ground.

Suddenly, a television inside a roadside shop caught his attention.

"Relevant agencies have disclosed that an unknown biological entity has been observed approaching. Scientists are currently attempting to transmit signals to them, though some experts argue it is merely an ordinary meteorite... Regardless, this will mark a monumental leap forward in human history."

Liu Qiang stopped dead in his tracks as a realization hit him. "So that's it... No wonder Big Brother was always asking me those questions..." Goosebumps erupted all over his back. The world he had transmigrated into was actually a thousand years in the future!

"No! You can't contact them! Don't send the signal!"

The pedestrians on the street watched in utter bewilderment as a young man screaming at the top of his lungs dashed madly into the pouring rain.