Enforcer Manual
Chapter 594: The Messenger of God_1

Chapter 594: Chapter 594: The Messenger of God_1

In this monotonous world, Yeying’s psychic sensitivities played an important role.

The Archbishop made no moves, seemingly standing somewhere in the world waiting for their arrival. Guided by the psychic senses, the four of them crossed over the mountain and were able to behold the scene behind the dunes made of hot sand.

No citizen of the Neutral Country would find the sight before them unfamiliar.

The surface of the Earth, under the influence of radiation, emitted a strange green glow, and before them waited a sea of light.

People called these places Radiant Sea, and for most residents of the Neutral Country, their entire lives were almost a constant battle against the miseries brought by radiation.

Disease, mutant creatures, famine, these were all by-products of radiation itself.

Although after the war ended, people who were rebuilding their homes tried to change their environment, these hardships still loomed over everyone’s heads until now.

They soon found the Archbishop deep within this luminous path.

However, this scene was so eerie that all four of them fell into silence simultaneously.

In the distance, Helifis looked even younger than Yeying. She was walking side by side with a man dressed as a doctor, not wearing the long robe representing the Archbishop’s status. Her figure from behind looked just like a carefree little girl holding a toy doll, accompanying the person she trusted most in the world.

Beside them was a village that had been destroyed.

The village lay low with twisted and ruined bodies, the villagers having gone mad under the influence of radiation, turning into zombie-like creatures.

They wandered aimlessly on the land where they used to live, waiting for their fate to be destroyed.

"Why are they all dead?"

Though separated by a hundred meters, they could distinctly hear the Archbishop’s ethereal voice.

She fiddled with the toy doll in her hand, looking up at the person beside her.

In the face of all these bodies, she did not seem afraid.

"Because we didn’t get to them in time."

The other person’s voice was choppy, sounding vague and insubstantial.

"Then, how can we bring them back to life?"

"I don’t know."

The man shook his head, "Maybe only you can find the answer."

...

"His face!"

Yeying, born with keen eyesight, exclaimed in horror as the man turned his face for a moment, and she saw his swollen, ugly face – a consequence of long-term exposure to radiation. Many people in the remote towns had become like this.

No wonder the man wore a pair of leather gloves and covered his body tightly with a white coat.

"Is this... Helifis’s memory?"

Lu Xiang murmured to himself. Ever since he had met Song Lan, he had become more and more accustomed to the anomalies appearing in life. Even if one were to insist on explaining from a scientific perspective, illusions and memory fragments could be referred to as projections of consciousness. With Helifis’s strong psychic abilities, this was entirely explainable.

"No, this isn’t her memory."

The leader of the First Army Corp said with a decisive tone, "That man was her father. He had been the captain of a rescue team and died in the line of duty during a rescue operation when Helifis was just a month old."

Over the years, the Barrosa Group had been committed to investigating Helifis’s past, attempting to understand the reasons behind her founding of the Lunar Eclipse Sect by tracing her growth trajectory. However, until now, there had been no consensus within the group on this matter.

Some believed she was born this way, while others thought she was later influenced by the Consciousness Entity known as the Devourer.

And now, the endlessly debated question finally had an answer.

"She was influenced by some form of consciousness, because, in terms of time, it was absolutely impossible for her to have met her own father at that point."

It was even less likely that a dead person could walk alongside her on the Radiant Sea, telling her that perhaps she was the key to solving the radiation issue.

But if Helifis’s actions were influenced by an image of some will, then many mysteries could be explained.

"According to our investigation, Helifis indeed had displayed an anomaly since childhood. When she was five, while playing with friends, she accidentally fell into an outpost filled with radiation pollution. Not even the adults in the town dared to enter the outpost to find her, and everyone thought she was dead. Yet, several days later, she returned to the town unscathed on her own."

The earliest records of this incident were read in the memoirs of the Lunar Eclipse Sect.

Considerable portions of the Church regarded Helifis as a messenger of the Moon God among men—a powerful testament to her extraordinary birth.

"We later verified the authenticity of this story."

The leader of the First Army Corp said, "The residents of the town confirmed the veracity of the story, and we uncovered some secrets unknown to the public... Different from the memoirs, some said Helifis was not inadvertently dropped into the outpost, but rather that her peers had tricked her into going there and pushed her down when she wasn’t paying attention."

"Why?"

"Who knows."

The leader of the First Army Corp said, unable to comprehend what those children were thinking back then. The reasons and motives were unimportant. "What matters is that the peer who pushed her into the outpost confessed to her crime that very night, trembling in her bed, admitting everything. She was then twisted into a monster by the radiation."

What he spoke of came from the archives of the Barrosa Group.

The reason the townspeople revealed this to them was that the parents of that peer never believed Helifis was the "Messenger of the Moon God" as the believers proclaimed. In their eyes, she was more akin to a monster.

"This bizarre incident spread quickly. Her father’s superior heard of it and personally visited their home, taking Helifis to Antigon. In fact, most of Helifis’s life was spent in Antigon, where she was provided with the best education but, at the same time, her secrets were probed as much as possible."

Radiation had no effect on Helifis.

However, this was a phenomenon that had a result without a process. Until Helifis’s foster father passed away, they were unable to figure out the origin of her special constitution.

"After the death of Helifis’s foster father, she was recruited into the rescue team because of her special constitution and spent years in the most dangerous environments of the Neutral Country, responsible for rescue and investigation."

Time and again she survived, and in the process, she accumulated her first group of followers.

In fact, there were already many rumors about Helifis spreading among people before the Lunar Eclipse Sect was established.

People in suffering believed that Helifis was a gift bestowed by the heavens to the Neutral Country.

"What about you, what do you think?"

Song Lan asked curiously.

"This is a conspiracy that began the very moment Helifis was born,"

the leader of the First Army Corp said, "Her existence is not a gift, but a tool used by that consciousness entity to change this country and humanity."

"They are getting away!"

Yeying pointed towards the distance and said.

Psychic abilities allowed her to feel the Archbishop was moving away from them, so she followed her instincts and gave chase. However, the moment she took her first step, she was hoisted up from behind.

Sharply rising thorns surged from beneath the soil, brushing past her.

The one who helped her escape danger turned out to be the leader of the First Army Corp.

"Don’t go, it’s a trap."