Chapter 369: The Event in Heavens Cold City


    Trantor: WQL Editor: EbonyFrost


    For years toe, people would still consider what the Zhen n in Heavens Cold City, Jinyun Country of Waii Sub-Continent did on July 7th, 890 of ck Iron Calendar as the symbolic event of the arrival of the Third Holy War between humans and demons by many people.


    The arrival of the previous 2 holy wars between humans and demons were both symbolized by human cities being destroyed or upied by demons. However, the event in Heavens Cold City was notunched by the demons themselves, but Heavens Cold City still copsed. Although it was demons’ckeys and remnants of Three-Eye Association, this event still started the Third Holy War.


    ording to the public information, before the event in Heavens Cold City, there were in total, a poption of over 1.3 million in Heavens Cold City. After that event, although with the efforts and rescue from all parties, less than 30,000 people survived. From then on, Heavens Cold City had deteriorated into a ghost city.


    The event in Heavens Cold City was a tragedy of the human race. If you wanted to find something positive from this tragedy of 1 million casualties, you might find that those who were still puzzled about holy war became clear-minded at once after that.


    This event was like thunder on a sunny day as it woke up many people who were still not well prepared for theing holy war. After the information that was only known by a minority of people was released to the public, most of average people had more time to prepare for theing drastic change.


    It wasn’t onlymoners who were stunned. Even those who had prepared for theing holy war had been shocked by this event. especially for theter. After knowing the details of the event in Heavens Cold City, everybody knew that the Third Holy War would be unprecedented.


    The reason that big figures made this judgment was that worm in Zhen n which caused the event in Heavens Cold City.


    The worm being broken was notmon. It was the terrifying living being of the demons——puppet worm.


    This kind of worm appearedte into the Second Holy War. Because of its appearance, the Second Holy Warsted another 15 years. Billions of people died directly or indirectly because of this kind of worm. Some human historians even asserted that if puppet worm appeared five decades earlier or if the demons realized mass-production of puppet worms, the human race might have disappeared today.


    Puppet worms didn’t have powerful fighting strength or lethality but they were terrifying due to the following 2 reasons.


    First, a mature puppet worm was like a terrifying queen ant or queen bee as it couldy hundreds of thousands of eggs a day. Their eggs were very small as they were only several timesrger thanmon colibacillosis, namely 15-30 microns. People couldn’t see them with the naked eye. We could only see them through a microscope.


    Additionally, eggs of puppet worms had super terrifying survival capability and environmental adaptability like some powerful bacteria——Under -50 ℃, their eggs could survive for half a year; under 120℃, their eggs could survive longer than 48 hours. Mostmon pesticides and sterilization drugs were ineffective against their eggs.


    Once the egg entered the human body, it could reach people’s brain through blood cirction. After that, it started to grow and incubate in people’s brain. When it matured in people’s brain, its host would die. As a result, the host’s body would be a walking dead under the control of that parent puppet worm. The host would then have no self-awareness, sense of pain or feelings, and liked to kill and swallow the blood and flesh of all the living beings, even more ferocious than wild beasts.


    Even wild beasts had spirituality. The one acting as the host of eggs of a puppet worm was not even a man at all. It was only a zombie with people’s skin, blood and flesh.


    Towards the end of the Second Holy War, demons had built tens of millions of puppet armies in only a few years through a few puppet worms which brought a huge catastrophe to the whole human world.


    It could be said that each puppet worm cultivated by demons had killed many people.


    For the human race, the puppet worm was an almost unrivaled living being. After paying a great price for that, people started to know the properties of this terrifying living being.


    Eggs of puppet worm were very powerful, they were hardly discovered and eliminated. However, they had a weakness——all the eggs relied on the existence of the parent puppet worm very much. Since their birth, each puppet worm had established a mysterious, permanent contact with the parent puppet worm.


    Although puppet worms could survive many harsh conditions, even after incubation, as long as they left the parent puppet worm about 200 km or longer, they would die without exception. All the eggs relied on the parent puppet worm.


    Although the parent puppet worm could control numerous brains hosted by its eggs, it could not protect itself as it was very weak and needed other puppet worms’ protection, without which, even a dog could kill it by eating it, let alone a person.


    Furthermore, it took eggs 4 years to turn a host into a zombie. During this period, if the parent puppet worm suddenly died, all the eggs wouldplete incubation in an extremely short period. Eggs thatplete incubation in this way would be out of the control of the parent puppet worm. Instead, they started to attack and destroy any living beings, including those who were hosted by eggs from a different parent puppet worm.


    This destructive attack was like revenge for the death of the parent puppet worm. They were driven mad and became irresistible within the effective distance from the ce where the parent puppet worm died.


    Although Zhang Quan just broke a parent puppet worm, actually, he killed all the people who were being hosted by the eggs of that parent puppet worm.


    ording to the survey and analysis of this event, when the Zhen n ruled Heavens Cold City, the Zhen n threw the eggs of the parent puppet worm into the running water supply system in Heavens Cold City, letting them easily enter mouths of about 1 million people, including soldiers andmon citizens and find their own hosts. Knowing such a grim means they used, everybody was shocked.


    What made someone more frightened and surprised was not puppet worms themselves, but the fact that puppet worm was in the Zhen n’s hand.


    A puppet worm was not a cheap cabbage as it was extremely precious for the demons. In the Second Holy War, only very few demon armies were provided with one puppet worm, which could only be managed by the colonel of the army. However, the Zhen n had one. What did this mean?


    The Zhen n was a member of Three-Eye Association, the remnants of demons while Three-Eye Association was the peripheral force of demons among the human race. However, the extremely precious puppet worm appeared in the hand of the peripheral force of demons. What about demons themselves? How many puppet worms did they truly have? Whether demons had cultivated more powerful puppet worms? How many remnants of Three-Eye Association like the Zhen n were hiding across the Waii Sub-Continent?


    These were the most important questions.


    For smart guys who knew the details of this event, now that demons’ckeys had started to throw the eggs of a parent puppet worm in Heavens Cold City, the Third Holy War would break out in less than 4 years based on the time that eggs of parent puppet worms need to incubate.


    Actually, it should be faster as people didn’t know how long ago the Zhen n threw the eggs of the parent puppet worm into Heavens Cold City. If the Zhen n had just thrown them into the water supply system of Heavens Cold City yesterday, the Third Holy War would break out in 4 years. But if they had thrown them inside 1 year or 2 years ago, less time was left.


    If not the arrival of Third Holy War, the Zhen n would never dare to change so many people into zombies controlled by a parent puppet worm. If they dared to do that, the Zhen n would be the public enemy of the human race and be eliminated at once.


    Only at the beginning of the holy war or after it started did Zhen n dare to do such a merciless thing in Heavens Cold City with demons as its reliance.


    Therefore, when those eggs in Heavens Cold City wouldplete their incubation if their parent puppet worm was not killed was very important.


    Certainly, as the participant and witness of the event in Heavens Cold City, Zhang Tie gradually knew about the above information. However, after receiving the first order, all the n fighters and elites of Huaiyuan Pce in Bluestone Pass Fort felt strange.


    The order was delivered from the airship——all the elites of Huaiyuan Pce in Bluestone Pass Fort should chop off all the heads of the Zhen n’s soldiers as fast as possible. What a bloody yet puzzling order!


    When they executed this order, many people were confused, including Zhang Tie. But when the greater part of the corpses’ heads were chopped off and the rest corpses whose heads had not been chopped off started to stand up by twisting their bodies, all the girls present were scared and started to cry...