Doomsday: I can see the health bar, kill monsters and drop treasure.

Chapter 699: Crazy Bishop

"The end of the world..."

Wang Tao frowned.

This statement...seems quite appropriate.

It has been almost two years since the apocalypse, but humans have survived with their tenacious vitality. But if these destructive monsters appear on a large scale, humans may not be able to hold on. After all, even Wang Tao can't defeat them, let alone others...

While Wang Tao was talking to the bishop, the whale monster in the distance was almost invisible because all he could see was turbid water!

Countless buildings were washed away by the flood, and a large number of zombies fell into the water and their health bars quickly dropped to zero! This was not ordinary water, it was poisonous!
Fortunately, the whale monster is far away from the Twilight Church, and the terrain here is relatively high, so the flood will not reach the Twilight Church for the time being.

"Is it coming towards us?"

The bishop asked nervously. Although the flood did not come to them, if the whale monster came over, the flood would naturally be brought by it. Then the Dusk Church would be in big trouble!

"No, it went south."

Wang Tao flew into the air and took a look, then shook his head.

Although the whale monster could not be seen for the time being, Wang Tao could see that the flood was flowing towards the south, and the Dusk Church was in the north.

"Phew—that's good! As long as it's all right for now…"

The bishop breathed a sigh of relief.

He had placed his headquarters here because the seaside temperature was cool and he didn't have to worry about high temperatures. But now the seaside can no longer be lived in... The bishop suddenly looked at Wang Tao.

"We have to do something..."

"Huh? What to do?"

Wang Tao was a little confused.

Facing such destructive monsters, Wang Tao had no other options. The most he could do was to wait until they were about to die and then pick up their heads... So Wang Tao was very curious about what the bishop was going to do.

The bishop said with a serious expression:
"You are already at the seventh level, and you can fly and move freely. Those monsters can't hurt you for a while... So, why don't you go find the 'power to destroy everything'! As long as we find it, we may still have a chance!"

"It's fine for me to go find it, even if it's just a last-ditch effort, but could you at least tell me what it is?"

Wang Tao was speechless.

Even at this time, the bishop is still hiding something.

"It's not that I don't want to tell you, but I don't know what it looks like. I only know that it is stronger than these destructive monsters! Anyway, as long as you can see it, you will immediately know that it is the target we are looking for!"

The bishop was somewhat helpless. It wasn't that he was lying to Wang Tao, he really didn't know what the guy looked like.

"Why do you know this?"

Wang Tao suddenly asked.

It is not known whether what the bishop said was true or false. Wang Tao felt that he was hiding something, but his overall idea should not be a lie.

If what he said was true, then he was just a sixth-level awakener, so why did he know so much?
Wang Tao was very curious about this. This bishop was a little too mysterious.

"Everyone has their own information channels. You may not know what I know, but I may also not know what you know. This is normal. Let's help each other. Anyway, I didn't lie to you. After all, we are all in the same boat now..."

The bishop obviously did not want to explain.

Wang Tao didn't ask any more questions. He thought for a moment and said, "Okay. Then what? If you find it, what are you going to do next?"

"Once you find it, you must inform me immediately, and then just wait and see what I do next! Although I'm not very sure, I have to give it a try in this situation!"

The bishop gritted his teeth and looked ready to fight, but he did not say the most important thing.

"I mean, what are you going to do?"

Wang Tao stared at the bishop with narrowed eyes.

"What do you want to do!"

The bishop suddenly stepped back and looked at Wang Tao with a vigilant look. He felt a malicious look in Wang Tao's eyes, so he said firmly:

"I am the only one who knows the specific operation method. If I tell you now, what if you abandon me and don't care about the life and death of our Twilight Church? Anyway, I can't tell you!"

"Haha, the less you tell me, the more curious I am..."

Before Wang Tao finished speaking, he saw the bishop suddenly flash and disappear in front of Wang Tao. When he appeared again, he was more than 20 meters away. He ran directly to the Twilight Church base without looking back. He knew that he could not beat Wang Tao, after all, Wang Tao was already level 7, but he could escape. There were many escape passages in his base. As long as he was allowed to return to the base, he promised that Wang Tao would not catch him.

But just as he was about to enter the tunnel entrance he had just come out of, Wang Tao appeared in front of him without him noticing.

The bishop suddenly felt as if he could not move, as if a mountain was pressing down on him.

Wang Tao looked at the bishop with a smile.

"You can't run away."

If they can’t handle a seventh-order destructive monster, how can they handle a mere sixth-order awakener like you?
The bishop tried and confirmed that he couldn't leave. He stopped struggling and sighed:

"Give up. I won't tell you. This is my last trump card. Even if you kill me, I won't tell you."

Wang Tao could feel that the bishop was really unwilling to speak, and his belief was very firm. Even if he was tortured, he might not speak. Because the bishop knew very well that as long as he didn't speak, Wang Tao would most likely not kill him, but if he spoke, that would not necessarily be the case.

"Very, very courageous." Wang Tao smiled and said, "But now is the end of the world, no matter what magical things happen, they are no exception, such as... seeing what is hidden in your brain. Although this will make you an idiot, as long as I can get what I need, I don't mind getting some blood on my hands..."

Wang Tao was actually trying to scare him. Unless it was absolutely necessary, Wang Tao didn't want to use his mental power to control him. After all, the bishop was a sixth-level awakener, and he had four awakenings, namely light, dark, system, and spirit.

Wang Tao could clearly feel that his mental power was very strong. He was the second strongest person with mental power Wang Tao had ever seen. The strongest person was Wang Tao himself.

Although Wang Tao is at the seventh level, his law domain is not spiritual. Even though his mental power is very strong, it is not strong enough to control a sixth-level awakener at will, especially since the bishop's mental power is also very strong.

If Wang Tao were to forcibly manipulate the bishop in this situation, he would be fine, but the bishop would most likely become an idiot.

In addition to using his mental power to control the bishop and make him speak out voluntarily, there is another way, that is Qu Shilin's [Memory Search]. This ability can directly look at the target's memory, which seems to be simpler than Wang Tao's method.

But the problem is that [Memory Search] can only search the memories of creatures with weak mental strength, low IQ, or those that have died not long ago, and the memories obtained are intermittent and very vague.

The bishop is at level 6, has strong spiritual power, and is smart. Qu Shilin is also only at level 6, so the bishop obviously does not meet the condition of "weak spiritual power and low IQ". So if Qu Shilin wants to search the bishop's memory, there is only one way, that is to kill the bishop and let Qu Shilin search the memory of the corpse.

But there is also a problem, that is, Qu Shilin is not searching for complete memories, but fragmentary ones. If he kills the bishop and can find what he wants, that's fine, but if he can't find it, then there will be no chance again in the future...

So Wang Tao was deliberately trying to scare the bishop to see if he could make him surrender voluntarily.

"..."

When the bishop heard Wang Tao's words, a trace of fear flashed in his eyes. He was indeed scared.

He himself is an awakener of the spiritual system. He knows the magic of spiritual power. Although he does not have the ability to search memories, he knows that he must have this ability! If Wang Tao uses this method on him, he will be finished!

"You can't do this to me! If I die, it won't be any use even if you know the method! Then all of you will die!"

The bishop stared at Wang Tao.

"Oh? What do you say?"

Wang Tao raised his eyebrows. He felt that the bishop was telling the truth.

The bishop hesitated, but in order not to be made into an idiot by Wang Tao, he finally gritted his teeth and said:
"You know, I made the believers of the church drink a lot of holy medicine. Those holy medicines can not only slow down their strength improvement, but also bind them to me! As long as I die or become an idiot, they will die too! And the 'power to destroy everything' I mentioned requires the help of these believers! This is also one of the purposes of my establishment of the Church of Dusk!"

"You mean, you are tied to the entire Twilight Church?" Wang Tao suspected that the bishop was lying to him, but he didn't look like he was lying. "How did you do it?"

Wang Tao had seen the followers of the Church of Dusk, but their attributes were all good, and they didn't show that they were bound or anything like that. However, based on Wang Tao's long experience in the apocalypse, some things were not directly displayed, and if they were not displayed, he would not be able to see them...

"This is an ability of mine that cannot be replicated by others. Anyway, I am already bound to the entire Church of Twilight! If they die, I will not die, but if I die, they will die too! And as long as they die, there will be no way to change the current situation!"

The bishop's tone was firm, and seeing that Wang Tao remained unmoved, he continued.

"And you don't think that the Church of Dusk only has this many people, do you? This is just the headquarters. We have many branches all over the country. These people add up to a total of one million! Only with the joint efforts of these one million people can the crisis be resolved! Not even one less person will do!"

Originally Wang Tao felt that he had no way to deal with the bishop, but after hearing his next words, Wang Tao suddenly grinned.

"It only takes one million people to use your method?"

"……What do you mean?"

The bishop's heart skipped a beat; he suddenly had a bad feeling.

Wang Tao explained with a smile:
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Wang Tao, the highest authority in the Changhe Survivor Base. The Changhe Base has a population of more than one million, and all of them obey my orders. We also have an ally, the New Red Maple Base, which also has nearly one million people. That adds up to a total of two million people! These two million people can obey my orders. So as long as I search the memories in your head, even if all of your one million believers are dead, what does it matter? I still have people available!"

"..."

The bishop was a little dumbfounded. He knew that Wang Tao would not be alone. He should have his own survivor base, but he did not expect that Wang Tao had so many people under him! The two million people added together were indeed more than his one million people!

Of course, it is also possible that Wang Tao is lying, but he dare not gamble, after all, it is related to his own life.

The bishop immediately shouted:

"No! Even if you have a population of 2 million, 5 million, or 10 million, it won't work!"

"You're really good at making excuses!" Wang Tao shook his head, looking a little disappointed. "Okay, I'll give you one last chance to convince me. If you still can't convince me, then I'll do what I want."

While speaking, Wang Tao rushed directly towards the bishop with his enormous mental power.

boom--

The bishop felt a little dizzy for a moment, feeling the terrifying mental power of Wang Tao. The bishop had no doubt that Wang Tao had the ability to search memories!
"Wait! I said!"

The bishop took a deep breath, relieved his nervous mood, and then slowly said:

"Do you think this 'power to destroy everything' is so easy to trigger? Even if we find that guy, we can't trigger it directly. There is only one way to trigger it, and that is sacrifice, using human life as a sacrifice..."

"What do you mean?"

Wang Tao suddenly felt his scalp tingling.

"Yes, it's just as you think." The bishop looked at Wang Tao dimly and said, "In order to trigger that guy, at least hundreds of thousands of human lives must be sacrificed at once. One million people would be the safest! And they have to be willing to sacrifice their own lives."

"The holy medicine I have been giving them to drink for a long time, in addition to suppressing their strength and binding their lives to me, also has another ability, which is mind control! So they can willingly die for me!"

"Even if you have millions of people under your command, can you convince them to voluntarily sacrifice their lives? Obviously not. After all, everyone has selfish desires. Even if they don't volunteer to sacrifice themselves, they will die. Voluntary sacrifice can allow their compatriots to survive. But how many people are willing to sacrifice themselves for others? So don't even mention that you have millions of people under your command. Even if you have hundreds of millions of people, it is still impossible to find a million people who are willing to sacrifice themselves!"

"..."

Wang Tao never imagined that the bishop set up the Twilight Church and developed one million believers just to make them sacrifice their lives voluntarily.

And Wang Tao could clearly feel that the bishop did this not just for himself, he seemed to really want to save all mankind! At least he thought so.

"Mad man, a complete mad man..."

(End of this chapter)