Chapter 2: Void Space
Looking back on what happened in the past month, Li Jie feels like a dream.
To be honest, a month ago today, the turning point of Li Jie's fate really began in his sleep.
His ears were filled with mixed summoning sounds, and countless flashing images made Li Jie, who had just woken up from his slumber, feel a splitting headache.
In a daze, Li Jie miraculously got into the bathroom mirror.
The sky was full of mist, and the light from nowhere shrouded Li Jie's surroundings, and all as far as the eye could see was a hazy gray. Li Jie, who had already been awake, was full of astonishment and looked at everything around him stupidly. It was as if he was stepping on the clouds, and clouds of black smoke were slowly surging.
Suddenly, a piece of jade pendant that had been hanging in front of his neck since he was a child turned fiery red, hot like a soldering iron that had just been taken out of the furnace.
Before Li Jie, who was in pain, could take it off, he saw that the jade pendant instantly burst into a cloud of fire mist and dispersed in the air, and then turned into a cloud of silver as if it was rapidly cooling. And Li Jie only had the blackened green rope at both ends in his hand at this time.
The silver mist formed by the jade pendant gathered in mid-air to form a cloud, and after a short pause, it flew forward in an instant as if it was being guided.
Li Jie's eyes suddenly flashed with a dazzling silver light. When he opened his eyes again, the fog in front of him had dissipated, revealing a huge ancient monster body.
The whole body is a silver jade plate, and the word "rice" is inlaid in the middle. Suspended in the air of half, one, book, reading, novel, constantly rotating.
At the same time, a series of clear and cold voices appeared in Li Jie's mind.
"With the guidance of the seal, accept the inheritance of destiny. Custodian of fate, I've been waiting for you for a long time......"
…… The memories of that day still seem to be in front of me. Li Jie, who had returned home at this moment, stood quietly in front of the mirror and looked at himself.
When the time jumped to 19:58 in the evening, the dark blue electronic watch on Li Jie's wrist began to sound an alarm.
After settling down, Li Jie pressed his palm on the mirror. Holding his breath, he closed his eyes.
Gradually, starting from the palm of Li Jie's hand, the mirror surface was filled with ripples like water ripples, and the ups and downs became extremely soft.
After taking a deep breath, Li Jie jumped into the half-human-high bathroom mirror in front of him. As Li Jie's figure disappeared, the mirror surface returned to flatness again.
As if passing through a transparent film, effortlessly. When he came back to his senses, Li Jie was already standing in this strange space again.
There is not a trace of life here, even the numbers on the watch are frozen. Li Jie even had the illusion that even if he stopped breathing, his life would not be in any danger.
Because in this strange "void space", time, space, and even life have lost their concepts.
After walking aimlessly for a long time, the scene in front of me still did not change. Li Jie shook his head with a wry smile, stopped, looked up at the sky and shouted, "I'm here!" Come out! ”
As soon as the words fell, a silver light flashed in the air. The familiar silver jade plate appeared in front of him again.
"You're here...... Very punctual. ”
Li Jie smiled and teased: "Thank you for reminding me, it's not easy for me to be late." Since he fell asleep last night, Li Jie's dreams have not stopped. This strange object appears in front of you all the time, constantly conveying the message of "19:58".
"This is my duty......
Li Jie remembers that when he came that day, this object introduced himself. It claims to have existed since the beginning of the world, and is in charge of calculating, supervising, and maintaining the normal development of the world. He has a name called the "Wheel of Life". Li Jie has reason to believe that the "roulette wheel of fate" that people often talk about refers to this guy.
Every once in a while, the "Wheel of Life" will select a suitable person, empower him, and become his guardian in the world.
The way he was chosen was peculiar: he would leave a mark on the world, and only those who held the mark would receive his call to enter it. According to the Wheel of Life, the person who is able to have the mark is also due to the choice of fate.
And this mark is the jade pendant that Li Jie has carried since he was a child, and it is also the only relic left to him by his parents. In this way, Li Jie has become the only guardian of fate today.
But Li Jie still likes to call him a "supervisor" as if he were the employee he hired.
Anyway, it's not a part-time job for anyone. Li Jie thinks that he is more in line with his current class composition.
In Li Jie's understanding, this "supervisor" is in charge of the flow of energy in the world called fate. His existence is to ensure that there is no obstruction or deviation in the flow of life energy. He once warned Li Jie that if life energy cannot flow normally, it will cause the collapse of time and space, and this world will no longer exist.
"You've been getting used to it for the past month, right......"
The "supervisor" always speaks without hurry, tepid, and without feeling. Color.
"It's okay." Li Jie recalled the experience of a month and smiled self-deprecatingly: "Maybe soon, my original job will be gone." There's only one part-time job left on your side. ”
Li Jie did not lie. He has long been "famous" in the company, but now he can't receive a single list. Even if the company doesn't fire him, he won't be able to do it himself.
It's ridiculous to say that after Li Jie got the ability to see through his fate, he couldn't even keep his job.
A swipe.
A huge screen suddenly appeared in front of Li Jie's eyes. The figure of a young girl walks back and forth on the screen, and her crisp voice can be faintly heard.
At the same time, rows of small print appeared on the screen.
"Feng Xiaoting, female, 22 years old. He now lives in Shuiyun Villa. ”
"What is this?" Li Jie touched his chin and stared at it for a long time. The girl on the picture has a beautiful complexion, wearing a snow-white yarn pajamas. He is tall and tall, and he looks down-to-earth and generous in his gestures. Looking at the furnishings in the room again, I saw that it was the daughter of a wealthy family.
"Oh, Shuiyun Villa! I said so. There is a rich family living in Shuiyun Villa. Li Jie nodded, still looking up puzzled and asked, "What do you mean by showing me this?" ”
"Your duty is to ensure that Feng Xiaoting must appear in Shuiyun Villa before 19 o'clock on the evening of the 22nd."
"Huh?! Still have a mission? Li Jie was surprised: "You didn't say that I still have a mission." ”
"It's your job, and it's up to you to do it alone."
Although Li Jie also knows that there is no free lunch in the world, the other party has given him the ability, so he will naturally ask for something in return. But he was unprepared, stunned and at a loss.
After a pause, Li Jie raised his face and said seriously: "Director, can I apply for resignation now?" ”
The "Wheel of Life" did not make any reply. The screen begins to change between brushes.
A figure in a cyan jeans jacket bypassed the patrolling security guards and quickly climbed out of the fence.
"On the 20th, that is, around 13 o'clock tomorrow, Feng Xiaoting will leave Shuiyun Villa. You have 54 hours to complete the goal. ”
Li Jie said with a bitter face: "You overestimate me too much, how can I complete the task?" ”
Speaking of which, Li Jie is just a salesman of an insurance company who is about to be laid off at this time. It has only been one year since he entered the society from the orphanage, and he does not have the confidence to influence other people's thoughts, let alone a rich daughter.
Persuade this sneaking Miss Feng to go home? Joke!
Thinking that when these daughters usually pass by him, in addition to leaving their backs, there is only dust raised by the wheels, and they don't even bother to sweep the corner of their eyes over people like Li Jie.
"If Feng Xiaoting can't appear in Shuiyun Villa before 19 o'clock on the evening of the 22nd, she won't be able to appear at this time and space node."
"If you can't finish it, you can't finish it. I can't help it. Li Jie couldn't help but get angry when he saw that the other party didn't pay attention to him at all.
“…… The energy flow of the fate of the world needs the support of every space-time node related to the main fate. If a certain link cannot appear, it will cause the blockage of life energy, which will eventually lead to distortion. The Collapse of Time and Space ......"
Li Jie smiled indifferently: "I don't really understand what you said." What kind of life can I do, I don't know the world. You say that if I don't do anything, I can cause the destruction of the world? Don't laugh. I'm just a little insurance company clerk. Besides, what do you always say about space-time collapse, I really haven't seen what space-time collapse looks like? ”
As if in response to Li Jie's words, the screen suddenly changed.
Silently, everything in the picture suddenly shattered like glass, and people, chairs, and everything in the room were torn to shreds like pieces of paper. After several divisions, it finally turned into nothingness. The space suddenly collapsed, revealing a terrifying black hole. The black hole seems to have infinite suction, sucking everything around it into it and crushing and devouring it at the same time.
The camera stretches, and the growing black hole has begun to suck everything in Shuiyun City. Countless screaming people, cars, houses, and everything else were irresistibly torn apart by invisible forces, and then sucked into the black hole...... When the entire Earth was swallowed, a huge black hole appeared in the original place. Still unsatisfied, it began to suck up the entire universe, and countless stars rushed in......
Five minutes.
Only five minutes elapsed between the appearance of the black hole and the disappearance of the universe!
There was a soft pop. It seemed that the huge black hole had finally eaten and burped, and then regained its calm. But at this point, there was only chaos left in the picture.
"This is what I calculated, what happened after the space-time crash...... So far, all the space-time nodes have appeared accurately, so this situation has not happened. ”
In his mind, the calm words of the "wheel of life" seemed so harsh.
It seems that Li Jie, who has just finished watching a blockbuster, has not yet woken up from the shock. After standing for a long time, he looked up at the air, opened his mouth to speak, but found that his throat had dried up unconsciously.
Threats!.Naked Threats!
After swallowing his saliva hard, Li Jie barely managed to squeeze out an embarrassing smile.
"Lord Director, let's talk about Feng Xiaoting......