Chapter 260: The Great Tribulation
"Hey..." THE MAN BROKE AWAY FROM GANTZ, WALKED OUT OF THE BLACK BALL IN FRONT OF EVERYONE, AND WALKED UP TO ARTHUR AS IF NO ONE WAS AROUND: "HOW? It's a good technology."
"Hey! You are!" The crowd was shocked.
Arthur: "Barely getting to the passing line."
"Haha... Really." The man scratched his head: "Your vision is really powerful, do you want to see the orangutan costume?" As for the one the man was wearing, you've seen the entity, and although the rules can't get it out for you, it's still okay with the data or something."
"That—" Reika stepped forward, "I have a question, what is that black ball... Who is it and for what purpose ... We are asked to do something like this."
"Oh?" The man was stunned for a moment, "Are you asking me?" Yes, I'll tell you all right, the black ball is German. a tool made by the kingdom to ward off foreign calamities."
Xuanye Ji: "De... IS GANTZ MADE BY HUMANS?"
Sakurai Hiroto: "How... That kind of thing was made by humans?"
Their spirits were devastated.
The man thought for a moment and stepped forward to point out the countdown: "Look, there is about a week to go, and disaster is coming."
"Disaster?! What kind of disaster?" Katsu Kato asked.
"I don't know, I'm just a manipulator, and there are things I can't touch." The man said plainly.
"What about the aliens? What is it? Are those human beings too?" Sakurai Hiroto thought of a terrifying idea.
"Aliens are aliens." The man said, of course, "Is there anything wrong with that? The universe is so big, how can it be that only the earth has life."
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"Why? It's going to happen." Reika asked the question that had been weighing on her mind.
"I don't know." The man said, "But you know all too well what the GANTZ countdown represents."
"However, neither the newspapers nor the news show signs of disaster," Sakurai said.
"Ahh Maybe it's an alien invasion of Earth or something." The man spread his hands, and seeing that the crowd was silent, he walked to Arthur's side and invited him out for supper.
Arthur gladly accepted, and left the room with him, leaving them to ponder inside, "How... One week to go... Isn't it?" Katsu Kato muttered.
"There is no such thing as a god..."Genye's spirit was shocked, Sakuragaoka Sheng stepped forward, slowly opened his hand, and hugged him into his arms: "Xiaoji..."
Genno Ji woke up, and after reminiscing about the softness for a short time, he awkwardly confessed his love affair with Kojima Tae in the same grade, and hoped to dissolve the relationship between the two...
Sakuragaoka Saint was devastated, but he was helpless, after all, he had been dead for a long time, and he was still their resurrected self.
She blessed him with tears.
……
"There's less than a week left." In the hot pot restaurant, the man was dressed in a suit, and he sighed with ingredients in the churning pot.
「……」
His eyes were lowered, his eyes were flat like water, and he turned the ingredients: "I have a question, what is your view of the world...?"
"What do you think of the world?" Arthur asked rhetorically, taking away the right to speak.
"Me?" The man was stunned for a moment, and replied straightly, "I don't have any opinion about this world, I'm just a clone, and I don't have any belonging to this world. How the world is... None of it has anything to do with me."
"Oh..." Arthur picked up the boiled enoki mushrooms, dipped them in the seasoning, put them in his mouth, chewed them a few times, swallowed them in his stomach, and picked up his chopsticks to pick up the vegetables: "You are really living freely."
"What about you, I want you to answer my question." The man put down his chopsticks and looked at Arthur seriously.
"I don't have any opinion, whether it's humans or aliens, for me, it's all the same." Arthur said slowly, "There is not much difference between the two."
"Same... Why..."
"It's stupid to define it by convention.
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"Really—" The man took a sip of sake, "So... What do you do when the world is in crisis, with your technology?"
"The world is in crisis all the time." Arthur said lightly.
"No, I mean, what you'll do if the world ends at the end of the world, I care."
"Concern? It's strange that your indifference to the world would care about what I have to do with the world."
The man was silent, he was speechless.
After a moment, Arthur broke the embarrassment: "You are the operator of the GANTZ system, have you heard of the House of Truth?"
"The House of Truth? I'm sorry, but I don't really understand the words in your mouth." He knew a lot about the GANTZ system, but had never heard of such a place.
"GANTZ is a high-tech Internet model, I can help you ask them, but I advise you not to get your hopes up."
For the rest of the day, there was very little conversation between the two, both silently eating food, and finally the man paid the money, and the two separated in front of the store, each going in one direction.
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"Monsters!"
"Osaka! Did you see it?! That's amazing!"
"What, that's, it's CG."
"Huh? News? Even NHK has played it!" As expected, such a serious alien disaster in Osaka could not be suppressed casually.
The news media is like a hungry wolf smelling meat, overwhelmingly publicizing this matter, making the top government officials anxious.
"Yesterday, Channel 2 broadcast something very powerful, and I heard it from Kansai, and I was shocked by the scene." Pedestrians recounted news gossip: "The Self-Defense Forces are also on the scene."
"Just kidding."
"How is it possible, I checked with my friends in Osaka, and something did happen over there. I don't know what will become of this country."
「…… Let's tell you about what happened around us, the panda seems to have escaped again, and was caught near Shibuya."
"Ahh Is it because the food is bad? Really, what is the zoo doing, such a popular panda, it's not good to supply, it's been running several times..."
……
At night, in the street van, Inaba asks for Reika, as if there is something important to say.
"You... I don't have a boyfriend now..."
Seeing that Lixiang was silent, he took it as if she was affirming: "I'm a designer, and I... I like you..."
"I'm sorry—" Reika declined.
"Think about my request, we're all in that room, I... Only I know what you're going through and how you're feeling."
Faced with Inaba's rash pursuit, Reika didn't dare to respond, she opened the car door and walked away quickly: "Maybe... I... It should..."
The night quickly faded and a new day went on as usual.
The members of the team who are familiar with the "inside information" can't dissolve the depression in their hearts when they see the approaching "disaster".
They began to cherish their time, to cherish the people in front of them, and to try steps that they did not dare to take.