No weapon can match time.

Not only does it age a person's body and wear out a person's spirit, but more importantly, it can always change human cognition.

Shadow felt that all of this was perfectly reflected in Longinus.

At this moment, Longinus has long since changed from a protester to a believer in fate, which is why he came to the 17th district alone with the determination to die.

Perhaps, in the final stages of his life, this believer in fate still believes that his death will make a difference for the coalition government and the world.

However, the truth is often cruel, all of them are walking on the road paved by fate, and every "change" is just a trick of fate, and this is also the truth of the ability of "justice".

The so-called luck or calamity is the guidance of fate.

Shadow could have ended Longinus' life if he wanted to, but instead of doing so, he stood beside Longinus as a spectator, pausing to watch the battle unfold.

In addition to his respect for his former rival, he still has some details that he hasn't figured out.

The scene at this moment was slightly different from what he saw, according to this momentum, if Longinus was defeated by the swarm, and was completely overwhelmed by the swarm after the ghost army was completely disintegrated and swallowed by the swarm, then how could the city become the scene he predicted?

And someone else attacked the city?

Or was it the use of satellite weapons by the Council after learning of Longinus' death?

After all, the shadows are not a sea of insects all over the mountains, but an empty wasteland with no signs of life.

"The city is doomed."

Longinus, who had been silent, suddenly spoke, took a picture from the inside pocket of his clothes, and sat back in his chair with his broken arm.

In the face of the retreating mechanized troops, he showed a relieved expression.

The shadow thought it would be Longinus' family, or something precious in his memory, but when it saw what was on the picture, it was stunned.

It's not a picture of someone, and Longinus, as a veteran, didn't reminisce about the past in the last moments of his life, as portrayed in the clichés of those movies.

What is presented in this photograph is a vision of the future.

Deserted streets, broken houses, and burnt earth.

This is clearly part of the future as it sees it.

"If fate is destined to be unchangeable, then what matters is the part that follows fate."

Longinus' gaze drifted into the distance, and the fog dissipated somewhere, allowing him to witness the scene beyond with his own eyes instead of using his abilities—the swarm's attention was focused on the room after the ghost legion was wiped out.

This time, it was no longer a passing monster that roared, but a black cloud formed by them.

"What do you think will happen after that?"

The shadow did not answer.

Because the answer to this question is all too obvious.

The death of Longinus gradually revealed the vanity of his true face, the growing resistance army, and the resentment of the coalition government for many years...... All these details are the elements that are pieced together to make a new world.

Longinus didn't mind the silence of the shadows.

The swarm was getting closer and closer to him.

Even if the foretold fate is destined to be unchangeable, it does not mean that they have no room for mediation, "they will have information about this destroyed city and learn from it...... This is the path humanity has traveled since its inception. ”

The only reason why the swarms seem invincible is that they don't have enough intelligence yet.

There will always be someone who wants to bring first-hand information back to the human world.

"Boring."

Shadow snorted coldly.

To him, this is more like the last unrealistic fantasy of a dying man.

"So, can you see the world beyond the future?"

Faced with the imminent swarm, Longinus did not retreat, nor did he expect a clear answer from his enemies, it was just a veteran talking to himself, "What's more, this is also an important experiment." ”

As he spoke, the thumb of his right hand stabbed into his heart.

This scene caused the shadows to escape into darkness almost instinctively, and it sensed danger from Longinus's incomprehensible actions, which supposedly had been in a state of indelible indelible after losing their bodies.

The sense of crisis kept it desperately away from Longinus, not even daring to expend extra energy to understand what was really going on behind him.

The unprecedentedly powerful psionic energy detonated like a bomb, and the monster that approached Longinus was instantly annihilated by the aftermath of the psionic energy, strong enough to shatter the space - in his unextinguished vision, he saw the space full of rifts.

Longinus had to admit that, in a sense, it was the "zealous citizens" who showed them the way.

They had been given footage of the "Zealous Citizens" fighting the Devourers in the Barossa Syndicate's branch, which gave him a new understanding of the destructive psionic powers, and the key question was, how exactly do they do the same?

And this is the answer he finally found.

Researchers at the Psionic Research Center have proposed that when human beings are on the verge of physical annihilation, it is precisely when their consciousness activities are at their strongest, and for psionic people, they are completely capable of turning the psionic energy that has risen at this moment into a bomb.

Longinus saw the streets swept away by the aftermath of the psionic powers, and in fact he didn't need to witness the scene himself, the picture that revealed the future already gave him the answer in advance.

Just as his consciousness was about to disappear with the overflowing psionic energy, he saw something unusual.

The unusual cracks in the air became more and more apparent, and then they began to peel off like shattered glass, and in a trance, Longinus finally realized that the cracks did not seem to be the product of psionic impact, as he could vaguely see the other side of the rift.

It doesn't belong to any corner of the world.

The light of the stars dotted this dark space, and at this moment, he felt as if he was in the middle of the universe.

However, he is not alone now.

Because in this dark space, he also found the shadows of others.

The figure with his back to him was very familiar, and it seemed to make up for his last regret - at the end of this war, he finally met the "enthusiastic citizen".

It's just that, as always, the other party is shrouded in a sense of mystery that he can't understand.

Longinus didn't know what this place was or why he was here.

But he clearly saw a black hole between them.

The black hole swallowed everything he could see, and between the boundaries of life and death, he seemed to witness the reorganization of the world.

"This is the world after the future."

Longinus heard an ethereal voice.

The figure with his back to him didn't stay where he was, he stepped forward and stepped into the reorganized world.

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(End of chapter)