Chapter 25: Life and Withered Branches
Can God deal with God?
At present, there are only three people in the hands of the Heterogeneous Bureau, who are determined to be 'gods'.
The 'Lord of Flesh and Blood' who is about to descend from Qingming Temple may be the corresponding 'god' related to the 'Glutton'.
He is almost omniscient within the Anointry.
In the south of Wang'an City, the 'fate' who controls the thread of fate is being manipulated.
There are other suspicious existences, but none of them can be confirmed.
Except for the Lord of Flesh himself, which god can deal with the Lord of Flesh and Blood,
In other words, how can another god deal with the 'Lord of Flesh'.
Also, what is 'world' and what does it mean?
Lao Chen raised his head again and looked at the stall behind this special fortune teller.
Jing Chen met Lao Chen's gaze with a calm expression.
He knew Lao Chen's doubts, but he didn't know more.
This is the information of the future, and the future Bureau of Anomalies will only have this information.
If you know these things in advance, you can't let the Abnormal Investigation Bureau solve the problem of Qingming Temple...... Jing Chen thought of the blood-colored world.
Just thinking about it like this, the blood-colored world seems to emerge from front of me again, and it becomes clearer and clearer, and it is about to drown the whole world.
Jing Chen closed his eyes and opened them again, and everything in front of him returned to normal again.
It is still the breeze blowing through the banks of the Wang'an River, and the slanting sun passes through the riverside trees.
Lao Chen looked at Jing Chen, and after not getting more explanations and revelations, he slowly turned his head,
looked at the stall of the 'fortune teller' who was still lined up not far away,
The 'fortune teller' should be a believer in 'fate'.
And what about this young gentleman, who is a little special, is there another 'god' behind him?
Lao Chen turned his head and looked at Jing Chen again, just glanced at it, then lowered his head again, with complex emotions in his eyes,
There are expectations, and there are worries.
He was expecting a 'god' behind Jing Chen, hoping to get some respite from the chaos.
I am also worried about the more unknown changes and more serious crises brought about by more 'gods'.
"Investigator Tatsu, is there anything else you'd like to ask?"
Jing Chen looked at Lao Chen, who lowered his head, and asked out loud.
"I still want to know, have the things of Qingming Temple really arrived? If not, when will it actually come? ā
Lao Chen raised his head again, and his gaze regained his composure.
Due to his experience with many special events, he was reluctant to mention the name of the 'Lord of Flesh'.
"In the evening of two days, what can be seen in Wang'an City will become a blood-colored world."
For this question, Jing Chen didn't even need to peek at the picture of the blood-colored world again, the picture of the blood-colored world he had seen before had clearly made him perceive time.
Lao Chen's heart was a little heavy, but looking at Jing Chen, he was just silent,
After pausing again, Lao Chen stood up,
"I wonder what kind of remuneration Mr. will receive?"
"What are you carrying?"
"There are a few sunflowers."
"That's it."
Lao Chen took out a few whole sunflowers that were withered and dried from his trouser pocket.
This thing grows around a kind of monster, and when consumed in its entirety, it can maintain sanity to a limited extent, reduce inspiration, and can also be used as a material for some potions.
It was handed to him by the doctor from the medical department when Lao Chen came out.
Jing Chen stretched out his hand to take it, and looked at the dry sunflower stem, which seemed to exude a faint milky white light that was basically indistinguishable in the sun, probably with the characteristics of a sunflower.
Then raised his head, Jing Chen looked at Lao Chen, who had already stood up,
"Doesn't Investigator Tatsu ask about his own safety?"
Handed to Jing Chen Xiangyanghua, Lao Chen, who withdrew his hand, heard Jing Chen's words, and then paused again.
"I just heard that my colleague told you that you would bleed to death."
Lao Chen should have asked about this, but he didn't ask from beginning to end.
āā¦ā¦ I'm going to die sooner or later, just to death, maybe it's easier. ā
Lao Chen responded, and then looked at Jing Chen,
"Sir, is there a way to save me?"
Jing Chen looked at Lao Chen and didn't speak again, just focused on watching.
A picture gradually emerged in front of Jing Chen's eyes.
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"Ho Ho ......"
It's a scene in the darkness of the night,
Lao Chen is far from the only one who falls in the picture, but Lao Chen is the first to fall.
Looking at the mountain peaks in the night next to it, the place in the picture should be at the foot of the North Mountain in Wang'an City.
First Lao Chen, without warning, suddenly covered his chest and fell to the ground.
And then probably the other people of the Abnormal Investigation Bureau next to Lao Chen,
Their eyes widened, and their heavily congested eyes seemed to bulge out of their eyes,
Lying on their stomachs, or lying on their stomachs, or lying on the ground, or clutching their abdomen, mouth, chest, or like a twisted shrimp on a hot iron plate, struggling desperately.
It's just that they can't even cry out in pain, and the mouth they cover is like a water pump that hasn't been turned off, surging blood out frantically,
The blood flowed through the gaps in the hands of the man who had fallen to the ground.
The skin under the clothes is also like a leaky sieve, frantically oozing blood.
On the scalp with long hair, the skin on the body, even the chest, neck, palms, and even the face,
The person who fell to the ground was quickly stained with blood, and even if he struggled desperately, he couldn't stop his blood from leaving.
Lao Chen is even more serious than the others.
Not only is blood oozing out of the body quickly, like a container for leaking blood,
The flesh and skin on his body also tore deep and wide cracks, turning the flesh and blood all over his body into separate pieces.
The whole person is like a jelly cut with a knife and stained with a thick layer of blood.
And those individual pieces of flesh and blood, also wriggling and twisting,
After struggling for a while, a piece of flesh began to slide off Lao Chen's body easily, mixed with the blood all over the ground.
And then there'...... The second block, the third block...... The bloodshot eyes were finally broken by the blood, as if they had broken a hole, and they were gurgling out.
Then, the two eyeballs also seemed to have a life of their own, jumping and pulling the nerves behind the eyeballs,
Finally tore off the nerve, jumped out of the eye socket, and landed in a pool of blood next to it,
The blood flowing from Lao Chen's body was also squirming vigorously, and in the pool of blood, in the flesh and blood, it seemed that something was going to come out.
"Ho Ho ......"
In the end, Lao Chen finally couldn't even make a vague sound in his mouth and lost his movement.
The flesh melted into the twisted pool of blood on the ground.
After Lao Chen, other people in the Abnormal Bureau also lost their lives one after another.
Throughout the picture of this night,
A touch of blood spread down from the top of the North Mountain at the same time,
Everywhere he went, the mountains and forests turned to flesh and blood, and the whole world turned to blood.
Eventually, the blood-colored world spread to the foot of the mountain, bordering on the blood of the investigators who flowed on the ground, and then encompassed the pools of blood and flesh that were jumping with joy.
It then spreads rapidly and often outward.
āā¦ā¦ If this is not possible, it is best for Investigator Tatsu and the other investigators not to stay at the foot of the North Mountain. ā
"Am I dying at the foot of the North Mountain?"
The picture in front of Jing Chen's eyes faded, and he said something out loud.
Lao Chen, who was standing, paused and asked again.
"Yes."
"I'll pay attention."
Lao Chen answered.
But Jing Chen looked at Lao Chen again.
ā¦ā¦
"Lao Chen! Lao Chen! ā
In this picture, only Lao Chen fell alone.
Several investigators next to him swarmed up, shouting to colleagues from the medical department, while looking at Lao Chen, who had fallen to the ground with red eyes.
Lao Chen was still wearing his old military uniform, and his body under the old military uniform was bleeding rapidly, staining the old military uniform on his body red.
He was stiff, held by the other investigators, his eyes still looking at his comrades, but his hands were on his chest, his face was twisted in pain, and he was speechless.
Only finally gave up covering his chest, raised his hand, and tried to push away the investigators around him.
"Ho Ho ......"
He wanted to say something, but from his open mouth, only blood gushed out.
The flesh and blood on his body began to melt like snow, turning into a pool of blood,
And the blood flowing on the ground seemed to come to life, gradually wriggling, and a monster came out.
"Ho ......"
Then, another investigator collapsed and began to repeat the process from the previous picture.
The pool of blood on the ground around him widened and stained the earth red.
And these flesh and blood gradually converged, converging into a huge mass of flesh and blood, and the rhizome was attached to the blood color all over the ground, and then, the mass of flesh and blood beat dullly.
ā¦ā¦
This old man is not only affected and died at the same time as the arrival of the 'Lord of Flesh' near the North Mountain,
It seems that there are other reasons, and Lao Chen is obviously not near Beishan in the picture this time.
Could it be that Lao Chen's death is inevitable?
Jing Chen frowned, looking carefully at the picture that had turned into blood again.
But at this time,
The picture has changed a bit.
The perspective is like passing through a narrow corridor and entering a closed room.
The surrounding picture is gray, and the final picture stays in this closed room, on a dead branch.
āWZ021ā
This is the number written on a name plate under this dead branch.
āā¦ā¦ Our research found that WZ021 appears to have a particular resistance to related contamination such as gluttony. ā
Then, a voice sounded at the edge of the frame, but no one was in sight.
Immediately after, the picture of the future that Jing Chen peeked at faded.
Looking at Lao Chen in front of him again, Jing Chen had some doubts in his eyes.
Needless to say, the previous picture naturally saw another death in Lao Chen's future.
But the image that followed was ...... Something to do with Lao Chen's vitality?
But whose future does he see?
Jing Chen's heart was a little heavy, and he was a little cautious, he looked at Lao Chen, who had not left in front of the stall, waiting for him to speak again,
"Also...... WZ021 may be useful for your current situation, but you need to experiment with it yourself. ā
"It's a dead branch."
"Hmm...... You may have been affected by something you didn't notice. ā
Jing Chen summed up the picture he had seen before, considered it, and said.
āā¦ā¦ā
"I see."
When Lao Chen heard Jing Chen's words, he couldn't help but pause.
This naming rule, which he was very familiar with, was the numbering rule of some special items collected by the Bureau of Anomaly.
WZ means unknown, followed by its number.
If memory serves, WZ021 is indeed a dead branch, and it is now sitting in the place where the special items are stored in the Bureau of Anomalousness.
Nodding his head, and after answering again, Lao Chen looked at Jing Chen again, and after a period of silence,
"Thank you, sir, for your advice. I'll take my leave. ā
Jing Chen didn't speak again, just watched Lao Chen leave.
And after Lao Chen walked away from Jing Chen, he didn't leave directly.
Instead, he returned to the old man's stall.
Old man Hong raised his head, asked the guests next to him to step aside for a while, and then looked at Lao Chen.
"Your god, can or is willing to help us deal with the problems of the Qingming Temple?"
"Everything is God's best arrangement."
Lao Chen asked again, and Old Man Hong just replied like this.
Lao Chen looked at Old Man Hong's face, and after a pause, he turned around and left.
Old man Hong turned around and greeted the fortune-telling guests with a red face, as if the previous episodes had been forgotten.
And Jing Chen looked at the picture of Lao Chen in the future for a short time.
He just wanted to see if the white silk thread on Lao Chen's head was still there.
Really......
I can't see it.
Maybe it's like a marionette is out of control, out of the range of the length of the silk thread, and breaks the silk thread.
Of course, it is also possible that the puppet is not so strong and is torn first.
Retracting his gaze, Jing Chen was looking at the river, looking along the river to the other side of the river.
Wang'an City is divided into two by Wang'an River, opposite the river, is the north of Wang'an City, and the end of the north of the city is the North Mountain on the outskirts of the city.
"Ding-dong."
At this time, Jing Chen's mobile phone rang.
Someone messaged him.
Some of them looked at the other side of the river and lowered their heads again.
"Internet migrant worker: Big guy, boss, the candle has been bought.
Internet Migrant Worker: I also bought four more, all of them are white ash, okay?
Revelation: Find a closed room, close the door, and light the candles and place them in the corners of the room.
Cyber Migrant Workers: ?
Revelation: [Red Envelope]
Internet Migrant Worker: Okay, big guy. ā
Jing Chen glanced at the message on his phone again, stood up and prepared to go back.
There's no way he's going to be here to deliver something to this new member of the Apocalypse Order.
Although I don't seem to know when his identity has become more special and inexplicably secretive, it is still a bit bold to perform the ritual here.
Turning his head and looking at it again, the old man Hong, who was still happily running a fortune-telling stall there,
Jing Chen didn't know how to deal with Old Man Hong's matter, obviously there was someone behind him who couldn't be provoked, so he could only see how the Abnormal Adjustment Bureau responded.
Retracting his gaze, Jing Chen picked up the gossip map and left here.
ā¦ā¦
āā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦ The master of knowledge and wisdom. ā
āā¦ā¦ā
"You are the symbol of wisdom and truth, you are the source of knowledge."
"It's everything, it's everything."
"You devout believers, here pray, pray for the mercy of your gaze......"
Internet migrant worker Yu Chengheng recited the prayer he got from the 'revelation',
Looking at the lights out, the curtains closed, and the candles lit up in the corners of some dim rooms,
I suddenly had a strange feeling in my heart.
Just for two hundred dollars, he performs this strange ritual?
If a police officer broke into his house now, would he think that he had fallen into an evil spirit? What kind of weird people?
After waiting for half an hour, he received a message of his new boss's 'revelation',
When he was asked to follow this process for this strange ritual, he disagreed.
But the boss is really close to hundreds of millions of people and understands hundreds of millions of people, so he agreed to send a ghost...... Well, maybe that's the boss's money ability.
Originally, he could have poured a glass of Coke and played the game, and later told the boss that it was done.
But who is Yu Chengheng, and does his professional ethics allow him to do this?
Now, repeating the prayer, not to mention how pious it is, it can be regarded as respect, respecting the red envelope he received.
It's just that there are a lot of distractions in my head.
For a while, I thought, what kind of new boss CPU employee approach is this?
Think for a while, what kind of new type of brainwashing is this?
It's not easy to get this money, he really bears the humiliation!
Just as he looked at the candle burning next to him again,
Suddenly, I felt that next to my vision, in the dim room, there was another light lit up,
Burned? Candles burned to the curtains?
He subconsciously turned his head, and saw a whirlpool of brilliant and mysterious brilliance, without warning, and he didn't know when it appeared on the wall of the room.
The whirlpool gradually expanded from below, gradually forming a door that seemed to lead to the abyss, also to heaven.
He froze in place, his mouth opening in proportion to the expansion of the whirlpool.
"Pop ......"
Something came out of the door and appeared in front of him.
He looked at the door that seemed to lead to the abyss, and at what was on the ground.
At this moment, Yu Chengheng only felt that his cognition seemed to have been hit hard, and he was shattered.
He was silent, his eyes revealing a little confusion.
Then, suddenly, he got up and picked up the mobile phone next to him that was in contact with his boss's 'revelation'.