Chapter 142: Pioneers
"Death is the end of destiny......"
Jing Chen also heard the conversation at Old Man Hong's booth here.
The words of the Destiny Agent and the Destiny Believer seem to be some kind of omen in this situation.
Death is the end of fate, and the end of fate is also death?
Jing Chen paused, and his eyes fell on the stall next door.
After the old lady who was terminally ill and had little time left in despair,
The line seemed to be still the same, with one or two more desperate people like the old lady in the back.
I didn't say anything like that again, but they all begged fate for some guidance.
But Old Man Hong's answer is basically the same, it seems that the death of these people is the final result of fate.
"Everything was arranged for the best."
looked at the old man Hong's stall and paused again,
Jing Chen turned his gaze back,
At this moment, there was already a figure walking straight towards the stall on Jing Chen's side.
"Sir."
The reptile paused, glancing at the still long line in front of the Destiny Walker booth next to it,
Then he walked to the Jingchen booth and bowed his head with awe and respect.
"Sit down, Investigator."
Jing Chen handed over a low wooden stool next to him,
The wooden bench was drenched in some rain a few days ago, and in the past two days, it has received some fine snowflakes.
Although the surface is dry at this time, it seems that the moisture has soaked inside, and it looks a little damp.
"Thank you, sir."
The reptile took the stool and sat down as Jing Chen said.
Jing Chen had already guessed that it would not be long before someone from the Abnormal Investigation Bureau would come to him.
In the current situation where people are dying everywhere and the rate of natural death is still increasing,
Naturally, the Bureau of Anomalies will seize even the slightest possibility.
Jing Chen naturally has a lot of hopes here.
It can be regarded as a tacit understanding between him and the Abnormal Adjustment Bureau.
"What do you want to ask?"
Looking at the reptile with awe and respect, Jing Chen asked directly.
"We want to know what's going on, what kind of presence is influencing all this. Is it possible for us to cope? β
The reptile was a little respectful, and even looked a little humble and bowed his head and asked,
And then added one more sentence,
"We found that there seems to be a hidden force influencing many people to a 'normal death'. We looked into the causes of death for some of the people, and there was nothing wrong with the cause of death for each of them. β
"But the sum up of each person's deaths has tripled the natural mortality rate in each region than before. And there is a tendency to continue to grow faster. β
"If we can't find the hidden existence behind this, and we can't find a way to prevent this from happening, maybe our world and civilization will gradually die out in this kind of 'normal death', or the people who 'normal death' will exceed a certain critical point, and when everyone realizes that something is wrong, our world will collapse and everything will end quickly."
"I hope you, great sir, will give us some guidance...... Give us some hope to get through this crisis. β
The situation was naturally clear, but I still listened to the reptile narrate.
When Jing Chen heard this, he was silent,
He felt that this time it was quite troublesome, even more troublesome than the previous lies and deceptions.
Inexplicably, Jing Chen was a little irritable.
"I can only tell you about some of the possibilities."
After a pause, Jing Chen said something out loud.
The reptile nodded, then lowered its head a little lower, and then provided as much information as possible.
ββ¦β¦ In addition, today, we have also found that there are some regular special events in many places, which will lead to the death of the person who triggered the rule...... I don't know if this has something to do with this incident. β
This information Jing Chen had previously learned from the information shared by the Bureau of Anomalies in the capacity of the Revelation.
Nodding, Jing Chen didn't speak again.
The reptile also lowered its head and remained silent, just waiting for some guidance or revelation from the Great Being this time.
Jing Chen looked at the reptiles, and also looked at the nearby and distant city buildings in front of him, gradually concentrating and peeking into the future.
β¦β¦
"Someone's coming...... Help, someone fainted! β
"You know what, if you fall, you're hopeless, you don't have to worry about him."
In the picture of the future, there are no reptiles.
Instead, I saw a futuristic vision of the riverside streets.
This is a post-apocalyptic picture, more terrifying than most of the apocalyptic scenes that Jing Chen had glimpsed before.
There's nothing bloody, there's nothing monsters,
Everything went on in a kind of silence.
But everything that can be seen is decaying, withering, and dying.
The buildings on the side of the street seem to have been eroded over a long period of time.
There are cracks that tear the buildings apart, tilted,
Some vines climbed up the cracks in the building, but the vines had also withered and become brittle, as if the wind would shake off a burst of yellowed debris.
Most of the building's faΓ§ade is weathered, the glass is twisted and deformed, and the street is still littered with all sorts of things, and no one has cleaned it up.
Most of the things in the buildings that I saw through the gaps, the windows, were also decaying.
The broken table, which looked hollow from the fractured surface, shook down from time to time with rotten dust.
The stool was either missing a leg or had crumbled into pieces.
The entire street seems to have been abandoned for a long time, with occasional winds and slowly and silently crumbling down with dust.
And the originally wide streets,
Now it has become pitted, and at the same time like the skin of an old man, and like the skin of a snake,
Shrinking and squeezing together, full of wrinkles, and exposing a lot of dry yellow clumps of earth underneath.
On this side of the street, the trees are all yellow, the trunks seem to be empty, and there is no life on the branches and leaves.
There are also some withered trees, which have long been broken by the wind and connected to the trunks, and have fallen to the ground indiscriminately.
On the streets, there are sparse figures, and some cars that were originally parked on the side of the street are either crumpled and squeezed by the ground, or they have also decayed, and they are thrown there at will.
Occasionally, people passing by have a hysterical numbness on their faces and eyes.
Many people passing by seem to have no destination, just wandering aimlessly on the road.
Occasionally, some people fell to the ground and stopped moving, and some passers-by just looked at them and continued to move on, most of them unresponsive.
There are even people who lie on the road by themselves, with their eyes open, numbly waiting for death.
Just when this picture of the future appeared in front of Jing Chen's eyes,
The only woman in the picture who still has some life in her eyes is helping a man to pass by the side of the street here.
The man was wearing a hospital gown and an overcoat over the outside, moving slowly, also panting.
The woman looked at the wandering ghosts around her, with nervousness and some fear in her eyes.
She looked around again, then turned back to her husband and squeezed out some smiles,
But her husband, like those walking corpses, died mentally before his life came to a real end.
Just followed her support, numbly and slowly moved forward.
"We'll be home in a minute...... When we get home, we die together, in our home......"
The woman whispered to her husband.
When her husband heard this, he finally had some reaction, he turned his head, looked at the woman in a daze, paused, and then nodded.
She helped him on.
But in the end, he still couldn't make it through this short road.
The man's leg was simply hung on the folded and potholed road, and he stumbled and fell to the ground.
Then, like everyone else who fell to the ground, there was no movement.
The woman was stunned, she looked at her husband who didn't grab her husband's hand, and then at her husband who had fallen to the ground and was lifeless.
Her first instinct was to crouch down, trying to pull her husband back up,
It's just that she couldn't pull it anymore, but she just pulled her husband to the side a little.
Then, she had a complete breakdown at once.
Her heart-rending cry finally elicited a reaction from some figures on the road, and they all stopped to look at her.
But most of them just looked at each other and moved on.
It's just that the person closest to her said something numbly, and left.
She cried even more heartbreakingly, but when she opened her mouth wide, she was silent.
Her eyes were filled with grief, and finally they turned into despair and numbness.
She also slowly lay on the ground, next to her husband, looking at the sky with her eyes open, waiting for death to come.
Jing Chen looked at the picture of the future that he glimpsed.
In the future picture, this street, this city, the whole world is gradually dying.
Jing Chen raised his gaze,
He looked into the sky with this picture of the future,
In Jing Chen's sight, above the high sky of the future picture,
It seems to be far away, and it seems to be a place that is late, and countless huge figures are entrenched,
Each figure has its own different appearance, and the lake is not clear, but Jing Chen seems to see some familiar existence.
The 'lies and deceptions' that resemble the 'fog', the king of calamity......
It is a conceptual being, called a divine being...... They all seem to be drawn to the death of the whole world.
Immediately after, the whole peep into the future picture is returning to darkness,
Or nothingness.
It's impossible to tell whether it's the darkest darkness or the brightest light,
Like a shadow, it quickly covered the whole world, and even the existence of the god who seemed to come to this world.
In that shadow, everything is reduced to nothingness.
Jing Chen peeked at this future scene, as if he was also in it, as if he was pulled into the peeping future.
Feeling the emptiness around him, Jing Chen subconsciously looked down,
But as if he had lost the concept of 'seeing', he also dissolved into nothingness.
It's like waking up in a dream, suddenly realizing it's a dream, and then everything is gone.
Inexplicably, Jing Chen seemed to have some enlightenment in his heart...... This is the end of the world.
Although he also seemed to have become nothing, as if everything was gone, in this nothingness he did not feel fear.
It seems that fear has also turned into nothingness?
Jing Chen subconsciously moved,
Then he seemed to feel the existence of his body, peeking from here into the future picture, and quickly withdrawing from this nothingness,
Everything is just a peek into the future.
Looking at the future where all this has turned into nothingness and non-existence,
The picture of the future in front of Jing Chen's eyes changed again.
β¦β¦
"The rate of 'normal deaths' is increasing. But we still can't touch the existence of the hidden power behind it. β
"I'll try again. Let's see if we can get some information from her. β
This picture of the future seems to be earlier than the previous glimpse into the future.
It seems that the Bureau of Heterogeneity had done some struggle and effort before that.
in the future picture.
It's a familiar heterogeneous bureau.
In that old place, a little far outside the flower garden, the reptile and Lao Chen were having a conversation.
Lao Chen listened to the words of the reptile, looked at the reptile and was a little silent,
"In total, thirty-two investigators have died in this matter. Mao Rabbit, the afternoon horse investigator also died in this matter. β
Lao Chen said this and paused,
"I have to think that dying here is also a kind of 'normal death'."
"We don't have anything else to do. The number of people dying from natural causes is almost at a tipping point...... If you can't find a way, you can let me die here. I don't want to see the finale. β
The reptile replied calmly to Lao Chen's words, and paused again,
"You're going to let me back off...... If I fail again, forget it. Laochen, you can stay and see the end of our world. β
Lao Chen didn't speak again.
Then the reptile walked into the flowerbed where the all-knowing one existed.
In the picture of the future,
For the first time, the flower garden she had been looking at had changed a lot.
The strange flowers in the flower garden withered for the first time.
Many of the plants have lost their lives, the yellowed leaves and stems are shriveled and drooping low, and some of the eyeballs that were originally attached to them are also closed and have lost their movement.
The rest, the flowers and plants that were barely surviving, also seemed to have lost their vitality and were a little drooping.
She still stood by the flowerbed, staring at the flowers in the flowerbed that were either withered or still remaining.
There was no reaction to the creeping insects approaching from outside the flower beds.
The reptile walked by the edge of the flower bed, approaching her.
The pace is getting slower and slower, and the head is getting lower and lower.
Finally, not far from her side, there was no way to get any closer, and the reptile stopped.
Just followed by it, the flesh on his face seemed to explode, and flexible eyes drilled out of it, moving around his face,
The flesh on the legs and feet is also festering, chapping, and falling off piece by piece.
The reptile just reached out and tore the two eyeballs off her face, threw them on the ground, and asked her a question.
"Who caused all this...... Is there a possibility to deal with it......"
Immediately after, the knowledge of the answer was poured into the reptilian's mind, and at the same time, Jing Chen also felt it.
"Death is the forerunner of the end. The end is coming. β
"All great and humble beings will meet the coming of the end."
That's probably the answer she gave,
And it seems to have instilled countless great beings into the reptiles.
So, in the picture of the future,
The reptile was defenseless, and the naked eye collapsed, like a fast-burning candle, quickly melting.
"Is there a possibility of coping ......?"
He finally shouted out the problem.
However, until everything calmed down, no response was received.
I don't know if it's Kang, she doesn't want to answer this question of the reptile this time,
Or did she not answer this question?
In the picture of the future,
Lao Chen outside the flower garden looked at the reptile after the final collapse and sacrifice,
He stood still and was silent for a while, then turned and left.
The picture of the future that Jing Chen peeked at faded one after another, and no new picture of the future emerged.
He is a picture of the future that he peeks into with questions, and it seems that there is nothing else relevant in the future.
β¦β¦
His eyes fell back on the quiet street in front of him.
Turning his head again, Jing Chen's gaze fell on the reptile.
The reptile lowered its head, still in awe and respect, waiting for him to give another answer.
"Death is the precursor of the end, and the end will be ......"
After Jing Chen paused, he repeated this sentence, which was probably the most important, to the reptile.
The reptile paused, and this sentence seemed to imply a lot of information.
In the mold lake, some great figures appeared in his mind,
He was in some pain, but it was over after the words of the Great Being fell.
"The End ......"
"Sir, is it possible for us to deal with death?"
"Final...... What is it? β
The reptile looked up again and asked.
Jing Chen looked at the reptile and shook his head,
"I didn't answer that question either. It also does not exist in the future. β
"But perhaps, the pioneer of the end, she may not appear in the end...... All that can be seen is constant death. β
Listening to Jing Chen's words,
The reptile fell silent.