Chapter 179: Tianming
Outside the city of Wang'an, a village under the jurisdiction of the county seat. It is close to the Longnan Mountains, twenty or thirty kilometers away from the county seat, and may be sixty or seventy kilometers away from the urban area of Wang'an.
Originally, it was still raining lightly, but it had stopped now. The old farmer, who had gone out in the rain and at night, went to the field to dig up the ridges, lest there be too much water in the field and flood the crops, but now he was wearing a raincoat that was still wet and rolling with rain, holding a hoe with one hand, looking up at the day when it was not raining again, and reaching out to wipe the rain on his face before.
"It's still strange on this day, and it says that it's going to rain as much as other places, so it stops......" He also heard about the disasters that were going on everywhere outside, so he was worried, and when he saw that it was raining, he came out in the rain with his hoe.
At this time, he looked at the sky again, and muttered, so the old farmer picked up his hoe and walked back to the village road along the ridge.
"Grandpa! Grandfather! ”
"Hey, my baby grandson, why did you run out, be careful, it just rained, the ground is slipping, don't fall...... Didn't you follow your grandmother at home, how did you run out. ”
"He saw that you never came back, and when he saw that the rain had stopped, he had to come out to pick you up." Along the wet village road, a short figure, under the light of the flashlight behind, ran over, the old farmer listened to the sound, hurriedly walked two steps, and ripped off the raincoat on his body, so as not to wet the child, so as not to get wet, and then hugged the child.
The old lady with a flashlight who followed the child also approached with a smile. The old farmer turned his head and listened to what his wife said, and then turned back again to coax the child.
"My precious grandson cares so much about grandpa, it's okay, grandpa just went to dig on the ridge." The old farmer smiled and stood up again, and the old lady reached out and took away the old farmer's raincoat, and the old farmer reached out to protect the child while carrying the hoe.
"Let's go, let's go home. I thought you should go to sleep, you haven't slept at this o'clock, and you have to go to bed early when you go back. ”
"Uh-huh......" the child responded obediently. The three of them walked home. It was late at night, and there were no more people living in the village, and there were no lights in sight, only his own house, which was lit up far ahead.
"Grandpa, whose house is this?" The child was sent to him only the day before yesterday, and originally followed his parents in other places, only returning occasionally.
These days, their place is not very peaceful, and I heard that the situation on his side is fine, so he simply sent it here.
However, the child's parents did not come to live with them for a few days, and were still in the field, just calling every day.
And the child, who has just arrived here, is a little curious about everything. The three of them passed by the village road, passing by some houses that had been abandoned for a long time, and the child asked with some curiosity.
"I think about it...... This should be the house of the second grandfather's house. "It's all from the same village, and it's inevitable that they will be related to each other, but this second grandfather is also a cousin, and it's already far away.
The old farmer tried his best to remember, answering the child's question.
"Oh, did they move away?"
"Your second grandfather, second grandmother is gone. As for my aunt and grandmother, I married in other places, and your two cousins have started families in other places. Rarely come back. The old farmer replied to the child's words, and glanced at the deserted house over there, the door was still locked, although the door frame was rotten and crumbling, and some plants, squeezed out of the original yard ground, were overgrown with weeds, high and low, and some plants with vines climbed up to the roof and wall of this house.
In the early years, when the family came back to worship their ancestors and sweep the tombs, they occasionally lived for a few days, but then the house was really deserted, and when they came back, they didn't live in this house, and the house was even more dilapidated.
"That's right......," the child listened attentively, then nodded earnestly. I don't know if I understand, it's just that the child's heart is soon attracted by the next abandoned house.
"What about this one? Didn't anyone live there either? ”
"Well, this family......" The old peasant and the old lady walked home with the children, talking all the way. ……
"Due to the unknown influence, the scope of the disaster is shrinking, or not expanding."
"Among them, there are floods, floods are the most obvious, and in some places where there are continuous rainstorms, to induce floods, we have not intervened before the rain has stopped." A coastal city.
Yin Hu and Lao Chen looked at the clear and moonlit night sky one after another, and did some brief exchanges. Since the beginning, the scope of various disasters has spread throughout the world, as if the disaster will completely envelop the whole world when the king of disasters comes.
Even a group of senior investigators, elite investigators, and the majority of investigators are constantly working hard and coping, but they are always a drop in the bucket.
Now, if not all the disasters have faded, the trend of further expansion has stopped. Windstorms, floods, floods, and other disasters that are also related to storms and oceans are particularly affected.
Even the scope of the impact is shrinking, and the degree of disaster is weakening. Combined with the impact and response of the Bureau of Anomalous Investigation on these disasters, it may be possible to gradually narrow the scope of the impact of all disasters and withstand the advent of the King of Disasters this time.
"This unknown impact, for now, is undoubtedly good for us."
"Did someone from the Apocalypse make a move?" Yin Hu and Lao Chen both had some guesses, and what they could think of now was this unknown power that was obviously helping them, and only the Divine Revelation Organization, or the mysterious Revelation, had this ability.
Yinhu said something, but Lao Chen did not answer. Just raised his head and looked at the horizon in the distance, although the moon here drilled out of the clouds, but there were still a lot of dark clouds gathered in the distance.
"To be precise, it's not that the catastrophe has faded, but that it seems to have avoided most of the human settlements, in the wilderness, in places where there are few people, it is still happening, and even expanding." This is the information that has been statistically analysed by the monitoring department.
Lao Chen said. Yinhu next to him nodded and didn't speak.
"Tell the Apocalypse about this unknown influence, unknown power."
"Hmm." ……
"Lao Chen: Mr. Apocalypse, this morning's dawn is always a bit difficult to come. Lao Chen: However, due to the influence of unknown forces, the scope of the disaster brought about by the arrival of the Lord of Disasters seems to have slowed down or even stagnated, and the disaster about the storm ocean is even declining. Lao Chen: This has given us some light at the dawn of the day, and I hereby inform your organization of the relevant news. Lao Chen: Also, I don't know if you have any clues about this unknown power from your organization and Mr. Revelation. Jing Chen was still sitting at the back of the stall, looking at the old man Hong over there from time to time, or the agent of fate, thinking about something.
I received a message from the Abnormal Investigation Bureau again, and I knew that Old Man Hong's last obsessive struggle had an impact on a larger scale.
"Revelation: A great one has chosen to sacrifice, and you can visit the banks of the Wang'an River, and you may be answered. Lao Chen: Okay, thank you for the reminder. On the other side, Lao Chen ended his communication with Mr. Revelation and put away the special mobile phone.
Raised his head again, with some thought in his eyes, and then looked at each other with Yinhu next to him. The communication with the revelation Yin Hu naturally saw it.
There is some speculation. On the banks of the Wang'an River, the great, is the mysterious and powerful man on the banks of the Wang'an River? It doesn't feel right.
There seems to be something else that they have overlooked. Among them, Yin Hu, as the most powerful investigator of the Heterogeneous Bureau, feels the most obvious, but after carefully examining his memories and thoughts, he can't find anything wrong.
And that strange feeling is gradually weakening until it disappears completely. But it's okay, even if it wasn't for the mysterious powerhouse, the mysterious powerhouse should know who the unknown influence came from.
Perhaps there is an opportunity and possibility to solve this huge crisis one after another. Lao Chen and Yinhu raised their heads one after another, looked at the sky, retracted their gaze, and then turned into a gust of wind and a glimmer of light, and rushed towards the next place.
With the influence of that unknown force, maybe this time I can really withstand the arrival of the King of Calamity. …… In the early morning, the sky began to brighten slightly, as if the night was penetrated by the daytime sky, gradually brightening, and the sky in the direction of the Wang'an River was already dyed with fiery red and brilliant colors, and the morning glow was also reflected on the sparkling river.
On the riverside, behind the stalls, Jing Chen sat here all night, and in the second half of the night, Wang'an City was calm all night, and he closed his eyes for a short time and fell asleep for a while, and then had a dream again.
In the dream, it was still the girl in the white dress standing in the pure white space. This dream, like a repetition of the last time, appeared on his body like a speckled nothingness, and the nothingness was still expanding and eroding all the girls, and it still rushed towards him.
But he didn't know what to think in this dream, before the girl pounced, he stretched out his hand and snatched the woolen toy from the girl's hand, and while the empty spot had not completely swallowed the woolen toy, he tore off a piece and threw it towards the unknown distance.
Then, it was still the girl who pounced on him in the 'nothingness' of the dream, and then in a calm, he woke up from the dream.
In front of the stall, on the road a little farther away, when the sanitation was already sweeping the fallen leaves on the street, Jing Chen opened his eyes again, listened to the sound of the breeze blowing the branches and leaves of the trees, and then heard the sound of the sanitation over there sweeping the leaves with a big broom.
Turning his eyes, he first looked at the stall on Old Man Hong's side, and then looked at the stall not far away. Not far in front of the stall, under a tree on the side of the road, Lao Chen and Yinhu rushed here together.
It took a night, under the influence of that unknown power, the efforts and sacrifices of a large number of investigators, and finally survived the moment of the arrival of the king of disasters, and survived until today's dawn, disasters are still frequent in various places, but at the same time, the scope of the impact has not continued to expand, and a large number of disasters are concentrated in no man's land.
It didn't make order completely collapse last night. However, even if only the impact of the Lord of Calamity is considered, this is only the beginning.
They only deal with disasters that arise frequently, and the influence of the Calamity King is still at work in this world.
At least, the meteorite in the sky that was enough to destroy the world was still approaching rapidly, and even the monitoring department revised the time of its arrival, or he would fall from the sky in seven days.
And such a meteorite catastrophe would be meaningless even if it appeared in a no-man's land like some of the current disasters...... The Calamity King didn't leave here because they were actively coping with disaster after disaster.
"Let's go over." Lao Chen lowered his gaze again, and then walked towards the stall by the river. ……
"Sir?"
"Sit down." handed a stool over, Lao Chen sat down according to Jing Chen's words, and Yin Hu stood next to him.
"What do you want to ask?" Listening to the words of this mysterious and powerful man, Lao Chen paused, and then said directly,
"Sir, in the early hours of this morning, the arrival of the King of Disasters has exhausted us, but it is still a drop in the bucket, and it is difficult to stop the arrival of disaster."
"But at this time, there is an unknown great force, and the scope of influence of disasters, especially storm-like disasters, has suddenly stagnated and expanded, giving us the possibility to continue to maintain order."
"I don't know, this is not a great power...... Are there some possibilities for us to respond to other crises? Lao Chen asked with awe.
Jing Chen raised his gaze and looked at Lao Chen and Yin Hu, and then pointed out the direction to the two,
"The person you're looking for is there, or rather, there before." Jing Chen pointed to the fate agent a little farther away.
Lao Chen turned his gaze in the direction and saw the Destiny Agent. For this fate agent, Lao Chen naturally knows.
In his mind, this fate agent has nothing to do with people at all. I don't know when I appeared on the bank of the Wang'an River, although I have the appearance of a human being, I should not have the consciousness of a human being, sitting there, I am more like the embodiment of the great power of 'fate'.
The unknown power was brought by this Destiny Agent, but why did he help them? Lao Chen's somewhat tired eyes showed some doubts, and then he turned his head and asked this mysterious and powerful man in awe,
"Sir, please give me some enlightenment, why fate ......" Lao Chen lowered his head, waiting for an answer.
"It's not fate, it's him." Jing Chen said another sentence and withdrew the hand he was pointing. He was just thinking about one thing.
Old man Hong was deprived of his existence, had no past, and no future. But in him, a person who probably stands outside of fate, Old Man Hong still exists.
It's not the fate agent now, but it's a bit of obsession.
"The agent of fate has always been a devout believer. He follows the guidance of fate and unravels the believers of fate. ”
"However, when the whole world was in danger, and the believers of fate were in pain, and the disaster of the torrential rain was about to erode down, he had a little doubt."
"There was a little more obsession in the doubt...... This obsession wants to struggle for the believers of fate. ”
So he did blasphemous. He borrowed the power of fate to concoct a fate that was not affected by disaster. ”
"Knowing how to make this fabricated fate affect a larger scale, he tried to steal some of the authority of fate."
However, even the agent of fate is still unable to withstand the power of fate. He paid a price. ”
"He was deprived of his existence, deprived of the trajectory of his fate, his fate never crossed paths with his relatives, acquaintances, he never existed again."
"Parents don't have him as a child, and children don't have him as a father." Jing Chen re-told the traces of Old Man Hong's existence to Lao Chen and Yin Hu, Yin Hu, the strange feeling that Lao Chen had faded before resurfaced in Jing Chen's words, but even if they listened to it and knew that this Destiny Agent was deprived of his existence, they still had no memory of Old Man Hong, only that Destiny Agent.
Lao Chen's heart sank a little, and he lowered his head and listened to the sacrifice of this great man in silence.
"His little obsession, and his sense of self, are also worn out and stripped away."
"Now, only the Destiny Agent is left. Before that, his surname was Hong, and his name was Hongshan. Jing Chen paused.
watched Lao Chen chew on the name again, and then thanked him,
"Thank you, sir, I made a note of it. We will bury Mr. Hong Shan in the Anomaly. "There will be an empty tombstone on the hill of the Anomaly.
"As for this, by the power of fate, it is possible to continue to resist other crises...... This agent of fate has done everything he can. ”
He borrowed the power of fate to withstand the effects of some disasters, but he was not able to banish the Lord of Calamity. Nor could it stop her arrival. ”
"Disasters are still in the world, and they continue to have an impact. Now, just the beginning. ”