Chapter Forty-Eight: The Unexpected Joy of Returning to Reality

14:36 min...... The date is also correct...... Time doesn't seem to move much......"

Although Chen Jing couldn't remember what the specific time was before he crossed over, he had a general impression that the time had not changed much.

Thinking of this, Chen Jing breathed a sigh of relief.

If the real world had also passed ten days, he really didn't know how to explain it to the company......

Putting the phone in his pocket, Chen Jing bent down and picked up the camera from the ground.

Hesitate for a moment.

He decided to watch the footage left by the old man again.

The last time he watched the video, before he had time to think about it, he was dragged into the inner world.

So this time he wanted to try again.

Let's see if those strange pale hands will appear again.

"By the time you saw this video, I should have disappeared."

The old man in the battle-damaged picture looked very blurry, and his voice seemed to be disturbed in some way, but Chen Jing could still understand the general content.

"I know you have a lot of questions, but I don't have much time to explain to you, listen carefully to every word I say......"

Chen Jing stared at the old man in a knitted sweater in the video, and looked at his cold and stiff expression, which only felt a little familiar and unfamiliar.

Sure enough, it's different.

This real grandfather is as cold and hard as a piece of iron.

However, Chen Jing also knew that his character was not like this before, and all the changes began decades ago, all from the stone tablet from Antarctica that recorded the prophecy of the end of the world.

"Human civilization has come to an end...... The end is coming......"

……

"Before returning home...... Right! It's 72 years! That year, I was hired by the 'Wood Private Consortium' with my colleagues to go on an expedition to Antarctica, and that's what I found on the ancient monument I found in Antarctica! ”

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"No one but me knew about the existence of that stele, so I secretly brought it back, and it seemed to have a magical power that kept bewitching me and making me keep deciphering its contents......"

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"I've finished deciphering that stele! So I woke up! I'm not crazy anymore! I know I'm sorry for you and your grandma all these years! ”

"Listen carefully to what is next! I can say as much as I can! ”

"Every civilization develops to a certain stage, it will be pulled into a biological leap exam, and if it fails the exam, it will erase the traces of the existence of the civilization, and the previous civilization will perish in this way, so ......"

As was the case the last time I watched the video, the picture began to tremble violently when the old man said this, and from time to time there was a harsh and muffled noise of electricity that drowned out the old man's voice.

"The machine doesn't bounce [*signal noise]—hot[*signal noise]—I know it's [*signal noise] intervening—[*signal noise] is eyeing me—"

"The tin box is for [*Signal Noise]—the thing is taken away—the box is buried back [*Signal Noise]—or [*Signal Noise] will find you—"

"We've made a deal - I've finally helped you get [*Signal Noise] - to buy you some time to deal with the last [*Signal Noise]-"

……

The video ends in a long, uninterrupted murmur of electricity, and there is no appearance of the pale and withered hands of the last time.

Chen Jing was silent for a moment and pressed the camera's shutdown button.

Then he shifted his gaze to the iron box next to the grave.

It was dug up from the old man's grave.

Camera.

A note prompting to watch the video.

And the key.

It was all sealed in a box made of iron.

There was also a small note left by the old man on the box.

Chen Jing squatted on the grave and carefully cleaned it up, put all the notes, keys, and cameras in his backpack, and then buried the iron box back according to the old man's instructions, and then cleaned up the grave bag, at least it looked like he had not been moved.

In the process.

Chen Jing found that it was not only Bai Aji who traveled back to the real world with him.

There are also two ancient relics in his possession.

The Holy Grail of the Yellow King.

Baiaji's whistle.

Chen Jing clearly remembered that these two relics were carried by him in the inner world, but now they appeared in his backpack in the real world.

This backpack didn't travel with me to the inner world......

What's going on??

Chen Jing was a little stunned for a while.

But he soon realized something.

Isn't this a hanging!?

With Bai Aji and these two "relics", he has a means of self-protection in the real world.

Compared to the madness of the inner world, although the real world is much safer, the words of the old man in the video ...... It doesn't sound like it's very safe.

For example, the old man repeatedly insisted that Chen Jing should bury the iron box back in the grave.

If he doesn't...... It seems that it will be found by some "people".

So who is the "person" who is eyeing the old man?

Is the disappearance of the old man related to those "people" who are eyeing him?

Chen Jing thought in confusion, then stretched out the backpack he brought from the rental house and jumped onto Bai Aji's back.

"This key seems to belong to the study."

At this moment, Chen Jing sat cross-legged on Bai Aji's broad back, playing with the key in his hand.

Thinking of this grandfather in the real world who has been in the study for decades, Chen Jing couldn't help but be a little curious......

What's in the study of the old mansion?

Although he is Chen Bofu's own grandson, since he was a child, he really didn't have the opportunity to step into even one step.

"Whew-"

Baiaji was very curious about this new world, and he whimpered and learned to hum the kitten along the way, and from time to time he would be attracted by the sparrow that happened to cross the sky, and he couldn't help but look up and stare for a while.

"Don't look at it, hurry up and ......"

Before Chen Jing could fully say his words, Bai Aji took the first step to follow Chen Jing's thoughts and turned out of the mountain road on the left side of the mass grave.

This bizarre performance surprised Chen Jing a little......

Could it be that Baiaji could read the mind of my master?

"Stop." Chen Jing said silently in his heart.

The next second.

Baiaji really stopped, and at the same time turned his head and looked at him with a puzzled look, as if asking why he stopped suddenly?

"You can really hear the voice in my heart......"

Chen Jing patted Bai Aji's head in surprise, becoming more and more satisfied with this half-pet, half-mount otherworldly creature.

But when you think about it, this is the real world, not the world where the old people are rampant......

It's okay for this big guy to hide in the mountains, and it's definitely hopeless to bring it into the city.

Otherwise, once it is discovered, trouble will definitely come to the door.

When the time comes, I will ask where this guy came from?

Chen Jing can't explain to them that this thing is from time in time, right?

And it doesn't look serious at first glance, and its way of posing as a wild animal is considered to be ruined by itself.

So at the moment it seems that there is only one way to go.

Hide.

Fortunately, the people in the old house have long since moved out, and no one usually comes to the empty village, so it is perfect to hide here.

"I'm going to settle you down first...... Then go back to the provincial capital to pick up your luggage...... But what about work...... I shouldn't approve it for a long vacation......"

"Huh?"

Bai Aji seemed to feel the entanglement in Chen Jing's heart, and rubbed his face affectionately and flatteringly.

"You're fine anywhere." Chen Jing sighed, "It would be better if it could be made smaller and hidden......"

Hearing this, Bai Aji nodded.

Before Chen Jing could figure out what it meant, Bai Aji's body suddenly trembled and turned into black water at a speed visible to the naked eye......

The speed of this violent deformation was extremely fast, and before Chen Jing could jump off Bai Aji's body, he fell into the black water on the ground almost instantly.

But the strange thing is......

This seemingly sticky black water, like asphalt, wriggles and wriggles, but it is not sticky.

When Chen Jing got up from the ground, he didn't even have these things on his clothes.

"Aggie?" Chen Jing shouted tentatively.

Perhaps because he received the call of his master, the black water on the ground contracted almost instantly, and rushed towards Chen Jing with lightning speed.

Chen Jing subconsciously wanted to dodge, but the speed of the black water was faster, and he climbed up along his trouser legs......

It's only a second or two.

All this black water got into the backpack behind Chen Jing's back.

Chen Jing instinctively put down his backpack and unzipped it, wanting to see where all this black water had gone, but when he opened the backpack, he found out...... The black water that had been transformed by Baiaji was gone.

The ancient relic that was used to summon Bai Aji, the flute-like "musical instrument", had now changed from a lifeless gray to a strange black color, and even reflected a dazzling metallic luster in the sunlight.

"What's going on...... this?"

Chen Jing took out the whistle and looked at it carefully, only to hear the extremely faint sound inside the whistle, and he could clearly distinguish it when he heard it close to his ear...... It was the voice of Baiaji greeting it.

Yes.

Bai Aji got into the whistle, waiting for Chen Jing's summons at any time.

"Hey, that's a lot easier!"

Chen Jing couldn't help laughing, and then put the whistle back in his bag and zipped it up, and the whole person suddenly felt much more relaxed.

"Since you can hide in the whistle...... Then I can take you into town...... Otherwise, it's a bit of a problem......"

As he spoke, Chen Jing subconsciously glanced back in the direction of the tomb.

It's just this cold look.

Chen Jing was completely stunned.

Because Chen Bofu's grave ......

Gone.