From the end of the world

Chapter 191 People from the future
In the silent atmosphere, I observed the dynamics at the Humanitarian Department's secret base.

The young girl Lu Chan was still busy. She sneaked into the cells in various places inside the stronghold one after another and persuaded the demon hunters to participate in the next riot plan.

The persuasion process was quite smooth. She simply awakened the demon hunters' death cognition that had been washed away by the power of restart, and told them the content of the plan. She also did not hide the purpose of the plan, saying directly that it was to make Chen Long exert his great power as much as possible, so that "their own trump card combat power" could also find a way to exert its full strength.

As long as they participated in the plan, it would be possible to destroy this living hell - after realizing this, they agreed without hesitation.

During this time, I will also prepare for the battle between myself and Chen Long.

First of all, I must be prepared. Even if I get a method from Chen Long to fight at the secret base of the Humanitarian Department, I may not be able to use it. For example, what if his method is to "use the 'comprehensive strengthening' ability to strengthen the strength of the space you are in"? I don't have the "comprehensive strengthening" ability; or even if his method is something I can use, it may not be completely suitable for me. I can only exert 50% to 60% of my strength at most, etc.

In those less than ideal situations, I cannot use overwhelming force to violently penetrate his "portal armor", and must find a way to defeat him even if my power cannot surpass his.

No, those are just excuses - I just want to conquer his "Portal Armor" on equal terms.

Rather than the result of "cracking the enemy's capabilities", I care more about the process and means of achieving the result.

In addition, this idea may also be partly due to his past comments that I "have great power but don't know how to use it." Therefore, when I found a way to break his defense with overwhelming force, although his reaction of being like a frightened bird made me feel a little relieved, the result seemed to confirm his evaluation.

Actually, what he said was true, and being picky about the means in a life-and-death battle was beyond the limits of propriety. So if it is really impossible, I will not force it. I just think "it would be nice if it could be done".

I asked Zhu Shi and Ma Zao for some strategies, but neither of them could think of a suitable one for a while.

Lu Youxun, who was listening in, gave his opinion as a person with experience.

"When you encounter an outrageous supernatural mechanism, you should not think about finding loopholes in the opponent's rules, just use the method that suits you best." He said, "If it really doesn't work, you can try to destroy that independent reality space first, drive Chen Long into the real world, and then burn through his defenses with overwhelming force."

This opinion was also agreed by the other two. However, the more they thought that I could not defeat Chen Long under equal conditions, the more I wanted to challenge him. This childish rebellious mentality might also be part of my character.

While thinking, I switched my focus of consciousness to the secret base supervisor's office of the Humanitarian Department. This experience was like being in one place while vividly imagining another place in my mind, and then opening and closing my eyes, the environment I was in became the latter, and the former turned into the imagined picture.

I walked towards the bookshelf not far away, pulled out another folder, and looked through various experimental materials.

Although I don't understand most of the content, these materials and data are undoubtedly very important. My "firefly" has the ability to store memory and can record images like a video. I can "copy" these precious information to the outside world in this way. I don't care about this kind of content, I just steal it.

And there are a few contents that I can understand, like diary essays, mixed with some contents left by Dr. Silver Mask. I am more and more convinced of one thing, that is, Dr. Silver Mask is investigating Ying Lingyun's secret - he is not loyal to his original body.

This also fits my impression of him. It's not that he looks like a traitor, but compared to the evil and unscrupulous Ying Lingyun, his moral level seems to be relatively higher.

And as I read more deeply into the contents of the diary essay, I further felt the difference between him and Ying Lingyun.

One of the passages finally mentioned Chang'an, and it read:
"...The original body's wish is to revive his beloved, and he joined the Humanitarian Department for this purpose. The large number of cyborgs that have emerged in society seems to be related to this wish...

“He also planned to kill his own son, but even if he used him as a living sacrifice for the resurrection ceremony, he would never be able to really resurrect Silver Moon.

"Has he become so mentally disturbed that he can't even understand something like this? Or is it that Yin Yue is not dead yet, and she left some means of resurrection in her biological son, or even transferred her soul into him?

"Impossible, Yin Yue's soul had already been completely destroyed in the battle with her original body in the past, this is a fait accompli.

"Yin Yue also did not leave any backup plan for resurrection. This is something that Luo Shan has already confirmed countless times."

This is obviously the diary of Dr. Silver Mask. He probably didn't expect that the encrypted data he hid in his computer would be seen by me in this way.

However, it seems that my previous suspicion was wrong, Chang'an does not have Yin Yue's back-up plan for resurrection.

So why did Ying Lingyun let Chen Long kidnap Chang'an?
I continued to research the material and found the diary entries left by Dr. Silver Mask somewhere else.

"——I can't understand the connection between the main body's behavior of creating a large number of modified humans in the outside world and his desire to revive Silver Moon, nor can I understand why he would go to such lengths for his own selfish desires.

“I can’t understand his love for Silver Moon.

"Is it because I am the him who became a scientist and the him who did not meet Yin Yue? No, I at least understand what love is. However, his love is too crazy and twisted.

"If I met Yin Yue, would I become like him?"

There was also a photo included in the document, a photo of a young girl.

The background of the photo is a road at night, with a girl in a white dress walking in front with her hands behind her back, looking back at the camera. She has long silver hair, golden eyes, and a beautiful face that is like a dream.

Is the girl in this photo the great demon Yin Yue who has bewitched Ying Lingyun to the point of bewilderment?
For a moment, I couldn't tell whether the photo was real or not. The girl in the picture looked too beautiful to be human, and there was something indescribably scary about her.

The concept of "beautiful to the point of being scary" may not be easy to understand just by saying it. For example, some AI-generated pictures of beautiful women circulating on the Internet do look very beautiful, and many people may be able to recognize that they are AI-drawn at a glance, but they may not be able to tell at a glance what part of them looks like AI. If the beauties in such pictures were to meet people in real life, they might also make the contact with them feel that "although they look human, they are not human at all", which would then lead to the uncanny valley effect. And this is how I feel at this moment.

This is "the beauty that humans in reality should not have".

I silently memorized the face and then looked for other information.

Being able to confirm the appearance of the great demon Silver Moon was an unexpected gain, but the main purpose of my research was not to explore the mental journey of Dr. Silver Mask, nor even to memorize those difficult and complex experimental data. The most important thing for me was to find clues related to the monsters - or the end of the world.

Actually, I don't have such high expectations now. This is obviously Dr. Silver Mask's own database, and Ying Lingyun neither put his important information here nor shared his secrets with Dr. Silver Mask. If you want to find clues related to the doomsday, I'm afraid you still have to get closer to where Ying Lingyun is.

However, perhaps it was Ma Zao's unlucky physique that came into play here, or perhaps there really was some kind of law in this world - the more people want to have expectations for something, the harder it is to get it, and conversely, it is easier to be lucky when there are no expectations at all.

I actually found clues related to the end of the world.

Still in the diary of Doctor Silver Mask, he wrote in one place:
"I am different from my original self and other 'possible clones'. It may be because I come from a possible route that is too different from theirs, so the connection between me and other individuals is not very good. There should not even be a difference between the original self and the clones between us. The real original self should be the consciousness network that connects all of us.

"Therefore, I have a very clear self that other 'possible clones' do not have. However, the original body does not completely trust me and does not share all the secrets with me through the consciousness network.

"The reason why he combined me with the fragment of the divine seal was probably to observe the compatibility between himself and the fragment of the divine seal in depth. Even if there was an experimental accident, perhaps he could use the fact that my connection with the consciousness network is not complete to avoid being affected.

"It is precisely because of this 'defect' that I can do some small things in secret without telling the main body. For example, I can reversely hack into the consciousness network like a hacker and investigate the main body's memory.

"I want to know where his cyborg technology came from, and where his heart seeds came from.

“This can be said to be the foundation of the Humanitarian Department today, and it is also the original capital for ordinary people to resist Luoshan’s rule in the future. It cannot be lost.

"I know very well that the people behind the Humanitarian Department are only interested in consolidating their own power. They are not the best choice for ordinary people... But even so, the current research of the Humanitarian Department contains hope for the future. Even if this hope is forged with the blood and tears of countless innocent people.

“…My invasion was only half successful in the end.

"Fortunately, I didn't let the main body find out what I did, and I also got some important information.

"First of all, the Heart Seed, which is the core material of the cyborg technology, was indeed provided by a certain Great Impermanence. We don't know who it was, but based on the existing clues, it is very likely that the provider was a Great Impermanence outside of Luoshan.

“Secondly, although it is extremely unbelievable… it seems that the main body has a way to communicate with people from the future.

"I have repeatedly confirmed the information I obtained from the intrusion. It is true that he did communicate with the man from the future, and it was a face-to-face communication. In his memory, the man from the future actually appeared in front of him and handed something to him.

"That is the prototype of human cyborg technology - to call it a prototype is probably an exaggeration, it is at most just some random information and data.

"But no matter what, it is also information about the future world, and it seems to be related to some strange things that do not exist in this era. At that time, the main body already had extremely outstanding research and development capabilities. Not long after, he used these future information and data, as well as the heart seeds provided by the unknown Great Impermanence, to complete the technology of cyborgs.

"I hope to know more about this person from the future... but unfortunately, the content of communication with the person from the future is a 'secret within a secret' in the original body's mind. I have exhausted all my strength just knowing that he exists, and I am unable to know his true identity.

"The only one who knows is this person from the future who appeared before the original body. He calls himself the 'Blessed Monk'."

This is the end of the diary essay.

——Blessed monk?
Originally, I still had doubts about the "man of the future" mentioned in this passage, but when I saw the title "Blessed Monk", my doubts were completely dispelled.

Blessed Monk - that's what Ma Zao called himself.

Is this "man of the future" the same kind as Ma Zao?
Moreover, this person appeared directly in front of Ying Lingyun and handed over information that did not belong to this era...

I once suspected whether Ying Lingyun had some means of communicating with the future, but now it seems that my suspicion was reversed. It was not that Ying Lingyun contacted the future, but that someone in the future contacted the present.

Did this "man from the future" also come to this era by accident like Mazao? Or does he have a way to travel back and forth between the present and the future in a stable manner?

Where is he now? Why did he let Ying Lingyun develop the weird technology?
Since this is the reason why the Humanitarian Department and Ying Lingyun mastered the monster technology, can they be excluded from the "list of suspects who caused the doomsday"?

No, maybe it's too early to draw a conclusion now. In any case, they are somehow related to the end of the world. We must investigate further...

Suddenly, I sensed that in the real world, a wave of great-achievement-level magic power was rapidly approaching the Luoshan Office.

——The magic gun appeared.

(End of this chapter)