From the end of the world

Chapter 488: One after another 1
I carefully observed the rotting corpse of the homeowner and touched my head at the same time.

In addition to the damage to the brain tissue, the strange attack just now also caused damage to my soul. Although the lethality is negligible on me, it is enough to kill most of the master-level demon hunters in seconds. Moreover, the damage to the biological brain is a fatal injury to most demon hunters. Even some of the master-level demon hunters can hardly ignore it.

Even though my perception is greatly limited now, I still managed to be caught off guard. It's really unbelievable.

I retrieved the memory information stored in the flames and looked back at the entire process of the attack. Just like the chaotic perception of space, my perception of time, fate, cause and effect, concepts, etc. has also become unsatisfactory. These parts have all become chaotic.

The chaos to me seemed to be like a fish in water for the weirdness just now. It is possible that the weirdness was born from the chaos. It was because of the incomprehensible flow of space and cause and effect that the opponent's power hit me so trickily.

Fortunately, after careful analysis, I can observe that the chaos in the abstract realm is not complete, and there is a little order in it. This does not seem to be a surprise. If the concepts and rules of the world are completely in chaos, the matter around me cannot even present this seemingly normal form. Perhaps as long as time passes, I can gradually adapt to the "water temperature" of this alien space and perceive the surroundings like in the real world.

It is no wonder that the owner of this house would be so neurotic as to block the doors and windows. If the outside world is so weird that just witnessing its existence will instantly destroy your brain, then you really cannot have any form of contact or observation with the outside world at will.

Besides, what really attacked me was probably not the rotting corpse of the homeowner, nor was it the “monster” I initially thought it was.

What just happened should be just a strange "phenomenon". Whether it is the tall black figure I witnessed, or the changes that happened after the rotting corpse of the owner of the house inexplicably moved to my side, they should all be the work of that strange phenomenon that seems like a curse.

I was probably just observing the outside world and triggered the "killing mechanism" of this strange phenomenon lingering nearby. At this moment, this mechanism seemed to have temporarily stopped working. I consciously waited for a long time, walked to the window again, and looked in the original direction several times like before, but I didn't wait for the strange phenomenon to happen again.

Could it be that once triggered, it would not reoccur to the same person again? Or has the strange phenomenon moved away? At the very least, it doesn't seem like it will stop until the target is killed.

I looked back at the motionless and rotting body of the homeowner, and after casually cremating it, I walked to the entrance and kicked the heavily blocked front door into pieces.

Then he climbed over the fence in the corridor of the residential building and landed in one breath on the ground more than ten stories above the ground.

I looked up at the starless and moonless night sky again.

The fireball I fired into the sky before, although I didn't order it to return, had already landed on the surface far away. Maybe it was because of the spatial chaos, the fireball's directionality and distance sense were both wrong. And the farther it was from me, the higher the noise ratio of the information fed back by the fireball, and it couldn't function as a "reconnaissance aircraft". I simply extinguished the fireball in the distance.

Although I initially thought of this place as a different dimension, I had another possibility in mind. The strange night, the sky without stars and moon, the land where you can easily encounter strange things... these are the characteristics of the apocalypse.

If it was just hearsay, I wouldn't have suspected the apocalypse, but the problem is, I have actually seen the night sky in the apocalypse before.

That was what happened in the Fufeng base in the past. In order to test the function of the fake Shuizhongyue in invading the target's soul, Ma Zao took the initiative to offer herself as an experimental subject. After invading Ma Zao's soul, I briefly came to the deserted courtyard inside the Gospel Institute in the Doomsday Era in her spiritual dream world.

That was also the first time I fought against the Fate Turbidity, but that past is not important now. What is important is the night sky presented in the dream. I dug it out of my memory and compared it with the night sky I see now. It is also an extremely monotonous dark sky, like an endless huge black iron suspended in the sky, looking at it makes people feel despair and suffocation.

I can't tell the difference between the two.

It's easy to make something like "a night sky without any light" look exactly the same. Even if you can't tell the difference, it's not enough to prove that this is the end of the world. But the process of me entering this place was full of suspense. Considering Ma Zao's power of the unlucky star, no matter how absurd the things that happened to me were, it seemed to have a guaranteed rationality.

Moreover, before that, I was in the void outside the world.

At that time, I was independent of both the spatial axis and the time axis of the original world. Assuming that I could return to the real world, how could I guarantee that I would return to the "original time"? Even if I accidentally entered the past history or the future era, it wouldn't be unreasonable, right?
After realizing this possibility, I felt a burning anticipation and excitement, as well as confusion and fear. What scared me was not the possible dangers of the apocalypse. Although that was also worth being afraid of, what I really found difficult to face was the fact that "Ma Zao was no longer by my side."

I was extremely uneasy because I couldn't sense Ma Zao's presence. It was like I was back to the time when Ma Zao first "ran away from home", and my heart was filled with anxiety.

Disconnecting from Mazao means disconnecting from the power of the Broom Star, which is the "golden finger" that ensures that I can continue to experience adventures.

According to what Ma Zao had said before, simply being separated from her would not immediately invalidate the power of the unlucky star. If one had been with her for two weeks, then one would have to be separated from her for a week or two, and only then would the person who was affected by the power of the unlucky star be able to escape from the vortex of bad luck.

The time I spent with Ma Zao was much longer than a week or two, or a month or two. I should be fine for now... No, not necessarily. The time I spent in the void is unknown, and the void itself does not allow any power to exist. Maybe the power of the broom star disappeared when I entered the void...

and also……

After finding out that I was “missing”, Ma Zao…what kind of emotions and reactions would she have, as she always pretends to be strong but is extremely afraid of being alone and easily lonely?

A strong sense of uneasiness, completely different from the possibility of losing the favor of the power of the unlucky star, gripped my heart.

I took a deep breath and tried to check the changes in my fate and cause and effect to see if the power of the broom star had really disappeared, but I was temporarily unable to do so due to the chaos of time and space. However, considering that I had just been attacked by a strange phenomenon, it was enough to show that I had not returned to the state of being isolated from the strange world before encountering Ma Zao.

Moreover, if this is really the apocalypse, then the concept of the loss of the great impermanence should not exist here. Even if I have neither the blessing of the power of the unlucky star nor the affinity with it in this place, I probably don't have to worry about being rejected by the weird world.

I was walking while thinking. Perhaps I was too immersed in thinking, so I didn't pay attention to my surroundings for a second or two. When I looked up again, I found that the scene I was in had changed.

I should have been in that desolate neighborhood just now, but when I came to my senses, I had actually walked into an amusement park. Even if I was distracted, the environment shouldn't have changed so drastically. It seems that the impression I had of this place when I first entered the bedroom was correct. It is true that if you don't pay attention, the place you are in will become another place that has nothing to do with it.

This amusement park looks very desolate, as if it has been abandoned for many years, with no lighting. If it weren't for the fireball floating around as a portable light bulb, it would be pitch dark. At the same time, everything is silent, not even the sound of insects can be heard. The more such a place is bustling with people on weekdays, the more uneasy it is when it becomes deserted and dead silent. "Late Night School" also applies to this rule. Therefore, this element often becomes a frequent guest in horror games and movies.

When passing by the carousel, bungee jumping machine and other amusement facilities, I saw a lot of dark unknown liquid and residue on the surface of those equipment, which seemed to be spoiled and dried blood plasma and minced meat.

If it were an ordinary person who was powerless, he would probably be so frightened that he couldn't even stand. But I had more than enough strength to protect myself, so I could focus more on positive thinking, such as what I should do next.

First of all, I should try to figure out whether this is just an alien space or the apocalypse as I imagined. If it is the latter, then maybe I can find survivors wandering among the ruins. After all, even if it is the apocalypse, it is not a future where all humans will be extinct. I can get the information I want from the survivors.

Then, although at this stage it can only be regarded as a hypothesis...if this is really the end of the world, how should I return to the era when I originally lived?

No, after all, if this is really the end of the world...

As my thoughts were churning, suddenly, I noticed an unexpected clue.

(End of this chapter)