My Mysterious Left Hand

Chapter 91 First Hearing of the Old God

Could it be that this will actually happen somewhere in seven hours, and I will have to intervene?

He was deeply troubled, because if his guess was true, then this matter was a true interference in the future.

I previously possessed the ability to interfere with the future; my lightning punishments could punish enemies in the future, but I couldn't do something like this!

Li Chen took a deep breath: "I wonder where this place is?"

He really wanted to verify his guess.

But since there's a countdown on the game screen, maybe we'll find out after the countdown ends?

So he waited patiently.

Time was ticking away, second by second.

Li Chen did not leave the computer.

He then discovered that the villa was well-stocked with all sorts of supplies, including many kinds of precious tea. So he brewed himself a cup of tea, went to the kitchen to cook a simple bowl of noodles to satisfy his craving, and then returned to his gaming chair, his eyes never leaving the numbers flashing in the upper left corner of the screen.

The sky outside the window had long since darkened, and Chenxiao Mountain was hidden in the night, with only the lights of the villa on the mountaintop shining alone.

In the distance, the buildings of the Yanhuang Academy were brightly lit, and occasionally one could see streaks of light as cultivators flew by.

Li Chen was not simply waiting idly.

He diverted a portion of his mind to introspect, consolidating his cultivation at the ninth level of the mortal realm, while simultaneously deducing the subsequent Cave Heaven chapter of the Void Divine Scripture.

However, his attention was mostly drawn to the game's simple, almost rudimentary graphics.

"Interfering with the future —"

If this game can really do that, then what is the essential difference between it and He Jinlong's life simulator?

One is to allow oneself to "see and intervene" in a certain future segment that is about to happen.

Another is to allow users to experience a simulated future under a false identity —

Life simulators offer rewards, and it seems this game of mine also offers rewards.

But what I received as a reward from the game seems to be a game character?

Finally, the countdown reached zero with a "whoosh!"

The computer screen suddenly lit up with a blinding white light, but the light did not come from the screen itself; rather, it seemed to have penetrated the screen and been projected from another space.

Li Chen quickly looked at it carefully.

On the screen, the simple street and stick figures disappeared, replaced by an incredibly clear picture that looked like a real photograph!

The camera is positioned in mid-air, overlooking a street in the early morning.

The streets are lined with slightly old residential buildings, and there are few pedestrians.

In the center of the picture, a little girl wearing a red cotton-padded jacket and with pigtails is holding a tattered rag doll and standing alone in front of a closed convenience store. She keeps looking out the corner of the street, as if she is waiting for someone.

Location: Jianshe Road, Old Town District, Linzhou City, Tiannan Province, China.

A line of small text appeared at the bottom of the screen.

Li Chen was shocked; the real location had actually appeared!

He immediately tried moving the mouse and found that the view could be adjusted slightly, but the range was limited, seemingly locked within fifty meters of the little girl.

The current visuals resemble surveillance video, or rather, a game cutscene, and are therefore uncontrollable.

"Is this the only scene?"

Li Chen frowned, quickly stood up, took a step, and his body instantly disappeared from the spot.

Meanwhile, thousands of kilometers away in Linzhou City's old town, on Jianshe Road, Li Chen's figure appeared out of thin air on the roof of a nearby building.

The moment he arrived, he immediately released his divine sense to sweep across the surroundings and quickly found the little girl.

There really is such a person—”

Suddenly he sensed something and looked up sharply.

Just then—

"Sizzle—"

From a dark alley diagonally across the street, a faint sound, like an electrical short circuit, could be heard.

Immediately afterwards, a visible, twisted, gray-black mist, like living tentacles, slowly spread out from the alley entrance.

That wasn't ordinary fog.

Li Chen's eyes narrowed as he sensed the cold, chaotic aura contained within the mist.

"Abnormal energy? Demonic energy? Or some kind of unknown contamination?"

The little girl in front of the convenience store seemed to sense something. She hugged her doll tightly, glanced timidly in the direction of the alley, her face pale, and subconsciously took two steps back.

The gray-black fog spread at an alarming rate!

Like sharks smelling blood, they suddenly coalesced into a huge, twisted, hook-like misty hand, as big as a car, and with a teeth-grinding whistling sound, it reached out to grab the bewildered little girl from mid-air!

Li Chen suppressed the urge to attack and watched patiently.

Just as he expected, at that critical moment, a stick figure made of simple lines and emitting a faint glow appeared out of thin air!

It's the "rescuer" in the game!

Suddenly, the stick figure leaped off the roof and shot out a bolt of lightning in mid-air.

"Crackling"

Like a red-hot iron pressed onto ice and snow, the gray-black mist emitted a mournful wail, as if countless people's cries were superimposed, before violently boiling and melting away.

The giant hand of mist was instantly pierced with a large hole.

The silvery-white lightning, still powerful, spread rapidly along the misty arm, splitting into an electric grid covering most of the street.

"Zzzzzzz—"

Wherever the power grid passed, the gray-black fog was purified and dissipated at a visible speed, revealing the true scene in the alley behind it.

There was nothing there except a pool of thick, oil-like black grime on the ground, which was rapidly evaporating and disappearing in the sunlight.

The entire process, from the appearance of the mist to its purification, takes less than three seconds.

The streets returned to calm, as if everything that had just happened was an illusion.

Only the little girl in the red cotton-padded jacket stood there blankly, looking up at the glowing stick figure in mid-air that was slowly dissipating.

The stick figure looked down at the little girl, then raised its hand and waved gently at her.

Then, it turned into specks of firefly light and disappeared completely from the real world, as if it had never existed.

It was only at this point that some joggers or office workers nearby exclaimed in surprise.

Many people didn't even realize what had happened.

On the rooftop of a building not far away, Li Chen squinted at the scene, his divine sense constantly scanning the area where the gray mist hand had dissipated.

However, the stick figure's purification was so thorough that he couldn't find a single trace of it.

However, judging from the aura sensed earlier, that gray mist hand was definitely not an ordinary thing.

Even he vaguely sensed a threat.

Disasters occur around the world every moment, and many people are still living in dire straits. Why did the game specifically choose this little girl?

Li Chen scrutinized the little girl, but couldn't discern anything about her.

He then activated his Time-Space Divine Eye to check the other party's information.

[Yao Ruoxi, four years old, a candidate for the Chosen One, a mortal, possessing an unawakened Five Elements Sacred Body, a pitiful creature targeted by an ancient god.]

A chosen one, a potential candidate? An ancient god?

Li Chen's pupils contracted, and he finally realized that the game he had casually created was not about randomly selecting people at all.

Is it because the Earth and the universe are reviving, and some things that weren't completely dead have also emerged?

After a moment's hesitation, he took a step forward and appeared out of thin air in front of the little girl who was still in a daze.

The little girl immediately took a step back in fright.