Honkai Summoning.

"Well... I think he's probably older than your grandfather," Tang Tian thought to himself, and almost carried Professor Hao back into the small house.

As for Su Mo, to be honest, Tang Tian wasn't worried. Even if everyone here died, that guy would still be alive and well.

"Step back, let me handle this."

Su Mo, whom Tang Tian believed wouldn't die, said as he walked.

The soldiers who had been approaching the area of ​​the X-wave based on their terminals all stopped in their tracks.

Before Su Mo arrived, his photo had already been posted here. Putting aside the fabricated information, in this base, his words carried the same weight as those of Tang Tian, ​​one of the people in charge.

As soldiers, we will naturally obey orders.

"Huh, the sensation has disappeared."

Just then, the massive soul fluctuation disappeared from Su Mo's perception.

"Everyone, disperse. Go do what you were doing. Leave the rest to me." Su Mo waved one hand.

These people are of no use staying by his side; it would be better to let them go back.

"Commander Su, this is..." A soldier brought over a communicator.

"Okay." Su Mo nodded, took the communicator, and strode away, quickly disappearing from everyone's sight.

Upon learning that Su Mo had left alone, Tang Tian nodded calmly and did not contact Su Mo. He knew very well that he couldn't keep too close a grudge against someone like Su Mo; since it was a collaboration, he should treat both parties as equals.

However, if Tang Tian knew that Su Mo didn't treat them as equals at all, but rather as children who would play with him if they behaved well, would he immediately draw his gun and fight Su Mo to the death?

Su Mo, acting alone, was naturally much faster than a large group of ordinary people. A few minutes later, he appeared at the location of the huge soul fluctuation he had just sensed.

Before you lies a crystal-clear stream. The babbling water and the smooth pebbles sculpted by the stream over the years are enough to inspire a large number of artistic youths to take photos and upload them, saying that their "souls have been purified."

"It doesn't look any different."

Su Mo thought to himself, then casually kicked a stone from the bank into the stream, splashing some water.

As he made this movement, the mud and sand at the bottom of the shallow stream suddenly churned up, and the originally clear stream water instantly became murky. A blurry black shadow about half a meter long could be seen moving among the churning mud and sand.

"What a huge crab." Su Mo smiled.

The dark shape moved and quickly escaped the mud and sand. It was revealed to be a giant river crab, which looked no different from an ordinary crab, but its size was exaggerated.

Su Mo had no doubt that the raised pliers could easily snap an ordinary person's arm.

The giant crab was clearly not used to its enormous size, and it was bumping around aimlessly in the stream, unable to find its original "nest".

"So that's how it is..."

Su Mo walked to a small tree by the stream, squatted down to observe it, and noticed something. "Did these suddenly grow bigger just now?"

Watching the large crab disappear down the river, Su Mo wandered around the area for a while before turning and heading towards the small village.

"So, did you find anything?" Tang Tian immediately greeted Su Mo upon his return.

“That so-called X-wave should be a kind of life force fluctuation,” Su Mo said.

"Vitality fluctuations?" Tang Tian was stunned.

Su Mo said, "Simply put, it's an electrocardiogram. Does your heartbeat count as a fluctuation of your vital energy?"

"I guess so?" Tang Tian said.

"That's it then. For you, a heartbeat is only perceptible in complete silence. But for some extremely small creatures, wouldn't your heartbeat become a deafening sound—if they could hear, wouldn't it even appear to them as an invisible fluctuation?" Su Mo asked.

"You mean to say that a massive life form that we can't understand is causing the X-wave?" Tang Tian asked.

“I don’t know.” Su Mo shook his head. “At least I haven’t discovered any large, incomprehensible life forms. But this is one direction. You can consider individual X as a new kind of human, so it will generate new life fluctuations that can be detected.”

"How could this happen?" Tang Tian's expression immediately became extremely solemn.

If, as he imagines, incomprehensible life forms appear on Earth, it would be an absolute catastrophe.

Although special humans like Su Mo existed on Earth in the past, they were still human and had never escaped the realm of humanity. Even Akat and the zombie army that Su Mo wiped out many years ago, all the "special humans" had the same way of thinking and living as humans.

These people are dangerous, but their danger is only to those in power, because they are uncontrollable. They are not actually dangerous to the human race.

But if it's an incomprehensible, enormous life form, everything is different.

"Don't worry about something so uncertain... Take me to see the corpses first, there should still be some of them here." Su Mo interrupted Tang Tian's worries.

"Okay." Tang Tian nodded and led Su Mo into the basement of another house, where a chilling aura wafted over them.

In this room, which resembled a morgue, there were several wooden tables, and several corpses were placed on the tables, covered with white sheets.

"These are..." Tang Tian was about to say something.

"It's alright." Su Mo turned and left immediately; he had already seen what he wanted to see.

As a Soul Eater, Su Mo's world is somewhat different from that of ordinary people. For example, he can see the complete or fragmented souls of those who have recently died. If they are complete, Su Mo can absorb them and turn them into his own life force; if they are fragmented, they are worthless to him.

And now, the corpses in front of Su Mo contain a large number of fragmented souls!

Chapter 107 The Life of Retired Cadres

(Thanks to Saki, o&yn, and Waiting for You 545 for the monthly tickets! Thank you to Shenshang, Green Tiger, Praise the Sun, Dongdongqi, and Jia Guipeng for the donations!)

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Those complete souls that Su Mo could absorb were like a wisp of mist in his eyes, constantly changing shape, occasionally revealing a blurry face.

Those worthless remnant souls, like shards of glass, adhered to the corpses, exuding an aura of death. These shards were about the size of a fingernail, numbering around three or four, and at most no more than five.

Su Mo, who has lived for so many years, said that he has never seen more than five fragments of a soul.

However, Su Mo encountered a different situation today.

The corpse, which would be quite ordinary to an average person, was covered with countless fragments of souls, almost completely covering the entire body, enough to make a group of people with trypophobia vomit.

Although Su Mo is not a person with trypophobia, he still felt a little uncomfortable seeing this scene. Since he had already gotten the "information" he wanted, he was too lazy to look any further and simply turned around and left.

Tang Tian, ​​who was puzzled, caught up and asked, "What did you figure out?"

"These people...you can't find the cause of death, right?" Su Mo asked.

“Well, there are no fatal wounds, no toxins, and it’s not due to suffocation. On the contrary, don’t you think they look great? They even look radiant,” Tang Tian said.

Su Mo nodded: "I noticed something unusual at the spot I was in earlier. If my guess is correct, they died from overeating."

"Did he die from overeating?" Tang Tian was taken aback.

“They were overwhelmed by an immense life force that they simply couldn’t handle,” Su Mo said. “That’s why these people look to be in very good condition.”

"Is...is that even possible?" Tang Tian asked.

“Of course it’s possible,” Su Mo said. “My current thought is that… such special forces are occasionally appearing in various places. You can consider this force as life force, or any other kind of force. In short, there should be two consequences for anyone who comes into contact with this force.”

"One is that they change and become a superhuman. The other is that they can't withstand the power and, according to you, are directly overwhelmed and die?" Tang Tian interjected.

“Yes.” Su Mo nodded.

"What about those who went missing?" Tang Tian frowned.

Su Mo's explanation provided a good answer to the cause of death for those people, but in addition to those who died, many others simply disappeared without a trace, not even a hair.

If it were placed in any book, it would be one of the world's top ten unsolved mysteries.

"Well... where do you think those special powers come from?" Su Mo asked in return.

"Could it be?!"

Tang Tian's expression changed drastically.

The Earth has entered the Dharma-ending Age. This is a consensus among various organizations that possess—or more accurately, those that once possessed—supernatural powers, including high-ranking officials of various countries. This point has been verified and is absolutely accurate.

It could even be said that if the Cleric's organizations had succeeded in killing Su Mo, the only remaining and most terrifying individual—the Dark Night King—on that night, it would have been tantamount to declaring that there were no more people with supernatural powers in the world.

The so-called Dharma-ending Age should also become a true "Dharma-free Age".

Since this is an irreversible law of Earth's gradual development to its current state, why are there so many new individuals sprouting up like wild grass in spring within just one year?

How can the laws of nature be changed so easily? If so, where would the world's will stand? What happened to the promised end times? A bunch of new "x" individuals are popping up again—is this a slap in the face?

The only explanation is...

"That's impossible! How could that be!" Tang Tian shook his head violently, categorically rejecting Su Mo's idea.

"Actually, since you can easily accept the existence of superpowers and special abilities, why can't you accept the existence of another world that, through some kind of connection, has a portal to Earth?" Su Mo said.

This is the conclusion Su Mo came to: other worlds had "close contact" with Earth, and those special forces must have come from other worlds.

"How about I use a more scientific and easier-to-understand explanation? It's like aliens developed space technology and connected with Earth, thus passively ushering Earth into the interstellar age."

Tang Tian paused for two seconds before speaking, "Why do I find this explanation easier to accept? What you said at the beginning was too far-fetched."

"Anyway, these are all powers you can't understand. Even if technology has opened up space channels, it's still within the realm of what people on Earth can comprehend right now, isn't it?" Su Mo chuckled. "But of course, we should believe in science and not be bound by feudal superstition."

Tang Tian shook his head and said, "I will report all these assessments. Mr. Su, have you had anything else to attend to during this time?"

“No, I don’t mind staying here for a while, but I require a good living environment. I’m not here to suffer and experience life,” Su Mo said.

Tang Tian nodded: "That's not a problem."

To be honest, for the Secret Service, problems that can be solved with money are not problems at all. The real problems are those that are completely unsolvable, like what's happening now.

Even with numerous experts working day and night on-site, they were unable to provide an accurate response to this series of bizarre phenomena. Even Su Mo, upon arriving, only offered his own ideas without suggesting any suitable solutions.

When it comes to things involving space, Su Mo himself was completely clueless, passively traversing the area, so how could he offer any constructive suggestions?

However, if Su Mo's guess is correct, with the help of the state apparatus, there might be some progress.

Traveling to other worlds could indeed enhance Su Mo's strength, but the gamble of being passively transported is too great. The best scenario Su Mo could achieve was to actively choose his own path to transmigration.

Su Mo was lucky the first two times he transmigrated; the enemies he faced in each world were not beyond his capabilities. But again, what if the next time he opened his eyes, a hairy-faced, thunder-mouthed monk came crashing down on him with a stick? Who could he complain to then?

And so, Su Mo temporarily settled down in this small village.

Of course, he was different from Professor Hao and his group of busy scientists. He just stayed in his room all day, occasionally going out for a walk, waiting for the X-wave to reappear. He was a complete idler.

However, the soldiers stationed in the small village were just as idle as Su Mo. The only difference was that they always looked serious and carried weapons when they patrolled the area every day, while Su Mo just wandered around aimlessly. If he were carrying a birdcage, he would look like a typical retired old cadre from a Beijing alley.

Retired cadre Su Mo was lounging in a deckchair, basking in the sun, when Professor Hao next to him shook his head and said, "Young man, how can you be so unmotivated every day? You look more like an old man than me!"

"Well, I don't really have anything to do," Su Mo said lazily, his eyes slightly narrowed.

“Then let’s study this together. The ideas you’ve proposed are very innovative,” Professor Hao said.