Apocalypse Forecast

”… ”

Crow remained silent.

”This shouldn ’t be happening, right? ”

Huai Shi murmured softly, ”I know not everyone should like me.
I might not fit in and not be popular, but sometimes people ’s actions need punishment, but none of them should die.
They are all living beings, just like me.
They should not die, just like those people in the club should not die, even if they may be guilty, they are innocent. ”

”So, I don ’t like you saying these things. ”

Huai Shi looked into her eyes and emphasized each word, ”I really, really, really don ’t like it. ”

”Ah, why are you so fierce? ”

Crow turned her head away and sobbed as if in sorrow, ”Big sister, I ’m doing this for your own good.
Besides, now your whole world is mine.
Can ’t we just test the waters a little before we start cooperating? ”

She blinked her teary eyes and pleaded, ”For the sake of my sincerity, give me a chance to make up for my mistakes with Plan B.
Plan A didn ’t work out. ”

Unfortunately, a crow acting like this was not cute at all.

”What is Plan B? ”

”It ’s simple. ”

Crow finally looked at him and said, ”Since you don ’t want to kill anyone… ”

She paused and then continued, ”Then I have to kill you. ”

In that moment, Huai Shi ’s vision went black.

…

Huai Shi had a long dream.

In the haze, he seemed to have just finished work and was waiting for the subway to go home.
He felt disdain for a certain useless employee he had fired during the day.
Then, the sound of the subway came from the depths of the tunnel.

Without time to put away his phone, he heard a resentful voice behind him say, ”Die! ”

The next moment, a pair of hands pushed him from behind.

He fell, he flew, he fell again, towards the railway tracks.
The headlights of the subway train grew brighter and closer, and then Huai Shi was crushed, shattered into pieces.
The last thing he heard was the sound of his skull cracking.

Unbearable pain came, he didn ’t have time to scream or even feel fear, and his consciousness quickly blurred.

Then, he seemed to have become a global economic tycoon, trapped in a park and betrayed by his assistant, who sent him a final ultimatum to surrender.

Huai Shi smiled coldly and raised his gun.

Bang!

It can be hard to make great work when its stolen from ”pawread dot com ”.

A light sound came from a distant helicopter, and Huai Shi couldn ’t feel his body anymore.
In the last moment, he heard his assistant ’s bewildered cry, ”Don ’t shoot, he ’s not… ”

Shot in the head?

In the daze, Huai Shi hadn ’t even reacted yet, and like a series of nightmares, he suddenly became a middle-aged uncle wearing strange power armor, carrying a gun, and rushing into the Louvre to fight a group of strange and grotesque insect-like creatures, and then died quickly.

The last thought he had this time was, ”Damn, I need to reload… ”

Reload? Reload what? Reload your game, Rem!He began to mock himself, but immediately he couldn ’t laugh anymore, because he seemed to be hung on the city gate again, with nails in his hands, but he couldn ’t feel any pain.
He floated around like he was drunk, silly smiling at the white-haired man in front of him.

But why was this guy staring at him? Did he do something wrong?

Soon, the moonlight flashed and his head was cut off.

This time it was decapitation.

Then, amidst the cheers of the crowd, he seemed to be tied to a stake and burned to death in flames.
Someone roared excitedly, ”Die, heretic! ”

Then he died again.

He died over and over again, in different ways, poisoned, drowned, hanged, burned, put in a meat grinder, sent to the emergency room, accidentally pushed, killed by various people and for various reasons.

Again and again and again.

Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.

He didn ’t know how many times he had died.

In the end, he was almost numb – completely unconscious.

Was it over like this?

He fell into a deep sleep as if he had been released.

In the last moment, he seemed to turn around and look at the source of all the illusions, finally glimpsing the essence of death.
Those deaths seemed to have turned into dancing black pages of a book.
Countless dancing black pages overlapped like snow, converging into a sea of sadness and despair, outlining a silent world.

That might be the true appearance of the book of fate.

A cold world that died alone.

…

The room fell silent, only the fragmented sound of events branching out and being written on the book of fate.

The illusory crow gazed silently at Huai Shi, as if seeing his thriving source material through his body.

Clearly just one person ’s consciousness, but when their thoughts collided, the sparks that burst forth were as dazzling as flames.

The crow glanced at the book of fate and couldn ’t help but sigh, ”Indeed, if it weren ’t for it constantly extracting source material, you would have awakened years ago… ”

Since waking up in the book, she had been constantly observing Huai Shi.

That ’s why she could deduce from various signs that Huai Shi had probably already stepped into the door of a sublimator.
Otherwise, a pure ordinary person would not be recognized by the book of fate as a holder, and she would not bet so easily.

Now, on the current page, the three words ”Stress Period ” beside Huai Shi ’s name became more and more heavy, as if accumulating power and trying to change.

But every time there was a change, it seemed to encounter an invisible resistance and returned to its original position.

”So close? ”

The crow murmured in amazement.

Generally speaking, the stress period is the process of a person ’s nature breaking free from the silver sea, becoming independent source material, and gradually returning to consciousness.

In this process, the unique soul of a sublimator will be forged.During this period, which is usually very short, different from the structure of the soul, the shortest recorded time in history was only five minutes and twelve seconds, and the longer ones were only five or six months…
even Crow had never seen someone who had not been able to pass the stress period after six or seven years.

Even though she had been in a ”sky blue ” state for a long time due to the extraction of the Book of Fate, it was still a bit too exaggerated, wasn ’t it?

Originally, she thought that with the impact of those death records in the book, Huai Shi could break through the bottleneck smoothly in just a few minutes.
But she didn ’t expect that this guy was already standing at the door, but just kept hesitating and didn ’t go in!

The forging of the soul was just one step away.

Just one step…

”What is missing exactly? ”

Crow couldn ’t help squinting her eyes.

There must be something extremely important that she had overlooked.

This feeling was particularly unpleasant, but no matter how she thought about it, she couldn ’t figure out why.

The existence of the soul is the sublimation of nature and consciousness, and what is contained in it is the essence of human nature.
Because everyone is different, there are so many different souls in the world.

If the construction process is stagnant, there can only be one reason.

Huai Shi herself.

But even if she wanted to retrieve Huai Shi ’s records through the branching of events, she could only read the contents of when Huai Shi picked up the Book of Fate at the age of ten.

There was only a blank space before that…

But through the descriptions between the lines, she could clearly see that Huai Shi was trying to hide something.
But what it was, she couldn ’t figure it out.

If Huai Shi didn ’t speak, it could only be an eternal secret.

In the midst of Crow ’s contemplation, the incomplete circle once again underwent a change.

Black ink emerged from it, forming the outline of a ”waning moon ” with the changes of the arc.

”…
Is it a moon phase? ”

In the moment of Crow ’s surprise, she murmured softly, ”How rare. ”

Although the structure of the soul had not been completed yet, the attribute had already emerged.
In the classification of the Book of Fate, the attribute corresponding to the moon phase was the source material of humans, which is the soul itself.

Most of the abilities possessed by the souls under the moon phase classification were also interference with the soul, such as mental manipulation, consciousness transformation, and spiritual repair.
This branch was a symbol of strangeness and mystery for most sublimators.

”Unfortunately, the scope is too small. ”

Crow shook her head with a hint of disdain, ”Too small… ”

Relying on strangeness and fear may be able to achieve something in the short term, but the center of the stage in this world will never be left to those who only hide in the dark.

She didn ’t know how long it had passed, but Huai Shi ’s breathing became heavy, and her eyelids blinked as if she was waking up from a dream.

She sighed, and the branching of events slowly lifted and lightly touched the center of the moon.

Leaving a bit of ink.

And Crow ’s color became paler.

”The opportunity is given to you, Huai Shi. ” She murmured softly, ”Whether you can build a bridge from the virtual to the real, it ’s up to you. ”

…

”It ’s done. ”

The confidant rushed into the office excitedly, holding a mobile hard drive in his hand, ”Master, all the surveillance videos along the way after that box was snatched by Chen Quan are here. ”

”Are your hands and feet clean? ”The man known as the master seemed to have not slept for a long time.
His eyes were bloodshot and when he raised his head, his eyes were filled with bloodshot veins, making him look extremely sinister.

His confidant subconsciously trembled and forced a smile, ”Don ’t worry, I found someone else to do it and didn ’t leave our names.
Even if someone investigates, they can only find him. ”

”Good. ”

The master took the hard drive and didn ’t say anything else.
He paced back and forth in the office for a long time before finally making up his mind and stomping his foot.

”You go tell those old men and old ladies to come to Mass on Saturday night.
Make sure they all come.
If they don ’t come, they don ’t need to come anymore. ”

The confidant was taken aback, ”Didn ’t we just have it the day before yesterday? They ’re used to coming at the end of the month… ”

”Can ’t you just come up with any excuse?! ” The master was furious, staring at his face, ”Do I have to help you come up with excuses? Can ’t we just say it ’s God ’s birthday?! ”

”Okay, okay, whatever you say. ”

The confidant didn ’t dare to provoke the master any further and scurried away.

In the silent office, the middle-aged man who looked slightly aged remained silent for a long time.
He closed the door, paced around for a while, then plugged in the hard drive and started watching the fragmented information.

From the warehouse, the man suddenly pulled out a gun and killed someone, took the holy artifact, got injured in the counterattack, exploded, and fled all the way…
finally hiding in an alley.

As the timeline quickly progressed, a boy carrying a qin walked into the box, and soon walked out of it.
The picture froze again.

Stopped at the slightly immature face.

”It ’s you… ”

The master leaned closer to the screen, his bloodshot eyes staring fixedly at the boy in the picture.