Chapter seven hundred and twentieth fourth human defeat
"Feel sorry……"
At the top of the mountain that was ten thousand meters high, the white-haired Shi Shengcun lowered his head to him in a serious tone.
The wind blew his gray hair, and Cheng Lin's inner emotions suddenly became chaotic.
"So, the so-called deduction is essentially you pulling me into one of thousands of parallel universes." Cheng Lin asked.
"yes."
"So, the worlds in those deductions have countless possibilities...well, or we can say they are futures that have already happened."
"yes."
"So, what I experienced during the deduction was also driven by you?"
"Some are, some aren't."
"What about the reward? The reward for deduction..."
"This is some small compensation from me... Well, in fact, limited by the rules of time and space, I cannot directly give you power, so I can only use some loopholes to give you some very limited help."
"So... that's it." Cheng Lin asked several questions in succession, then raised his head, facing the open and boundless world in front of him, and let out a sigh.
At this moment, he finally understood who the invisible hands were behind the deduction, and who the "narrator" was who talked to himself, issued tasks, and gave rewards.
He also realized the reasons for some confusions in the past, such as the origin of the He Jian. He was once very confused about who threw the original He Jian at the bottom of the Daozong Mountain Gate Canyon...
Who gave Adelaide and the high priest of the cataclysmic world the "revelation of destiny"... Why did I never have the idea of exploring the world of deduction in depth, everything...
Now we finally have the answer.
However, he had no joy in solving the mystery.
On the contrary, I was even more confused.
He looked deeply at the man in front of him, and finally asked the question he had never asked: "So, who...are you?"
"You should have guessed it." Shi Shengcun sighed softly.
"Are you the future him?" The person Cheng Lin was referring to in these words was naturally the head of the First Division.
"Yes." Shi Shengcun nodded calmly.
Cheng Lin took a deep breath and then asked: "Then, what do you want to do?"
what you up to?!
Cheng Lin's question was not loud, but it was very forceful. If the so-called deductions are just the means of Shi Shengcun from the future, then what exactly does he want to do?
"I..." Faced with his inquiry, the white-haired Shi Shengcun was speechless for a moment, his lips moved, and then he suddenly said, "Do you... want to see what the future will be like?"
This sentence was very abrupt, but it made Cheng Lin's breath tighten.
future……
future……
According to Shi Shengcun's previous statement about the "destiny of the world", there are countless futures, but what he mentioned now obviously does not refer to other "tributaries" or the earth in other time and space.
Since he didn't specify it, the future he mentioned was the future of the world where Cheng Lin's consciousness existed.
"You..." Cheng Lin opened his mouth, but found that his voice was a little hoarse.
He admitted that he was tempted. Who could resist this temptation?
Shi Shengcun obviously understood his attitude, so he saw the man slowly raise his right hand, spread his fingers, and touch the air in front of him.
Suddenly, outside the square, the air suddenly twisted and fluctuated, gradually turning into fragmented pictures one after another, and then pieced together into a whole, forming a huge picture scroll with the sky as paper!
Just like the one that once appeared in the projection!
Cheng Lin couldn't help but cast his gaze over, and immediately, his eyes suddenly enlarged!
A strange scene actually appeared in the scroll:
It was on a vast and boundless land, with endless mountains and rivers, dense clouds, and heavy snowfall. On the vast land, vague corpses piled up like mountains. He couldn't see clearly the appearance and physical signs of the corpses, but he was heartbroken by the number.
Terrified, the corpses almost covered the ground, piled up the mountains, dyed the rivers red, and the smell of blood rose into the sky. The flying snow in the sky seemed to turn red when reflected.
The world was in deathly silence, as if all life was cut off, and all life was dead. On the vast land, in the snow, there was only one silhouette walking alone, lonely and desolate! (Note)
"This... this is..." Cheng Lin was startled and subconsciously took two steps back!
At this moment, the scroll started to move, and the bloody land and mountains suddenly shrank, and the angle of view quickly expanded, as if the "lens" was zooming out rapidly.
As a result, Cheng Lin saw desolate land masses, dull oceans, and lifeless, dark earth. In the end, there was only a lifeless planet spinning silently in the picture.
"boom!"
Silently, the scene collapsed into countless fragments and turned into nothingness. In the square on the top of the mountain, only the sound of Cheng Lin's rapid breathing and the lonely eyes of Shi Shengcun, a white-haired man, were left.
"This... this is... the future?" Cheng Lin felt his voice hoarse. He turned to look at Shi Shengcun and stressed, "Is it... the future of the world line where I am?"
"That's right." The latter confirmed in a low voice.
Cheng Lin didn't bother with the other party's words. He just felt chilled all over, feeling chilled all over by the deathly silent planet.
Yes, although he has witnessed countless disasters during the deduction and already knows that it is also a possibility in the future and it exists objectively.
But those universes are not where his original will lies after all. Parallel worlds are "parallel" after all. Cheng Lin doesn't really worry too much about the life and death of the earth in another universe...
But... what if such a disaster happened on our own earth? What if it happened in "reality"?
In comparison, the casualties caused by the projection are simply insignificant and not worth mentioning!
Fortunately, Cheng Lin had experienced so much after all. Although he was frightened, he calmed down quickly. Then he stared at Shi Shengcun and said word by word:
"Could it be said that the world where I live will also suffer a devastating disaster in the future?"
Yes, since the disasters in the deduction exist on Earth in a parallel world.
So, why can the earth where he lives be spared?
"Yes." Facing Cheng Lin's question, Shi Shengcun nodded calmly.
The mountaintop fell into silence once again, a deathly silence.
After a while, Shi Shengcun finally spoke again. He seemed to smile and said:
"Yes, you guessed it right. Based on the time you are currently at, they will arrive in not too long."
"who are they?"
"I don't know," Shi Shengcun shook his head honestly, "I only know that they are from other universes, beings from other worlds. There are many of them, they are extremely powerful, and the world they live in will soon be different from the world you live in.
Overlap, like...projection...
Ha, it's just that they are far less 'kind' than the lives in the projection... They were premeditated, and they probably used some kind of ability in the space and time domain to briefly invade our world...
Humanity tried to resist, but failed, and practitioners all over the world died in their hands.
Then, no one can stop them...only me...
In the end, when they finally left with satisfaction, I was the only one left on that desolate planet."
His voice became deeper and deeper, and his narrative language became more and more self-talking.
When he said the last sentence, white-haired Shi Shengcun's face suddenly twisted, showing some kind of struggle.
But... maybe it had been too long. He quickly calmed down, looked at Cheng Lin who was stunned, and said in a calm tone:
"That's just the way it is."
Cheng Lin opened his mouth and took ten seconds to digest this shocking information:
"Invasion? Like... like in the Maelstrom Projection?"
"Yeah, it's sort of like that, but it's not the same."
Cheng Lin was silent again for a while before asking:
"You mean, in the future, everyone will die and you will be the only one left alive... I don't quite understand, since they are so powerful, how did you survive?"
Hearing this, a smile suddenly appeared on the plain face of the white-haired Shi Shengcun, a sarcastic smile. He opened the corner of his mouth, his eyes were dark, and he said in a self-deprecating tone:
"Because...I escaped."
"Escaped...?" Cheng Lin asked in disbelief.
"Yes, I ran away. Isn't it ridiculous? As the strongest practitioner on earth at that time, I ran away and became a complete, selfish and despicable deserter.
The moment they arrived, I hid in an independent space that I had carved out in some way, well, it was similar to your spiritual world.
However, at that time, I had poor control over spatial abilities, and could only carve out an extremely small space for living creatures to survive...
It's really small, like a wardrobe.
When practitioners around the world resisted them, I hid in the closet. When they began to plunder the life of the earth, I hid in the closet. When they began to kill all mankind, I... still hid in the closet...
…
I kept hiding until the overlap of worlds ended and their world was far away from this universe, and I finally came out."
The white-haired Shi Shengcun's tone became faster and faster, as if he was lost in memories. At the end, he suddenly calmed down and said calmly:
"Then...that's the scene you just saw."
Cheng Lin listened blankly, completely in disbelief.
After all, whether in Plant Overlord or Maelstrom Deduction, Shi Shengcun's image can be regarded as great. Even though there are some flaws in it, in his opinion, it is enough to be called a "hero".
But...who would have thought that he would actually escape?
At this moment, Cheng Lin's eyes subconsciously fell on the pen inserted in the pocket of white-haired Shi Shengcun. The dense scratches on the cap of the pen obscured the original handwriting. He remembered... those two words happened to be
"hero".
Cheng Lin opened his mouth and finally asked: "Why...what?"
"Because... long before they came, I had already received inspiration from fate."
"Revelation?" Cheng Lin's heart suddenly trembled. He was now a little sensitive to the word "revelation".
"Yes," white-haired Shi Shengcun said in a calm tone, "the destiny revelation from the stars tells me...humanity will eventually be completely defeated!"
Note: These two paragraphs of description first appeared in Chapter 558, the chapter name is "A Sword Thousand Miles". In the Fertile World, when Cheng Lin cheated and fought against Andre, a ninth-grade human master, Andre relied on his ninth-grade cultivation.