From the end of the world

Chapter 267 Night Talk about Winter Car 3
Regarding Ma Zao's broom star physique, there may be some operating mechanism that I don't understand yet, or there may be external disturbance factors that cause the influence of the broom star physique to deviate. At the moment, I can only remember this abnormal contradiction I found, and then continue to observe and study.

At least now we can be sure that Dong Che has no special intentions towards Ma Zao, and even he doesn't know why he pays so much attention to Ma Zao. And after we separate, maybe there will be no more involvement between us for a while.

Will it really end so easily? I wondered in my heart. The winter car was a strange thing attracted by the jinx's physique. If we could get rid of it so easily, wouldn't that be underestimating Mazao's attraction to strange events?

I decided to take the initiative and said, "We plan to leave Fufeng Base after daybreak. Fufeng's reason for keeping you under house arrest will disappear. What are you going to do next?"

"Is that so? As for me...I want to continue my mission," he said.

I thought about it for a moment, then said, "It seems like you are planning to go to a place called Hujia Village to investigate strange events there."

"Yes. The Governance has more mission targets for regular demon hunters than the Transcendental. Every year, they must complete a specified number of strange incident handling tasks. I have not been in the Governance for long, and this year will end in two months." He said distressedly, "Although according to the rules, the number of tasks I need to complete can be reduced, but I know that there are still many people in the Governance who are suspicious of me...

"I don't know how to solve it, so I just want to complete at least the same number of missions as other hegemonic demon hunters. Through my own private channels, I learned that there is a strange phenomenon happening in a place called Hujia Village in the west. I want to target that place... This is the superficial reason."

He didn't seem to intend to say the last sentence at first, but later on, he seemed to be unable to help but tell me the truth.

Then, he seemed to regret it a little. However, words spoken in real life are not like messages in a chat app, which cannot be withdrawn at will.

"The superficial reason...then, what is the real reason?" I asked.

"This..." He hesitated.

"If that's your secret, it's okay not to tell it," I said.

"It's not a secret... No, it's not something that can be told to others, but it should be okay to tell you, Senior Zhuang Cheng." He hesitated for a moment and said, "Actually, I feel like I'm about to die."

"Dead?" I asked doubtfully.

"This is a premonition. People like me who are born with strong perception will automatically feel it when death is approaching. The more unstoppable the fate of death is, the easier it is for people like me to perceive it." He said, "And just recently, I felt that my destined death was approaching.

"Because my master is proficient in divination and fortune-telling, I also know a thing or two about divination and fortune-telling, and I read a fortune for myself. The fortune-telling showed that I was like a withered bone in a tomb, and the signs of death were even visible on my face.

"Senior Zhuang Cheng, do I look like a dead person in your eyes now?"

I looked at his handsome and tender face carefully. His tone sounded like a terminally ill patient who had received a critical illness notice. I don't know if it was because of his words, but for a moment, his face in my eyes actually showed a dying grayness. It was like my illusion, and I couldn't see it anymore if I looked more carefully.

I wasn't naive enough to believe that it was just my illusion. Just as I was about to tell him the truth about the abnormal feeling I had witnessed, a strange inspiration suddenly came to my mind, as if the words I spoke would really come true.

Telling the truth might not be a good idea... I said instead: "You are not a dead person anyway."

"Thank you for your good wishes." He smiled forcefully.

I savored the feeling I had just had. Why did I feel that my words would become effective? If I admitted here that he really looked like a dead person, would he really become dead after this? Could my words determine his future fate?

Just like I am too powerful to allow strange things to easily associate with me, sometimes great power itself is accompanied by many mysteries. In mysticism, "language" is considered to have supernatural mysteries, and the words I speak may be even more so. If I have the inner potential of being like a god, then now that my power has awakened, my words may also be regarded as the words of a god to a certain extent, with the mysterious effect of "putting a seal on the conclusion".

Dongche didn't seem to be aware of the abnormality he had just shown. Perhaps the death he had calculated was deeply related to the strange impression I got from him that he was "not human". I once suspected that the real Dongche had been killed and replaced by a strange creature. If I combine the information I got before with this suspicion, it seems easy to conclude that the real Dongche had already fallen under his own death.

I don't feel that the Dongche in front of me has any malice or deception towards me. Could it be that the truth is that the strange thing that killed and replaced Dongche mistakenly thought that it was the real Dongche, and is still busy with the death that has long ended? Although this sounds too far-fetched, it seems to explain many problems.

"So, does this matter have anything to do with your trip to Hujia Village?" I asked.

"First of all, Hujia Village is a place name that appeared in my dream. Through the verification of divination spells, I can be sure that it is a place that exists in reality. It's a pity that there are too many places called Hujia Village in reality. I can only rely on my own premonition to judge that the place should be located in the west. And according to the hexagram, my only way to survive is also in that direction." he said.

"I see." I nodded. "What was your dream about? Can you guarantee that you can find that place?"

"I don't remember it very clearly, but I vaguely remember that I seemed to be lost in a dream." He sighed, "As for whether I can find it... I am very confident in this aspect. I have a feeling that as long as I am willing to look for it, I can definitely find the location."

"Is there a time limit for this matter? For example, if you don't reach Hujia Village within a certain number of days, you will definitely die?" I asked.

Hearing this, he pondered for a moment, then said: "Although there is not no limit on time, it doesn't seem that tight. As long as we arrive within ten days, it shouldn't be a problem."

"So, can you please stay away from that direction for at least these two days?" I asked.

He asked in surprise: "Why?"

The reason is simple. I think Hujia Village is most likely in the Yueyin Mountain area.

This is the conclusion drawn based on the speculation that "Ma Zao and I may not be able to get rid of our entanglement with Dong Che in the near future." If we who are heading to Yueyin Mountain will meet him again who is heading to Hujia Village, then we can only assume that the destinations of both parties are likely to overlap.

I will probably have to clash with Silver Moon again in Yueyin Mountain, a strange battle that I can hardly imagine how it will start and end. If Dongche gets too close to us, we might be caught in the crossfire. Furthermore, this might be what he meant by the death.

Our problem can be solved in these two days. If we have more free time later, it is not impossible to help Dongche check on his situation. Anyway, there are at least eight days left, which is much safer than arriving early. If we find out later that Dongche is really a monster in human skin, it will not be too late to deal with him then. That's what I think.

Just in case, I didn’t tell Dongche the name of the place “Moon Hidden Mountain” directly, and it was not convenient for me to answer his question directly, so I just said “You will know in two days”. The topic was dropped just like that.

Dong Che went back with a heavy heart, and I returned to my room. Ma Zao was still sleeping peacefully. I sat back at the desk again and used my phone to search for information about Hujia Village on the Internet.

There are quite a few places named Hujia Village, or in other words, as long as the village name is in the format of "Moujia Village" and a surname that is not too uncommon is filled in, the search results will not be too few. This is still the number that can be investigated. If we count the small villages that cannot be found on the Internet, it is estimated that there will be even more.

By the way, Dong Che mentioned that the Hujia Village he was looking for was in the west... I tried to search the location of Yueyin Mountain on the map again. Sure enough, Yueyin Mountain is also to the west of where I am now. It seems that my previous suspicion was correct.

Then I went to investigate other information. Time passed by minute by minute until it was morning. It should have been dawn outside the base. Suddenly, while searching for information related to strange events, I came across a piece of fresh news.

The government has announced the existence of amnesia to the whole society on official platforms. It has now been estimated that more than 100,000 people in the country have fallen into a vegetative state due to amnesia, and the number of patients is increasing every moment.

The cause of the disease is unknown, the solution is unknown, and there is no scientific explanation... The government has stated the current situation in a tone that is equivalent to admitting that this is a supernatural event. Although it is still morning, related comments have already surged on major media platforms.

The world of uncommon sense has officially appeared in the vision of ordinary people.

(End of this chapter)