From the end of the world

Chapter 5 Picking up the Doomsday Girl 5
I was really stunned.

"I'm sorry, I don't understand."

"What didn't you understand?" Ma Zao asked.

"Wait a moment, wait a moment..." I put my hands in the air to signal a pause.

Let me make it clear first that I believe I have a very strong ability to accept things, and I have prepared myself in advance to accept the identity and origins she reveals unconditionally no matter how unbelievable they are.

Even if she claimed that she had peeked into the dark, top-secret files of a country or a large enterprise and was currently being hunted by countless assassins; or like the plots in some fantasy stories, she said that she was an artificial super-powered person who escaped from a mysterious research institute, I would not be unable to think about the problem from the perspective of believing her first.

But time travel, the end of civilization, and the coming of the doomsday?
Is the breadth of your narrative too big? It turns out that this is not a script for an urban legend or a crime thriller, but more like a sci-fi disaster movie I've seen before... There won't be a terrifying villain robot that travels from the future to hunt her down, or intends to assassinate an important person of this era.

Besides, as a time traveler, shouldn't I keep my secrets and use the priceless future information to maximize my own interests? Or is it because I read too many online novels that I think that way, and the doomsday visitors who have not been influenced by the online novel culture can't think of this at the first time?
I might as well listen to her narration. Even if she was really making up a story to amuse me, she should at least make it entertaining enough for me, and I would just listen to it as if it were a storyteller. As for today's class, I will use my phone to ask for leave from school. Classes can be attended at any time, but this magical conversation is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"How many days ago did you travel through time?" I asked this first.

"If I had only slept one night before, it would have been yesterday," she answered quickly enough that she didn't sound like she was making it up.

"Yesterday... just now you mentioned 'doomsday'. What kind of doomsday is that?" I asked again, "Is it that a virus that can turn humans into zombies spreads all over the world? Or is it that an asteroid falls from the sky, or that a nuclear war finally breaks out?"

She must have caught my suspicion, but decided to move on with the conversation.

Compared to when she pretended to be asleep and attacked me at the beginning, her attitude had softened for some reason.

"What caused the doomsday, and to what extent human civilization has fought against it... I have no idea. Ever since I was old enough to understand, the world has been in the age of doomsday. For a long time, I even thought that the world was supposed to be like that..." She briefly but truly revealed her emotion of reminiscence, then put away her expression and continued patiently, "Comparing the world now and the world of doomsday, the biggest difference between the two is time and space - the time and space of the world of doomsday are distorted, and survivors may encounter weird and bizarre phenomena at any time.

"In addition, there are also a large number of powerful monsters. Even though there are blessed monks among humans, they are still unable to recover the lost land, let alone revive human civilization. They can only decline step by step, and the way of survival is becoming more and more distorted in the process of decline."

I didn’t expect it to be a sci-fi disaster movie, but a magical wasteland story... As I listened, my ears caught a word that I couldn’t ignore.

"What is 'Blessed Monk'?"

"In today's terms, it should be 'superpowers'?" she said vaguely.

"There are indeed people with super powers in this era?"

"Maybe. I heard there are some... But unlike the apocalypse, the superpowers of this era don't seem to be well-known."

"Could it be that their number is very small in this era, but increases sharply after the end of the world due to some factors?" I thought of the settings of many doomsday novels on the Internet.

"No... Although I can't guarantee the number, but I heard that they have a very large force in this era..." The topic obviously came to an area she was not familiar with. She could no longer answer fluently as she did at the beginning, and her tone became hesitant. "As for why they are not well-known, I don't know... Maybe there are some taboos and rules. When I first came to this era yesterday, I asked for clues about them, but I couldn't find them right away."

If I can find it immediately, there must be something fishy. I have been to many famous mountains and rivers to visit immortals and ghosts, and I have also tried many fortune-telling Taoist priests and Feng Shui masters who pretended to be ghosts. I don’t know how many times I have investigated a large number of urban ghost stories circulating in the market, but in the end I always returned disappointed.

Is there really a huge superpower force in this era? Even if there are some taboos and rules, I should have bumped into them at least once, right?

Is she really cheating on me?
I swallowed my words, and at the same time noticed that the topic had been diverted to another direction, so I pulled it back.

"Since you are a time traveler, then what is your method of traveling to this era?"

"You misunderstood... I didn't use some tricks to come to this era, and I don't know why I traveled through time. The last thing I did in that era was to work with my friends to escape from the clutches of the great demon..." When she said this, she looked lonely, "But the power gap between the great demon and I was too great, and we would be caught up no matter where we ran. In the end, I tried to use space transfer to take my friends for one last struggle, but for some reason I was transferred to this era, and my friends disappeared... It must be because of me..."

"——Hmm?" I realized the key point, "You? Power gap? Space transfer?"

"Oh, I forgot to explain." She pointed to her chest, "I am the Blessed Monk I just mentioned."

"So, you also have super powers?"

"Yes." "To be honest, I can't believe a single punctuation mark in what you just said. Suddenly telling me about the apocalypse is just wild fantasy to me." I said frankly.

"I think so." She nodded without surprise.

"But since you have super powers, everything will be fine." I stared at her intently, "As long as you use your super powers at least once in front of me, I will believe you and whatever you say."

I am serious.

However, she fell silent, as if she was hesitating whether to give an honest answer.

After a moment, she replied with difficulty: "I can't do it."

"why?"

"My soul was burned when I was escaping from the demon. After coming to this era, I forced myself to use the blessing - that is, superpowers. That incident aggravated the trauma of my soul." She gritted her teeth and said, "When you were talking to the police before, I had already tried to use my power in the room, but I couldn't do it."

It seemed that she was very unwilling to admit her weakness in front of me.

"I can't trust you if you say that..." I said, "And after all, why would you tell such an important thing to an outsider like me?"

At first, she was full of thorns, spoke in an overbearing and tough tone, and showed an intimidating attitude towards me;
Now, although she still maintains an obvious vigilance and distance towards me, she has become willing to spend a lot of time and effort to answer every question of mine wholeheartedly, as if she has no scheming at all.

I don't know what she went through, was it because I protected her in front of the police? Or was it because my lines and acting skills of pretending to be a good person were so wonderful that even her cold and suspicious heart was touched?
She answered my question again.

"It's not that complicated. Although I don't know why I came to this era, I have figured it out. If my time travel really has some important meaning, then perhaps it is to allow me to prevent the coming of the end of the world in this era." She said seriously, "I must warn more people about the approaching end of the world, and you are just the first one. I want to test how you, a 'person who lived before the end of the world', will react to my prophecy, so that I can gain the trust of more people in the future."

"Well, now you have found out the result. As long as you use your superpowers, most people will at least believe you halfway. It's a pity that you can't use them." I said to her in a small way.

"Hmph..." Hearing that, her face turned sour and she immediately fought back, "Whatever you say, I have nothing else to look for you. I have to leave here now, I don't have time to accompany you any more..."

As she spoke, she supported herself on her knees and was about to stand up from the bed, but suddenly her body went limp and she fell down.

Many people with low blood pressure and low blood sugar will black out when they stand up suddenly after squatting. Her current symptoms are very similar to those, or even worse. I quickly stepped forward to support her soft and petite body, but she had already fainted again.

He's really a troublemaker.

I laid her flat on the bed and sat down next to the desk. I looked at her cute and tender face and pondered the doomsday message she had told me earlier.

Doomsday, time travel, blessed monks and people with super powers...

In my opinion, Ma Zao doesn't quite fit my stereotype of a "cold-blooded, cruel, selfish doomsday survivor". At most, she's just a mysterious beautiful girl with great skills and a weird personality. "The doomsday" and "time travel" are even more fantastic. I can't immediately believe that these "settings" really exist in reality.

However, I believe that "super powers" really exist in reality.

The words my friend said in the past came to my mind.

——Since you have never seen real supernatural power, why do you keep investigating ghost stories and legends?
——There must always be some positive feedback...some relevant evidence or clues to be able to persevere, don’t you think this is the case?

Yes, I do.

I have clues and evidence that supernatural forces really exist.

That is me.

I am a person with super powers.

(End of this chapter)