From the end of the world

Chapter 92 Going Home 2
Before I knew about the existence of the Great Impermanence, I always believed that I had the power to fight the whole world on my own. Even if I couldn't defeat the opponent, I wouldn't be defeated by the opponent. Although I didn't have the ambition to fight against the whole world, I did have this confidence in my heart. I couldn't say whether it was self-confidence or arrogance.

However, Zhu Shi told me that the Great Impermanence of Luoshan can manipulate large-scale natural disasters with energy equivalent to hundreds or thousands of atomic bomb explosions. Compared with such incredible strongmen, I am obviously far inferior, so I have never thought of comparing myself with the whole world since then. On the premise that the Great Demon of the Doomsday Era is a fallen and transformed Great Impermanence-level strongman, I speculated that the Disaster Demon is myself in the Doomsday Era, which is obviously overestimating myself.

I would never tell others about that speculation. It sounds like a junior high school boy who fantasizes that he will become some kind of great villain after "blackening". I would definitely laugh at it in my heart. But my speculation is not without basis. Even though I am probably far inferior to the Great Impermanence now, my strength has not stopped growing. Maybe in the future I will be able to grow into a strong man at the level of the Great Impermanence, and then degenerate into a great demon?

Of course, it is better not to fall into depravity if you can. Although I like the plot that "my future self is a famous super villain", but...

If you think about it carefully, there is no important "but". Anyway, I won't tell anyone else, so I'll just admit it to myself. I am indeed a naive person. I actually secretly expected this kind of plot.

As for my question just now, Ma Zao gave a negative answer - she couldn't remember whether she had seen Zhu Shi in the doomsday era.

Due to the influence of the doomsday era, she can no longer remember many people's faces, except for No. 2 Xiaowan, who she lives with day and night. If there is a chance to meet again, she may recognize them. Or maybe she just feels familiar with them - she said so to me.

Ma Zao is now slowly calming down, and he seems to have noticed some problems that he hadn't noticed when he was distracted just now.

"Zhuang Cheng, can you let me see the fragment of your divine seal again?" she asked.

I had no objection, so I took out the fragment of the divine seal again and handed it to her openly.

She just looked at it for a few seconds and then handed it back to me with a very puzzled look.

"Is there anything unusual on this fragment of the divine seal?" I was curious.

“Rather than saying there’s something unusual about this fragment…” she said in great confusion, “it’s better to say that the existence of this fragment itself is an anomaly. The divine seal I want to find shouldn’t be like this…”

"Isn't this the fragment of the divine seal you are looking for?" I asked curiously.

"I did say that I wanted to find the seal of God, but I never said that I had to start from the fragments." She said puzzledly, "According to the records of the seal of God in the Doomsday era, the seal of God was broken after the Doomsday. In other words, the seal of God in this era should still be intact."

Intact? I immediately realized. That's right, the reason why the God's Seal is closely related to the coming of the end of the world is because of its power to change the world. In this case, the God's Seal of this era must be complete. Only a complete God's Seal has the power to change the world.

So how do I explain the fragment of the divine seal in my hand? I got this fragment of the divine seal from the basement of the room on the 15th floor. Could it be that the basement of the room on the 15th floor is actually connected to the future after the end of the world?
That kind of speculation is too leaps forward. And if that's the case, leaving aside the No. 2 bowl, how did Xuanming get the fragments of the divine seal, No. 1 and No. 4?
After thinking about it, I came up with a guess: "Could it be that the divine seals of this era were broken from the beginning, but were later collected by someone. Then, when the end of the world came, they were broken again?"

"...According to the information I have come across, the divine seal should have only been broken once, which was when the apocalypse came. There shouldn't have been an earlier one..."

Ma Zao fell into confusion and contemplation.

After a long time, we finally returned to the door of the house, and she finally emerged from the quagmire of thinking.

I opened the door and ushered her into the hallway, turning on the lights. Because she had only been gone for three days, everything in the living room remained basically the same.

She took off her cat whisker mask and looked at the familiar living room scene with a hint of nostalgia on her face.

"Welcome back." I tried to create a homely atmosphere. "Do you want to eat first, or take a shower first?"

"No need to take a shower. Zhu Shi should have explained my ability to you, right? I can use my ability to clean my body and clothes." She said, "As for eating, I don't need to eat. I can use my ability to reset my hunger level. It's just..."

As she was talking, she seemed to be a little moved. She probably hadn't eaten anything in the past three days. Before she could say "forget it", I immediately said, "I'll make it for you right away."

"Um..." She nodded shyly.

I took out the ingredients from the refrigerator, went into the kitchen, put on an apron, and cooked for Ma Zao like I did in the past. As I followed these familiar steps, I couldn't help but feel like a runaway train had finally gotten back on track, and the big rock in my heart seemed to have finally landed.

Ma Zao is finally back...

I couldn't help but relax my whole body, and my always stiff and tense mind suddenly became active. Whether it was the doomsday that was like a building about to collapse, or the unfathomable Luoshan, to me, they were far less important than Ma Zao, who truly changed my life.

In fact, I have thought that if the end of the world is destined to come, I only need to wait at home and I can have a great adventure. But is the future really destined?

What if the doomsday doesn't come? What if the doomsday comes early or is stopped by someone else while I'm sitting at home waiting? The doomsday is a future event, and it's unpredictable. In my eyes, it's no different from a blank check.

Even though I now believe in the existence of the doomsday and can seriously consider the details of the doomsday, I still cannot look forward to it with all my heart. Nor can I compare it with the numbness that is truly certain and can be touched with my own hands.

This is true even for Luoshan. Zhu Shi once told me that if I couldn't find out the reason why I was repelled by the weird, I wouldn't be able to connect with the weird even if I became a member of Luoshan. Now, even though I have found out the reason, I still can't find a solution. That would just make the same mistake again.

To be honest, I am actually a little curious about that kind of development. Now that I have already connected with Zhu Shi and Lu Youxun, and have become Luoshan's heretic Wuchang, how can the repulsion effect drive me out of this weird world? This is obviously impossible.

But I am not so impulsive as to explore this mystery in practice. As I said, I know the difference between a full meal and a full meal. I cannot accept the cost of returning to an ordinary life in the future to solve this not-so-exciting mystery. At most, I just think about it.

In my worst imagination, if I never find Ma Zao, maybe the world around me will return to normal again. "Demon Hunter Zhu Shi" will disappear, and the only person who will appear in front of me from now on is "Female College Student Zhu Shi". The Zhu family is no longer a demon hunter family, but just a local invisible wealthy family. Characters such as Lu Youxun will disappear and never appear in front of me again.

I understand that such a change is not in line with common sense. However, if my inability to connect with strange things is also a manifestation of some kind of weirdness, then it would undoubtedly be a luxury to expect it to follow common sense.

Even if the situation was not so bad, such as when I teamed up with Agent Kong to investigate an abandoned construction site, even though we had used the soul-luring talisman, the evil spirit still did not appear. Even if it was just this, I could not accept it. It meant that wherever I went, I would just be a stagnant pool of water, even if I was with people who could have encountered strange things.

Come to think of it, when I was with Agent Kong, I should have still been under the influence of Ma Zao's jinx physique... Does that mean there are really no evil spirits in that place?

Just then, my phone rang.

I was stewing meat at the moment, so I had my hands free for a while, so I took out my cell phone and looked down.

It was Zhu Shi who called. I went to the corridor and answered the phone. Her voice came from the other end of the line, saying that she had handed the severed hand to Lu Youxun.

"What did Lu Youxun say?" I asked.

"Things are not going well for him." She sighed, "That weirdo really has the ability to resist divination. Lu Chan and I analyzed it and felt that the problem should be with the ability to change shape and shadow.

"Unlike the last monster who could only transfer damage to others, this monster can transfer all the causes and effects of damage to others when the power is activated passively. The divination spell may have been affected by the properties of this power, so it was deviated to the last monster last time.

"In short, we can't count on Lu Chan this time. Didn't Ma Zao say before that she can also use her ability to track the target? Can you help ask her later?"

“Okay, I’ll ask,” I said.

"Also, don't forget to remind her to be careful not to be discovered by the Transcendentalists." She said seriously, "It's best not to let Lu Chan know that we have found her."

"I see." I said, "Also, I have an important question for you."

"What's the problem?" she asked curiously.

"Didn't you say before that the reason I can't encounter monsters is because my power is too strong, and that the Great Impermanence has the same problem?" I asked.

"Well, to be exact, besides the Great Impermanence, there are also a very small number of extremely powerful demon hunters who encounter the same problem," she replied.

"So, how do they solve this problem?" I asked.

(End of this chapter)