Odd Containment Specialist.

Chapter 906 World Destruction is the Norm

Xia Shou didn't immediately agree, but replied: "I'll think about it."

Su Yue has time to think about other things while on a business trip. Is this job really that easy?
Could it be that the trouble at Möbius Canyon has been resolved?
Xia Shou clicked on Su Yue's profile picture and sent: 【How's work going on your end?】

Su Yue: [There's not much progress. Although my eyes can see the death lines of the Heart of the Rift, the speed and fineness of the changes in the death lines are beyond my current ability to cut through. So the plan to use my eyes to kill the Heart of the Rift has been abandoned.]

My assignment from above is to assist in patrolling and defending against possible attacks from the Demon King.

I heard that Xia Shou's matter has been resolved. Is everything going smoothly?

Xia Shou thought the other party's reply was very skillful. If he didn't know that Yun Xiao was Su Yue, he would definitely think she was working hard based on this reply.

Xia Shou: [How active is the Heart of the Rending King?]

Su Yue: [According to the relevant person in charge, the activity level has reached a hundred times the usual level.]

The bridges connecting the canyons were formed from corpses that fell in and mutated, but now the rate at which the Heart of the Rift is being cut down is too fast, causing the number of bridges to decrease sharply, and the previous supply chain of corpses is no longer sufficient.

I heard that the General Administration has approved a new plan for prisoner transportation, deciding to temporarily transfer prisoners from all over the world to this area to serve as bridge materials.

Sigh, lately everyone in the Canyon camp seems to be in a doomsday mood, and I'm starting to get anxious myself.

If all the bridges in this canyon were cut down, would the Earth really spring back into a long, flat plane?

Xia Shou: [Don't worry, everything will be alright.]

As he typed those words, Xia Shou recalled what the Death Notes had said—[World-ending natural disasters do not happen by chance, but rather occur with high frequency.]

However, they were all blocked by people like me, which is why the world is peaceful and stable now.

Saving the world is nothing special. The world itself is just a glass ball that is constantly tossed around by circus clowns. If you're not careful, it will fall to the ground and it's game over. Then the history of destruction will be included in the seven-branched history tree.

Once you've climbed high enough in the tree, you'll realize that world destruction is the norm, just like constantly starting a new game in a single-player game.
Now, Xia Shouzhen truly understood what those words meant.

That's not an exaggeration at all, that's exactly how it is.

The counterattack of the Scar Age will destroy the present world. The Earth turning from a Möbius strip into a long strip will also destroy the world. And what Fatty and Sister Ying are dealing with seems to be directly related to the survival of a percentage of humanity.

When you only know one thing, your heart will race and you'll feel tense. But when you realize there are many such things, your emotions will stabilize, just like the difference in mindset between owing one million and owing one trillion.

Xia Shou even began to be optimistic about the survival of the world, and became more concerned about his own situation.

After all, the world-ending crisis didn't start to occur so frequently after he joined the Control Bureau. The world has survived all these years. Does it mean that the world will be destroyed if he doesn't contribute?
Thinking this way can greatly reduce mental stress.

Now, Natsumori is more concerned about the situation at Merlin's House than the crisis of Earth's deformation.

It could even be said that his distrust of the rebuilt Scar Age was largely due to Merlin's House.

Because, after the Scar Era was reset, the door in Merlin's House that sealed Vero was still not firmly secured. Although he casually created a few anomalous events that closely resembled the patching characteristics after returning, and devoured some anomalous entities, low-level anomalous entities were merely a temporary fix for Xia Shou now.

Even now, Xia Shou still doesn't understand what caused the abnormality of the dog's seal.

If it was due to some changes in the Scar Era, now that the Scar Era has been reset, the elements that caused the seal to waver should also have been reset.

But in reality, that's not the case; the doors of Verlo remain broken and dilapidated.

Alice didn't know the reason behind this, but the Dead Record Notes provided a clue.

The notes' answer is:

The seal on Merlin's House is very perfect. As long as the desire to seal is continuously provided after the seal is completed, the door cannot be destroyed. All the doors before you seal other anomalies have completed a perfect internal cycle of desire, just like a stable ecosystem. Without external interference, the seal cannot be loosened.

However, some seals are quite special. They were imperfect from the moment they were sealed. There are many reasons for the imperfection of the seals, one of which is the clone effect.

For example, if a collective anomaly with an ecological pattern similar to a swarm is sealed, and you seal almost all the insects but miss a few that participated, then the seal is not absolute from the beginning.

If the insects that escaped die outside, that's fine. But if they don't die, they might slowly grow stronger. If they grow into even more powerful anomalies due to various circumstances, then the majority of the insect swarm that you originally sealed will have a smaller share of the overall power, which could cause the seal to loosen.

Just like in Yu-Gi-Oh!, the Dark Wizard's limbs and head were sealed; if you only seal one hand, the seal is obviously not strong enough.

Xia Shou then asked, "Then why did it suddenly become unstable?"

The idea behind the notebook is "distance." The shaking of the seal comes from the resonance of external forces, and based on everything that has happened so far, the loosening of the Vero Gate began at the same time as the fall of the underworld.

Therefore, the Dead Notes provides an assumption.

The Velo sealed within the door is not the complete Velo; a part of Velo remains outside. The fall of the underworld caused the Velo outside to become active, indirectly shaking the seal of Merlin's House.

Of course, Death Note also emphasized at the end that this was just a wild guess. The seal in Merlin's House was so ancient that it was impossible to trace. Apart from Alice, who had not lost her memory, no one knew the past background of all the doors. So he couldn't be sure what the situation was with that door.

To truly investigate this matter, we would probably have to reach out to the First King's beloved dog, who was not yet sealed away, during the Scar Era.

In this matter, he and Ximen Qing shared the same goal.

But to be honest, Xia Shou was very reluctant to come into contact with Vero.

He knew very well how terrifying that dog was.

Fortunately, he has already come up with a solution. As long as he can find a suitable candidate, then Vero will just be an ordinary stray dog.

If someone meets the criteria, it might be difficult for them to find someone on their own, but it's a different story if the power of the regulatory authority is mobilized.

(End of this chapter)