Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 350 - 325 Zhu Shi and Little Bowl Continued

Chapter 350: 325 Zhu Shi and Little Bowl Continued

Mazao and I had lunch outside, and during that time, Mr. Zhu sent over some brief intelligence on recent developments, which I skimmed through.

Firstly, regarding the aftermath of the Moon Concealing Mountain City incident, as expected, it caused a huge uproar nationwide. You don’t even need this report to understand the extent of the commotion; just looking at the hot news topics online with a cellphone is enough to realize how big the situation has gotten.

For a time, Moon Concealing Mountain City was shrouded in fog, making it inaccessible, a situation that all stakeholders and interested parties witnessed. Even when the fog hadn’t yet lifted, the incident had already become a major topic online. After the fog lifted, a flood of witnesses went online and to the news media to share their firsthand experiences, providing plenty of sensational information for subsequent dissemination.

The sudden massive earthquake, the crowd calmed by mysterious forces amidst the chaos, buildings and injured people miraculously repairing as if time had reversed... All these unbelievable stories spread to the outside world through the narratives of the witnesses, with the half-destroyed Moon Concealing Mountain ultimately capturing the most attention.

The sorry state of Moon Concealing Mountain after the event was exposed to the public eye. It was not just the marks of a large-scale explosion or a super meteorite crater; half of the mountain had been blown away. A geomorphological change event that necessitated redrawing the local map, leaving experts scratching their heads, unable to fully explain what exactly blasted away half of the mountain with pure scientific knowledge, and how the high-temperature burnt holes formed in the remaining half.

Unlike those bizarre events that can’t be explained merely because of their eccentric nature, this was a strange event that couldn’t be explained due to its excessively large scale.

This is the turmoil that happened in the public society, and what follows might be intelligence that is more important to me.

Although I exerted the power of a Great Impermanence during my time at Moon Concealing Mountain, it seems that Luo Mountain is still unaware that a new Great Impermanence has been born.

The mana fluctuations that I emitted while fighting Chen Long with all my strength during my Great Success Rank could be sensed by demon hunters in other cities around Saltwater City, not to mention the mana fluctuations from me after becoming a Great Impermanence. The reason why Luo Mountain has not confirmed this is still due to Yinyue’s Fatian Xiangdi fog hiding all internal changes. Of course, the fog can’t block the mana of Great Impermanence, but if it’s just the fluctuations, it can essentially be sealed off.

Gua Tianshi definitely knows that I have become a Great Impermanence, but he seems to have no intention of publicizing it. Maybe he hasn’t even told Ming Zhuo, who stands on the same side of Extraordinaryism as himself. As for whether Ming Zhuo himself has sensed it, that’s not easy to say. All Great Impermanences possess intuition akin to gods, and if an enemy of yours suddenly gains the power of a Great Impermanence, they would most likely be aware of it.

Speaking of perception, in fact, nowadays I can sense some things that are very close at hand but were undetectable in the past due to a lack of sensitivity.

One of the most noteworthy is my connection with the Divine Seal Fragments.

Now, I can faintly grasp the connection between myself and the Divine Seal Fragment bound to me. It is an elusive sensation as if one is using a Bluetooth mouse to control the cursor on the screen; I seemed to have a similar connection with the Divine Seal Fragment.

When I place the Divine Seal Fragment at a distance and try to draw it back through this feeling of interactivity, the Divine Seal Fragment automatically returns to my hand. Although the Divine Seal Fragment had also shown automatic returning behavior before, it was triggered passively. Now, I can initiate it actively, which is enough to prove that this feeling of interactivity is not just an illusion.

Merely summoning back the Divine Seal Fragment is, of course, not impressive, but I’m confident that this is only the beginning. As long as I delve deep enough, I should be able to cause the Divine Seal Fragment to exhibit more variations.

For instance... like other Chosen Ones, using the Power of Divine Seal Fragments.

I don’t know what effects the Power of Divine Seal Fragments will have on me, nor do I know how long it will take to achieve this, but at least the Power of Divine Seal Fragments is no longer something out of my reach.

However, if other Chosen Ones can do this based on their fate with the Divine Seal Fragment, then perhaps I can only say that I achieved this through brute force.

According to Fu Feng, although Divine Seal Fragments normally cannot be moved by those without fate, with the power of Great Impermanence, it’s possible to force it. Perhaps when one’s power reaches a certain level, what was once out of reach because of the absence of fate becomes destined for them.

After the meal, Mazao and I headed to the city center and met Mr. Zhu and Zhu Shi in a villa within a high-end residential area.

Mr. Zhu mentioned in the message that he has important intelligence to share, and since we were meeting up, he would save this information for our meeting.

The meeting was still conducted with a sense of concealment; Mazao and I both used our teleportation abilities to get there, after all, we couldn’t let the forces of Ming Zhuo know about the connection between the Zhu family and me. According to Mr. Zhu, at this stage, the need for such secretive behavior has become less imperative. Now that I’ve become an Impermanence, many things can be done more openly in the future. And I do plan on going to issue a challenge to Ming Zhuo afterward, to honor the war declaration I made in the past.

For now, I briefly briefed them on my accomplishments.

"What... Senior Brother Zhuang has become an Impermanence, and Mazao has reached the Great Success Rank?" Zhu Shi was astonished.

Seeing Sister Zhu give such a considerate reaction, my true emotions went without saying, although I still maintained composure on the surface. For some reason, I felt an even more tangible sense of reality about becoming an Impermanence. Although Mr. Zhu had already been informed by me before the meeting, his face still held the aftertaste of a dream. Perhaps it was akin to the feeling of an ancient scholar returning home in glory after a successful imperial examination.

"Then wouldn’t that make me a character who gets discarded after an inflated combat power in the early phase?" Zhu Shi expressed a strange lamentation.

Mazao looked at Zhu Shi with a complex gaze, and then attempted to call out: "Little..."

She stopped herself halfway through the call, her face full of perplexity.

"...Little?" Zhu Shi exhibited a curious expression, "What’s wrong, Mazao? Do you have something to say to me?"

"Um..." Mazao hesitated to speak.

"This matter is related to Little Bowl." I said.

Zhu Shi was even more puzzled, while Mr. Zhu asked with a curious face, "—’Little Bowl’ is?"

"I will explain about Little Bowl next."

I recounted in detail my experiences around Moon Concealing Mountain, and also disclosed the relationship between Little Bowl and Mazao, as well as how I discovered that the young Zhu Shi from my childhood looked exactly like Little Bowl.

To facilitate Mr. Zhu’s comprehensive understanding, I also took the opportunity to explain Mazao’s origins from the Doomsday Era.

This secret originally wasn’t considered a secret, as Mazao had intended to make it widely known from the start. It only became secretive halfway through because we learned from the Human Bureau that a person claiming to be a Blessed Monk was providing Ying Lingyun with future technology in secret, which led to the speculation that the hostile Impermanence might have malicious intentions towards Mazao related to this. Now that we’ve proven it’s for other reasons, we can somewhat lift that vigilance.

However, "others from the Doomsday" are likely to actually exist. Considering various possible risks, perhaps it still shouldn’t be widely disclosed. After discussing with Mazao, we unanimously decided at least to let Mr. Zhu know first.

From the standpoint of emotion and reason, even during the period of our enmity with Lushan Great Impermanence, Mr. Zhu had always been providing intelligence support to us at great risk in secrecy; it would be unreasonable to keep him in the dark. From the standpoint of practical needs, future Doomsday investigations will require someone with connections and an intelligence network inside Luo Mountain to gather clues, and Mr. Zhu, being trustworthy and meeting the criteria, is the most suitable candidate right now.

That said, I still withheld information related to the Void Realm and Divine Seal Fragments. I originally intended to disclose it, but Zhu Shi kept making gestures at me from across, so I had to temporarily refrain.

Mr. Zhu listened to my explanation, his eyebrows twitching and furrowing frequently, his expression toggling between doubt and belief, occasionally showing a thoughtful look.

"I... am I Little Bowl?" Zhu Shi’s expression was also quite vivid, "I somehow shrank into a little girl in the Doomsday Era, started calling Mazao ’sister’, and we went on adventures and survived together in the ruins... wait, that’s not right, if that’s the future, shouldn’t Little Bowl be my daughter or something?"

"Hmm? If she’s a daughter, then who is the father..." Mr. Zhu glanced at me.

"...Although it isn’t entirely impossible, I think even if they were mother and daughter, they shouldn’t look so alike," I said, "Also, I have another question... Does your family have a white box?"