Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 415 - 387 Ready

Chapter 415: 387 Ready

Upon hearing my question, Zhu Shi and Mazao exchanged a glance.

Then Zhu Shi asked in confusion, "Your question sounds a bit strange. Do you think my father... Ying Lingyun will definitely fail to resurrect Yinyue? Have you gotten some kind of clue?"

As she spoke, she looked thoughtful. "To resurrect Yinyue, we need another Yinyue, which is my brother Changan, and an enormous amount of power... The first condition he has already obtained, and according to Grandpa’s words, the latter requires at least draining ten Great Impermanences...

"If he is destined to fail in resurrecting Yinyue, it should be because he can’t achieve the latter, right? According to common sense, he would need at least eight Lushan Great Impermanences and the assistance from Xuanming and the Taoyuan Village Master who are outside of Luoshan. Of course, you could be added too, but you won’t be helping him; and even if one or two Great Impermanences suddenly go crazy and help him, it’s impossible for all of them to lend a hand.

"But according to what you told us a few days ago, he still has at least two Divine Seal Fragments in his possession. Although it might not be good to attribute all speculations to the Divine Seal Fragments, maybe he can really use them to create some miracle and forcibly obtain the power equivalent to ten Great Impermanences."

Zhu Shi’s theory made sense, so I continued to ask, "Then... assuming he’s fulfilled both conditions, but for some reason, still can’t achieve his wish, what do you think could be the reason?"

Zhu Shi looked even more puzzled. She propped her elbow and held her chin, thinking for a long time but still couldn’t figure it out. She gave up and said, "I don’t know. Why do you suddenly ask this?"

"Because Yinyue’s attitude concerns me a little," I said.

Last time, in Yinyue’s spirit world, while confronting her disguised as Changan, she said Changan was just a dream she had created, an illusion, and linked my attempt to rescue this ’illusion’ to Ying Lingyun, claiming he too liked to cling onto ’that kind of non-existent phantom.’

In order to save Changan, I kept pondering Yinyue’s every move while recuperating, analyzing the flaws she might have exposed, and searching for the clues I might have missed. When I recalled her words, I felt a sense of discord.

Ying Lingyun’s goal is to resurrect the familiar, living, real Yinyue. Even if the Changan I knew might just be a dream made by Yinyue, the real Yinyue should indeed exist. For Yinyue to refer to it as ’that kind of non-existent phantom’ is extremely contradictory.

However, there’s one thing I have figured out. Regardless of what she means by her words, she holds a negative view on Ying Lingyun’s intention to resurrect the ’real Yinyue’—she clearly believes Ying Lingyun is bound to fail.

While it might be fine for others to say so, Yinyue’s own attitude cannot be ignored, as it could likely affect whether or not I can save Changan.

Perhaps because both Ying Lingyun and Weichi were men who had lost loved ones, my thoughts unexpectedly turned to Weichi, and then to the Old Fist God’s rhetorical question to Weichi.

—"What is displayed in your eyes, the real her, or the her conjured by your one-sided imagination?"

I continued to converse with Zhu Shi for a while, but we still couldn’t arrive at a credible conclusion, so we had to set the topic aside. Then, Zhu Shi took Mazao and left, seemingly to continue enlisting Mazao’s help in communicating with the Yama Sword.

In these past few days, Zhu Shi often dragged Mazao for sightseeing around the Luoshan Headquarters. The surrounding areas of the Luoshan Headquarters City have quite a few sightseeing spots, including bizarre things unseen in ordinary cities. Mazao seemed to enjoy this "sightseeing," an activity filled with a rich essence of civilization, which didn’t exist during the Doomsday Era.

Their relationship was getting better and better.

Previously, even though Zhu Shi wanted to get close to Mazao, Mazao always shied away like a skittish cat. But now that Mazao knew Zhu Shi was Little Bowl, after getting over the initial adjustment period, she gradually let go of her distant attitude and began to try to get close to Zhu Shi.

Thinking back, if Mazao hadn’t met me initially, she might have encountered Zhu Shi because she was initially in the area that Zhu Shi was in charge of patrolling. With Governance Ideology and Extraordinaryism initially clashing over Mazao’s location, it’s possible that Zhu Shi would also have received the task to find Mazao.

Unlike me, Zhu Shi is truly a ’good-hearted person’ who wouldn’t ignore an injured girl left alone. They might have gradually embraced each other after initial adjustments, and under Mazao’s influence, the person who picked up the Divine Seal Fragment in Changan’s rented apartment basement would naturally be Zhu Shi. Then Zhu Shi might meet another self in the Void Realm, and Mazao would also realize that Zhu Shi was a friend she met during the Doomsday Era...

Then, driven by destiny, Zhu Shi would discover that the enemy’s true identity was her father, unravel the shocking conspiracy surrounding her brother, and embark on a magical adventure, quickly growing under the guidance of the family heirloom magic artifact, the Yama Sword, and her friend Mazao’s support... I couldn’t help but picture such a story in my mind, even feeling that this version seemed to flow more ’logically’ than one with my involvement.

However, if I were to tell Zhu Shi this, she’d probably laugh at me, saying my head is filled with fantasy stories; or she might joke that I’m actually the third party in her and Mazao’s relationship?

Later, the one who used the Power of Divine Seal Fragments to wish for Mazao and I to be together was Little Bowl, so if she wants to blame me for taking Mazao away, she might as well blame another version of herself.

At this moment, a voice came from a distance.

"Zhuang Cheng, we are ready, come quickly."

This was Fa Zheng’s voice. It did not echo in the environment but precisely reached my ears. I immediately used my perception to backtrack the source of the sound, which was in the clearing of the Primordial Forest outside Luoshan Headquarters.

Not only was Fa Zheng there, but Divine Light was also present, and even Ming Zhuo stood with a sullen face nearby. Besides them, over a hundred demon hunters wearing black Impermanence uniforms stood around, looking ready for action.

Taking a step in that direction, the scenery around me changed rapidly, and I arrived at the clearing, where a group of people focused their gaze on me.

Ming Zhuo also cast a gloomy look at me.