Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 548 - 514 Communication Across Time and Space

Chapter 548: 514 Communication Across Time and Space

"Did you hear any sound?"

I rephrased my question, and both Youhun and Tan Xiang just shook their heads. Meanwhile, the sound continued to echo in my ear. Initially, it was so faint that one might think it was a hallucination or a sound imagined.

But as time passed, the voice that kept calling my name gradually became clearer, and I was gradually able to discern the details within. It was a man’s voice, and it seemed somewhat familiar, as if it belonged to someone I knew.

Could it be another kind of doomsday anomaly?

I could easily think of this possibility. Even in the modern world, there are similar ghost stories, such as "if you hear someone familiar calling your name while walking at night, never respond, and definitely don’t turn around," which are well-known even to those uninterested in ghost story culture.

I immediately became alert, instructing the two to be on guard. Without needing a reminder, Youhun had already pulled out a small knife and assumed a defensive posture. This small knife might be the tool he uses to create maps of scars on his arms.

Even Tan Xiang quickly acquired the basic qualities of a novice survivor, adopting a vigilant stance of watching and listening in all directions under unknown conditions.

However, I then realized that the phenomenon occurring to me did not seem to come from a doomsday anomaly.

It felt like the symptoms of ’auditory hallucinations’ intensifying, and more abnormal symptoms appeared as well. I then experienced ’visual hallucinations.’ In just a moment, I could see that things were not as simple as I had speculated. Because in my vision, there appeared a grey mist.

This is the grey mist of the Void Realm.

Youhun and Tan Xiang seemed unable to see this grey mist, maintaining their alert stances in different directions, while I did not have time to say anything before the grey mist rapidly thickened, enveloping me in an instant.

The figures of those two seemed to vanish into the thick fog, and even when I reached out to grab them, I couldn’t grasp them where they originally stood. It was as if I had been thrown into a world composed entirely of grey mist, with a monotonous grey landscape in every direction. This kind of abnormal scene did not reflexively instill fear in me because in the past, I had confronted such things countless times.

The scene before me was like the Void Realm itself, as if by continuously moving forward, I could reach the familiar rocky seat area.

However, this time, I did not enter this domain through my spirit. Looking at my body, I found I was not in my shadowy form but had arrived in this place resembling the Void Realm in my physical body.

Moreover, here, even without Little Bowl by my side, I seemed capable of using my powers normally. A small fireball was casually summoned by me, and being able to freely use my powers gave me some reassurance.

The question is, why was I suddenly transferred to the Void Realm? Is this truly the Void Realm? What connection exists between this phenomenon and the voice that called me earlier?

Could it be that the Void Realm, which once led Xuanming to destruction, has finally been repaired by the Master of Divine Seal, and the Master of Divine Seal is now summoning us Void Envoys to the Void Realm to announce this?

This speculation was quickly overturned by myself, because I could still sense my connection with the Divine Seal Fragment, and this connection was still in a state warped by the Xuanming Fire. If the Void Realm were repaired, this connection should also be repaired accordingly.

Moreover, I could feel that if I willed it, I could tear apart the grey mist surrounding me at any time, or even destroy this greyish domain itself, thus breaking free from within. If it were the Master of Divine Seal’s Void Realm, it shouldn’t be this fragile.

Or is it that some doomsday anomaly has read my memory and simulated the Void Realm scene to do something to me? But could a doomsday anomaly really intervene in my consciousness to this extent?

Then, I realized a possible explanation. Though it seemed outrageous, aside from the doomsday anomaly, it seemed to be the only other possibility.

And as if in response to this conjecture, the grey mist before my eyes began to condense and intensify, deepening in color as if clumping up when wet, and eventually taking on a definite shape.

It was a dark silhouette, flickering and shimmering like a video with an unstable signal.

"Zhuang Cheng... Zhuang Cheng...!" he kept calling, "...can...you hear...can you hear me!?"

I finally recognized the voice and asked, "Is that Weichi?"

The one remotely intervening in my consciousness turned out to be neither the Master of Divine Seal nor a doomsday anomaly, but Weichi.

Keep in mind Weichi is in the modern world; how could he possibly contact someone in the Doomsday Era—if it were anyone else, such thoughts would surely arise. Coincidentally, I happened to know he possessed such skills, which also fit the possibility I had just thought of.

Weichi had once told me, as long as research on the Divine Seal Fragment continued, he could recreate the Void Realm using the connections between each Void Envoy’s Divine Seal Fragment, or locate other Void Envoys and initiate contact.

According to his words, it could be done in two months soonest, or by the end of this year, he would perfect and implement this positioning and contacting technology.

Even if the target was Little Bowl in the Doomsday Era, he had confidence he could locate and establish an information link with them.

Could it be that this phenomenon now is the result of his technological achievement?

In other words, although I’ve been active in the Doomsday Era only a short time, at least two months have passed in the modern world?

No, the time flow speed shouldn’t be compared like this between different eras. From my perspective in the future, the time period before I traveled and the period two months later there should coexist simultaneously. So receiving this kind of contact on the ’first day’ I arrived in the Doomsday Era could also be considered natural.

"...Zhuang...Zhuang Cheng...can you hear me...?" Weichi kept repeating his words.

I raised my voice: "Weichi, I am here!"

"...sorry...it’s not very...clear here..." Weichi seemed to say he couldn’t hear clearly, "...in...the Doomsday...?"

"Yes, I’ve arrived in the Doomsday Era."

I struggled to discern his words, noting as well that the grey mist around me appeared to be slowly dissipating.

The communication link on Weichi’s side was evidently unstable and could disconnect at any moment.

Seeing this, I decided to seize the most crucial information and continued speaking, "Could you please relay to Mazao that I’m not dead, and I’m in the Doomsday Era."

"...Sorry...I...can’t hear clearly..." Weichi seemed to be striving to communicate.

"Tell Mazao, I’m in the Doomsday."

I repeated the most critical part once, then again and again. It is uncertain if my words have been transmitted effectively, as the grey mist around me became thinner, and the sound from his side grew increasingly faint and discontinuous. Presumably, this is how my sound was perceived on his side too.

Then, Weichi stuttered out words that were hard for me to ignore: "...we...Ming Zhuo..."

"What about Ming Zhuo?"

Reflectively questioning while waking up as though from a dream, I realized a very serious issue.

I’ve really been blinded by the bizarre happenings of the Doomsday Era! I almost forgot, out of sheer excitement, that I left a significant landmine in the modern world, which is Ming Zhuo.

Ming Zhuo gave up on opening the gateway to the Post-mortem World by killing Mazao, not because he truly abandoned the idea but because of my inhibitory presence.

If I were to die outside, what Ming Zhuo would do is imaginable. It’s not a pessimistic prediction but an obvious fact.

Although at this moment I’m not truly dead, for the modern world, it’s as if I am.

With Ming Zhuo’s cautious personality, even if I suddenly vanished, he might not attack Mazao right away. However, as time drags on, once he determines that I indeed will not return, his malicious intentions would inevitably target Mazao again.