Apocalyptic Era: Starting from picking up a Bishoujo
Chapter 549 - 515 Communication Across Time and Space续

Chapter 549: 515 Communication Across Time and Space续

Based on my understanding of Ming Zhuo, for at least six months after my "disappearance," he wouldn’t dare take action against Mazao.

And as long as Zhu Shi spends six months diligently, although she might not fully master the White Tiger Killing Power of the Yama Sword, she wouldn’t fall to a position where she is at the mercy of others. The White Tiger Killing Power is a force specialized in combat; even a slight mastery might allow her to exchange a few blows with an enemy at Ming Zhuo’s level. In terms of defensive battle, there’s a chance it might barely hold.

If we can delay for another two or three months, allowing Zhu Shi to completely master the Yama Sword, perhaps she could rise to a level where she could compete equally with Ming Zhuo...

However, all this is based on optimistic assumptions. What if Ming Zhuo acts against Mazao earlier? What if my calculations are wrong, and even after six months of communicating with the Yama Sword, Zhu Shi still can’t defend against Ming Zhuo’s offensive? What if Ming Zhuo employs some scheme, making it impossible to delay for those additional two or three months?

Should I abandon my attachment to the Doomsday Era and return to the modern world?

Purely from the perspective of my original aspiration, Mazao is no longer useful to me, and the Doomsday Era is the place I wish most to stay. Yet, the thought that Ming Zhuo might attack Mazao again, perhaps even kill her, stirs a strong rage within me. Even if I reluctantly choose to remain in the Doomsday Era, I may never be able to fully immerse myself in its adventures.

No... perhaps I really can achieve such a thing.

For I never regret the actions I take. I swore this to myself and have never felt I couldn’t achieve it. I am the type who forgives my own shameless behavior quickly, even when I do something wrong. It’s my nature. But, at least at this moment, I’m not yearning to become that sort of self.

Is there a way to have the best of both worlds? If there’s a method to freely travel between the Doomsday Era and the modern world, then wouldn’t I be spared from this dilemma?

Since the Human God Huang Quan from the Evangelical Institute managed to travel to the modern world and inadvertently sent me to the Doomsday Era, perhaps this wish isn’t just a fool’s dream.

The surrounding gray mist is fading, and communication with Weichi seems to be entering its final moments. Weichi himself seems to have realized this, muttering words: "...I will...try...again..."

He might be trying to say he will attempt to connect again.

I suddenly realized—does this mean that I, in the Doomsday Era, might have the chance to establish stable information exchange with the modern world?

If even such an outrageous thing can be done, does it mean returning from the Doomsday Era to the modern world... or even freely moving between the two eras isn’t without direction?

Is Weichi really capable of researching a "time machine"? This intriguing thought sprang to my mind. If he truly can accomplish it, then I might not need to struggle with indecision any longer.

Finally, the humanoid form condensed by the gray mist disintegrated in front of me, along with the surrounding gray mist that completely dissipated.

The communication link between Weichi and me was thus severed.

Coming back to consciousness, I had returned to the Abandoned Evangelical Hospital. Wandering Souls and Tan Xiang stood on either side of me, one tense and alert to the surrounding changes, the other with an enigmatic expression observing me.

"—Were you attacked by something?" Tan Xiang asked uneasily, "You’ve been standing there in a daze without any reaction since just now... Is there some formidable monster lurking nearby? In which direction?"

Wandering Souls also glanced at me out of the corner of his eye, as if silently assessing my mental state.

I slightly organized my thoughts. This communication couldn’t be said to have gone smoothly, and it’s hard to judge whether the information I wanted to convey was accurately relayed. But as the saying goes, "once you have one, you can have two"; just anticipate a second communication. I can’t immediately send myself back to the modern world either, and haven’t even explored the direction of action. Worrying now is futile. It’s better to focus on the goal of "continuing to search for the Three-Life Stone Powder."

"It’s fine, I wasn’t attacked; I was just lost in thought," I said amidst reflection, "As for the monster..."

Saying this, I suddenly realized and my words faltered.

Because I sensed vaguely, nearby, in a corner beyond the reach of sight, something seemed to truly be silently lurking in the dark.

The other party is observing us.

However, the other party is probably not the monster that Tan Xiang mentioned. This feeling of being watched from the shadows, if I’m not mistaken, the other party should be human. I can sense the "human emotions" contained within it.

Alertness, doubt, curiosity, rejection... This person lurking in the shadows seems to be scrutinizing and analyzing like a human, unsure of how to deal with us.

For the time being, I can’t discern which direction this person is hiding. Although there are factors like the Doomsday environment, their lurking skills are quite impressive. After all, even if my perception isn’t very accurate, I can enhance my hearing to scan the surroundings. Inside this Abandoned Evangelical Hospital, I can clearly capture even the slightest bubbles rising and bursting underwater. To remain undetected by me is no small feat that just anyone could accomplish.

I pretended to be oblivious and continued exploring the Abandoned Evangelical Hospital with the wandering soul and Tan Xiang. The lurker also seemed to secretly follow us, observing us from different angles.

Exploring within such a broken building is quite an attractive ruin exploration activity for me. However, Tan Xiang appeared to be the opposite, or perhaps he was simply unable to stand the eerie and terrifying atmosphere formed by the potential emergence of the strange coupled with the current silence, so he spoke again to the wandering soul.

"This place used to be the Tai Sui Evangelical Institute, and Tai Sui was the God you used to worship, right?" Tan Xiang asked, "But here, it seems there’s no statue or painting of any God... what kind of God is he really?"

"I vaguely remember, but I can directly tell you the reason why there are no statues or paintings," the wandering soul answered, "In my impression, Tai Sui is a God who does not like to be venerated or worshiped. He even dislikes being treated as a God.

"Although there were places to worship him inside the Tai Sui Evangelical Institute, they were rarely used. In the past, believers secretly carved his statues from wood to venerate him, and after Tai Sui discovered this, he severely criticized the action. Since then, even creating idols of him became an unwritten taboo.

"While at the headquarters managed by Yama and Yellow Springs Evangelical Institute, there are many sculptures and paintings of Gods, and although I have never visited Shentu Evangelical Institute, it is probably much the same. Only Tai Sui is an exception, who always tells his disciples that he is merely a human who happens to possess very powerful strength."

Hearing this, Tan Xiang was somewhat stunned: "Uh..."

It was unexpected that there would be a human god who dislikes being seen as a God.

I also feel a bit embarrassed about being worshiped as a God, yet I never thought of forbidding others to do so. Objectively speaking, though I am far from the omniscient and omnipotent Gods of monotheism, I at least fit the definition of a deity in polytheism quite well. I can’t fulfill all of ordinary people’s wishes, but at least I can accomplish most of them.

It’s not that I truly think of myself as non-human, "just a human who happens to possess very powerful strength" — if others define me this way, I wouldn’t deny it. It is indeed a fact.

But to say something like this out loud personally, especially in front of an ordinary person and demon hunters, might seem somewhat pretentious.

With just a thought, I could destroy a city; with full effort, I could annihilate a country. A little extra time could bring about an extinction-level event — an existence like this repeating "all beings are equal" numerous times is hard to genuinely believe.

However, aside from Tai Sui’s personal attitude towards his own status, I still find it incongruous to place him alongside the other four human gods of the Evangelical Institutes.

Yama, Huang Quan, Shentu, King Zhuanlun... These four Gods all bear names closely connected to death.

Yama is the "first dead," Huang Quan is synonymous with the underworld, King Zhuanlun is one of the Ten Halls Yama, while Shentu is the God known in mythology for guarding the Ghost Gate, therefore also considered the Gate God, sometimes seen as the Earth God.

Only Tai Sui is different. Perhaps some people, upon hearing the term Tai Sui, think of the Mycology term referring to certain fungi, but in the mythological system, Tai Sui is an abbreviation for "Tai Sui Star Lord." Just hearing the name, you know Tai Sui is a Star God, originating from ancient observations of planetary cycles, and thus is also an Astronomical God, very different from the divinity of the nether world.

The relationship between the Tai Sui God and the concept of "death" is also quite distant. To be precise, Tai Sui holds divinity over fortunes and misfortunes of the human world, and further speaking, Tai Sui possesses mastery over time and destiny’s divinity. The ancient saying goes, when someone dies unexpectedly, by rounding up, it might also be blamed on Tai Sui.

In conclusion, if naming can even affect the destiny of human gods, then just from the name analysis, it is clear that Tai Sui is fundamentally not cut from the same cloth as other human gods of the Evangelical Institutes.

While thinking so, I finally managed to figure out the direction of the person lurking in the shadows.

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