Enforcer Manual
Chapter 514: Tomorrow_1

Chapter 514: Chapter 514: Tomorrow_1

There is no weapon that compares to time.

It not only ages a person’s body, erodes their spirit, but most importantly, it always manages to change human cognition.

Shadow felt that this was perfectly exemplified in Langinus.

The Langinus of the moment had long transformed from a resister to a believer in fate, which was why he came to District 17 alone, determined to die.

Perhaps in the last phase of his life, the believer in fate still thought that his death could bring about a change for the United Government and even the world.

However, the truth is often cruel; everyone walked on the path laid out by fate, and every "change" was nothing but fate’s sleight of hand, which is the very truth of the "justice" ability.

What people call luck or disaster, both are guided by fate.

Shadow could have chosen to end Langinus’s life while he was preoccupied with the Bug Swarm, but he did not. Instead, he stood by Langinus as an observer, appreciating the direction of the battle.

Beyond respect for his former opponent, there were some details he had yet to understand.

The current scene had some discrepancies with what he had seen before. Assuming Langinus were to be defeated by the Bug Swarm, the Ghost Legion completely disintegrated and devoured, and the city submerged under the swarm, how would it become the scene he had foreseen?

Had someone else attacked the city?

Or had the Review Meeting used satellite weapons after learning of Langinus’s demise?

After all, what appeared before Shadow wasn’t a sea of bugs covering the mountains and plains, but an empty, lifeless wasteland.

"This city is doomed to destruction."

Langinus, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke up. He took out a photo from the inside pocket of his clothes and sat back down in the chair, his arm mangled.

Facing the retreating mechanized troops, he showed a look of relief.

Shadow had thought the photo would be of Langinus’s family, or some treasured memory, but he was taken aback upon seeing its actual content.

It wasn’t anyone’s picture. As an old soldier, Langinus wasn’t indulging in clichés from movies, reliving the past through a photo at his last moment.

The photo depicted the future.

Empty streets, broken houses, and scorched earth.

This was clearly part of the future Shadow had seen.

"If fate is destined to be unchangeable, then what matters is the part after fate."

Langinus’s gaze drifted into the distance. The fog had dissipated at some point, allowing him to witness the scene outside without the aid of his abilities—after wiping out the Ghost Legion, the Bug Swarm’s attention turned this room.

This time, what approached was not a passing monster but a black cloud formed by their accumulation.

"What do you think will happen after that?"

Shadow did not answer.

Because the answer to that question was all too obvious.

The death of Langinus, the Void revealing its true form, the growing Rebel Army, the long-standing resentment against the United Government... all these details were elements shaping the new world.

Langinus did not mind Shadow’s silence.

The Bug Swarm was closing in on him.

Even if the foreseen fate was destined to be unchangeable, it did not mean they had no room to intervene, "They would gain intelligence of this ruined city and learn from it... This is the road humanity has traveled since its inception."

The Bug Swarm seemed unbeatable only because they had yet to attain enough intelligence.

Someone had to bring the first-hand intelligence back to the world of humanity.

"Boring,"

Shadow snorted coldly.

In its view, this seemed more like the unrealistic fantasy of a person facing imminent death.

"So, can you see the world after the future?"

Facing the Bug Swarm that was within arm’s reach, Langinus did not retreat, nor did he expect a clear answer from his enemies; it was merely a soliloquy of an old soldier, "Moreover, this is also an important experiment."

As he spoke, his right thumb jabbed into his own chest.

This act instinctively drove Shadow into the darkness, sensing danger in Langinus’s incomprehensible action. Logically, after losing their physical form, they should have been in an un-destroyable state.

A sense of crisis drove it to distance itself from Langinus desperately, not even daring to spare extra energy to understand what was happening behind him.

A powerful burst of Spiritual Energy exploded like a bomb, instantly obliterating the monsters that approached Langinus with the backlash of the Psychic energy, its intensity was even enough to shatter space—in his not yet extinguished vision, he saw a space filled with cracks.

Langinus had to admit, in a sense, it was the "enthusiastic citizens" who had shown them the way forward.

They had received a recording from the "enthusiastic citizens" of their battle with the Devourers at the Barrosa Group’s division, and this recording gave him a new understanding of Destruction-type Psychic abilities, the key question was, how to achieve the same thing?

And here was the answer he had finally found.

Researchers from the Psychic Research Center had proposed that, as humans approach the demise of their physical bodies, their consciousness activity is at its most intense. For Psychics, they could turn the surfacing Spirit Energy at this moment into a bomb.

Langinus saw streets flattened by the aftereffects of the Spiritual Energy. In fact, he did not need to witness this scene with his own eyes; a photo revealing the future already gave him the answers in advance.

As his consciousness was about to be extinguished alongside the spreading Spiritual Energy, he saw some unusual sights.

The unusual cracks in the air became more and more apparent, then they began to peel off like shattered glass. In a daze, Langinus finally realized these cracks did not seem to be the product of the Psychic shockwave—because he vaguely saw a view from the other end of the cracks.

That place did not belong to any corner of this world.

The brilliance of stars adorned this dark space, and at this moment, he felt as if he were placed between universes.

But now, he was not alone.

Because within this dark space, he had also found the shadows of other people.

The figure with its back to him was all too familiar and seemed to fill the last gap of his regrets—at the end of this war, he had, after all, met the "enthusiastic citizen."

Only, as ever, the figure was shrouded in a mysterious aura that he could not understand.

Langinus did not know what place this was, nor why he had appeared here.

But he clearly saw a Black Hole separating them.

The Black Hole devoured everything he could see; between life and death, he felt as if he was witnessing the world being reassembled.

"This is the world after the future,"

Langinus heard an ethereal voice.

The figure with its back to him did not linger in place and began walking, stepping into that reassembled world.

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