Pollution throughout the territory

Xia Ren put down Kawan Lizi's body, found a tall building that had not yet collapsed, stood on the top of the building, and jumped up.

He passed through the blockade of blue mist and finally got a glimpse of the whole picture.

Under the moonlight, the mushroom cloud representing death and destruction was still rising, but its color was a strange blue.

More blue fog shrouded the entire city and continued to spread, like a sea of ​​churning clouds.

"How can it be!"

Looking at the blue mist beneath him, Xia Ren opened his eyes wide and thought of a possibility.

"Could it be that the power of nuclear bombs cannot destroy these spores, but instead accelerates their spread?"

The terrible facts were before him. Thinking of the consequences of a large-scale neurofungal infection, he suddenly felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.

Atypical entomophobia is strictly a neurological disease, and except for a small number of patients with obvious symptoms, other infected people are silent, which is why the Foundation and the Superman Association have been able to conceal this plague for so long, but Neurofungus is different. Its symptoms are visible to the naked eye, and it can cause intense pain to patients in the early stages. People can tolerate insomnia to a certain extent, but they absolutely cannot tolerate skin ulcers!

This is a disaster comparable to the color of the stars, and the fact of pollution can no longer be hidden from mankind.

The stable society that the Supreme Alliance government has maintained for many years will soon collapse.

Falling back to the ground, because of the blue gem in his hand, those fungal spores would disappear once they got close. An empty area about three meters in diameter appeared around Xia Ren, and the fate dice that should have been left behind was unknown. Appears in the palm of your hand.

His body was severely damaged by radiation and high temperature, but without the influence of neurofungus in his body, Rootless Water was finally able to exert its full strength, and his injuries are recovering quickly.

The radiation was still within a relatively strong range, which was not suitable for calm thinking. Xia Ren first exchanged for a bottle of level 3 anti-pollution liquid and drank it, regaining his sanity slightly.

He thought for a while, picked up Riko Aikawa's body, and planned to rush out of the mist composed of fungal spores first.

Along the way, he saw the collapse of high-rise buildings and a large number of human corpses lying in the ruins. The people who were lucky enough to survive the nuclear explosion were all infected by fungi and wailed hysterically. The city of Dallas, which was brightly lit a few minutes ago, has already It became a hell on earth.

Xia Ren had no time to save them. If he didn't figure out a way to curb the spread of spores as soon as possible, scenes like this would happen in other surrounding cities in less than an hour.

After running out of the city, the fog finally faded a little.

Xia Ren's heart tightened, and he suddenly felt a powerful force approaching him.

Looking up, he saw a fiercely burning red fireball flying towards this side of the sky. One second it was a thousand meters away, and in the blink of an eye, it had landed in front of him.

The rolling heat wave blew away the blue mist and also blew on Xia Ren's face. The tentacles wrapped the body of Aikawa Riko without being damaged. Flames reflected in his eyes, and the crowbar clenched his palms.

A tall figure walked out of the flames carrying a person. Jiufeng was wearing a red dress, her long hair spread behind her, and her face was ugly.

"It's you?"

Seeing her appearance, Xia Ren immediately lowered his guard and put away the crowbar.

The real estate agent had told him that Jiufeng would come before, so he was not particularly surprised, but he didn't expect that the time would be advanced one night.

Jiufeng looked down slightly, looked at Xia Ren's naked body, then moved to the shining gem in his hand, threw the housing agent on his shoulder in front of him, and said, "Save him, otherwise he will die."

The latter originally groaned twice, but was thrown like this and fell to the ground, completely motionless.

"It won't kill him directly."

Xia Ren still expected him to fulfill his promise, so he quickly bent down and placed the gem on the housing agent's chest. The plaque on his body quickly subsided, the foul-smelling pus became clear, and normal red blood flowed from the wound.

"Why are you in such a mess?"

Jiufeng frowned and looked at Xia Ren's half-remaining tentacles and the injuries on his body that had not yet recovered, and said in a dissatisfied tone: "I feel a little disgusted with you. If this continues, I will re-examine whether you are still qualified to have children with me. "

Sister, can we not mention having a baby when we meet?

Xia Ren looked at her helplessly.

"What exactly happened?"

Jiufeng himself brought the topic back on track.

Xia Ren briefly told her what happened. Except for the wishing mirror and Naiya, no other important part was left out.

"I didn't expect that this gem was used by the priest to suppress fungi."

Xia Ren said frankly.

There was no regret in his tone. Even if he had to do it over again, he would still make the same choice, because if he didn't remove the gem from the priest's head, he would definitely die.

He was just a little worried about what to do next.

In Xia Ren's subconscious, the consequences of his own death were far more serious than the consequences of the spread of the plague.

"Is that C-level investigator's body behind you?"

Jiufeng noticed what was wrapped in the tentacles behind him: "Everyone is dead, what are they left with?"

"This is my own business."

Huichuan Lizi died to save herself, which also involved Xuanjun's Seven Chapter Secret Scripture, and Xia Ren did not want to talk to her more.

Jiufeng just asked casually and didn't actually care.

She hugged her heavy chest with both hands, touched her chin, and thought for a few seconds: "How big of an influence can this gem have?"

"As you can see."

Xia Ren looked at the empty area around him.

"too small."

Jiufeng asked again: "How many such gems are there?"

Xia Ren said: "As far as I know, there is only this one."

Jiufeng didn't waste any more time and said decisively: "I have no solution, I can only ask the doctor."

"I think so too." Xia Ren said.

The foundation's black phone can only be used by the corresponding person, and outsiders cannot unlock it. He could not use Aikawa Riko's phone, otherwise he would have contacted the foundation just now.

Just when Jiufeng was about to make contact, ripples suddenly appeared in the surrounding space, and Xia Ren felt that his body was also stretching and twisting along with the ripples.

An old man wearing a long white coat and silver hair appeared next to the two of them. His eyes wearing dark sunglasses glanced at the unconscious housing agent on the ground, and then moved away.

"I sense that the end will come in the New Year, but it always comes a little late."

Xia Ren looked at this familiar figure. Although it was right in front of him, it seemed very far away, so far away that he was not in the same time and space.

"PhD!"

Jiufeng said hello respectfully, and then briefly recounted what happened.

After listening, the doctor was silent for a few seconds.

"I'll go over and have a look."

The silver key on his chest emitted a soft light, but no one could look directly at it. Jiu Feng and Xia Ren closed their eyes subconsciously. When they opened them again, the doctor was gone.

"How long will it take for the old man to come back?" Xia Ren asked.

"I have no idea."

Jiu Feng shook his head.

As soon as he finished speaking, the doctor reappeared in his original position, as if he had never left.

But Xia Ren felt farther and farther away from him.

"Backtracking."

The doctor stretched out his hand, palm down, and pressed it.

Xia Ren and Jiufeng felt strong heart palpitations at the same time.

The surrounding space froze, and there was no sound in the whole world. It was eerily quiet.

If you look down from a higher perspective, you can see that the entire city of Dallas is like a pool of stagnant water.

The next moment, the blue mist rolled back, and invisible shock waves and hurricanes appeared from the distance, converging towards the center of the city. Ruins flew up one after another and reorganized into high-rise buildings.

But in the blink of an eye, the city destroyed by the nuclear explosion returned to its original state.

Xia Ren's pupils tightened, unable to conceal the shock in his heart.

Time has gone backwards.

Xia Ren's vision blurred for a moment, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he had returned to the city center.

The twisted strain grew to a towering height. Even if the space was stagnant, the evil aura was constantly exuding. Even Jiu Feng, a gardener, could not look at the weird shape for a long time.

At the top of the strain, hangs a sun.

Xia Ren knew that it was a nuclear bomb that was exploding, but it was imprisoned by the doctor's power and stayed at this moment.

But what surprised them was that even though time and space had stopped, the top of the strain was still releasing blue spores, but the speed was relatively slowed down.

When the doctor spoke, Yoyo said: "They are not from this time and space."

Xia Ren suddenly remembered that Zhao Mingyue seemed to have said something similar. He remembered what she said at the time:

"These fungi are not from Earth."

Wait, Earth?

Xia Ren was shocked and suddenly realized something.

Jiufeng noticed that his expression was a little strange and asked, "What do you have in mind?"

"No, I just remembered some things from the past."

Xia Ren covered up.

He pretended to be calm on the surface, but there was already a storm in his heart.

Why did Zhao Mingyue mention the earth?

Could it be that she had also been to the Dreamland, Ebon's study?

No, that's not right. I realized that the existence of the earth was a memory that came to my mind when I was reading the grimoire. It might not have anything to do with the study itself.

Another point is that when I heard this sentence, I didn't realize anything was wrong. Instead, I felt that the word "Earth" was very natural.

Zhao Mingyue and I grew up together, right?

Xia Ren came up with a bold idea:

Are we both from Earth?

If you think about it this way, it seems that many things have been explained, such as the relationship between yourself and Zhao Mingyue, why you can understand the words in the grimoire, and your origin that even the doctor cannot know...

But I still can’t figure it out. If both of them are from Earth, how did they get to Blue Star?

In other words, why come to Blue Star?

Two years ago, he and Zhao Mingyue suddenly traveled around Blue Star in a powerful manner. Where did that power come from?

A flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Xia Ren's mind, as if he had touched some important clues, but there was a vague barrier in the middle, and he could not really touch the truth behind it no matter what.

"hateful……"

Xia Ren scratched his head in pain, but to no avail.

He was engrossed in thinking and didn't notice that Jiu Feng had looked over.

"Hey, wake up."

Jiufeng stretched out her hand and flicked his forehead with her slender fingers.

Xia Ren felt a hot power pouring into his eyebrows, exploding in his mind, clearing away all the messy thoughts.

He was stunned, realizing that he had just fallen into paranoid thoughts and almost couldn't get out of them.

"Thanks."

Jiufeng glanced at him, seemingly dissatisfied with his distracted behavior, but the situation was critical now, and she was in no mood to say anything more.

"Hand me that stone."

The Doctor turned his back to the strain.

Xia Ren nodded, gave him the gem with one hand, and held the fate dice in the other hand.

The blue gem emitted a clear light, escaped from his hand, slowly floated in the air, and finally stopped in front of the doctor, spinning slowly.

The silver key on the doctor's chest seemed to be stimulated by something, and it also glowed softly white.

"This is……"

Jiufeng sensed something and frowned slightly.

The two colors of light intertwined but did not affect each other, like projections from two different time and space.

The distorted ripples of space rippled gently, and the surrounding world trembled with them. The doctor was affected and his breath was somewhat disordered.

At the same time, behind him, at the top of the terrifying strain, the light produced by nuclear fission suddenly expanded a bit.

The originally stagnant time briefly resumed its flow at that moment.

Xia Ren was suddenly frightened and promised that the mirror would have split open to save him. If there was another nuclear explosion, he would definitely die.

"Doctor, you must hold still."

Xia Ren prayed in his heart.

The doctor has no time to care about these side details. The blue gem is still suspended, intersecting with the silver key on his chest. There seems to be some dangerous temptation going on between the two.

Jiufeng and Xia Ren unconsciously held their breaths and were nervous, waiting quietly on the side.

Things have developed to this point, and the complexity has exceeded everyone's expectations. Jiufeng's powerful strength will not play any role in this situation.

As time passed, the psychological pressure on the two of them became more and more intense. Suddenly, the light of the silver key went out, and the doctor let out a sigh of relief, and his figure became a little older.

His old voice was trembling a little, and he said: "This is the property of an unknown old god. His existence spans countless time, space and dimensions. If I continue to search, I am afraid I will get lost in it."

What the doctor said spanned countless time, space and dimensions, which was a bit hard for Xia Ren to imagine, but at least the meaning expressed by the other party was obvious.

There is nothing I can do.

Jiufeng said decisively: "It seems that the only way is to abandon this city and find another way."

She is a person of action. Once she knows something cannot be done, she will give up immediately.

"There's no rush. We're not at the point where we're completely at our wits' end yet. We have to try every possibility."

The doctor shook his head. What he didn't say just now is that this is not just as simple as abandoning a city. The characteristics of the fungus prove that it is not completely spread by matter, and there is no other way to eliminate the fungus except blue gems. , not even the underworld water.

He has seen countless futures on Blue Star. This is one of the worst futures. The surface and even the atmosphere are covered by fungi, and no living thing can survive.

He looked at Xia Ren with his sunglasses eyes: "Do you want to try it?"

So I am that possibility?

Xia Ren asked doubtfully: "How to try?"

The doctor sent the gem back to Xia Ren and said, "This is the item of the old god. Through it, you may be able to communicate directly with the old god, but I cannot guarantee the success rate."

Xia Ren hesitated and asked tentatively: "What if communication fails?"

The doctor promised: "With me here, I can protect your life."

Jiufeng also said: "When necessary, I can also help you."

Xia Ren was still a little worried.

Although one of them is one of the founders of the foundation, and the other is an S-class investigator and gardener, they are faced with the Old Ones, who are so powerful that they are unreasonable.

To them, humans are weaker than ants. In front of the old gods, with their own strength, they can still crush the ants to death at will. If the old gods want to take action, Jiufeng and the doctor may not be able to stop them. Yes.

But if not addressed soon and the spores are allowed to spread, the fungus will soon infect all of humanity.

Although he has a blue gem and can protect the people around him, as the pollution spreads across the earth, countless deformed monsters will inevitably be born. After the collapse of human society, they will have to live in hell. As a result, Xia Ren is even more unaffordable.

"Okay, I'll try."

Xia Ren looked solemn and agreed.

"I will help you establish contact with the old gods. What happens next is all up to you."

The doctor said, making a mark with his hands on his chest.

Xia Ren recognized this move. When the Qiuqiu people rode Baiyaki to attack him that night, they used the same move - Wei Rui's Lead.

According to Yi Zhiyu, this mark can increase the speed of magic concentration and increase the success rate and power of magic release.

After calming down, Xia Ren stretched out his hand and held the blue gem in his hand.

The light flowed, and the gem itself obviously did not have a high temperature, but the light seemed to carry strong energy, burning his skin.

"radiation?"

The word came to his mind.

This small detail had been ignored until now, and it was finally noticed.

No wonder the residents in the town are all a little deformed. They all look like humans or ghosts. It turns out that it is caused by radiation.

The surface of the gemstone is covered with hexagonal and triangular protrusions, and its weight is heavier than ordinary stones, similar to metal.

Xia Ren stared at the blue light emitted by the radiation. He looked at it intently. The internal structure of the gemstone was like a prism.

He immediately wanted to look away, but then, there was a force pulling his gaze deeper into the gem.

"here we go!"

The doctor said solemnly.

Xia Ren could no longer hear what he was saying.

His consciousness seemed to be wandering in the void, and he was pushed by that force, floating in the dark space.

Suddenly, the darkness disappeared, and colorful lights lit up all around. Those lights had no roots, just like fragments of other spaces. Through the fragments, you can see the complex scene inside.

"This is the inside of the gem!"

Xia Ren's consciousness suddenly woke up, because he saw the picture presented in one of the fragments, which was exactly the image of himself holding a gem in his hand, with a dull face.

But what are the images reflected in other fragments?

He tried to look at them one by one, but when he saw the first one, he had a splitting headache and felt like his head was going to explode.

"This is knowledge that even I can't bear!"

Xia Ren was shocked. He had just seen with his own eyes the true appearance of the universe he was in not long ago. Although he had not seen the entire universe, it at least proved that he was indeed qualified to access some knowledge that transcended conventional knowledge.

"What is the world reflected in these fragments? The doctor said that this old god spans countless time, space and dimensions. Is it a scene from other universes?"

This seems to be the only explanation at present.

"But I can't even see a single fragment, so how can I find the figure of the old god?"

Xia Ren's consciousness floated among these fragments, like a particle of dust.

When he was in trouble, he suddenly felt a strong crisis, as if some dangerous existence was about to notice him.

"Oops! It's the Hounds of Tindalos!"

Outside, the doctor exclaimed and decisively withdrew all his power.

Jiufeng had never seen the doctor look so out of sorts, and asked hurriedly: "What is a hound?"

The doctor wiped the sweat from his forehead and explained in panic:

"Although I can travel in other time and space, go to the past and the future, and even be accidentally involved in other dimensions occasionally, I also face many dangers at the same time. There are three most dangerous situations."

One is to be trapped in a chaotic and disorderly time and space.

One is that the consciousness is lost in other time and space, forgetting where it originally belongs.

There is another one, and the most dangerous one - encountering the Hounds of Tindalos.

Under normal circumstances, time has continuity. In higher dimensions, it presents a curve shape that extends continuously. This is the timeline in the popular sense. The past and the future are both on the same timeline, extending in sequence. It will be confusing.

But there is another situation where time takes on a horn shape and is not continuous but an individual.

The Hounds of Tindalos inhabit the deepest reaches of this horn-shaped island of time, beyond the reach of even the Doctor.

Whether any creature wants to go to the past, future, or other time and space, it must first be able to jump out of the current timeline, just like jumping from one place to another.

Once you jump out of the curved timeline, it means you have become a special and independent individual, which can easily attract the attention of the Tindalos hounds. As long as they lock on the target, they will start to hunt and kill until the target is dead. .

No matter where their prey flees, or even to other time and space, they will still be caught up. The Hounds of Tindalos are dimensional creatures and do not belong to any timeline, so they are not restricted by any timeline. Feel free to travel to all the places you want to reach.

The Doctor was once hunted by a hound during time travel, and he finally escaped after paying a heavy price.

But the hound will not care about other creatures that normally exist in the timeline, and will only attack those who break the rules of time.

The doctor suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Xia Ren traveled through time and space!"

Only this statement could explain why the Hounds of Tindalos were interested in him.

So, has Xia Ren been to the past or the future, or is he from the past or the future?

There is another inference that Xia Ren is not a native resident of this time and space, but a visitor from outside.

Which guess is correct...

"PhD?"

Seeing that he was also distracted, Jiu Feng couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"What's wrong?" The doctor looked up.

Jiufeng looked at Xia Ren, who was standing beside him blankly, and asked, "You have withdrawn your strength, what will he do?"

"..."

The doctor was speechless for a moment. With the Tindalos hounds around, he must not show any signs of aura, otherwise he would be chased by the hounds again.

"Look at his fortune."

…

…

Xia Ren's fortune is good.

He reached his destination before the dangerous gaze noticed him.

In other words, he was received by him.

This is a beautiful time and space with no concept of matter, only light.

Time and space were distorted. Xia Ren's body was a ball one second, and turned into a stretched mud the next second.

And in front of him, the old ruler who was squatting quietly was sometimes far away in the horizon, sometimes very close at hand, but only the maddening aura remained unchanged.

Now that I have arrived here, there is no way out, either success or failure. Anyway, the doctor said he would help me. The worst result is that the spores from the outside world will continue to spread.

Summoning up all his courage, Xia Ren raised his head and looked up at the figure.

Although he was mentally prepared, the moment he raised his head, a terrifying huge figure came into view. In an instant, Xia Ren's heartbeat exceeded the limit speed. His whole body was shaking, and fear was like a flood, impacting his fragile body. reason.

He was like standing on a rock in the sea that could only stand on, facing the violent wind, rain, and the surging terrifying waves alone.

The huge body that almost exceeds the limit of vision is covered with a layer of black fur. Each hair is larger and rougher than the pine trees in the coniferous forest. Several whip-like tentacles stretch out from the dense hair without any purpose. swing.

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