Chapter 825
Control of death and absolute domination.
Although Tower is still unclear as to why Sage Death’s powers far surpa*s those of the other Sages, even the original Four Sages.
But that did not stop him from following the stronger ones.
For countless centuries since he had become a Sage he had fought off disaster.
The Tower had long since grown tired of such an endless life.
He didn’t want to be some sage who protected the citizens and the world either, it was boring.
But it was just as well that a catastrophe of centuries of extinction was about to befall them, and they would not be able to resist it any longer.
In that case, humanity would be as completely extinct as the dinosaurs of ancient times.
Both the Tower and the Day Speech treated the Sage Death with respect, except for the Sage Star Shaking Light, who did not treat him with much respect, a very ordinary and level relationship.
“By the way, the Wheel of Fortune in this life likes to play with technology.” Shaking Light swept a glance at Sara, who was still in a comatose state on the floor, and grunted slightly, “You be careful what she shoots.”
“I know her, planning ahead for a rainy day is her usual style.” The man faded, “But don’t worry, within my realm all matter is dead, she can’t film or record anything.”
Despite what Death had said, out of caution, Shakku still examined Sara from head to toe, and did find several miniature recording and camera devices.
She took these devices off and subsequently crushed them.
“Master.” Day Speech, who was lying on the other bed, spoke up as well, “What is this future you speak of that will not be changed?”
“After 20xx years, I see only death.” The man spoke slowly, “There is no sign of any resurrection.”
Daybreak and Tower looked at each other.
This represented an extinction-level disaster.
Two of the original Four Sages had already fallen, and Judgement and the World had gone somewhere.
In any case, this time, they would not sacrifice for others.
It was none of their business what the world would become.
**
Meanwhile, in the electronic cell.
Fu Yunshen looked at the empty cell and raised his eyebrows, “Yaoyao, it’s taken away just like you thought.”
“Sure enough, I didn’t count on it, nor did anyone find out.” Ying Ziyi half crouched down, “But I can also determine who it is.”
She had installed cameras and recording devices, but no footage was coming back.
It could only be the Grim Reaper.
Fu Yunshen’s back tensed slightly.
The two of them returned to the living room, where Qin Lingyu and Yu Xuesheng were several people.
Xize was contemplating how to take Norton out, and upon seeing the girl, he immediately got up, “Boss.”
Norton gave a tsk.
He had really underestimated Xize.
This kid was actually the Emperor.
“I know how he found you and Power and Justice.” Ying gestured for Cesar to sit down.
Xize’s expression tightened, “How did you find them?”
“The God of Death controls death, and apparently his powers are more elevated than the Tower and the Inverted Man.” Ying Zigui said, “Not to mention the combat power, in terms of overall strength, it is already going to exceed me and the chief.”
Hearing these words, several of Qin Lingyu’s expressions changed.
Norton’s eyes narrowed, “Wouldn’t that be more powerful than the initial Four Magi?”
“That is so.” Ying Zigui’s eyes narrowed slightly, “But it definitely wouldn’t be able to reach this level if it was just a reverse position that was opened.”
It was a mystery as to what exactly the Death God had done.
“So he was able to tell if a sage was completely dead or not.” Ying Ziji continued, “Then he would send the Tower and the others to hunt down the reincarnation of the sage, but because his judgment was limited, mistakes would occur during the hunt.”
Lu Yuan and Fu Liu Ying were two of the candidates who were hunted by mistake.
And apparently, Lu Yuan and Fu Liu Ying were definitely not the only ones who were mistakenly killed.
Xizhe’s lips pursed.
If he hadn’t coincidentally met Ying Zigui and developed the limits of his body through alchemy with the help of Norton.
I was afraid that he would be added to the list of sages who had fallen completely.
“What is his purpose?” Qin Lingyu couldn’t understand, “I’ve been on missions with the God of Death with Snow Sound as well, he shouldn’t be like that.”
Ling Mianxi thought back to the original Holy War and was also confused, “Yes, he shouldn’t be such a person.”
“I don’t know about all that for now, but no matter how you count it, this is a hard battle.” Ying Zigui slowly raised his head, “Gentlemen, we must be prepared to sacrifice.”
This was a heavy sentence, but no one showed fear.
They had, for a long time, been prepared for this.
Ling Mianxi thought for a moment, “Ying, should we get the Pope and the priestess?”
“The God of Death has taken away Sara, and the next target will definitely be the Pope or the Priestess.”
“No need.” Ying Zidian was light, “A god’s opponent is no better than a pig’s teammate, they haven’t had any human lives on their hands over the years, but yeah they’ve helped the enemy.”
Qin Lingyu agreed, “Less people is better than being stabbed in the back.”
Yu Xuesheng smiled lightly, “The God of Death sought out the Tower and the Inverted Hanged Man, but only the three of Sara did not go for them, so it is clear that he does not see them either.”
“Still, keep an eye on the Pope and Priestess side.” Ying nodded, “The God of Death, always struck me as somewhat familiar.”
Several people looked at each other again and slowly nodded before dispersing.
From the beginning to the end of this meeting, Fu Yunshen did not participate.
He was leaning against the wall, staring out of the window at the blue sky.
Ying Zigui walked behind him and pondered for a long time before asking once again, “Is Death really very righteous?”
Fu Yunshen stood by the window in silence, not responding to her words for the first time.
Only after a long, long silence did he speak, giving a very soft laugh: “I don’t know.”
Ying Zidian looked slightly puzzled.
Fu Yunshen turned around and hugged her, his eyes moving slightly: “Miss Ying, you’re all I have.”
He seldom showed a vulnerable side.
No matter what time it was, he was always strong and able to hold his own.
The last time was when Master Fu died.
When she saw him sitting alone on the mountain wrapped in the pouring rain, her heart softened in an instant.
Ying’s hand trembled slightly as she patted his back, “Brother, I’m here.”
It was a few minutes before Fu Yunshen let her go.
**
Because the inhabitants of the City of Worlds had witnessed the historic scene of the trial of the Sage Queen, the House of Sages had now become a vanity.
The several gates of World City leading to the seven continents and four oceans can now be entered and exited at will as long as they pa*s the test and do not require a pa*s.
Likewise, the World City has also removed the blocking of signals, and one can contact each other at will both inside and outside the city.
In the past few days, Ying had sent Su Wen and Lu Yuan and the others to China to stay with the Ji family.
The Imperial University could not accommodate too many trainees, so a group went to the mechanical department of Norton University.
Together with the few alchemists that Ying Ziji had sent over, the vice-principal’s mouth was agape with smiles.
The nok forum was buzzing about it.
The sand carving bigwigs are jumping at the chance.
[Anyone forming a team to go around the World City? I want to see how far technology has advanced in a few hundred years.
[I want to go too! Curious about who is in charge of World City, it’s so awesome!
But soon, all these posts were banned from replying.
At the same time, an announcement was quickly topped and marked red.
[In times of crisis, no one is allowed to enter the World City!
On the other hand, ibi was also very busy.
Recently, many people from the World City had come to apply for jobs here, and all of them were very strong.
Li Xini finished compiling the reports of the new agents and search officers and sent a copy to Fu Yunshen.
He had just sat down and was about to log on to the nok forum to see if there was any gossip or big news in the past two days.
“BOOM!”
The door was slammed open and someone barged in.
It was White Drop.
She looked serious: “Lee Seony, something’s happened!”
Immediately, Sidney Lee got up and saluted, “Ms. White Drop, what is it?”
Since knowing that White Drop had come out of the World City, the ibi members had taken their respect for her to another level.
White Drop was sweating and panting, “Before Ying, Miss Ying left, she gave me all the ways of Norton University’s school leaders.”
“If we need any weapons, we don’t need to reserve them through the nok forum, we can just buy them directly from Norton University.”
“Right, right, right, I know.” Li Xini hurriedly handed over a paper cup, “Ms. White Drop, take a sip of water first, let’s take our time and not rush.”
White Drop finished her mouthful, but her face was still pale.
Seeing her like this, Li Xini’s heart thudded.
“The Norton University called just now, saying that the astrological observatory is reporting urgently!” For the first time, the normally calm White Drop panicked, “There’s an asteroid over 3500m in diameter, and it’s coming towards Earth at a very high speed! It has now entered the galaxy!”
“Estimated arrival time, January 1, 20xx, 00:00 sharp!”
Chapter 826
Sidney Lee rose haughtily, unable to hide his shock: “A radius of over 3500m?!”
“Yes, and that’s just a preliminary estimate.” White Drop wiped the sweat from his head and his voice became even more anxious, “As time goes on, this asteroid will continue to attract other materials from the universe as it moves.”
“By the time it reaches Earth, the worst prediction is that I’m afraid its radius will exceed 150km!”
Sidney Lee’s face also turned white: “My goodness ……”
“And it’s not just this mere asteroid.” White Drop took a deep breath, “Around this largest asteroid, there are many more asteroids with a radius of a few hundred meters, it’s an asteroid swarm!”
Things like asteroids hitting the Earth only exist in science fiction movies now.
But throughout the Earth’s long history of billions of years, it has happened millions of times and has led to the extinction of species many times.
Some scientists estimate that the dinosaurs died out hundreds of thousands of years ago when an asteroid hit the Earth.
Let alone an asteroid with a radius of 150km, even 3500m is unheard of in Lisieux.
For so many years, ibi has had departments dedicated to dealing with all kinds of disasters, in addition to fighting transnational criminals and all other illegal acts.
The department has had warnings of earthquakes, tsunamis and tornadoes and other disasters as well as ways to combat them.
Asteroid impacts are too rare, but ibi also has measures in place to deal with them.
But there has never been an asteroid swarm.
An asteroid of this size would be enough to crash the entire planet.
In a few seconds’ time, Sidney Lee had calmed down and made an immediate decision: “Report this to the chief and then connect to Norton University!”
Meanwhile, at Norton University, an Atlantic Ocean away from ibi headquarters.
“Where’s the backup plan?” The Vice Chancellor paced back and forth in the astrological observatory, snarling, “Can’t we change its trajectory? If you can’t change it, then blow it down with a long-range machine!”
“Vice, Vice Chancellor, if we had observed it even three months in advance of a year, it would theoretically be completely avoidable.” A professor pushed his gla*ses and was also anxious, “But this came out of nowhere, no one knows how they just crashed towards Earth!”
“We …… we don’t have time at all.”
The vice headmaster was about to say something else when the communicator was forcibly opened.
At the same time, Ying Zigui, Fu Yunshen, Norton, as well as Li Xini and White Drop, all entered the online conference room.
The vice-principal caught sight of Norton’s short, obvious silver hair and was instantly abashed: “Principal!”
He winked hard at Ying Ziji, hoping that she could calm down the soon-to-be-angry Norton.
However, to the vice-principal’s surprise, Norton did not scold him, but smiled instead, “I know, you’ve done well enough.”
The vice-principal was even more trembling: “School, headmaster, I know you must be so angry that you’re out of your mind.”
Norton raised his eyes coldly, “Get out.”
The vice-principal, however, breathed a long sigh of relief, “Fortunately, it’s the headmaster.”
“Cut the crap.” Ying looked up, “Report back.”
“That’s right, my lord.” The vice-principal took a breath, “We were observing the universe as usual, but today we suddenly discovered a swarm of asteroids that were crashing towards Earth.”
He explained the whole story, “My lord, this is a big matter that concerns the survival of all humans!”
Qin Lingyu listened from the sidelines and frowned, “The God of Death did this?”
A disaster of this level, even the original Four Sages could not stop it.
Fu Yun Shen faintly: “How is it possible, he doesn’t have the ability to do that yet, it’s just a disaster.”
“I see.” Ying Ziyi remained calm, “Follow all your existing defences, leave the rest to me, please trust me.”
The vice-principal froze for a moment, then stood up straight: “Yes, I trust my lord!”
A long, long time ago he knew that in this world, the only person who could always be trusted was Ying Zigui.
Norton spoke slowly, “I can’t go back for the time being, you’re still in charge of Norton University, I’m not teasing you, I mean, Dekker, you’ve really done a good job.”
The Vice Chancellor’s eyes flushed, “Chancellor ……”
“Come on, I’m sick of seeing you.” Norton pressed the button, “Hang up.”
The Vice Principal who had been touched for a second: “……”
The meeting ended and Ling Mianxi stood up, “I’m going to help over at the Institute.”
Qin Lingyu also said, “I’ll join you.”
Several sages all went out and started moving.
Fu Yunshen turned his head and saw the girl staring blankly ahead.
His eyes narrowed and he reached out to take hold of her shoulder, “Yao Yao?”
“I was wondering where my ‘heart’ really is.” Ying Ziji slowly pressed her temples, “I thought I had lost my ‘heart’ myself, but now it seems that I was born without a heart.”
Without a heart, all her emotions were also missing.
“No wonder Miss Ying ignored me at that time.” Fu Yun raised his deep eyebrows, “It broke my heart for a long time, and I even hid and cried.”
“Pfft–” Qin Lingyan spat out a mouthful of cola, choking on it.
Fu Yunshen’s peach blossom eyes lifted and glanced over indifferently.
“You guys go on, go on.” Qin Lingyan rolled away clutching her cola bottle, “I didn’t hear anything!”
“Yeah.” Ying Ziji glanced at him, “Heartless Miss Ying still liked annoying Mr. D at that time.”
“Annoying?” Fu Yunshen trailed off, “Now I’m really sad.”
“P*ssing on me again?” Ying Zidian pushed him, “Quick, go to work.”
Fu Yunshen stood up, lazily, “As you wish.”
**
On the other side.
The underground headquarters of the Black Skull.
With the man’s help, Ta and Dianyin had recovered a lot from their injuries and were barely able to get off the ground.
“Hey, I’m still a bit uneasy.” Shaken Light leaned against the wall and frowned, “Of the original Four Sages, Yugi and Temperance fell, but Judgement and the World are still around, and they’ve stayed away.”
“In this world, there are no worlds.” The man faded, “As for Judgement? She is no match for me now.”
“Nor is she.” Hearing those words, Shaking Light’s brow relaxed, “You represent death, Judgement represents resurrection, we have not been able to find her all these years, but she is no longer enough for you.”
For the Sage Death, the greatest threat among the twenty-two Sages was actually the Sage Judgement.
Because Sage Death and Sage Judgement represent the two extremes of “death” and “resurrection”, they are the only pair of Sages that are incompatible with each other.
The Sage Judgement was originally their first target.
But after all, the Judgement was the original Four Sages, so it wasn’t as easy to find as Power and Justice.
“Well, high tech has its perks.” The man looked up, faintly, “Now, everyone knows that the end of the world is coming.”
And all that will be destroyed.
Shaking light wrapped her arms around her, “It’s a normal thing, there have been over tens of thousands of near-earth asteroids over the years, there’s always that one that’s just right to destroy the earth.”
With that, she let out a soft tsk, “Sara really thought that the cosmic carriers couldn’t be built to prevent powerful people from other universes from coming over.”
In reality, it was just that no one would be allowed to escape this annihilation disaster.
“Shaking Light, let’s go.” The man remained bland, “Let’s go to the House of Magi and pick up the Pope and the Priestess.”
Shaking Light jumped down, “It’s time for the second Holy War to begin.”
**
Over here, Ying also went to the Institute and began to formulate a defence plan.
It was now less than a week before zero hour on January 1, 20xx.
She still couldn’t see anything beyond the nothingness.
Apparently, this was the end of the world.
She had talked to Yugi before and explored what to do in case there was a day when there was a disaster that all the sages could not resist.
“Ying, there’s been another incident!” Ling Mianxi came hurriedly, looking grave, “News is coming from everywhere, saying that the World City can be seen from the seven continents and four oceans!”
Ying Ziji’s eyes were slightly austere, “Come on, let’s go out and take a look.”
The City of Worlds was originally located on Earth.
From a physical point of view, because of the different spatial dimensions, the City of Worlds could not be seen from the seven continents and four oceans.
But now, it can be seen.
“This news! On December 24, 20xx, at 3:53 am, an unknown plate suddenly appeared over the continent, scientists are in the process of detecting it, please calm down all residents.”
All regions, in all languages, were reporting the same thing.
At this time, everyone in the seven continents and four oceans could see the huge city called “World City” slowly appearing above their heads.