Chapter 326: Tossing and turning in sleep, a vague corner of the nightmare
"Behemoth, have you investigated the chaebol families behind it? This name is not a good one."
When Jiang Mo talked about this matter, he took advantage of the gap when talking with Yu Huai just now to check the latest information about Behemoth's movements in the dark web, and vaguely realized one of the reasons why they insisted on promoting the G1 reagent.
In Western culture, Behemoth is the name of a certain monarch of hell and the origin of all monsters in the world. It represents greed and gluttony. Ancient books record that it swallows thousands of mountains a day and disappears at the end of the world, becoming eternally silent with another mythical monster, Leviathan.
The dark web documents he had read before gave Jiang Mo some clues.
There is a certain theory about the creation of the Behemoth organization, which is that the chaebol families behind it include slaves who have signed contracts with the demon race, and some are actually incarnations of the devil.
Even some families are headed by Level III demons. They possess extraordinary powers, have lived in the upper echelons of human society for a long time, are extremely powerful, have many followers, and are skilled in negotiation. It is easy for them to deal with and suppress all opposition voices from human politicians.
In any case, the research and development and promotion of G1 will ultimately bring them irresistible benefits, which is why they will continue to go their own way despite the suppression from forces around the world.
According to rough estimates, except for newborn babies and elderly people, billions of humans will awaken their special powers one after another, and their bodies and souls will evolve synchronously to become more powerful and lively.
For demons, it is undoubtedly a more appetizing food. Just like humans raising livestock, they cultivate and support humans, creating chaos in the civilized order in order to have a feast and find an opportunity to evolve.
This was just a glimpse that Jiang Mo got. As to whether this was the truth, he had no definite evidence, so he looked for evidence from Yu Huai.
"We have investigated the Behemoth chaebol families. Personnel from various departments have more or less come into contact with them indirectly when performing overseas missions, and have even had conflicts with them. Judging from the intelligence we currently have, we can be sure that some of them are indeed not human."
"Subject to the agreements signed by various countries last century, special humans and evolvers with extraordinary powers must be strictly governed after entering other countries, otherwise they will be regarded as invaders. The local order maintainers have the right to arbitrarily decide their lives. It is inconvenient for us to intervene in the disturbances on the other side of the ocean. All we can do is accumulate strength and maintain security within our territory."
Yu Huai spoke with a heavy tone. He was worried about the future situation. Even if they banned the circulation of G1, they could not resist the world's desire for power.
Especially human hearts are the most selfish and unreasonable.
Once there is a gap, seeing various awakened humans overseas, even if you want to extinguish this tendency of restlessness, even if you can do it, it will do more harm than good. The difference in the number of awakened people will cause the foundation and strength of the countries to be surpassed instantly, and even widen a large gap;
Yu Huai knew that if he and the heads of other departments hesitated or made a wrong judgment, they might repeat the same mistakes as a result of closing the country to the outside world.
However, to this day, he still does not believe that the tube of blue liquid G1 reagent can enable the entire human race to achieve a leap in life level. That is simply impossible and must have unknown disadvantages.
"Uncle Master, do you know? In the Tongtian Valley incident last year, some tourists entered ahead of the company. They did feel the 'Qi' and transformed from ordinary people into 'aliens'. Unfortunately, according to the report submitted by the company later, those tourists were like falling into the devil's way and could not control their own power. They even fought each other. The company's employees were forced to kill them all after several failed attempts at communication due to the urgency of the situation."
"As for Tongtian Valley, it has now been strictly sealed off by us. The mysterious carvings inside are closely related to the Qi situation in that area, which has an impact on individual lives. Animals that enter it will develop spiritual intelligence, and humans that enter will become aliens and lose control of their powers. Everything is empty talk. With this previous experience as a lesson, we have to be more cautious."
Jiang Mo lowered his eyelids, a faint smile appeared on the corners of his mouth. He raised his head slightly, his eyes reflected the starry sky and the bright moon, and he was touched and sighed sincerely:
"If it comes, it will come. It's better to drain than to block the flood. It will only take less than a week. Let's wait and see."
"No matter how bad the world is, how bad can it get?"
"Thousands of years later, the wilderness is still the wilderness, the world is still the world, and throughout the ages, countless heroes, saints, emperors, generals, and common people have been but passing visitors."
"Go with the flow, solve problems easily, and protect the country and its people. This is what you should do. Just do it to the extent of your ability. Forcing things beyond your ability is useless."
"You are right, I will teach you."
The conversation lasted for nearly an hour before it was hung up. Seeing that it was getting late at night, Jiang Mo got up, cleaned up the tea table and chairs, and went back to the dormitory to rest.
As he was full of energy, he slept very little in the past year or so. He usually sat in meditation or contemplated for several hours to maintain a full spirit.
But this night was particularly quiet, and he actually felt sleepy. After lying down, he closed his eyes and fell asleep in a moment.
My consciousness drifted in chaos. I didn't know how much time had passed. A faint light appeared in the endless darkness. I followed it and kept chasing it, falling.
After a long time, Jiang Mo, who came out of the dream, opened his eyes again, and what appeared in front of him was a broken ruin world.
Mountains and rivers collapsed, cities were destroyed, and wherever they passed, evil spirits rose to the sky, and the scorched earth was filled with the smell of gunpowder and blood.
The roar of the giant beast resounded through the sky. Jiang Mo's whole body was in a thin and transparent state, like a passerby, walking in this world.
"Is this the replay of Yusa's fate?"
"It feels very familiar. Is it the ability derived from the traces of the world line left in my body after casting the spell? Or is it just an ordinary dream?" Yousha had a breakthrough in forbidden magic a few years ago, and she had exchanged her experience with Jiang Mo.
She is no longer bound by the world line of the past, but can, based on her current position in time and space, move forward toward the downstream of the river of time, be there in person, and glimpse a corner of the future.
However, such a future is extremely unstable, and what we see is only that point in time, which is infinitely close to the real future.
In the ripples of time change, countless foaming things are superimposed on one place. It is impossible for "Destiny Retracing" to capture, copy and deduce the laws of development. The magic power consumed in that way is far from enough for Yousha's cultivation.
All it can do is send you to a real world in the future, rather than allowing you to control the development and changes of the entire world based on your current position in time and space, thus fixing it in a certain form.
While thinking, Jiang Mo came to a familiar city. Thousands of corpses came into view, blood flowed like a river, it was like a purgatory.
All kinds of hideous monsters lurked in the city blocks. There were huge vegetation stretching for hundreds of meters, releasing gray-purple poisonous miasma. There were creatures shaped like yakshas and evil spirits chasing and killing the surviving humans.
Jiang Mo looked around and walked through the forbidden zone of life as if walking on flat ground. His eyes fell on some ruins of buildings and he noticed many products that were consistent with the modern world.
Is it the future conceived in dreams?
Soon, a Class A mecha that was so familiar appeared in the collapsed block ahead. It lay in a pit in pieces, with the energy reactor on its chest extinguished, pierced by a sharp tail spike, and its right arm completely torn off.
Next to the scattered metal wreckage, there was a white skeleton that was a hundred meters long. Parasites were wriggling in its rotting flesh and the stench of corruption permeated every inch of the air.
The bloody battle that had broken out between the two was particularly brutal. An area of ten thousand meters in radius was razed to the ground. Many buildings were reduced to a pile of debris under the indiscriminate baptism of artillery fire. After the death of the alien beast, its flesh and blood were suspected to have been eaten clean by other monsters.
Jiang Mo stared for a moment, then turned and left. He seemed not to be restricted by the physical laws of this world. The next moment, he crossed the distance between the two places and returned to the sect's location.
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The sect that was supposed to stand on the top of the mountain completely disappeared, leaving only a bottomless pit.
The mountain protection magic array set up by Zhuge Yu was completely destroyed. Between the mountains and fields, blood and energy were boiling. Several extraordinary creatures were lying dead, more than a thousand meters long. Some had their heads chopped off, some had their vital parts blown up, their bodies were shattered all over the ground, and some were charred all over, killed by lightning.
"Aren't you here anymore?"
The situation was better than Jiang Mo had expected. Although the sect site was destroyed by these beasts, he did not find any bodies of the disciples. The sect should have been moved to other places by him or Zhuge Yu.
In the next few hours, Jiang Mo traveled to many places. Most of the cities that originally belonged to humans fell one after another and became a paradise for monsters. Only one-third of the cities were struggling to survive.
When he tried to investigate the origin of the disaster or listen to the conversations of those humans, he would always be blocked and concealed. Here, in a special dimension, he could only see but not hear.
Later, Jiang Mo went overseas again. His first stop was the relatively close island of Japan, where monsters were also rampant and the land was barren for thousands of miles.
Then, Nason Island, New York, Europe, South Africa, every place he went, the civilized order collapsed, and humans were dominated by either various mechanical intelligent life forms, or mutated demons and extraordinary life forms.
Humans have dominated the global food chain for millions of years, but it seems like everything was overturned overnight.
Natural disasters occur frequently, strange beasts are ferocious, and there are civilizations from underground and outside the earth that are robbing humanity of its already precarious living space.
This ruined world is filled with the breath of despair and death.
The cries of countless humans seem to be praying that the flame of civilization will not be extinguished. Their era is still declining and will eventually be destroyed.
That night, Jiang Mo couldn't sleep;
In the early hours of the morning, his dream was shattered. After waking up, he looked a little tired, with a hint of coldness in his eyes.
Where on earth had he gone in that vague, foreboding future?
Did we try our best but still fail?
Jiang Mo couldn't believe it. He stood up silently, pushed open the door, walked towards the Sutra Library, and decided to talk to Yousha.
(End of this chapter)