Chapter 126 My Hometown, But I Have a Reason I Must Go There.
Unlike others who had already accepted their new life in the church, Cat Beard was always clearly wary of those around her, especially of herself as God's spokesperson. During the previous events she organized, she could always feel Cat Beard watching her from the shadows.
This was the first time she had spoken so much to herself, almost like pouring out her heart to reveal all her painful secrets, all she wanted was for others who had similar experiences to her not to suffer the same pain.
Du Yu guessed that Cat Whiskers was also a little embarrassed. As soon as she finished speaking, without waiting for Du Yu to stop her, she covered her head and ran straight out.
Du Yu was naturally moved by such a sincere sharing, but after thinking about it for a long time, she still had no clue what to do.
Although both of them have a seed with the element of "fate", her situation is different from Cat Whiskers'.
Strictly speaking, she also obtained that seed from someone else, but she didn't steal it openly; it was given to her voluntarily by the original owner of the body after she had investigated it.
Even so, Du Yu's control over that seed was very low. Opening the panel, she could see the "Moth in the Mist" trait highlighted, and the description said she could use this trait to see the trajectory of "fate," but since obtaining this trait, she had never seen it clearly...
etc.
Du Yu suddenly stood up and looked up at the sky in surprise.
She found it hard to describe her feelings at that moment. In the empty space, something seemed to be firmly attracting her, like an arrow at the end of a road pointing to the unknown, drawing tourists to go deeper.
"Once the traits are fully integrated, you will see traces of [Fate]'s manipulation and will no longer be subject to [Fate]'s arrangements. Perhaps this is a bad thing, who knows?"
Some things really can't be ignored. On the panel that had just been opened, the "【Moth in the Mist】" section was glowing faintly. Du Yu recalled the description of this trait and decisively followed that pull forward.
Just kidding. If this were in the City of the Sun, she would be worried that this might be a trap set by the Lord of the Pure Sea. But she is in her own mahogany church now. If the other party can reach here, then she might as well give up being a god.
"Greetings, Your Excellency!"
Good morning, Your Excellency.
"Bishop D, it's been a long time."
Along the way, while exchanging pleasantries with the believers around him, Du Yu followed the guidance in the void and continued forward, arriving at the deepest part of the church, where he met the gaze of Gu Yinglan, who was staring blankly at the statue of God, seemingly lost in thought.
Gu Yinglan?
Du Yu frowned slightly.
While searching for clues within the spacetime rift, Tian Yinuo and her companions found a strange scroll. Written in a script no one could understand, the scroll was deciphered by Gu Yinglan, who was still an ordinary person.
After that day, fearing that the remaining power of the scroll might corrupt Gu Yinglan, Cat Beard, after discussing it with her, temporarily gave her a month's leave, allowing her to stay in the core area of the church a little longer, so that nothing unexpected would happen under God's watchful eye.
However, Gu Yinglan's expression at this moment did not seem normal.
Du Yu "looked" at Gu Yinglan, who appeared perfectly normal in his spiritual vision, and was about to speak when Gu Yinglan suddenly shuddered, struggling out of her dazed state. She saw the joy shining in Du Yu's eyes as he took a few steps forward and grasped her hand.
“I saw it, I saw it, on the blood-stained ruins! Go there…”
Sending a mental signal to Gu Yinglan to calm her down, Du Yu asked in as calm a tone as possible, following up on her question: "What did you see?"
"I……"
Gu Yinglan looked up blankly at a certain spot, her pupils unfocused, as if she had fallen back into the dazed state she had just been in. Just as Du Yu was about to wake her up, he saw two lines of hot tears slide down from the corners of her eyes, flowing down her no longer young face.
"I saw my hometown—"
"Damn it, what the hell is that?!"
Sheriff McDonald Williams spat heavily, and when he saw the bloodstains, he exclaimed how unlucky he was.
He was a sheriff working for the Downtown Police Department. Although there was no future in working in this run-down place, he could at least have the advantage of a leisurely day after making some money by dealing with a few underground gangs and the Hunter's Guild.
Unfortunately, his good days were over after the inspection by the sheriff. Christina Fisher, that old hag, went crazy for some reason. Not only did she order them to continue training, but she also demanded that they patrol a fixed route every day to maintain order in the lower city.
Please, with a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan, why risk your life?
Those underground gangs, cults of evil gods, and the bloodthirsty Mist Hunters respected his uniform more than him as a person. If McDonald, a lowly sheriff with no connections, dared to meddle, he might very well end up with his head hanging on the sheriff's office door the next day.
Fortunately, although the people of the Lower City are full of martial spirit, they are not so idle as to fight everywhere. Some desolate, lawless areas, although there is not much to gain, are rare safe zones in the Lower City where several groups often engage in large-scale battles.
This abandoned library is notorious in these no-man's-land areas, not only because books are useless and nobody cares about them, but also because a shocking assassination recently took place here—it is said that a wealthy young master of a tycoon died here, his body was dismembered, and the scene was extremely bloody.
Although the suspect had fled outside the city, as the primary crime scene, the tycoon and the sheriff's men still came here from time to time to collect samples. The madmen in the lower city were not afraid of her, but they couldn't help but be afraid of that old madman, Christine Fisher—the sheriff's reputation for stopping the cultists from crying was almost entirely due to Christine's individual efforts.
McDonald went to great lengths to secure this prime location in the abandoned library—but who can tell him what exactly happened?
"Bang!"
With a dull thud, McDonald scrambled forward, dodging the giant tree falling from the sky, but couldn't avoid the bench that followed. A sharp, metal rod slammed down, but fortunately, his years as a sheriff hadn't completely forgotten what he'd learned at the superpower school. His mental energy surged wildly, forming a semi-transparent shield-like structure that managed to stop the metal rod's descent just before it pierced his heart.
"Damn it!"
After dodging several unexpected falling objects from high above and jumping over a large crater that appeared out of nowhere on the ground, McDonald was extremely busy. He caught a glimpse of the blurry edge of space not far away and was overjoyed. He had finally found the boundary of this intrusion!
He scrambled away from that strange space, finally managing to send out the message he had been circling around in for so long. Of course, even if he hadn't reported it, the sudden appearance of several tall buildings in the abandoned library area would have made it clear to anyone with eyes that something was amiss. However, since he was the one reporting it, headquarters wouldn't deduct his salary, as what happened at the abandoned library was entirely due to uncontrollable natural factors.
Unable to resist, he retreated several dozen meters. McDonald swallowed hard, tending to his wounds while glancing at the strange building that had inexplicably appeared on the ruins of the library. His expression was a mixture of fear, confusion, and even a hint of inexplicable excitement.
He actually ran into a gray fog invasion that only happens once every ten years!
"The invasion of gray fog is naturally related to gray fog. The current mainstream view is that the world is composed of two parts: the material world and the spirit world. Each part has clear boundaries and different functions. Under normal circumstances, things from the material world will not appear in the spirit world, and things deep in the spirit world will not appear in the material world. The world operates in this stable state."
Cat Whiskers wrapped one arm around Shen Xijing's neck and held up a long stick that he had somehow acquired, pointing at the blackboard with an air of importance.
"Under normal circumstances, shouldn't this exclude fog intrusion?"
Du Yu used the noun he had just heard as an example, and saw the cat whiskers opposite him nod in affirmation:
"Yes, the material world and the spirit world operate independently like two parallel lines, without interfering with each other. However, the gray fog has appeared. No one can say what the gray fog is yet, but what is known is that the corrosive energy permeating the gray fog can not only cause the degeneration of living beings, but also erode space, causing many disasters such as spacetime turbulence. This phenomenon is often called 'gray fog invasion'."
"Like there?"
At this moment, Du Yu and his group were standing in a safe house in the lower city. Even though the police arrived in time and quickly sealed off the scene, the nearly 100-story building was not common in the lower city. Du Yu could see the familiar yet unfamiliar building through the glass with just a slight turn of his head.
"That's right."
Cat Whiskers nodded. “Unfamiliar buildings, strange creatures, and humans speaking eerie languages are all things that often appear during the gray fog invasion. In layman’s terms, it means that something from the depths of the spirit world has ‘fallen’ into the material world through the cracks created by the gray fog erosion.”
"but--"
Cat Whiskers continued to add in a serious tone, but Du Yu could vaguely guess that something was wrong without her saying it—if it was a gray fog invasion, then there should at least be gray fog, right?
Although it is not valued, the lower city is still part of the City of the Sun. It is protected by a certain super-large ritual array, so the gray fog cannot appear in the city. The area around the abandoned library does not look like it has been eroded by the gray fog.
So where did this building come from?
"Although I know you won't listen to me."
Cat Whiskers stared intently into Du Yu's eyes. "But I still maintain that in the Gray Fog, anything unusual means danger, and seemingly normal unusual behavior means extreme danger! I personally strongly advise against you going there!"
Du Yu gazed at the tall building and the other familiar yet unfamiliar buildings that appeared one after another for a long time, his eyes filled with melancholy yet unusual determination: "I understand what you mean, but I have a reason why I have to go."
Not only because of the main quest that the system had just released, but also because it was a place she knew very well, a place she had wandered in the apocalypse for more than a decade, a place she would still think of in the middle of the night.
Jinling University.
Du Yu's lips moved, and he involuntarily uttered the words he had just heard from Gu Yinglan:
home.
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