Chapter 158 Eternal Life

It was a very strange feeling.

The information in the memory clearly tells the alien spirit He Jingtong that Qi Xueyi and Jian Zirui are the kind of people who agree with He Jingtong's views.

Including when they first saw him being born, the two of them and everyone else in the academy wanted to keep him here and kill him.

Because that is what He Jingtong hoped for.

But now the alien spirit He Jingtong could not see any murderous intent in the eyes of the two.

It seemed like they had figured it out on their own, or it seemed like they had let themselves go into a dead end.

"To face me with this attitude right now is no less than you betraying the former He Jingtong."

The alien spirit He Jingtong pointed out a fact that everyone knows.

The pain of Qi Xueyi and Jian Zirui has never been linear or one-sided.

Whether it was because his teammates turned into spirits, or because his own abilities were weak and he was unable to fight against the spirits Fu Zexun and Su Qing...

What's worse, as the alien spirit He Jingtong said at the moment, no longer maintaining a firm attitude of wanting to erase him would be tantamount to betraying He Jingtong.

"His will, his thoughts, the changes he made again and again because of the prophecy, all of these will fail. And I don't need to point this out specifically, you will know it better than me."

"You still maintain this attitude at the moment, and even take the initiative to express this attitude to me. Can I assume that you have accepted the terrible arrival scene and the future that you are unwilling to accept and have repeatedly prevented?"

When dealing with parents whom He Jingtong was not familiar with, the alien He Jingtong could see from an objective perspective that the pain of the parents was somewhat disguised.

All their expressions, in addition to their own thoughts, are more about their need to show others that they are also feeling pain because of He Jingtong's death.

If it really hurts, how could you trust "outsiders" so much?

Entrusting children to elders, no matter what the reasons are, is itself an irresponsible act.

Therefore, the alien spirit He Jingtong showed his difference from the original body with the coldest attitude.

An act of indifference can easily make people no longer need to put all false things in front of them.

But when it comes to the two teammates of the original body, his attitude cannot be so firm.

One reason is that He Jingtong in the memory also cared about them. Another point is that the alien He Jingtong knew clearly why Qi Xueyi and Jian Zirui did it, but emotionally he couldn't accept it for a moment.

"You betrayed him." The alien spirit He Jingtong spoke in a tone without any emotional ups and downs, as if he was afraid of hurting the two people, but also wanted a reason that could convince him.

"Yes, we betrayed him." Qi Xueyi continued his topic, the light in his eyes flickering, as if between life and death, "We were cowardly for not choosing to kill you. Our self-righteous emotional sustenance also prevented us from doing it."

"The effect of constraints is that we naturally brainwash ourselves into thinking that as long as you don't make any mistakes, you can still survive."

"We should really kill you as He Jingtong thought and did, but if emotions can really be so easily controlled by reason, there wouldn't be so many things in this world that cannot be controlled by reason."

When one can talk about all the pain without changing color, the word that best describes this state is numbness.

From Qi Xueyi's expression, the alien He Jingtong couldn't even tell what emotions he had.

You know, he used to be a happy puppy, and he never hesitated to use expressions to emphasize his emotions. But now, his facial muscles seemed to be dead and unable to make any changes.

"Keeping you alive is indeed partly an extension of my feelings towards He Jingtong, but more of it is actually my own desire. At least in my opinion, it is better to describe it with the word desire."

"…even though it doesn't look like a cleric at all."

"What we want, what we want to try, is just to keep you in the current state for a long, long time, and then, survive."

"Too many people have analyzed He Jingtong's state of mind, such as why he chose to commit suicide before you were born..."

Qi Xueyi wanted to continue speaking, but was suddenly interrupted.

"Excuse me, you don't seem to realize that what you said now is not so objective. He Jingtong's death is more like his annihilation than my birth." The alien He Jingtong felt a little weird because of that unspeakable emotion.

"The former and the latter have never been the same concept."

"This is just an expression used to describe an event." Qi Xueyi looked at the alien He Jingtong and just looked at him.

With a respectful attitude, he continued his speech only after he was sure that the alien spirit He Jingtong would not continue speaking.

"What I want to say is that we know the danger you pose. We also know the crisis hidden behind that danger, and we have always understood that there is a high probability that that crisis will become an established fact in the future."

"But the future can be changed. He Jingtong's countless actions and efforts are telling us this."

There were no questions, just statements.

Qi Xueyi told the spirit He Jingtong: "Not killing you would be a betrayal to He Jingtong. We also want to try to see if our efforts can change our fate after leaving He Jingtong."

He twitched the corners of his mouth, as if he wanted to smile, but these actions only made his facial features look even thinner and more distorted.

Then give up.

"This is an arrogant perception, because all previous references to future destiny, such information, all came from He Jingtong. His death means that we no longer have the choice to avoid mistakes. We can only do our best to make the path we are taking at the moment lead to the ultimate correctness."

"In fact, the biggest prophecy that He Jingtong left behind was that he must kill you. This is the quickest way to avoid the crisis you bring. But since there is a shortcut, there should also be a normal way to move forward on this road."

Qi Xueyi took a deep breath.

The air that filled his lungs made his chest rise a little, and his originally weak breathing became better because of this instantaneous change.

“That’s what we think.”

"We have accepted the fact that we betrayed He Jingtong, and we are doing our best to move forward on the normal path. If everything still goes to the worst, we will choose to accept this result."

Afterwards, Qi Xueyi told the spirit He Jingtong in the same tone as he had spoken to his teammates: "There is a saying that goes, after I die, I won't care about the floods."

"After He Jingtong's death, even if the world ends, it has nothing to do with him. And if he really wants the world to not end, then let him come back—"

The complaining tone turned into pain: "Then he will come back..."

"Otherwise, how can he, a dead man, demand that the living must move forward according to his ideas?"

It sounded like a complaint, but the core point was that as long as he came back, the spiritual master would certainly not choose to do this again.

Even if it was just a delusion.

"Sorry for saying so many weird things to you." Qi Xueyi still smiled. That smile was not pretty and it was not in line with his style at all.

"But this is our thinking and we are not going to change it."

"What about you? Do you have any questions? Even though we are not teammates, I will do my best to answer your questions."

Jian Zirui and Qi Xueyi both said a lot, but the alien spirit He Jingtong had not said much until now.

Much like He Jingtong in the past, they both seem to be better listeners.

"Do you think everything can really go as you imagined?"

"The biggest problem has actually been exposed to the eyes of the whole world for a long time."

All abilities, whether it's Turtle Soup or Chaos Prophecy, have been used countless times without being clearly shown.

"He Jingtong committed suicide in the end because he wanted to kill me. The identity of the prophet was already revealed when the competition was first broadcast live. This means that what you can analyze, people from other countries can also analyze it."

"Only spiritualists can fight against alien spirits. No matter how advanced the weapons are, without the blessing of soul power, their killing power may not be as great as some great and positive energy speeches."

There is a future that the alien spirit He Jingtong had not previously intended to show.

But at that moment, he couldn't help but bring it up.

"And for the spirits, ordinary people without soul power have always been just prey, not even two-legged sheep."

"The danger I possess is not only seen by you. Your choice to allow me to continue living does not mean that people from other countries, spiritual masters from other countries, will accept and allow it."

This is a country full of human feelings, not just the human feelings between people, but more of the emotions among human beings as a group.

"Many people would not want to kill me because of what He Jingtong has done, but to spiritualists from other countries, I only represent chaos and storms, not any help."

Whether it is He Jingtong or the alien He Jingtong, they are not good at speaking words that are linked to emotions in their hearts.

Therefore, what is spoken out is always information that is ignored by others but is of vital importance.

"As for the new world that He Yuchen wants, without a 100% probability that the future will be good, all his thoughts and ideas are like those of a cult member, which will only bring chaos to the world."

"And the only one who can push the root of all chaos is me."

In this world, an S-class cleric is already the most powerful individual.

But spiritual masters are different from alien spirits. They are still part of the human population.

They are neither detached nor invisible.

To put it bluntly, they can be killed by other ordinary people.

But what about the supernatural beings?

Eighty percent of the people in this world will eventually become spirits, but less than one in ten thousand are spiritualists who can resolve the problem.

The sense of crisis that ordinary people feel...

Didn't Le He and Zhuang Yifei, who also lived in the spiritual master prison, want to use this power to completely destroy all the experimental personnel in the Peach Blossom Spring project?

Ordinary people's power cannot suppress supernatural beings, but it can force spiritual masters.

That is what the experimenters of the Peach Blossom Spring Project thought of, an effective way to use the lower level to counter the upper level.

But in the social system, it is more often the upper class that oppresses the lower class, and the number of ordinary people in the upper class far exceeds that of spiritualists.

Aren’t ordinary people in the upper class afraid of death?

When spiritualists can be controlled by ordinary people, they certainly don't care.

No matter how many powers a psychic possesses, no matter how strange they are, he is still a human being, and as long as he is a human being, he will be subject to restrictions.

But if there are strange spirits everywhere, then no one will not be afraid. And this series of words represents, and even clearly points out, the fact that spiritualists from other countries will never let him go.

Of course, those spiritualists would be afraid of the power of the S-level spirit, but as long as the spirit He Jingtong was "allowed" to live, his power would be restricted.

And if the power is not restricted, who can guarantee that the alien spirit He Jingtong will not harm people?

A former companion of the Primarch? The warden of the Prison of the Spiritual Masters?

They don't have the ability to face countless people's doubts.

And suppose ordinary people in other countries also want to become spirits and gain eternal life because they know that he has rationality...

It is possible.

But until these possibilities exist and are widely accepted, the attitude of outsiders toward him is that he is a disaster.

When faced with a disaster, the best way to deal with it is to do everything possible to prevent it.

When you regret in the future that eternity was so close to you but you didn’t grasp it, you won’t actually feel any regrets.

Because all of the previous experiences of the alien spirit He Jingtong can be investigated.

After the reservoir incident, He Jingtong's intelligence was destined to be unable to be kept secret.

Want to understand, want to try, want to live forever...

Then all we have to do is copy it.

This is much easier than creating something from scratch.

From a macro perspective, the supernatural scene has long lost its value to this world.

Death will be the final path chosen by the people divided from the world level in the future.

But this road——

Not possible.

.

The investigation is over.

It is still another concentrated analysis.

And this time, everyone quickly locked onto the key information from all of He Jingtong's words.

"In the future, spiritual masters from other countries will enter the country and try to erase He Jingtong."

Less than two hours after the visit ended, the meeting room in the spiritualist prison was filled with people.

The first person to speak was Cheng Chuzhe, the warden of the prison.

Ji Wanhua then pointed out: "Politically, he may also be jointly requested to be executed by multiple countries. But this information is destined to be hidden, because the people of many countries still do not believe in the existence of spirits and spiritual masters in the world."

"Then there was that sentence again. He Jingtong wanted to eliminate the alien spirit He Jingtong by committing suicide because he saw the worst future coming—"

Her brief pause allowed Cui Tong to continue the conversation with a heavy face, "As for the spirit He Jingtong whose abilities are restricted, this restriction will eventually be lifted one day."

"There is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days. The number of clerics in the world may not be a very large group, but it is not difficult to find one person with the ability and characteristics to take away the alien spirit He Jingtong from among hundreds of thousands of people."

Liu Shuyu clenched his fists and even hammered the document in front of him uncontrollably.

Printed on these documents were exactly what the alien spirit He Jingtong had said before.

"If he is taken away, he will die. And we want him to survive, so we obviously can't watch him die. Therefore, the lifting of the seal on his ability has become a natural future."

"The controllable effect always exists." He Wanjin's eyes were dark. He pinched the report in front of him hard, and his fingertips left marks on the A4 paper.

"So even if the seal is lifted, the alien spirit He Jingtong's ability will only be used to protect himself."

In front of An Lai was the food he was having dinner with. In this meeting, in addition to having the right to speak, he also served as the recorder.

Black and white square words appeared one after another on the computer screen. An Lai pursed his lips with a gloomy expression.

"To repeat the previous logic, there is no reason to guard against thieves for a thousand days. If you cannot kill a human, then force the human to become a spirit and then kill him. In many cases, the use of force is an effective means to prevent thieves from causing trouble." Xi Hongjing said.

Of the three S-level spiritualists, only Xi Hongjing attended the meeting, while the other two were handling related tasks.

"In the Elite Academy dual-school league match, seven A-level spirits almost became S-level. Fu Zexun once said that as long as the spirit He Jingtong is born, he will be an S-level spirit from birth." Jing Yunsong's face involuntarily darkened just by thinking of Fu Zexun.

Tan Dong pushed his glasses and said, "Before this, Fu Zexun didn't know that he would become a spirit, let alone that the last spirit Fu Zexun would choose to sacrifice himself. So let's assume that the spirit He Jingtong has the ability to devour other spirits, and can even use the true sins of those spirits to push himself to become a legend."

"Take the example of the space fragments of the S-rank lazy spirit used as the initial experiment on He Jingtong's transformation. It can be considered that the purpose was to reserve a source for the spirit He Jingtong to use space abilities in advance."

"The legend is about mastering both space and time."

"Laziness itself is the weakest of the seven sins. Later, the alien spirit He Jingtong's pride and jealousy were integrated. Pride is considered a complete part, and jealousy can be considered another part after being supplemented by laziness."

“This is two sevenths.”

The meeting was still going on. Actress Ji Yu, who was representing the members of the "N" organization, pointed out a fact even though she couldn't bear it: "The alien He Jingtong's ability to communicate is based on the fact that he is restricted and that he himself was not born from He Jingtong's sins."

"Even if He Jingtong and the alien He Jingtong are both innocent, the latter's soul is already composed of laziness, arrogance, and jealousy. Who can guarantee that he will be able to communicate rationally in the future?"

"Before paying attention to what will happen to the alien spirit He Jingtong in the end, isn't it more important to prevent that situation from happening?"

Zong Feng, who served as a guide during the high school student internship program, said:

All of the above-mentioned people are the participants of this multi-party meeting.

After everyone had spoken, Cheng Chuzhe pointed out the key point: "You overlooked an important point, that is, all this information was revealed to us by the alien spirit He Jingtong subjectively."

"The spirit He Jingtong can also use prophecy. He can say such a thing. Rather than just guessing, it is better to say that he relied on his own wisdom to infer, and then combined with the two-way verification of prophecy and the function of turtle soup, he finally came to this precise and practical conclusion."

Cheng Chuzhen let out a deep breath.

"Think about what Qi Xueyi said before." The warden tapped the document in front of her with her fingertips. "The child told the spirit He Jingtong that if the spirit master can change the future without the prophet by himself now that He Jingtong is no longer around."

"The spirit He Jingtong finally spoke out this continuous message, which was actually predicting the future to us. But while he was predicting the future to us, he could also see the future after he predicted the future to us."

"This means that he knows very well that even if he says all this, nothing can be stopped from happening afterwards."

Cheng Chuzhi even proposed a series of hypotheses afterwards.

"Prevent other spiritualists from entering? Of course this can be achieved. Just relying on all of you present here is enough to do this."

"But even among ordinary people in our country, not everyone can live with the presence of supernatural beings."

"There are countless people in the upper echelons. As long as there is one person who doesn't accept it, compared to quarreling with the spiritualists who are small and restricted but still occupy a vital position, secretly letting them in is the most appropriate compromise option."

Cheng Chuzhe stated the cruel facts in a cold tone: "Whether you accept it or not, this is the fact."

"He told us about the future, a future that is destined to be unchangeable. He also told us that if we want to change this future, the most important thing we should do is to prevent He Jingtong from becoming a spirit from the very beginning."

“But that’s no longer possible.”

The atmosphere became increasingly heavy. Although the window in the conference room was half open, the air was so stagnant that even the floating dust seemed unable to move.

An Lai wrote down the last word Cheng Chuzhe said and took his hands off the keyboard. He crossed his hands and supported his chin, lowered his eyelids, and said, "The alien He Jingtong is denying what Qi Xueyi said. He believes that the spiritual group Qi Xueyi mentioned cannot achieve their goal of changing the future after losing the prophet."

"In other words, the spirit He Jingtong is telling Qi Xueyi, and through Qi Xueyi, all of us who want him to live, that if we don't want the worst outcome to happen, the only option left is to kill him."

An Lai's voice was so low that it was almost inaudible: "That is not an option, but a must..."

"But this is just your hypothesis. Even if it is true, we haven't taken any action, and haven't even started to try to stop it. Why should we take it for granted to accept that kind of future?" Zong Feng couldn't agree with this statement.

"No one wants to accept that kind of future." An Lai looked back at Zong Feng's flaming eyes. Deep in the pupils of the programmer in a Tang suit was ice that could not be melted by any external object.

"We are gathered here to consider how we can change that future."

"The alien spirits accept that fate and that future, but we cannot accept it."

"He once fought against fate for countless of us. Even if we cannot fight against fate for those who have died, why can't we fight against it for ourselves?"

Cheng Chuzhe concluded firmly: "I don't accept that future, so I choose to resist. This is the simplest cause and effect relationship."

No one thought about whether or not it would ultimately succeed, and all they talked about afterwards was various ways to prevent that future from coming.

"Since He Jingtong's past is bound to be exposed, why not let us take the initiative to publicize it. His efforts and his miserable situation can at least win some sympathy points."

Jing Yunsong tried his best to think, his eyebrows were furrowed, and even his facial features seemed to be working hard: "As long as the people who feel sad about this refuse to accept the spirits' congratulations and die together, then the upper echelons may be able to calm down."

"If you mean to publicize these in this country, there is actually no need, because He Jingtong is already famous enough, and the upper echelons are restrained enough." Jun Xi pointed out his logical flaws, "Otherwise, they would not have shown in the future that they secretly let spiritualists from other countries enter the country, but would have sentenced the alien spirit He Jingtong to death long ago."

"And if you mean to promote it to other countries, then there is no need to seek sympathy from others." Tan Dong, another teammate of Jing Yunsong, also gave his own rebuttal to his relatively superficial statement, "It is difficult for participants to empathize with the situation, so how can bystanders fully empathize with it?"

Zong Feng also felt that this act of seeking sympathy and selling misery was too ugly, so he said, "It would be even worse if we could directly push the alien He Jingtong to become a legend, and use our absolute strength to announce to the outside world that no one should ever covet his life."

"Let's change the topic." Ji Wanhua quickly interrupted before the situation turned into mutual criticism.

"Tell the people directly that spiritualists from other countries will be entering the country in the near future, and their purpose is to kill the alien spirit He Jingtong directly before we even have a clear discussion among ourselves on whether or not to let the alien spirit He Jingtong live..." Liu Shuyu bit her nails and frowned.

"It is feasible to a certain extent, and it is not a bad idea to turn this matter into a complete 'family affair'." Cheng Chuzhe thinks it is possible, but not enough.

"The disadvantages are obvious, because from the perspective of the world, our 'family affairs' may not be something we can handle on our own. When multiple countries jointly express their desire to intervene, it will be difficult for us to do so."

"This one is pending, and we'll discuss another one later."

"No, don't wait."

During the discussion, Xi Hongjing suddenly said: "Do you remember who was the first country in the world to possess nuclear weapons?"

"In the first discussion, it was said that instead of letting the alien He Jingtong to gain sympathy, it would be better for us to directly promote him to become a legend - of course, we are very clear about this matter and it is impossible to do so, but that is not what we said to the outside world."

"If we tell others that we want to learn from him how to achieve human immortality, then other countries' attitude towards us will change to how we can participate in this research."

Xi Hongjing, who was originally an official spiritualist, became more and more fluent as she spoke. She knew too well the complexity of those circles.

"Those who first promote and realize immortality are destined to go down in history. From a profit perspective, the first person to try something new will naturally get the biggest and most complete piece of the pie."

"We want humans to have eternal life, to get rid of death, to get rid of the troubles of disease, and to let the world once again move towards a new era, rather than stagnating in the present for a long time..."

Xi Hongjing took a deep breath, her eyes bright and clear, and she pointed out the situation in one sentence: "With all these things, it is natural that you will occupy the position of righteousness."

"I know that if I say this, someone will definitely say something. If we say this to the public, we must show that we are doing this, otherwise we will not be able to gain people's trust. And if we really do this, then there will be no difference between us and the experimenters of the Peach Blossom Spring Project."

"But that's not the case."

"What we want to study is the immortality of 'human beings', not the immortality of 'human beings transformed into spirits'."

Xi Hongjing knows how to play word games very well.

"It's normal that there is no result in researching immortality for decades or even hundreds of years, right?"

"We don't need to go to the extreme of the Peach Blossom Spring Project." "If we deal with the outside world in this way, then any foreign spiritualists who still want to interfere with us will become thieves who want to steal our existing research.

As a spiritual master and a member of the power arena, Xi Hongjing always knows what the bottom line is.

"And those who try to allow spiritualists from other countries to enter the country are naturally equivalent to treason -

"What we have, with the help of the spirit scene and the purpose of studying human immortality, is something as important as nuclear weapons.

"Initially, we couldn't accept the intervention of other countries because we needed to screen the researchers. Otherwise, who could guarantee that such a precious and special existence as the Hejing would not be harmed by extreme people?

The more Xi Hongjing spoke, the more excited people's eyes became, until she counted with her fingers and even gave a timeline.

"This is enough to at least extend the time span of half a year to a year. If there must be 'researchers' from other countries coming to our territory in the later stage, we also have plenty of ways to deal with it. Isn't it?

An Lai's eyes seemed to warm up: "I think it's feasible.

Cui Tong half lowered his head, thinking: "Draw the whole world in? If this is the angle, instead of harming the alien spirit He Jingtong, he should be worshipped.

“It can be done.

Mr. Xi also agreed.

"At least it can help us get rid of the current difficulties in the short term. Cheng Chuzhe said, "The future that the alien He Jingtong believes cannot be changed is already a change after the above statement has been implemented.

"After all, the purpose of the foreign spiritualists who entered the country illegally to kill the alien spirit He Jingtong has naturally changed from "to eliminate monsters that will endanger the world" to "to hinder the research of other countries."

"No matter how high-sounding the names are, those people are actually trying to cause serious damage and damage to our country's research in the field of biological life...

Cheng Chuzhen was not used to those written explanations. He pressed his fingernails against the table with some discomfort: "There may be other more written explanations. Sorry, this aspect may still require some professionals to handle.

"When all the above ideas are implemented and realized, then we should think about another question. That is, when the above goals have been achieved, what will the alien spirit He Jingtong face that will make everything worse again?

The coping methods discussed above are very feasible.

But An Lai does not want everyone to forget those key points just because of a feasible solution.

The reason why the world fears the spirit He Jingtong is that he will become a legend, and a legend that no one can resist. But as long as he does not become a legend, this country itself has three S-level spiritualists who can restrain him.

This is a situation that is enough to reassure people, and it is also a fact that should be balanced over the long term.

But the attitude of the alien He Jingtong has always been that the worst future will still come, and he even took the initiative to provide evidence from his own perspective...

An Lai closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his gaze was particularly powerful: "This issue is something that we must think about continuously, whether it is now or when we start to take action and promote the above statement.

"But before we get the answer, we have to take action first, turn the above into reality, and block the first node of the predetermined fate that cannot be changed as shown by the alien spirit He Jingtong -!