Chapter 159 Ineffective

Can destiny be changed?

Is changing one's fate a predetermined one?

This philosophical question was asked by the system.

A system that thinks by running logic should not ask this kind of question.

Before Silicon Bio asked this question, what prompted it to ask this question was that the conclusions reached in that meeting with many people were finally implemented and successful.

The information broadcast on international news programs and the questions foreign journalists face when interviewing citizens of other countries...

Everything is natural.

Under the control of professionals, the dangers of supernatural phenomena are neither blurred nor eliminated.

It’s just that in many people’s minds, the idea has naturally been implanted that supernatural visions are controllable.

After all, the prerequisite for studying him is to make him studyable.

As for the cognition of controllability, there is no problem in many cases. But "many times" does not mean that there is no problem from beginning to end.

To be more precise, when the spirit He Jingtong faces other spirits, he is not controllable.

It is difficult in itself to create a situation where he can encounter other spirits.

The only spirit in the Spirit Master Prison is He Jingtong himself. He Yuchen's efforts are just ineffective in cooperating with Su Xu. It seems that this will not lead to He Jingtong meeting other spirits.

But those new cognitive changes, during the period when Cheng Chuzhe united multiple parties to transmit them externally, did not remain unchanged for other people.

Time is flowing, and everyone is moving forward with time.

All guesses and inferences, as well as cognitive modifications, cannot bring about a real change in fact.

That is, those who received the order to wipe out the alien spirit He Jingtong had already prepared themselves for death before taking action.

Their bet was that the psychic in the target country would restrict his abilities if they didn't want the alien spirit He Jing to die together.

They were also betting that once they arrived, the spiritual master who didn't want the alien spirit He Jing to die together would eventually unlock his ability.

There was a conversation among those who entered the country illegally.

The two people in the dialogue, one is a relatively young man, and the other is a man in the prime of life.

"Knowing that you will die, you still choose to participate in this kind of mission. Sometimes I don't understand whether it is meaningful to do this." The young man looked numb.

The elder man was calm: "Learn from me, kid. Don't worry about whether it's meaningful or not. I'm here to participate in this mission because they offer too much. It doesn't matter whether I die or not. Anyway, the money will be used for the people I care about."

"I know you are such a realistic person, but I can't be like you." The young man's face was filled with visible distress. "What I care about more is why our country, and many other countries, can't frankly admit that there are anomalies in the world like this country."

"Isn't this natural? You know, the spiritualist weapons that this country possesses can deal with all abnormalities head-on and will not let the spirits affect the lives of the people. But we are different."

"In our country, there are as many as 800,000 people who die from supernatural beings every year. But do you know how many people died from supernatural beings in this country last year on the dark web?"

"Eighteen, hahahaha, eighteen! How hilarious! In our country, our psychics have accidentally killed more than one hundred and eighty people while handling supernatural beings."

"And my daughter was one of those 180 people..."

His dead daughter, his crazy wife, his sorry parents, had once exchanged their lives for his life, just because he already had a wife and daughter. A fellow spiritualist...

What is the purpose of living?

I have absolutely no idea.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have brought up this topic." The young man lowered his eyes in shame.

"There's no such thing as apologies. Spiritual masters can only be with spiritual masters, otherwise they won't be able to protect their loved ones." The elder's eyes were gloomy, but he still used that little bit of kindness to lead the younger generation who had just entered the spiritual world.

"Even when we are with the spiritualists, as a small group of people, we always live under oppression and control."

"...Don't worry about that." The elder suddenly snorted and laughed, "And don't think about why politicians want to hide spirits and spiritualists. Because the answer you will get in the end will only be that they are afraid of death."

"——There are always people who hate them enough to turn them into ghosts."

Perhaps this topic stirred some emotions, or perhaps the elderly, knowing that they could not return alive, wanted to leave some voice in this world before they died.

"You know what? Assuming that everyone in the world will eventually become a spirit, there must be a first come, first served order. The first comer is very likely to be killed by a spiritualist who has not yet become a spirit, and the second comer is very likely to be killed by others who have already become a spirit before becoming a spirit."

"Before the development from all humans to all spirits, there must be a stage where humans and spirits coexist. During this stage, fighting, chaos and terror always go hand in hand."

"Moreover, in that stage, only the spiritual master can stably protect himself. If that future really comes, then the spiritual master will be the supreme being in the middle stage. No matter how powerful the wise man, how dirty the politician, or how rich and powerful they are, they will not be able to fight against the group of alien spirits at that stage..."

"Politicians at the top can't afford the cost of change. As for the eternal life represented by spiritualization?"

The man shook his phone, and a message appeared on the news screenshot interface: [Using the method of studying S-level spirits, trying to achieve human life extension and disease prevention...]

"This is even more ridiculous. Only people in this country would simply believe that studying spirits is the closest step to eternal life. In our country, in our neighboring countries, in the countries in our friendly alliance... which one of them doesn't conduct human experiments in private?"

"What a load of shit. What's even funnier is that my companions, the corpses of the clerics who died in the battle with the alien spirits, or rather the clerics who are still alive, are all on the experimental platform." The man lowered his face gloomily.

But when he looked at his teammates, he gave an ambiguous smile: "I really hope that one day you won't become one of them, but before that, maybe I should say one thing--"

"Hope you make it out of this mission alive."

In front of them was an endless stream of black buildings. It looked so cold and scary, but when it was reflected in the eyes of the two people, envy rose in their eyes and hearts.

This country protects spiritual leaders while protecting its citizens.

Although it may not have existed for long, the country had this awareness long before.

Otherwise, it would not have been possible for Cheng Chuzhe to become the warden of the Spiritual Prison so naturally at the age of thirty-something, and to have served in that position for many years.

"Okay, let's put these topics aside." The older man coughed in his throat, sounding particularly wolfish, but he quickly calmed down and continued, "I feel like I haven't said so many words in a row in many years."

"Then, what we should think about now is how to kill that S-rank alien spirit——"

This is a difficult question.

But as previously speculated, as long as the ability tendency is transfer, it will not be a problem whether you want to take away the alien spirit He Jingtong or want to enter the country.

Plus a cleric with concealment abilities...

This is why these two were able to lurk around the Prison of the Spiritual Masters so naturally.

They are pioneers and they are also tryers. Their goal is to find out whether the alien spirit He Jingtong is currently restricted in his abilities.

And if not, they would most likely all die at the hands of the alien spirit He Jingtong.

This perception is based on the fact that these two people are not aware that the alien spirit He Jingtong has a restriction that prohibits him from killing humans.

Then, at the risk of death, they acted.

Later, they were also discovered.

Since it is a spiritualist prison, the supervisors here will also be spiritualists.

There is no shortage of people with abilities such as enchantments or barriers. When a cleric of the same level uses his own abilities to penetrate a barrier or enchantment, it is normal for him to be discovered.

Surprise and anger coexisted. Xi Hongjing was very sure that when the crime of treason was placed in front of everyone, no one would allow a spiritualist from another country to enter the country without permission.

In other words, these two people came here purely by using their own abilities.

When two figures appeared in the surveillance, and when An Lai discovered that the two people were moving towards the place where the alien spirit He Jingtong was with a clear goal, he instantly locked the key point from the surveillance.

"The surveillance that has not been enhanced by my ability cannot reflect their figures."

"Also, their route forward was never along the normal road, but teleportation."

"At that time, they were wearing earphones on their ears, so in addition to these two people, there must be a psychic with the ability of 'find objects' cooperating with them..."

"Go find the alien He Jingtong. After his abilities were restricted, the alien's ability to recover from injuries with its own strength was also sealed accordingly. Now, although he has extraordinary physical qualities, his self-defense ability is no different from that of an ordinary person."

"If you get hit in the vitals, you'll really die..."

"But why did everything happen so fast?" Ji Wanhua frowned.

Cheng Chuzhe's face was gloomy: "It can only be that from the moment He Jingtong became the alien He Jingtong and was broadcast live, he has been targeted."

Time is always moving forward, and before they receive the supernatural visions that indirectly hint to them that a bad future is bound to come, the people who make that future come have already begun to act.

After the alien spirit He Jingtong gave the hint, the people in the conference room reacted very quickly indeed.

But this intruder who obviously looked like a foreigner seemed to be telling them that foreign psychics reacted faster.

The prison psychic who possessed the ability to cast a barrier quickly covered the location where the alien spirit He Jingtong was, with a layer of protective measures. However, despite this, the protection that could be provided from a distance could not stop the footsteps of a psychic of the same level.

The chaotic footsteps attracted the ghost He Jingtong who was sitting in the room reading a book.

He raised his eyelids and watched the two people use their abilities to pass through the heavy metal door.

At that time, the two men even greeted him awkwardly in their native dialect: "Good morning, the most powerful spirit."

The next sentence is: "We are here to kill you."

The alien spirit He Jingtong was not moved by these words, but stood up from the bed.

The two men who said they were going to kill him retreated quickly the next second. The younger one leaned his back against the door, looking like he was ready to run away at any moment, while the older one stood half a step in front of him with a vigilant look on his face.

But despite this, they still did not leave.

"What is your reason for wanting to kill me?" Putting the code in his hand casually on the bedside, the alien spirit He Jingtong asked calmly.

"The situation between countries and between spiritualists and spirits is different."

"In theory, even if the politicians who ordered you to come here don't want to expose psychics and supernatural beings to the public, they should still use the media to release false information to your people as they have done in the past."

The alien spirit He Jingtong is like a seeker who has questions and is therefore curious about the answers.

"Like now, instructing you, the clerics who can't even handle the situation in your own country, to commit a transnational murder...what is the reason?"

There was obvious doubt in those black eyes.

"You, no, you want to prove to us that you have the ability to communicate? If you don't kill us directly, it will indeed make us A-level clerics think that there is no point in dying when we can live..."

The older one also started the conversation with a string of worthless nonsense.

"But even if that's the case, I can't explain to you specifically why they must let us come."

The older man glanced at his companion and continued, "Perhaps there is a possibility that someone just doesn't want him and me to live."

"But I don't think that's the reason you want."

"And what you want to know is the fundamental reason why we want to kill you. Of course, it's because..."

Before he could say the following words, the man attacked the alien He Jingtong with a hint of madness in his eyes.

"Of course it's because your S-rank spirit is controllable!"

The alien spirit Qi Yuan and the alien spirit He Jingtong avoided the attack.

In the eyes of the attackers, this scene looked like an alien and He Jingtong didn't even bother to attack them.

"Don't be too nice."

"You are the only S-level spirit in this world."

"This level of force that can be controlled by humans will only make people feel afraid. There are many powerful people in this world who want you dead, otherwise how can those people feel at ease. They just think, who knows if they will suddenly die in your hands one day-"

"As for other reasons?" If his first strike failed, the elder was ready to die here.

He smiled, looking deadpan.

However, before his death, he did not mind answering the questions he raised above.

"I don't have what others have. Isn't that a reason to destroy it?"

As he spoke, the iron door behind him was kicked suddenly. The younger man with teleportation ability used this inertia to throw himself at the older man's shoulder. When the two came into contact, they also disappeared in this cell in an instant.

Cheng Chuzhe, who broke into the cell, looked at the empty cell with only one alien in it, and he heaved a sigh of relief. He even said unconsciously, "Fortunately, nothing happened..."

"Then what do you think will happen?" There was no sarcasm in the alien spirit He Jingtong's tone, just a simple inquiry.

Cheng Chuzhe pulled the corners of her mouth, trying to smile, but she couldn't do it no matter what. Finally, she gave up and said coldly: "Before answering this question, I would like to ask you, is the current situation considered a breakthrough in our destiny?"

She took out her cell phone from her pocket and pressed the power button to unlock it. The moment she did so, a message popped up on the screen that the elderly foreigner had been unable to see clearly before.

"With this kind of talk, there won't be many people in this country who would want to kill you anymore."

"The truth is just as that foreigner said. People from other countries want to kill you only because you are the first S-rank spirit that can be controlled by humans and can exert combat power... Although you and I both know that this is not true information."

"But the node of destiny has been broken, right?" Cheng Chuzhe's eyes contained a trace of expectation for a positive answer, "From now on, the worst future will definitely not come."

The alien He Jingtong laughed. At first he just had a smile on his face, and then he started laughing out loud, until the sound became louder and louder, and the mockery also came out.

All of Cheng Chuzhe's expectations were chilled by this laughter. Her eyes gradually became colder, and the look she gave to the alien He Jingtong through her sunglasses was no longer full of human emotions.

The latter was not moved by this change, but stopped laughing abruptly and said in a more indifferent manner: "From the beginning, you got the wrong direction."

…

At the same time, two foreigners escaped.

The two of them were completely surrounded.

There are a large number of electronic spirits standing beside An Lai, and he can defeat thousands of troops by himself.

He looked at the elderly man who looked a little ferocious because he was surrounded, and said in a voice that could freeze a person: "This is not a place where you can come and go as you please."

Next to the programmer stood Ji Wanhua, Jing Yunsong and others. Cheng Chuzhe, who chose to break in, followed Xi Hongjing. "We don't think we can go back." The elder took a defensive action, and the younger people next to him kept activating their abilities, trying to escape. But for some reason, they seemed to be imprisoned and could not leave.

The earphone with the sound of electric current also transmitted a message: "The spirit didn't make a move at all. If we assume that he didn't use his strength, and that he dodged the attack in a way that violated human mechanics, then that would be equivalent to fully unleashing his abilities..."

"This is totally wrong!" The person guarding outside had a computer in front of him. On the computer, there was a zoomed-out interface that repeatedly played the scene of the two escaping from the prison where the alien spirit He Jingtong was.

"Even if you are going to die, you must find out from these people whether the spirit has any sealed abilities before you die."

"This is just a warning. Hurry up and act, you idiots. Otherwise, I promise I won't give you a penny of the money we agreed on."

The one-sided conversation ended abruptly. The person guarding outside had no intention of responding, and even said maliciously: "It would be easier to test the answer through combat."

As for whether those two people will die?

Who cares then?

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inside prison.

"It won't work if we don't get the money." The older man's eyes suddenly showed a hint of ferocity.

When he came to participate in this mission, he was already prepared to die here.

After all, there is no point in living.

My daughter died and my wife went crazy. It would be self-torture to continue to take care of my crazy wife. Instead of doing that, it is better to prepare enough money so that the other person can get the best treatment and care for the rest of his life.

That is what seniors are for.

But everything is based on the premise that he has to get the answer first.

That was how it was at the beginning.

But he was unable to gain any advantage during the fight. When the older man was surrounded and defeated by three sides, the younger man immediately raised his hands to surrender.

"I surrender, please don't hurt me, I want to go back alive."

"Before you think about going back alive, tell me the reason why you are here, and this person..." Jing Yunsong shook the collar of the elder, and the man in front of him had his arms removed.

His legs, which provided him with mobility, were also broken.

Jing Yunsong seemed to be afraid that the young man might not understand, so he added: "Tell me why he is fighting so hard."

But the young man smiled bitterly and said, "There is no reason at all."

What follows is a tragedy, or rather a ridiculous story.

After the elder's daughter was accidentally killed while the psychic was dealing with a supernatural incident, his wife went crazy - this is the apparent fact, but the actual fact is...

"Someone has set his sights on his wife, but his daughter is an obvious burden to that man. In addition, his wife also knows that she is being targeted, but she cannot ask for help from her husband because her husband is being controlled by the man."

"What really drove that woman crazy was not the death of her daughter, but the fact that her daughter died because of her and her husband was not even qualified to take revenge."

“Ask me how I know this?”

"I don't want to say it..." But when the steel rod hit his temple, the young man said quickly, "Because he is not required to go back alive!"

"And I, I will take his place in the future."

"His boss, the guy who had his wife in his sight, didn't care if the lady was crazy or not."

"He chose to have a group like us come because he would definitely not want to let a young person like me die. In other words, from now on, his death will be seen by the outside world as a death in the line of duty."

Since the young man had already said a series of information, Cui Tong, who also has a family, asked back: "So you knew that he was willing to die to protect you, but you still let him believe the false information about exchanging his life for wealth?"

"But what can I do?" the young man asked back.

"I think you've heard of the Broken Windows Effect. If you want to get into that kind of circle, isn't the most basic choice to go along with it?"

Young people can feel the hateful gazes cast from the controlled elders.

He defended himself by saying, "At least I promised myself that as long as I took his place, even if I couldn't protect his wife, I would not let his parents and his wife's parents suffer humiliation in their old age."

This is such a terrible story that I really don't have the energy to evaluate it.

Although for an older person, this is just his life.

But this completely terrible life ended when he came to another country to carry out a mission, but was captured by officials of that country.

What happens next?

Will he die? Or will he be brainwashed and rebel?

But any normal person should understand that he is not worthy of being subverted.

The man spat out a mouthful of blood and suddenly laughed out loud.

"I suddenly feel that everyone in this world should know that they can become spiritual. Even though that is the worst possible outcome, it is still a choice after all..."

When laws and rules are unable to check the evil, then bet on the absolute revenge caused by spiritualization.

The feeling of impending spiritualization continued to come, and the young man's back was instantly soaked with cold sweat, and his eyes were blinded by the sweat sliding down his forehead.

"But you should know that becoming a spirit is equivalent to death." Cui Tong's voice became heavier. "This country will not let any spirit go free. Even to some extent, we hope that the person you want to take revenge on will die sooner."

"Of course I know." The older man's face was visibly distorted.

Even though he has been a spiritualist for many years, Cui Tong has never faced the spiritualization of others.

Spiritualization is more of a result than a process that is fully revealed to others.

This process is too cruel.

Reason is like being burned by a raging fire, screaming endlessly, but all of it is buried in a throat that is unable to make any sound.

The limbs were distorted, and the human parts were gradually covered with strange colors.

But the bystanders could only watch. They could not do anything to someone who had already experienced so much suffering and had chosen his own death.

The elder will die in front of several witnesses, and the spirit that the elder has incarnated will die at the hands of the spiritualist.

Before his consciousness completely disappeared, the man said in a sad voice: "Instead of crying and wailing to this world before I die, it would be better for me to become a spirit and use everything I have left, the burning of my soul and will, to take revenge on this world."

“Even if it doesn’t succeed?” Jing Yunsong bit the soft flesh inside his cheek.

The man replied: "Even if it doesn't work."

This was the first time in An Lai's life that he had encountered a spiritual master who had transformed into a spirit. At least as far as An Lai knew, this was the first time in his life that he had encountered such a spiritual master.

It's incredibly bad.

The A-level alien that had already appeared had a look of cruelty in his eyes, but before he could actually take any action, either to escape or to attack other humans, Cui Tong, who was the most sympathetic to him, took action.

He held the short knife, which was about 30 centimeters long, in his backhand, with the back of the knife close to his hand. With a flash of the knife, Cui Tong had cut open the core of the alien spirit in just a moment.

Everything happened very quickly, and all the changes caught people off guard.

The alien spirit, which had a complete figure before, turned into black photons after its core was cut open, and quickly dissipated until it disappeared completely.

The only things he had left were the clothes that were torn by his transformed body.

Under the torn strip of cloth, half of it was a one-inch photo, on which was a blonde lady with an eight-toothed smile. The edge of the one-inch photo had obvious signs of ageing, as if it had been rubbed many times, causing the yellowing and aging.

No one bothered to figure out what to do with these things; they were simply swept into the trash can without anyone noticing, until the lid of the trash can marked as non-recyclable was slowly closed.

Before sympathizing with these foreigners, some people are more concerned about whether such things will happen again in the future.

They also came to a conclusion:

Those who want to kill the alien He Jingtong never care about his public identity, or what twists and turns and changes he has.

What happens next?

Is it really true that there is no chance of breaking the future that is destined to push the supernatural scene to become a legend?

Killing the alien He Jingtong...is it really the best option?

While everyone was immersed in the whirlpool of problems and unable to extricate themselves, He Yuchen and Su Xu were watching all of this at the same time.

The direction in which the elderly and young people fled happened to be the area where they lived.

Everything that happened here was reflected in front of my eyes.

What touched me the most was not the tragedy of the elderly, but the fact that they turned into ghosts in despair and collapse.

A-level is nothing. Only those above A-level are valuable to the alien He Jingtong.

But how can we create a spirit of that specification...

The two people in the cell kept thinking about this question. On the other side, Cheng Chuzhe, who was talking to the alien spirit He Jing, suddenly asked: "What do you mean by going in the wrong direction from the beginning--"

This sentence is simply like saying that all their current efforts are truly ineffective.

The answer to that question was not given by Yiling He Jingtong.

Cheng Chuzhe eventually had no choice but to leave because of his attitude of dealing with everything in silence.

Why is it a futile effort?

Because once the person who wants to kill him makes a decision, he will never change it.

What does the future hold?

The results were exactly the same before and after they were prompted.

The scene of the man becoming an A-level spirit also became the direction of He Yuchen's future efforts.

He Yuchen knows that he cannot become a spirit at the moment because he cannot guarantee that a spirit will have reason, but he will try to force others to become spirits.

The one chosen was the father of the girl with the supernatural spirit in the original hospital incident.

The person who comes after that will be driven completely insane by the intimidation of He Yuchen and Su Xu and become a spirit.

It was a fact that he felt guilty towards his daughter. Being imprisoned in the spiritualist prison also meant that he was destined to know something about the existence of spirits.

The more guilty you feel, the more afraid you become.

Until, in the end, he himself became the source of his fear—

But his value and the alien he eventually formed were obviously not enough to be food for the alien He Jingtong. He was simply not qualified.

However, his transformation into a spirit has intensified the "devouring desire" buried deep in the soul of the spirit He Jing.

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Want balance, want power, want to be legendary.

It was as if there was a dense voice of the alien spirit Fu Zexun in my mind, and that voice was saying, "You should become a legend.

The alien He Jingtong lost control in that future.

His abilities were indeed restricted, but the restrictions were only allowed. When he chose to resist, the spiritualist, who had no experience in dealing with S-level spirits, would lose all the checks and balances.

Afterwards, the Prison of Spiritual Masters, which could not be confronted head-on, was razed to the ground.

The power of S-class spirits was only truly known to the world after this.

That is a self-propelled high-risk weapon.

All the ordinary people who were in charge of cleaning up the mess at the Prison of Spiritual Masters could see was a situation that looked like the aftermath of a natural disaster.

The ruins of buildings, cracks in the ground, fallen vegetation, and bloodstains everywhere.

The riot lasted for three days. Although no one died, countless people suffered a fate worse than death.

To be alive during those three days of darkness was not a miracle; it was a fact left behind by the miracle.

Afterwards, they will all understand——

The alien He Jingtong is an alien from the beginning to the end.

The story that follows couldn't be more cliché.

Maintenance is not necessary, the positions are fundamentally different, and this is the source of the inability to resist fate.

The reason for not killing is only because of the contract.

At this time, during this period, other countries should not think about killing the alien He Jingtong, but about killing He Wanjin.

When the constraints cease to exist at the cost of death, the mere presence of the alien spirit He Jingtong is enough to plunge the country into chaos.

Yes, he couldn't kill anyone, but compared to living a life worse than death and actually dying, who could accurately judge which was worse?

"Everyone's bullets will be aimed at his heart. The author Jing told the system truthfully.

"I will bear everyone's hateful gazes. The alien He Jingtong looked at the future again, smiled without any emotion and said.!