Chapter 355
The Future Chu Sheng! Chen Shi! The Gap in Time!
Chapter 355 The Future Chu Sheng! Chen Shi! The Gap in Time!
He needed Hui and Fang Hong to verify his idea.
Looking at Chu Sheng's expression, Hui Dui clearly knew that An Xi's reason for wanting more people to live was untenable.
At the same time, he realized the seriousness of the situation.
Not only him, but Fang Hong was also watching from the side with a serious expression.
"I know what you mean." Hui looked at Chu Sheng, but then shook his head. "You want me to do a calculation, right?"
"Yes." Chu Sheng did not deny it; his words implied that he had not hidden this fact at all.
Seeing Chu Sheng nod, Hui still shook his head and said, "I can give it a try, but don't get your hopes up."
"I shouldn't be able to calculate this kind of thing unless I sacrifice my own lifespan to do so."
His sequence ability has many limitations. Besides speaking the truth, there is another major limitation that he has kept secret, to the point that Chu Sheng and others thought that this was the only limit of his sequence ability.
His sequence ability, although it seems like he can calculate and deduce anything, actually comes at a cost.
It's just a matter of whether he can accept the price.
Even normal calculations require mental energy, which is a cost. However, as his sequence grows, he can calculate more and more things, and the cost he needs to pay becomes less and less.
Even so, he still expended at least double the amount of mental energy each time he made a calculation.
This is the cost of his sequence. Whenever he uses his sequence abilities, he has to pay a price. This price decreases as his sequence grows, until it eventually becomes the consumption of mental energy.
This is why he doesn't dare to easily deduce the abilities of those with sequence abilities.
Otherwise, with his abilities, he could deduce anything from any other ability user at the same sequence level as him. Even if the information he deduce wasn't much, he could still deduce it by consuming mental energy, instead of needing the aid of a sacrifice to convert the cost into mental energy.
Even so, he estimated that a Sequence Ability User of the same level would require half of his mental energy to be used.
Calculating two of them would make me completely faint.
Of course, this is also related to his sequencing ability. The information he deduces can only yield yes or no results. To know a piece of information, he has to deduce it multiple times, which is one of the reasons why his mental energy is consumed so much.
Therefore, he did not believe that he could deduce what Chu Sheng wanted to know simply by using his mental energy.
Although he was also very curious about this matter.
Upon hearing Hui's words, Chu Sheng frowned. "You should still try to calculate it."
"It wouldn't hurt to give it a try, what if it works?"
As he spoke, he looked at Fang Hong beside him and continued, "Sister Fang, you should give it a try too."
"The answer to this question will determine our future situation. The sooner we know, the sooner we can prepare."
"Although it's possible to assume that the supernatural will grow indefinitely without any calculations, that's definitely not a safe bet."
Upon hearing this, Fang Hong, though unsure of what Chu Sheng meant by "unsafe," nodded without hesitation and said, "I understand."
"I'll try communicating with fate."
For her, the best, and only, way to find out anything was to directly ask fate.
If fate could speak, it wouldn't hide anything from her; it would answer every question. If it didn't answer her, she would only lose a little bit of mental energy, which she could recover after resting.
Hui, who was standing next to Fang Hong, sighed as he watched her begin to communicate with fate. But he didn't stop there. He started to make calculations with his right hand and muttered to himself.
However, there was something peculiar about his muttering; even though Chu Sheng and the others were very close to him, they still couldn't hear what he was saying.
All I know is that he was muttering to himself, but he forgot what he was muttering as soon as he heard it.
Seeing Hui and Fang Hong begin to calculate and ask questions, An Xi glanced at Ah Xin and Xingzi, who were sitting cross-legged on the ground, plundering the sequence, then walked to Chu Sheng's side, frowned, and whispered, "Will it really become very terrifying later?"
Upon hearing this, Chu Sheng turned his head to look at An Xi, who was only up to his shoulder, and shook his head. "I don't know."
"That depends on whether they can get an answer to this question."
Chu Sheng said this, but he was secretly hoping for something.
He knew that if the ultimate powerhouse in the future was indeed himself, then he would definitely know about the things he had experienced.
Since they know this, they will definitely arrange something for themselves, such as confirming his guess.
Just as he understands himself well now, he also firmly believes that his future self will understand himself well too.
The unknown, the indescribable dimension.
It was pitch black here, but a person sat cross-legged in the center of the darkness.
A young man with an ethereal figure, white hair, pale skin, and an aura of decline sat here with his eyes closed.
In the surrounding darkness, faint roars of beasts and unknown sounds mingled and rang out.
The sound was particularly jarring and awkward in the pitch-black space.
"Quiet down." The young man opened his eyes, revealing a pair of red eyes with a golden glint in the center, which looked very similar to his pupils.
If Chu Sheng were here, seeing him would feel like looking in a mirror.
Because this young man looked just like an even more aloof Chu Sheng.
"Stay here quietly for a while, and you will naturally leave this place. But before that, you must not leave!"
As he spoke, his gaze seemed to pierce through endless space, looking at the lower dimensions from a higher perspective, or as if looking at the past from the future.
No one knows whether he is in a higher dimension or in the future.
His gaze pierced through layers of space and time, landing on Chu Sheng, and he murmured, "Have you figured it out yet?"
His voice was soft, but it echoed in the space, drowning out the roars of beasts and the unknown.
At that moment, another voice rang out, echoing through the space, "So, can the future really be changed?"
A figure emerged from the darkness. He was a young man in his mid-twenties with fair skin, who appeared to have not been exposed to ultraviolet radiation.
He was wearing a Chinese military uniform.
Unlike the future Chu Sheng, his body is not illusory.
His name is Chen Shi, a user of the Future Sequence.
“You don’t look good.” Chen Shi looked at the increasingly ethereal body of the future Chu Sheng.
“My misfortune is precisely proof that the future is changing.” Future Chu Sheng’s voice was flat.
"The future will be completely rewritten when I completely disappear."
As he spoke, his gaze fell on Chu Sheng again, his heart devoid of any emotional fluctuation. Hearing his words, Chen Shi sighed and looked at Chu Sheng as well, "I was observing you before the apocalypse, I never imagined your past was like this."
“That’s not my past, that’s a new future,” Future Chu Sheng said calmly. “From the moment you found me, my past became my future.”
“He is better than me, and more humane than me.”
He seemed to want to say something more, but in the end he didn't.
Hearing this, Chen Shi turned to look at him and then tentatively asked, "So can you tell me why you'll be all alone in the future?"
"All of humanity has perished, leaving only you. Although I can no longer access the past and can only exist eternally in this time gap, I am truly curious."
"If you disappear completely, I will never know about this again."
Future Chu Sheng glanced at him and said calmly, "Didn't you already know?"
As he spoke, he pointed, and an invisible spiritual force was transmitted out, traversing space and transcending time.
At that moment, Hui, who was calculating, was deducing whether the strange thing would grow without limit. As a spiritual force came from the unknown, the originally vague information instantly became crystal clear.
"Once the Strange creatures reach Sequence Six, are they different from humans? Can they absorb black energy and grow indefinitely?"
"%...￥%...#.*（%）*？："
Hui frowned, but he wasn't discouraged. He had already expected that he wouldn't be able to figure it out; the secrets of heaven were completely blocked.
But the next moment, his heart skipped a beat, and a bad premonition rose in his heart. He knew this feeling all too well.
Sure enough, the answer he had calculated appeared in his mind the next second.
【fierce!】
As this feeling arose, the previously blocked secrets of heaven suddenly became clear, and he saw that the strangeness of Sequence Six was constantly growing, and the speed was not slowing down at all.
He suddenly opened his eyes and saw Chu Sheng and An Xi looking at him with puzzled expressions.
He then realized that his back was soaked with cold sweat, and large beads of sweat appeared on his forehead and slowly flowed down his face.
"What's wrong with you?" Chu Sheng looked at Hui Dui and asked with a frown, "Your calculations were never this difficult before."
"What exactly did you calculate? You can't possibly use lifespan to calculate it, can you?" An Xi asked from the side.
Hui's appearance is truly terrifying.
It's like going to see a traditional Chinese medicine doctor when you're sick. The doctor just keeps feeling your pulse, frowning, and occasionally flipping through his old, worm-eaten medical books, while constantly looking you over and sighing.
The panic at this point is stronger than the confirmed diagnosis.
An Xi was in that state, watching Hui Dui break out in a cold sweat, his clothes soaked through. She was terrified.
Upon hearing Chu Sheng and An Xi's words, Captain Hui took a deep breath and did not answer immediately. Instead, he calmed himself down before looking at the two of them with a serious expression and saying, "I've figured it out."
"How is it?" An Xi asked anxiously. Although Hui's performance had already explained things, she felt like a death row inmate waiting for his sentence. She knew that the death penalty was likely, but she still wanted to see if it could be reduced to life imprisonment.
But the next moment, the words spoken by Hui made her heart sink into a deep abyss.
"Chu Sheng is right, the supernatural will continue to grow without limit."
At that moment, Fang Hong, who had gone to communicate with fate, opened her eyes, looked at Hui and Chu Sheng and the others, and shook her head, "Fate didn't say."
As she spoke, she looked at Captain Hui, and seeing his expression, she had some guesses in her mind, but still asked, "Have you figured it out?"
"Hmm." Hui nodded and then repeated what he had just said.
For a moment, everyone present fell silent.
Chu Sheng clenched his fist, his suspicions now completely confirmed.
Anxi, on the other hand, was thinking about their future situation. Their growth rate couldn't keep up with the strange creatures, so they would definitely fall into a real apocalypse in the future, and they would have no choice but to run away whenever they saw a strange creature.
Only the City of Dawn can be humanity's dawn!
She needs to find the City of Dawn as soon as possible!
Unlike An Xi, Hui was not thinking about something strange. Instead, he was thinking that it was very abnormal that the heavenly secrets had been in complete chaos just now, but then quickly turned into normal deductions!
He was wondering whether he should expend his lifespan to recalculate it.
However, even though he is a sequence ability user with a longer lifespan than ordinary people, he cannot waste it, as that would shorten his life.
Fang Hong, standing to the side, didn't think so much. In her view, even if the strange things in the future were growing, they were also growing. In addition, the floating island and Ah Xin's ability could cover up the life force, so their survival shouldn't be a problem. Therefore, she wasn't too worried.
They each had their own thoughts, and in the brief intervals between them, Future Chusheng and Chen Shi were silently watching them.
This is the gap between reality and the future, the point where the past and the future intersect.
This place is always in the future, yet you can never touch it; you can see the past, but you can't directly interfere with it.
As Hui told Chu Sheng and the others the results of his calculations, Chu Sheng's already somewhat illusory body became even more illusory in this future.
As his figure became more ethereal, the eerie roars in this space intensified.
"As the future is rewritten, the suppression is also weakening. Once I completely dissipate, these anomalies will be completely free of suppression, and they will return to the 'present.' That will be the real apocalypse."
“He was luckier than me, but he is not me; I am stronger than him, but I am not the ‘he’ I am now.”
“I have a question,” Chen Shi continued from the side.
Future Chu Sheng glanced at him indifferently, without saying a word, clearly not intending to answer him.
Seeing his expression, Chen Shi waved his hand and said, "I'm not asking about your future; I'm just curious."
"Even though you don't acknowledge that you and the 'current' him are the same person, you two had similar experiences at the beginning, right?"
"After all, I only came into contact with you on the fifth day after the apocalypse began. Before that, your experiences should have been the same."
"What do you want to say?" Future Chu Sheng looked at him expressionlessly.
“Since you’ve had the same experiences, you’ve also experienced the thing that had the deepest impact on him ‘now,’ and given your personality ‘now,’ you probably wouldn’t help us.”
“Similarly, you won’t help your past self rewrite the future, because that would make you disappear.” He said, glancing at the illusory body of the future Chu Sheng.
"And you will still survive in the apocalypse. Given your personality, as long as you can survive, you probably won't pay any attention to me, let alone rewrite the future or make yourself disappear."
"Can you tell me?" Chen Shi looked at Wei Lai Chu Sheng, but Wei Lai Chu Sheng remained silent for a long time.
After a long silence, he whispered, "I can't go on living."
“I was already infected with the sequence toxin a long time ago. By the time you met me, I was already at my wit’s end.”
"Even if I don't want to, I have no choice but to do this, otherwise I will die within a hundred years at most."
P.S.: The next chapter is not part of the main story; it's an extra chapter about Chu Sheng's experiences in the future, which are completely different from those of the current protagonist.
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