Free Web Novel【"Calamitys Death" Countdown: 49h44m58s】
Si Ye Hui Headquarters.
After sending the video, edited by the Hand of Nothingness, to Black Emperor, Nameless Book returned here. She dismissed her numerous scribes and locked herself in her office.
The underground office was unlit, and the curtains were drawn, leaving the room dimly lit. She leaned back in her chair, slightly tilted, with one hand supporting her head, as if napping. With her eyes closed, she meticulously recalled the information Nothingness had given her at the cafe.
【Destruction awakens from slumber, the Deep Space Diamond no longer shines...】
【Civilization... new and old... fades with it...】
"According to reliable intelligence, this is a prophecy circulating from the Eclipse Society Elder Council. Although not complete, combined with recent events, it's enough to deduce some things..."
"I suspect that the so-called Deep Space Diamond refers to the 'winter grand diamond', which is the irregular hexagon observable in the winter night sky, formed by Capella, Aldebaran, Rigel, Sirius, Procyon, and Pollux. Sometimes, when discussing the winter grand diamond, Betelgeuse is also included..."
"If Betelgeuse is included, the number of stars involved would be exactly seven. The number seven is somewhat sensitive... I believe with your well-informed ears, you must have already heard the rumors quietly circulating recently, about there being seven factors related to world destruction, right?"
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The more Nameless Book recalled the information provided by Nothingness, the more somber her mood became.
If she could, she would rather believe that Nothingness had only provided a lot of information with insufficient authenticity just to keep her there and "flirt" with her. But unfortunately, the information Nothingness provided was all reliably verifiable, because...
Aside from that incomplete prophecy from the Eclipse Society Elder Council, she and her intelligence agents had already uncovered other information. It was just that those pieces of information were too fragmented; they lacked that prophecy to string them together like pearls.
What's more, some of Nothingness's deductions subtly exuded an air of undeniable certainty, as if he already knew the final answer and had worked backward to get the process...
It couldn't help but make one wonder if he had been in contact with the Eclipse Society Elder Council and knew more detailed things but had kept them hidden.
Hmph! A urban legend is just a urban legend... Nameless Book snorted coldly in her heart and continued to recall Nothingness's information.
For some reason, Nothingness secretly contacting the Eclipse Society Elder Council without telling her bothered her.
Perhaps it was because she felt betrayed?
If possible, Nameless Book really wanted to recruit Nothingness into the Night Watch. With Nothingness's abilities, he would be more than capable of becoming her chief scribe. Unfortunately, Nothingness was unwilling to sign the moonlight project contract, and she herself was not at ease letting a urban legend move freely within the Night Watch.
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"The night before last, Capella went out. I compiled the urban legend incidents that erupted at the same time Capella went out. Among them, the Calamity-level event around the Gate of God on the banks of the Euphrates River is most likely related to the factors of world destruction..."
"But so far, there is no clear evidence to show any direct connection between the Calamity-level event at the Gate of God and the extinguishing of Capella. Therefore, it cannot be deduced where the next Calamity will erupt."
"However, to be safe, I have also collected and organized information on areas and cities with huge hidden dangers that might experience Calamity-level events next. If possible, local psychic organizations should be contacted as soon as possible to get them to act early, or the Night Watch should simply send people to investigate."
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Recalling her thoughts, Nameless Book opened her eyes.
Nothingness's idea coincided with hers. If a Calamity was about to happen, then as a Guardian of the Night Watch, what she had to do was to nip it in the bud as much as possible. This was something she had always done, and it was one of the reasons why Calamity-level events were far less frequent in Z Country than abroad.
She sat upright at her desk and casually wrote down the names of several regions or cities on a sticky note.
【Ancient Egyptian Pyramids】、【Mostar】、【Free City】、【Shanghai】... and so on. There were thirty-three regions or cities in total, and these places all had one common characteristic: the local Eclipse Society or other terrifying psychic organizations were abnormally active.
However, among these thirty-three regions or cities, only 【Shanghai】 was within the Night Watch's reach.
Could it be a coincidence?
Was the Eclipse Society Elder Council not secretly spreading information, trying to use rumors to eliminate dissidents?
No, this also included Free City. Even if it were to eliminate dissidents, the Eclipse Society Elder Council would not use one of its most important gathering places as bait; the sacrifice would be too great.
After a moment of thought, Nameless Book shook her head, sighed silently, and with a wave of her hand, the writing on the sticky note transformed into tiny starlight, floating up and slowly merging into her brow.
Then, she raised her hand.
The moment she raised her hand, a semi-illusory, semi-real, massive book shelf, whose ends could not be seen either upwards or downwards, as if connected to the void, appeared beside her.
She gently took a file from the book shelf; the illusory file instantly turned from insubstantial to real in her palm. On the black file folder cover, stamped with a crimson bao sang cang xiao badge, was written "File C0015: Free City."
Nameless Book felt that it was necessary to find a target as a breakthrough point when the intelligence was chaotic and there were no clues.
M Country's psychic organizations had completely given up on rectifying the chaos in Free City more than a year ago. Although it was a lost cause, they grandiosely claimed that M Country's culture respected everyone's freedom and that they should not interfere too much...
The Night Watch's Guardian, Caishen (God of Wealth), who frequently dealt with foreign forces, seemed to have been secretly investigating incidents that also pointed to Free City recently. The Night Watch also had enough personnel in that vicinity to launch an operation...
Nothingness had specifically mentioned Free City when providing that information, suspecting that when the next star of the winter grand diamond went out, that would be the location where the Calamity would erupt...
...
In summary, Free City perfectly matched all the characteristics of the breakthrough point Nameless Book had in mind.
But...
Who should she send? Nameless Book wondered.
She could, of course, send a clone to Free City, just as she did when investigating the Yumen Pass incident. However, a clone could not stay there for a long time to conduct in-depth investigations. If she couldn't conduct an in-depth investigation, she probably wouldn't be able to get in touch with the undercurrents quietly surging in Free City.
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【"Calamitys Death" Countdown: 2h04m18s】
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Seeing the familiar questions appear before him, Lu Yibei's eye twitched. Then, expressionlessly, he successively entered aliases such as Lu Yibei, Wang Bu Liu Xing, and Lu Qingyi, and received exactly the same feedback.
【Starting identification...】
【Identification complete, no relevant information found in database】
It wasn't until he entered the alias Calamity that the feedback changed.
【Identification successful, hunting confirmed, insufficient permissions to view detailed information】
Closing the interface, Lu Yibei sighed silently. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm
Although he had evaded most of the psychic organizations' pursuits, from today onwards, all his aliases were unusable, which inevitably left him feeling a bit melancholy.
"How is it? Didn't I say there was no problem? Aside from the Night Watch Guardian having permission to view Calamity's detailed information, all information and files about you have been completely cleared... Now, you can confidently let this old man release that video, right?"
Pushing the wheelchair, he turned around and saw Zhang Huainan's smiling old face, which sent a chill down his spine.
The last few times they filmed the "Black Emperor instantly kills Calamity" videos, it almost gave him a psychological shadow. Now, whenever he saw Zhang Huainan's "kind" smile, he felt a shiver.
Although the video was fake, and the one whose head was finally crushed by Zhang Huainan was Paper Cicada Immortal, the beatings he took during the filming were all real...
After he, Qingji, and Zhang Huainan reached a consensus to film "Black Emperor instantly kills Calamity," that old man Zhang Huainan, if he had strength, he truly used it, directly increasing the intensity, letting him witness the most real and terrifying side of Z Country's "God of Thunder."
So much so that Lu Yibei was unconscious in bed for two or three days after filming, and is still in a wheelchair even now.
If it weren't for the Paper Cicada Immortal, which was influenced by Pink Fluffy Rabbit's authority and became a urban legend, suppressed in the God Kingdom Prototype, making an unspeakable dirty deal with him at a critical moment to act as ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ his substitute and complete the final filming, he suspected he might really have been beaten to death by Zhang Huainan.
"Hmm, that video can be released, but I still have one question," Lu Yibei said.
"Oh?" Zhang Huainan frowned, "What question?"
"What identity should I exist as from now on?" Lu Yibei asked, extending his hand, "It's not the Nameless Assassin Group, there has to be a name, right?"
"How about..." Zhang Huainan mused, "This old man goes and asks Nameless Book again? If she helps you forge a new identity, no one should be able to see through it."
"Then I'll trouble Senior Black Emperor," Lu Yibei said, nodding. Immediately after, Zhang Huainan, holding his bao sang cang xiao badge, unhurriedly exited the Lan Yue Cave entrance.
And just a few seconds after Zhang Huainan left, Lu Yibei suddenly felt his phone vibrate in his pocket. Feeling the vibration, his heart swelled with joy.
After all, under normal circumstances, the only person who would contact him via phone was Miao Miao Jiang.
He took out his phone and glanced at it; as expected, it was a message from Miao Miao Jiang.
However, before he could open Miao Miao Jiang's lengthy message, which included apologies and assurances of safety, he received a new message.
The message was from an unknown contact with a garbled number, and the content was only a brief sentence—"Excuse me, are you Miss Blue Yi?"
Lu Yibei, "???"
