Chapter 1
"The End of the World Begins with Failing the Examination" Author: Kitten Wants to Become an Immortal
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In this weird time. Ancient taboos revive, and the Creator comes from outside.
The nameless King of the Old Ones is whispering. Humans have many choices. Humans also have no choice.
Because there is hell ahead and hell behind you. ...Some people met Dagon under the deep sea and found their way home from Luoyan City.
Some people are summoned by the Mother Buddha under the high walls of the temple and enter the Pure Land of Buddha by indulgent pleasure. Some people listened to the teachings of Lord Turing on the digital network and gave up their mortal bodies to see through illusion and reality. And some people... were helped to the throne by the sleeping ancient race.
Crowned king above deep space. "Keep your heart beating, and God will resonate with you." - King of the Deep Space, the blood descendant of the monarch, the unspeakable, the descendant of natural disasters, the prophet of the divine kingdom of Kakosa, the reveler of the distant starry sky...Chen Jing.
Author's custom tag time travel
Chapter 1 The Haze at Sentinel Ridge
The dog days of summer in Sentinel Ridge are always so tiring. The combination of hot weather and humidity in the mountains makes it seem like even the air has turned into a sticky, invisible quagmire.
On the mass grave in the back hill.
Chen Jing held a hoe hesitantly and looked at the name of his grandfather "Chen Bofu" on the white marble tombstone in front of him, his expression full of hesitation.
What he hesitated about was...
Do you want to follow your grandfather's instructions and dig up his grave?
Two days ago.
Chen Jing, who was working in the provincial capital, received a call from his grandfather. Before that, they had not contacted each other for a long time.
On the phone, the old man's voice sounded very strange.
There is also a slight current sound with poor signal in the stiffness.
"——Come back [*Signal noise]——"
"——Go to the east of the back mountain [* signal noise] to dig up my grave——I left something for you——"
"—take it away—and [*increasingly harsh noises]—"
The call was cut off at this point, and Chen Jing was confused.
Chen Jing knew very well what kind of person his grandfather was.
Old-fashioned and serious.
Hard and cold.
Like a piece of rusty iron.
The old man is not the kind of person who can joke, not to mention that Chen Jing has never seen him smile since he was a child.
Could it be that he is talking nonsense due to his old age and lack of clarity of mind?
Nor should it.
Chen Jing knew how strong the old man's body was.
It is no exaggeration to say that in Chen Jing's memory, the old man has never been sick, let alone Alzheimer's disease.
So after Chen Jing received the call, he immediately bought the ticket.
"What's going on...why did you die suddenly..."
Chen Jing looked at the name on the tombstone with a complicated expression, feeling confused and a little sad.
Chen Jing's parents left before he was one month old.
The only relatives he remembers are his grandparents.
But grandpa is like a transparent person in Chen Jing's life. He has never cared about him since he was a child. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the most familiar stranger.
Chen Jing only felt the warmth of family from his grandma.
So after his grandma passed away, he left Sentinel Ridge and only came back to see the old man during the holidays.
"How much you hate my grandma... You obviously bought a place for a joint burial at the cemetery... I didn't expect that you would not want to go there even after you died..."
Thinking of everything in the past, the expression on Chen Jing's face became more complicated.
He hesitated again and again, knelt down and kowtowed three times, then walked around to the side of the tomb with a hoe.
Chen Jing finally decided to fulfill the old man's instructions, and Mou Zujin dug in with a hoe...
"Bang!"
Every time he dug the grave, Chen Jing used 100% of his strength.
Every time he swings the hoe, his eyes turn a little red.
Until finally the blackened urn was dug out.
Chen Jing's red eyes were filled with tears, but no sound came out of his mouth.
he knows.
From now on, he has no relatives in this world.
"It's quite acceptable to leave something for me in the tomb... It can't be the real estate certificate of the old house..."
The urn for the elderly is different from the common urn.
The style seems to have been chosen by him.
That cold, black box without any patterns was exactly the same as the old man's temperament.
Chen Jing suspected that the box was the same as the old man.
They are all made of iron.
A piece of letter paper cut into a square is attached to the box, with seven large official characters carved on it.
"It's inside, open it."
Chen Jingneng recognized that it was his grandfather's handwriting, so he just hesitated for a moment, and finally had the courage to hold his breath and open the urn...
The next second.
Chen Jing was stunned.
Because there were no ashes in the box as he imagined.
There is only one key.
A note.
And an old DV camera.
There was only one sentence on the note.
The writing is very hasty.
Even before the last word was written, Chen Jing guessed it.
"Remember to watch the videos on the DV!"
At this moment, Chen Jing suddenly felt like he was playing a reasoning game. Instead of containing ashes, the urn contained these things...
Isn't the old man dead? ?
Thinking of this, the sadness in Chen Jing's eyes disappeared instantly.
"What the hell is the old man doing..." Chen Jing murmured, picking up the camera from the iron box with a puzzled expression.
Let me remember watching the video in the DV?
Chen Jing looked at the DV in his hand.
In his memory.
This camera has never appeared in his home.
But this machine is obviously not new. Even if the old man just bought it, it is probably second-hand. Even the LOGO sticker on it is blurred and white, and only the "Laosuojia" trademark can be barely recognized.
"Buy second-hand goods and brands... The old man is trying to recharge his faith..."
Chen Jing carefully checked the DV. Fortunately, this machine that is almost ten years behind is not complicated to operate. After simply turning it on, he began to look for the videos stored in the DV.
There is only one video stored in this camera.
After clicking play.
The picture appeared on the flip display.
That should be the old man shooting in his own study.
Because the camera is old and the shooting pixels are not very clear, the whole video looks very blurry, which is basically a battle-damaged picture quality.
"When you see this video, I should have disappeared."
The skinny old man was wearing a knitted coat and sitting at the desk. His expression was as cold and stiff as ever, as if he was made of cast iron. His dry and hoarse voice did not contain any emotion.
"I know you have a lot of questions, but I don't have much time to explain to you. Listen carefully to every word I say..."
Chen Jing stood next to the grave with a camera, frowning and watching the video playing.
He didn't understand what the old man wanted to do, and what the sentence "I should have disappeared" meant.
Is it missing?
Or...
"Human civilization has come to an end...The end of the world is coming..."
Hearing the old man's words, Chen Jing, who was holding the camera, was stunned, and his worries were mostly diluted by this unrealistic words.
It seems that the old man is crazy.
He is quite crazy.
"You old lunatic...How many years have passed since 2012..."
Chen Jing couldn't help but sigh, looking at the grave he had dug up on the ground, he was even more helpless.
"Did you trick me back just to cosplay the Mayans and make predictions..."
"I didn't trick you."
The old man in the video seemed to have heard Chen Jing's words, and there was a hint of anxiety in his cold eyes.
"Before returning to China...Yes! It was 1972! That year, I was employed by the 'Wood Private Consortium' with my colleagues to go to Antarctica for an expedition. This is what was recorded on the ancient monument I found in Antarctica!"
1972?
Chen Jing couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, because he remembered that his grandmother said that the old man was once a top student who studied abroad. After returning from the other side of the ocean in 1973, he met her by accident...
Before 1973, the old man had been living on the other side of the ocean.
It seems that he was still an archaeology professor at a university.
As for which university, the grandmother didn't say it clearly, and the old man himself would not say it...But it is undeniable that Chen Jing had never believed these words before.
He really couldn't imagine it.
An old man living in a village on the border of Sichuan and Guizhou used to be a university professor on the other side of the ocean...Is it possible?
"No one except me knew about the existence of the stone tablet, so I secretly brought it back. It seemed to have a kind of magic that kept bewitching me and making me keep deciphering the contents on it..."
"I was eroded by the contents on it..."
Suddenly, two voices sounded in the video.
One was from my grandfather.
The other was also from my grandfather.
Chen Jing originally thought that this was a problem with the video recording. It was normal for the old machine to freeze, but the grandfather in the video had already started to pound the desk hysterically.