Chapter 112
“This time I want to let Rong Qi see the situation he fears the most.”
The witch was taken aback, quite incredulous: “What? Impossible, Rong Qi can forcibly take the Spear of Time from Shen Zhuo?”
Bai Sheng did not answer.
High above, the sun was pale, and that face, always handsome and smiling, gentle as a spring breeze, was now devoid of any expression, like a cold sculpture amidst the interplay of light and shadow, looking down upon the thousands of evolutionists below.
Double-S pheromones raged and swept wildly with the wind. On the horizon, more evolutionists were involuntarily surging toward Shenhai like an endless tide.
It was actually the demonstration of a tyrant full of violence towards a distant enemy after his territory was invaded and his mate taken.
Witch Italdo stared at the now completely unfamiliar Bai Sheng, a chill of panic suddenly shooting up her spine—but it was only for a moment.
Because immediately after, Bai Sheng seemed to realize something, softly said “Ah,” and returned to his usual relaxed and easygoing demeanor, smiling apologetically: “Sorry.”
He casually wiped his left palm with four fingers, and the deep knife wound to the bone instantly healed, the palm becoming long and smooth again. The bloody and fierce Double-S pheromones dispersed with the wind in an instant.
As if a heavy shackle had finally slightly loosened, a slight commotion came from the crowd below, and the evolutionists finally woke up from their frenzy, stopping their mad surge forward and retreating blankly.
“Fortunately, Shen Zhuo is okay, but it’s probably impossible to lure him over again.” Bai Sheng stretched his neck, as if the cold and unfamiliar true face from a few minutes ago had never existed, his hands in his pockets, turning to the witch: “I have a question.”
“…What?”
“If the Law of Causality must be combined with the Reverse Timeline to achieve its maximum value, why didn’t you leave the Law of Causality with Shen Zhuo back then?”
In the distant city, the noise was vast. Witch Italdo was silent for a moment before she silently sighed: “Because I couldn’t.”
Bai Sheng raised an eyebrow inquisitively.
“Controlling the timeline is my innate ability, but the Law of Causality was forcibly swallowed from the battlefield, not fully under my control. The success rate of activation was lower than yours, and it was precisely for this reason that I couldn’t erase all the mutants on every time axis in the final battle. But it was already too late; the moment to activate the ability was fleeting. I could only hastily reverse time back a thousand years to before the alien evolution began, before all the wars started.”
The witch laughed self-deprecatingly: “And I wasn’t even born at that time.”
Bai Sheng suddenly understood: “Time paradox?”
When a person travels back to a time before they were born, their existence violates the laws of universal physics, and there’s a high chance they’ll be erased by the timeline, similar to being erased by the Law of Causality.
“Yes, I was only left with my consciousness—in your terms, I was ‘nearly’ dead.” The witch shrugged, “The time paradox would cause my consciousness to quickly enter a state of nothingness. In the rush, I could only choose the last option, which was to be exiled to space with this group of war criminals. After entering the lower-dimensional universe, the time paradox disappeared, and I could continue to exist in a soul state.”
Bai Sheng, with one hand in his pocket, patted her shoulder understandingly with the other.
“I couldn’t leave the Law of Causality with Shen Zhuo either. First, he probably couldn’t bear it, and second, the Law of Causality always chooses the best matching genes in each time and space. Do you know why it chose you?”
Talking about this, Bai Sheng hesitated: “Shen Zhuo once told me it was because I had the desire to protect humanity and the evolutionists…”
“Oh, though I don’t know under what circumstances Shen Zhuo fed you this chicken soup,” the witch said regretfully, “he probably just wanted to fool you into working for him.”
Bai Sheng laughed wryly.
At that time, he was still pursuing Shen Zhuo unilaterally. Considering Shen Zhuo’s excellent quality of making full use of everything, whether he agreed or not, he would definitely give enough chicken soup.
“The weapon of the Law of Causality always follows two principles in choosing a host. First, it gets as close to the Spear of Time as possible; the mutual attraction with the Spear of Time is its natural program. Second, within the limited range, it prioritizes choosing someone with high intelligence, a strong personality, and some killing instinct. Those with a merciful heart or insufficient brainpower are absolutely excluded. Additionally, those with overly positive moral qualities are generally not within the selection range of the Law of Causality.”
Bai Sheng suddenly realized something, and the witch asked curiously: “What?”
“…”
In the distance, the pale blue mountains reflected in Bai Sheng’s eyes, and he murmured: “I see…”
—The Law of Causality prioritizes choosing a host near the Spear of Time.
On that night, five years ago, when the meteorite fell, Shen Zhuo was studying in M country, watching a meteor shower in the mountains with a group of professors and colleagues. At that time, Bai Sheng, still a student, was passionate about self-driving and rock climbing, camping in the wild that night, and happened to be in the same mountain as Shen Zhuo!
When Witch Italdo descended to Earth with the first wave of meteorites, her soul weakened drastically, unable to stay conscious, finally detaching from the weapon of the Law of Causality. The Law of Causality, always following the law of attraction, immediately flew towards the Spear of Time that had been waiting on the vast Earth for twenty years, towards Shen Zhuo, who was gazing at the night sky—
It did not choose any of Shen Zhuo’s colleagues who were with him at the time, but flew dozens of kilometers and hit Bai Sheng, who had just climbed to the top of the mountain by bare hands and was preparing to set up a tent for camping!
After being hit on the back of his head, Bai Sheng immediately experienced a high fever due to the evolution and was sent to the hospital, where he remained in a coma for half a month. During this time, the first wave of global evolution broke out. Shen Zhuo hastily set off to return to his country, going through numerous hardships to get back to the central research institute, preparing to restart the second generation HRG project.
The two destined to meet missed each other at the beginning, going from just a few dozen kilometers of mountain roads to being displaced and separated by vast distances.
After that, Bai Sheng evolved into one of the only twenty S-class evolutionists globally, visiting similar outcasts like Yang Xiaodao who were not accepted by society and seeing Shen Zhuo’s name in global news countless times, along with various legends about his beautiful appearance, iron-handed methods, and inhumane experiments. Three years later on the timeline, a passenger plane from New York to Shenhai landed with a roar. The moment the cabin door opened, Bai Sheng, tying up a group of hijackers, looked up to see Shenhai’s Chief Supervisor, Shen Zhuo, pointing a gun steadily at him from the crowd——
“Let’s make a deal, Supervisor Shen!”
“Beauty really is the most powerful weapon in this world… Now I believe it.”
“Following you has always been my lifelong dream, didn’t you know, Supervisor?”
…
Those playful and sarcastic words at that time turned out to be a prophecy in the mysterious world.
Following Shen Zhuo was indeed the path destined for him. The genetic attraction had started on the night the meteorite descended on Earth, but after twists and turns and several intersections, it took five years to return to the starting point!
Bai Sheng opened his mouth, hearing his own shocked voice: “… So, the Spear of Time is actually a token of affection between Shen Zhuo and me?!”
The witch stared at him in amazement, never expecting that this matter could be viewed from this angle on Earth.
Bai Sheng was incredulous for a moment, then a surge of anger rushed to his head: “Rong Qi dared to snatch my token of affection; this time I’m going to chop him up and feed him to the dogs!!”
“…………….”
The witch calmly said: “Yes, he dared to ruin your marriage; if you don’t feed him to the dogs, you’re not a man!!”
Before the words were finished, Bai Sheng’s phone rang. Seeing that the call was from the EHPBC council office, he answered: “Hello, Cameron?”
It had only been a few months since Cameron replaced Neilsen as the director-general, and now he had replaced the former council chairman to become the new leader of the EHPBC. Bai Sheng turned and walked quickly down the top of the tower, the corners of his clothes lifting in the wind. At this moment, he had no mood to address Cameron as “brother,” only to hear the other side get straight to the point: “Rong Qi just gave a second global speech, this time released through several major extreme evolution organizations on the internet.”
“Announcing that he captured Shen Zhuo?”
“Yes, he directly revealed that the human nuclear weapons Shen Zhuo had been researching were fake and that HRG cannot give ordinary humans abilities but can give the evolved ones even greater power.”
Bai Sheng looked back at the vast city under the sky, almost able to imagine the current global public opinion explosion and the bewilderment of governments worldwide.
“He took the opportunity to propose that evolution is the global trend. In three days, extreme organizations worldwide will begin collective attacks, aiming to seize the meteorite storage facilities in various countries by force, with the goal of making the number of evolved individuals exceed one billion overnight…”
Cameron stood in the massive chairman’s office of the EHPBC, his gray-green eyes reflecting the cloudy sky outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.
“He’s crazy,” Cameron said coldly, “He’s going to launch a total attack on humanity within three days.”
·
“… Shen Zhuo, one of the top ten supervisors, is actually a hidden S-class evolved human, and HRG, long regarded as a nuclear weapon by humans, instead proves that evolution is the inevitable future…”
“Our followers will launch armed attacks on meteorite storage facilities in major jurisdictions worldwide, spreading the radiation of the evolution source across the globe.”
Rong Qi paused slightly in the audio.
His voice was always gentle, calm, and unhurried, but in the ears of those eager for evolution, it seemed as irresistible as the decree of a god, tempting them to madness.
“As long as my followers succeed, every human could potentially evolve.”
“Welcome to join me in entering a brand-new era for Earth.”
The audio ended, and in the Shenhai City Supervision Office meeting room, Bai Sheng pressed the pause button.
Around the conference table were several virtual holographic projections, Amatullah and Antonio sitting on either side, Cameron in a three-piece suit with his hands clasped in front of him.
“He is the most capable of inciting public opinion I’ve ever seen,” Amatullah sighed, holding her forehead, “The last person who was so good at talking was Adolf Hitler.”
Bai Sheng leaned against the windowsill, arms crossed, his expression unclear. After a long silence, he murmured: “… No, something’s not right.”
“What’s wrong?”
“Rong Qi’s style is off.”
Shen Zhuo had once analyzed Rong Qi for Bai Sheng. This extraterrestrial being’s scheming was far deeper than what humans could imagine. Because all its thoughts were purely rational, precise, cruel, and exhaustively utilizing all resources, it almost completely disregarded human emotions. Making such a grandiose pre-war speech was against Rong Qi’s usual logic.
Why did he specifically declare war?
Amidst countless chaotic thoughts, it was as if a flash of light suddenly passed through.
“…He wants to keep us busy,” Bai Sheng said softly.
Amatullah was puzzled: “Huh?”
“For Rong Qi, hastily pushing for the complete evolution of humanity right now does not benefit him at all. He is still at risk of being erased by the Law of Causality and has to live daily with the risk of the three-dimensional universe’s single timeline, unless…”
Bai Sheng’s expression changed slightly: “Unless he makes Shen Zhuo evolve again, gets the serum for reversing the timeline, and then uses the Spear of Time to return to five years ago.”
Five years ago, Bai Sheng had just evolved and was unconscious with a high fever in a hospital bed. Rong Qi could easily possess him once he found him. Then, using Bai Sheng’s devouring gene, he could directly swallow the infinite regeneration gene in the vessel at Quanshan County Health Care Center. Looking at the entire Earth, he would be the undisputed king of evolution.
For Rong Qi, that would be the best time for the full evolution of humanity, and the key to realizing this possibility lies in getting Shen Zhuo’s ability to reverse the timeline through HRG.
“He wants to divert all our attention to the evolutionary source, making us too busy to care about anything else.” Bai Sheng suddenly looked at the conference table and said, “His real target must be the HRG laboratory!”
Cameron leaned back in his chair, the only one in the room who was not surprised at all, only regretfully spreading his hands.
“Even if we confirm he has ulterior motives, the situation is still very difficult for us. Because the EHPBC indeed cannot handle the crisis of the major meteorite storage facilities being under threat worldwide, especially since the former council chairman leaked a lot of security information… Oh, and let’s not forget the ill-fated St. Carter Fortress meteorite base.”
Cameron nodded towards Antonio, his face full of sincere sympathy: “Previously sold out by Director-General Nielsen once, then sold out again by the former council chairman, the backend security system is riddled with holes. I’m almost certain St. Carter Fortress will be one of the first targets to be breached.”
Antonio: “…”
If looks could kill, Cameron’s head would already be a pot of boiling brains for Antonio: “I need to apply for emergency security funding, swearing to protect the evolution source!”
“Application denied.”
“Why?!”
Cameron raised his eyebrows high, his eyes clearly saying, “Do I look like a fool who would throw money down the drain?”
Antonio’s forehead veins jumped, and he was about to slam the table to protest. I am a strong S-level inspector after all. Don’t look down on me. I know you have always been targeting me#&￥%@… At this time, Bai Sheng also shook his head and said, “There is no need to protect the meteorite library. It is meaningless.”
Antonio paused for a second and politely put his hand back on the table: “Why, Bai-ge?”
“Every time, we are led around by Rong Qi because he always knows what we fear the most. He always manages to hit the scenario we least want to see…”
An extremely crazy and risky idea was gradually taking shape in Bai Sheng’s mind: “This time, I want to show Rong Qi the scenario he fears the most.”
All eyes in the conference room were fixed on him, only to hear Bai Sheng say word by word: “I want to start the third wave of global evolution now.”
Amatullah choked on her tea on the spot: “What?!”
“I have a plan, but it requires cooperation from more than one strong S-class. So I need you to abandon the evolution source and immediately come to Shenhai in secret, strictly following my orders. You might die in this timeline, but it doesn’t matter. As long as we keep the Spear of Time, Shen Zhuo can bring you back.”
Antonio was already stunned: “No, wait, Bai-ge, do we really have to die? Considering Supervisor Shen’s preferences, I think he might not bring me back but rather bury me…”
Before he could finish, Bai Sheng brought his two fingers together, and the cold light of the Law of Causality flashed at his fingertips.
Antonio turned to his secretary outside the door: “Book me a flight to Shenhai, hurry, the earliest one! Economy class will do!”
Amatullah was surprised: “What exactly are you planning?”
“I want to slaughter all of Rong Qi’s men in Shenhai.” In the backlight, Bai Sheng’s eyes flashed with a cold glint as he said coldly: “Then I want him to personally invite me to see Shen Zhuo.”
I want to have Bai Sheng’s brain to think that