Apocalypse Forecast

"Should I say your luck is good or bad?"

Luo Su sighed lightly, "If your luck is bad, you might not be able to find the relic that suits you best; but if your luck is good, the Seishui Spear is incomplete, otherwise it wouldn’t be King Xiang, but the Fourth Stage Cloud Monarch... It’s really nuanced enough to cause headaches."

If the Seishui Spear were complete, it itself would be the Stigmata of the Cloud Monarch, Huai Shi wouldn’t need to look for items imbued with oceanic divine nature to prepare for advancement, just need crystals from the Springs of Rejuvenation to complete the final ceremony.

But the problem is, once the Cloud Monarch had already transformed into King Xiang, the former Seishui Spear had already turned into a broken iron rod, fiercely untamed, with astonishing animosity.

It’s not far from being completely eroded by Hell.

"In this state, instead of Seishui, it’s better to say it’s Resentment Water, right?" Luo Su said, "Until the end, he was probably hating himself... that guy, what should one say about him?"

Huai Shi stroked the Seishui in his hand, sensing the desolate resonance within, couldn’t help but ask, "Ying Fangzhou? Is that the person’s name?"

"Yes, your old predecessor, even earlier than me, back when I became a member of Utopia, he was already a mainstay.

Always moving alone, disliked interacting with others, did not like to place hopes on others."

Luo Su said, "Looking back now, I really don’t know whether to call it arrogance or brutality, during work under him, you’d be protected like an infant.

Sometimes even his subordinates could not stand it, complained and filed grievances countless times.

That guy always believed he could handle everything by himself.

But there are always times when things can’t be handled..."

Luo Su sighed silently, "For so many years, I have never understood why he never called for assistance when the Abyss outpost was sinking.

Was it not wanting to burden us? If at that time we knew he was still alive, everyone would have risked everything to rescue him...

Maybe he just couldn’t face others, and so he just wanted to die."

Huai Shi remained silent.

In the silence, he could hear the distant echo from the broken gun body—a roar of regret rolling like endless tides.

Mourning the fall of those ideals.

Resisting anyone’s control, simply closing in on itself, until embracing a silent annihilation in darkness.

Rolling east the Yangtze River, leaving only eternal regrets.

Resentment Water.

"Then let’s call it Resentment Water."

Huai Shi flicked his hand, and the broken gun body in his hand buzzed, causing the whole building to tremble again, ripples rising from water flow in the pipes.

Fierce surge.

"Do you need to change a weapon?" Luo Su asked, "It seems you and it don’t quite match."

"No need, it’s quite to my taste."

Huai Shi lowered his head, scrutinizing the gun body buzzing like a dragon on his knee, softly telling it, "Before this residual resentment dissipates, we still have a long time to get along peacefully."

As if understanding his words, the Resentment Water gun body shook again, causing a crack to split open Huai Shi’s tiger’s mouth, blood seeping out, only to be rapidly mended, disappearing instantly.

Luo Su laughed, "Be careful, it sure has a temper."

"I know." Huai Shi put it back in the box, shrugged indifferently, "Anyway, I already have a chatterbox over on my side, they can chat sometimes."

With the Relic of King Xiang: Resentment Water, at least Huai Shi had usable power and weapon during the period when the Stigmata was offline, and this power greatly matched his extreme interpretation and had ample room for exertion.

"So, is there anything else you need help with?" Luo Su asked in the end.

"Yes, quite a lot."

Huai Shi rubbed his face, "I’m missing a bunch of stuff over here, can you help me with the crystals from the Springs of Rejuvenation?"

Though the Rejuvenation Crystals were precious, surely the Ivory Tower as vast as it is must have some?"

"Of course there are."

Luo Su answered matter-of-factly, "Though they are virtually extinct, the Ivory Tower, as a remnant of Utopia, naturally has plenty in its legacy.

Aside from the piece I used when advancing, now there are four pieces left, one embedded in the Iron Crystal Throne as the core of the Great Grandmaster’s furnace; one embedded in the Summon Dragon Flute, as the most important lens, and two separately housed in two Abyss campuses, both crucial components of the Creator structure."

Luo Su shrugged and answered with a smile, "Any of these four can help you advance, which one do you want?"

Huai Shi rolled his eyes, "Can I have them all?"

"This will depend on your own efforts." Luo Su encouraged, "You go and negotiate with Isaac, Mikhail, Ramanujan, and Ms. Chen, once you persuade them, I’ll definitely support without conditions!"

Better not say anything.

Huai Shi was too lazy to bother with him.

The Ivory Tower has four of these things, but the places these four things are used are critical to the Ivory Tower, Huai Shi hasn’t inflated enough to go reversing for the organization for his own advancement.

Summon Dragon Flute, Iron Crystal Throne, two Abyss campuses.

One is the top exploration radar in the Current Circumstances, one is the exploration base for Hell tours, and the other two are family assets Luo Su wished for years he could sell blood to gather.

If any one of them is gone, the Ivory Tower would suffer greatly.

"But aren’t you going to the Helios Workshop anyway?" Luo Su asked, "You go ask them for it, Helios definitely has this kind of thing!"

"Really?"

"Come on, do you think I would lie..."

Before he could finish, after noticing Huai Shi’s numb gaze, Luo Su coughed dryly twice: "Don’t worry, I definitely wouldn’t lie to you about this.

Even if the whole world dries up, there must be this thing in Helios’s treasury!"

"You’ve been there?" Huai Shi’s gaze was growing more suspicious, even starting to guess whether this old guy went there for a job when he was younger and now wants to use him as a scapegoat.

"This is simply nonsense!" Luo Su almost got angry, "You kid aren’t still confused about what the Springs of Rejuvenation are, right?"

"Isn’t it just... a spring?"

Seeing Huai Shi’s utterly baffled look, Luo Su was a bit ticked off, glaring at him for a long time before he couldn’t help but sigh deeply.

He forgot the permissions of this thing aren’t accessible to Huai Shi.

Turns out Tong Ji dropped the ball on this, not even mentioning it.

"Listen up, Huai Shi, the so-called Springs of Rejuvenation isn’t some spring or a place in the border or Hell. It’s a phenomenon!"

A phenomenon created by God.

To be specific, it’s a phenomenon created when God falls.

When an ancient God meets their end, their massive shell would plummet from the highest point of the Current Circumstances, and all the Sky’s Command, miracles, and even Source Substance accumulated in their life would disperse like blood from their gradually broken shell, transforming into a mighty stream of light that connects heaven and earth.

Disintegration.

It relentlessly plunges into the deepest part of Hell.

This is the final blessing left by God.

That gorgeous rainbow flowing through the Current Circumstances, border, and Hell seems to twist time, breaking through past and future, creating countless untouchable mirages.

That’s why it’s praised as ’Springs of Rejuvenation’!

And the crystals of the Springs of Rejuvenation are the essence condensed from the dissipating Sky’s Command...

"So..."

Huai Shi was dumbfounded for a while before reacting: "If you want that thing, do you have to find a God to kill first?"

"Never mind whether you can kill one, but Gods have almost turned into ’rare celestial beings’ now, Huai Shi." Luo Su looked at him with a face of disappointment: "They are strictly protected by the Astronomical Society, okay!"

There are only three known living Gods left.

And one more whose life and death are unknown.

If Huai Shi kills one for his advancement, it would be a real fuss, it wouldn’t just be a matter of one genealogy’s animosity, even the Astronomical Society would ensure Huai Shi, this second fifth, has no place for a burial!

"As for the living ones, there’s no way; you can think about the dead ones!" Luo Su said emphatically: "Not to mention, there’s a piece on Helios! You don’t need the flesh or blood, just a tiny crystal fragment... After being a tool for so long, don’t you even know how to negotiate your salary!"

"Unbelievable!"

Huai Shi felt like he was stupid on a new level: "Such a precious thing, you think you can get it just by asking, do you really think Helios is yours!"

"If it won’t give it to you, you won’t go steal it?" Luo Su looked at him with frustration and disappointment, slamming the table and scolding: "Back in the day..."

Just as he began speaking, he sensed something was wrong, and swallowed his words.

And Huai Shi’s gaze turned dangerous.

"What did you do back in the day?"

"..." Luo Su averted his gaze, waved his hand, and said: "I couldn’t agree on the price then? So I just took a little more for myself. I worked hard for so long, what’s wrong with taking a Rejuvenation Crystal!"

So you really did it!

Huai Shi felt his worldview was being challenged—Isn’t the style of your Heavenly Kingdom Genealogy a bit off? People hate ghosts for a reason!

Really just snatch whatever and wherever!

"Don’t say the teacher didn’t look after you, Huai Shi, I’ve given you the method. Our landlord’s house doesn’t have extra food, whether it’s a fat year or starvation depends on you!" Luo Su said solemnly: "Go for it, I believe in you!"

"Can’t you believe in something decent for once!"

Exactly in breaking the law, Huai Shi doesn’t want anyone to expect anything from him!

Unfortunately, before Huai Shi could say anything, Luo Su had already hung up the call.

By the time Huai Shi accepted that a momentary misstep had plummeted him into a nest of thieves, it was already the next day.

After arranging the remaining tasks, Huai Shi once more met with Marcus from the Mercury Institution.

"Mr. Huai Shi, I have already reported your reply."

Marcus briskly reported: "Next, I’ll be accompanying you to Rome. We’ll rest in Pompeii City for a day, and then the following day at dawn we’ll take a manned spacecraft from the Rome Space Agency to the Minerva IV Space Station, and after a day we’ll head to the Moon, once there you can..."

"Wait!"

Huai Shi felt something was off, lifting his eyes to look across: "Did you just say, where?"

Marcus adjusted his non-prescription glasses and calmly replied.

"——The Moon."