Chapter 405 [Victoria Blood Epidemic: His Descendants]
"I know, I saw it too, there are a lot of people down there. I mean, did you see anything else?" Xu Jing said calmly.
"No... I saw the same thing as you... There are a lot of people down there." Chen Ke said.
Chen Ke didn't hide anything, through his psychic vision he saw many human-shaped outlines more than 100 meters below his feet.
There were quite a few of them, most of them were lying down, arranged according to their distribution.
The lower space of the academy was like a sanatorium,
Every eight people lay in a circle in a square space, and were arranged in groups.
These groups formed a larger array underground, with aisle-like gaps between the arrays, and a few individuals moved back and forth between the arrays.
At the edge of the psychic vision detection range, the blue outlines of these people were like blurred shadows, slowly disappearing, and extending in all directions.
Chen Ke and Xu Jing could see the large-scale shadows below just by standing outside the academy, so it was conceivable how big it was down there.
"What do you think they are doing down there?" Chen Ke asked.
They stood on the street, watching the carriages passing by and the newspaper boy shouting the headlines on the opposite side. The academy surrounded by red smoke was 500 meters away diagonally opposite.
"I don't know. Our target is Chen Ke. If we kill him, his influence will disappear. If the situation below has nothing to do with Chen Ke, then we don't need to care about it." Xu Jing said.
"You don't seem to care much about the abnormal phenomenon below. In my eyes, this school is full of red mist." Chen Ke said. Not only that, the pungent smell of blood is even stronger, as if there is a big pool of blood in the school.
This abnormality made Chen Ke a little uneasy, but he didn't want to make trouble. Xu Jing was right. It had nothing to do with them.
"Every reality has something that must happen, and there will always be someone to solve it. We can't interfere with everything." Xu Jing said.
"I think it's strange. If you can detect what Chen Ke has done, why don't you go back to stop him before he did it?" Chen Ke was a little confused.
"Let me teach you a lesson, Chen Ke. People who jump between beads transcend time. Their original position will be replaced by another person in the universe, and other people's cognition will be modified. I told you." Xu Jing explained.
Chen Ke nodded. He remembered, and Parker was an example. He jumped between beads in a trance and came to meet Chen Ke half a year ago, and created a time paradox, turning himself into Mr. Ashes.
As a result, his family in 2009 became strangers, his position was replaced by others, and Parker was completely abandoned by time.
"People who jump between beads have no projection in subjective reality, and their behavior becomes discontinuous. Do you know what this means?" Xu Jing asked.
"It means that we can neither see his past nor his future, right?" Chen Ke asked.
"That's right, we can only observe his impact on objective reality, but before he takes action, we cannot observe, and after he takes action, we cannot interfere." Xu Jing spread his hands.
"So you can only try your luck through the clues of objective reality being changed?" Chen Ke asked.
"That's right, otherwise what do you think those agents do? We have you this time, and we hope to get rid of him once and for all." Xu Jing said.
"I will help you kill him, but please remember that I am not a free gunman." Chen Ke said, looking at the carriages coming and going on the street.
"I know. I will let the United Federation Administration add you to the whitelist and provide you with legal documents, so that you can live the ordinary life you want, and no one will care about your psychic power." Xu Jing said.
Chen Ke nodded slightly. Xu Jing's job can help him provide social convenience, and he will have an identity that can live on the table.
Lin Yayin's job will give him the symbiotic stone, which can at least bring him a few decades of free time. He is tired of helping others pull the trigger, and he doesn't want to run to dangerous places like the Great Void.
Just like Xu Jing said, no matter what happens, people who solve problems will emerge in every era. That person cannot be a person who can only pull the trigger and live in murderous aura.
"You'd better keep your word..." Chen Ke glanced at Xu Jing.
Xu Jing lowered her head and smiled, saying, "The Foundation has always kept its promises."
"Okay, what should we do now?" Chen Ke asked.
"Of course, we should find a way to go down there and take a look, although this doesn't seem like something Chen Ke would do..." Xu Jing said.
"Not like... You seem to have never told me directly what Chen Ke has done? What is his purpose?" Chen Ke asked curiously.
In his imagination, the purpose of this kind of people is nothing more than strength and power, and he, who has become a family, has already obtained the power that seems to be the pinnacle at present, so the only thing left is power.
"He will bring changes to the world, and this kind of change is not what the Foundation wants to see. Listen, when we really meet him face to face, we will just do it directly and don't listen to a word he says." Xu Jing said seriously.
"Your expression scares me... If he only brings changes to the world, there are many such people in history, and the historical process of mankind is driven by such leaders." Chen Ke asked puzzled.
"The world he pursues is only chaos and disorder, but he calls it freedom and fairness. The Foundation has seen that reality. Believe me, we can't let him succeed." Xu Jing said.
"You said it as if he would succeed if no one stopped him...hahaha." Chen Ke laughed.
"No kidding, he will succeed." Xu Jing said, and she didn't seem to find it funny.
"How did he do it? Memetic infection?" Chen Ke couldn't help asking.
"No, it's the power of language, using truth to induce people to make the worst choice, they call it faith." Xu Jing said.
"It does sound dangerous." Chen Ke didn't comment. Spreading faith and brainwashing are sometimes the same thing.
"Have you thought of a good way to get us under the academy?" Xu Jing asked, she seemed to be more anxious than Chen Ke.
"I have a silenced pistol...you know, just walk a little closer, fire two shots, and then I can help him in..." Chen Ke's method was simple and direct. There was no such easy-to-use weapon in the Victorian era, and no one would notice it.
"No, no, no... You can't do this." At this time, the voice of a third person came from behind Chen Ke and Xu Jing.
They turned around and saw a young man in his 20s, wearing a patched windbreaker, a worn-out hat, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a knife wound on his chin made his beard bald.
"How long have you been behind us?" Chen Ke asked in surprise.
"For a long time, you have been talking about things I don't understand, such as foundations, beads jumping around, and faith." The man looked like he had learned something new.
"You should know that eavesdropping on other people's conversations is not a good habit, right?" Xu Jing was also quite surprised.
This person stood behind them, less than half a meter away, but Chen Ke and Xu Jing didn't notice him.
"But you must not be from the college, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't be here for a long time to discuss how to get in." The man smiled.
"Our business has nothing to do with you..." Chen Ke said.
"Chen Ke... Is your silenced pistol loaded?" Xu Jing was more straightforward, ready to kill and silence the witness.
"Wait a minute... wait a minute... I'll get to the point. You want to enter the academy, right? I have a way to get in..." the man said hurriedly.
"How do I know if you are lying to us?" Xu Jing hugged his chest and looked the man up and down.
"Because I've been in there. Haha." The man opened his hands and laughed.
Chen Ke saw several throwing knives and a revolver under his windbreaker.
"Do you know what's under there?" Chen Ke asked.
"Help is mutual, friend, before we work together, why don't we introduce ourselves first?" The man asked with a smile.
"My name is Lin, she is my partner, Jing. Who are you?" Chen Ke said.
"My name is Jacob." Jacob said as he took off his hat.