Chapter 4 Doomsday Was Really Coming
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Translator: JayM
Chapter: 4
Chapter Title: Doomsday Was Really Coming
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Buzz—
This time, not only Mo Qiu, but even Che Yongchang felt a buzz in his head.
Human civilization was going to be destroyed?
All of humanity... completely extinct?
All of humanity!?
After a long while, they were still unable to recover from these words. But the imagery brought about by them gradually became clear in their heads.
Their own families, everything around them, the entire city, the things they loved…
Everything would encounter destruction.
"How could it be like this?" Mo Qiu murmured.
She loved culinary arts, and she could feel happiness from customers tasting her gourmet food.
She likewise loved her family.
As well as her friends.
But if doomsday descended and the world was destroyed, would everything she cared about disappear completely?
Shen Yi looked at their expressions and sighed in his heart.
Doomsday...
That wasn’t a misfortune encountered by one or two people. It was far more terrifying than war, because it represented the destruction of everything— whether beautiful or ugly, whether familiar or unfamiliar, whether loved or loathed.
Everything would disappear completely and meet its end.
In the previous world, Shen Yi had witnessed this with his own eyes and had even attempted to resist such an end.
"Mr. Shen, could there be... a mistake somewhere?" Che Yongchang seemed to still want to struggle a bit, "Our world’s very peaceful now. Although there are disputes between countries, they’re also exercising mutual restraint. It's impossible to have a nuclear war or something like that right now. Could it be a meteorite or something?"
Shen Yi glanced at the man’s look of disbelief.
He stretched out his finger and tapped lightly on the desktop.
It was just like a drop of ink dripping into clear water.
From the place his finger touched, rings of ripples continuously spread, covering everyone inside in the blink of an eye. Mo Qiu and Che Yongchang still felt themselves sitting on the soft seats, but their surroundings had completely changed.
From the restaurant with an elegant environment, they were now in a vast starry sky.
It was just like being in an immersive 5D cinema.
This sudden change made both of them widen their eyes.
"The reason our Association’s able to save humanity across worlds relies on two core technologies. First, cross-world teleportation. Second, human order observation technology," Shen Yi's calm voice came, "Cross-world teleportation, as the name implies, means being able to cross different worlds, while human order observation is a technology that blends science, magic, spells, and various other techniques to achieve the effect of leaping across processes and directly reaching the essence."
As his voice fell, the entire starry sky continuously leaped by, as if they were riding a spaceship sailing at extreme speed in the universe.
They immediately reached a massive blue planet.
Both of them recognized it. This was their planet.
However, on this planet, it seemed to be covered with burning points of fire.
It was as if someone had lit candles all over the entire planet.
"The principles are too complex to explain them to you. But in layman’s terms, as long as civilization exists and humanity is still active, it’ll inevitably bring some kind of change to the world, which depends on the will and direction of the civilization, what we call the ‘sparks’ of civilization. However—"
Shen Yi's words stopped once again.
This time, both of them saw it.
The flames spread across the planet were disappearing.
Disappearing in large patches.
Although the planet was still that same as before, it was rapidly becoming dim.
It made the hearts of Che Yongchang and Mo Qiu tighten involuntarily.
Through Shen Yi's words just now, they already understood what these points of fire meant.
However, the points of fire were still disappearing.
Until… they were all completely extinguished.
Leaving behind a planet of dead silence.
"This is Earth Number SDE-878 three years later, which is the planet we’re on now," Shen Yi was also gazing at the planet, "In less than two years, the signs of human civilization activities on the entire planet basically disappears, and the remaining sparks are also completely extinguished after three years. From our experience, we can already make the judgment of 'extinction of humanity' in this world, so I came while carrying the mission to save humanity."
"Then..." Che Yongchang turned his head abruptly, staring intently at Shen Yi.
If all of this was true, then this man was their savior!
"If you want to place all of your hopes on me, then you might be disappointed," Shen Yi shook his head slowly, "I indeed came with a mission, and I’m indeed committed to saving humanity, but a disaster’s a disaster, and our Association isn’t omnipotent either."
Shen Yi conjured up the organization "Pan-Humanity Protection Association."
It was to explain the things brought to him by the system.
It was to make gaining trust easier for him.
And it was also to deter those with ill intentions.
But—
This didn’t mean that he would definitely be able to succeed. And that even if he could succeed, it didn’t mean that they could be completely unharmed.
Shen Yi tapped the desktop once again.
The surrounding environment changed once more.
They were now surrounded by high-rise buildings.
Among these high-rise buildings, there were clearly visible Huaxia characters.
However, there wasn’t a single person within them.
The extremely messy streets were silent and lonely. Except for the wind blowing garbage bags into the air, there was no movement whatsoever.
Che Yongchang and Mo Qiu didn’t know what had happened.
Shen Yi spoke again.
"This was my last mission."
Shen Yi glanced at the two of them, then he looked at this familiar environment. For the first time, an expression other than indifference appeared on his face.
It was loneliness, and a trace of sadness.
"The human order of this world completely disappeared in less than a single year. The culprit was a virus. The disaster came too quickly. The leaders of this world were full of distrust toward me, and even at the final moment, they were still unable to unite. If they could have taken all measures earlier to stop the transmission and mutation of the virus, it wouldn’t have resulted in fewer than two million survivors remaining by the time I manufactured the medicine."
"Fewer than... two million?" Mo Qiu murmured this number in a whisper.
From this empty metropolis, the shadow of the disaster seemed to still remain.
The slogans on the walls, the messy protective suits and disinfectants on the ground...
Che Yongchang observed much more carefully than she did.
Wanting to create a post-disaster city was by no means easy to achieve. The scenes in movies had countless loopholes.
However, this city didn’t have any.
At least from his perspective, everything here was incomparably real.
He could even vaguely infer what had happened in this city from some details.
For example, the remaining lockdown measures on the streets.
In his heart…
He had already begun to believe everything Shen Yi had said.
Was the world doomsday... really coming for them?
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T/N - Dang, MC got a pretty powerful template, to be able to conjure all of that. It’s a bit sad that it came way too late, but at least he was able to still save 2 million people. That’s way better than the total annihilation of that world.