The end of the world begins with failing an exam

Chapter 48 The Unexpected Joy of Returning to Reality

"14:36...the date is also correct...the time doesn't seem to move much..."

Although Chen Jing couldn't remember the exact time before he traveled, he had a general impression, and he was basically sure that the time hadn't changed much.

Thinking of this, Chen Jing heaved a sigh of relief.

If ten days had passed in the real world, he really didn't know how to explain it to the company...

Putting the phone in his pocket, Chen Jing bent down and picked up the camera from the ground.

Hesitate for a moment.

He decided to watch the video left by the old man again.

When watching the video last time, he was dragged to the other world before he had time to think about it.

So this time he wanted to try again.

Let's see if those pale, shriveled hands will appear again.

"By the time you saw this video, I should have disappeared."

The old man in the battle-damaged picture looks very blurry, and his voice seems to have been disturbed, but Chen Jing can still understand the general content.

"I know you have a lot of questions, but I don't have much time and I don't have time to explain to you. Listen carefully to every word I say..."

Chen Jing stared at the old man in a knitted sweater in the video, seeing his cold and blunt expression, he felt a little familiar and unfamiliar.

Sure enough.

The real grandpa is as cold as a piece of iron.

However, Chen Jing also knew that his personality was not like this before. All the changes started decades ago, and all stemmed from the stone tablet from the Antarctic that recorded the doomsday prophecy.

"Human civilization has come to an end...the end is coming..."

……

"Before returning to China... yes! It was 72 years! That year, my colleagues and I were employed by the 'Wood Private Consortium' to go to Antarctica for investigation. That's what was recorded on the ancient tablet I found in Antarctica!"

……

"No one knows the existence of that stele except me, so I brought it back secretly. It seems to have a magical power that has been bewitching me, making me keep deciphering the content on it..."

……

"I've deciphered that stele! So I woke up! I'm not crazy anymore! I know I've been sorry to you and your grandma all these years!"

"Listen carefully to the next words! I can say as much as I can!"

"When every civilization develops to a certain stage, it will be pulled into a biological leap exam. If the exam fails, the traces of civilization will be wiped out. This is how the last civilization on the earth perished, so..."

It was the same as the last time I watched the video, when the old man said this, the screen began to vibrate violently, and from time to time, harsh and annoying electric noise covered the old man's voice.

"The machine is about to break [*signal noise] - hot [*signal noise] - I know it's [*signal noise] interfering - [*signal noise] are after me-"

"The iron box is for [*signal murmur] - take away - box back [*signal murmur] - or [*signal murmur] will find you-"

"We made a deal - I finally got you a [*signal murmur] - bought some time to deal with the end [*signal murmur] -"

……

The video ended with a lengthy and uninterrupted current noise, and the pale and shriveled strange hands did not appear last time.

Chen Jing was silent for a moment, then pressed the camera's off button.

Then he shifted his gaze to the iron box next to the grave.

It was dug from the old man's grave.

camera.

A note to watch the video.

And that key.

These things are all sealed in the iron-like box.

There is also a small note left by the old man on the box.

Chen Jing squatted at the grave and cleaned it up carefully. He put all the paper keys and cameras in his backpack, and then buried the iron box back according to the old man's instructions, and then cleaned up the grave bag. At least it looks like it has not been touched. .

in the process.

Chen Jing found that Bai Aji was not the only one who traveled back to the real world with him.

There are also two ancient relics in his possession.

The Holy Grail of the Yellow King.

Bai Aji's whistle.

Chen Jing clearly remembered that these two relics were carried by him in the other world, but now they suddenly appeared in his backpack in the real world.

This backpack didn't travel with me to the other world...

How is this going? ?
Chen Jing was in a daze for a moment.

But soon he realized one thing.

Is this considered cheating! ?
With Bai Aji and these two "relics", I have the means to protect myself in the real world.

Compared with the madness of the other world, the real world is much safer, but what the old man said in the video... doesn't sound very safe.

For example, the old man repeatedly emphasized that Chen Jing should bury the tin box back in the grave.

If he doesn't... seems to be found by some "someone".

So who is the "person" who is eyeing the old man?
Is the disappearance of the old man related to those "people" who stared at him?
Chen Jing was thinking in a daze, then stretched his back with the backpack he brought from the rental house, and jumped onto Bai Aji's back.

"This key seems to belong to the study."

At this moment, Chen Jing was sitting cross-legged on Bai Aji's broad back, playing with the key in his hand.

Thinking of this grandpa in the real world who has been stuck in the study for decades, Chen Jing couldn't help being curious...

What's in the study in the old house?
Although he is Chen Bofu's grandson, since he was a child, he really never had a chance to step into it.

"Ugh-"

Bai Aji was very curious about this brand-new world. He whimpered and whimpered like a kitten along the way, and was attracted by the sparrows that happened to cross the sky from time to time. He couldn't help but stare up for a while.

"Don't look, hurry to..."

Before Chen Jing's words could be fully spoken, Bai Aji followed Chen Jing's idea and turned out from the mountain road on the left side of the mass grave.

This strange performance surprised Chen Jing...

Can Bai Aji understand the thoughts of my master?

"Stop." Chen Jing said silently in his heart.

next second.

Bai Aji really stopped, and at the same time turned his head and looked at him with a puzzled look, as if asking why he stopped suddenly?
"You can really hear the voice in my heart..."

Chen Jing patted Aji's head in surprise, becoming more and more satisfied with this half-pet, half-mount alien creature.

But after thinking about it, this is the real world, not the other world where the old descendants are rampant...

It's okay for this big guy to hide in the mountains, but it's definitely hopeless to bring it into the city.

Otherwise, once someone finds out, trouble will definitely come to your door unstoppable.

When the time comes, where did this guy come from?
Chen Jing can't explain to them that this thing came from time travel, right?

Moreover, it looks unscrupulous at first glance, and it has cut off the way to pretend to be a wild animal.

So there seems to be only one way to go.

hide.

Fortunately, the people in the old house had already moved out, and no one would come to the empty village, so it was a perfect place to hide here.

"I'll settle you down first...then go back to the provincial capital to pick up your luggage...but what about the work...it won't be approved if you ask for a long vacation..."

"Wow?"

Bai Aji seemed to sense the entanglement in Chen Jing's heart, and rubbed his head on his face affectionately and flatteringly.

"You are good anywhere." Chen Jing sighed, "It would be better if you could hide it smaller..."

Hearing this, Bai Aji nodded.

Before Chen Jing figured out what it meant by nodding, Bai Aji's body suddenly trembled and turned into black water at a speed visible to the naked eye...

The speed of this violent deformation was extremely fast, before Chen Jing had time to jump off Bai Aji's body, he fell into the black water on the ground almost instantly.

Strangely though...

These seemingly sticky black waters are like asphalt and wriggling, but they are not sticky at all.

When Chen Jing got up from the ground, he didn't even get these things on his clothes.

"Aji?" Chen Jing called out tentatively.

Perhaps it was because of receiving the master's call, the pool of black water on the ground shrank almost instantly, rushing towards Chen Jing with lightning speed.

Chen Jing subconsciously wanted to avoid it, but the speed of the black water was faster, and he climbed up along his trouser legs...

Just a scene of a second or two.

All the black water got into the backpack on Chen Jing's back.

Chen Jing instinctively put down his backpack and opened the zipper, wanting to see where the black water had gone, but when he opened the backpack, he found that...the black water transformed by Bai Aji had disappeared.

The ancient relic that was used to summon Baiaji before, that "instrument" like a clarinet, has now changed from a lifeless gray to a strange black color, and even reflects a dazzling metallic luster in the sun .

"what's going on……"

Chen Jing took out the whistle and looked at it carefully. He could only hear an extremely faint sound inside the whistle, and he could clearly distinguish it when he listened to it...it was the voice of Bai Aji greeting it.

Yes.

Bai Aji got into the whistle, waiting for Chen Jing's call at any time.

"Hey, it's easy!"

Chen Jing couldn't help laughing, then put the whistle back into the bag and zipped it up, and he felt a lot more relaxed.

"Since you can hide in the whistle... then I can take you into the city... otherwise it would be a bit troublesome..."

As he spoke, Chen Jing subconsciously turned his head and glanced in the direction of the tomb.

That is, this sudden look.

Chen Jing was completely dumbfounded.

Because of Chen Bofu's tomb...

Disappeared.

(End of this chapter)