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Chapter 589 No Future
The streets lined with high-rise buildings appear intricate and complicated. If ordinary people are not familiar with this area, they may not be able to find their way out within half an hour after walking into it.

It's no wonder that Guanbuzi's mother chose to set up a stall in this kind of place. After all, it was an unlicensed business, and it was right to hide from the city management...

After walking for another 10 minutes, Mu Xiu returned to the familiar intersection.

Unlike the small alleys shrouded in the shadow of buildings, the main road outside is under the rays of the sun.Through the mirror reflection of the glass of the building next to it, it looks even brighter.

It's just that the number of pedestrians on the street has decreased a lot as dusk approaches, but the city is already a bit sluggish, and Mu Xiu doesn't think it's strange.

But where is Guanbuzi's mother?He couldn't help frowning slightly.

If we say that the future view in the general sense has two types: "prediction" and "measurement"——

Then the former can only see the "future" passively based on information, while the latter means that when a certain result is subjectively desired, the future vision will determine how to act to achieve this "future".

However, the situation of Guan Buzi's mother does not belong to any of the two types.

Because whether it is "prediction" or "measurement", they are nothing more than special abilities mastered through ultra-high-level calculation processing.The future vision held by the mother of Guanbuzi is the third situation that does not belong to the two.

——It can be said to be a real anomaly, an absolute vision of the future, a terrifying prophet with the eyes of God.

"I hope you are not deliberately avoiding me, otherwise there will be some trouble..."

Mu Xiu talked to himself, and then carefully observed the street in the afternoon. In fact, he was perceiving all the trajectories in the space.Although there is no absolute future vision, this has no effect. The fortune teller is still a mortal in other respects.

Unless she is dead at this time, otherwise, as long as she is still living on this planet, there is no reason to avoid Mu Xiu's "sight".

This is a disparity in strength that cannot be changed, just like an ordinary person who clearly sees that the earth will explode directly in the next three days.But because he is an ordinary person, he still can't do anything in the face of such a situation.

He couldn't leave Earth, and he couldn't stop that from happening, which was pretty hopeless in a way.

"Got you--"

Mu Xiu seemed to have grasped the clue, he walked into the alley next to him again, and then he was so proficient that it was as if he had returned to his own home, just like strolling in the courtyard.

Soon, at the end of the narrow, dark, long road, there was a faint light flickering there.

Ahead is the end of this dead end, there is no way to go, and the fortune teller is sitting behind her table in a heavy cloak, waiting for the arrival of guests.

"Huh? I thought who the long-lost guest was. This is really nostalgic."

The fortune teller raised his head, and stared at the young man walking from the alley with some doubts.She looked at it repeatedly for a long time, thought back and forth several times, and finally said with a long sigh.

"..."

Mu Xiu couldn't help squinting his eyes slightly, but he was already mentally prepared for this, so he didn't say anything, but sat down in front of the table very bluntly.

"Ah—so that's how it is. Unexpectedly, such a thing actually exists in the world."

The fortune teller squinted his eyes and looked at him. It was a very old woman with wrinkled face and gray temples.Even if he is endowed with the Eye of God, he is still a mortal after all.

"Welcome. Would you like to drop by, brother?"

"Interesting, let's take a look..." Forcibly enduring some inexplicable anxiety deep in his heart, Mu Xiu let out a long breath and said with a very calm expression.

"OK, just a second."

The fortune teller smiled lightly, and then looked at the crystal ball on the table seriously.In the actions she repeated for an unknown amount of time, the traces of time can be clearly seen.

"..."

"..."

Mu Xiu originally wanted to keep quiet during this process, but after hesitating for a while, he still couldn't help but speak: "Speaking of which, you don't seem...to be surprised when you see me appear?"

"No, I'm surprised, I'm not as calm as you think brother..."

The fortune-teller who lowered her head raised her head and smiled softly, her somewhat dim eyes blinked, and then she revealed surprise and a smile from the bottom of her heart.

That gentle smile seemed to see something dazzling, and seemed to be blessing the future.

"...Is that so? Then why are you surprised?" Mu Xiu whispered, "Is it because you saw an "acquaintance"? "

"Ahahahahaha..." The fortune teller couldn't help laughing, ""Acquaintance"?It's a good word to use, but do you think so, brother? "

"Of course I don't think so." Mu Xiu replied indifferently, he didn't think he was an acquaintance of the other party.

"Yes, brother, this is only the first time you and I have met, so you don't need to be so entangled..." The fortune teller continued to smile, and she raised a hand to wave it.

Although it happened one night two years ago, it seemed like yesterday to her.It's just that the guest in front of me is not the same person as the little brother that night.

Mu Xiu didn't continue to speak, but just restrained his emotions.

He felt that maybe he was a little too sensitive, but in fact there was no need to be so anxious at all, the one who met the other party was Liang Yizhi, not himself.

He is Mu Xiu, not anyone else.

Then there was a minute of silence, the fortune teller frowned slightly, she looked away from the crystal ball, raised her head to look at the boy in front of her——

"Excuse me, can you show me your hand?"

Mu Xiu raised his eyebrows, but calmly stretched out his left hand and placed it on the table in front of her.

"..."

"..."

"I'm sorry..." But soon, the fortune teller repeated the previous sentence again, she pursed the corners of her mouth full of self-deprecation, and seemed to be sighing tiredly.

——That expression seemed to be a wry smile, but the voice was low and weak.

Mu Xiu was taken aback for a moment.

"..."

"..."

"No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you have no future at all..." the fortune teller sighed, or was she sympathizing with him after seeing everything through?

Mu Xiu frowned tightly, he wondered if he heard it wrong: "I'm going to die?"

If it was said by ordinary people, he would definitely scoff at it and not care at all.

But the old lady in front of her is a real fortune-teller, if the information comes from her mouth, then it is unlikely to be aimless.

"No, that's not what I meant." The fortune-teller said with a sigh. "Although I gave this evaluation once before, these two times are different..."

Speaking of which, she stopped here, obviously hesitating, but finally said in a voice that she was not sure of——

"You're not going to die, but...you seem to be disappearing soon, and I'm not sure why. But your future is only until this winter, and after that, there is nothing, no future at all .”

This year...winter?
The fortune teller lowered his head as if praying in a low voice: "It's still the same sentence, I'm not sure...Maybe, you will lose everything while gaining everything, and you are not..."

Here, she paused and took a deep breath, her voice sounding trembling—

"You... don't you already know?"

Gain everything, but also lose everything?
Mu Xiu narrowed his eyes slightly, then nodded slightly.

……

……

Dusk soon passed, and it was night.

The hospital was plunged into groggy darkness.

On a night as calm as a lake standing in a deep mountain, I was quietly thinking about the two rituals of today's conversation with the life consultant on the hospital bed, when I suddenly heard the door of my ward being opened.

Then there were dull, slow footsteps coming in from outside the door, approaching the hospital bed.

She sat up from the hospital bed, and was slightly puzzled, is it a nurse?No, it was past midnight at this time, and even the sound of footsteps walking in the corridor could not be heard in the hospital.

With the help of the faint moonlight reflected from the gap in the curtains, the girl could clearly see what was approaching her from the door.

Human... no, only the shape is human.However, that should no longer be alive.

It was undoubtedly a dead person. At this moment, he turned around on his own and was about to attack her, but she just watched him approach without any reaction.

"...!!"

The next moment, the cold palm wrapped around Liang Ri's neck, gradually increasing the strength as if trying to break her neck bone.The dead man strangled her neck, choking her throat with lifeless, stiff fingers like wood.

That icy force continued to increase, like a pair of steel clamps that were shrinking.

——I can’t breathe, and my throat is also strangled. If this continues, my neck will be broken before it becomes difficult to breathe.

The pressure on the neck made Liang Ri couldn't help panting, but she didn't resist, just staring at the face of the dead in front of her.

After all, isn't that exactly what she wants?

Because even if it is meaningless to live, the feeling of not being alive still exists, that is asceticism.So it would be fine if he was killed just like that.

Holding her breath, the hands of the two rituals were separated from the hands of the deceased. She chose to give up, even rejecting the subconscious resistance.

That power seems to be increasing bit by bit.

Although a few seconds have not actually passed, time seems to have become very slow, flowing slowly like rubber.

The girl's eyes began to darken, and her consciousness began to blur.The skin on her neck finally split open, and the blood flowing out was the most convincing evidence that she was still alive.

Just die like this... just die like Zhi... just throw away life like this.

Wait, throw away...?
This word suddenly forcibly pulled back the consciousness of the two rituals.Probably because she recalled the words of the life consultant in the morning, she suddenly had doubts.

Is Zhizhi's death really meaningless?Did he die happily?No matter what the reason is, he shouldn't think so, right?
Because... death is obviously so lonely and worthless.

Death is obviously so dark and disgusting.

Death is obviously more frightening than anything else—!
"...I'm sorry."

In an instant, the bodies of the two rituals seemed to be injected with vitality suddenly.Gritting her teeth, she grabbed the dead man's wrist with both hands, and kicked the dead man's abdomen from below with one foot.

"I don't want to fall in there again, just the thought of falling in that place disgusts me!"

If you don't want to die, then what you should do is very clear.

To kill the other party before being killed, just thinking about it made the emptiness in her chest disappear.At the same time, all kinds of emotions gradually faded away.

The deceased was roughly pushed away, and the two rituals stood up from the bed.

But the other party has already staggered up again. After all, he is already a dead person, no matter what damage his body suffers again, it can be ignored.

It stretched out its blood-stained hands again, and grabbed the girl's neck.

In the ward without lights, the two ceremonies who were almost caught couldn't help backing away.In the cramped room, she bumped into the wall in no time.

——There is a window behind, this is the third floor.

(End of this chapter)