Chapter 69

"You have this function too?"

At this moment, as soon as Brother Sphere spoke, Ji Jue and Little An lay on Little Niu Ma, and began to sneak toward the bell tower. Fortunately, there were many buildings around, and no one paid attention for a while, and the huge bell tower also blocked many lines of sight, and there was space for them to approach quietly.

【Otherwise, do you want me to use my old arms and legs to help you fight that guy?】 The Ghostly Work Sphere turned proudly: 【Ball, I am a technical tool, okay!】

As it spoke, the sphere shook, and faint blue light emerged, covering the two, instantly absorbing all the spiritual quality fluctuations that swept past.

【Hurry up, speed, I've already shielded all the detection of the bell tower for you and temporarily applied camouflage to you.】 The Ghostly Work Sphere whistled very humanely: 【Invisibility cheat, kid!】

Ji Jue couldn't help but scratch his head.

I can't stand it. Why is the object affected by the ability talking more and more saucily, and loves to take advantage of me?

Ji Jue pinched his chin, unable to help but be terrified: Could it be that I really have a split personality?

【Is there a possibility...】

The Ghostly Work Sphere asked helplessly: 【That is to say, I, as a Heavenly Work, really have my own consciousness?】

"But why are you so proficient at picking locks?"

Question marks kept popping out on Ji Jue's forehead: "How could Professor Ye install such a sneaky function on you—oh oh oh!!!!"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly realized and pretended that he hadn't asked such a question.

What sneaky?

This is called taking advantage of difficulties, okay!

This is the demeanor of a master, the pattern of a professor!

If the mountain doesn't come, I'll go!

Looking at it this way, when Professor Ye was young, there were times when she learned from others, gathered wisdom, and worked together!

Such an excellent master-disciple inheritance and faction tradition, shouldn't it be continued from me?

Just like that, people held their breath and horses wrapped their hooves, and even the cow-horse kept the engine sound to the lowest, and after sneaking around a big circle, finally confirmed that no one was peeking around, and cautiously leaned against the wall.

The Ghostly Work Sphere jumped up from Ji Jue's hand, and the moment it swept across the wall, a small gap appeared. After Little Niu Ma drilled through, it closed instantly, leaving no trace.

Not even a piece of wall dust fell.

Ji Jue was already inside the bell tower!

He couldn't help but want to gasp for a few more breaths...

As soon as he raised his eyes, he saw several huge puppets like the guards outside, standing quietly in the dust—there were at least four more of these awesome ones!

Unfortunately, due to the lack of maintenance for too long, several guards were covered in gaps and cracks, almost falling apart, and could no longer be activated.

Two of them, the moment they detected the intruder, raised their gem eyes beneath the broken mask, projecting a wisp of red light, sweeping across the few people.

What was read was only the recognition circuit disguised by the Ghostly Work Sphere.

【Put down the gun, one of our own.】

"Phew..."

Ji Jue finally breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that cold sweat was about to come out from his back, and looked at Little An. Little An shook his head slightly: "There's no one alive here."

The bell tower occupied a large area, but the internal space was simple to the point of being empty. The entire first floor was piled with all kinds of things, rotten tables and chairs that couldn't be used at all, or various living tools, and even an old-fashioned manual lawnmower, a small wooden horse with peeling paint, a whole exquisite slide, the little dolls that girls liked most were full of mold, and the armor that fit the size of a child was also covered in scratches...

It was simply a whole children's playground.

"Did we go to the wrong place?"

【Upstairs】

The Ghostly Work Sphere suddenly felt a bit regretful that it hadn't been set with the function of rolling its eyes at the beginning.

Ji Jue raised his head, looked at the stairs winding up along the tower, turned back, waved at Little Niu Ma, flipped onto it, and pointed upward...

Little Niu Ma was silent for a long time, silently dirty. If it weren't for Ji Jue's order not to make a sound, it would have really wanted to honk the horn that wasn't very pleasant.

Just like that, it grunted and surged, carrying the two of them flying upward.

Finally, before breaking the frame, they arrived at the door.

But looking at the ordinary door that was only slightly ajar...

Ji Jue couldn't help but feel cold in his heart.

——This trip, it's mostly impossible to get any goods!

After all, a place like this where no blockade was set at the entrance, and even the door hadn't been closed, doesn't look like Mercury's workshop at all.

He cautiously took a pole and poked open the door that no one had pushed for I don't know how many years.

After a sharp friction sound, there was a muffled sound.

The door panel fell inward, and the breeze lifted the dust accumulated on the ground. After hundreds of years, the visitors who arrived again saw only a mess.

The bookshelves collapsed, the scrolls were scattered and rotten, the handwriting was hidden in the mold spots, and could no longer be distinguished. And all around, the spiritual quality circuits collapsed, the runes were blurred, and the Supreme Virtue totems dissipated.

The giant cauldron cracked, the instruments rusted, the furnace went out...

Ji Jue sighed silently, and the hanging heart finally died.

Blue sky and white clouds... the ship sank!

This is indeed Mercury's workshop, but unfortunately, it has been completely scrapped. He can even conclude that it was not damaged in the past four hundred years, but that it had already been abandoned more than four hundred years ago.

Some things that could be moved might have been moved away long ago, and things that couldn't be moved were left here. Without maintenance for so long, they couldn't be used at all.

As for Mercury's creations and achievements, there wasn't even a hair.

Not to mention the matrix.

He sighed and was about to say something, but felt his sleeve being pulled suddenly. Little An, whose face was pale, hid behind him tremblingly, "Brother Ji Jue, it's not good."

He lowered his voice: "There's a ghost!"

"There's what?"

Ji Jue was confused, looked in the direction Little An was pointing, and then, fell into an ice cellar, almost unable to help but curse Haizhou's elegance: "Damn—"

There really is a ghost!

The direction Little An pointed was in front of the huge colored window of the bell tower's dial, in front of half a window that had long since rotted.

Under the sunlight, a vague outline emerged.

It looked like a back view.

Dressed in a pure white lady's dress, as if floating in the wind, with long hair hanging down almost to the ground, the faint side face was beautiful, charming and exquisite, staring at the distance in a daze.

Making Ji Jue almost unable to breathe.

Mercury!!!!

——Sage·Mercury!

But there was no expected cold sneer when looking back, or a casual finger pointing to turn the two intruders and a motorcycle into ashes. Instead, there was no reaction at all.

No matter how politely Ji Jue greeted or probed, from beginning to end, there was no reaction.

As if it were a phantom.

To be precise, it was no different from a phantom.

That was the remnant left by the sage's will, inscribed in time. Even if it was just for a moment, it could never be erased forever.

Ji Jue plucked up his courage, leaned over, and looked into the distance following her gaze... and saw the huge pillar standing solemnly at the end of the sky, as if supporting the world.

The axis of the world is here, and the center of heaven and earth is the position of the giant pillar.

Just by staring, he felt inexplicable majesty and oppression, unable to breathe, filled with the urge to bow his head or even kowtow.

But when Ji Jue distinguished carefully, he found that her gaze didn't seem to be on the giant pillar, but downward, on the other side of the bell tower.

That gorgeously decorated sanctuary.

Ignoring the loud noises and tremors constantly coming from the square, Ji Jue could faintly hear the intermittent music. A busy band was playing a festive melody, and in the heavy traffic, people with smiles walked in, offering bouquets and blessings.

If those so-called history experts didn't lie to him, judging from the white gauze flying around and the signs of a large number of birds gathering... that was a wedding.

A horn blew once, and all the guests witnessed it.

The horn blew a second time, and the elder presided over the ceremony.

When the horn blew a third time, the newlyweds became husband and wife amidst applause and blessings.

But... there would be no third horn blowing.

Because what swept through the entire Rift Realm was the echo of heaven and earth collapsing, the earth shaking, the sky collapsing, the mountains rising and falling, the city trembling... and at that moment, Ji Jue saw it again——

On that giant pillar that was like the axis of heaven and earth, the tragic cracks that appeared!

A magnificent mark emerged from the high tower, fleeting, complex and cold, as if covering everything, reaching everything—that was a Supreme Virtue emblem far beyond Ji Jue's cognition a thousand times!

——【Heavenly Origin】!

Now, Heavenly Origin has collapsed.

The magnificent destruction and collapse began, the giant pillar was torn apart, broken at the waist!

But it didn't fall to the ground. Those countless fragments floated in mid-air, radiating terrifying brilliance that filled the entire Rift Realm, rising and erupting!

And so, the stars lost their tracks again, the sun was dim and lusterless, and endless fire rain fell from the sky, smashing down, setting off waves and destruction.

Mournful sounds rose from that peaceful city.

One after another.

The sanctuary collapsed, it collapsed, for the I-don't-know-how-many-th time, the guests fled in all directions. In the dust that rose, Ji Jue seemed to faintly see a slender figure abandoned in place.

The woman in bridal attire knelt in the dust and ruins, wailing powerlessly, asking for help.

But no one responded.

In her arms, the man whose lower body was pressed under the ruins struggled with difficulty, as if saying something to her, pushing her away with all his might.

Final farewell.

Amidst the roar, everything was completely buried.

Only the bride, covered in dust, stumbled out of the ruins, tears falling from her face, washing away her makeup and dust, leaving scars that could not be erased.

She hugged the place on her chest stained with blood with both hands, shouting and roaring at the ruins again and again, until, completely desperate.

Just like that, completely swallowed by the flames.

No longer visible, only fragmented wails echoed in the wind, covering everything.

And in the city, on the street, along with the collapse of the giant pillar, everyone fell into chaos, the sound of breaking sounded again, and alienation began.

After losing the fragile human fetus, the frenzied puppets turned into twisted monsters again, killing each other, destroying everything within reach, and scattering.

From paradise to hell, it seemed to take only a moment.

Ji Jue almost forgot to breathe.

A hallucination-like flash fell from his side, like tears.

When Ji Jue turned back slowly, he finally saw the sage's eyes, like a void hole.

She was watching.

Watching the disasters that had happened in the past, watching the reenactment in the Rift Realm again and again.

Silently waiting, until a miracle or true destruction arrives.

For a moment, Ji Jue felt as if he understood something. Perhaps, this is the reason why this Rift Realm fell to this point: "Brother Sphere, what exactly happened just now?"

The Ghostly Work Sphere was silent for a moment and replied:

【Didn't you see it with your own eyes?

——The Collapse of the Heavenly Pillar】

Sorry, I overslept