Chapter 719: Why don't we ask fate?

In the 112th year of the New Birth Era, the previous generation of 'humans' had basically been eradicated, and the mimics also inherited everything of humanity, arriving at the fifth generation.

What's strange is that newly born mimics are increasingly resembling normal humans, with no insect limbs, no insect wings, and no insect characteristics at all.

Just like normal humans in a beautification pack.

The Anomaly Bureau still exists, investigators still exist, anomalies still exist; the only difference is that the species surviving on this star system have changed from original monsters to true humans.

No one knows what difference there is between the newly born mimics and the previous humans; when the previous generation of humans died out completely, they didn't even feel anything.

Only those in the Anomaly Bureau know that the history of the previous generation has completely come to an end.

Except for the Anomaly Bureau's Legendary Investigator, Qi Yu.

"Leader, regarding that encrypted conversation, we finally cracked it!!!"

Qi Yu raised his head, adjusted his glasses; he is no longer the silly worm-maid who used to eat pig feed.

"Let me see."

Qi Yu took over that document, the document titled 'Dialogue with the God'.

Everything that happens in this star system—whether mother god, evil god, or anomaly god—bears the word 'god' merely as an honorific for power.

You could say the Legendary Investigator could be called the Investigator God, but is he really a god?

Obviously not.

That conversation between Zhang Jie and the god, although accidentally preserved, has remained unsolvable for all these years.

They could understand Zhang Jie's words, but not those of the mysterious existence; today, however, these problems have finally been solved.

"Fate...."

Qi Yu looked at the document in his hand and muttered, 'What exactly did his Master go through, this predetermined fate?'

"You always want to grasp everything, but you cannot; you are greedy, you are ignorant, you do not know that everything about fate has a price."

These are the words spoken by that deity, that mysterious existence, to Zhang Jie.

These words are like heavy hammers hammering hard into Qi Yu's heart; if this world truly has destiny, then he himself ought not to exist.

He himself was merely that poor little watermelon rind back then, and he faintly sensed that some unexplainable things in this world are related to fate.

Do you remember Lei Na back then? When they used the Chief Investigator's legacy to save Lei Na.

At that time came someone who was already a Chief, who said many things to Zhang Jie, revealing enough information for Qi Yu to let his imagination run wild.

"....."

"In the end, is there still no useful information?"

Qi Yu shook his head; perhaps she can never let go of the Master who fed her pig feed and raised her.

"I really miss you...."

Qi Yu murmured, time has not completely washed away this longing; instead, it has made it richer and purer.

"When countless glories converge...."

"What exactly does this prophecy mean?"

Qi Yu and the Anomaly Bureau have researched many topics over the past century, but the focus remains mainly on Zhang Jie and those unsolved mysteries.

That prophecy, even to this day, no one can clarify the preceding sentence; historically, only knows that Zhang Jie directly became a Legendary Investigator on that day.

"I recall that in the Anomaly Bureau's containment object there is something that can pose a question to any target."

Qi Yu said, wanting to know everything, relying solely on blind guessing is completely impossible.

"You mean?"

"Why don't we ask fate?"

Qi Yu said, raising his head, his eyes flashing with mad light.

Ignorance is a person's greatest arrogance; this also holds for mimics that have inherited everything of humanity.

To question the gods, such disrespectful speech would only be uttered brazenly by ignorant humans.

And Qi Yu truly went ahead with it—a fearless guy; whatever he does is not surprising.

The cost of using that containment object is huge; to activate this ethereal thing, the Anomaly Bureau fed it nearly a million cloned lives at once.

Although there is no cloned brain, considered a bug, it is still a very cruel ritual.

Asking fate—who to ask? Who is fate? How to ask him? What question to ask?

This was originally an unsolvable problem, but with the containment object, these problems were all readily solved.

But Qi Yu still thought of that mysterious existence as too lowly.

Question: Who is fate?

The containment object had no response. After a long while, it spat out a word.

【Unknown】

Qi Yu:?

Then ask, can I still see my Master?

【Yes】

"What about the method!!!"

【Wait】

Then what use are you?

【Unknown】

Qi Yu silently looked at it, what does it mean? Ask three questions, know nothing?

So as long as you can ask, it doesn't matter if there's an answer, right?

The first attempt at communication completely failed; fate didn't even bother with her.

"Master... how did you question the gods?"

That conversation was intercepted near the star system's consolidated membrane, but she had examined the debris of the consolidated membrane and found nothing except traces of the insects' gnawing—no deity was there, nor could one be.

Where is that deity?

Qi Yu repeatedly went over all the data Zhang Jie had left behind, over and over, trying to find the slightest detail he had missed.

The day the information appeared was precisely when countless light cones converged—the day he became a Legendary Investigator.

What is a light cone? Qi Yu knows, but what does it mean when light cones converge?

Qi Yu didn't know, but she had plenty of time to try; if one attempt failed, then countless attempts!

People always need to find something to give themselves a spiritual reliance.

Qi Yu thus embarked on an almost crazy attempt, considering every possibility, such as the moment of breaking through as a Legendary Investigator.

And for example, the ability of the light‑cone world, but Qi Yu is ultimately not Zhang Jie; her mind never considered being able to leap back in reverse.

Thus Qi Yu missed the only possibility that could bring her close to the truth.

And this led to her subsequent actions becoming increasingly crazy.

She tried swallowing anomalies to gain their abilities, and tried using infinite‑intensity pollution to boost her power, all just to see the scenery beyond the Legendary.

One flicker, and it was over fifty years....

No progress, no gain; the mimics born in the same batch as her have all aged and died, leaving only her.

The new generation grew more and more like humans, but she still retained that appearance—insect wings at her ears and butterfly wings on her back.

She increasingly felt she was an anomaly, and the people below felt the same way.

They began to develop a generational gap with the new generation, drifting further apart, until one day the accumulation of contradictions reached its peak....