HISO Chapter 144

Chapter 144: Like a Vengeful Ghost

Chapter 144: Like a Vengeful Ghost

He didn’t know why, even though he had refuted her words.

However, the woman on the other end didn’t seem angry at all; instead, she seemed even more relieved.

It was as if the words she had just spoken… were all deliberately used to test him.

Yu An pursed his lips.

System 089 immediately sensed its host’s emotions and hurriedly tried to locate the person on the other side of the screen, only to be surprised:

[I can’t even trace her location!]

The person on the other end actually had the ability to shield against the Space-Time Bureau’s power.

“With your words, I can rest assured,” the woman smiled and continued, “One day, you will understand that his… love for you is not just a fleeting infatuation. For you, he can give everything you can hardly imagine.”

She seemed to understand Xie Jinsheng very well.

It wasn’t just a superficial understanding.

But–

Xie Jinsheng had given everything he could hardly imagine for him; what did that mean?

Could it be that something else had happened during these thousands of years of cycles?

Yu An wanted to ask more questions.

But he heard her say, “Little Yu An, then I wish you can finally get what you want in this life. No matter what the outcome is, just follow your heart.”

As she said these words, even though it was just an electronic voice, Yu An felt that she suddenly became very gentle and kind.

“Who are you?” Yu An keenly caught on to something, “How do you know about the manuscript map in the iris flowers…”

Beep.

A busy tone came through.

The other party had hung up.

089 hurriedly tried to track the call again, but only found a blank location, making it continue to doubt whether it had truly become a useless system.

“Jing Zhixun,” Yu An quickly called out.

The Omega outside was eating a meal and immediately entered the room upon hearing this.

“Your superior just hung up; I still have something to say.”

While Jing Zhixun was operating the screen,

Yu An felt dizzy again.

Jing Zhixun hurriedly supported him and said, “I can’t contact her either at the moment… You’re too exhausted; rest more for now, and I’ll tell you when I get in touch with her.”

“Thank you.”

But as Yu An lay on the bed to recover, his mind was still in a mess. He asked with trembling eyelashes, “089, can you still investigate the key, focusing on the Space-Time Bureau’s legends?”

The woman just now hadn’t told him how to destroy the key.

[Wait a moment, give me some time,] 089 said, unable to bear the sight of his face, [Host, please rest more.]

It felt sorry for its host, who had been running around non-stop since arriving in this apocalyptic world.

Yu An also felt that he was a bit unwell.

He leaned against the hospital bed and closed his eyes lightly.

But his mind was still racing.

He kept recalling some fragmented memories of the laboratory…

So, Deputy Captain Lin’s younger brother was him.

So, Utopia was looking for replica Omegas to control Xie Jinsheng. Had this kind of thing happened more than once before?

And how had Xie Jinsheng spent those many cycles alone?

A tear escaped from the corner of Yu An’s eye.

–His love for you is not just a fleeting infatuation.

He had given everything you could hardly imagine for you.

Yu An was half-awake, and as his eyelashes were wet, he somehow remembered a past event.

At that time, he was punished for failing a mission and was sent to sweep fallen leaves outside the Space-Time Bureau’s First Prison.

That place was full of villains and evildoers.

It was a place where even Tan Si would be imprisoned if he were caught.

But what was different from the past was that, this time, the prison actually held a newly appointed God from another organization.

His reputation was terrible.

It was only because that person was an evil god.

Not only did he not care about anything after taking office, but he also spent his divine power constantly traveling through countless worlds, seriously disrupting order, so he was locked up.

Some people said that he was a reincarnated evil ghost, and traveling through the worlds was to gather powerful forces, trying to control the entire universe.

Some people also said that he was a born madman, a pleasure offender, born to destroy the world and retaliate against society. He accidentally got the opportunity to ascend to become a high-dimensional god in charge, but he could not control his own nature of killing…

Some people also said that his wife had died.

The evil god’s wife was a human, and after death, her soul would shatter into three thousand pieces, scattered in various small worlds.

The evil god traveled through the worlds only to find the fragments of his wife.

But he had never succeeded, so he became like this.

It was also at that time that he suddenly understood why people in ancient storybooks would still be unhappy even after ascending to become immortals.

Because, whether it was becoming a god with obsession or becoming a god without obsession.

There would be pain.

The obsessed suffered because they could not fulfill their obsession; the unobsessed suffered because they had nothing to be obsessed with.

Yu An and another host were supposed to be sweeping outside, but halfway through, it suddenly started raining heavily, so they were allowed to enter the prison to take shelter.

That day, the prison warden’s cleaning system broke down, so he and another host were asked to clean the prison corridor, and the points paid were so good that they were more than doing dozens of missions.

They immediately agreed.

And the end of the corridor that Yu An was cleaning was the high-level cell where the God was being held.

He curiously looked over.

And then saw a hand covered in blood.

It was extremely pale and beautiful, with distinct joints and slightly tense blue veins on the back of the hand, but it was covered in crimson, making it look a little frightening.

The person was wearing a black robe, and his figure was extremely tall and slender, but his hair was disheveled, and his hands and feet were covered with heavy, jingling chains.

He looked nothing like a God.

He looked more like an evil ghost crawling out of hell, ready to eat people.

Only a madman would ignore the warnings and do things like randomly traveling through the worlds, consuming his own lifespan and self-awareness.

Everyone in the Space-Time Bureau said he was stupid.

But Yu An felt that he was also a bitter person.

He wondered if the evil god had seen his wife after so long?

For some reason, the floor of the evil god’s cell was always black, and he didn’t know what was laid on it.

He only glanced at it and inexplicably shuddered, withdrawing his gaze.

But the person inside seemed to have sensed something.

As if he was about to break free from the chains.

“It’s the evil god going crazy again,” the host who was with him pulled him and quickly ran outside.

But the farther away they got, the louder the sound of the chains became.

…How did it feel like he knew him?

Yu An was a little confused.

But by the time he turned around, the heavy, high-level corridor door had already closed.

The prison warden took a few tranquilizers in, and when he came out, he sighed repeatedly, “Such a good God, but unfortunately, he’s a madman at heart.”

At that time, the scene in the prison was still in his mind, and after a while, he looked out the window, stunned.

He saw a storm raging in the distance.

–It was the eye of the storm. (Note ①)

Everything around him was turbulent and violent, but he, who was in the center of the storm, was completely unaware.

Later, the evil god disappeared without a trace.

Some people said that he died in a small world; a devoted lover had no good end in the Space-Time Bureau; some people also said that he had finally found his wife and got his wish.

But several years later, Yu An was punished again and returned to the old place.

This time, he walked to the cell where the evil god had stayed as if possessed.

He saw that the walls and floor were all covered with jasmine flowers painted in blood, shockingly terrifying…

For some reason, he felt inexplicably sad, and a strong thought emerged in his mind.

That was–

The evil god had not got his wish.

He had not yet found his wife.

Note ①: Eye of the storm is used as a metaphor.