Chapter 191 It's a long story, but to cut a long story short!
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"What's a major fate alteration event?"
Chen Miao looked at the Mayor's message in the chat panel, his eyebrows knitting slightly as he pondered for a moment before asking. Explore stories at empire
He could make contact with the outside world, and the Mayor had been monitoring his situation, continuously updating him with the latest news to ensure he could make appropriate judgements on the Hell Bus.
"It's a long story,"
The chat box kept showing the other party was typing, but the follow-up messages were delayed in appearing.
"..."
Chen Miao was somewhat speechless for a moment, not quite knowing what to say. When you say it's a long story, can't you make a long story short? Are you really planning to write a little essay? He was still on the bus, for goodness' sake, and quite busy at that.
Soon enough.
The Mayor's little essay came through.
'So, I'll try to be as succinct as possible. Everyone has regrets in their life. It could be regret for not taking better care of one's parents, for parting ways with a first love, for making many wrong choices during one's school days, and so on...'
'No one lives a life without regrets.'
'A person's life is made up of regrets.'
These words are just nonsense, absolutely unnecessary to say. Is this your idea of being succinct?
Chen Miao couldn't help but criticize inwardly.
'In the "Sea of Human Suffering" major event, the entire city of 2 million people had all their regrets fulfilled. To be precise, at a point about to reach the edge of vision, do you know about Schrödinger's cat?'
'It's essentially about putting a cat in a box and introducing a gas that has a 50% chance of killing the cat. Until the box is opened, the cat exists in a state of being both alive and dead.'
'Just like Schrödinger's cat, at the start of the "Sea of Human Suffering" major event, everyone saw their regrets about to be fulfilled, like your passengers.'
'A man unhappy with his life buys a lottery ticket on a whim and wins ten million, only to die on his way to claim the prize.'
'An elderly person who has waited their whole life for a childhood sweetheart finally gets a chance, gathers the courage to confess their feelings the next day, and then dies.'
'A gamer who has spent his life striving to be the best in the world suddenly gets a streak of good luck and achieves his dream, just as he is about to share his success with everyone, he too dies.'
'Besides these, there are numerous similar examples throughout the city!'
'For example, a junior employee who has always wanted a promotion finally receives the order from above but dies before he can even sit in his own office.'n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om
'Or a man who has been gay since he was young finally gathers the courage to come out to his parents, and to his amazement, they accept him. Just as he is excited to share the news with his lover, his lover cannot bear the pressure and commits suicide.'
'And so on and so forth, these things happened on the same day in Zhenba City.'
'According to the answers we've got, the "Sea of Human Suffering" event is a major rule-based event. It uses an inexplicable method to pseudo-fulfill everyone's greatest regrets within one day, letting them see their biggest regret about to come true and then they die.'
'Do you know what this means?'
"It means I hope Mr. Mayor can get to the point a bit faster."
Chen Miao lit a cigarette and looked at his fourth passenger with a complex expression, glanced at the chat panel, then stood up to greet him.
Meanwhile, the Mayor's messages continued to flash in the chat box.
'It means that everyone who died in this city is left with profound resentment!!!'
'This is an extremely terrifying thing!'
'Normally, even if someone dies suddenly in an accident, they don't harbor such strong resentment; in the moments death comes, there is not much emotion, mainly fear and panic.'
'Even those with weaker minds go completely blank.'
'Out of a hundred accidental deaths, maybe only one person will harbor a strong sense of injustice and resentment, thereby becoming a Resentful Spirit.'
'However, if all your life you've been a nobody and you finally get your opportunity one day, but then you suddenly die unexpectedly, you will have a strong sense of injustice. The resentment you carry after death will be heavy.'
'If you've never experienced light, you could have died in darkness without direction.'
'Combined with other information, we can basically infer that the "Sea of Human Suffering" event is intentionally and deliberately creating a large number of Resentful Spirits. Its true purpose is not to change fate, but rather to collect these people's grievances and resentments they had before dying.'
'Every action has a consequence!'
'Why collect so much resentment? Is it just to create a large number of Resentful Spirits? The damage caused by ordinary people's Resentful Spirits to the Federation is almost negligible. If this was the goal, would it be worthy of being designated number 11?'
'So we got our second answer!'
'Deliberately creating a large number of Resentful Spirits is only the first objective of the event. The second objective is using these Resentful Spirits to open tens of thousands of Hell Buses, which they succeeded in doing.'
'The Hell Bus, a fixed event, has launched less than 100 times in the few decades since the world's Supernaturalization began, as recorded.'
'But today alone, at least 50,000 Hell Buses started service.'
'But even this is not the true objective of the "Sea of Human Suffering"!'
'So far, even with 50,000 Hell Buses in operation, it wouldn't have much impact, which is why the Events Bureau in Jingjiu City boldly speculates that these 50,000 Hell Buses might initiate the opening of Hell.'
'The true objective of this number 11 ranked fixed event, "Sea of Human Suffering," is to use the tens of thousands of Hell Buses to forcibly open the connection between Hell and the human world, turning the human realm into an inferno of suffering!'
'If that's the case, you must stop them!'
"..."
Chen Miao glanced emotionlessly at the chat box, which contained nearly a thousand words of the Mayor's essay. This was his idea of being succinct, but the message was quite clear.
Essentially two points:
First point: The world is nearing its end.
Second point: You have to save the world.
Great.
When he died from being hit by a coconut and came to this world, he never imagined he'd have the chance to become a hero who saves it, but...
He glanced at the mission panel provided by the fourth passenger and casually sent it to the power channel.
Then he typed back to the Mayor in the chat box.
"If it's as you say, this situation is already beyond prevention. After all, tens of thousands of Hell Buses have already set off, and everything has begun. What can I do?"
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