27: Chapter 27 The Pillar of Heaven Collapses! The Northwest Tilts! The Sun, Moon, and Stars Shift!

"108.95"

"32.22"

Two baffling sets of numbers sounded near Li Li's lips.

Leaving everyone with blank expressions, completely at a loss.

"Th-This, what does this mean?"

"Numbers?"

"Or something else?"

The Branch Captain frowned, his thick-browed and big-eyed face full of incomprehension and confusion.

As everyone knew, his position was that of a military officer, and he didn't understand literary flair.

His technical expertise didn't match!

Feeling a bit flustered, the Branch Captain decided to seek external help.

He reached out and poked his communicator a few times.

Hum~

An invisible ripple flashed past.

A high-tech projection appeared on the scene.

In the image was a figure familiar to the Netizens.

Bending down to ask Li Li, his voice was unhurried and leisurely, making people feel as if caught in a gentle breeze, causing their favorability to shoot up instantly with a 'whoosh'.

"A crisis? What kind of crisis? Can you be more specific?"

The sharply-dressed man's expression turned slightly solemn.

"Are you Commissioner Zheng?"

Without even needing an introduction, Li Li blurted out his identity.

Zheng Fei, Commissioner Zheng!

Li Li didn't reject modern technology; while learning martial arts, he also surfed on the front lines of the internet.

Of course he had heard of this commissioner in charge of anomalous matters.

Because of the previous cemetery incident, he had almost gone viral outside the circle.

However, rumors circulated that this special envoy had been promoted and was about to become the deputy bureau chief? Should they change their title to Bureau Chief?

Distracting thoughts grew in his mind.

Whenever critical moments arrived, he couldn't help letting his mind wander.

But facing Zheng Fei's solemn gaze and the heavy expressions of the others,

Li Li, knowing the gravity of the situation, forcibly suppressed his bad habit of easily getting distracted.

Biting the bullet, he spoke, "A crisis?"

"Actually, I don't know much either…"

"I only know that, according to the description of the ancient sword, it's a great terror! A great destruction! We must evacuate the surrounding crowds as soon as possible. Those two strings of numbers just now were the final message it left for me."

"Perhaps we can find the truth from them?"

"Right, there is one more thing."

"The ancient sword said that it isn't actually a weapon, but rather… a token!"

——

"What?"

"Not a weapon?"

"Big shot, you must be joking!"

"With a light strike, it burned the lord-tier monster to ashes, leaving not even any dust behind, and you're sitting here telling us it's not a weapon?"

"OMG! Am I crazy, or is this world crazy?"

"…"

As soon as Li Li's voice fell,

the Netizens in the live broadcast room instantly exploded.

Bullet comments rolled by, flooding the screen with a massive amount of content.

Ninety-nine percent of the people were driven to tears of frustration by his humblebragging.

Things like a great destruction or a great crisis sounded vague and no one knew what they meant.

But they had all witnessed the power of the ancient sword with their own eyes.

Wielding the ancient sword made him comparable to a modern-day God of Fire.

It could summon high-temperature fire dragons exceeding a thousand degrees, and the core temperature was as high as six thousand, comparable to the surface of the sun.

You're telling me this thing isn't a weapon?

Could it be a fire poker!

Big shot, stop joking around!

Looking at Li Li's serious expression, the Netizens were utterly numb.

Their boiling hearts could not calm down for a long time.

"Uh…"

"I mean?"

"Is there a possibility that the Fire God big shot is telling the truth? There's no benefit for him to deliberately lie to us!"

A few rational Netizens had just spoken up

when they were flooded by massive bullet comments and drowned out by the others' roasting.

Fortunately, amidst the blindly following crowd,

there were still people capable of independent thought.

"A token?"

"Then what is its purpose?"

"Since it's a token, it must have a corresponding meaning!"

Zheng Fei looked at Li Li with eyes like lightning.

As the only candidate pushed to the forefront by The Authorities,

shouldering the relevant liaison and handling of anomalies, he naturally had extraordinary qualities.

He keenly grasped the key point.

Purpose?

Or rather, meaning!

Since it's not a weapon, but a token…

Then it must have some meaning!

Also,

"What on earth is the crisis? Is the ancient sword, existing as a token, meant to deal with this crisis?"

Zheng Fei's brows furrowed into a deep frown.

Deep down in his heart, he was inclined to trust Li Li.

Not only because he stepped forward in a moment of crisis, taking over the inheritance of the torch and facing the monsters with the sword,

but also because of the content that had appeared in Gear Science.

Don't forget the true name of the ancient sword.

[ancient sword covenant]

If it were purely a weapon, why would it carry the word 'covenant'?

Judging by the consistent accuracy of Gear Science,

this didn't follow the rules.

Let alone the large amount of content in the popular science that was blocked by black squares.

The implications within made people shudder upon deep thought.

And Li Li's subsequent words made Zheng Fei firm in his inner guess.

"Mm…"

"Indeed there is!"

"According to the information transmitted from the ancient sword, it is actually a sealing medium containing terrifying power, used to guard the safety of Xijing and protect peace."

"In the near future, we will encounter a great terror and a great destruction. The ancient sword manifested actively precisely because of this!"

Li Li pursed his lips.

His right hand unconsciously brushed across the sword body.

Several seal characters in the sword patterns were very eye-catching, making people unable to help reading them out.

"Forever… Suppress… Chang'an…"

"Could it be?"

"Is the ancient sword the key representing a certain seal? What do those numbers mean? Are they related to the seal?"

Zheng Fei frowned deeply.

Brainstorming with the limited information he had.

Suppress!

It made him associate it with suppression.

Expanding his thinking, it meant sealing, banishing, garrisoning…

Could the ancient sword be some kind of medium?

Used to seal something with a huge threat?

Something similar to a Dragon-Locking Well? A Demon-Sealing Stone? Or similar existences?

Just when Zheng Fei's brows were locked tightly, yet he still couldn't string the clues together and was somewhat at his wit's end,

a surprised voice suddenly sounded around him, attracting the gaze of countless people.

"Wait…"

"108.95?"

"32.22?"

"I think I know what these are!"

A researcher wearing thick lenses suddenly slammed the table and stood up, as if discovering some clues.

Stare——

Facing the scorching gazes of others,

the researcher swallowed hard before biting the bullet and saying, "It's… latitude and longitude! These numbers seem to correspond precisely to latitude and longitude coordinates, and the location is Xijing. The great crisis mentioned by the ancient sword is likely related to this place."

Just as the meaning of the numbers was deciphered

and the specific location pointed out,

Hum~

an invisible ripple bloomed.

The ancient sword seemed to be stimulated by something.

Lacerating flames suddenly emerged on the sword body.

Due to the high temperature, the people around scattered outward one after another.

"This?"

"What is going on?"

Wiping the sweat from his head caused by the heat, the Branch Captain half-squinted his eyes and looked at the source of the anomaly.

However, the images projected from the flames next left him shocked into speechlessness.

"Grisly cracks appeared in the sky, as if the firmament was splitting open. Countless monsters rushed out from the cracks, unleashing terrifying attacks to destroy everything below. The world within view was completely reduced to scorched earth…"

"On the ruins filled with the smoke of gunpowder, countless citizens wailed in despair. Blood, the flames of war, and gunpowder smoke… completely destroyed modern civilization, leaving behind only dilapidated ruins as the world entered the wasteland era…"

"A mother holding her child walked out of the ruins to obtain food, finding a moldy piece of bread. A joyous expression still lingered on her face when a sharp blade descended from the sky, piercing her through along with the infant. A mantis taller than a human also walked out from a corner, put the bread back in its original place, and then began to feast heartily on the corpses…"

"Not only did the sky split open, surging with countless monsters,"

"even on the earth, there were bottomless rifts. The subterranean veins collapsed downward, and the rivers and lakes converged toward them. The mighty floods swallowed countless buildings, with rolling river waters leaving not a shred of vitality…"

"In the mighty torrent, one could vaguely see many unusual monsters, their towering bodies lurking underwater, opening their mouths to swallow a skyscraper in one bite. The underwater world was no safer than the surface…"

Looking at the scene before them,

everyone's heart was left with only two sentences.

[The pillars of heaven collapsed, and the bonds of the earth snapped]

[The heaven tilts to the northwest, hence the sun, moon, and stars shift accordingly; the earth is deficient in the southeast, hence floods and dust flow thither]

A scene even more terrifying than a mythical natural disaster

had appeared!!