The end of the world starts with failing the exam

Chapter 54 The day the ruins were exposed

Evolution day?

Chen Jing looked at Smith with confusion on his face, feeling that this foreigner's crazy energy was no worse than that of the old man in the other world.

They are all extremely ruthless...they kill people when they say they will, and they kill all their own people!

Just because he can attack his own people without hesitation.

Chen Jing felt ashamed.

In fact, from the beginning, Chen Jing had not thought about how to deal with these four uninvited guests.

Bai Aji was asked to attack Zhou Guojian earlier because Zhou Guojian had the only weapon that could pose a threat to him.

He originally thought that worshiping Aji was just for fun, knocking Zhou Guojian unconscious or making him incapacitated...

Unexpectedly, Bai Aji ate one of Zhou Guojian's hands directly.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Guojian died from excessive blood loss.

This surprised Chen Jing.

But what surprised him even more was that Baiaji's saliva seemed to be poisonous.

After Zhou Guojian fell into coma, the wound he was covering tightly was exposed.

Anyone can see the black and rotten flesh on the edge of the wound...

This is a sign of poisoning.

Within a short time, the venom spread throughout his body.

Zhou Guojian's corpse underwent rapid decomposition due to the spread of the poison, which was extremely terrifying.

The black venom started from the outside of the wound and slowly crawled up and down the body like maggots. Even the muscles were corroded into many dense honeycomb-like cavities.

Until the end, everything including the bones turned into "wooden slag" that broke into pieces at a touch.

"What is Evolution Day?" Chen Jing looked at Zhou Guojian's body with a complicated expression, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Smith did not answer Chen Jing's question, but followed Chen Jing's gaze towards the corpse with a kind and kind smile.

"Kid, you don't have to worry." Smith said calmly, as if he was confident about it. "They are dead, and no one will come to trouble you."

"I'm not afraid of trouble..."

"Then you regret it?" Smith asked in a joking tone, "This won't be your first time to kill someone, right?"

Smith said, taking two more steps forward.

"It seems so... I have read your file... You have been a good boy with excellent grades since you were a child... It is normal to have never seen blood..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Smith stopped and stood about two meters away from Chen Jing.

"The first time you kill someone, you will inevitably have a psychological burden. I understand..."

"There is no psychological burden."

Chen Jing interrupted Smith and looked up at him.

"I just think he's quite unlucky."

Chen Jing sighed.

Under Smith's surprised and puzzled gaze, Chen Jing clasped his hands and bowed devoutly to Zhou Guojian's body, his tone completely sincere.

"I never intended to kill him in the first place."

"You didn't want to kill him? Oh! That's right! It was manslaughter, right!" Smith helped Chen Jing find an explanation in a good-natured manner, and nodded with a smile, "You were in self-defense! It was manslaughter! I will explain this to the association!"

"Manslaughter? That's right."

Chen Jing scratched his head and felt that this explanation was not bad.

After all, his initial idea was very simple, he just planned to knock down these four people and then dig out the information he wanted from them.

for example……

What are their identities?

How did they know about the old man's death?

"You should belong to the same organization, right?" Chen Jing asked curiously, "I heard you mention some 'association' before..."

"That's right." Smith didn't hide anything, as if he would do anything to win over Chen Jing.

He tried his best to show his sincerity, and his tone became sincere.

"We are members of the [Ether Association]. I am from the American Realm, and they are all members of the Asian Realm..."

"What does your association do?" Chen Jing asked.

This time Smith did not rush to answer, but thought carefully for a while before speaking.

“Coping with the End.”

"end?"

Chen Jing pretended to look at the old man in surprise, but his heart was already filled with turmoil.

Smith's answer was something he never expected.

He originally thought that his grandfather was the only one who knew about the existence of the apocalypse, but now it seems...

It seems like there are still a lot of people who know the end of the world? !

"I know it may be hard for you to believe this, but the reality is that it may not be long before the end of human civilization is coming..."

"What kind of doomsday?" Chen Jing asked, his eyes fixed on Smith, observing the subtle changes in his facial expression.

"I don't know..."

Smith didn't look like he was lying.

The kind of excitement that comes from the depths of the soul is almost impossible to disguise.

"But we can definitely relate to evolution!"

"What evolution?" Chen Jing pretended to be confused and followed Smith's words and continued to ask, "Where did you get the news?"

"Did your grandpa tell you anything about his youth?" Smith asked.

Chen Jing shook his head and said no, he had never mentioned it.

"He didn't say anything about being a professor on the other side of the ocean?"

"No, but I heard from my grandma that he was once a top student who studied abroad and only returned to China in 1973..."

"That's no wonder...no wonder you don't know my existence..." Smith sighed, looking a little disappointed, "I really regard your grandfather as a friend...otherwise I wouldn't come back to find him..."

When Chen Jing heard what he said, he just laughed.

What makes you laugh is his hypocrisy.

"All of this actually starts in 1972. At that time, your grandfather and I were both teaching at Miskatonic University. He and I were both professors at that university..."

Smith didn't seem to care whether Chen Jing believed what he said, he just told it truthfully according to his memory.

"On April 11th of that year, your grandfather and I were hired by the 'Wood Private Consortium' to go to Antarctica for a scientific research expedition. In those days, it was not uncommon for private expedition teams like ours to be hired..."

"What is the purpose of your expedition to Antarctica?" Chen Jing asked.

Hearing this, Smith whispered a word.

"Geological exploration, obtaining samples of paleontology and ancient microorganisms, and finding an answer in Antarctica..."

"What answer?" Chen Jing asked.

"At that time, mysticism and conspiracy theories were extremely popular in our country. Urban rumors said that ancient ancestors once lived in Antarctica. It happened that the owner of the consortium was also very interested in this, so he called your grandfather... Miska The only yellow-skinned archeology professor at Tonic University.”

"If it weren't for this inexplicable reason, I would have been the only professor who went to Antarctica..."

In Smith's statement, neither he nor Chen Boxu thought that much about the matter.

They all thought that this was just an ordinary "ocean journey".

But it turns out they were wrong.

Even the "Wood Consortium" that initiated this polar scientific expedition did not expect that such a simple geological exploration activity would change the world in just a few years.

That's right.

Shortly after they arrived in Antarctica and started drilling work, the second detachment of the scientific expedition team, co-led by Smith and Chen Bofu, discovered something strange under the Antarctic ice that had never melted...

"That's an ancient ruin, a palace."

Smith seemed to have no intention of holding an umbrella, and just stood motionless in the rainstorm, letting the rain slide down his face.

The cold and biting temperature reminded him of that day.

Things that happened decades ago seem to be happening right before our eyes.

"To this day, we are not sure when that palace was built."

"But what we know for sure is..."

"The ancient civilization that built that palace possessed a supernatural power that we humans cannot imagine."