A mysterious realm descends, and I defy fate in comics.

Chapter 204 Whether you die sooner or later, you're bound to die.

This has always been the truth.

Putting aside Jiang Xingni and Xie Yungui—two superhumans with prophetic abilities who would be rare in any country—the fact that they were directly paired up in the same team is quite remarkable.

When Xiao Jiming received the news and submitted his application to his superior, the reasons he gave were partly due to the team's internal situation, and partly due to the more prestigious reason that, considering the extreme rarity of people with precognitive abilities, Xiao Jiming said in a grand manner that such resources should not be monopolized by their team.

If it weren't for Xie Yungui's persistent insistence that he and Jiang Xingni stay together, Xie Yungui would most likely not have been assigned to Xiao Jiming's team.

Despite opposition from those above, opposition from future teammates, and the presence of someone with similar abilities and a similar role within the team, Xie Yungui was able to forcefully participate entirely due to the strength of his abilities. No matter how much those above agonized over Xie Yungui's decision, they could not completely disregard his ideas.

Ultimately, Xie Yungui's own ideas took precedence.

As for Jiang Xingni's special ability, it was given to him by the system and was also a product of his own thoughts.

How Jiang Xingni will advance in the future is entirely a matter of his personal performance.

Let's first eliminate these two bugged characters, and then take stock of the remaining superhumans.

Pei Zhaoye's superpower is inherently strong—he was even pre-selected by the relevant departments long ago. However, because he still needs to train, he is still studying at school. He is often bullied in the team only because after all his superpowers are removed, his physical skills are indeed the weakest among them—is that really true? In short, Jiang Xingni was skeptical about this.

He Jingtong's superpower... Xiao Jiming still doesn't know what He Jingtong's superpower is. He only knows that what He Jingtong is showing is more like some kind of metaphysics such as hand seals and talismans, which is quite far from superpowers.

Given the issue of individual privacy, Xiao Jiming was even less likely to ask questions openly.

Some people label Song Juexiao's superpower as "word power," but if we're serious, it's actually more than just "word power."

Word magic only means that spoken words can come true, but Song Juexiao is different. It's not just that her spoken words can come true. More precisely, every sound she makes from the moment she opens her mouth, whether it's a simple onomatopoeia, a meaningless syllable, or a complete sentence, contains Song Juexiao's special ability and contains the effect she wants to achieve.

They had always thought that Song Juexiao would probably never be able to control her supernatural abilities and communicate using her voice like ordinary people.

However, after being taken off the life support device, Song Juexiao was able to speak normally again.

Su Yanzhi.

Characters capable of traversing space are also excellent assassins and killers.

Xiao Jiming didn't know much about Su Yanzhi's reputation on the dark web. If he asked Pei Zhaoye, Pei Zhaoye might know more.

In the entire team, no one possessed any superpowers that were commonplace, and there were absolutely none that resembled the water or fire control abilities often seen in novels and comics.

"Is it only me who has a special ability?" Xiao Jiming asked, puzzled.

—So what makes his special ability so special?

Jiang Xingni and Xie Yungui exchanged a glance and saw the understanding in each other's eyes.

"It's probably because your abilities align with their research philosophy," Jiang Xingni said calmly, lying without batting an eye. "After all, you're also controlling monsters, and they also want humans and monsters to merge."

No one questioned Jiang Xingni's statement.

No one would doubt Jiang Xingni's words.

Upon hearing this, Xiao Jiming lowered his eyes and looked at the skull bracelet on his wrist: "That sounds pretty unlucky."

The dark-eyed boy's lips curled slightly, and he glanced at Jiang Xing with a smile: "So you've made contact with them."

Jiang Xingni calmly looked away.

There was no trace of the fact that she had just lied about this: "That's true, getting involved with them is really bad luck."

However, Jiang Xingni and Xie Yungui both knew that Xiao Jiming was being targeted not only because his superpowers and VOID research directions were too similar.

Jiang Xingni had always suspected that Xiao Jiming was not a born superhuman, but was given superpowers by someone later on.

Perhaps she wasn't the only one in this situation, or perhaps she wasn't the only one who wasn't a superhuman but was later "othered" by someone—regardless of whether the system counts as a person or not, it can certainly be considered an "other."

Now, Xie Yungui's reaction confirms Jiang Xingni's guess.

Xiao Jiming may have been the organization's first experimental subject—this statement is somewhat incorrect. A more accurate statement would be that Xiao Jiming may have been the only successful experimental subject in this organization.

So the question has returned to the lower city area.

Jiang Xingni pondered deeply how she could return home and reinvestigate what good things were hidden in the lower district.

Meanwhile, Xie Yungui's narration continued.

The information he found within a certain timeline, combined together, may indicate that there is more than one timeline.

VOID presents itself as a perfectly normal organization on the outside, but who would have thought that its internal ideology, once it spreads, would make people want to call the anti-cult organizations in Country X?

They believe that the supernatural may be another direction of human evolution, or rather, another possibility for those with supernatural abilities.

If someone can become a monster after death, are they the "ghosts" in traditional culture?

So how are they different from humans?

This question has been raised more than once or twice.

Song Juexiao had also thought about this question when he met Zhao Henshan.

—If humans retain their sanity and love for the living even after becoming monsters, then what difference is there between them and humans?

However, VOID has gone further and further astray on this issue.

If everyone is destined to become monsters, then let's start turning humans into monsters now!

Humans, monsters, and superhumans—how can they transform into one another? Is the monster the ultimate fate of all characters? This is the core of VOID research.

In the end, wouldn't it have been better if they had just turned everyone into monsters?

—A profound silence.

"That logic sounds more like it," Song Juexiao pondered for a moment, then slowly said, "Since everyone's ultimate fate is death, then let's send everyone to their deaths as soon as possible."

Anyway, we're all going to die sooner or later.