novelsmap Chapter 517 498 Seeing the Future
Chapter 517 498 Seeing the Future
Chapter 517, Chapter 498: Seeing the Future
Seeing the future is a very mysterious skill, at least for Jiang Jianxin.
Yuzhi handed her a potted plant in a rough ceramic pot. The soil had been freshly turned, and a few dark brown seeds were half-buried in it. It looked ordinary and even somewhat inconspicuous.
Then the premonition told her to keep an eye on it.
The voice from the premonitory family was very calm, as if describing something that was taken for granted:
"The future is a superposition state, a superposition of possibilities that have not yet collapsed. When you can see that this pot is no longer a seed, but a fully bloomed flower, even if it is only for a moment, it is done."
Jiang Jianxin held the flowerpot and gazed at it as instructed.
Soil is soil, and seeds are seeds.
After looking for a long time, there wasn't even a flickering shadow in my field of vision.
She rubbed her dry eyes, finally looked up, and honestly asked the question that had been stuck in her mind for a while:
Why do I feel like what you're saying is... a little strange?
She paused, trying to figure out where that feeling of unease came from:
"Seeing multiple images, isn't that more like a hallucination or a vision problem?"
Yuzhijia pointed to the staircase standing against the horizon outside:
"How could that be? The feeling is different. If you see the double image and then look at the nail, and only the objects are doubled, but the nail is not, then it's not an illusion. It's the future that hasn't collapsed yet overlapping together."
The premonitor gave her an example:
"Do you know the cat in the box? Before the future collapses, they are stacked together, and a cat can be both alive and dead. This state, when directly observed, manifests as a double image."
Jiang Jianxin pondered and asked:
"Isn't the world you see now very different from the world I see?"
The precognizer nodded and said:
"Of course, in my eyes, this is an industrial park, but also a desolate ruin."
Jiang Jianxin understood what she meant. The world of precognition was more like a condensation of countless timelines, and that state that outsiders perceived as rather insane might actually be normal.
Jiang Jianxin sighed and began to stare intently at the flowerpot.
Yuzhijia wasn't idle either; she opened her financial management app and started trading in the stock market.
Jiang Jianxin saw a patch of red on her screen, the red light making her cheeks glow red.
"...You've made quite a bit of money?"
Yuzhijia calmly said:
"A little bit of money."
With a swipe of her finger, she closed the earnings summary pop-up, leaving only the basic monitoring interface:
“Making too much money will attract attention. The Rose Group’s financial monitoring network is not just for show; excessive and abnormal fluctuations will be flagged, followed by inquiry letters, and even temporary account freezes.”
Jiang Jianxin remembered something and asked:
"Don't you have a good relationship with the Rose Group? I remember once I was seriously injured and coughed up blood, and you sent me directly to Rose Medical Center."
The prophet thought for a moment and said:
"I do have a good relationship with Jun Yunqi, but that's a personal one. There's a financial backer behind the Rose Group."
“She can make an exception for me, but I can’t let her keep giving me the green light under the rules of the God of Wealth.”
The sound of anticipating home carries a certain clear sense of boundary:
"If you owe too many favors, it will be hard to hold your position. Some lines should be crossed, as it's better for everyone."
"And in the future, we will part ways, so we should cherish this friendship while it lasts."
The light in the room made her figure appear exceptionally lonely.
Jiang Jianxin couldn't offer any words of comfort. Because of the premonition he had as a child, he hadn't been able to make any friends who would stay with him even as an adult.
Jiang Jianxin sighed and turned back to continue practicing his skills while staring at the flowerpot.
Yuzhijia also switched pages to the Ping An Forum and saw the newly changed news headlines.
The TV station's strategist team is undergoing a reshuffle. As a top company in the Bright Faction, even the Radiant Academy only has a few people who can get its appointment letter.
On the Bright Faction forum, recent graduates and seasoned veterans are arguing fiercely about whether a job at Black Pupil Pharmaceuticals or a TV station is better.
In terms of public opinion, being a strategist at a TV station is more respectable, but Black Eye Pharmaceuticals offers a higher salary. It's clear that money and respectability are two things that cannot be had at the same time within the Bright camp.
As a rogue cultivator, Yuzhijia wasn't particularly interested in such matters. What she was looking at in the news headlines was a group photo of the new TV station members, featuring an exceptionally beautiful girl.
She has delicate features and a perfect face shape, making her stand out among the group of strategists. The white uniform of the TV station looks like it was custom-made for her, just like a celebrity.
The gaze of the person who knew the house was fixed on her face.
In her field of vision, the girl appeared as three overlapping images.
The first one was a completely blurry face, looking as if it had been splashed with a corrosive agent, making her face exceptionally ugly. Her legs were also disabled, and she was curled up in a wheelchair.
The second one had a smile on her face, but her eyes were empty. She was wearing a rough knit sweater, holding a child's hand, and her figure was somewhat overweight and out of shape.
The last double image was the faintest and also the strangest. She was wearing a white suit and a scarecrow mask. Her whole demeanor was outstanding and ruthless. The corners of her mouth were upturned, and her eyes were full of ambition.
The precognizer noticed the rose emblem pinned to the white suit in the final illusion.
She thought for a moment and then handed her phone to Jiang Jianxin, who was staring at the flowerpot.
Do you know this person?
Jiang Jianxin also spotted the exceptionally beautiful girl in the middle of the group, and she couldn't help but say:
"I don't know her, but she's so beautiful... How can someone be so beautiful? She looks like she stepped out of a painting."
After a moment of contemplation, Yuzhi asked again:
"In your world, is there a strategist who is disfigured, or who wears a scarecrow mask?"
Jiang Jianxin came from a future that had already collapsed. She said that the most likely outcome of not recognizing her was the second ending—the girl gave up her dream of becoming a strategist, retired to ordinary society, married, had children, and slowly grew old.
But Yuzhijia was somewhat unwilling to accept it.
Her long-term foresight allowed her to understand the girl's potential better than others, and she also realized how much help the girl would provide to her old friend if she could join the Rose Group.
Not everyone's future is so varied. Some people have such prominent characteristics in certain areas that they can have a serious impact on their life trajectory, or even cause their future to collapse prematurely.
Sometimes, premature collapse is a good thing, as it guarantees the success of some people, but more often it is a bad thing.
Like this girl, her appearance severely interfered with her life trajectory, causing her future to collapse prematurely.
And with each choice she made, more and more of her future collapsed, until by the time she arrived at the TV station, only the first two regrettable endings remained.
This third outcome is the result of the foresight family's forced intervention.
Because it is a new future created through interference, its ghosting is exceptionally faint and unstable.
Generally, predicting the layout of a sequence involves continuous intervention to collapse the ghost image until only one remains, thus ensuring the layout's success. However, newly created futures are unlikely to become independent outcomes, which makes the risk very high.
Yuzhijia looked at the bewildered Jiang Jianxin.
The latter didn't quite understand what he meant, but suddenly perked up when he heard familiar words:
"I know a strategist who wears a scarecrow mask; she's incredibly capable!"
I've been quite busy lately, but I'll resume regular updates once I'm done with this busy period!