Carrying a Jurassic on me
Chapter 1459 - 704: Eschatology_2

Chapter 1459: Chapter 704: Eschatology_2

"Some are imported from abroad, and some are from Mongolia. If you want Mongolian horses, I can arrange that for you. Just give me a heads-up whenever you’re ready." Wang Wei introduced.

Yan Fei thought for a moment: "Just get a few Mongolian ones, to keep for when friends come to visit. Are you going to Yingjun’s wedding tomorrow? Contact Ma Yuan today to negotiate a price, and I’ll transfer the money to you tomorrow. You can just have them delivered directly to my place when the time comes."

He felt that since he had a dinosaur world, he could just capture some wild horses to put inside, raise them there, and then bring them out when they’re ready. Having Wang Wei procure a few horses was just a cover; in the end, he intended to replace them with those he’d raised himself. Otherwise, no one could actually ride them. Even he rode cautiously, fearing that if he applied too much pressure with his legs, the horse might just collapse.

Wang Wei didn’t say much and simply nodded: "Alright, we’ll talk tomorrow."

Unexpectedly, the girl nearby was still not giving up. She moved closer and asked with a sour tone, "Boss Wang, where is Boss Yan from? Won’t you introduce us? He’s so cool, doesn’t even deign to bother with someone like me!"

The girl had been close by when Yan Fei was placing his bets, and had already heard his name. Asking his name was just an excuse to strike up a conversation, but alas, some people were just too obtuse to take a hint, leaving others helpless and frustrated.

Wang Wei was just about to speak when someone riding a horse came galloping from a distance, shouting even before they arrived: "Ladies and gentlemen, big news, big news! The day before yesterday, America lost an aircraft carrier. The news just broke, it’s on several TV channels right now! The end of the world is coming, what’s the point of playing with horses! Everyone should think about what you still want to do, don’t wait for the end days to regret not doing them!"

Yan Fei was stunned; wasn’t the news supposed to be blocked?

He then relaxed, realizing there were several ships in the vicinity at the time, each capable of communicating with the outside world. Suddenly losing such a big ship, the American authorities managing to suppress the news for two or three days was already quite something. It wouldn’t be possible to keep it under wraps any longer.

News of the disappearance of an aircraft carrier is truly shocking. In an instant, everyone forgot the impending horse race, and their eyes and questions were all directed to the person on horseback.

The news coming out now was not detailed, and the young man couldn’t provide much info, just repeatedly said, "Under the escort of several warships, an aircraft carrier! It’s an aircraft carrier, and it just disappeared, impressive, right? Now the end of the world is really coming..."

The reason why the young people invariably linked the loss of the aircraft carrier with the end of the world has to do with the various rumors that have been spreading recently. It’s said that there’s a celebrity of sorts from another country, God knows what they do, but anyway, this person is a legendary great prophet in the tales.

This prophet claimed that in July this year, a great demon would descend from the heavens. Meanwhile, another foreigner claimed, over twenty years ago, by using computer calculations, that on August 18 of this year, the sun, the moon, and the nine major planets would align in a ’Great Cross’ — suggesting that this would plunge humanity into a period of disaster, with all kinds of calamities befalling this planet under our feet.

With mystic prophecies and scientific conjectures combined, two streams of rumors bolstered the loud discourses on the end of days, and since last year, many purportedly credible rumors started circulating. Consequently, a group of loyalists to doomsday theories emerged, spreading the gospel of world-ending doctrines everywhere.

The popularity of doomsday theories wasn’t entirely without reason. Besides the limited spread of the internet at the time, restricting the influx of external information for most people, there was also the fact that, at any given time, there are those who idolize foreign and ancient things—believing that anything foreign is good and that the ancients were supremely wise, able to foretell thousands of years into the future with a single phrase.

This time, the first theory came from an ’ancient foreigner,’ nailing both avenues. While the second only carried the foreign connotation once, it also offered ’computer calculations,’ which meant science—and there are even more people who worship science.

But Yan Fei usually didn’t take such matters seriously. He had his own dinosaur world; let the planets explode if they must, he could simply move to the dinosaur world if that happened. However, finding his new ’gift’ now associated with end-of-the-world theories was making him feel a mix of amusement and exasperation.

Listening to the crowd fervently discuss how to ’make up for life’s regrets,’ how to save the world when the end comes, and some even linking it to last year’s disappearance of multiple laboratories in Japan, Yan Fei couldn’t help but chuckle to himself.

At that moment, people’s imaginations were running wild. Someone was solemnly proclaiming, "This is Earth’s consciousness awakening to punish humanity. The last time the labs disappeared, they were all studying biology. Haven’t you heard? Research on genetics in biology is like playing God’s domain. That was the Earth’s warning, but humanity didn’t repent, so now comes the second sign."

The thinker who was speaking had very coherent thoughts that were hard to argue against: "There must be nuclear weapons on the aircraft carrier, and those weapons can destroy the earth. Just like us humans, if we have deadly bacteria on us, wouldn’t you immediately go to the hospital to take medicine and kill those bacteria? Humans are just like bacteria on earth..."

"Why do they say the terrifying Great Demon descended from the sky? That’s referring to nuclear weapons..."

Makes sense, doesn’t it!

Apart from the claim about nuclear weapons on the aircraft carrier being wrong, everything else made a lot of sense.

Yan Fei couldn’t help but give this person a mental thumbs up. Those few sentences were put so well, he wished he could find a computer right away to go online and publish them.

In his mind, it’d be best if the whole world thought this way—what the heck, I better make a quick inventory of what the dinosaur world still needs and move it in there while there’s time. Missed opportunities don’t come back!

Just as he was pleased with his thoughts, the girl approached again: "Boss Yan, everyone is discussing the end of the world, why don’t you join... Don’t you have any opinions?"

"Nope!" Yan Fei shook his head.

The girl was about to say something when Yan Fei’s phone rang.

He picked it up and after listening for a bit, became furious: "It’s broad daylight and you’re not working, what the hell are you watching the news for? Cut the crap when there’s nothing to do. Just make sure to take care of the farm and raise the cattle well. Are you tired of poking your nose into everything that’s none of your business? Go back to work. Even if the end really comes, it’s not your problem to worry about..."

It was Heizi who specially called to tell him about the news of the end of the world. Listening to Heizi’s belief in the news, Yan Fei couldn’t help but give him a piece of his mind.

Whether it’s bullshit or not, Yan Fei knew it best. It was his own doing. What does it have to do with the end of the world? All the nonsense about the Great Demon descending from the sky, obviously it’s me who descended... Oh crap, the end of the world message isn’t referring to me, is it? Wasn’t I the one who descended from the sky and then caused a ’big ship’ to disappear?

I fly wherever I go, and casually make big news. Wouldn’t that make me the terrifying Great Demon?

No, no, no, I never planned on bringing about the end of the world just like that. Better not overthink it...

"Boss Yan, are you... really into cattle farming?" The girl next to him spoke up again. Having heard Yan Fei’s phone call, she realized that he wasn’t deceiving her and was indeed a cattle farmer.

"Yeah!" Yan Fei grudgingly replied. "Shoveling cow dung every day, I’m covered in the smell of it. I even have to kill cows. Have you ever seen how a cow is killed? Drive a spike into the junction between the cow’s head and its spine, just like hitting an acupoint, and the cow instantly loses consciousness. At this time, the cow is still alive but is just like a PVS, you could peel off its skin without any reaction from it. If done skillfully, less blood is lost during the skinning, and you might even see its heart still beating, still breathing!"

Can you get any more horrific? Just imagine the cow’s skin being peeled off, with its heart still beating and breathing. Is there anything more cruel than that?

That idea of the Great Demon just now, it’s really a bit... too horror-inducing. So Boss Yan needed some relief, and as this girl offered herself for conversation, it could only be her bad luck, who asked her to keep initiating talk!