This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!
Chapter 488: Foreseeing the Future

Chapter 488: Chapter 488: Foreseeing the Future

The textbook was about the same thickness as the language books he remembered, only smaller than he remembered, but Chen Ke had grown up, his hands were bigger than when he was a child, making the book seem smaller.

He opened the textbook and found that every page inside was blank.

"Teacher Zhou, there’s nothing in here," Chen Ke said, looking up at Teacher Zhou.

"You see, this is the consequence of not reviewing. Have you forgotten everything you learned before?" Teacher Zhou said with a laugh.

"Teacher... could you give me a hint?" Chen Ke asked.

"Think of the people you are familiar with, and then think of what’s about to happen. This class isn’t that difficult," Teacher Zhou replied.

Chen Ke flipped the pages, following his teacher’s guidance, and began to recall the people he knew.

Let’s start by looking at Lucina...

The pages in his hands began flipping, but no matter how he flipped them, the number of pages didn’t change. Slowly, images began to appear on the pages, and they moved faster and faster, alternating to form a continuous slideshow. It was quite magical.

He saw an aerial view of Opportunity City, the perspective diving and then spiraling upward, the blinding sunlight almost piercing his eyes through the pages. Chen Ke felt this perspective belonged to a bird.

Then, he saw a city nestled next to a harbor, and he recognized it as the Deep Anchor District of Opportunity City. As his view swept over the shimmering sea, a black SUV was speeding through the streets.

Suddenly, the cityscape switched from day to night. The bird was plummeting fast, diving into a cluster of nondescript buildings in a hidden corner of the Deep Anchor District.

It was a place Chen Ke had never been to before. The messy illegal constructions piled up like garbage, and the narrow paths between the buildings were clogged with trash cans and discarded furniture.

The bird rushed through this narrow passage, the view becoming constricted and dangerous. Chen Ke couldn’t help but sweat. Could the bird continue flying forward?

Suddenly, he saw several figures darting through the corridor, and some perched on the rooftops.

They were the strange beings of Yasla! Was this Yasla’s lair? Right here in the Deep Anchor District?

He was momentarily distracted, and the scenes on the pages started to darken, almost disappearing completely. Chen Ke held his breath, refocused his energy, and after some turbulence, the images cleared up again.

Now, the bird had crashed into a window, its head bloody, but since the pages made no sound, he could only guess from the angle of the view that the bird had fallen onto the floor inside, barely alive after the collision.

The room was packed with Yasla’s freaks, the floor awash in blood, and those neither-human-nor-ghost entities crowded the room, leaving only a small space in the center.

A claw picked up the bird’s corpse and walked towards the center of the crowd, allowing Chen Ke to continue observing. That’s when he saw something hanging in the middle of the room.

It wasn’t until the humanoid creature carried the bird closer that Chen Ke realized what was hanging in the center of the room was a person whose arms and legs had been amputated.

The figure was female, judging by her contours. Her arms were cut off at the shoulders, and her legs were severed at the thighs, with the wounds wrapped in dirty bandages.

A rope was tied around the woman’s neck, hanging her like a suicide. Her head drooped, and her hair covered her face, so her features were unclear.

The woman’s body was muscular, but it was covered in scars. Her six-pack abs were mutilated beyond recognition, her breasts showed signs of burns, and her back bore slow-healing whip marks.

He felt as if he could see the woman still breathing, twisting her neck in discomfort. It seemed the freaks of Yasla were merely torturing some unlucky person. Was it someone from the Administration Bureau?

No... At that moment, Chen Ke felt an eerie familiarity with the body... After recalling for a while, he suddenly blushed, a surge of resentment rushing to his head.

That was Lucina, the only woman Chen Ke had ever been with in his life.

He meditated once more on another name, Diana.

His gaze fixed on a corner of the wall, it smoothly panned left and right. Chen Ke guessed this was the surveillance camera’s field of view. The surrounding walls were very white—probably because of the camera’s night vision lens.

It was an L-shaped corridor. The camera swiveled side to side, perfectly capturing 60% of both passages.

The lens turned to the right—it was empty; nothing was there.

The lens turned to the left—it was empty; nothing was there.

After five such scans, at last, there was movement in the left passage.

He saw a woman clutching her abdomen and running toward the camera, constantly looking back as if someone was chasing her. Upon closer inspection, one could see that blood marked her path.

That was Diana. When she approached near the camera, Chen Ke instantly recognized her. She wore a jacket and jeans, staggering a bit due to the pain in her abdomen.

When she entered the blind spot of the camera, Chen Ke then saw another person—a Black man in a suit. Suddenly, Chen Ke remembered—he had killed that man, Bader.

"Bader is still alive?!" Chen Ke exclaimed in shock. He had clearly shot him through the heart in Lester’s clothing store.

The camera then panned to the right where Diana, leaning against the wall, was struggling to escape. From behind her, several tendrils flew toward her, entangling her arms and legs.

With her right hand, Diana summoned a sword and turned to slash at the tendrils. However, cutting one only made more appear, seemingly endless.

Bader, his arms winding with tendrils, suddenly bound Diana, dragging her into the air. The thickest tendrils wrapped around her right arm and gruesomely tore it off.

Next, thinner tendrils burrowed into Diana’s lower abdomen. Diana writhed in agony, surviving only a few seconds before being torn in two: her lower body was left on the ground, and her upper body, along with some entrails, was held aloft by Bader to be drained of blood...

The image began to shake and slowly turned black. Chen Ke tried to refocus, wanting to see more, but this time, the pages resisted his influence, forcefully closing.

Chen Ke snapped to reality, sweat beading on his forehead. He tried to reopen the book but couldn’t, as if the pages were firmly glued together with super glue.

"Don’t panic, Chen Ke. Don’t panic. You just started reviewing; you need to rest," Teacher Zhou said, patting his shoulder to calm him.

"Is this... is this something that will happen in the future?" Chen Ke asked.

"This is a major question that will definitely appear on the middle school exams. You haven’t reviewed it before, so you couldn’t solve it—you’re panicking now?" Teacher Zhou explained.

"Tea... Teacher, how do I solve it? How do I solve this question?" Chen Ke asked.

"Knowledge isn’t isolated. Even if you could solve this one question, other areas would still stump you. This is the result of not paying attention in class and not reviewing properly," Teacher Zhou shook his head.

"Teacher, what should I do?" Chen Ke asked.

"Start learning from the beginning. Prepare intensely just before the exam and exhibit the spirit of determined study," Teacher Zhou advised.

Chen Ke remained silent; Teacher Zhou was right—the problem hadn’t arisen without reason. It was better to start afresh rather than trying to mend the situation after the fact...

However, easier said than done, while Chen Ke could travel through time, this ability was passive. He could only open a door back to Opportunity City in 2009 during specific time periods—essentially his anchor point.

"I understand what you mean, Teacher Zhou, but I can’t travel through time by myself... I just can’t," Chen Ke sighed.

"Don’t you have a key?" Teacher Zhou said. "I told you long ago to have your parents make you a key so that you could open the door yourself."

"Ah?" Chen Ke was startled, suddenly feeling a set of old keys in his hand.