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

Chapter 359 Reaching the Top of Popularity Ranking

The task left for the group of people to solve was not just about Jiang Xingni's death.

Before she died, she did a live stream where she used her supernatural abilities to implant meme viruses into everyone's minds.

Ordinary people gradually become aware of the anomalies emerging in their lives, and the injuries and deaths caused by anisotropics are finally revealed to everyone.

As Jiang Xingni wished, her parents' names finally appeared in the archives—although they still could not be made public. It would probably be decades later, when the archives were declassified, that their names would be known to many ordinary people.

The consequences of the truth being revealed all require a group of people to take responsibility.

That's great, no need for summer vacation anymore, everyone can come and work overtime.

First, figure out how to dispose of Jiang Xingni's body, and then prepare for her funeral.

Then we need to try to see if the effects caused by Jiang Xingni can be reversed—obviously, they cannot be reversed. Jiang Xingni went to great lengths to create these effects, not so that they could be covered up after everything is over.

Before they could even think about how things had turned out this way, they were already worried about how to minimize the losses and the impact on ordinary people.

Although there are indeed superhumans and monsters in this world, ordinary people are well protected, and their daily lives are not affected in any way. They can also monitor this matter themselves.

The remaining issue is Lu Ming's place in the school—should he attend school in the world of superhumans or in a regular middle school?

And He Jingtong, who was originally confirmed to have defected, successfully returned with a lot of VOID's secret information.

Lin Hongguang couldn't be sure whether He Jingtong had pretended to defect or had actually defected but was provoked by Jiang Xingni's death and returned.

With a series of events piling up, the group didn't even have time to mourn Jiang Xingni's death. After a hasty funeral, they embarked on a journey of working three shifts to complete their mission.

Once most of the backlog of issues were resolved and the remaining tasks were no longer so urgent, they were finally able to catch their breath from their non-stop work.

Looking up, I saw that it was just dusk.

It was already dark. Su Yanzhi hadn't used his superpower directly; all that abuse over such a long period of time was about to drain his superpower dry.

In such insignificant situations, he would rather take a few extra steps than worsen the already abused supernatural ability he possessed.

"Someone's burning paper money," Lu Ming tugged at Xiao Jiming's clothes. "It's not a holiday today, is it?"

Despite it not being a special day, the intersection was shrouded in smoke.

Many people went outside and started fires on the ground.

The wind whipped up the sparks, sending them swaying and swirling upwards, scattering them across the sky, higher and higher, and their gaze followed them upwards, ever upwards.

"...Lu Ming." Song Juexiao's voice had become hoarse at some point. "Today is the seventh day since she died."

It has already been seven days since his death.

The destination of this journey happens to be Baoning City—the city that Jiang Xingni shot through with an arrow and saved from the monster.

Compared to others who learned the truth, they were rare individuals who accepted it all and were grateful for it.

Many people fear the truth, are terrified of the supernatural, and also fear those with superpowers and all beings more powerful than themselves.

But the people of Baoning City are different. They were originally rescued from the brink of death, and now they finally know what happened back then, who pulled them back from the brink of death, and who told them the whole truth.

Whom should they thank, and whom should they hate?

To be honest, Song Juexiao didn't know if they knew whether these people were actually burning paper money for Jiang Xingni, but that didn't matter anymore.

They walked through the streets ablaze with firelight.

The sparks, carrying ash, swept past them, their flickering light casting a dim, illuminating glow in everyone's eyes.

"It's like her eyes," Lu Ming said softly.

She didn't have many memories of Jiang Xingni to begin with, and she had only known Jiang Xingni for a day. Now, Jiang Xingni had been gone for longer than she had known him.

Lu Ming's only impression of Jiang Xingni was his eyes.

Golden, brilliant, like eyes that hold the stars and firelight.

Looking down from above the city, one can clearly see that the entire city seems to be shrouded in fire, golden and red, with sparks swirling around the city, spinning upwards, and then slowly dissipating.

This is the end of this chapter of the comic.

The system stood up instantly when it heard the sound of a comic update.

Even though it doesn't have legs now.

The system spun around rapidly in dimensions invisible to ordinary people for several hours before finally loading the comic.

Upon connecting to the real world, the system's first reaction is to check the popularity score.

On the popularity ranking, Xiao Jiming has 16139940, while Jiang Xingni has 15253848.

The system stared intently for a while, but didn't see any fluctuation in the popularity value.

The system quickly spun around a few more times, figuring it was probably a network latency issue, so it opened the forum again.

Wait, no, what did Jiang Xingni mean by his last words?

[I originally thought the trending topics would be dominated by Jiang Xingni's death for the next few days, but there's something even bigger coming.]

So, Jiang Xingni is Deadpool and SBP!

[I'm going to kill you, screenwriter! I'm going to kill you! I'm going to send you razor blades! Give me back Jiang Xingni! Give me back Jiang Xingni!]

[Haha, haha, when I was writing my death-faking fiction, I never imagined Jiang Xingni would actually die! Now that things have come to this, unless you, old scoundrel, bring Jiang Xingni back to life, I'm going to drive my car and destroy the entire editorial department!]

[...No, Star, I've been crying so much. I really love Jiang Xingni. She's the first anime character I've ever liked this much. Can you tell me that my fan has always known I like her and is grateful for it? Oh my god, how could I have such a dream?]

……

The forum was being refreshed at a frantic pace, with new posts appearing every second and old posts being pushed down. Posts that were just published a second ago would instantly become HOT (Hot).

Everyone in the thread was crying over Jiang Xingni. Occasionally, other characters complained that they didn't have much screen time in the latest chapter of the comic, as all the screen time was taken up by Jiang Xingni.

After receiving a reply from Jiang Xingni's fans—"They pushed all your scenes away, even your death scene"—they stopped talking.

Once someone is dead, they are truly dead. Apart from Lu Xianqing, who has the ability to come back to life, no other person in the comics has been seen to be successfully resurrected.

Even if someone is hidden away while still alive, they might be unearthed one day and receive the spotlight.

The system completely ignored what these people were arguing about in the forum, whether anyone was crying over Jiang Xingni's death, and what kind of ripples Jiang Xingni's final thanks to the real-world readers had caused.

It simply observes the changes in popularity quietly.

15872933.

16103029.

16139939.

It paused for a moment just as it was approaching Xiao Jiming's popularity score.

Then the numbers jumped up.

16139941.

It topped the popularity charts.