Chapter 27: Photo-Factor Mapping
"Are they from Earth again?" while the Purification Center was anxious about Site 12, he did not forget to take the time to pay attention to the events on the transit platform.
Although these people have been picked up, their identities are not clear on the central side. There is no more way to determine which world they are from "human" before direct contact.
"The language used now is Earth Chinese, and it seems to be. β
"Earthlings...... It's safe, right?"
"Of course the earthlings are safe, after all, it is one of the human origin stars, and I am afraid that some of them are not humans. "The central management had reservations about it, but soon they didn't have time to think about it.
"There's someone in the first district!"
β¦β¦
"I wanted to ask beforeβdo you know the Earth?" the heavens did not express any attitude towards the previous series of messages, but grasped the point.
Looking at Roy's attitude, he knew that they were time-travelers, and even knew that they were from Earth.
This again represents......
"yes, you should be able to think of it. Roy waved his hand to switch the surrounding images, and the familiar blue planet suddenly appeared in everyone's sight, the camera quickly pulled down, broke through into the atmosphere, and finally froze on a deserted wild lake, "You are not the only ones who travel through it, there have been people from Earth before." β
The shape of that lake looked familiar, and after thinking about it, the heavens suddenly realized that this was not Hongmang Lake?
When he checked the information, he also caught a glimpse of the topographic map of Hongmang Lake, which was no different from the one in front of him.
The only difference is that the area around the lake, which is still barren in the image, is already a new development zone when he arrived.
So β this is Hongmang Lake for more than a decade? It was possible even a few decades ago!
"Forty-five years ago, another group of people came into the world through this passage, and interestingly, they were much smaller in number, but they belonged to four different groups. β
The Ouroboros, the GOC, the National Security Service, and some innocent people who have been implicated.
Ouroboros?
Hearing the familiar name, Urya immediately looked at it, and did not rush into the conversation, but her ears were pricked up.
The first two gangs and innocent people came in the same batch, but the staff of the special department reappeared later, and it is estimated that they were affected by the aftermath, and they were unlucky enough.
"And then you got news of the earth from them?" the heavens naturally speculated.
Roy shook his head, "Those who use Ouroboros as a symbol jumped out of this world almost instantly, and it seems that the GOC that tracked them here also left, leaving behind ordinary people." β
So it was these two groups of people who opened the passage of Hongmang Lake to this world, no, it should have been opened by the members of the Ouroboros Initiative, and the GOC just stopped them.
The heavens could easily tell this from his adjectives, but he had one more question: "What is the GOC?"
Without turning his head, he could feel a stabbing gaze from behind him - Duan Keyu probably meant "You really don't know", and Wu Erya - "You don't even know?!"
Even Roy looked at him with a look of surprise.
"...... "What, does he have to know?"
The heavens don't know how many times they pulled through their memories to make sure that he was just an ordinary person, at least before. This kind of unrealistic organization at first glance will not have anything to do with him at all, why should he know?
"The GOC, the Global Occult Alliance, humanity's strongest shield against all supernatural, surreal, supermundane, and chrono forces. Even if it was an accident, Roy still fulfilled his duties as an answerer, and by the way, he also explained to the following group of ordinary people who really didn't know anything, who continued to be confused, "Speaking of which, this organization is very similar to Theseus, and they only protect humans. β
Everything else that is inhuman is only part of the GOC's hunting list.
"So, everything you know about the Earth comes from ordinary people. "The heavens didn't bother with the GOC verbally, and continued on the previous topic.
The GOC, who had appeared in his mouth more than once, was clearly an extremely powerful Space-Time Organization, but fortunately they were on a protective standpoint, and had no conflict with themselves and the others - well, at most with the Ouroboros Initiative behind Urya.
Wait a minute?
They have the ability to leapfrog time and space that is not inferior to any space-time organization, so why should they be called a "global" occult alliance? Don't you think the scope of "global" is too narrow?
After thinking about it for a while, there was no result, so I thought that the founder had his own brain.
It's just a name anyway.
"Of course not. Roy once again denied his speculation, "Forty-five years ago, humanity just discovered the human enhancement devices, and they didn't understand what they represented, and the purification zone had not yet been established, and it was on the eve of the most chaos...... They were all dead. β
"And ordinary people don't remember topographic maps, and all we know about you comes from the man who showed up five days later. β
"Is his name Duan Xuan?" Duan Keyu interjected at the right time.
Roy: "yes. β
Uraya couldn't even hold back when he said Ouroboros before, but now he didn't, "You know this person? No, if you have the same surname...... Duan Xuan is from your family?"
"Well, if it's the Duan Xuan I know...... He was my second grandfather. Duan Keyu seemed to just suddenly remember and said in passing, and had no more opinions on this, "I worked for the special handling agency of the Ministry of State Security, and I disappeared forty-five years ago. β
He is a member of the GOC, and in principle does not know the personnel of the National Security Service, but their family members can always get some information about the current situation of their relatives - alive or dead.
Duan Keyu clearly remembered: his mother, Shen Guangbi, had shown him a list of families.
Shen Guangbi is an ordinary person with an ordinary background, and everyone in his family died early, but the Duan family is by no means ordinary.
After the names of the surnames, the black bold font marks the current situation of each person-
death
death
missing
Sealed
death
Undecrypted
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Some are alive, some are dead, and some are not alive.
The Duan family has been in contact with the back of the world for generations, and while gaining strength and status, they are also in danger all the time.
This kind of shadow of several generations made Duan Keyu still have the channels and ability to step into that world alone after his father's death.
However, instead of joining the Special Service as his predecessors, he chose another unfamiliar organization, the GOC.
Although only supernumerary members......
After all, the family history is there, Duan Keyu has been labeled as a special place, and it will definitely not be easy to enter the core of the GOC.
He's not that ambitious either.
The main purpose is to investigate the cause of his father's death, and by the way, to see if there is a chance to catch those family seniors who don't know whether they are dead or not.
And then there'......
Duan Keyu listened to Zhutian and Roy's questions and answers, his eyes darting over the young man, and occasionally glanced at Urya.
Uria is biting her nails again, too, she is the only one who has landed on the earth on the Ouroboros initiative, and now she is under pressure to hear the news of the GOC.
And the heavens ...... There's nothing wrong with this guy!
Lin Ye, the traverser who didn't hide himself at all, was ignored by the GOC? The GOC told him not to approach?Why?!
Zhu Tian obviously seemed to be a normal person before, but now he is behaving more and more abnormally.
Until he graduated from junior high school, Duan Keyu, who had been in contact with him for many years, was stunned and didn't find anything special about this person, and he couldn't understand why other people were so cautious about the heavens.
If you really want to find something special, it's still Lin Ye's pot!
He still remembered the man's warning to himself.
"Duan Keyu, the Duan family's ...... Forget it, I won't hinder you from getting to know the heavens, but, by no means, don't try to tell him anything he shouldn't know!" Lin Ye was so cold and cruel to everyone outside the heavens that it was extremely chilling at that time.
At that time, Duan Keyu also lived up to his family history, and asked rhetorically with the urge to retreat: "What about you? Don't you show it more obviously?"
Don't think he didn't see it, the heavens are starting to suspect that their little friend is a crossover/reborn again!
Why did he say again?
"That's not your business. Lin Ye didn't dare to do anything more, so he only gave a verbal warning, "I will revise his memory." β
Oh, modify your memory......
You've done it more than once!
Does the heavens know that you have cheated on him like this?
Well, I don't know, otherwise it wouldn't be so sweet.
"Please, may I ask, can you send us back?" a girl mustered up the courage to stand up, and shrank in the eyes of the people around her, but the long-accumulated desire to go home accompanied by a little hope still made her continue, "There have been people from other worlds before, right? Have they found a way to go back?"
She couldn't understand most of the conversations between the heavens and Roy, but there was a time-traveler from Earth forty-five years agoβthere was no doubt about that.
"Nope. Roy responded decisively.
"Impossible! You just said that Ouroboros and GOC can jump directly out of this world! And we are also using spatial teleportation here, right?How could we not be able to do without it?!" Her face turned pale, but she stubbornly refused to believe the answer.
"Li Jiaxin, calm down. Urya hurriedly grabbed her, no matter what the other party's attitude was, her own side must not conflict with them first.
This is someone else's territory, a civilization that has been destroyed and rebuilt in the apocalypse, and is not essentially a human survivor, and if the people of District 9 had other intentions, they would be powerless.
"yes, if those people can leave, why can't we?"
"Do you want to keep us?"
"I want to go home, I might as well die if I stay in a place like this again!"
"It's all a lie. The stuff you just made up...... I don't believe it!"
Li Jiaxin wanted to break free of Wu Erya's hand, but found that she didn't have that kind of strength at all, and the emotions she had suppressed so far made her almost uncontrollable, "How can I be calm......? This kind of thing...... How do you calm me down?!Why, why us?"
After all, she's just an underage student.
Standing here, most of them are ordinary people who should not have anything to do with the rise and fall of the world.
If it weren't for the events at Hongmang Lake, they would have stayed with their relatives and friends now, talked about the joys and sorrows of ordinary life, complained a little, and paid attention to their personal food, clothing, housing, firewood, rice, oil and salt - like all ordinary people.
Instead of standing in a man-made alien space and listening to a guy who doesn't know if it's a human being, tell the history of the catastrophic decline and decline of a world and a civilization!
Why them?
Why did they endure such a thing?
"Probably...... Because of fate?" At this inopportune time, only Wu Yan would speak out, he glanced around, focusing on Li Jiaxin, whose tears had been forced out, and his tone was so bad that Cheng Shiyao wanted to beat someone, "How can there be so many why?
Who's in charge of you! That's fate!
Moreover, he did not think that it was a sign of bad luck.
Traveling through another world, surviving in the apocalypse, and meeting locals with whom you can communicate - is this bad luck?
Reality is not a novel, there may be a lot of travelers, but how many are still alive after crossing over?
If what Roy said before was true, no, there only needed to be a part of the truth, and the danger of the outside world was beyond the reach of human beings.
So the humans who didn't choose to enter the purification zone will survive?
"We're already so much luckier than others, what more could we ask for?"
What more could you ask for?
Of course, I want to live better!
They just want to go home!
Roy watched coldly as the internal contradictions among them began to emerge, and then said slowly: "If you pay attention, you will know - what I am saying is that they jumped away at the first time, and did not have any substantive contact with the people of this world." How could we possibly get their time-spanning technology?"
"As for the space technology we have, do you think intra-world teleportation and inter-world teleportation are the same thing, and if we can do it, why should we stay in this world on the brink of death?"
For humans who have lived in the Decontamination Zone for decades, if there is an opportunity to leave, they will definitely seize it, no matter what the cost.
The ridiculous plot of the home planet and human feelings have long been consumed in so many years.
"Really...... Can't you leave......"
Do you want to spend the rest of your life in such a world?
Faced with this crucial question, the three men with their own minds did not speak.
Urya touched her arm with a slight movement, where the Ouroboros logo existed, the Body-devouring Serpent in the form of a "soul mark" coiled into a perfect circle, hidden beneath the skin, completely invisible to ordinary people, but the effect was enough to be noticeable.
Connectivity, Energy Storage, Transmission......
As a full member of the Ouroboros Initiative, Urya can contact her teacher or the Ouroboros Council at any time. She believes that no matter which one of them, they have the ability to find out the coordinates of this world and rescue her.
Even if she doesn't make contact, she can be forced to leave the current world at any time, and no shielding measures can stop her.
This is the technical confidence of the Ouroboros: there is no system that they cannot break through!
Well, in fact, the composition of the Ouroboros Initiative is too complex, the scope of research is also vast and complex, there are all kinds of rare, rare and strange theoretical systems, and there are hundreds of space-time breakthrough technologies loaded on the logo, and if one doesn't work, change the other and continue, and no one can withstand this order of magnitude of suppression.
After hesitating left and right, Urya retracted her movements.
It's not time to use this yet, so let's continue to look at the situation, and then use it in times of crisis...... Is it in time?
Duan Keyu was his transparent person as always, and he didn't try to ask about Duan Xuan, and seemed to be calming down...... I don't know what to think.
Although the heavens also had such and such doubts, he magically found that he was not the slightest anxious or nervous, as if he was not facing a one-way train to the other world with no return, but an accidental trip, or the kind that could return at any time!
He felt that something was wrong with his spirit.
Don't think about it, this must also be Linye's pot.
"It looks like you're in a bit of a mood stabilising, so let's move on to the previous topic. Roy waited for the crowd to be quiet again, ignoring the conflict just now, and his tone remained unchanged at all, "Animism and reduction, although terrible, have not quickly formed a devastating situation under the containment of the government. What really led to the current situation was the third calamity that came later, photocausation, or light pollution, in short, this kind of term. β
This time, the projection did not have any concrete form, it was just a white light, obscuring all vision, endless light.
There is no darkness to be seen, no sound to be heard, and even the ultimate light that the self is gradually not feeling.
Almost immediately, everyone thought of the sea of light they saw when they were bewitched by "The Real Name of Life".
If it really sank at that time......
Could it be that way?
"The original source cannot be investigated, and in one of the most animistic areas, such an irrepressible phenomenon of 'light causes' has emerged. β
The process of photofactorization is also their only chance to see the animism with the naked eye.
Everyone could see that the human form suspended in the air gradually increased in brightness, and finally turned into an amorphous mass of pure light.
During this process, the intensity of visible light in the surrounding area continues to increase β in the eyes of the affected person.
Individuals who have completed the photofactorization will completely disappear from the world in a relatively short period of time (ranging from one hour to 24 hours), unlike animistic bodies, which can also be detected by special instruments, and the light-factoring bodies will disappear out of thin air.
But at the same time, the affected people say that they can often hear ethereal voices like "from the other side of the world", and that the world will continue to grow brighter in their eyes, but they don't realize this at first.
When the light obscures everything, the affected finally realize that there is something wrong with the world in their eyes, but often by this time, there is no way to reverse it.
The affected person will quickly skip the pan-animism and go directly to the photofactorization process, where any light it emits will become the next wave of infection that affects others.
It is conceivable that the human beings who encountered this kind of light pollution for the first time only figured out a trace of the law of light causation after paying a heavy price.
Behind every trait Roy is talking about now is a shocking number of sacrifices.
For a civilization that has not yet reached the cosmic level, they have done extremely well.
After all, the other party is one of the multiple cancers that are almost as famous as the muse-
"Exotic Light!"
Three people uttered the term at the same time.
Urya's face was solemn, and she began to hesitate to apply for off-site support again.
That's an exotic light! I've been educated to kill it when I encounter it alone, and I don't care about it!
It's a world eroded by exotic light, and God knows which space still has remnants of light waiting to be activated.
Duan Keyu's reaction was similar to hers.
Whether it is the National Security Special Division or the GOC, there is a critically endangered directory, which is full of world-destroying units or organizations that have been documented or have appeared.
Exotic light is on the list.
He knew very well that the combat power of this organization was not strong compared to the space-time organization of the same level, but it was better than weirdness, as well as the endless immortality.
They are not beings that exist in this world, but the reflection of the light on the other side, in order to connect the true soul in the dark world.
- This is the self-description of the Exotic Light.
Whether others believe it or not, they themselves believe it anyway, and they firmly follow it.
What's more of a headache than a religious lunatic? a religious lunatic like Exotic Hikaru who claims to be an ambassador for charity!
They really thought they were purifying all beings, what else could anyone else say to them? They had to be killed.
Fortunately, the light pollution of this world is obviously still in the most primitive stage, and those light causes that appear and disappear are still building bridges to the "other side" at best, and the real exotic light entities have not yet appeared.
Otherwise, Duan Keyu would not have even the slightest thought of resisting, and he would definitely find a way to slip away by pulling up the heavens.
The last of the three, the heavens were pondering a very serious question.
What did he mean by the word he just blurted out?
Why did he say the word?
It's scary to think about it......
At the same time on the earth, what happened in Hongmang Lake has attracted the attention of the upper echelons of the country, and under the strict information blockade and cover, the news has been temporarily suppressed.
"The families of the missing have been pacified, but we can control them for up to five hours without coercion. Xia Qing said to her partner.
Song Yuanjin looked at the smooth surface of the lake and sighed lightly, "Five hours......
I probably can't do it.
The last investigation into the "Broken Red Mang" incident ended in failure, and the special department could do nothing but post-prevention and apply for a quarantine zone.
This time it is likely to be the same result.
I've tried all the conventional testing methods, and I can't find the slightest abnormal value, which is more normal than those normal places!
Forty-five years later, they are still as helpless as they were then.
"Got it all right? A man in a black trench coat stepped out of the library in the distance, speaking in a tone that seemed familiar to them.
The blue GOC logo on his chest identifies his identity - Cai Yuzhang, an expatriate investigator of the Huaxia Branch of the Global Occult Coalition.
Because they have been bumping into the workers of the National Security Special Department all the year round, they can be regarded as acquaintances.
There is no irreconcilable contradiction between the work of the GOC and the Special Division in an absolute sense, and the Huaxia government is obviously not willing to clash head-on with the GOC, so the relationship between the people below cannot be said to be good, but it is not bad either.
So in a tense atmosphere, Song Yuanjin could still retort, "Do you have any achievements?"
There is half a pound between them, and the eldest brother should not laugh at the second brother.
"It's no result now," Cai Yuzhang emphasized the word "now", and sure enough, it attracted the attention of the two people opposite, "But it will be soon." β
"Should it be ......" Xia Qing couldn't help but guess when she saw his confident expression.
"Headquarters has sent someone over, and His Excellency Cornand is on his way. β
Everyone present was breathless.
It took Song Yuanjin a long time to find his voice, "Do you need to bother him with this kind of thing......
Yes, this kind of thing.
The disappearance of hundreds of people and the uncontrollable spatial anomaly close to the urban area are also major events worthy of attention for the National Security Special Service.
But in front of that person, it was a little inadequate.
In Song Yuanjin, no, it should be said that in the minds of all those who know that name, only the crisis that threatens the survival of mankind is worthy of his action.
"Black Commandment" Commande, pure-blooded human, mixed Chinese-American, 27 years old, atheist, anti-religious, one of the three SSS-class solo investigators announced by the GOC.
The other two SSS are also on the list - one is a legendary researcher who is famous for his research and development of overrun technology, and the other is a task force that has been specially trained to deal with the last resort of apocalyptic disasters and will not be used unless absolutely necessary.
A series of information flashed through their minds, this is the necessary information to join the special department, and now they think about it word for word.
The more I understood that person's status, the more I panicked.
It's just a small area of spatial anomalies, and this little thing is useless to bother His Excellency Comand!
Song Yuanjin and Xia Qing stiffened, not realizing that they were also following Cai Yuzhang to use the honorific title of "Your Excellency" that was customary within the GOC.
Cai Yuzhang watched their reactions with satisfaction, although his reaction was similar to theirs when he heard the news, but this did not prevent him from gloating.
"Did you hear me right? really...... Who is that?" asked Xia Qing with the last glimmer of hope.
"I confirmed it three times. "Relentlessly shattering hope.
The two little transparent investigators glanced at each other and found that each had similar serious emotions.
- Trepidation, uneasiness mixed with a hint of suspicious excitement.
As the first investigators to arrive at the site of the incident, the others are allowed to go, and they must stay to receive and describe the situation.
In other words, they can get up close and personal with Conmande.
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!
Anyone around the world who has heard of his name probably won't miss such an opportunity to get close to the legend.
Comman is undoubtedly the idol of all anomalous investigators, even if they don't work in the same system, and that doesn't prevent the National Security Service from using him as an example of motivation for newcomers.
"When will it arrive?" the two of them asked eagerly.
Cai Yuzhang spread his hands helplessly, "I don't know, but it should be soon." β
That person definitely wouldn't have used conventional means to get here, and things like spatial docking and universal passages were worthy of his identity.
However, Comand really came the usual way.
He was sitting on a half-empty bus at the moment, holding a GOC system disguised as an ordinary tablet to log in to the platform to check the information of Hongmang Lake.
The special information encryption technology is not afraid of exposure at all, even if the person in the next seat sticks out his head at this time to take a look, he can only see a normal interface - a normal ACGN website page.
Because GOC's camouflage website in Huaxia is a two-dimensional information website, the popularity is not low, and the traffic can rank among the top three similar websites in China.
It seems that the peripheral camouflage department of the Huaxia branch is very idle, and they can find something to do.
The GOC's Black Commandment thought so, and his hand stopped.
The interface of the GOC sister with a blue background suddenly turned into a crimson that was almost blood-colored, without any warning at all.
Conmande glanced at the otaku who had been secretly rubbing the screen in the seat next to him, and the young man with the word "otaku" written on his body was still fascinated, and he didn't notice the transformation under the body of the anime beautiful girl.
Okay, the anomaly bumped into itself.
Is the Crimson Star going to be killed now or to die a little longer?
[1, can't bear it, on the front
2, there is still business, let it go]