4. Nibelungen

"What the hell is that monster? Ordinary bullets can't kill it! Its healing power is like a science fiction movie! I need your explanation, Mr. Song! Did Juli Group cross the bottom line and create this creature? What exactly is the 'Ring of the Nibelungen' project? ”

Song Zhi closed his eyes, thought for a few seconds, and then said, "Are you sure you want to know?" Although the truth exists objectively, it doesn't matter if you don't know the truth in your life. But once you know, you'll fall from the edge of hell into hell completely. ”

Zhou Yu smiled, he pointed to the huge wound on his abdomen, and the tragic picture of Chen Chong being killed by a monster in his mind was in his mind: "Mr. Song, I have already been to hell. ”

"Trust me, you're far from hell. You're just getting a glimpse of it. Song Zhi's face had an unfathomable expression.

This is also what Zhou Yu hates most about those scholars, always thinking that he knows everything.

It seems that even his Zhou Yu's fate has been figured out.

"On the surface, you're asking me if I'm sure I want to know, but you're ready to sue me, aren't you?" Zhou Yu asked rhetorically.

Song Zhi turned his face sideways and laughed.

This guy is very fair-skinned, he should stay in the institute all year round and is rarely exposed to the sun, and he doesn't seem to do much exercise, and the whole person looks thin. But when he has no expression, he appears detached and indifferent, and when he laughs, he has a temperament that blends elite and elegance.

"That's right, I'd love to sue you. First of all, the monster you see, we call it 'Pelidon', a monster in Western mythology. As you should have noticed, this monster has no eyes, no ears, no nose, and is vicious by nature. ”

"So it doesn't have sight, hearing, or smell. So how does it discern its goals? ”

This is a question that has always puzzled Zhou Yu.

Song Zhi raised his chin: "You know that there are many creatures in this world, and the way they locate their prey is different from that of humans. Bats, for example, use 'ultrasound' to determine their prey. Another example is dolphins, echolocation. There is also the platypus, which is electronically located. And the kind of monster you see, it hunts down according to the 'fear' of the prey. The more you fear, the more you can unleash its destructive potential. ”

Zhou Yu was stunned. What Song Zhi said was completely beyond his comprehension.

"You mean fear?"

"When any animal, including humans, develops a feeling of fear, the brain secretes a special trace hormone that is emitted into the air through the skin of the human body. And once the tongue of 'Pelidon' senses this hormone, it will chase after its prey. That's why the researchers died, they knew too much about the characteristics and ferocity of 'Pelidon', and the more they warned themselves not to be afraid, the more terrified they became. When this fear spreads indefinitely, they have already pushed themselves into hell. ”

Zhou Yu looked at Song Zhi with a suspicious gaze.

"Think about it. Why are your teammates all dead? But you didn't die? Song Zhi propped his chin and looked at Zhou Yu meaningfully.

It seemed that he was very patient, and he had enough time to wait for Zhou Yu to sort this issue out.

Zhou Yu closed his eyes, imagining the voices of his teammates in the liaison.

"What is this?"

"Oh my God! How is this possible? ”

"Impossible! That's impossible! How could there be such a thing! ”

It was an unbelievable fear and the imminent fear of death.

They were different from Zhou Yu, they originally entered with the purpose of rescuing hostages, but they ran into monsters that they had never seen before, and they were unexpected. From the moment the monster attacked Zhao Cheng, the most inexperienced among them, everyone was shaken, they saw the horror of this monster, not to mention that bullets couldn't kill it at all, once the slightest fear appeared, the monster would chase after it and kill everyone.

When Zhou Yu met Chen Chong, who still had his last breath, what really attracted that monster was not Zhou Yu, but Chen Chong's fear. Even that monster would kill Chen Chong directly without noticing Zhou Yu at all, until this trace hormone caused by fear disappeared.

"It doesn't seem to feel where I am?" Zhou Yuhu asked Song Zhi suspiciously.

Obviously, when Zhou Yu shot its tail, it was completely agile enough to avoid the bullet and kill Zhou Yu, but it didn't know where Zhou Yu was as if it had lost its direction.

Song Zhi smiled indifferently, stretched out his arm, and pointed his finger on Zhou Yu's chest: "You ask yourself, have you ever been afraid of it?" Do you have the fear of being tormented by it and killed by it? When you look at the shattered bodies of your teammates, do you have anger and a desire to know the truth, or is it fear? ”

"I'm going to find it. I'm going to kill it. Zhou Yu raised his eyes, and the firmness in his eyes made Song Zhi's smile even more obvious.

"Behold, this is why thou canst live, and slay it. Your eyes tell me that you accept the explanation I give you. This is a good thing, if you can't even accept this, what I'm going to tell you next will be even more difficult for you to understand. ”

Zhou Yu was silent.

"The second point I want to declare," Song Zhi stretched out his finger, "this kind of monster Pelidon, is not something that we cultivated or created, nor is it a product of human paranoia, but it is something that exists in the first place. ”

After Song Zhi finished speaking, Zhou Yu was really stunned.

"Originally stored zài? Are you trying to convince me that the GD Group has discovered some kind of new creature on Earth? ”

Zhou Yu felt that Song Zhi was becoming more and more ridiculous.

"Do you know the concept of parallel space?" Song asked.

"I've seen it in movies. So now you're trying to convince me that this monster is from another parallel dimension? That's a universal explanation! ”

Although this explanation seems to be made up, what Zhou Yu saw from Song Zhi's eyes was a kind of certainty, at least in Song Zhi's heart, what he said was true.

"That parallel space is called 'Nibelungen', although the name is very ungrounded, I personally prefer to name it with systematic letters, such as alpha or beta, or even world A and world B, which is better than some Norse mythology, but it can't be helped, the board of directors of Juli Group likes such names. Zhou Yu, many years ago, scientists thought that gravitational waves were just a concept or even didn't exist at all, but now they have been confirmed. The development of the world has confirmed time and time again what we think is impossible. And the Nibelungen is the same. ”

Zhou Yu leaned back with an expression of listening to the story: "So what is in this world?" ”

His intellect told him that a world like his own did not exist, and it must have been an excuse concocted by Juli Group to cover up his research purposes, but his intuition kept echoing: it was true, Zhou Yu. That's true.

"It's close to Earth, but it has a very different biological system from Earth."

"You brought the monster from that world?" Zhou Yu will not ask the other party what the so-called "completely different biological system" is, because this is a big and professional question.

"Yes. Doing any research there is a high risk factor, and our researchers are constantly at risk. So we've brought some of the research subjects here to continue our research in an environment that we know and that we can control. ”

In other words, Juli Group has already sent a research team to that world, and since it can do this, it means that Juli Group has mastered the method of traveling through the two worlds.

"When you bring that monster into our world, you bring risks with you. Take 10,000 steps back, even if you can control this world, there are some things that don't belong to this world, you still can't control it. Zhou Yu's voice was cold.

In his mind, these madmen will do anything to pursue the answers they want.

"Did you see the healing power of that monster? See its peculiar biological construct too? Studying them can help humanity resist and even defeat many diseases, even if they come from us as human beings. For example, Huntington's disease, trisomy 21, etc., and even other malignant cancers, can be cured. We humans can even overcome the other consequences of environmental degradation and continue to thrive. ”

"Sounds great." Zhou Yu knew that every scholar who conducted crazy research would give himself a high-sounding reason, "Mr. Song, I believe that your exploration of the other dimension is absolutely confidential. But now you're telling me this secret, probably not for the sake of popular science. Tell us what you really want to do. ”

Song Zhi smiled, he lowered his head slightly, and made a thinking appearance: "There are many people who have seen Pelidon, whether it is a researcher or a team trained by our Juli Group to perform special tasks, they can't do it like you, abandon fear and look directly at death. In that world, fear is the mark that we are hunted. But almost everyone has this mark on their body. Although we have done countless studies and made all kinds of devices to disguise the marks on our bodies, fear is always objective. You're special, Zhou Yu. You're the first person I've ever met to confront Pelidon, without the slightest fear. I want you to join us and go to the other side of the world. ”

This answer surprised Zhou Yu. He didn't expect that he would have such value to Juli Group.