Chapter 6: Phantom Shadow
Ronan stared at it for a long time and made sure that there was nothing to add or delete, so he simply made some 3D processing of the finished sketch, uploaded it to the on-board brain database, and imported his work into the recorded image through the image cutting function.
The brain function of the Phantom Speed is certainly against the sky, but this kind of professional image stitching still needs to be processed by professional software, and it is done temporarily, which is not a painting style at all, and it looks quite strange.
But for Ronan, this inferior mosaic image is the most in line with his memory.
At that moment, Ronan clearly saw that a huge demon shadow, emerging from the bursting firelight, was more than a hundred meters high, roaring angrily in the dust of the collapsed ruins.
The roaring pop impact was almost like a heavy punch, and it was like a giant wheel running over. So much so that Ronan felt that his internal organs were deformed, the flesh and blood of his whole body made a cracking sound, and the air was filled with the smell of blood and death......
For a moment, he really thought it was over.
That's what he sees and feels!
The real world is not a fantasy movie, and Ronan also knows that what he sees and hears is too bizarre. So he returned to the scene of the incident, compared the scene environment, watched the video replay, and also observed the reaction of the surrounding area.
As for the results...... Bland, normal, no surprises.
Hallucinations?
Ronan slowly flexed his fingers, closed his eyes again, adjusted his breathing, and silently chanted the sixteen-character mantra. In the void, the visualization figure is presented, and the regular tetrahedron and its inscribed and external spheres slowly rotate. The first few laps were slightly choking, but it was only after a few laps that I slowly regained my fluency.
Hallucination...... That's not what it says when visualizing graphics.
The visualization shows that the "container" is slightly damaged, but is rapidly recovering.
Years of marathon running have not given Ronan a particularly strong physique, but they have given him extraordinary resilience and recovery ability.
It's not a big problem, but Ronan cares a lot.
In fact, in Ronan's self-logic, there is already an answer, but he is not in a hurry to draw conclusions. After thinking for a while, he gave another instruction to Zhi Brain and asked for a copy of the environmental data collected at that time.
Soon, a list of relevant information was presented.
At the time of the incident, the initial "earthquake phase" had passed, and the surrounding air pressure was 104 kPa, which was about the same as the standard atmospheric pressure; The decibel level of the pop impact is just close to 90, which is not up to the standard of hearing damage; The instantaneous wind speed at the place of the incident was 44 km/h, which is the level of force 6 winds. In addition, various data such as temperature, humidity, and radiation values are within the normal range.
Judging from the data alone, it was just an ordinary, slightly noisy windy day. Such an environment shocked the two old men into their souls? Are you kidding?
One more point......
On the analysis video, Ronan marked the distance with his finger: "The broken bridge is 2.9 kilometers away from the center of the earthquake, and the sound wave transmission should be delayed for about 8 seconds, but in fact? ”
Cold data is more authoritative and more incredible than memory. It shows that the Phantom Speeder received a powerful sonic vibration 7 milliseconds earlier than the firelight eruption.
The sound ran through the light...... As far as common sense is concerned, it is obviously ridiculous. The source of the pop and the fire, in front of the data, was torn into two pieces.
At this point, there is an obvious discrepancy between the fire and the pop, and between the pop and the human reaction.
Ronan tilted his head, no longer looking at any images and videos, and leaned back heavily in his chair.
Hallucination? The illusion of shit!
In the dark, there is clearly a force, a strange force, that intervenes in the connection between the parties and fills the original blank area!
The burning shadow is the "symbol" of this power.
It's not scientific...... What Ronan wants is "unscientific"!
From the very beginning, the "format theory" set up by my grandfather entered the metaphysical realm.
Emotionally, Ronan is almost fanatical about his grandfather's theory, and can even put it on an equal footing with life; However, he could not find a clear reference for the results so far.
Even if the means such as "Big Stomach King" and "Hypnotist" have crossed the limit of ordinary people, their ability level is not decisive, at least, this has never reached the level of "qualitative change".
What is the qualitative change of "self-formatting"? What is the criterion for qualitative change? If so-called "supernatural power", what is its manifestation?
In his grandfather's messy experimental records, Ronan couldn't find the answer.
In the past five years, he has been self-disciplined and self-talking, seemingly moving forward step by step, but he has never been able to solve a "standard" problem.
And now, the reference has appeared!
The blood pumped out of his heart was as hot as magma, but Ronan finally just took a deep breath, holding his notebook with his fingers, lightly touching his chin, and pressing the double throbbing of his limbs and heart.
Before it's time to celebrate, the power is only the tip of the iceberg, and it looks like it could return to the darkness of the world at any moment......
He has a lot of work to do.
At this time, the on-board intelligent brain completed the route switch and changed lanes to detour. However, the destruction of more than 10 square kilometers of area has had a great impact on urban traffic. Even in the early hours of the morning, several air traffic floors were temporarily closed, and traffic began to experience slight congestion, preventing vehicles from speeding up.
Ronan deleted the data and retrieval records automatically stored by the Brain to avoid exposing the information of the Burning Shadow. He then turned on the news channel and searched for reports about the "earthquake".
Due to the short interval, most of the media are still in the SMS broadcast stage. Only the "Star Associated Press" showed the bullishness of the world-class media, and promptly purchased no one near the place of the incident. The overhead picture of the machine, combined with satellite images, captured first-hand information.
The video, which is less than two minutes long, has been continuously pushed up on social media and has gained more and more attention.
Looking at the overhead image more clearly, the viaduct is really only the periphery, as for the "epicenter" location, it has completely collapsed, and the huge amount of ruins still cannot fill the collapsed area, exposing a huge crater, which still has a faint blue electric light jumping, and it is particularly eye-catching in the dim skylight.
What's going on inside the crater? How many dead and wounded? None of the media outlets have exact coverage.
At this point, the municipality and the police began to step in to direct traffic around the perimeter. The clean-up and rescue work has not yet officially begun, but transport planes have already appeared in the sky and began to airdrop all kinds of engineering robots.
Relatively speaking, the government's response has been very swift...... At least well above its average.
The speed of the speeding car is getting slower and slower. While the police are directing traffic, they are also doing some inspections of passing vehicles, and there is no one without one, I don't know what the standard is, but it is like a routine.
Ronan won the lottery.
The police officer on the side of the road motioned for him to stop, waited for the window to open, and then asked: "Sir, in order to avoid interfering with the search and rescue work, please turn off the on-board radar and related equipment." ”
Ronan was suddenly and very cooperative, and issued instructions in front of the other party to turn off the relevant system functions.
The police waved away.
However, as soon as the car started, the temporary guide lever in front of it protruded and closed, and the police caught up with it and took two steps and signaled to stop again. However, the directive is not just for Ronan, but for all vehicles in the lane.
Those who were anxious shouted: "What's the situation! ”
"Temporary transfer of rescue equipment, the traffic floor near the scene is temporarily closed, please be calm."
The policeman was about 40 years old and appeared to have a calm temperament and a friendly attitude. But no one really dared to blow up the thorn in front of him, because this is a standard anti-riot special policeman, dressed in a defensive combat suit, supported by the outer bone armor, more than two meters tall, and can completely lift a flying car weighing 1 ton and throw it across the road.
Equipment? I just airdropped it, and if I come again, I'm afraid the accident area won't be able to open......
Ronan looked up at the sky, at this time the sky was getting brighter, the field of vision expanded, and there were indeed medium-sized transport ships hovering in the air, which seemed to be still military, but he didn't see any equipment dropped.
"Things are changing!"
In the news channel, a senior on-site reporter from the Star Associated Press took a picture of the incident area from a helicopter and described the current situation:
"The congestion is getting worse and more and more vehicles are stopping, and for now, the government and the police are not focusing on traffic control. On the contrary, the police control measures have become stricter, and the scope of the lockdown has been expanded......"
Most of the surrounding roads have been turned into parking lots, and the location of many cars has not changed for more than ten minutes.
The anti-riot special police inspection is more strict, and some vehicles that have just been inspected have to be restarted.
Compared to the complaints of other car owners, Ronan is much calmer, and his current task is to gather relevant information and stay near the place of the incident for a while, which is exactly what he wants.
He switches between several news channels to find valuable news, and at the same time sets his sights on self-media and frequented forum communities. While watching the news, while swiping the web page, the car intelligent brain, imitation paper soft screen, and even the bracelet are all mobilized, and I am very busy, but I have no clue for the time being.
Less than half an hour before the incident, none of the media came up with in-depth reports, and there were mostly rumors on self-media and social software, and it was too difficult to sift out useful information from them.
"The news will fly for a while......"
Ronan shook his head, his fingers swiped over the soft screen, and subconsciously clicked on an icon, the interface opened, and the familiar dark scenery was arranged with few stars, which was the secret star forum he most often landed.
For Ronan, the Secret Star Forum is a source of goods, and for the sake of safety, he never speaks in public sections, but at most browses for topics of interest.
Niche professional forums are slow to respond to breaking news, and it is difficult to generate discussion heat, so it is not meaningful to gather information here.
He came in purely habitually.
Today's hot topic that has been pushed to the main screen does not seem to have any news value, and the headline is "Collective Nightmare, Spirit Wave Unleashed", typical occult style.
Ronan wasn't interested in this kind of topic, and now that he was a little idle, he pondered sending a private message to the moderators of the internal section to try to unblock the account in advance.
It took a few minutes to word, and when Ronan exited the private message interface, he saw that on the main page, the number of discussion pages on popular topics had exploded several times, which had already stimulated the "bright star" effect, and the topic interface was pulled out and turned into a burning star.
At this time, perhaps which moderator felt that the original title was not directional enough, and made modifications, and the theme flashed, and it became the words "Xiacheng R&D Zone Earthquake Nightmare Centralized Discussion Post, Open and Merge".
"Ouch?"
Ronan was surprised and clicked in as soon as possible.
The contents of the main building are very simple, according to the description of the owner "U Ling", he is a resident of Xia City who lives near the R&D area and was sleeping when the earthquake struck. Half-asleep, he had a dream. In the dream, his whole body was engulfed in flames, and he heard a huge roar, and the shock wave was like a giant ship crushing his whole body, which had the meaning of "ghost pressing the bed".
If that's all there is, it's nothing. The key is that when U Ling was startled, the wife next to him also woke up - just now the two of them had the same dream, and every detail is very close, just like watching a horror movie together!
U Ling posted this experience on the forum, but no one paid attention to it at first, and he didn't take it seriously, so he simply started a live broadcast of earthquake news in the post.
Unexpectedly, just a few minutes later, someone started a different topic, talking about the earthquake nightmare, and the content of the dream was almost exactly the same as the description of U Ling.
Since then, some people have followed up one after another, some have replied in the post, and some have opened another post to speak, and finally detonated the secret star forum in the early morning and started a big discussion.
Then again, there is a limit to the popularity of niche forums, and Ronan quickly swept the discussion content of the post at a glance.
"Examples of real personal experience, that is, two or three ......"
No matter how small the Secret Star Forum is, the members are also from all over the world, with more than 70,000 registered IDs, divided by 88, less than 1,000 people, and even fewer people living near the R&D area.
Some people also recognized this and began to import relevant topic materials from mainstream communities and self-media.
A lot of people is easy to do, and the news that Ronan couldn't find with all his hard work was presented in a blowout under the collective search of thousands of people.
Many people were shocked to realize that the topic of "Xiacheng Collective Nightmare" has formed an undercurrent on the Internet, and it is getting stronger and stronger.
At the Secret Star Forum, the atmosphere of discussion became more enthusiastic. Even though moderators have set the rule of "merging separately", there are still people who keep opening new topics and leading related topics to a deeper level.
There is an ID of a "historical shredder", and a new post is opened, and a statistical chart is established for this event, and all the relevant cases on the current Internet are imported into it, and they are constantly updated, and soon the "bright star" effect is also stimulated.
Ronan felt that he had something to say, and that the data was excellently organized.
"As you can see from the schematic diagram, the 'Nightmare Spirit Wave' has an impact range of up to 300 kilometers away, covering the entire summer city. With the area as the center, a radius of about 10 kilometers, which I call the 'core area', there have been more than 20 cases on the Internet, and whether the person concerned is asleep or awake. ”
The "Historical Shredder" has compiled more than 50 valid cases, half of which are in the core area.
Outside the core area, the density of cases drops dramatically, and the farther away they are, the more scarce they become, and they are difficult to verify.
However, the "Historical Shredder" claims that according to his understanding, a considerable number of the inductors outside these core areas are people who are recognized as "cultivated" in the circle. He said that he will continue to update the relevant data and hopes to get everyone's help.
Later, U Ling, who was the first to post, also replied here, saying that he would take his wife to the hospital for a check-up in a while, and he would post the results on the forum, attracting a "sit and wait" sound.
Ronan pinched his chin lightly, and then also contacted the school's medical department through the bracelet to make an appointment for a physical examination. Prepare to refer to the examination results of the U Ling couple.
"Bang bang, bang bang!"
A discordant murmur suddenly hit my ears, and the window on the other side of the cab was banged vigorously.
Ronan was stunned, it was this pause, and the one outside stomped directly on the car door. The ensuing sharp voice, even the fully soundproof car body, can't resist it:
"Xie Junping, you come out!"