The darkness caused by the power outage spreads rapidly through the city like a virus, as if the darkness is swallowing the light, expanding from one residential area to one area, and from one area to the entire city.

Passers-by walking on the street suddenly stopped, the neon signs of the shops on both sides stopped flashing, and the nearby high-rise buildings instantly turned black, as if someone had suddenly turned off the power of the city.

It was all darkness, and those who were still watching TV, listening to music, or working overtime at home were all stopped by the sudden power outage.

"What's the situation?"

"What's going on?"

Every occasion and place where there are people will hear such questions.

Time passed little by little, and people turned from calm doubts to panicked suspicions, is it a natural disaster? Or is there a lack of electricity? No one knows the answer.

The only light that still shines is the mobile phone lights in people's homes, or the lights of cars driving on the streets, and when there is no power, the city is paralyzed, and people become anxious and panicked as the power outage lasts.

It's not a single or individual event, it's the whole city, and more and more people are looking around and taking to the streets, and they're desperate to know the answers.

Traffic lights are cut off, trains are stopped, flights are grounded, and everything comes to a standstill, leaving only restlessness and restlessness.

At this time, the room where Li Ming was located was bright as a whole, as if it was daytime, not only all the electrical appliances were burned under the high voltage, but the entire house was burning on all four walls, and cracks began to appear on the walls of the house, as if this layer was about to collapse.

Thick black smoke continued to pour out from the window, and in the flames of the fire, the huge electric current with the thickness of the arm was still flashing, like lightning in the dark clouds, and the eyes of many people in the community were attracted by this place that was burning wildly.

"There's a fire there!"

"Call the police!"

"I can't get through, my phone has no signal."

All kinds of noisy sounds resounded around the community, and several community security guards quickly ran upstairs, if there were people in the house, it would be dangerous.

The electric light in the smoke suddenly became weaker, and the frequency of the flickering slowly decreased, and the power outage area at the edge of the city began to restore power, until there was no longer any electric light in Li Ming's room, and the power of the entire city began to slowly recover from the edge to the city center.

Li Ming, who was floating in the room, fell to the floor with a 'plop', his eyes suddenly opened, the room was full of flames and smoke, Li Ming glanced at the surrounding situation, and with a mouth, the flames and smoke were instantly sucked into Li Ming's mouth.

The room, which had been filled with smoke and fire, suddenly became quiet, the electrical appliances, floors, curtains, tables and chairs had been burned, and the walls and roofs were full of smoked pitch black.

'Bang, bang, bang!' ’

A strong and anxious knock came from outside the door, Li Ming glanced at the door, and then swept to the rest of the room, his mobile phone was still safe and sound, and the flames just now did not affect the place of the mobile phone.

Li Ming picked up the phone first, then came to the door and opened the door.

The three security guards looked at Li Ming with frightened eyes while panting.

Li Ming's clothes were neat, there was nothing unusual on the surface of his body, there was no sign of escaping from the fire, and his calm expression was as if nothing had happened.

"I'm K, there's nothing going on?!" A young security guard looked at Li Ming without saying a word, his expression was surprised, and he just exclaimed in his heart.

Li Ming's eyes just glanced at the young security guard, and then replied, "What? Something has to happen to me? ”

"Huh?!" The young security guard suddenly exclaimed, what he was thinking seemed to have been known by the other party, and he hurriedly waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay." ”

Another slightly older security guard glanced at the situation in Li Ming's house and looked at Li Ming a few more times, the flames and smoke in the house disappeared completely, and he couldn't help but shake his head slightly, and secretly said in his heart: "It's really strange......

"Strange?" Li Ming suddenly looked at the elderly security guard and said.

The older security guard's eyes widened suddenly, and he just thought of a sentence in his heart, as if the other party heard it, and hurriedly said, "It's okay, then we'll go first." ”

The three security guards didn't stay any longer, Li Ming's strange appearance and expression made the three of them feel incredible, and what was even more terrifying was that Li Ming's words seemed to be able to see through their thoughts.

Watching the three security guards leave, Li Ming closed the door again, turned around and glanced at the meteorite on the floor in the living room, took the meteorite in his hand after taking a few steps forward, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he kept looking at the meteorite.

The weight of the meteorite has not changed, but Li Ming's strength has increased a lot, just like the feeling of ordinary people picking up a stone, effortlessly, except for one more crack on the surface of the meteorite, the black appearance and red patches have not changed.

Li Ming's eyes rolled slightly, looked at the position of the window, the lights in the opposite floor gradually lit up, Li Ming seemed to suddenly think of something, turned around and opened the door and left the room.

The power in the community has been restored, but the unstable current and voltage just now have also caused damage to electrical appliances and electrical equipment, the most serious is the building where Li Ming is located, almost all the residents have suffered varying degrees of loss.

Complaints, anger, and all kinds of dissatisfied emotions turned into words between each other, some were making phone calls, some were asking about the situation, in addition to avoiding greater losses as much as possible, the vast majority of people hoped that a unit or individual would stand up and pay for this matter.

Although the power of the entire city has been initially restored, the huge losses caused by the short-term power outage are unpredictable, such as some important public areas, hospitals, transportation hubs, etc.

Everything was still urgently waiting to be processed, and at this time, Li Ming had already come to the outside of the community and sat in his car, started the vehicle, entered the street, and then went straight to the south.

Shuttling back and forth in the streets of the city, Li Ming's eyes began to look around, and a strange scene kept appearing in Li Ming's eyes.

The eyes are like a clair, and the wires and the data cables of the network are like a light, and the data transmitted in them can enter their brains at a glance.

Previously requiring manual touch to control the receiving information, it can now be automatically accessed by both eyes as long as it is within a certain distance.

The brain of every pedestrian on the road is like a bright light bulb, and the changes in it can be seen clearly, what you are thinking, what you want to do, can not escape these eyes.

And Li Ming's ears are like two radars, as long as it is within a certain distance near Li Ming, all kinds of sounds can be accurately captured, and the sound of speaking, breathing, and heartbeat can be shielded and received at will.

The sensitive nose can clearly smell any smell in the air, oxygen, carbon dioxide, car exhaust, and many other gases mixed in the air cannot escape under this sense of smell.

This is very different from the third-order civilization before Li Ming, the clear feeling and cognition can't help but appear in the brain, and a lot of strange knowledge is inexplicably familiar and simple, all kinds of chemical physics, human geography, as if they were all mastered in an instant.

The strangest thing is that Li Ming's brain seems to exist in two worlds, one is the world of ordinary human beings, and the other is a world far higher than human civilization, everything has become so familiar, but it is very strange.

Seeing anything is unprecedentedly clear and clear, as if every object is in Li Ming's eyes, its appearance and formation are as if Li Ming made it himself, a car, a mobile phone, the structure and principle in it are so simple.

How a tree, a person, needs to grow to what it is now, all of this is in the brain at a glance.

Along with these, there is another consciousness in Li Ming's body, this single consciousness Li Ming is not unfamiliar, but it has been very vague before, like a dream, sometimes exists and sometimes disappears, but now everything is clear, that consciousness is a high-level civilization life form from the alien, Harris.

Li Ming's car left the city after a few turns, and did not stop until it stopped in a remote mountain forest on the outskirts, the lights went out, and it was dark and quiet all around, but it was all for ordinary people.

Li Ming just glanced at it, no plant or life could escape his eyes, even the flight of an insect was in Li Ming's perception.

"Congratulations, you have successfully advanced and activated the fourth-order civilization." Suddenly, a voice came from the car's radio.

Li Ming was not surprised at all, because Harris could completely affect anything around him with his consciousness, which was the ability of an advanced civilization, and Li Ming was beyond his reach, so he simply replied: "Harris, when can I leave the earth?" ”

"This is your home planet, you shouldn't hate her more than I do."

Li Ming's eyes looked at the starry sky in the distance in front of the car, and said: "I don't hate her, but I know her very well, and the continuation of mankind needs her, so ...... I can't possess her alone, the energy of the whole earth is limited, and if I am only for myself, then all the energy needed for the survival of human beings and creatures will be affected. ”

"I have already learned about you human beings, according to the physique of human beings and the energy of the earth, you need to reach at least the seventh-order civilization to get rid of the inherent nature of human beings, as well as the shackles of the genes of the mother planet, and then you can leave the earth, the advancement of life civilization is the change of energy to the wisdom and essence of life, each life species has its own unique advantages, which needs to be slowly explored from the continuous advanced species, from the second-order civilization to the third-order civilization needs the power of a nebula, but from the third-order civilization to the fourth-order civilization needs the power of three nebulae."

"As an advanced civilization, only when you reach the most basic fourth-order civilization, my consciousness can directly contact you and affect you, before I disappear, I still hope to help you, but I can't do anything, now if you need to continue to advance, you must look for the nebula fragments that fell to the earth, from the fourth-order civilization to the fifth-order civilization It takes the power of four nebulae, you are lucky enough to find the power of three nebulae, but good luck will not accompany you forever, can you leave the earth...... It's up to you. ”

Li Ming's eyes turned, looked at the part of the car radio, and said, "Don't you want to leave the earth?" ”

"Me? Hahaha...... I'm only a temporary consciousness, I have tried to control your consciousness and take possession of your body, because this is my only chance to get a new life and return to the universe, unfortunately, all failed, my consciousness is slowly being swallowed by your brain, and finally ...... In the depths of your memory there may be my past, my history, my memory......"

Li Ming's expression suddenly became slightly nervous when he heard this, and he couldn't help but feel a little afraid.

"Go, human, I will not pose a threat to you, my consciousness and cognition will be transformed into your memory, take this memory to explore the countless mysteries of the universe, the deeper you explore...... The more you feel small, the more mysterious you are, but with fear of ...... How far can you humans go? Hahaha......"

The eerie soft voice slowly ended with a final laugh, and the car returned to calm.