Chapter 40: Midnight Bells

Sebastian didn't know what was going on, but she still clenched her teeth, clenched her fists, and the green tendons on her arms burst out, and her temples also burst out.

He stared at the torn image in front of him, waiting for it to return to normal, wanting to know what happened next, what had happened to his daughter.

He was scared, worried, but he had to know—

If her daughter is simply captured, Sebastian will continue to track her down and save her from danger.

If the accident had happened to his daughter, Sebastian swore that he would have let that bitch go to hell and tremble with fear from the torture he had received before he died.

"Zizi...... Zizi ...... Sure enough, it still doesn't ...... Zizi ...... It's so fragile, like a soap bubble......"

Eventually, the noise in the communicator suddenly subsided, and a barely audible voice came from it.

Sebastian was refreshed, trying to concentrate and listen attentively, trying to get useful information from it.

Immediately after, he frowned, always feeling that the sound was a voice that was not a voice, it was difficult to explain, it was a chaotic feeling.

He thought it was his own delusion, so he focused more intently, and then some kind of message was finally shaped in his mind.

The connection between the concept and the expression was so strong that he subconsciously felt that he had learned the message through the language of English.

- In fact, it is actually this intersecting world of human consciousness integration, which cannot decode some kind of non-human consciousness information in a suitable format, and most of the translated ones are garbled characters, which is manifested as strong signal interference.

The small amount of information that is successfully translated also requires a certain amount of imagination to allow the humans who hear it to convert it into sound.

Of course, this is very difficult work, and it can cause a great burden on the minds of the listeners.

It's just that Sebastian didn't know the reason, he just thought that it was because the noise was too strong, and it was very difficult to catch the intermittent broken syllables from it, so it was a headache.

"Zizi...... Zizi ...... Even in the vicinity of the central core, it is still ...... Zizi ...... This little girl...... Contact...... Node required...... Zizi ......"

"Zizi...... Zizi ...... The world is fragile...... I'm going to collapse, or do I have a part of my form of existence first...... Zizi ...... Hopefully, these humans ...... Seen ...... Midnight ...... Zizi ......"

At this point, everything came to an abrupt halt and was replaced by an extremely high-pitched loud noise!

For a moment, Sebastian thought she was back in a few years ago, when she was affected by hearing that kind of high-pitched noise, and her spiritual consciousness was pulled into the STEM world of the Lighthouse Mental Hospital!

He was trying to concentrate on his own hearing, and he was unsuspectingly hit in all directions!

"Ah——!!h

He jerked up one of his palms and clutched his forehead tightly, groaning in pain, the torture of the noise causing a severe headache that made him feel like his head was going to crack!

But this pain came and went quickly, just in the blink of an eye, and before he could reminisce about it, it receded like a tide.

Everything died down, the screeching noise was gone, and the torn image in front of his eyes was gone.

But at that last moment, Sebastian couldn't be sure if it was his own delusion, hallucination, or something, and he seemed to see a ...... Something that exudes a brilliant halo.

It is something that can be seen, but it is ethereal and incorporeal, it does not appear in human form.

Or maybe it's because in this unrecognizable, extremely unstable space, you can't show your favorite posture at will.

This sight left Sebastian's mind blank, and he could only subconsciously continue to stare at it.

Then, at the same moment, the thing seemed to look in his direction.

Sebastian didn't know why he had such a delusion, yes, an illusion.

- After all, that thing was purely a strange horror, not even a human form, and naturally had no face, mouth or anything like that.

But he just felt for no reason, it seemed to be aware of its own existence, and then looked over. He felt as if he felt a staring gaze, and then shivered involuntarily.

The next moment, as if from a dream, he found that there was only an empty room in front of him, and there was a pool of solidified faint blood on the ground.

There was no little girl under the desk against the wall not far away, and the damn murderer didn't exist, and by the same token, the weird thing just now didn't exist here.

Sebastian raised a hand to cover his forehead and moaned under his breath, relieving symptoms such as dizziness and headaches, and he felt as if his mental energy had been drained.

But the hallucination just now was caused by too much loud noise interference, right? That's what happened before, except for Lily and that perverted murderer, what kind of luminaries should have been made up by their own brains......

That's right! Lily, and that damn perverted murderer! I don't know what's going on behind the scenes!

But the current goal is quite clear, and finding that perverted murderer is definitely the key to finding Lily's next clue!!

He had already made up his mind that no matter whether his daughter was really in the hands of that perverted murderer or not, he must find that guy and ......

Kill him!

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The real area of the outside world, in the unnamed base facility of the Morbius organization.

Because of the manager's insistence, Kidman was not able to say anything, and she also felt that her inner uneasiness was a little inexplicable, and no matter how strong that program was, it was impossible to really affect the real world.

So in order for her plan to be carried out smoothly, in order to be able to help Sebastian rescue his daughter and destroy this damn Mobius organization, she still needs her identity and status in the organization for the time being.

Therefore, it is not necessary to collide with the manager with the highest authority in this base for such a thing, so as not to miss a major matter.

She had the researchers scrutinize the source code and analyze the previous record of anomalous data, and then loaded the strange program she copied into the virtual machine for a test run.

Kidman wasn't afraid that a program would reveal that she and others were going to subvert Morbius's plan, because she was sure that there was no such backup plan in her small group's plans.

If the STEM system hadn't had a sudden technical glitch that caused it to start collapsing, Kidman and the others would have found an opportunity to hide Lily and make the system collapse...... Now they are just complying with this real accident and mobilizing themselves and others to prepare a plan for several years.

However, from the beginning to the end, they never tossed about the virus or anything like that, because their goal from the beginning was to help Sebastian and rescue Lily, who was the central core.

Until then, what is it to directly attack STEM systems with viruses?!

"Kidman? Still can't do it? The manager waited a little impatiently, tapped the armrest of the sofa with his index knuckle a few times, and urged.

"It's up and running, but I can't see anything yet...... Kidman looked up at the projection screen that had landed improvised next to her, and it was pitch black, just like the picture on her computer.

The manager frowned, but said nothing more.

He stared at the projection all the time, he wanted to see what kind of virus came from, and who would harm the organization...... The number of people who have access to STEM includes the entire Möbius organization, and thousands of ordinary people have been recruited alone.

But not many people can directly inject viruses into STEM, and few people have that permission, so the scope of suspects is narrowed.

So...... Could it be Kidman? She's had a history of disobeying the organization's directives, and is that her the same now?

The reason why she took the initiative to find the virus was because this problem could not be concealed, and she wanted to raise it before others, so that people would not suspect her?

His gaze became unusually deep, and the manager smiled indifferently at the corners of his mouth. Soon, though, his attention was drawn back.

Because at this time, there was finally a change on the projection screen, no longer a simple pitch black, but a pinhead-sized and flickering light point began to appear on the pitch-black picture.

Then they slowly swelled up, flying to the left and right, stopping on the left after a few seconds.

Immediately after, these flickering points of light dispersed and wriggled like earthworms, slowly forming a vague but commanding line of English words—

"Be sure to see it all."

“……”

“……”

The manager's brow suddenly furrowed even tighter, and he turned to look at Kidman and asked unceremoniously, "What is this?" A video?! ”

"I ...... I don't know? Or wasn't it a virus in the first place?! ”

Kidman said with some uncertainty, who knew that the details of that procedure would be like this, things seemed to be getting weirder and weirder.

At this time, that line of words had disappeared, and everyone in the command room, including those research institutes, security personnel, etc., saw a new line of words emerge, replacing the first line of words-

"It's going to be eaten by the ghosts!"

Although the transition seems to be omitted between the two sentences, the meaning is actually easy to understand, as it seems to be a threat to the viewer not to stop playing halfway through, otherwise they will suffer a tragic end.

“……”

“……”

After a long silence, the scene was in an uproar, and many researchers couldn't help but laugh out loud, and began to whisper their opinions to the people next to them.

The manager didn't stop him, because he also happened to watch that work, so he just rubbed his temples a little annoyed: "What is this?" Is it a prank, or a tribute to "Midnight Bell"? ”

However, no one answered his question, because in the next moment -

The black-and-white screen was swallowed up by darkness again, and a loud thud was heard.

It sounded very eerie, not like it was coming from the surrounding loudspeakers, and even gave the illusion that the entire base was shaking.

The darkness that appears on the screen is not the kind of pitch black that is nothing, but like a deep black hole that can swallow the line of sight, a "singularity", and the darkness inside is almost like a tangible substance.

- The scene fell silent instantly, and in an instant it became audible for a pin drop.

It was not simply frightened by this sound, but because the first time everyone's eyes came into contact with it, they all felt that their souls were withdrawn because of that picture, and their consciousness gradually blurred.

Everyone can feel that "themselves" seem to have become incomparably smaller, but the black hole has become incomparably larger, and their thoughts and perceptions seem to be pulled and fly into it......

What followed was a wonderful journey of souls separated from space, and they felt as if they were spinning through the stars...... Soar through a spinning universe...... I don't know how long it took to fall into that incomparably ancient abyss......

In the dark abyss, there seemed to be something too vast to be formed, waiting and dreaming.

Maybe it's an ancient god, maybe it's a demon from hell......

In the twisted horror of this unspeakable sight, all of them stiffened, and unspeakable fear enveloped everyone's mind.

That picture is so long that one can't help but wonder if there is a never-ending moment.

Time seemed to fly by, and it seemed to stand still, and I don't know how long it was, and the deep picture that could swallow the eye finally disappeared, but some new words emerged, slowly becoming clear and neat-

"People who have seen this video will face death at this time in a week's time."

"If you don't want to die, follow the instructions below......"

“……”

“……”

There was a dead silence in the command room.

After half a ring, the manager who was sweating profusely woke up violently, and then stretched out his trembling hand to wipe his forehead, let out a long breath, and relaxed his stiff body:

"This kind of prank is really naïve enough, who is risking the anger of the organization just to make a joke......"

"Ding Ding Ding ——!!"

Before he could finish his words of denial, the sudden ringtone of his mobile phone almost didn't scare him out of a heart attack.

I took out my mobile phone and took a look, and found that there was no caller ID, and the manager's heart was shocked, and then the ghost pressed the answer button, barely squeezing out a trace of sound.

"Hello?"

“……”

But the other party did not respond, but directly came to the busy sound. The manager couldn't help but shiver all over, a chill and a sudden feeling of nausea invaded him, and he understood in his brain that it was a confirmation call.

Have you seen it? Got it? Follow the instructions above...... Otherwise......

My eyes tingled and tears flowed from my eyes, and I felt very painful. He held this position, and then heard the ringing of his cell phone ring all around—

Everyone in the command room, everyone who had just seen the video, received an unknown call at this time.

Everyone felt a terrible cold air, goosebumps all over their bodies, and the SAN value was almost completely reduced to zero at this moment!

What is this?!

A realistic version of "Midnight Bell"? What kind of horror has escaped from STEM and come to the real world?