Chapter 680: The End of the Old Era
After temporarily calming down the group mood at the top, Custer returned to the medical district where Shen Chao was located. Alice, who did not show up at the meeting, was sitting in front of the hospital bed at this time, guarding Shen Chao who was sleeping without leaving each step. She looked very lost, but surprisingly quiet, and didn't seem sad or worried.
"He'll get through this, right?" Whatever the illness is......" Alice asked without looking back as she heard Custer approach.
"The doctors say......" Custer was reluctant to draw conclusions, and only wanted to relay the doctors' diagnosis, because he, like everyone else, knew nothing about Shen Chao's current state. The only thing that is certain is that Shen Chao should still be in danger now. Otherwise, the space-time gate network would be close to crashing.
According to their research, Shen Chao's mental stability is closely related to the state of the space-time gate. If he had vanished on the spiritual level, then all the space-time portals he had opened would have disappeared immediately, and would not have remained as well as they do now.
But Alice didn't seem satisfied with his way of diverting the subject, and interrupted Custer before he could finish. "No, I would like to know your opinion, of all the people, he has known him the longest, and he has always trusted you more. You must know something! She asked, turning to her feet.
"I'm not a prophet and I don't have any inside information. But I've seen him go through worse shapes, so I'm willing to be optimistic about the situation. You should, even if it's not for your own sake......"
Custer said, glancing at Alice's belly, pointing. It seemed that his words had an effect, Alice forcibly suppressed her excitement, sat back on the edge of the bed, and took one of Shen Chao's hands again and held it gently.
"Ironic, isn't it? Before that. I've always been worried that he's going to get too strong and eventually lose his humanity. But now, my only concern is that he's not strong enough. Am I doing something wrong? I shouldn't have stopped him, should I? Alice seemed to be blaming herself for her reaction some time ago, if Shen Chao had done his best to carry out the plan of sealing the gods at that time, maybe there would not be what is happening now.
"It's none of your business, you should know how stubborn he is." If it was something he had made up his mind to, no one could stop it. He didn't take that step because he himself had doubts. You're just an amplification of that idea. Custer gave a few words of comfort and left the room, which fell silent again, save for the heartbeats and breathing of two people.
A month later, the U.S.-China joint investigation came to an end. The ships sent to the ruins of Base 2 by both sides in the previous month have evacuated the ominous place, leaving only a few to cordon off the nearby waters and prevent the media or any civilian people from entering the area to find out the truth.
After a month of meticulous investigation, they basically figured out what was going on. Although it is still impossible to prove Shen Chao's status in this incident, the high-level leaders of the two sides still reached a unified consensus after several closed-door meetings. That is, "The world has changed dramatically!" ”
The existence of the traverser was initially confirmed and recognized by them, and in the panic, they made the same decision, that is, to completely block the relevant news, to ensure that no unrelated person knows about the existence of the traverser, so as to avoid the collapse of the social order and even the global political landscape overnight.
They followed two main clues to find out the truth of the facts, in addition to Shen Chao's more obvious line, a strange information on the Internet and a report from a homeowner in the imperial capital led the investigators to the direction of the man with glasses.
The house rented by the man with glasses was rushed in and inspected by the owner of the house because there was no response for many days. But the homeowner saw a lot of strange things and called the police. Investigators then rushed to the scene and found a lot of things that were by no means of this world.
Like some strange magic books, some strange armor, and the most important piece of evidence, a dragon egg! That's right, they found a dragon egg that was about to break out of the shell in the glasses man's house. The giant dragon egg was half a man's height and hatched shortly after being taken out of the city.
Combined with this shocking information, the investigators carefully checked and reversely traced the electronic information records here, found the DND professional forum where the glasses man had been mixed, and found a large number of detailed text "evidence".
Textual evidence alone says nothing. But combined with other physical evidence found in the glasses man's home, investigators finally determined the existence of the traverser. And the basically correct conclusion was drawn that there was more than one of them, and there was a fierce battle!
The discovery was new and difficult for them to accept, but even more difficult for them to accept was that after a month of surveying the site, scientists on both sides came to the same conclusion: the battle took place in the sky.
To be precise, it took place in space, and although there were no corpses or even architectural remains left at the site, the crater, which had long been filled by seawater, was confirmed to have been formed by the impact of a massive weapon.
That is, the victorious side in the battle (unconfirmed) has space-based weapons, and they are of the type that can be fired continuously, and the power of a single shot is enough to take out any nuclear weapon they have at their disposal in seconds! In the face of this real suppression of strength, they launched a series of follow-up cooperation, and achieved certain results in a certain period of time.
Of course, these are all later words, and the most critical thing at the moment is Shen Chao's fate. As the person who has the most resources among all the current traversers, his awakening and slumber are of great significance to the future traverser era.
He wasn't idle after falling into a sudden slumber, in fact, he was probably the busiest of all the people involved. Contrary to what people think, he is not in a deep sleep, at least not in the spirit world.
After moving the Executor back to the main plane two months ago, he was put into sleep by a very familiar force. He had experienced that power before, and had experienced a similar sensation when he overused his traversal ability a few years ago.
At that time, he was only temporarily incapacitated, but this time his reaction was much stronger, and he directly pulled himself into a forced slumber. During these two months, he was constantly bombarded with information from unknown sources. Massive amounts of information poured into his mind like a flood, compressing his consciousness.
If it weren't for an unknown force protecting his consciousness, he would have been swept away by this flood of information. After two and a half months of long slumber and information baptism, Shen Chao was finally able to understand a small part of those messages, and finally survived until the tide of information disappeared.
After this inexplicable tide of information disappeared. His consciousness gradually regained as one, and in a moment of confusion, he regained control of his body, and finally struggled to open his eyes.
A burst of bright light stimulated him, but because of his very good physical condition, after closing his eyes for a few seconds and opening them again, he could already see everything in the outside world more clearly. At this moment, he felt his left hand tingle a little, twisted his neck with great effort, and he saw a familiar figure, it turned out to be Alice holding his left hand lying on the side of the bed to rest.
Shen Chao tried to move his fingers again, and gently scratched the other party's soft palm, and suddenly a tremor came, and Alice's body trembled, as if sensing this excitement. She raised her head and looked at Shen Chao twice in disbelief, still dazed as if she was in a dream, and seemed to instinctively reach out and touch Shen Chao's face.
Then she seemed to suddenly realize that Shen Chao was really awake, so she hurriedly called the doctors in. In the next half hour, after some necessary and unnecessary medical examinations, Shen Chao sent all the medical workers away and tried to get out of the bed.
Compared to his peak form, he is very weak now, but his basic mobility has not been lost. After all, his foundation is very thick, and it didn't take long for him to regain consciousness and he was strong enough to get out of bed and move on his own.
There was no doubt that the news of his awakening would quickly spread throughout the control areas of the Space-Time Council, and at this time, the man who had mastered the fate of tens of billions of people did not share any of his energy with those tens of billions of people, because all his attention was focused on his girlfriend, her slightly bulging belly to be precise.
"How long?" I'm not saying that the time I've been in a coma ......" Shen Chao asked, his words filled with obvious surprise and anticipation. Because it stands to reason that Alice's pregnancy should not have happened, Dr. Neville concluded that Alice had basically lost her fertility due to the impact of the T-virus when he first examined her a few years ago.
Although it is not completely impossible to conceive, the possibility is considered astronomical, that is, almost completely impossible, because Alice's body is completely affected by the T-virus, and almost all important organs have been modified to varying degrees.
In addition to her human appearance, she is actually a new species, and she is reproductively isolated from ordinary people. There are no "normal" human eggs in the body that can be used to conceive. This fact has never affected the relationship between Shen Chao and Alice before, because neither of them wants children, so there has been no targeted treatment for this problem.
And now it seems that by some serendipity, they actually won the bid, and created a new life with a probability that is almost negligible. Although it is unknown whether the child will be born smoothly in the future, it at least answers one of his previous major doubts, and now everything makes sense.
"It's been 4 months. ”
"It seems that you are ultimately right in this matter, we really don't need science to help us solve all our problems......" Shen Chao said that Alice refuted his point of view when they discussed the Fengshen Project before, and it was also his latest insight. (To be continued......)
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The second chapter is delivered tonight, and I don't need to remind you that you should also see the ending