Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Past and Present of the Infinite City

"If I'm not mistaken, you're supposed to be the department that specializes in dealing with this kind of thing, right?"

Just when the policemen began to think about whether Chen Xiyao had gone crazy, Chen Xiyao suddenly opened her mouth and asked such a question, the policeman led by him heard this, took out his ID card from his arms, showed her his photo and the page with the big steel seal, and waited for her to clearly confirm the details on it before she spoke:

"That's right, we are from the Yanguo Strange Talk Countermeasures Bureau, this name should be relatively unfamiliar to you, to use a more popular name, it is to get closer to science."

"Approaching science? Are you serious? "Chen Xiyao originally thought that the strange talk countermeasures bureau sounded quite forced, but the result was to get closer to science?

The policeman did not respond to Chen Xiyao's question, but instead said:

"Do you know where that place you went to?"

"I heard it's called Infinite City." Chen Xiyao did not be vague on this issue, but directly said the title she heard from Feng Xue, and the policeman nodded slightly when she heard this, and then explained:

"Strange talk has existed in this world since ancient times, in ancient times, people made up gods because of their fear of nature, and from these worship of gods, the first strange stories were born, but as time went by, the power of human beings gradually increased, technology slowly improved, and the fear of gods for nature and gods was also decreasing day by day, which led to fewer and fewer new strange stories, and the power was getting weaker and weaker, especially more than four hundred years ago, With the death of Quetzalcoatl's god Azquel along with the Azquet civilization by Iberian colonists, the era of weirdness and gods has officially come to an end. ”

Chen Xiyao knew that it was impossible for this story to end here, otherwise there would not be such an organization, but she did not open her mouth to praise it, but quietly waited for the following, and sure enough, after the police changed their tone slightly, they continued:

"But after the 70s of the last century, because of the economic bubble in the east, the self-confidence was overinflated, and then after the bubble burst, the spirit and economy of the people in the east were irreparably damaged, and after that, there was a so-called lost generation ......"

"I know this, the story of Spirited Away is actually the story of a lost generation working hard to find themselves......" Chen Xiyao thought of the analysis of the movies she had watched in her heart, and thought silently, and at the same time equated Feng Xue and Bai Long again.

The policeman obviously didn't know what Chen Xiyao was thinking, but still continued:

"Because the East Kingdom has been an elf belief since ancient times, believing that everything can become gods, and the spiritual emptiness of the lost generation and the confusion of the golden generation after falling from a high place have created a great emptiness of faith, which has led to the emergence of a large number of cults in the East Country, accompanied by strange talks that have not been born for a long time, and began to appear in the East Country like a blowout, although most of them are just rift girls, nocturnal monks and the like, at most at the level of ordinary murderers, but there are also some extremely powerful existences, such as the place you went to this time, The world known as the Infinite City. ”

When Chen Xiyao heard this, she unconsciously straightened up, allowing herself to regain her spirit from the relaxation after returning home.

Seeing her expression, the policeman didn't know what to think in his heart, and while paying attention to Chen Xiyao's mental state, he said cautiously:

"The predecessor of Infinity City, is a large high-tech community built in the capital of the East in the seventies, you may not know very well, but your parents' generation, should not be unfamiliar with this matter, at that time the East claimed to be the world's most advanced technology concentrated in it, can become the blueprint for all communities in the future, and later it is true, now many luxury communities, whether it is layout or design scheme, have adopted the design concept of that community, but as the embodiment of the national self-confidence of the East at that time, this community, But with the bursting of the economic bubble, it was over. ”

"Rotten, rotten?!" Chen Xiyao's eyes widened in disbelief, repeating this unexpected and reasonable answer, such a large community is definitely not something that can be completed in a year or two, but how to say it...... I just think it's weird.

"That's right, it's unfinished, and this complex that almost embodies the self-confidence of the people of Dongguo at that time seems to have disappeared overnight, and then, this community has really disappeared, I mean physical."

When the policeman said this, he was slightly silent for a moment, as if he was waiting for Chen Xiyao to absorb this information, and Chen Xiyao really asked:

"So this community went to another world? Turned into an infinite city? ”

"It's true that it became an infinite city, but it didn't go to another world." When the policeman said this, his expression became serious-

"The Infinite City has become a super-large strange story in the downturn of the East Country as a whole, and it has disappeared into this world along with the glory of the Golden Age, but it has dived into the shadows of the world, which is not a description, because since then, the Infinite City will occasionally produce a passage to connect with reality.

"Originally, these passages were concentrated in the eastern country, because there were a lot of strange stories there, and everyone only thought that they were missing strange stories similar to 'Shen Yin', but as time went by, these passages began to appear all over the world, and almost every time the passage was opened, an ordinary person would disappear, but what really alerted countries was that Infinite City was producing strange stories."

"Can it be produced as a strange talk?" Chen Xiyao faintly sensed something, and immediately asked, and the police immediately gave an affirmative answer:

"Yes. The human mind has weight, and when countless thoughts converge, strange stories will arise, and those things that live in the infinite city will get the fear they want by torturing the living, so as to turn themselves into strange stories, and when these strange stories grow to a certain extent, they will use those doors to invade reality and gain more power through large-scale killing.

"In the past thirty years, there have been more and more such cases, and the methods of the residents of Infinite City have become more and more cruel, especially in the past ten years, almost every person who has come back from there has been unimaginably tortured, and very few can communicate normally, and those who can barely communicate have extremely limited information.

"This is the first case in ten years that you have returned with such an intact and relatively normal mental state, so we hope to learn from you what the world is like over there?"

The policeman's tone suddenly became serious and serious, making Chen Xiyao even want to stand up and salute.

She took a deep breath, and many of the things she had seen and heard in Infinite City began to slowly fit with the information the police had told her, and Feng Xue's many strange actions seemed to have corresponding answers.