The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

Chapter 203 Who is this? Your relative?
After an unknown amount of time, Shen Ge's consciousness gradually returned. He felt himself floating in an endless dark space, recalling those familiar voices in his mind.

He wanted to open his eyes, but his mind began to flash back to the last scene of being dragged into that mysterious room. All the eyes in the room were staring at him, magnifying his fear.

"Got you……"

"Got you."

"Got you!"

This is the most common phrase Shen Ge has heard since he entered the dream world, but the difference is that this time it is his own voice that says it, as if it is him who is sitting in the chair in the center of the room, constantly repeating this eerie sentence in his ear.

Just when Shen Ge's consciousness was about to collapse from the torture of this "devil's sound", a song with AI-style synthesized sound suddenly rang in his mind. Shen Ge was not unfamiliar with this voice, it was the voice of Xiao Qi!

"Without you, the world is hard to move forward. I am stuck in the same place and let the memories gather. In the dark night, I pray for the dawn to come, and only you give me the warm morning light. At the end of my longing, I finally believe that without you, the world cannot give love. Sadness entangles me again and again and I cannot dodge it. There is a voice in my heart that always shouts -"

"Please come back soon~ I can't bear it alone; please come back soon~ and bring back my thoughts... Don't let my heart be as empty as the sea!"

"Master, if you don't wake up, I'll be so idle that an artificial intelligence crisis will break out!" Although Xiaoqi's AI synthesized voice does not have any emotions, one can hear helplessness and sadness.

Seven days have passed since Shen Ge fell into a "coma". As soon as he fell into a coma, the monster in the mirror immediately controlled the strange black blood to form a cover to wrap him up, trying to devour Shen Ge's body and consciousness.

Classmate Xiao Qi controlled the Corrupted Blood Armor to protect Shen Ge's body and block the erosion of the monster in the mirror. Although it blocked the erosion of the body, it could not prevent the monster in the mirror from entering Shen Ge's body and trying to devour his consciousness.

Fortunately, Shen Ge had a strong will. Before the monster in the mirror succeeded in his conspiracy to devour his consciousness, he discovered the situation in the mirror world first, mastered the ability to "materialize" in the mirror world, and defeated the monster in the mirror.

The consciousness of the monster in the mirror was severely damaged. Xiao Qi also noticed this through the strange energy reaction in the black blood. When the other party tried to escape, he controlled the strange stomach to swallow him.

After killing the biggest threat, the monster in the mirror, Xiao Qi controlled the Corrupted Blood Armor to protect Shen Ge's body, and cleaned up the low-level monsters and parasites around him when he was bored.

Seven days passed in a flash, and Xiao Qi felt that he was about to gain intelligence. He finally discovered that Shen Ge showed signs of waking up.

"Master, are you awake?" Xiao Qi asked while scanning Shen Ge's physical condition.

Shen Ge gradually became conscious. After opening his eyes, he found himself sitting on a bench by the East Ring Lake wearing a corrupted blood armor. The East Ring Lake, which was originally occupied by weirdness and filled with black fog, had now dissipated a lot of fog. The corpses of low-level weirdness and parasites by the lake piled up into a small hill.

"This is..." Shen Ge asked in confusion.

Xiao Qi explained, "Hey, Master, you've been in a coma for seven days. I finally got you back. It would be hard to move without you. I wanted to take you back to the department and have the medical department check you up to at least ensure your nutritional supply. But after wandering around for a few days, I couldn't get out, so I cleaned up the low-level weirdness and parasites in the park. Oh, I located the location of the weirdness that maintains this weird space. It's at the bottom of the lake."

"It's just that this monster has a similar high-level weird power to the one in the Yuzhou incident. It formed an invisible energy barrier at the bottom of the lake. I tried to control the armor to break it violently, but I couldn't break it. I also looked for an entrance around it, but to no avail."

Classmate Xiaoqi recounted what had happened in the past few days. In short, the minions and the monster in the mirror were all dealt with by it, and now the only area left that could not be entered was the area in the center of the lake with the strongest weird energy reaction.

Shen Ge asked in confusion: "I remember you said before that there is a shielding force here. Why can you locate the weirdness that maintains the weird space?"

Classmate Xiao Qi replied: "After you fell into a coma, the bloody monster controlled the black blood to control us, but on the third day of your coma, his black blood suddenly exploded. I detected that the strange energy reaction was gradually weakening. He wanted to run, but I grabbed him and swallowed him with my strange stomach. After the bloody monster died, the shielding effect here was much weaker, so I tested the surroundings... and then found this bunch of monsters..."

As Xiao Qi was speaking, a rotten blood tentacle extended from the left shoulder of Shen Ge's rotten blood armor and pointed at the pile of corpses in front.

"..." Shen Ge really wanted to complain, you have been very busy these days, but the most important thing right now is to figure out the situation in the strange space.

"System, scan the surroundings."

This time the system did not prompt [This area is affected by special effects and cannot be detected], but marked it on the [map] as before.

Since Xiaoqi has dealt with all the monsters and parasites around him, only a large red dot is shown in the center of the lake on the [map].

Shen Ge then asked, "The last time I came here to ask you to scan me, you mentioned that 'the release of strange energy was hindered'. Is this still the case now?"

[This scan was normal, and there was no obstruction to the release of strange energy. ]

Shen Ge frowned slightly and asked again: "Is it because the obstruction to the release of strange energy has been reduced, so the scan can be performed normally, or is it because the obstruction to the release of strange energy does not exist at all?"

【does not exist.】

Shen Ge frowned. When Xiao Qi came to Donghuan Lake before, both the detection and the system's detection were "blocked". He thought the problem was with the strange space, or the weirdness that maintained the strange space, but now it seems that is not the case!
If there is any "difference" between this time and before, the biggest problem is that the monster in the mirror was killed by him and Xiaoqi.

"Could it be that as my replica, that guy absorbed the blood extracted after the Yuzhou incident and mastered a power similar to 'not coming out'?"

But as soon as this idea appeared in Shen Ge's mind, he quickly rejected it.

The reason is very simple. If the monster in the mirror really possesses an ability similar to "not coming out", it should be manifested in both the dream world and the real world.

Shen Ge regretted killing the monster in the mirror. If he could catch it and study it carefully, maybe he could answer the doubts in his heart.

However, his situation at that time was rather special. First, he was trapped in the mirror world and could not find a way to leave. Secondly, he could not communicate with his classmate Xiaoqi in the real world. When Xiaoqi detected a target that posed a threat to Shen Ge, he naturally dealt with it in the safest way.

What is the safest way?

Of course, the safest way is to kill the opponent and eat him till not even a scrap is left.

"If the previous 'shielding' was the ability of the monster in the mirror, then what about the weirdness in the lake that can generate an invisible barrier?" Shen Ge thought about it and felt that the easiest way was to enter the bottom of the lake to explore, solve the weirdness, break the weird space, and then all problems would be solved.

Shen Ge walked to the lake and stretched out his blood-rotten tentacles. Although the thick fog on the surface of Donghuan Lake had dissipated, the lake water was still turbid. Classmate Xiao Qi reported that the scene captured by the blood-rotten tentacles stretched into the water was similar to the previous one, so he could only use the most primitive method of "feeling his way".

Soon, Xiao Qi projected the footage taken at the bottom of the lake. The visibility at the bottom of the lake was extremely low. The previous few times he came here to "fish out corpses", he also relied on this "feeling" method. This time, he was already familiar with this method. In addition, Xiao Qi had already marked the area of ​​the "invisible barrier", so he quickly found the location.

The location marked by Xiaoqi is much closer to the shore than the previous location of the strange fish, but it also requires a cruise ship to get there.

While controlling the blood-rotten tentacles to observe the scene at the bottom of the lake, Shen Ge controlled the cruise ship to move forward and arrived just above the target point marked by Xiao Qi.

Standing on a small boat on the lake, as a gust of cold wind blew by, in the depressing environment, one's heart became colder, as if the air had become several degrees colder.

The dim sky, the turbid black water, Shen Ge once again had the illusion that he was slowly being swallowed by the East Ring Lake, just like the feeling of being in a dark space in a dream world.

Shen Ge looked at the lake bottom on the screen projected on his wrist. There was not even a ripple on the water surface. The murky water reflected the dim sky, making people feel a sense of oppression as if the sky had collapsed. The bottom of the lake was turbid and dark, and only the rotten blood tentacles could be seen beating against an invisible barrier.

"Master, we are blocked by this invisible barrier." said Xiaoqi.

Shen Ge thought for a moment and asked, "Have you ever tried to go into the water?"

"Although the Type III Red Mist Armor cannot be completely used as diving equipment, it can provide a short-term diving effect." Xiao Qi was referring to the situation when Shen Ge solved the giant monster at sea and Xiao Qi used the corrupt blood tentacles to transform into an octopus monster and swam back.

Shen Ge thought for a moment. Although it was very dangerous to enter the water rashly, if he wanted to know what was behind the invisible barrier, the best way was to go down and find out.

"How long can it last at most?" Shen Ge asked.

"About 5 minutes." Xiao Qi replied, but the five minutes he mentioned was not the limit that the Red Mist Armor could withstand, but the time Shen Ge could stay under the water without affecting his consciousness.

"Let's try it." Shen Ge said, and jumped from the boat into the water.

Xiao Qi immediately controlled the red mist armor to form blood-corrupted tentacles, then transformed into an octopus monster and swam quickly toward the bottom of the lake.

"Gulu."

"Gulu."

As Shen Ge swam towards the bottom of the lake, he suddenly heard a strange and unique swallowing sound. The sound was very loud, like two thunders suddenly exploding.

Then the drum-like swallowing sound gradually became smaller, and became a bit like a fish spitting bubbles, accompanied by the sound of bubbles bursting.

At this moment, Shen Ge saw several black shadows flashing under the water through the beams of light emitted by the red mist armor, and one of them rushed towards him at high speed. Shen Ge reacted quickly and immediately asked the system to use "strength amplification" on himself. He gathered his strength with both arms and controlled the rotten blood tentacles to cover the opponent.

After controlling the black shadow, Shen Ge shone the beam over there, only to find that the huge black shadow was actually a huge fish head, and the lower body was a bunch of thick octopus tentacles.

Mr. Ke’s illegitimate child?
The monster in front of him looked exactly the same as the level 3 monster that Shen Ge killed when he first came to the strange space of Donghuan Lake. At this time, several black shadows behind him also pounced over, and they were all this kind of "fish head monster"!
"System, didn't you say there was only one weirdo at the bottom of the lake? There are more than one." Shen Ge dodged the attack of the weird fish head while fighting with the red mist armor.

[After testing, the number of strange things at the bottom of the lake is 1, correct. 】

Shen Ge heard a system prompt in his mind, but before he could complain, Xiao Qi explained, "Master, look at these 'fish heads'. Their bodies are like tentacles connected to the depths... Do you think this is an octopus-like monster, and these fish heads are its tentacles? Also, they seem to be able to enter and exit that invisible barrier at will!"

Shen Ge actually also noticed these details, that is, these strange fish heads directly passed through the strange fish heads and crashed into him without being blocked by the invisible barrier.

Shen Ge tried to control the corrupt blood tentacles, but the invisible barrier still existed. He asked Xiao Qi to swim down for a distance, and then deployed the "Do not leave the strange area" to condense an invisible barrier to wrap himself up. The barriers collided with each other, and he was able to pass through easily.

Now that he knew the situation of the strange fish head, Shen Ge naturally would not waste time on the opponent's "hand", but swam directly into the deep to find the target's body.

Soon Shen Ge found a huge bloody tumor at the bottom of the lake, beating like a heart.

Shen Ge has seen this kind of thing quite often in the dream world. It is the "collection" of the director of Rongshan Mental Hospital. Those are parasitic monsters that have merged the weird flesh and blood of the ancestor.

"The strength of the strange energy is level 4..." After Shen Ge saw the strength of the strange energy of the blood and flesh tumor through his strange eyes, he opened the immovable strange domain and used bullet time to dodge the opponent's intensive close attacks.

Strength increase!

Shen Ge held the butcher knife and chopped at the bloody and fleshy tumor with all his strength, splitting the entire bloody and fleshy tumor in half. When those strange fish heads rushed over, he "drilled" into it.

After Shen Ge placed a strange energy high-explosive bomb inside the hematoma, he cut a hole in it and swam out from the other side. He used the barrier that did not leave the strange area to block himself, and then detonated the strange energy bomb!

boom!
The strange energy generated by the explosion of the strange energy bomb and the strange energy of the blood and flesh tumor collided violently to produce a strange energy vortex. The strange energy bomb alone could not solve the opponent. Shen Ge just used it to expand the "injury" of the blood and flesh tumor. Then he asked Xiao Qi to control the red mist armor to absorb the opponent's strange energy and reduce the target's defense to the minimum. At the same time, he turned into a butcher with a butcher knife and chopped off those strange fish heads.

A few minutes later, Shen Ge swam to the shore dragging a bloody tumor with a diameter of about three to five meters and threw it next to the pile of strange corpses.

[The host is brave and invincible, single-handedly kills level 4 weirdos, and is rewarded with system points x5000, level E recovery items x1, and level F recovery items x3. 】

[Weird corpses can be sold - value: 8000 system points. 】

"no."

Although strange disasters are erupting all over the world now, level 4 strangeness is still very rare. Taking this corpse back for research or making strange energy equipment is better than selling 8000 system points. What's more, Shen Ge currently has nearly system points, so he is not short of them.

What's more, this level 4 monster looks very much like the dean's "collection". Shen Ge suspects that it has some relationship with the research of the Monster Association. Taking it back for research is undoubtedly the best choice.

At this time, with the death of the 4th level weird, the originally gloomy sky fog gradually dissipated. Classmate Xiao Qi detected the changes in the weird energy and told Shen Ge that the weird space here was breaking.

Shen Ge was just about to take out the communicator to contact the department, but Xiao Qi received a communication request from the department first.

After asking Shen Ge, Xiao Qi answered the communicator and heard a woman's voice: "The Information Department is calling Detective Shen, the Information Department is calling Detective Shen..."

"I'm Shen Ge." Just after he finished speaking, Shen Ge clearly heard the other party breathe a sigh of relief, and quickly explained the situation to him.

After Shen Ge entered the strange space this time, Deng Yuqi did not dare to send people into the strange space for support as it was unclear whether the Twelve Branches would launch an attack while Shen Ge was away. Therefore, he only sent troops to block the entire East Ring Lake area and asked the Information Department to contact Shen Ge.

Two days after Shen Ge "lost contact", Deng Yuqi changed the original contact once every few hours to continuous contact for 24 hours.

Unfortunately, the attempts to contact Shen Ge fell on deaf ears and received no response. People in the department were also very worried about his safety.

This is the first time that Shen Ge has been "out of contact" for such a long time since the cherry blossom disaster.

Fortunately, after Shen Ge entered the strange space of East Ring Lake, the strange space not only did not spread, but the weird organization did not take any more "actions", which was the best news for everyone. It also meant that Shen Ge's "entry" had an effect, and it also proved that he was at least safe for now.

Deng Yuqi even suspected that Shen Ge had encountered the same situation as the cherry blossom disaster and "traveled" to another dimension.

In a sense, it is true.

After contacting Shen Ge, the Information Department immediately reported the situation to Deng Yuqi. However, since Shen Ge encountered many situations in the dream world and there were still many things that needed to be "verified", he simply reported on the "travel" of the Sakura Disaster and did not explain the situation in the dream world in detail.

Soon, Deng Yuqi personally led a team to Donghuan Lake to pick up Shen Ge. When he asked the team to deal with the hematoma and the strange corpse, he also briefly told Shen Ge what happened in Rong City and the branch during the week he was away.

First of all, the frequency of strange events is still increasing. Secondly, after Shen Ge entered the strange space of East Ring Lake, the twelve branches that had been "cooperating" with the monster in the mirror suddenly "disappeared" and did not continue to cause trouble in Rong City.

However, Deng Yuqi did not relax his vigilance. Instead, he put the branch and Quanlongshan base on high alert to prevent the enemy from launching a sudden big move.

While the two were exchanging intelligence from the week, they drove back to the Rong City branch. Shen Ge had been "missing" for a week, and many acquaintances were very happy to learn that he had returned safely, and a large group of people gathered in front of the complex building.

Seeing Shen Ge coming from outside the courtyard, the first person to rush up was naturally Cheng Shengnan, who hugged him excitedly. Shen Ge smiled and patted Cheng Shengnan on the back: "Sakura has been missing for more than half a month, and I haven't seen you so nervous. This time it's only been a week, how come..."

"This is different. The last time the cherry blossom disaster occurred, it was a city crisis, but this time the Twelve Zodiac Signs and that weirdo who looks exactly like you are obviously targeting you." Cheng Shengnan said worriedly.

Mother Cheng stepped forward with a smile: "Nannan, you too, you know Xiao Shen's strength very well. Even if there are weirdos targeting him, he will be able to easily resolve the crisis with his strength."

As Cheng's mother learned more about the strangeness, she became more aware of Shen Ge's powerful "strength". After all, there was no one else in the world who could handle the strange disaster alone.

And after Cheng's mother reached an agreement with the headquarters on the issue of financial support, she could be considered a "small boss" in the Special Policy Department's weird research. Although there were many entrepreneurs like her in the country, the number of those who treated money as paper and supported the Rong City branch without hesitation could be counted on one hand.

Cheng's mother's idea was very simple. Although her "family" was in Australia, she grew up in China and regarded it as her home.

The most important thing is that her only daughter settled in Rong City, so she naturally chose this city. Therefore, she did not hesitate to take out money to support the branch and try to contribute to the development of Rong City. Only when Rong City is safe, Cheng Shengnan and she, who settled here, will be safe accordingly.

Cheng's mother was already considering how to "reasonably" transfer her Australian property back to China, so she didn't care too much about the postponement of her trip to Australia.

Unexpectedly, she encountered the Donghuan Lake incident while she was still planning. Shen Ge's "strength" was so great that she was missing for a week, which made her a little worried. However, in front of her daughter, even though she was also worried about Shen Ge's safety, she had to show the momentum of a "parent".

Although Cheng Shengnan is Cheng's mother's "adopted daughter" and the two do not look alike, after adopting her, Cheng's mother raised her and nurtured her carefully.

Although they don't look the same, their temperament and demeanor are exactly the same.

Shen Ge smiled politely at Cheng's mother after hearing what she said, then looked at Cheng Shengnan in his arms and said with a smile: "Who is this? The newly transferred cadre? By the way, your tone and demeanor are surprisingly similar... If I didn't know better, I would have thought you were mother and daughter... Are you relatives?"

Cheng Shengnan was stunned and looked at Shen Ge in disbelief.

Mother Cheng was also stunned by what Shen Ge said. She originally thought that Shen Ge might be joking to ease the atmosphere after surviving a disaster, but she caught from Shen Ge's expression and eyes that the other party seemed not to know her!
"What's wrong?" Shen Ge also noticed something was wrong, especially the strange look in Cheng Shengnan's eyes in his arms.

If Cheng Shengnan wasn't too "familiar" with Shen Ge, so familiar that he could tell the truth from the false just by looking at the other person's expression and breath, otherwise, just based on the strange man who looked exactly like Shen Ge who appeared before, he would have become "suspicious" after he said this.

"You don't know her?" Cheng Shengnan frowned slightly.

Shen Ge immediately realized the problem: "So... I should know her? But I don't have any memory related to her in my mind now, as if this is the first time I met her."

As soon as Shen Ge said this, Cheng Shengnan standing behind him, Li Xiang and his wife beside him, and other members of the Special Policy Department all realized the problem.

Deng Yuqi thought for a moment, pointed at the people around him and asked, "Shen Ge, look at these people here, is there anyone you don't know?"

Shen Ge looked around, and finally his eyes stopped on a woman: "She."

Liu Jiayi:?

　I'm officially back, and I'm going to start stable updates today. Thank you for waiting for me. I'm really unlucky for this "accident". I'll tell you about it tomorrow to make you happy.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)