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

"When will I be able to move in and out of areas full of strange things as easily as Chairman Shen, and jump into endless deep pits without even frowning? Damn, even I, a man, feel so cool!" Jiang Chong muttered to himself as he walked towards the base.

Shen Ge, who jumped into the deep pit, found that the pit was much deeper than he had imagined. He fell vertically for nearly 20 minutes, but still had no sign of reaching the bottom.

But Xiao Qi detected that the strange energy fluctuations around him were becoming stronger and stronger, and had even exceeded the seventh level of strange strength.

The situation was indeed developing in the direction that Shen Ge least wanted to see. The "Big Whale" was really undergoing an eighth-level transformation.

The only good news is probably that the "Big Whale" has not yet completed the eighth-level transformation and is currently in the seventh-level state.

【warn! 】

[The host is approaching the "Seventh Order Weirdness", and the target is showing a trend of alienating to the Eighth Order. The host's current strength is not enough to defeat the other party, please do not approach the other party to prevent being locked by the target's weirdness. ]

The system issued a long-unseen danger warning, and at the same time confirmed that the "Big Whale" was undergoing an eighth-level transformation.

"It seems that my previous guess was correct. That guy must have been sure that he would let the 'Big Whale' attack the seventh-level weirdness in the Dajing Ruins."

Regardless of whether the other party had dug a trap and was waiting for him, Shen Ge felt that he had to go down and find out.

"Master, I have detected the scent of the blood spiders that were released before. They should be less than two kilometers away from us." Classmate Xiao Qi released some blood spiders into the deep pit when Shen Ge just arrived there. Although the falling speed was very slow, Shen Ge went back to the base, and the blood spiders reached the bottom first due to the delay.

After falling for a while, Shen Ge finally reached the bottom of the deep pit, but the area he fell into was soft and felt like he was stepping on flesh and blood.

Shen Ge asked Xiao Qi to control the corrupt blood tentacles to roll out several strange energy flashlights from the strange space, turn them on, and scatter them in all directions to illuminate the surroundings.

This place is like a huge underground cave, except that the ground is covered with knee-deep fungal carpet, and the walls are covered with a thick layer of sticky black substance.

"Passing through the deep pit and directly reaching the belly of the 'big whale'?" Shen Ge scanned with some doubts, but found that he was not in a strange belly as he imagined.

Everything around seemed more like a high-level dead monster that had "assimilated" with the surrounding environment.

At this time, Shen Ge discovered that there was a series of "puffing" noises coming from the open area ahead, as if something was "swimming" in the swamp where the fungal mat had condensed.

Shen Ge stretched out the tentacle holding the strange energy flashlight and took a look. It turned out to be some humanoid monsters trying to break free from the fungal mat and struggle out of the pool.

"Master, there seems to be something in these fungal mats." Xiao Qi said as he focused the strange flashlight near Shen Ge so that he could see clearly what was happening under his feet.

There are a large number of strange parasites in the fungal blanket.

The strange thing is that they didn't seem to be in the fungal blanket from the beginning, but fell out from those strange humanoid bodies.

Shen Ge stretched out his blood-rotten tentacle and grabbed one, taking a closer look. It was somewhat similar to the new type of parasitic weird sample he obtained in Xinhai City.

"That person is behind the scenes supporting the Monster Organization to conduct research on ghosts, and then going to other fragment worlds to conduct experiments after obtaining new research results?"

"So the reason why the 'Big Whale' stopped above the military base was not because it was disobeying orders, but because that person was waiting for new research results to come out, so as to strengthen the 'Big Whale' and allow it to complete the seventh-level transformation, so that it can fight against the seventh-level weirdness in the old site of Dajing?"

"What does this guy want to do?"

Create a real tenth-order ghost king and use it to deal with the earth?

Or can he save his world by having the Tenth-Level Ghost King absorb the ghost energy emitted by the earth and slow down the speed of the earth's alienation?

"System, scan the surroundings." Shen Ge said.

"scanning."

[Consume 100 system points and now start marking targets containing sly energy within 10 kilometers——]

[Mark successfully. 】

Shen Ge opened the [Map] and took a look. The number of monsters around was not as many as he had imagined. Most of them were humanoid monsters that were blown into the deep pit by Jiang Chong.

However, the red area covering the entire site of Dajing has not disappeared, which shows that it is still within the influence of the "big whale".

Shen Ge ignored the humanoid and parasitic weirdness in the fungal blanket, and instead headed towards the area on the right where the weird energy fluctuations were the largest based on the information detected by Xiao Qi.

The deeper they went, the lighter the fungal mat became, until finally a dull metal wall appeared in front of Shen Ge.

"It looks like a laboratory." Shen Ge knocked on the metal wall with his hand covered with the red mist armor, and the touch felt very real.

The material of this wall is also very hard. After scanning, Xiaoqi found that this material is usually used for deep-sea operations.

"Deep-sea construction?" Shen Ge was very curious. It was just a deep pit, so where did he get himself to?

In the past, there were traces of the distorted strange space, and most of them were the same area in different fragmented worlds. But since he was dragged to a strange space last time, Shen Ge found that the distorted strange space had a large "regional" fluctuation, and it would not appear in the same area in different fragmented worlds as before.

"Laboratory, deep-sea building." Shen Ge had a bad feeling. Could it be that this deep pit was connected to the "famous" Haiya Research Institute?
Shen Ge had been to the Haiya Research Institute once, but it was because he had saved up some system points after the cherry blossom disaster, so he went to the Haiya Research Institute to try his luck in the lottery.

Moreover, the Haiya Research Institute had been rebuilt at that time, and not even the frame of the old site where the accident had occurred was left, so Shen Ge didn't know what the real Haiya Research Institute looked like.

However, Shen Ge discovered a problem. That is, whenever there was a large distance deviation in the distorted space, there were the shadows of the "big whale" and the mysterious hooded man behind it.

This time, he happened to track down the blood spider that Xiaoqi had left on the "big whale", and then was dragged into a twisted and strange space.

Obviously, the other party might have deliberately lured him in.

Shen Ge did not rush to move forward, but tried to use the power of dreams to connect to the located teleportation point.

[Lock the teleportation area "Ark"]

【Do you want to transfer? 】

Very good, the transmission function is working fine, which means that Shen Ge's most critical trump card is not affected by the distorted space. But this is not surprising, the power of dreams is a special power that connects the fragmented world, and naturally it will not be affected by space.

In addition to obtaining a strange eye, Shen Ge also obtained a large amount of dream power in the collapsing world last time. This was the time when he had the most dream power.

Therefore, even if Shen Ge's strange abilities and characteristics are banned, and even the red mist armor cannot be used, as long as the power of dreams is not exhausted, he will be invincible!
Shen Ge walked to the metal hatch and stood still. He unfolded the invisible strange domain and released "collapse" on the thick metal hatch in front of him, and then went straight through the hatch.

There are no words like key and door card in Shen Ge’s dictionary. “Collapse” combined with “atomization” can solve all “doors”.

Behind the door was a dark metal corridor with display screens installed on the walls on both sides, but many of them were damaged, and there were dried blood stains on the floor and walls.

"Di."

At this moment, a warning sound suddenly sounded in the dark corridor, and then the entire corridor lit up in dark red, as if the emergency system had been activated.

The entire corridor was filled with a strange red light. Although you can barely see things, it is better than complete darkness. However, this sci-fi corridor shrouded in dark red gives people the feeling that a spaceship in a sci-fi movie is entering the countdown to self-destruction.

Before, Shen Ge couldn’t understand why the mysterious hooded man did all this, and now he couldn’t figure out what he wanted to do by dragging him in.

No matter what, now that we are here, as long as the "teleportation ability" is not affected, we can explore deeper into the cave with confidence.

At the end is a fork in the road, which is marked as leading to three areas: A-1, A-2 and A-3. No further information is revealed, and no one knows what the three areas are for.

"Master, according to the signs at the end, a-1 is the office area, a-2 is the warehouse, and a-3 is the experimental area." Soon, the blood spider that Xiaoqi sent out to explore the way came back.

"Then let's go directly to the experimental area." Shen Ge walked towards channel A-3.

The flickering dark red lights in the corridor give people a strong sense of psychological oppression.

"Please provide identity verification." When Shen Ge walked to the metal hatch at the end, a mechanical AI synthesized voice sounded from the scanning system in front of the door.

Judging from the situation along the way, this research base was severely damaged. The walls in many places had been twisted and deformed, as if they had been hit by some powerful monster.

Dried blood stains could be seen everywhere on the ground, walls, and ceiling, as well as many traces of blood left by dragging, which was enough to show how brutal the battle was.

But the strange thing is that there is no corpse to be found, neither human nor weird, and there is no sign of the entire space being fused by weird things.

This was the most "normal" research base Shen Ge had encountered in his entire experience dealing with ghosts. It was so normal that there wasn't even a working light in the base, and the system hadn't even forgotten to perform identity authentication.

Shen Ge didn't bother to pay attention to the system authentication and directly used "collapse" to pass through the hatch.

"Warning! An unknown individual has been detected entering the experimental area by skipping identity verification. Level IV alert mode has been activated. Researchers please retreat to the safe room immediately!"

After hearing the continuous voice broadcasts in the experimental area, Shen Ge was immediately curious about what the so-called "Level IV Alert Mode" was. However, he waited for two minutes but did not see any follow-up content.

The strangest thing is that the entire experimental area is empty. There is no experimental equipment on the laboratory table, let alone research reports and experimental subjects.

"This place looks like it's been looted. Could it be that before the strange disaster broke out, everyone here was evacuated, and those traces of battle and bloodstains outside were left by the remaining fighters?" Shen Ge walked around the laboratory and found no useful information.

"Wait, the safe room!" Shen Ge suddenly thought of the safe room mentioned in the voice message just now. If they evacuate, not everyone can be evacuated. There should still be people staying in the safe room, right?

Find the safe room, maybe there will be some clues.

Shen Ge looked around, and finally Xiao Qi found the "safe room" hidden behind the metal wall by analyzing the gaps in the wall.

Shen Ge used the "collapse" to directly enter the safe room. It was just as he expected, with a large number of skeletons lying all over the place, and it looked like they had "starved to death".

Shen Ge picked up a few employee ID cards that were so yellowed that the photos could no longer be seen and took a look. The certificates were valid until 2000, so the experimental accident here should have occurred before this time.

Looking at it this way, it coincides with the time when the incident occurred at the Haiya Research Institute.

After Shen Ge searched for a while and found no other useful information, he came out of the first safe house and went to the second safe house.

The "safe houses" are all the same size, about 30 square meters, and are equipped with a bed, a toilet, several buckets of water and several boxes of emergency canned food.

It looked like a safe room prepared for one person, but there were seven or eight dead skeletons in both the first and second rooms.

Judging from the empty cans and buckets all over the floor, he must have run out of resources and starved to death in the safe room before being rescued.

However, the second room was obviously much more tragic than the first one. Many of the skeletons were incomplete and were piled up in the corners of the room.

There was a skeleton lying on the bed and a yellowed diary.

Shen Ge carefully picked up the diary and looked through it. Most of the data on it were incomprehensible experimental data. The pages in the middle should record what happened after the researcher hid in the safe house. The whole page was full of apologies to someone, saying that he didn't want to, but he didn't want to die, so he had to do this.

Later on, it can be seen that the researcher's mental state is very bad, and the papers at the back are torn by a pen without ink.

When Xiao Qi saw Shen Ge flipping through the diary, he wrote down all the contents. After comparing them, he said, "Master, these research materials are similar to those found in the Special Strategy Department base in Dajing during the Dajing Disaster. They seem to be research data on strange energy equipment."

Shen Ge was not surprised by this result. If this was really the Haiya Research Institute, it would not be surprising that the Special Policy Department had some of the same research reports.

Shen Ge tore the employee ID from the researcher. As the image was blurry, he could not see clearly and could only see the word "Ye" in the name.

And through this yellowed diary, the pile of bones in the corner, and the fact that he was the only complete skeleton left in the entire room, Shen Ge could guess what he had done.

To think the worst, he killed the person;
On the bright side, he ate the corpse.

But no matter which one it was, this was the fuse that caused this researcher named Ye to go crazy.

But what Shen Ge couldn't understand was that since there was no water or food in the safe room, why didn't the researchers in the safe room think of escaping and trying their luck, but chose to starve to death here? There were no signs of fighting in the experimental area outside, giving people the feeling that it had been "cleaned up".

Since the battlefield was cleared, why didn't they save these researchers? (End of this chapter)