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

On this day, after the outer area of ​​the "Pioneer" base had been completely cleared and controlled, Shen Ge led Kyle and Roca's "Raider II" Iron Heart Guard to the observation room, which was made of a single piece of "Pioneer Standard II Flesh Alloy" tens of meters thick.

Hephaestus's technical team has been working on the issue of opening the "hibernation chamber" for more than half a month.

"How is the situation?" Shen Ge asked.

Hephaestus shook his head: "My lord, the technology of this hibernation pod is the same as that of Ark Zero, and it is not easy to open."

[Warning! Unknown external data intrusion detected!]

[Activate the first layer of the 'maze' protocol;]

[Activating the second layer of the 'data paradox' trap;]

[Activate the third-level 'recursive loop' black hole;]

With the hibernation pod breached, the automated defense system of the "pioneer" era was activated. Countless "traps" composed of logic and algorithms, enough to give any modern hacker a headache, quickly began to counter the technical team's system.

Since he couldn't break it with technology, Shen Ge decided to try to crack it with "brute force." However, the force he used was not to directly crush the hibernation pod, but to crack it by using the erosion assistance system of the strange energy.

While Hermes was still analyzing the hibernation chamber, Shen Ge's strange energy had already penetrated into its interior.

If he wanted, he could crush the woman in the hibernation pod with a single thought.

Shen Ge didn't rush to open the hibernation pod on the island because he couldn't use his supernatural powers at that time. Now, after this period of "rest," he has fully recovered.

"Click."

A soft "unlocking" sound rang out, and the outer shell of the hibernation chamber slowly opened to both sides with a burst of released air pressure.

Kyle, Roca, and the others following behind Shen Ge were on high alert, worried that the "monster" in the hibernation pod might suddenly go berserk and injure their governor.

However, the sleeping "woman" still lay quietly inside.

His eyes were tightly closed, his eyelashes did not tremble at all, and his expression was as calm as a lifelike wax figure.

She did not wake up.

Shen Ge frowned slightly. He could sense that the woman was "alive," but there was no sign of her waking up.

vegetable?
"What's going on?" Shen Ge walked to the hibernation pod and examined it carefully.

His eerie eyes swept across the woman's pale face, and beneath her smooth forehead skin, he saw an extremely faint, complex mark composed of countless silver lines finer than a strand of hair.

Shen Ge pondered for a moment, then called over Ellie: "Ellie."

“Yes, sir!” Ellie stepped forward.

"Transfer this hibernation pod, along with the entire life support system, intact to the highest-level laboratory of 'Iron Heart'."

"Isolate her completely with the highest level of physical and energy shields. You are personally responsible for maintaining her vital signs. No one else is allowed to approach or conduct any research without my order."

“Yes, sir!” Ellie replied.

Shen Ge decided to keep this huge "unstable factor" firmly under his control for now. As for how to "awaken" her, that would have to be planned in the long run.

After dealing with the hibernation pod issue, Shen Ge looked around at the monitoring room, which had been converted from the main control room of the Pioneer Base.

He saw the console and machine that he had been studying for a long time without being able to start, and looked at Hephaestus and asked, "Has the main console been deciphered?"

“No, sir.” Hephaestus shook his head and reported dejectedly, “All the mainframes seem to be connected to the main system of the ‘Zero Ark,’ which also requires ‘captain’ level authorization to activate. We can’t see anything inside.”

After going through so much trouble to salvage this base, the most crucial treasure remains unopenable?

“However, we seem to have found the ‘keyhole,’ but we still lack the key to open it.” Hephaestus pointed to the huge circular control panel, its surface completely black and showing no energy response.

But in an inconspicuous corner directly below the console, there is a square recess that blends perfectly with the floor.

"This thing looks somewhat familiar," Shen Ge said, observing the groove.

Shen Ge observed for a while longer, then suddenly looked at Hephaestus and asked, "Hephaestus, what about the box I gave you to study before?"

“In the laboratory,” Hephaestus replied immediately.

"Go and get it."

After Hephaestus brought the box over, Shen Ge took the "box" and placed it into the groove on the ground.

"Click."

With a sound like gears meshing, the "box" was steadily placed into the groove.

But there was no response.

After a moment's thought, Shen Ge suddenly remembered that this "box" had been used to store dream fragments before, so he injected a little dream power into it through the system.

Sizzle, sizzle sizzle—

The next second, all the instruments and screens in the entire control room lit up instantly!

A blinding white light instantly engulfed the entire room, while the previously unresponsive control panel projected an "image".

That was a... "last words".

A message left by a "pioneer" from an old era to "successors" is different from the footage Shen Ge first found in the laboratory, which was left by the "pioneers" when they were about to leave. This footage is set against the backdrop of the entire world.

An old man with a withered face and eyes full of weariness and regret appeared in the center of the holographic projection, wearing a tattered white research coat.

Behind him was a burning city, a shattered sky, and countless... "weirdos" wailing and howling.

That was the apocalyptic scene that led to the complete annihilation of their era.

[“Latercomers,” whoever you are, whether you are “human” or a “new human” who has inherited our legacy…]

[When you activate this message, it proves you've found that foolish and idealistic 'box.' It also proves we've utterly failed.]

We were all wrong.

We believed that 'ghost energy' originated from the planet's own negative emotions, a kind of 'energy' that could be analyzed and utilized. We launched Project Prometheus in an attempt to steal this 'divine fire.' But only at the very end, when everything was beyond repair, did we discover… 'ghost energy'… never belonged to this world.

It might be a kind of 'living' phenomenon, originating from a higher dimension, something we cannot understand or observe... the 'parasitic law'.

[...Our planet, our civilization, was never "sick" from the beginning...]

In a trembling voice, on the verge of collapse, the old man uttered a truth that would shatter Shen Ge's and everyone else's understanding: "...We were... 'infected'."

The old man's words, filled with despair, struck the hearts of everyone present.

Parasitic laws? Infected?

This truth is a thousand times more terrifying than a simple "doomsday," because it means that the enemy they are fighting is not a visible or tangible one at all.

In the holographic projection, the apocalyptic scene behind the old man kept changing, and he showed Shen Ge and the others the most desperate discovery of their era.

A spore carrying the "parasitic law," which cannot be destroyed by any physical means, descended upon this planet.

Like an information bomb, it silently rewrote the most fundamental "laws" of this planet. From then on, any living being that generates sufficiently strong "negative emotions" will become a "host" infected and alienated by these "laws".

The so-called "weirdness" is nothing more than the "pathological symptoms" exhibited by the "native creatures" of this planet in the face of this "plague" that has swept the entire world.

We tried everything.

The old man's voice was filled with weariness and helplessness.

We attempted to physically "surgery" away the diseased "tumors," those high-level demon kings. But we discovered that the "laws" themselves cannot be killed. As long as the environment remains, they will continuously "grow" back.

We attempted to use energy weapons for "radiotherapy." We detonated the area at the Earth's core with the strongest energy fluctuations, trying to purify the contamination with the planet's own power. Instead, we only accelerated our own destruction and allowed the "spore" to absorb even more energy.

In the end, we were left with only two choices.

Behind the old man, two completely different scenes appeared.

One of them is a ship under construction... "Ark Zero".

The other image is a fragment of a dream, imprisoned by countless chains and energy bundles.

The "Ark Faction" advocates abandoning this planet, which has been eroded by "cancer cells," and taking healthy humanity to escape into the depths of space to find a new home.

We, the "purification faction," have proposed an even more insane and extreme plan.

We believe that every virus inevitably has a "natural enemy." Since this planet cannot produce its own "antibodies," then we will "inject" it with an even more powerful "super virus" from the "outside"!

We call this "fighting fire with fire."

[…We succeeded. At least initially.]

It possesses a power system completely different from supernatural energy, capable of easily devouring and rewriting laws corrupted by supernatural energy. It's like a perfect "bacteriophage," frantically cleaning up the "cancer cells" in our world.

We used its cells to create a batch of perfect "biological weapons," a new kind of human that is both immune to the corruption of supernatural energy and capable of controlling supernatural powers.

A series of blurry, fleeting "faces" appeared on the holographic projection. One of them was unmistakably the face of the woman lying in the hibernation pod!
But once again, we underestimated the terrifying nature of the "laws" themselves.

Two "parasitic laws" from different universes meet on one planet... and the result is not healing.

[Instead, it's an even more terrifying "rejection reaction."]

The scene behind the old man became even more horrific: the earth was wailing, space was tearing apart, and the entire world was being devoured by enormous flesh and blood.

The "purification plan" has completely failed.

[...and the "Ark Faction" wasn't much better off.]

The old man smiled wryly and pointed to the magnificent "Ark Zero".

They successfully built the ark, carrying the last survivors. But just moments before they were about to set sail and escape this hellish place...

[...She betrayed us.]

[Our most perfect creation, our most powerful "biological weapon"... For some reason, she believed the plan was also wrong.]

She, along with a group of cyborgs loyal to her, forcibly took control of 'Ark Zero'. She attempted to detonate the Ark's warp engines, sacrificing the entire ship, all the survivors on board, and herself, along with the world that was about to be utterly torn apart.

She believed this was the only... "liberation."

[The final moments...]

The scene shifts to the footage Shen Ge saw at the Pioneer Experiment Base, where the woman had already been locked in a hibernation pod.

The difference this time is that several women who look "exactly the same" appear in the footage, but this is not hard to understand, because they are all mass-produced "artificial monsters".

But putting aside the woman's situation, both paths the old man mentioned have come to an end.

[...those who came after.]

The holographic projection began to become unstable, and the old man's figure became increasingly blurry.

This world has long lost hope; it is a decaying corpse, ravaged by two terminal illnesses. Any attempt to save it will only hasten its death.

My message is not a cry for help, nor is it guidance; it is... a warning.

Run!

While you still have the ability to escape, do everything in your power to get away from here, as far away as possible.

At this point, the old man's figure completely disappeared.

The situation described by the old man may be slightly different from Shen Ge's "reality," but based on the images of the dream fragments he had collected in the past, the old man saw the truth, but it was incomplete.

It's actually quite easy to understand. This planet might be the earliest "World II," a world where the supernatural power hadn't yet erupted, or a world that had just completed its reboot.

But at this moment, some "god" or strange person, in order to find a glimmer of hope, stripped off half of his eerie nature and released it into this world.

Originally, the intention was to create an existence that could rival the future awakened "Earth," but unexpectedly, it accelerated the destruction of this world.

In the end, the world did not perish, but it did "split apart".

As a result, more and more fragments appeared, causing the dream fragments to shatter more and more thoroughly and in greater numbers.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, you can find that it "overlaps" with the truth that Shen Ge knows.

To put it bluntly, it was all Shen Shen Ge's fault. He meant well but did bad things. Gui Shen Ge was truly miserable, being broken into pieces of primordial power.

But the most troubled person is Shen Ge. Damn it, he can't even go back to "reality" now, so how can he possibly talk about saving the world?! (End of Chapter)