Many people could not handle the ancient information surging into their brains like a flood. After having nightmares for a few days and nights, their mental strength indices plummeted, their minds broke, and they went through spirit energy deviation.
Some people's eyes were glazed over, and they looked haggard. They shuddered nonstop. Even the weakest change in light or sound made them scream and faint.
Some of them went on a rampage and attacked other people indiscriminately. They did not know pain or fatigue. Even if they were locked by the spiritual shackles, they would break their own limbs to get rid of the shackles and continue attacking. They were almost a strengthened version of zombies.
There were also people who completely lost themselves in their nightmares and treated themselves as real monsters. With human skin, they displayed the habits of all sorts of monsters. Some people twisted their joints like arthropods and crawled around on the ground. Some people hung upside down from the ceiling like bats and came out at night. Some people lurked in dark and humid environments and did not eat or drink for a few days. They did not move at all.
All the forces of power, including the ruins research center, could do nothing about this mysterious phenomenon.
According to the analysis of the experts, it was possible that when humans were experimenting on the "giant brain", they accidentally stimulated the active tissues of the "matrix" that were still in a deep dormant state, causing the "matrix" to release a few more mental ripples, setting off a storm in the human brain.
However, even if the humans stopped their experiments on the giant brain and injected a large amount of mithril-based stabilizing fluid and hibernation drugs into the giant brain, the giant brain, which was hundreds of meters in diameter, was completely frozen, the nightmares that appeared randomly in the superhumans' minds did not subside.
The nightmares that appeared randomly in the superhumans' minds did not calm down. Instead, they became even more intense.
This was a world where the mind could interfere with the physical world.
Later on, many of the superhumans who were affected by it did not just treat themselves as prehistoric monsters in terms of their minds.
Their minds affected their brains, nervous systems, and organs. All sorts of strange symptoms also appeared on their bodies.
Some people woke up to find large, colorful patterns on their bodies.
Some people's private parts had hair, scales, and shells that did not belong to humans.
Some people even went through secondary puberty and grew fangs and tails.
If these minor abnormalities were considered "harmless", then what happened to a high-ranking researcher in the ruins research center caused everyone, including Meng Chao, to feel chills down their spines.
This senior researcher had an introverted personality. He was usually quiet and did not have a strong sense of existence.
He had been diligently immersed in his research, and the content of his research was not very popular. It was a field related to combat.
Every day, when he went in and out of the monsters' nest to perform mental strength tests and all sorts of virus and bacteria tests, he did not notice anything strange about him.
However, he had turned into a gigantic cocoon overnight.
That's right, it was literally a cocoon that was black and shiny, with a hard carapace and circular patterns on it.
Observing the internal structure of the cocoon with the most cutting-edge spiritual energy scanner, one could vaguely see that the researcher was sleeping quietly inside the cocoon in the fetal position.
His limbs and even his spine were folded together in a very weird way. His shoulder blades protruded high into two enormous lumps, as if brand-new, enormous organs were hidden inside.
Scanning his facial bones showed that his eye sockets had become three to four times larger than a normal person's. Half of his face had been swallowed by the eye sockets.
No one could guess just how he had turned from a perfectly fine human into a huge cocoon.
No one wanted to imagine how he would look when he broke out of the cocoon.
The other researchers could only monitor the huge cocoon in a safe manner. They set up the strongest electrical nets and spirit energy shields around it and waited quietly for the person in the cocoon to wake up.
This senior researcher was not the only one who met with such misfortune.
Two days later, the second cocoon wearer appeared.
Fortunately, this was a superhuman from Universe Corporation. He stayed in a two-person room, and there was a companion in the room. He noticed the abnormality in time and quickly called for help.
Unfortunately, be it the superhumans at the peak of Heaven Realm from Universe Corporation, the high-ranking researchers from the ruins research center, or the veteran doctors and life science experts, none of them knew how to wake up the pitiful superhuman and stop him from spinning the cocoon.
They only had time to film the entire process of him spinning the cocoon.
From the video, they could see that the spirit tattoos on the superhuman's body would appear and disappear. His muscles twitched madly, and soon, a large amount of sweat seeped out of his pores.
The sweat gradually turned black and as thick as tar. Then, it started coagulating at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was like layers of armor that spread to his limbs and torso until he was completely swallowed up.
During the entire process, the superhuman's eyes were wide open, but they had lost their luster and focus. His empty gaze was fixed on a corner of the ceiling, and his lips were quivering. All that came out of his mouth was buzzing, which sounded like the buzzing of insects.
The people tried all sorts of methods to wake him up.
They injected him with gene medicine, had a large amount of spirit energy from a superhuman at the peak of Heaven Realm, shook his body violently, and even stimulated him with powerful electric currents, but it was all useless.
In the end, his companion, who was about to go mad, even boldly cut a wound so deep that the bone could be seen on his arm in an attempt to use pain to stimulate him to wake up.
But his wound squirmed madly and secreted more black adhesive liquid. At an even faster speed, it formed a thick layer of black cocoon.
In the end, the unfortunate superhuman turned into a huge cocoon even though he was surrounded by hundreds of elites and dozens of high-end medical devices.
In the past, for the sake of research and cultivation, humans had set up temporary lodgings around or above the monsters' nests.
Most of the superhumans were cultivation maniacs and research maniacs. When they ran into a skill or project that interested them, it was normal for them to research for fifty hours without sleep. The closer the lodgings were to the cultivation rooms and research spots, the better.
Many people did not even have the concept of lodgings. They just carried their beddings and stayed in the monsters' nests. When they were tired, they sat down cross-legged and entered deep meditation. They closed their eyes for a while, and when they opened their eyes, they could continue researching and cultivating at any moment.
People were haunted by nightmares one after another. Some of them even turned into huge cocoons. Most of the superhumans became afraid and moved their lodgings to the ruins of Peach Blossom Town, which was far away from the monsters' nests. Some of them even moved to the edge of the sinkhole.
They also made a rule that every time they cultivated or researched in the monsters' nests for twelve hours, they had to leave in time and return to the lodgings to enter deep meditation to conserve their energy. They also had to go through the strictest mental and physiological checks.
Only a handful of monsters like Meng Chao, who could connect to the microcomputer for more than twenty-four hours and read a large amount of information from the ancient era while still being able to escape unscathed, were not limited by this rule.
This degree of caution did reduce the chances of the cultivators and researchers being haunted by nightmares and turning into cocoons.
But as humans ventured deeper into the monsters' nests and opened up many of the regions that had been sealed for millions of years and which the monster civilization had not opened, a new mysterious event happened.
It was the Call of the Ancient Era.
Many people heard a barely discernible sound coming from the unfathomable cracks underground.
It sounded like the wind from the core of the earth.
It also sounded like the sigh of the dead who had been sleeping for millions of years.
It also sounded like the sound of a huge beast or a huge plant lurking underground quietly growing, splitting, sprouting, growing, and expanding.
To the superhumans whose mental defenses were rather weak, this sound was even more alluring than the murmurs of young girls in their dreams.
Many of them were muddle-headed. They followed the sound and disappeared underground, never to appear again.
Because of this, the ruins research center had to announce that anyone who entered the monsters' nests to cultivate or research had to form a group of at least three people. They had to protect each other and ensure that the other two people could not leave their sight.
At the same time, everyone had to wear a locating bracelet. Every five minutes, they had to report their location and current mission. They also had to go through a simple mental test to ensure that their minds were clear and that they were not bewitched by the Call of the Ancient Era.
But even if they took such strict precautions, something still happened.
Three cultivators who belonged to the same group heard the Call of the Ancient Era at the same time. Their brainwaves affected each other, and they staggered into the depths of the ground.
When they did not send their latest coordinates even after five minutes and went through a long-distance mental test, the research and cultivation groups nearby immediately rushed over.
But since the environment in the monsters' nests was complicated and there were ruins and cracks caused by space-based orbital weapons from billions of years ago everywhere, it could collapse again at any moment.
The search and rescue work was very slow and bumpy.
When they finally found one of the "summoned", he had already used all his strength to squeeze into a winding crack that led underground.
He had already squeezed into a winding crevice that led straight to the ground.
But the widest part was no more than the width of a palm.
The widest part was no more than the width of a palm.
The narrowest part could not even fit a pinky.
The summoned person was a built man. He was more than two meters tall and weighed nearly one hundred and fifty kilograms.
If they had not seen it with their own eyes, no one would have believed that he could squeeze his built body into such a small crack.
It was as if a Demonic Halberd Pig had been shoved into a still meat grinder.
When the people noticed him, his bones were already shattered, and his skin was completely torn. Forget about his blood flowing out, even his bone marrow and brain matter had been squeezed out.
He had long since lost his human form.
But the crack had molded him into a bloody monster that was five meters long and as wide as a palm.
The spirit energy gushing out of the ground caused his vitality magnetic field to fluctuate vigorously.
Under everyone's gazes, he was still not dead. While he let out an inhuman howl, he squirmed his deformed limbs and continued crawling into the deeper, narrower, and more twisted crack!
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