Chen Chen was still worried and pried open the skull of the corpse again, only to see that the brain in the skull had shrunk into a walnut-like substance, but there were no signs of external damage.
Chen Chen spent a few minutes doing a body examination, but he did not find any injuries from beginning to end, not even contusions or abrasions.
There were no signs of organ damage or brain damage inside the corpse, which meant that these corpses might have died of acute death.
This was commonly known as sudden death.
In general, sudden death referred to cases in which a patient who was normally healthy or seemingly healthy died suddenly due to a natural disease in a short period of time. These natural diseases were divided into two types:
Sudden cardiac death and non-sudden cardiac death.
However, after all, the corpses had been air-dried for a long time. Before being air-dried, the organs also showed signs of self-melting. Without some professional equipment, Chen Chen could not analyze the cause of death of these corpses, only that they were all sudden deaths.
"Could it be that there's something here that causes sudden death upon 'seeing'?"
Chen Chen frowned. He thought about it and simply set up the PK Armor into thermal imaging mode, which formed another kind of vision similar to the Predator.
However, it was different from ordinary thermal imaging. If ordinary thermal imaging could only see blocks of color, then the thermal imaging of the PK Armor could see more details, even more details than could be seen directly with the naked eye.
With the help of NZT-48, it only took Chen Chen a few minutes to get used to this vision system.
He just did not know if this could resist the killing pattern of "death upon sight"?
At this time, along the way, Chen Chen's originally relaxed heart gradually sank.
This dimension of Gantz was the strangest world he had ever seen since he traveled through the major dimensions. Its strangeness even surpassed that of Elysium's dimension.
What was even more frustrating was that this dimension was not like Elysium, which had advanced technology and used AI similar to the "main system" to manage human life. As long as one occupied the main system, one could understand everything that happened at that time.
This world was completely no different from reality.
Just as Chen Chen was deep in thought, he suddenly saw a phone in the hands of one of the corpses. His eyes suddenly lit up and he took the phone. Then, he let the Black Knights continue to search the room while he returned to the Bugatti Spaceship and took out a data cable to connect to the spaceship.
Then, after charging it for a while, he successfully turned on the phone that had been shut down for many years.
At the moment when the phone was turned on, X-112 immediately hacked in and activated all the permissions of the phone like Rogue 360, and checked inside and out.
"Extracted social software chat history, scanning in progress …"
"Information scanned, detecting valuable information, filtering … Phone shutdown date: June 3rd, 2025."
"What about the time of the catastrophe?"
Chen Chen immediately asked. The so-called cataclysm referred to the period during which the aliens officially invaded, which was also the later plot of the comic.
"It's 2000."
X-112 replied, "According to the chat content of the LINE software in the phone, the time of the alien invasion was 2000, but then they were defeated by Kei Kurono and the other black sphere warriors. After that, peace was restored to human society again until twenty-five years later, which is the period before the phone was shut down. However, I only extracted the chat information in the phone. As there's no Internet, I can't investigate the specific situation."
"Can you contact the satellites?"
Chen Chen asked again, "Even if humans disappear, some satellites should still be able to operate for a few years."
"I can't contact any communication satellite signal, it should be out of service," X-112 continued to answer.
Chen Chen nodded and then said again, "In that case, let the drone keep an eye out and see where the data center in Tokyo is. If we can find the data center, maybe we can get enough information."
"Understood."
X-112 said, "I'll keep an eye out."
Following that, more and more corpses were found. After the Black Knights turned the entire office building upside down, they found a total of hundreds of corpses. Most of these corpses were air-dried and some of the poorly preserved ones had decomposed into white bones.
However, what Chen Chen could be sure of was that these corpses all died at the same time and the way they died was also surprisingly consistent. That was, they saw something outside the window and that thing instantly triggered the phenomenon of sudden death.
Sitting in the spaceship, Chen Chen flipped through the diary in his hand again while thinking silently.
From what he could see now, all the corpses found so far had died at the same time. The only different example was Ando, who left the diary.
According to the diary, "that" appeared in the world, so human civilization began to decline. Did that not mean that it was very likely that the "that" in his diary was the cause of the instant death of everyone in the office building?
Ando, on the other hand, had escaped the first wave of death and became the 'survivor' that he wrote in his diary.
Moreover, these survivors had formed small teams to survive together in the apocalypse.
Then, there was the nightmare that Ando had later.
Chen Chen could not help frowning. The diary did not explain the source of the nightmare, but from reading between the lines, it could be seen that the team was aware of this phenomenon of nightmares and because Ando began to have nightmares, they mercilessly kicked him out of the team.
"Why did they kick him out, is it because they're afraid..."
Chen Chen suddenly thought of something and raised his eyebrows. "Contagious?"
However, as soon as this idea appeared, Chen Chen immediately rejected it. "Impossible, I've never heard of nightmares being contagious. However, Ando didn't describe in detail why he had nightmares in the diary, nor did he pursue the source of the nightmares or the solution. Is it because they think that this kind of nightmare is unsolvable?"
It was a pity that Ando did not have a mobile phone, but this was normal. After all, although Ando had lived for a few more years, in reality, it was already the end of the world. It was equivalent to the era of civilization in the wasteland. All electrical appliances lost their function because they ran out of power. Of course, mobile phones were no exception.
It was just that this apocalypse was a little too special...
After the Black Knights had searched the entire office building, Chen Chen let the Black Knights continue to search along the streets and soon found a high-rise community.
The search volume of the community was larger than that of the office building, but the results were also more fruitful. Soon, the Black Knights made a new discovery.
When Chen Chen received the Black Knights' report and walked into the unit, he immediately saw a messy scene.
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