"Don't be nervous, I'm a living person."
Chen Chen suddenly had an idea when he saw the young man's reaction. He tapped on the PK Armor and the entire armor quickly shrank. With a flash of blue electric arc, the PK Armor reverted to its armguard form.
After the PK Armor disappeared, Chen Chen, who was wearing the GS Combat Suit, suddenly appeared in front of the young man.
"You, you're a Gantz member!"
However, after seeing Chen Chen's attire, the young man's eyes suddenly widened and a look of disbelief appeared on his face. "Impossible! Wasn't the Gantz team the savior canceled by the United Nations a long time ago? How could you appear here? "
"You're right, I'm a member of the Gantz team."
Chen Chen nodded. "The governments of various countries have never disbanded the Gantz team. Instead, they've built countless underground military bases where we receive training and prepare for the next catastrophe."
The young man's expression was first joyful, then bitter. "It's no use, human civilization has been extinct for five years. Even your Gantz team can't do anything about the second catastrophe..."
Chen Chen's expression flickered and then he said sincerely, "It's a long story. Something happened to our underground base and no one came to repair it. This caused us to be isolated from the surface for five whole years. It was only recently that we found a way to open the gate of the base, but I didn't expect to see this scene..."
"What?"
The young man was shocked. "You mean, since the second catastrophe until now, this is the first time you've left the underground base?"
"That's right, today is only the third day after we left the military base that we've been trapped in for five years. Our captain ordered us to split into several teams and our team is responsible for searching for clues in the East China Continent."
Chen Chen nodded. "And you're the first living person we've met. My name is Chen Chen, I'm a member of the Gantz team from Mainland China. The three teammates behind me are also from Mainland China. May I know your name?"
"So you're a Chinese, no wonder your Japanese is a little rusty."
The young man suddenly understood and then said solemnly, "My name is Fujiwara Aoki, you can just call me Aoki."
"Oh, it's Fujiwara-kun."
Chen Chen patted the young man's shoulder heavily with a solemn expression. "This isn't the place to talk. Let's find another place. After that, please tell us about the situation of human civilization in its entirety, Fujihara-kun. Please!"
After that, the young man called Fujiwara Aoki said to wait, then turned toward the interior of the shop and whistled. The macaw immediately stumbled out.
It looked at Chen Chen and the others for a while, then at Fujiwara Aoki's urging, climbed onto Chen Chen's shoulder again. Then, it began to quietly comb the feathers that had been scattered during its frantic escape.
Then, at Fujiwara Aoki's request, everyone came to the center of the road to discuss the details.
Before going into the details, Chen Chen noticed that Fujiwara Aoki seemed to have not eaten for a long time, so he took out a few energy bars and handed them to the other party. This gesture quickly won him over.
"The view from here is the best. There won't be any sudden attacks from 'that' …"
Fujiwara Aoki continued to chew on his energy bar. "Although it'll be difficult to escape once you've been targeted by 'that', you can always try to escape in the interconnected streets instead of falling into a hopeless dead end …"
"That?"
Chen Chen took out a diary when he heard this. "So, what do you mean by 'that'? This isn't the first time I've heard of this term. I've found a diary of a deceased person before and it also recorded 'that'."
"Diary?"
Looking at the palm-sized black leather book in Chen Chen's hand, Fujiwara Aoki's expression shifted, then he smiled bitterly. "It looks like you guys really don't know anything. You even dare to read something like the diary of the deceased?"
"What do you mean?"
Chen Chen leaned against the Bugatti Spaceship and asked again.
"…"
Fujiwara Aoki was silent for a while, then he slowly said, "It's hard to explain all of this at once. I'll start with the second catastrophe."
"As we all know, the first catastrophe happened in the year 2000, which is thirty years ago..."
Fujiwara Aoki said slowly, "The aliens dropped their weapons of war and almost wiped out half of human civilization. They treated humans as food, livestock, and kept us in cages...
"After that, our Gantz team defeated them."
Chen Chen added.
"Yes, in the end, you guys were the ones who saved the Earth and humanity."
Fujiwara Aoki nodded. "But we didn't expect that only twenty-five years after the first catastrophe, the second catastrophe would break out. The cause of this catastrophe came from the depths of the Internet..."
"The Internet?" Chen Chen was taken aback.
"That's right. On that day, a set of images suddenly appeared on the websites and forums of various countries." Fujiwara Aoki nodded. "It's a strange design, like a black and white abstract pattern formed by countless spirals..."
At this point, Fujiwara Aoki frowned as if he was trying hard to explain the appearance of the image. "I don't know if you've seen this kind of image before, but I can guarantee that it's something that can't be drawn by chance even if you randomly doodle billions of times. It doesn't follow any inertia or trajectory at all. It's like it's spinning, but also like it's constantly flickering. It can penetrate deep into your head, making you feel like you're touching a high-voltage wire, constantly stirring your brain..."
Hearing Fujiwara Aoki's description, Chen Chen could not help asking, "What you're saying is that there's a visual error pattern on the Internet. What does this pattern do?"
However, after talking for a long time, Fujiwara Aoki couldn't help but scratch his head. "I don't know what it does, but I do know that anyone who sees this picture will die instantly. Only a very small number of people will survive …"
"What?"
Chen Chen was shocked. "Anyone who sees the pattern will die instantly? Are you kidding me?"
The scene of the hundreds of people dying in the office building flashed across his mind, and he immediately realized that there was a difference between the two. According to Fujiwara Aoki, the picture had appeared on the internet, but the people in the office building had died from something outside the window …
"I'm not kidding, all of this is real and I'm the one who's immune to that pattern!"
Fujiwara Aoki quickly explained, "But I've already forgotten what the pattern looks like. None of the people in my team remember it because it's impossible for the human brain to remember that pattern!"
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