Rewind time to a day ago.
Late at night, Chen Chen was walking alone on a desolate road.
This seemed to be a barren dirt road, uneven, and occasionally there were mud pits, making this road extremely muddy.
On both sides of the road, there were weeds as tall as half a person. The grass was quiet, without the sound of mosquitoes or the rustling of the wind.
On a midsummer night, this was a little strange.
The entire road was dark, only the cold moonlight above his head barely provided a glimmer of light, so Chen Chen did not fall.
"Clatter!"
Suddenly, Chen Chen only felt a pain in his shoulder. He was bumped and stumbled. Only then did he notice that a tall figure walked past him and their shoulders happened to bump into each other.
Chen Chen rubbed his shoulder, but there was a puzzled look on his face because he found that although there were no street lights on the entire road and it was extremely dark, there were an unusually large number of people on this road. Just a few steps and he could see the dark figures walking in front of him.
So far, Chen Chen had encountered more than a dozen figures. If he was not careful, he would bump into them.
Chen Chen did not think too much about it. He did not even think about why he was here. He was just a little puzzled. The group of people walking toward him seemed to be whispering something.
It was just that he couldn't hear what these people were talking about.
"Bang!"
Just when Chen Chen was still puzzled, he suddenly felt a pain in his nose. Because he was lost in thought, he bumped into a dark figure again!
At this point, Chen Chen finally heard what these people were whispering:
"Fuse, fuse... Everyone is alone..."
"Come, fuse, let us fuse into one..."
Hearing the other party's whisper, Chen Chen only felt an inexplicable sense of danger. He did not have time to get up, so he kicked back with his feet, trying to get as far away from the other party as possible. However, at this moment, several figures suddenly walked toward the figure that bumped into him. Then, under Chen Chen's shocked gaze, these people merged into one!
"Gurgle, gurgle..."
With the sound of flesh and blood fusing together, the pitch-black figures actually fused together. Their bodies and limbs twisted and elongated like bubble gum, like several balls of dough fusing together. At the same time, more figures joined in!
Finally, a demon-like figure covered in densely packed arms and heads slowly rose in front of Chen Chen. This monster that was a fusion of countless human bodies twisted the dozens of heads on its body and looked in Chen Chen's direction.
"Fuse, fuse, everyone is lonely. Only by fusing as one, only by fusing as one …"
Countless voices rang in Chen Chen's ears. Chen Chen only felt only fear. Just when he was ready to fight with all his might, he suddenly opened his eyes again!
"Hu!"
Chen Chen sat up on the bed and found that he was drenched in cold sweat again.
At this time, he was lying in the dormitory of the Spire Experimental Base. Due to the limited space of the Spire Experimental Base, high space utilization was required, so Chen Chen only lived in a single dormitory here.
Although this single dormitory was fully functional, with its own bathroom and Blacklight's fully-automated medical platform, and it was also equipped with a holographic environmental simulator, it was still just a dormitory with the same area as the other members. There were no exceptions.
"This is the second time."
At this time, Chen Chen felt the cold sweat flowing down his face and could not help frowning.
Now that his physique was strong, it was enough for him to only need two or three hours of sleep a day. Nightmares like this had not happened eight years ago. Now, whether it was his spirit or his will, they had long been as hard as iron.
However, in the more than a day since returning from Mars, he had already had two nightmares...
Thinking of this, Chen Chen could not help frowning. He lay on the fully-automated medical platform beside him again and at the same time ordered, "Perform a full-body scan."
At once, the fully-automated medical platform immediately ran and scanned Chen Chen from head to toe.
However, the result still did not find anything.
"There are no abnormalities in my body..."
Only then did Chen Chen sit up again. He raised his hand and looked down at his palm, revealing a thoughtful expression. "Could it be that it's just an ordinary nightmare and I'm overthinking it?"
However, just as Chen Chen was still contemplating, there was suddenly the sound of light footsteps coming from the corridor outside the door. The footsteps approached quickly and then stopped outside Chen Chen's door.
"Knock knock knock..."
There was an immediate knock on the door.
"Come in."
Chen Chen could tell who it was as soon as he heard the footsteps. Moreover, his current bedroom was located in the Spire Experimental Base. There was only one person who could visit him, and that was Little X.
Generally, Little X could directly contact him through the room's communication system, but when Chen Chen was resting or there was no special emergency, she always liked to use this human method.
Sure enough, Little X poked her head in from outside the door. She bit her lip and was a little worried. "Sir Godfather, did you have a nightmare again?"
"Yes, but it should be fine."
Chen Chen waved his hand. "Why, is there something you need from me?"
"I came because I found some strange incidents on the Internet. I thought you might be interested in these things."
Little X walked through the door and answered.
"Since you said that, it means that it's really something extraordinary."
Chen Chen nodded. He stood up and walked to the water dispenser and poured himself a glass of water. "Go ahead."
"It's like this."
Little X's expression became solemn. "Just more than twenty hours after the meteor landed on Earth, which is the time when you were sleeping, several strange incidents occurred. The continents of Mainland China, Europe, North Sea Continent, and India have all found unexplained corpses."
Chen Chen put down the glass of water and nodded, motioning for Little X to continue.
"These corpses all have a common characteristic, that is, they are formed by at least two corpses fused together, some even have three or four corpses."
Little X said solemnly, "So far, there have been eight cases in these continents, including three in Mainland China, two in Europe, two in North Sea Continent, and one in India..."
Following Little X's words, a series of crime scene photos stolen from various countries automatically appeared in front of Chen Chen. He only saw the distorted and strange corpses fused together like dough in front of him. Most of these corpses were found in a house, only one corpse in Mainland China was the most unusual, it was found in a movie theater.
Chen Chen looked up and saw that it was a man and a woman. Their heads and bodies were fused together in the gap between the seats in the cinema, entangled and twisted. However, the strange thing was that there was no sign of pain on their faces. On the contrary, the corners of their mouths were slightly curled up in a strange arc.
It was as if the two of them had a special sense of satisfaction at this fusion before they died...
Seeing this scene, Chen Chen's heart suddenly sank. He immediately thought of the nightmares he had over the past two days. In the dreams, the shadows seemed to fuse together in this way...
Fuse, fuse, everyone is alone...
That strange whisper echoed in Chen Chen's ears again.
"It's the meteorites."
At once, Chen Chen said with certainty, "There's something wrong with those meteorites..."
"I feel the same way too."
Little X nodded. "This group of meteorites has just fallen and this happened. Sir Godfather, what should we do?"
"Inform all the regulators of the Blacklight Foundation that I need to start the Lilith Conference."
Chen Chen walked to the bathroom, wiped his face casually, and then walked out. "I'll give the other regulators an hour. After an hour, I hope the other four regulators can arrive at the conference table. At the same time, inform Hannibal and ask him to see me immediately!"
After Little X agreed, Chen Chen had already left his single dormitory.
Half an hour later, when Chen Chen stood alone in front of the door of the dormitory where everyone was resting, a pale Hannibal rushed over from the direction of the laboratory.
Still, before he got close, Chen Chen suddenly frowned.
When he saw Hannibal, a special feeling suddenly arose in his heart. Madness, paranoia, greed... The whisper in the dream seemed to echo...
Fuse, fuse, everyone is alone...
Hannibal, who was walking not far away, was also taken aback. His footsteps paused, then he walked toward Chen Chen in bewilderment.
"Alright, don't come near me."
Chen Chen immediately waved his hand and two Black Knights next to him came up and restrained Hannibal in place.
"Isolate him first, provide him with good food and drink, and tell him the ins and outs of the outside world while you're at it."
Chen Chen instructed, then turned around and left without looking back...
Meteorites...
If Chen Chen still had a trace of doubt before he saw Hannibal, then at this time, he had completely abandoned the last trace of hope.
When he saw Hannibal just now, there seemed to be a voice in his mind, allowing him to completely fuse with Hannibal.
At that time, Hannibal suddenly paused. Obviously, the other party also had a similar feeling.
Strictly speaking, he and Hannibal should be the first people to come into contact with the meteorites. Then, the meteorites fell on Earth, and then large-scale human contact began.
Now, he had nightmares for two consecutive nights, and the key word in the dreams was fusion.
A similar way of death had also occurred in reality. If Chen Chen still did not take all this seriously, then he would not be Chen Chen.
Meteorites...
Fusion...
These two factors superimposed together, that was — all people who had come into contact with the meteorites began to experience a strange fusion death. Although the relationship between the deceased and the meteorites had not been determined yet, in Chen Chen's judgment, this was already established.
As for the reason, Chen Chen had two theories:
First, perhaps the meteorites contained a kind of rule that humans had never seen before. All people who had come into contact with the meteorites under certain conditions would be affected, such as a memetic effect.
Second, it was known that the meteorites contained the bodily fluids of some kind of creature. Perhaps this bodily fluid could assimilate humans into the corresponding life form, and this life form had its own consciousness or instinct. Once the two life forms met, they would automatically fuse.
However, there were loopholes in these two judgment systems because memes would never exist in a life form. Even the "Weeping Angel", which was closer to a life form, was essentially just a kind of rule and not a real life form.
Moreover, if it really contained memes, it was impossible for Little X, who also understood the memetic effect, to not notice it at all.
As for the second theory, if this bodily fluid could assimilate humans, then the infection of life would naturally trigger an alarm on the fully automated medical platform. However, Chen Chen had just used that equipment before, but he did not notice any abnormalities in his body at all.
Moreover, Chen Chen clearly remembered that whether it was himself or Hannibal, neither of them had really come into contact with that kind of meteorite. When he picked up the crystals after the biological fluid had cooled down, he was completely isolated by the protective suit.
There were loopholes in both theories, which was very troublesome.
This meant that Chen Chen did not even know what the enemy was and he would be forced to go into battle to kill the enemy.
These thoughts flashed in Chen Chen's mind. Then, he had already arrived at the exclusive conference room of the Lilith Conference.
As Little X turned on the holographic projection, he was already sitting in his seat with the number "05" placed in front of him.
After waiting for a while at the conference table, a dark shadow emerged on the seat with the number 04. He nodded at Chen Chen, then sat in his seat and waited silently.
When the hour was about to end, the owners of the remaining three seats finally arrived. The highest meeting of the Blacklight Foundation finally began.
“05。”
As soon as the meeting began, 02 asked, "We're all people who have a myriad of affairs to attend to every day. If it's not necessary, it's better to hold this kind of meeting as little as possible."
"If it's not necessary, I don't want to trouble you either."
Chen Chen knew that this kind of thing could not be delayed, so he went straight to the point. "It's just that this time it's very urgent, so I have to summon you directly because this may be related to the rise and fall of mankind... I wonder if you have received reports of fusion death cases from all over the world?"
"Fusion death? What's that? "
01 asked immediately.
Chen Chen looked at the remaining three people, but all of them were a group of dark shadows and he could not see their expressions at all.
"I haven't received any reports like what you're talking about."
"Me too..."
02 and 03 also followed suit.
"It seems that all of you have a myriad of affairs to attend to every day."
Chen Chen nodded. He was not surprised that these people were unaware of this because those who could become the supervisors of the Blacklight Foundation were all at least the top figures of the four continents. Perhaps some of them were not the president, but they must have the shadow of the president behind them.
Therefore, it was normal that this kind of strange death case that had just erupted had not reached their ears.
Chen Chen casually swiped his hand and suddenly, pictures of twisted and strange corpses appeared in front of everyone. "Everyone, please take a look. This is the fusion death that occurred in the Mainland, Europe, and India. The symbol is the phenomenon of the fusion of two or more people..."
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