"What the hell is going on?"
Seeing this scene, Chen Chen could not help asking, "Are you sure this is what happened after the spacecraft docked?"
"Sir Commander, there's no mistake. It's definitely related to the docking of the spacecraft."
X-112 replied, "Through Frank's vision, I've recorded the images sent back by the Event Horizon when the spacecraft docked, but this video has been sealed by me."
Chen Chen nodded. X-112's approach was correct. The dimension of Event Horizon was suspected to have the existence of an unknown meme and the black fog in front of him was evidence. After all, apart from the memetic effect that could be transmitted through information, Chen Chen could no longer explain why the NASA headquarters would become a building filled with black fog.
"This black fog first appeared at the NASA headquarters and then continued to spread, forming such a huge area."
X-112 continued to explain, "At present, this black fog is still spreading and it's about to reach the area where I'm hiding."
"Retreat."
Chen Chen said, "Let the Black Knights take you away from here and out of downtown Washington."
Chen Chen said casually, and then he slowly approached the black fog in mid-air.
Through flying in mid-air, Chen Chen roughly calculated that the black fog was now about oval, about three kilometers in diameter and one kilometer high, covering one-fifth of Washington. Not only that, but as time went by, the scope of the black fog was also getting larger.
According to the edge of the black fog, the center of the black fog was indeed the location of the NASA headquarters.
Chen Chen even personally approached within eighty meters of the black fog and then used Field energy to try to explore the interior of the black fog, but what looked like fog directly blocked Chen Chen's Field energy.
However, Chen Chen found that it was not completely blocked. There were still traces of power penetrating into the black fog, but the penetration was extremely shallow. Moreover, it was not the power of Field that penetrated but psionic power.
Seeing this, Chen Chen frowned even more. It was almost an incredible thing to be able to completely block his Field energy. After all, everything was composed of the four fundamental forces, but this black fog seemed to exceed the scope of electromagnetic force. On the contrary, psionic power, which had a greater auxiliary function for Chen Chen, could penetrate it.
Chen Chen even saw the black fog engulfing several citizens who were too slow to run and thought that they could escape by hiding in their houses. These citizens were initially screaming when they saw the black fog approaching, but as soon as the black fog spread, their screams were replaced by screams. The cry for help immediately disappeared without a trace!
It was as if the black fog had isolated them from reality and had enveloped them into another world …
Chen Chen frowned when he saw this. He turned his head slightly and a huge bus was lifted with a loud rumble and rushed straight into the black fog. However, after the front of the bus reached into the black fog, Chen Chen suddenly exerted force and tried to pull the bus out of the black fog.
Buzz …
There was a sound of metal twisting. With the eruption of Field, Chen Chen pulled hard and immediately, most of the car was pulled out!
That's right, there was only half a car …
Chen Chen looked at it in shock, only to see that the front of the bus that had extended into the black fog had completely disappeared. The fracture showed signs of forceful tearing.
That mass of black fog was like a living creature, silently devouring everything that entered its territory. Even steel could not escape from its territory …
"Interesting."
Chen Chen snorted coldly. He took out the miniature reality anchor from the backpack behind him again, used Field energy, and slammed it into the ground!
Boom!
The reality anchor was immediately plunged into the ground. At the same time, an invisible wave struck. In the next second, the huge black fog a hundred meters away suddenly paused!
Chen Chen was originally just trying it out because he found that the black fog could isolate Field energy but could not isolate psionic energy, so he thought of using the reality anchor. However, he did not expect that the reality anchor would actually hold the black fog in place!
"The black fog, it's not moving..."
Chen Chen looked at all this in astonishment. He saw that the black fog, which was still constantly surging and bulging in all directions, suddenly surging in a large range and then the edge gradually became calm, just like the line of the waves on the beach. The originally turbulent sea suddenly slowed down and gradually calmed down.
The Reality Anchor was actually able to suppress the black fog!
A miniature reality anchor had a suppression radius of five kilometers, so it could completely envelop the black fog with a diameter of only three kilometers and it was more than enough.
Of course, if the black fog was given more time to expand, then it would be hard to say.
Seeing this, Chen Chen took a slight deep breath. He was even more curious about the origin of this black fog.
Of course, Chen Chen was not arrogant enough to go directly into the black fog to explore. He just followed the instructions of X-112 and came to a house in the suburbs. The residents here had been evacuated by the military long ago, and only a few people within a radius of dozens of miles were still unwilling to leave.
In the room, two Black Knights were standing in place in a daze. One of the Black Knights was still holding the storage device of X-112 in his hand.
Chen Chen took X-112 from the Black Knight, turned on a computer next to him, plugged it in, and then asked, "During the time I was away, what happened when the Event Horizon docked with the rescue spacecraft?"
"After the two sides docked, a picture appeared."
X-112 replied, "At first, it was fine. It was almost the same as the plot of the movie. The rescue team opened the cryogenic chamber and released the two survivors, Lieutenant Stark and Cooper. But in the next second, Lieutenant Stark suddenly looked at the picture and screamed, and then there was interference with the signal... When the interference was over, everyone in NASA saw a picture."
X-112 was silent for a moment. "After that picture, Frank lost contact with me, and at the same time, the black fog began to appear from NASA headquarters. As for what happened after the connection was lost, I don't know."
"Is that so?"
Chen Chen showed a thoughtful look. "It seems to be a phenomenon that only occurs because of the memetic effect. It seems that the focus is on that picture."
Chen Chen did not ask what the content of the picture was, nor did X-112 describe the picture because both of them understood the strangeness of the memetic effect. This was because some memes were not only infected by the sense of "seeing". Some memes would infect you indiscriminately as long as you knew of its existence or others described its characteristics to you.
This kind of meme was impossible to guard against.
"Let the Black Knights try."
Chen Chen thought for a while and looked at the two Black Knights behind him. "I'd like to see if the Black Knights, who have no brains and can't think, will also fall for this memetic trick."
With that, Chen Chen asked X-112 to load the video into the computer. Then he pulled X-112 out again, opened the window, turned around, and left the room, retreating to a distance of eighty meters.
At this distance, his Field energy could completely cover the entire room through the open window and observe the situation after the two Black Knights watched the picture. This was also one of the best ways to unravel the memetic effect.
"Let's begin."
Following Chen Chen's order, X-112 began to control one of the Black Knights to sit in front of the computer and at the same time, clicked on the saved video. Chen Chen subconsciously let his Field energy bypass the computer screen, so that he could not observe what appeared on the computer.
The two Black Knights watched the video bit by bit in this way.
Time passed by minute by minute.
Suddenly, just as the video was coming to an end, two of the Black Knights trembled all over and at the same time, the computer made a tearing sound, and then the two Black Knights suddenly fell slowly to the ground.
"Sir Commander, we have lost contact with the two Black Knights!"
X-112 immediately reminded.
Chen Chen was even more focused on observing all this through Field energy. Then, he saw a black fog slowly gushing out of the computer.
"Kaboom!"
The black fog instantly gushed out of the computer screen, flooding the entire room little by little, and at the same time, it also repelled Chen Chen's Field energy!
It turned out that this was how the black fog appeared...
Chen Chen withdrew his Field energy bit by bit and silently looked at the house eighty meters away, only to see endless black fog quickly gushing out of the windows and door cracks. Gradually, a new black fog cluster formed!
"Suppress it!"
Seeing this, Chen Chen immediately took out a miniature reality anchor from the package behind him and inserted it directly into the ground. Suddenly, the newly formed black fog was suppressed in place again and no longer expanded.
"The capacitor of a miniature reality anchor can only supply power for about twelve hours."
X-112 prompted. "Do you need to order the other Black Knights stationed in Miami to transport more reality anchors?"
"Okay."
Chen Chen nodded. "Be careful, be careful not to be discovered by the Northern American officials."
The reason why Chen Chen did this was, of course, not to be the savior of the world. He was just testing the power of Event Horizon. As for cooperating with the authorities, that would instead restrict Chen Chen's actions and make it impossible for Chen Chen to exert himself.
However, while Chen Chen was silently testing Event Horizon, the officials who had withdrawn from the White House at this time had already boarded Air Force One and left Washington.
"What? The black fog has stopped spreading? "
The President of Northern America looked at the video sent. It was a picture taken from a high altitude. In the picture, the black fog had stopped surging and had completely turned into an oval fog with smooth edges.
The fog spanned the center of downtown Washington, like a black egg, standing out even in the dark.
The darkness was far more solemn and conspicuous than the night.
"D * mn, what the hell is this..."
The President of Northern America gritted his teeth and looked at the black fog, then looked at the man in military uniform next to him. "General Bob, are you sure this black fog erupted from NASA headquarters?"
"I can't be wrong."
The one called General Bob was a middle-aged man with gray hair but a cold expression. He nodded solemnly and said, "We can also prove this based on the bird 's-eye view we sent. Mr. President, please take a look — this is a map of downtown Washington. If we overlap it with the bird' s-eye view we're taking now, we can see what's in the location shrouded by the black fog...
"Although this black fog looks oval from the side, like a big bowl upside down on the ground, if you look at it from a high altitude, you'll find that the black fog is a perfect circle. As long as the radius of the black fog is calculated, we can predict what's in the center of the black fog.
"And our prediction is correct. The center of the black fog is NASA headquarters!"
Hearing this, the President of Northern America nodded slightly. He asked worriedly again, "What about the number of missing people in this incident?"
"It's temporarily impossible to calculate."
General Bob shook his head with a solemn expression. "Because the appearance of the black fog was too sudden, we could only do our best to evacuate the people, but during the time when the black fog spread, it has swallowed at least several blocks. Moreover, it's late at night now, so I'm afraid the number of missing people isn't optimistic..."
The reason why the two of them said the number of missing people instead of the number of casualties was that even they did not know what would happen after being shrouded by the black fog. At first, they sent troops and armored vehicles into the black fog, but no matter how many people entered, they would instantly lose contact.
Therefore, they were so scared that they no longer dared to send people into the black fog.
"Mr. President, please don't be discouraged."
The Minister of Defense on the side suddenly came over and interjected, "Now that the black fog has stopped spreading, this is very good news. What I'm most afraid of is that the spread of the black fog can't be stopped. If that's the case, it'll be difficult."
"I want to know what the black fog is now."
The President nodded with a worried look on his face.
"It's easy to find out."
The Minister of Defense reminded, "NASA is an agency directly under the White House. The daily activity logs over there are all stored in the secret server of the Department of Defense. We can completely access them."
Hearing this, the President's eyes lit up. Yes, he was so concerned that he had completely forgotten that everything at NASA headquarters was under the control of the Department of Defense and could be accessed at any time.
Following the orders of many high-level officials, soon, the log report was retrieved and played on Air Force One, the President's exclusive vehicle.
"This is... The docking of the Event Horizon with the rescue team?"
Everyone immediately saw the scene recorded in the video and at the same time, they also saw the huge screen in the command hall in the video.
"It's a very normal activity. The Event Horizon has disappeared for seven years. This was reported by NASA and then approved by me as a rescue operation."
The President of Northern America looked at the scene in front of him and frowned, faintly having an ominous illusion. "Could it be that all this is related to the Event Horizon?"
As he said this, he looked slightly at the sky beside him, but saw that there was already a flash of light under his feet.
"Where are we?"
The President of Northern America turned around and looked at the officials beside him who were staring at the screen together.
"We've now entered the airspace above New York City."
The Minister of Defense glanced out the window. "We're about to arrive at our destination — the secret military base in Islip."
But at this moment, the Minister of Defense suddenly opened his mouth and stared at the screen with wide eyes.
"Minister Franklin?"
The President of Northern America asked doubtfully, but the other party was still full of surprise. The expression on his face was stiff as if he was dead, with an inexplicable strangeness.
At the same time, not only the Minister of Defense, but also General Bob and others next to him had the same expression.
Seeing this, the President of Northern America only felt a chill in his heart. He slowly turned his head to look at the screen in front of him...
"Boom!"
Over New York City, a large passenger plane with black fog constantly pouring out of the cabin, with an unstoppable dive, fell toward the city center...
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