The moment Chen Chen stepped into the black fog, he suddenly felt like he was half-awake. It seemed that only a second or two had passed, but it also seemed like a long time.
Chen Chen was very familiar with this feeling. It was like the feeling of time sinking every time he entered the Ark teleporter.
However, Chen Chen still temporarily followed Zhao Shanhe's instructions and closed his eyes instantly.
"Buzz!"
At the same time, the vast Field energy in Chen Chen's mind blasted out as if it wanted to penetrate the black fog in front of him, but it was blocked by layers as if there were endless sponges around him, preventing the Field energy from spreading out.
On the contrary, the psionic power mixed in the Field energy successfully penetrated the black fog, allowing Chen Chen to "perceive" the environment within a range of 20 meters around him.
Feeling this range, Chen Chen could not help frowning. In reality, his Field energy was vast. After so many years of training, it had reached a range of 80 meters. Within this radius of 80 meters, although it was not omnipotent, it was enough to topple mountains and overturn seas.
But now, his Field energy was restricted again. He could only use the relatively weak psionic power to explore the surroundings and the radius of the exploration was only 20 meters. This feeling of weakness reminded him of the scene when he was imprisoned in the dream world by the antimeme...
After all, the psionic power was not even as penetrating as the Field energy. It could not even penetrate a thin piece of plywood.
Suddenly, Chen Chen's power was weakened by 90%, and the remaining 10% was just the power of his own body.
However, Chen Chen had no intention of retreating. After all, he really wanted to find out the mystery of the USB flash drive. As long as the secret of the USB flash drive was not solved, Chen Chen could not rest assured. Besides, this body was just a clone. It was like having two lives. If one died, there would be another. Under such favorable conditions, Chen Chen was naturally willing to give it a shot.
These thoughts flashed through Chen Chen's mind. He only felt that he had come to an empty street. Strictly speaking, this place was exactly the same as the outside world, except for the intuition he felt when he stepped into the black fog.
In fact, he could even feel the warm sunlight above his head.
However, Chen Chen understood that he had indeed stepped into the black fog because his ears could no longer hear the sounds of the outside world and his Field energy was suppressed by an invisible force.
Not far in front of him, Zhao Shanhe and his subordinate, Jenny, were lowering their heads and gently doing something in front of their eyes. Chen Chen spread his psionic energy and saw that they were sewing their eyes with a needle and thread...
Pull the upper and lower eyelids together and sew them together with a needle and thread. This way, they would not be able to open their eyes to see the outside world. It was a good method.
However, Chen Chen knew that although they had their eyes sewn shut, they were not without the power to resist. After all, they still had the Force obtained from the Star Wars dimension.
Chen Chen was not quite sure what the nature of the Force was, but it was clearly a special power like his Field energy and psionic power.
More importantly, this kind of power could actually be suppressed by the reality anchor. This was worth pondering …
Chen Chen's psionic energy spread out and directly collided with the Force around the opponent's body. Both of them paused at the same time. The woman named Jenny sneered coldly as if she was taking pleasure in their misfortune.
Zhao Shanhe, on the other hand, frowned and just wrapped his body with the Force to protect himself.
Chen Chen slowly withdrew his psionic energy, but he was shocked because at the moment of the collision just now, he faintly sensed that the Force seemed to be very similar to his own psionic power, almost sharing the same origin!
However, unlike the complete version of psionic power that he had, the Force in them was like the weakened version of the psionic power that Chen Chen bestowed on the members of the "Superpower Combative Police Force". It was just a special kind of energy, but it was impossible to have more magical abilities such as psionic seeds, rebirth, and so on.
Psionic power and the Force were the same thing?
Thoughts surged in Chen Chen's mind. He combined it with the Star Wars movie and an extremely terrifying idea came to his mind...
"Unless my power is tens of thousands of times stronger than it is now in the future, I must never take a step into the Star Wars dimension!"
At this moment, Chen Chen thought so.
"Do you need my needle and thread?"
Zhao Shanhe finished sewing his eyes and said to Chen Chen without looking back, "If you need it, I can lend it to you."
"No need."
Chen Chen shook his head. "I think I should be able to stop myself, but I'm more curious about what will happen when I open my eyes."
"If you open your eyes, you'll die."
Zhao Shanhe said coldly, "Since you don't need it, I won't force you."
With that, he walked straight forward and walked into this deep road.
Seeing this, Chen Chen directly followed behind him. The psionic power and Force of both sides occasionally collided, intentionally or unintentionally. Gradually, Chen Chen also estimated that Zhao Shanhe's Force could spread about a range of ten meters, while Jenny was even weaker, only able to spread it to a range of five meters around her.
This range was basically no different from a blind person.
Unbeknownst to him, while Chen Chen was estimating, Zhao Shanhe and Jenny were also shocked in their hearts. In their perception, the mysterious power radiating from Chen Chen was clearly stronger than theirs and the other party's perception range definitely exceeded theirs. This feeling made the two of them feel complicated and even more vigilant toward Chen Chen.
Chen Chen followed all the way. He found that Zhao Shanhe seemed to have been walking along the road. After walking about a kilometer or two, the buildings on both sides of the street and even the street itself began to show signs of damage. From time to time, pieces of steel fragments blocked the road, forcing the three of them to go around them to continue forward.
Zhao Shanhe seemed to be heading to the place where Air Force One crashed.
Following the increasingly dense traces, the three of them walked for about three hours. When Chen Chen felt that all around him were destroyed buildings, he suddenly sensed a behemoth in front of him.
It seemed to be the nose of an airplane, but it had long been damaged and even its shape was dented.
After coming here, Zhao Shanhe and Jenny could not help but stop.
Seeing this, Chen Chen also stopped. He continued to extend his psionic power forward, but suddenly raised his eyebrows because under the observation of his psionic power, he found that there were no bodies in the plane.
Only then did Chen Chen realize that along the way, he did not see any bodies. It stood to reason that after this Air Force One crashed, there must be a lot of residents in this block. Even if some of the residents escaped before the black fog spread, at least some of the residents should not have been able to escape in time and were trapped here.
However, now, he did not see anyone, no one was alive, no bodies were found.
Still, Zhao Shanhe was not surprised by this at all. Obviously, he knew a lot of secrets, but he was just unwilling to tell Chen Chen.
"This is it."
Zhao Shanhe nodded, then turned and walked toward a building next to him that was not completely destroyed. "Jenny has consumed a lot of Force, we need to rest for a night before continuing."
Chen Chen frowned. He knew that this sentence was meant for him. Although his psionic power could still support him for a long time, the woman's Force was much weaker. It seemed like she could not hold on any longer.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen still followed behind the two of them and at the same time asked, "You seem to have come to this plane, what are you going to do next?"
"After Jenny recovers, we'll enter the cabin, find the source of the black fog, and enter the real subspace from there."
Zhao Shanhe replied, "That's our goal."
"Subspace?"
Chen Chen's heart skipped a beat. Finally, Zhao Shanhe began to reveal new information to him.
"The subspace is the shadow projected by the universe."
Zhao Shanhe walked into a low-rise shopping mall and said at the same time, "Everything in the universe has a projection, and the subspace is the shadow of the entire universe.
"Therefore, the subspace is not a part of reality. It's a place where time, space, and matter are all meaningless. Naturally, there is no life, but it is full of indescribable things, or rather, it's a kind of rule, and the 'meme' that makes us pale at the mention of it is the simplest representation of this rule."
Chen Chen listened quietly and did not speak.
"And this black fog is the airflow after the barrier between reality and the subspace is broken."
Zhao Shanhe came to the shopping mall and picked out food that had not spoiled. He said as he picked, "This black fog is called the subspace countercurrent. It's originally a product of the subspace eroding reality. Once it's eroded, it can't be dispelled unless the power of the Civilization Monolith is used."
Chen Chen suddenly thought of something. He immediately recalled that Zhao Shanhe had inadvertently used the black slate to break a small piece of black fog.
"After the subspace erodes reality, it will produce countless unpredictable changes, also beginning to give birth to all kinds of strange memetic effects. Do you know why?"
Zhao Shanhe suddenly asked.
"Why?"
Chen Chen asked calmly.
"Because memes are the Civilization Monolith."
Zhao Shanhe replied indifferently, "Strictly speaking, memes are the fragments of the Civilization Monolith. The subspace erodes reality, inevitably leading to the destruction of the Civilization Monolith, and the broken Civilization Monolith is the meme."
Chen Chen stopped in his tracks. He felt as if a bolt of lightning had struck him and a feeling of enlightenment washed over him. At this moment, he gritted his teeth and asked, "In that case, it's time for you to talk about the Civilization Monolith."
However, Zhao Shanhe only smiled mysteriously. "As the name suggests, the Civilization Monolith is the Civilization Monolith. You should already know what it is."
Chen Chen felt like his mind was drifting. He took a deep breath and began to silently digest everything he had heard just now.
The three of them picked out some packaged food from the supermarket in the mall. Then, Zhao Shanhe took the initiative to find a well-sealed double staff dormitory for Jenny and Chen Chen to live in.
"We'll spend the night here."
Zhao Shanhe's eyes were faintly solemn. He fumbled to the window, directly pulled the curtains, and then took the initiative to lock the front door, making the entire room airtight.
After that, he lay down on the side of the bed, a little tired, and silently exhaled.
As for Jenny, she took the initiative to occupy the other bed.
Chen Chen observed Zhao Shanhe's actions and waited for him to finish before asking, "What are you wary of?"
"I don't know."
Zhao Shanhe sneered. "I don't know what's going to happen next, but don't think we can be careless just because we didn't encounter any danger along the way. Didn't you notice that there's not a single corpse here? But Jenny and I still remember that when we broke out of here, the black fog was full of corpses."
Chen Chen also sat in a chair on the side. He was a little puzzled. "Then when you left the subspace countercurrent, what did you encounter?"
"..."
Zhao Shanhe suddenly fell silent when he heard this. After a long time, he said, "Earlier, we were chased by a dark shadow. The shadow looked very human, but I know it wasn't human. It killed three of my subordinates, only Jenny and I escaped."
After saying this, Zhao Shanhe fell silent again.
This time, no matter how Chen Chen asked, Zhao Shanhe did not say anything more.
Seeing this, Chen Chen could only sit aside and silently gather his spirit.
Only now, Chen Chen also faintly felt a sense of irritation in the depths of his heart. After all, people were most accustomed to observing everything with their eyes. Although they could still use their psionic powers to observe their surroundings after losing their vision, it was like ultrasound. The psionic powers could at most sense the shape and texture of the surroundings, allowing him to distinguish substances.
It was like black and white vision, a kind of black-and-white vision that could only be limited to a range of 30 meters. This feeling was very boring.
Still, this annoyance would not affect anything. Chen Chen could still suppress it.
What Zhao Shanhe had said before, such as the matter of closing one's eyes to enter the subspace countercurrent, Chen Chen still somewhat agreed with it because he had experimented before. The unknown pattern sent back by the Event Horizon would immediately erupt into a billowing black fog as soon as it was seen. Obviously, the subspace was closely related to the eyes, or in other words, vision. It was no wonder that Zhao Shanhe reminded him not to open his eyes here.
Moreover, the premise of closing one's eyes, combined with the movie, could also confirm some clues. In the movie, Dr. Weir, who connected the entire main storyline, frequently saw his dead wife on the Event Horizon. His wife also constantly bewitched him, and every time she appeared, her eyes were two empty holes.
In the later stages of the movie, Professor Weir even dug out his own eyes, claiming that this was the only way to see the "truth".
As for everything that Zhao Shanhe said after that, Chen Chen was even more touched. According to Zhao Shanhe, the memetic effect was the fragments of the civilization monolith, which was a little scary after thinking about it.
This was because Chen Chen had a very deep speculation before. The so-called civilization monolith was likely to be the "path" of civilization. This was an abstract concept. For example, the world where Chen Chen was in and the world of Event Horizon were only very ordinary technology. If something beyond technology began to appear in this world, would it not be equivalent to beginning to break the civilization monolith?
When the civilization monolith was broken, some fragments of the civilization monolith would gradually appear. As Zhao Shanhe said, these fragments were the origin of memes – a kind of distorted rules.
Was it precisely because it was a broken civilization monolith, subjected to unknown distortion and subversion, that it presented all kinds of strange phenomena?
At this moment, Chen Chen only felt that he was incomparably close to the truth of memes.
However, just as Chen Chen was still thinking, the sky gradually darkened. Chen Chen could feel the sunlight coming in through the window quickly receding. At the same time, there seemed to be some kind of sound coming from the corridor outside the door.
Chen Chen subconsciously held his breath. After closing his eyes, the other human senses began to begin to increase. At this time, Chen Chen heard some kind of sound in the distance outside the door.
It seemed to be the sound of footsteps...
"Patter, patter..."
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
