"Wah... Wah wah..."
There was a piercing wail. Chen Chen stood in front of the gate and looked at the hospital building in the distance. However, in the next second, the walls of the building began to peel off bit by bit, revealing the cement underneath. The entire building began to rot bit by bit.
In just the blink of an eye, the entire hospital seemed to have experienced hundreds of thousands of years and became mottled and dilapidated.
Not only that, the sky had turned into a dim yellow at some point. Endless strange shadows stirred above the hospital. A breeze blew on Chen Chen's face, bringing with it a burning heat and an inexplicable stench. It was the smell of blood and fire.
At the same time, Chen Chen seemed to feel countless pairs of eyes suddenly staring at him.
An inexplicable feeling of being spied on spontaneously arose!
Chen Chen sensed the unseen gaze and listened to the strange cries of the baby. He took a deep breath and walked toward the hospital step by step. At the same time, he silently pressed the button on his wrist. However, after taking a few steps, he was stunned.
The scene in the hospital was still as usual and the sky was also filled with a bright blue color. Everything that had happened just now was an illusion. There were no dark shadows, no bloody wind, and even the feeling of being spied on had disappeared without a trace.
Chen Chen looked around in disbelief, but saw that everyone inside and outside the hospital was still doing their own things calmly. No one reacted to the scene just now, or rather, what Chen Chen saw just now was just an illusion in his mind...
"Sir Commander?"
Nancy's voice came from the headset. Just now, Chen Chen had pressed the call button. In the Martian territory, Nancy was the AI responsible for managing the city's affairs in place of Little X.
Chen Chen did not answer. He looked again at the newborn that had just been born. It was still crying like an ordinary baby, but the ominous premonition just now had disappeared without a trace, leaving not a trace.
"Delivery room 301..."
Chen Chen looked at the room number of the room but did not leave. Instead, he still stood in front of the hospital gate.
"What room 301?"
Nancy asked, a little puzzled.
"Check the background of the baby in delivery room 301 for me."
Chen Chen ordered, "I want an answer immediately."
"Yes."
Nancy answered at once. Although she was a little puzzled as to why Chen Chen would ask about this, she still subconsciously scanned through the vast information network on Mars and said, "Delivery room 301 is a room in the obstetrics and gynecology department of the largest hospital in Ares Science City. It's specifically used to receive pregnant women in labor. The pregnant woman in charge of labor at this time is called Hurt Shirley, a psychic psionicist. Her husband is called Wallis Ashburn, also a psychic psionicist."
"As for the doctors and nurses responsible for the delivery, they are …"
Nancy explained the information of all the personnel in Delivery Room 301 at this time. After listening to her, Chen Chen revealed a thoughtful expression.
The problem clearly came from the baby.
The source of the baby was his parents, and the most coincidental thing was that the baby's parents were psionicists.
With this in mind, Chen Chen examined the baby again. Then, he felt a faint psionic aura flowing in the baby's body. This baby turned out to be a psionicist!
This point made Chen Chen inexplicably shocked.
Psionicists had appeared in human society for more than a decade. In these years, the number of psionicists had exceeded fifty thousand. Although this was not a small number, when compared to the entire human race, it was still a rarity.
Over the past decade, although there were a few cases of two psionicists mating and giving birth to children, the offspring they gave birth to were all ordinary people, not to mention the cases where only one of the parties in the marriage was a psionicist.
In other words, over the past decade or so, the birth of psionicists could only be produced by injection of the L compound. There was no such thing as a natural-born psionicist.
Chen Chen had once wondered about this as well because he was familiar with the properties of the L compound. The drug could alter part of a human's DNA so that the next generation would have a certain chance of producing a second generation psionicist. However, the reality was that regardless of whether the parents were psionicists, their offspring would always be ordinary people.
This phenomenon made Chen Chen think that the L compound was defective.
Now, just when Chen Chen had long given up hope, in this hospital on Mars, a psionicist was born!
Moreover, as soon as the child was born, the psionic energy interfered with Chen Chen who was passing by, causing an inexplicable illusion to appear in Chen Chen's mind.
No, that did not seem to be as simple as an illusion...
In the next second, Chen Chen suddenly shook his head. He was aware of his consciousness. Even in the subspace, it would not be able to affect him. How could a newborn cause an illusion that he could not distinguish?
However, if it was not an illusion, then what did it all mean?
"If the psionicists in today's human society are artificial beings, then this baby represents the world's first and only natural psionicist."
Chen Chen muttered in a low voice. Could it be that it was because of this that I saw the illusion just now?
Chen Chen shook his head and recalled everything he saw. He suddenly felt that the scene just now seemed vaguely familiar.
He was not unfamiliar with this energy because he had encountered it before. Although it had been more than a decade, every time he recalled it, he would feel a sense of awe.
Yes, Chen Chen was certain that what he felt just now was the energy of the subspace.
"Why would the birth of the world's first psionicist make me feel the existence of the subspace?"
Although Chen Chen had gradually sorted out some things, he was still puzzled. He did not understand the meaning of all this, but there was one thing that could not be changed, and that was that the feeling he felt just now was definitely not something good.
"Sir Commander."
While Chen Chen was deep in thought, Nancy reported again, "I've just received news that just more than half an hour ago, the Blacklight has successfully broken through the Mandeville Point and entered the subspace."
Chen Chen's frown deepened when he heard this. If he had not encountered this incident, he would not have felt anything when he heard the news that the Blacklight had left the real universe and embarked on an alien migration. However, now that he had encountered this incident, Chen Chen was hesitant.
Could it be that the Blacklight's entry into the subspace had something to do with the birth of this baby?
Chen Chen felt like he had grasped something, but when he thought about it carefully, it did not make any sense. There was no connection at all between the two parties except for the similarity in time.
Therefore, he simply said, "Nancy, send a Black Knight to take care of the baby. I'm afraid there's a big secret in this baby, we can't let it wander outside."
"Yes."
Nancy replied. Although it was immoral to snatch a newborn from a mother, now was not the time to argue about it. This newborn could even affect Chen Chen and could not be treated with common sense at all. If he still acted like a saint at this time, he might not even know how he died in the future.
After that, Chen Chen completely lost interest in touring the Martian city and returned directly to the Spire 2 Base. Less than half an hour later, a Black Knight came to Chen Chen with a newborn wrapped in swaddling clothes the size of an arm.
Chen Chen's eyes were solemn as he slowly took the baby from the Black Knight's hands. He only saw that the baby boy was red all over and his face was wrinkled like a little old man.
Still, this was normal. Most newborns looked like this and it would take a few days to fully develop.
Looking at the sleeping newborn in his arms, Chen Chen again used Field to scan his body up and down but found nothing, so Chen Chen switched to psionic power, only then he felt the faint psionic power in his body.
The baby's psionic power seemed to lean towards the psychic, and it was not very strong. It was far weaker than the psionicists who were injected with the L compound for the first time. However, there was a strong sense of vitality in this weakness...
A natural psionicist.
Chen Chen took a deep breath and returned the baby to the Black Knight, but in the process of handing over, he woke the baby up. Suddenly, the newborn burst into another burst of cries.
"Don't keep this baby in the base. Find a room in the Ares Science City and raise him there."
Chen Chen took one last look at the baby and then said, "Don't starve him. Give him all the food and nutrition he needs. At the same time, make up a perfect identity for him and find a pair of Black Knights to act as his parents. But no matter what, his every move, his growth, his psychological activities, all must be under our observation."
"Understood."
Nancy replied, then she seemed a little puzzled and could not help asking, "The reason you're doing this is..."
"I can only tell you that it's all related to the subspace."
Chen Chen answered. Without saying anything else, he turned around and left the room.
Everything that had happened today made Chen Chen feel a sense of vigilance.
Although Chen Chen had gained certain benefits from his exposure to the subspace, which made interstellar migration possible, correspondingly, it also buried hidden dangers for human civilization.
What happened today was an example. The birth of this baby seemed to be related to the subspace.
Chen Chen did not know whether this was a good thing or a bad thing. He could only use his sixth sense to judge. Still, as far as Chen Chen knew, the subspace was a hidden danger that could destroy mankind. Previously, Chen Chen also felt an ominous premonition from the baby.
If his sixth sense was not mistaken, this was not a good thing.
Thinking about this silently, Chen Chen returned to Earth again and told Little X about this matter.
Although Little X was now able to stand on her own, she still found it difficult to understand this mysterious phenomenon. After all, she was only an AI, not a true carbon-based life form.
"In short, this matter needs to be treated with caution."
Chen Chen instructed, "At the same time, you must increase your efforts and pay attention to the marriage status of those psionicists. I want to see if there will be new psionicists born. If there are, will those newly born psionicists still pose a threat to me like they did today?"
...
Time passed by. In the blink of an eye, Shaw had been sailing in the subspace for half a year.
From his initial nervousness, to his current composure, and from his initial vigilance, to his current state of familiarity, Shaw was now able to guide the airship's flight path in a practiced manner while conversing with the other two at the same time.
"Captain Navigator, there's a sea of light 300,000 kilometers ahead of us."
In the midst of the monotonous voyage, Ma Qian's voice was as crisp as a nightingale's. She stared at the sea of light spots in the distance outside the porthole. These light spots glowed with a dim white light and swayed left and right like fireflies in the subspace airflow.
"Just cross over, these light spots won't harm us."
Shaw immediately issued an order. At once, the spaceship crossed over the sea of light without hesitation.
It was unknown what these light spots were. Even the Blacklight Cruise could not harm them in the slightest. Instead, they were scattered by the airflow of the spaceship. Occasionally, one could see the light spots slowly disappearing, but at the same time, new light spots were constantly being born.
Although the sea of light spots was vast, it only took the spaceship a few seconds to pass through it, leaving only traces of the subspace airflow.
"Has the information of these light spots been entered into the database?"
After crossing the sea of light spots, Shaw asked the two people behind him again.
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