Jing Jiu understood why General Li asked him to come here.
Seeing the scenes with his own eyes and seeing them in the materials were two entirely different feelings. The former was more vivid and more realistic.
Jing Jiu kept walking forward. The footsteps and the explanation broke out in the quiet and empty passageway again.
One of the two military officers was familiar with the base and the environment of the outside world; the other was a researcher who knew more about the Sea of Dark Matter.
"Up until now, the research institute has only been able to observe and calculate indirectly. The black dusts and powders are still the matter of our world, but they have been modified by a certain force on the level of the microscopic particles. The physical rules are chaotic in the super-particle state, so we can only conclude some rules."
"The existence of the dark matter is calculated based on mathematical tools, which can't be captured or collected. What we can ascertain is that it doesn't have a static mass."
"The infection is neither an invasion of the nervous system nor a modification; it's hard to understand."
"The distant ancient civilization has determined that the infection is irreversible, so they have no choice but to isolate it."
"To prevent the invasion of the Sea of Dark Matter, the key is to cut off the source, that is, to wipe out those cracks in the secondary dimension. The supercomputer core of the Federation can monitor a part of the galaxy in real time. It's basically a race against time in these regions. Yet, those cracks in the space occur soundlessly, and they can sometimes infect some planets."
"The proportion of colonized planets and mineral stars in this galaxy is very low. According to the frequency of the infection, the Sea of Dark Matter … has a much larger area than we had imagined in the past, and it might even surround this galaxy."
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The two military officers stopped in front of a floor-to-ceiling window and said, "It's the center of the city outside."
Jing Jiu and Hua Xi looked out of the window, but they didn't see any high-rise buildings, save for the black woods and shrubs.
Some streets could be vaguely seen on the other side of the black woods. There were many cracks on the streets, from which black smoke was vaguely coming up.
A gust of wind blew over and dispersed the black smoke, but it didn't vanish into the air; instead, it dispersed in all directions.
Countless particles fell down from the black treetops, and the wild grasses on both sides of the streets were drifting slowly, as if they would come back to life, but they were still lifeless.
The particles in the smoke were the spores they had seen after the spaceship entered the atmosphere.
The professors of the research institute were certain that the black spores were the cells that had been infected by the dark matter.
All the infected creatures on this planet were dead, at least on the surface.
The spores had no vitality and could not continue to infect other things, but they still looked very scary.
It was true that the Sea of Dark Matter had infected the living beings, or more precisely, the organic beings.
If there were no lifeforms on a planet, the Sea of Dark Matter wouldn't bring about any change even if it swallowed the planet.
Moreover, the expansion of the Sea of Dark Matter would slow down when there were no living beings, and it was far slower than the speed at which the galaxies moved away from each other.
In other words, the Sea of Dark Matter could at most affect the space of the local galaxy, but it couldn't pose any threat to the vast universe.
Just like how a nail could not destroy the empire on the other side of the plains.
The problem was that humans were not the universe itself, but life itself.
Wherever the Sea of Dark Matter passed, the sea of stars would turn into an abyss, and the lives would come to an end, and the human world would become a hell.
The number of the extraterrestrial demons that had invaded the Stargate Base was not large, but they had caused such a great loss because of these reasons.
The city outside the window was the first hell.
On the other side of the black smoke, the city was isolated by an invisible barrier, maintaining the appearance of hundreds of thousands of years ago.
The distant ancient civilization was much more developed than the current Federation of the Milky Way, but their ideas were similar.
It was evident that the rulers at the time intended to keep this hell as a laboratory to study the countermeasures and find a way to destroy the Sea of Dark Matter.
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There were many corpses on the streets, in the buildings and in the passageways.
The corpses were the locust trees, the roses, the cockroaches, the rats, the dogs, the cats, and the humans.
It was hard to imagine that the distant ancient civilization was so advanced that they could preserve this ugly world so well.
"The energy of the protective barrier can last for tens of thousands of years. The Federation has improved many aspects through the study of this protective barrier. The protective barrier of the new battleships and many protective barriers on the planetary level are all derived from this barrier. Of course, we can't achieve such a level of protection yet. "
An officer brought up the light screen and said to Jing Jiu while clicking on a tiny black speck on the screen, "The infected beings will lose all their senses, but they will retain their intelligence before death. According to the information we have collected about the distant ancient civilization and the suggestions of the scientists of the present age, we have classified these living beings into five categories."
The tiny black speck enlarged rapidly on the light screen and turned into a small piece of grayish-black tree branch; it was unclear what kind of living being it was.
"This is an insect called the Stick Worm. After being infected, it will have an almost endless life, just like other living beings. However, it is not a threat to us. It's just that the spores emitted by it can continue to infect other living beings for half a minute after it is killed. " The officer thought that Jing Jiu didn't know about this, so he explained patiently and in detail, "We can kill these things by destroying their form completely; but we should try not to use this method on the battlefield."
Jing Jiu didn't give a response.
The officer continued, "The infected insects are called the Scale Monster; the infected animals are called the Half Tail; the plants are called the Gray Wood; and the microorganisms are more troublesome; they have a strange name called the Bloody Thumb. As for the infected humans … they are called the Preface. "
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The black specks on the light screen were enlarged one by one, revealing their shapes.
They were the rumored monsters of the Sea of Dark Matter.
Even though they were given some ancient names by the distant ancient civilization and the scientists, they were still monsters. Though they were the tall and straight trees in the snow, the flowers swaying in the wind, the insects singing in the summer night, the cats on people's laps, the dogs under their feet, and the humans before they were infected, they were still monsters.
According to the various monsters that appeared one by one, the detailed three-dimensional anatomical diagrams and detailed written explanations appeared on the light screen. They were the research results accumulated by the two civilizations, and they were very detailed. The diagrams included the movement speed of the monsters, their attacking methods, their weaknesses, and the fastest, simplest, most effective, and most economical way to destroy them.
Some of the monsters were like a speck of dust; some looked like wild animals; and some looked like the zombies in the movies and games.
Jing Jiu was somewhat familiar with the appearance of these monsters, which was similar to the heavenly demons he had encountered after his ascension.
The demons in the snowland of Chaotian were obviously the replicas of these monsters, or in other words, replicas of them; but one of them was black, and the other was white.
Yet, that god was not omnipotent. The demons of the Snowy Kingdom were obviously not as formidable as these monsters, and most importantly, they didn't have the ability to infect other living beings.
The low temperature and the absolute deathly stillness were nonetheless different.
Looking at the city outside the window, Jing Jiu's eyes grew brighter and sharper. Though he saw many corpses of the "blood thumbs", he still couldn't see the Sea of Dark Matter.
It was then that he thought of the mosquitoes in the Fiend Prison and Cold Cicada, and the Snow Girl for the umpteenth time.
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The circular base occupied a large area, so large that there was a mountain in the middle. In comparison to the peculiar high mountains on the equator of this planet, this mountain was not so high; but it was the highest mountain near the north pole, so high that the city could be seen in its entirety.
Standing by the cliff's edge, Jing Jiu looked at the city in the distance, remaining silent. The sunlight shone on his face, which was not as attractive as usual. It was probably because the emotion in his eyes and brows was a bit faint.
As the zither music rang out, Shen Yunmai arrived by stepping on the air and landed by Jing Jiu's side.
"What kind of weapons did the distant ancient civilization use at the time?" asked Jing Jiu.
That kind of weapon could kill all the monsters and lifeforms on the surface of the planet in a short time, and it could also seal the cracks in the Space of Two Dimensions. It was of course remarkable.
The current Federation of the Milky Way couldn't achieve such a feat, be it the neutron bomb or the super concentrated electromagnetic bomb.
"It's said that it was a weapon of the Permanent Star State, but the materials found by the Science Academy have no clue about it."
Looking at the city in the dim light, Shen Yunmai continued, "Unfortunately, no matter how advanced a civilization is, it will enter the grave sooner or later."
"Let's go and have a look," said Jing Jiu.
Jing Jiu flew up from the cliff's edge and turned into a sword light, passing through the protective shield of the circular base and heading toward the distant city.
The alarm rang out in the circular base, followed by countless surprised screams.
Nobody could ensure his safety.
What if he was infected by the dark energy?
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