When they returned to the canyon, the canyon was no longer there.
The original desert landscape had already been flattened, leaving behind only a large crater, as if it had been hit by a meteor.
In the sky, the clouds high up in the sky had been broken into countless pieces that looked like scales, or like the frozen plains of the North Pole.
"Where's the mist?" Everyone was surprised to find that the mist that should have covered the canyon was also gone.
It was one thing for the canyon to be flattened, but why was the mist gone as well? That was the entrance!
"The entrance was devoured?" Canaan was shocked.
Ke Long shook his head: "No, the entrance is still here, don't get close to that area."
He quickly marked out an area, which was still the entrance to the Uncanny Valley, but now the canyon was gone, and so was the mist.
This place looked like a normal desert without any special markings.
"When Tao Tie was taken away, the [Absolute Devouring] effect within 1 meter of it devoured the special environment that the entrance to the Uncanny Valley should have" Ke Long explained.
Sometimes, an abnormal area would have special markings.
For example, this place was always shrouded in mist that wouldn't disperse.
But that didn't mean that the mist was the main body of the Uncanny Valley. It was just a minor Derivative, something known as a 'fog that cannot be dispelled'.
This characteristic was definitely not as strong as the core characteristic of the Uncanny Valley. Tao Tie was taken away by the core characteristic of the Uncanny Valley, but at the same time, the [Absolute Devouring] effect destroyed the secondary characteristic of the Uncanny Valley: Undispellable Mist.
Sometimes, even if an anomaly's form was changed, its characteristics wouldn't change.
Take Tao Tie for example, even if it turned into a pig, it would still be a pig that could devour anything.
Similarly, this area's form had been changed. It was still the entrance to the Uncanny Valley, but it couldn't be seen anymore.
Like a door, even if its frame and facade had been taken away, this place was still the same 'door', even if it was completely empty.
This was a very common situation in the containment world.
"Encircle this place and build a military base, then report to the Pentagon" Ke Long said.
"Yes!"
Everyone was overjoyed, Tao Tie had been dealt with.
Although it wasn't killed, it was at least sent to a place where it could never return.
Ke Long couldn't sense whether or not there was any civilization there, but he knew that it wasn't a natural world.
Even if there was life, it was likely that only the five gods trapped inside were still alive.
Let the five Godfiends and Taotie love and kill each other.
"Cough cough …" Ke Long's complexion was incomparably ashen. After gasping for breath for a moment, he was helped to the car to rest.
Mo Qiong looked at him and realized that he couldn't even stand up. His eyeballs were grey like a dead person's.
There was definitely something wrong with his body. As a preacher, Ke Long must have paid a certain price, which was why he would not live for long.
After the medical staff did a check, they stood aside and waited for orders. They didn't make any further moves, as if it wasn't necessary.
Ke Long smiled and said, "Mo Qiong, you must be curious about what's wrong with my body, right?"
Mo Qiong didn't say anything. If Ke Long didn't say anything, he wouldn't ask.
Ke Long smiled and said, "I myself am the containment mechanism of Pandora's box. In order to suppress it, I had to endure sickness, hunger … and death. "
Pandora's Box, of course, was the codename Lan Bai She came up with. It had nothing to do with myths and legends. It was just a small jar, about an inch tall.
It could create all kinds of disasters, except for containment.
This kind of disaster was divided into two types. One was applied to the universe, and the other was applied to the holder's civilization.
The wielder could decide who the disaster would be unleashed on. If there was no holder, then it was the universe by default.
A universe-level disaster could be the tearing of dark energy, the decay of vacuum, or the sudden eruption of all black holes.
According to speculation, before Pandora's Box was picked up, it had already released a universe-level disaster once.
It was just that they didn't know where it happened. For the time being, it hadn't affected the solar system. Perhaps it was very far away from humanity.
However … after Lan Bai She took it in, after much consideration, he still chose to let his civilization bear it.
Because even if a universe-level disaster couldn't affect Earth for a while, once it did, it would be a disaster of extinction.
This time might be a hundred years, a thousand years … but it might be the day after tomorrow.
The disaster of human civilization couldn't be compared to a universe-level disaster. Lan Bai She had to choose this.
The effect was random. Every year, a disaster would run out.
If it was an earthquake, a volcano eruption, a meteorite impact, a tsunami, or a hurricane, then these would all happen naturally.
As for the plague, there was no need to even mention it. An extremely contagious virus or an unprecedented incurable disease would definitely appear.
The more they resisted and prevented the disaster from happening, the more it would forcibly appear. In the end, resistance and suppression would appear out of thin air …
It was better to let nature take its course. This way, there would be a short gestation period, and the disaster would happen in a very natural way.
However, it was different from the doomsday equation. The disasters created by humans were also counted. Perhaps by the containment judgment, the civilization itself was also a source of disaster.
The holder knew which one ran out, and also knew the extent of the disaster.
Therefore, the initial containment measures were very simple. If it was a tsunami that ran out. Then Lan Bai She would immediately notify the global council and let a certain country prepare.
Then, through technology or a certain containment, the tsunami would hit a certain place. And there, Lan Bai She would already have people ready to block and provide disaster relief.
In this way, the disaster could be controlled. It wouldn't cause too many serious consequences, and it would be over.
It was the same for other disasters. Artificially created meteorites, or actively released a new type of virus, and then quickly developed an antidote.
These methods could reduce the damage caused by Pandora's Box to a minimum.
It was better than the disaster randomly appearing in an unprepared place. Instead of that, it was better to hit oneself. At least humans were prepared and could even resist.
Disasters were bound to happen, but they didn't necessarily have to destroy many people and things. The casualties of disasters were originally dependent on the resistance of humans.
In ancient times, typhoons could kill people, but now, typhoons mostly only caused the loss of property.
Therefore, the early containment method was to use this kind of 'fraud'.
For a long time, Lan Bai She was' just going through with it '. It was a way to give face to the containment of the containment.
Until one day … … the disaster called 'death' appeared.
Even 'just going through with it' was useless. Because a few people dying wasn't a disaster. Even without it, humans were dying every day, every minute.
Therefore, the manifestation of the disaster 'death' was a continuous negative population growth … …
The rapid rise of human mortality was a disaster.
There was no way to stop this effect. The more death was suppressed, the more people would die. Even if they were constantly creating new lives, the more children they gave birth to, the more people would die.
This was a forced increase in mortality. Civilization would continuously grow in negative population growth, and eventually the population would drop to zero!
This was Pandora's box, the most absolute and terrifying power.
Unless the target of Pandora's box was transferred.
"Death can't be dealt with, so we have to change the strategy and let the preachers suppress it … … but … how did you do it? Can it choose to only let you bear the disaster? "Mo Qiong asked.
He didn't mention the idea of throwing this anomaly to another universe, because any universe would definitely have a civilization.
And even if they found a universe without a civilization, there would still be the disaster of 'death'. Who knew where this pot had gone after the universe had died?
Ke Long smiled and said: "Of course I can't choose to let an individual bear the cost, but I'm a special case. I'm a human universe"
"In my lymphatic system, there's a Staphylococcus aureus civilization developing"
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