Chapter 475: The Enemy and I Have the Same Origin

"What do you mean by enemies and we share the same origin?"

Lin Xian frowned: "Are you trying to say that the power of human superpowers and strange bodies are the same?"

"This point no longer needs to be proven." Ding Junyi, head down, tapping away at the keyboard, continued without looking up. "With the discovery of cold dark fundamental particles and the data on dark energy potential, our understanding of dark energy has become increasingly clear. To put it in a metaphor, it's like the oxygen on the blue planet, which is the foundation of our life. Similarly, dark energy is the foundation of those strange creatures."

"So, are humans' abilities caused by this 'oxygen'?" Lin Xian shook his head. "Although I've tried to explain it scientifically, the differences in individual abilities don't seem like random mutations."

"you're right!"

Ding Junyi turned around at this time: "This is what I meant by the enemy and I having the same origin."

Lin Xian's face gradually became solemn.

"Are you trying to say that the powers awakened by a psychic are traceable and are 'given' under certain conditions?"

Ding Junyi was silent for a second before she spoke. "There's currently no valid evidence. This is just a guess I've made based on the data I've gathered on the growth of disaster plants, forbidden objects, and all the people with special abilities on the bus. I'm thinking that disaster plants are essentially organic matter from the Blue Planet, while forbidden objects are some random inorganic matter. These special objects can release different properties, which makes us think of them as myths or magical weapons."

"It won't work if you force a scientific explanation," Lin Xian said.

"I understand what you mean." Ding Junyi raised her glasses and said directly, "The essence of mythology is also human fantasy extended from all things in nature. Conversely, if one can awaken those strange powers of matter and fire, does that mean that that civilization has already mastered the power to regulate nature, biology, and physics?"

Lin Xian was stunned when he heard this: "Okay, I still don't understand."

Ding Junyi looked at him with a cold voice: "I don't like beating around the bush. My guess is that human mutants are essentially the same logic as the weird bodies created by the Dark Nest. The evolved crystal lattice of humans can fully utilize the power of dark energy, and the same is true for the blood essence of weird bodies. In other words, mutants and weird bodies are the same, creatures transformed by dark energy. It's just that before the evolution of the crystal lattice, humans relied on their own life and mental strength to carry this power. 99% of them simply couldn't bear it, so this power destroyed their living logic and turned them into zombies driven by this power. It also explains why the people of the Falcon Sea Group can immediately double their own soul value after the crystal lattice evolved, because in essence, this crystal lattice is the blood essence of humans born under the nourishment of dark energy!"

"Of course, these are just my theoretical conjectures at the moment, lacking effective experimental and empirical support. The reason I'm sharing this conjecture so loosely is because it can effectively and reasonably explain many of the difficulties we face in our research."

Lin Xian's face darkened after hearing this, and he subconsciously asked, "What are the questions?"

"First, regarding the zombie issue, excluding the possibility of viral transmission, the infinite vitality of individuals can be explained to a certain extent."

"Secondly, regarding the issue of evolution, humans adapt to darkness and are mutated, which means they are on the verge of being transformed by dark energy."

"Third, the lattice problem. This is a question that both you and the Phoenix Society have. Perhaps the Phoenix Society has already had such an idea and is conducting extensive research and comparisons."

Lin Xian nodded: "I have indeed thought about this. A crystal core growing inside a person's body looks like a strange body."

He shrugged and looked at Ding Junyi again: "But this still brings us back to the original topic. The common source refers to dark energy. Then it makes sense that human superpowers and evolution are similar to strange bodies. There is nothing wrong with this, right?"

"The homology I'm talking about isn't 'oxygen,' but individuals." Ding Junyi stepped aside, her green clothes rapidly withering and falling off. She pulled out a document from the bedside and tossed it to Lin Xian, then found a set of clothes and slowly put them on: "Take a look at this."

When Lin Xian took it and took a look, he found that it was actually an early confidential document of the Angel Project. Lin Xian was not unfamiliar with it because KIKI had shown it to him when he was still in North Bay.

"I've seen this. It's from the earliest reports on the assessment and investigation of people with special abilities. The term 'Dangling Spirit Value' probably originated from the Angel Project."

Lin Xian flipped through the book and said, "Supernatural Power Department, Peak Assessment, the Phoenix Society will improve on this basis later."

Ding Junyi put on her clothes and coat smoothly, shook her hair, and walked straight to Lin Xian. She opened one of the pages of the document and pointed to the end.

Lin Xian's gaze fell, his pupils narrowed. "I've also seen transcendental awakening and superpowered zombies. Some superpowered people reach the peak of their Soul Draining Value directly at the Diamond level or even higher after awakening. I once heard someone named Zhou Wuer from the Night Walker Organization talk about him. He was like that, as was Wen Zhuo. Many masters within the Phoenix Society are like that. As for the sudden disappearance of this superpower..."

Lin Xian closed the document and looked at Ding Junyi: "Just tell me."

Ding Junyi took a deep breath, looked at Lin Xian calmly, and said, "Do you think there's a connection between a person's ability disappearing out of thin air and a certain strange entity being eliminated?"

Lin Xian's pupils shrank sharply upon hearing this, and he immediately took a breath of cold air, saying in horror, "Is this what you mean by 'the enemy and I share the same origin?'"

Ding Junyi glanced sideways. "If forbidden objects and catastrophic plants are the diffraction of singularities from a 'natural phenomenon' in some dark world, then human psychics are the 'diffraction' of high-level strange entities onto individual life forms on Blue Planet. This is completely understandable."

"understand?"

"Is it a surprising conclusion?"

"The sky is falling and the earth is splitting." Lin Xian's face darkened. "If this is the case, then all the evolution of human superpowers will be meaningless."

Ding Junyi seemed to be able to guess Lin Xian's reaction. She put her hands in her pockets and looked at him in a comforting tone, saying, "Don't be surprised. In fact, if this point can be proven, it would be a good thing for humanity to some extent."

Lin Xian smiled silently. "Psychics, especially those who have evolved through lattice evolution, should now be humanity's greatest reliance in dealing with the apocalyptic disaster, besides the Interstellar Army and the Emperor Project. All major organizations are desperately trying to make psychics evolve and break through, seeking higher limits, trying to break through the shackles from this direction and find a way to save human civilization. Now, psychics with a Soul Drainage value of 20,000 can already defeat special-level monsters. Everyone believes that if the Soul Drainage value reaches 50,000 or 100,000, then S-level, corpse-driving people, and even world-level monsters may be defeated by humans. Now you tell the world that psychics are the diffraction of strange bodies in the human world. Isn't it equivalent to saying that humans have no chance of defeating those monsters in the dark?!"

Ding Junyi shrugged. "If the theory is proven, there are several directions worth considering. 1. When the strange body dies, the superpower will disappear. So, does the superpower's death have any impact on the strange body? This is an extreme consideration. 2. From the perspective of game theory, there is currently no superpower that can deal with S-level, corpse-driving, or even world-class superpowers alone. If 1 is feasible, then the strategic value of superpowers will be enormous. 3. If, from the perspective of balance, superpowers and strange bodies can maintain the same strategic deterrent, then will human technological power become an important factor influencing the balance?"

Lin Xian closed his eyes with a headache: "What a joke, if the superpowers could maintain the same strategic deterrence as the weird bodies, then Dawn City wouldn't have suffered such a terrible defeat."

Ding Junyi fixed her gaze on him: "The premise is that the dark civilization knows that we have mastered this and has the means to counter it."

Lin Xian opened his eyes immediately after hearing this, and was stunned. His eyes met Ding Junyi's. At this moment, his heart seemed to explode with thunder!

He slowly took two steps back, his brain working frantically. Although what Ding Junyi said was just speculation, the discovery of this point of view did illuminate countless doubts about the world at the same time. He kept searching for his memories and looking back. The more he thought about it, the more his scalp tingled.

If what Ding Junyi said is true, then humanity's fear of darkness may also be closely related to this.

"Crescent Moon Project..."

"Unicom S-level..."

Lin Xian murmured in silence, and suddenly remembered the experimental log of the Night Walker Organization's lattice cultivation that Ye Lan showed him after entering the ocean orbit.

The list of superpowers in that experimental log basically consisted of people who had broken through the peak of 10,000 after crystallization. They had indeed achieved the effect of doubling or even higher the peak power as Vanessa said. However, he also noticed the observation log under each character's information. There, many people who had undergone crystallization had experienced strange hallucinations in a short period of time. The hallucinations reported were very similar to what Lin had seen through the corpse-driver after arriving in Dawn City. Some came from the night, some from the deep sea, and they were basically some abnormal scenes.

What’s even more strange is that some of them have very high peak abilities, but they are... alienated.

"What they saw wasn't an illusion..." Lin Xian looked at Ding Junyi with a serious expression. "If it's true, then those lattice-evolved mutants are most likely seeing things from the perspective of the strange entity!"

Ding Junyi frowned and said nothing.

Lin Xian thought of something and turned around suddenly, but Ding Junyi called him

"If you cancel Monica's lattice cultivation now, she will most likely die. I know what you're thinking. First of all, you should know that this is just my inference. And if my inference is correct, then this has nothing to do with lattice evolution, because this diffraction connection was already formed when they awakened their superpowers. In other words, it was the strange entity that found them!"

Lin Xian stopped, his eyes changed, and he spat coldly: "What a rubbish civilization."

He turned to Ding Junyi and said, "Director Ding, I think your reasoning is very constructive. We can continue to study this line of thought. I have a feeling that if we continue in this direction, we may soon have a better understanding of superpowers and strange entities. Now we must figure out what form this diffraction between superpowers and strange entities takes, is it one-sided or mutual? Does the individual evolution of superpowers have an impact on strange entities? Most importantly, is the death of superpowers really related to strange entities? This may be the real deterrent."

Lin Xian finished speaking and took a deep breath: "Perhaps this is also the reason why Hua Xiaoling came to us. What I don't understand is that we don't have this kind of deterrent."

"Maybe you have already mastered it." Ding Junyi looked at him, put her hands in her pockets, and said calmly.

Lin Xian snorted and laughed: "To be honest, evolved mutants will have hallucinations. It seems that I do have such a phenomenon. Oh no, such an object."

After saying that, Lin Xian turned around and left the cabin, immediately rushing towards the No. 2 ship.

Walking in the inner passage of the Sky Starship, the surroundings were silent. Lin Xian's ears kept echoing with what Ding Junyi had just said. The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became. He remembered that when he was still on the Infinity, he still remembered asking KIKI why the superpowers of the superpowers suddenly disappeared. As he moved forward, Lin Xian had never actually seen any superpower encounter such a situation, or perhaps he had not paid attention to it at all.

His original intention was to use the images he saw from the gray fog to come to Pacific Star Abyss No. 13 to investigate. His purpose was to see what the foundation would do. The Phoenix Society had been promoting the Deterrence Era and the Spark Project. Its purpose was not only to boost the confidence of human survivors, but Ye Lan should have had this idea as well, so he chose to act separately from Chu Yan.

But now looking at it from another perspective, the reason why the Advent Party attacked Chu Yan was perhaps not just because they were Sword Masters or because of the Nantianmen.

Thinking of this, Lin Xian had complicated thoughts and was ready to contact Chu Yan directly through the Black Star Forge. He originally wanted to rest for a few days, but now it seemed that the day of rushing to South America to reach the continent and face the scarlet sky was on the agenda.

Chi~

The automatic door of the hibernation cabin opened, and cold air rushed out. Lin Xian walked in quickly and immediately checked on Monica's condition.

At this moment, Monica, lying in the hibernation capsule, had good vital signs and no longer had that painful expression on her face. On her chest, the blood-colored lines on the lattice cultivation device were constantly circulating, and a tiny but strong dark energy fluctuation surged like a heartbeat. Looking at the sleeping Monica, Lin Xian's expression was complicated, and ten thousand possibilities ran through his mind.

He immediately found a place to sit next to Monica's hibernation capsule, his consciousness sank, and he entered the space of the Black Star Forge and began to call Chu Yan.

"Chu Yan, can you hear me?"

After a long time, a deep voice sounded from the depths of the Black Star Forge.

"I can hear..."

His consciousness sank and quickly connected to somewhere on the other side of the ocean. Lin Xian opened his eyes at this moment. This was a dilapidated apartment room. The windows were sealed with rusty iron gates. The room had long been rotten and smelly. The half-hanging curtains smelled musty. A cold light lamp was placed on the ground, barely serving as a light source. Chu Yan, wearing a high-level power armor and a full-face mask, was standing by the window at this moment, looking out through the gap.

It's night here!

Chu Yan realized Lin Xian's arrival and said without turning around, "You really know how to pick the time."

Lin Xian cleared his throat and said, "The last time I saw you, you were on a mission. I wanted to wait until you returned to headquarters before looking for you."

"You want to contact Professor Ye?" Chu Yan said, "I'm on my way back. The Wangxing Laboratory is still testing other communication methods to connect to the South Heavenly Gate, but there haven't been any breakthroughs so far."

"What happened?" Lin Xian frowned immediately.

Chu Yan glanced at him sideways: "Xing Yuan, he's started to move again."

"Is the spread accelerating?" Lin Xian asked.

"No." Chu Yan stepped aside. "The scarlet comes with the dark tide. In the area covered, dawn will never rise again!"

Lin Xian frowned and walked over. The moment he saw what was outside the gap, his pupils suddenly shrank.

The night outside the window was no longer the night humans knew. The sky and the earth were torn into scarlet and inky black rags. A sticky storm wrapped in the smell of burning asphalt swept across the wasteland, licking the earth like the tongue of hell. Steel power towers were twisted into wailing skeletons facing the sky in the scarlet storm. The surface of the earth kept exploding, and the whole world seemed to be shrouded in a tropical storm that could corrode the sky.

Human cities have completely turned into rubble and ruins. In the distance on the horizon, an indescribable shadow stands between heaven and earth, like some kind of creature, or like a huge ghost shadow distorted out of scarlet, with a burning outline. After watching for a few seconds, the brain began to feel dizzy. Thousands of hexagonal holes cracked at the top of one column of shadow, and the branches of another column extended infinitely like a fractal tree. All the structures were pulsating slowly in violation of the laws of physics. Lin Xian rubbed his eyes, not knowing whether he was seeing an illusion or the outside world was distorted.

At this moment, he looked upwards at the sky. In the center of the sky, the eye of the storm was like the eye of a galaxy from outer space, the eye of chaos, or some interstellar creature hidden in the dark matter cloud, staring at the world.

Seeing this scene, he subconsciously thought of the eye-like nebula he had seen in the night sky outside Hengshan Pass, and at the same time remembered what was recorded in the Phoenix Society's fire book.

No. 02, iris-like star ring.

"Don't look at it too long."

Chu Yan's cold voice called him, and Lin Xian turned around and met her gaze.

"See? Our world is being swallowed up!"

(End of this chapter)