Chapter 114 The First Angel
Of course Yu Sheng knew that there would be rewards - whether it was providing intelligence, assisting in operations, or directly "contracting" certain projects and handing over extraordinary items, the Secret Service would provide rewards to spiritual detectives and investigators according to a certain amount, and this was also one of the main and most stable sources of income for "folk special people" like Little Red Riding Hood.
He just didn't expect that the Secret Service would just send the money like this, and the reward was higher than he thought.
Obviously, this extra reward is linked to the dangerousness of the "Angel Cultists".
Yu Sheng recalled Little Red Riding Hood's parting reminder to him, and at the same time he became more deeply aware of the special nature of those so-called "Angel believers" in the eyes of the Secret Service.
After Song Chengze took the envelope, he nodded slightly and said casually, "Under normal circumstances, the reward will be directly transferred to your account through the 'Border Communication' platform, but since this is our first cooperation, I think it would be better to have a sense of ceremony - of course, more importantly, I want to take this opportunity to talk to you about the 'Dark Angel' and the 'Angel Sect'. After all, few spiritual detectives and investigators would get involved with those crazy angel believers in their first operation."
Yu Sheng adjusted his sitting posture and showed a serious attitude: "I have seen the 'angel' in the Night Valley before. To be honest, it is quite different from the 'angel' I imagined."
Song Cheng said in a low voice: "But you can feel its huge presence, the 'overlooking' that seems to be higher than the current dimension, and the 'holiness' behind its strange form, right?"
"Holiness..." Yu Sheng recalled how he felt when he first saw the giant eye in the sky, and he seemed to vaguely understand what Song Cheng meant. "If you mean the kind of cold atmosphere beyond reason, then it is a bit like that. That evil thing is scary, but when it hangs high in the sky, it occasionally gives people a kind of evil 'holiness' feeling."
"That's how the word 'angel' came about," Song Cheng nodded. "The first investigator who came into contact with the Dark Angels wrote the first eyewitness report about them before he went crazy. In the fear of being on the verge of madness, the recorder described his feelings like this -
"They looked down, as if from a higher, detached place. Crazy thoughts filled my mind... They were a messenger, a messenger representing a larger, more majestic power. I seemed to hear them speaking to me, incomprehensible sentences, conveying a will beyond human comprehension... In the most extreme and pure thoughts, I saw a gloomy future. In the silence of all things, they rose into the sky..."
Song Cheng spoke these words in a low and slow tone, and then took out a thick stack of documents from the briefcase beside him, pulled out one of the sheets and placed it in front of Yu Sheng.
"This is the investigator who left this eyewitness report. We call him 'Contact Zero' and this is what he looks like now."
Yu Sheng took the picture curiously and took a look at it, but he only saw a strange and twisted... "tree" standing alone in a pure white hall.
The tree was rooted in a huge culture pool, and all the roots and branches looked dense, coiled and entangled like hair, faintly revealing the outline of a struggling, hunched human. Suspicious "vines" hung down from the dark crown. Yu Sheng carefully distinguished them for a long time before he saw that the vines hanging from the crown were actually strange swollen blood vessels.
"He is currently being held in a high-security 'warehouse' of the Secret Service. We need to prune the new branches growing from the crown every three days to prevent him from suddenly losing control," Song Cheng's voice reached Yu Sheng's ears. "He didn't become like this all of a sudden. In fact, the entire transformation process lasted for ten years. It was... a very scary process. During those ten years, Contact Zero would occasionally wake up from his madness, and then fall into frenzy again in great panic."
Irene leaned over and took a look at the information in Yu Sheng's hand. After listening to Song Cheng's description, she couldn't help shrinking her neck and muttering, "It looks like he might as well be dead... If I were you, I would just kill him. Isn't this torture?"
"Yes, so we have done so," Song Cheng said calmly, "After Contact Zero woke up for the last time and begged his supervisor, we executed him. We are sure that we killed him, or at least killed his tormented soul, but his body still survived after being severely injured... After careful discussion, the Secret Service decided to keep this body as an important sample for studying the influence of angels."
Yu Sheng frowned, and spoke after a long while: "Just one glance would cause this? We also saw the giant eye at that time, so why don't we seem to have any sequelae?"
"First, a short-term witnessing will not leave an irreversible impact, and 'Contact Zero' was trapped next to the First Angel at the time. He was in contact with that thing for too long," Song Cheng said slowly, "Second, each Dark Angel has different 'characteristics'. Some have strong mental pollution, some are directly destructive, and some... even seem to be harmless, at least their bodies have not shown any direct aggressiveness. The huge eye you saw should be an inert species with relatively weak 'aggression'."
"Are there many dark angels?" Yu Sheng raised his head curiously.
"The number of confirmed ones has reached double digits," Song Cheng said, handing over another piece of information. "This is the 'First Angel'. It was witnessed by Contact Zero. It is also recognized as the first dark angel to invade our world."
This time, even the fox who had been combing his tail carefully nearby couldn't help but come over and look at the contents of the document with Yu Sheng and Irene.
"The first angel is also called the 'Tree Angel' or the 'Upside-Down Tree'," Song Cheng said slowly, "When it 'descends', it will be a giant plant hanging upside down in the sky. Its canopy is nearly a thousand meters wide and nearly a thousand meters high. It grows out of a vortex structure hanging high in the sky. This vortex will be generated in advance within 24 to 72 hours before 'descending'. This is also an important reference for identifying the 'Tree Angel' and providing early warning."
Yu Sheng stared at the huge upside-down tree and the large urban buildings in the background shown in the data picture. Below the picture, he saw a further description of this "Dark Angel": "...it will not actively move or attack, but will continue to release strong mental interference. Witnesses will uncontrollably look up at its canopy and hear huge and chaotic sounds until their minds are completely occupied and they even think they are also "trees." In some contact reports, surviving witnesses described that they saw a "forest" and they were nestled around the "mother tree" in the form of saplings...
"There is currently no effective way to resist this 'impulse to look'. Even the most mentally strong people cannot control themselves to divert their gaze after the Tree Angel descends. This effect is similar to the effects of 'Goddess of Beauty' and 'Silent Sun'... At this stage, the most effective protective measures known are active blinding, deep hypnosis, and drinking the 'snake venom wine' of the Desert King's Court in advance. The main idea is to forcibly block vision or suppress mental activity..."
"The first time the Tree Angel appeared was in the sky above the alien 'Silent City'," Song Cheng said on the side, "It caused the entire alien world to become active. Several investigation teams and scholar teams operating in the alien world at that time were almost all killed, and only 'Contact Zero' survived. And the last time it appeared was three years ago, in the sky above a distant alien planet, directly invading the real world. Although it only stayed in the sky for a few dozen minutes that time, it caused extremely terrible consequences, because it was a remote and backward planet, and the locals had no experience and ability to fight against the Dark Angel. Afterwards, statistics showed that more than 100,000 people were affected, with more than 10,000 direct casualties, and the rest are still suffering today."
Yu Sheng felt a strong... shock.
He didn't have this sense of reality when he saw the huge one-eyed creature in the valley, but now, he finally understood from real cases how dangerous the "Dark Angel" was.
"This thing... can appear in the real world?!" He raised his head and looked at Song Cheng with disbelief.
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"Generally speaking, dark angels tend to 'descend' in foreign lands, but in fact they can appear anywhere," Song Cheng nodded, "They are not restricted by time and space dimensions, and there is no pattern to their appearance and departure. They are true 'free wanderers'."
Yu Sheng didn't say anything for a long time. Ai Lin, who was standing beside him, couldn't help but mutter after a brief moment of shock: "...Fuck."
"Where do these things come from?" Yu Sheng asked after thinking for a moment.
"No one knows," Song Cheng sighed, "but now a more generally accepted view is that all 'Dark Angels' come from outside our world - they are a group of 'invaders' attacking our universe."
(End of this chapter)
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