Chapter 152 Action Record
As soon as he heard Baili Qing's story, Yu Sheng knew that the failure of the operation that year was a doomed outcome - they made a huge mistake, an outrageous one.
However, this misjudgment is almost inevitable.
The strange characteristics of "Fairy Tale" are simply unimaginable for people who encounter it for the first time. Its slowness, weak effect and the fact that it only targets children in the initial stage of the outbreak are extremely confusing. More importantly, it also has a unique "structure" of "entity-subset". The real core of "Fairy Tale" is hidden behind the dream stages it has woven, and the Secret Service decades ago... could not have understood these.
Yu Sheng flipped open the file and slowly scanned the action record codenamed "Adulthood". At the beginning of the file, there was another document attached. The document recorded in more detail the appearance of the "Fairy Tale" alien world and its early impact events. Most of the content was consistent with what Little Red Riding Hood revealed to him in the orphanage.
The initial outbreak point of "Fairy Tale" was located inside an orphanage called "Nuan Yang Welfare Home", which was affiliated with a public welfare organization under the board of directors. About half a month before the first outbreak, there were several incidents of children waking up from their dreams and wandering around or fainting during the day. At night, night patrolmen reported hearing strange noises in the accommodation area, similar to wolf howling, wind or soldiers marching in formation.
According to records, these situations did not fail to attract official attention. In fact, the day after the night watchman reported the abnormalities, a Secret Service investigation team entered the orphanage to conduct a detailed investigation. Also accompanying them was a "strange doctor" who conducted physical examinations on the children who suffered nightmares and fainted. It can be said that from the perspective of "standard procedures", the Secret Service and the Board of Directors at the time had done a good job and there were no major omissions.
However, these investigations did not find any trace of the existence of "fairy tales" - perhaps it was because the technical means at the time were insufficient, or perhaps the "fairy tales" at the time were really very weak and were still in the early latent stage, so that even the "strange doctors" with extraordinary skills could not find any clues from the nightmares of those children.
Shortly after this initial investigation was completed, "Fairy Tale" finally "slightly" showed its fangs in the real world for the first time.
A wildly growing rose bush centered in the orphanage's accommodation area grew all over the campus overnight. The rose bush withdrew at dawn, and a girl and two night security guards have been missing since then.
"We later confirmed that the first story that got out of control was Sleeping Beauty. However, at first, the Secret Service judged the incident as a 'leak' from some unknown alien world, and believed that the alien world was parasitic in the orphanage," Baili Qing's voice sounded at the side. "The Council organized the evacuation of all personnel in the orphanage and temporarily placed the children in other facilities. Then, a Secret Service action team composed of elite investigators entered the orphanage and conducted a very thorough search there...
“The result is not hard to imagine. They didn’t find any clues related to the foreign land in the orphanage. Just when the investigation reached a deadlock, the second case of loss of control occurred. A child who was temporarily transferred away suddenly fainted and turned into an out-of-control giant wolf.
"Luckily, when we transferred those children, we considered the possibility that the personnel had been contaminated, so the new 'containment facility' had a higher security level, and the out-of-control giant wolf was quickly subdued. Although we ultimately failed to save the child, the damage was not further damaged. And because of the timely intervention, we were able to finally capture some clues about the 'fairy tale'... We confirmed the existence of the 'Black Forest', which was the first 'subset' to be confirmed and named."
As she spoke, the female director pointed at the file in front of Yu Sheng.
"After this, it's time to act 'adult'."
Yu Sheng flipped through the rest of the information without looking up: "You initially thought that the 'Black Forest' was the entire 'unknown foreign land'?"
"Yes, at that time, the existence of other 'subsets' had not yet been confirmed," Baili Qing nodded, "It was a long time after that that the 'structure' of fairy tales was discovered."
Yu Sheng hummed softly and continued to look down.
He saw that the Secret Service at the time used technical means to lock the "intervention window" of the "Black Forest" and conducted a "deep dive", and the core of the entire so-called "Adulthood" operation was this deep dive.
After seeing the word "deep dive" mentioned in the information, the first person Yu Sheng thought of was Xu Jiali - the macho man was a senior deep diver. Based on some information he had learned from him and Li Lin before, Yu Sheng knew that the so-called "deep divers" were a kind of "special warfare members" who were more powerful, more versatile and more elite than ordinary Secret Service agents. Not only were they good at performing extreme tasks in various dangerous areas, they could also use special equipment and technical means to enter some "battlefields" that ordinary people could hardly imagine, to fight against things that were beyond reason and common sense.
"The 'deep dive' mentioned here...what is the specific process?" Yu Sheng asked curiously.
"You can think of it as a controlled and directional technology that 'sinks' toward a specific alien world," Baili Qing did not hide anything, as if this was not confidential. "By injecting inducers and covering neural signals, we can artificially pull the consciousness of the operators to the edge of the rational world, and then through special equipment, these 'hypnotized' personnel can be sent into the alien world and awakened on the other side. This technology does not always work, but at least it works for most alien worlds."
Irene next to her muttered, "...It sounds troublesome and dangerous."
"Yes, it is troublesome and dangerous," Baili Qing nodded, her eyes falling on Yu Sheng, "especially compared to your 'Gate', but the advantage is that its process is controllable, reproducible, and can be promoted, and can be used on more people - to fight against the huge number of aliens and entities, we need an equally large number of manpower."
Yu Sheng didn't say anything, but just turned to the next page.
However, the first thing that caught my eye was a long list.
The moment he saw the list, his expression changed slightly.
He heard Baili Qing's voice, still calm, but with an inexplicable heaviness and seriousness: "In the operation codenamed 'Adulthood', a total of twelve deep divers, thirteen Secret Service agents, and seven logistics and support personnel were killed or missing. Four children died on the spot due to the loss of control in the alien world. Six peripheral monitoring personnel were affected by the impact and fell into madness over the next few years and eventually died early."
This time, even Irene, who was always laughing, stopped laughing all of a sudden. The little doll was stunned, looking at the document with complicated eyes, and didn't speak for a long time.
Yu Sheng flipped through the pages with a serious expression. He skipped over the overly professional or already known contents, and scanned through line after line of action records.
The divers carried out three "dives" in total. The first attempt failed. The induction agent caused the personnel involved in the operation to fall into a coma for a period of time, but at the confused "border of consciousness", they only found a chaotic barrier and failed to enter any foreign land.
During the second attempt, some of them briefly entered a "vast, dark, and entangled space with a large number of strange web-like structures" and heard "crying-like noises" in the space - it did not seem to be any subset of the fairy tale.
In the third attempt, there were massive casualties.
Almost all the deep-divers who entered the "alien space" were lost in an instant, and only two survived and "returned home", but they only lived for a few dozen minutes before they quickly became weak and died due to unknown reasons. Then pollution broke out, and some unknown "thing" entered the real world and began to quickly kill all the adults on the scene.
At a critical moment, safety procedures worked, the facility was quickly shut down, and the contamination was contained to the laboratory, but at the expense of the Secret Service agents and other staff who were unable to evacuate - as well as four children.
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Yu Sheng's brows furrowed little by little. Looking at the observation records of the second dive and the loss of control during the third dive mentioned in the action record, he always felt that something was wrong.
Soon, he realized where this sense of disobedience came from.
"…Did they go into the 'Black Forest'?"
He raised his head, looked into Baili Qing's eyes, and then added: "I have been to the Black Forest. There are indeed dangerous things there, such as wolves, shadows, and some deadly rules. But from my personal feeling, as long as you are cautious after entering, it will not be fatal in the short term at least - even if adults encounter targeted malice there, it will not be as serious as mentioned in the report..."
He shook his head and didn't say anything else.
——Those deep-sea divers who have received professional training and have rich combat experience should not have died so quickly after entering the "Fairy Tale" even if they were eventually wiped out.
Because the Black Forest does not have a "mechanism" to instantly devour invaders, nor is it a space filled with "crying-like noises" but is also "empty, dark, and entangled with a large number of strange network structures."
"Yes, this is the crux of the matter." Baili Qing nodded gently in the face of Sheng's question. "According to the direct observation data left at that time, the place they entered... was not actually the Black Forest."
Yu Sheng's eyes widened: "Where is that?!"
"It could be a 'subset' that is only open to adults, or it could be a 'void area' between subsets, or even a deeper 'fairy tale' entity. There are too many possibilities," Baili Qing sighed softly, "You can take a look at the two records attached at the back. They are respectively the recollections of an external monitoring staff member and the records of a person who died at the scene before his death."
(End of this chapter)
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