Chapter 153 Two Notes, One Slip of Paper
Yu Sheng quickly found the two records.
The first thing he saw was a hastily written note by a field operator who stayed inside the laboratory. When he wrote this note, the operation had already gone out of control and the laboratory was already under lockdown. The note was therefore chaotic and hasty, and there were many places that were erased or left blank by the recorder for unknown reasons:
"The isolation door has been lowered. Alarms are ringing everywhere. Hallucinations and noise are invading my mind. I am not sure how long I can stay awake. I am leaving my final record here. I will record everything I see and feel as completely as possible... But my senses are being affected, so there may be distorted or tampered content in this record. I hope that subsequent investigators will pay attention to screening and treat these words with caution.
"The two divers who returned from the submersible are gradually dying. The equipment and on-site medical staff are unable to find the cause. Their consciousness, or 'souls', seem to have been destroyed by something before they returned to reality. Now they are just two bodies that are still undergoing biochemical reactions. Driven by inertia, they maintain their activities and try to transmit the last information to the outside world...
"One of them who was in better condition was repeating a few strange words before he lost his voice completely. He mentioned 'baby crying' and 'umbilical cord', 'sleeping' and 'twisting'. He also mentioned a word that seemed to be 'ship' or something like that, but it was almost a scream and could not be heard clearly...
"I can't imagine what they saw or experienced on 'that side'. It was obviously beyond human intelligence. The monitoring system connected to the deep diving pool only emitted various noises...
“The temperature around me was dropping, but I couldn’t tell if it was an illusion. XX (the text was smudged) suddenly fell unconscious, then woke up from the coma, yelled, and soon fell to the ground again.
“There are unknown figures moving around in our field of vision, talking to people around them, talking to us… We can’t hear or see their faces clearly.
“…I suspect that they are actually the staff of the laboratory, but I am rapidly losing my memory of everyone here. Everyone around me looks strange, and my memory and judgment ability are destroyed.
"Noise, like a mixture of screaming and crying, coming from nowhere. A voice told me to continue recording everything, but I could no longer hold the pen. My vision was getting darker, and there was a sweet smell in the air. The last rescue attempt may have failed. The 'Mercy' system was releasing anesthetic poison to the entire area...
(From here on, the handwriting of the original notes quickly becomes extremely messy and sloppy, and there are a lot of corrections. Please judge with caution - Internal Security Department)
“The crying became more and more obvious, and I felt my body and consciousness were sinking... The lullaby started, and XX was trying to calm us down again... It’s not time yet...
"...shaking, sinking, losing control. XX said that we would wake up in a peaceful and stable new world, but... abandoned. It's fake. I don't know...
“Breathe, breathe, cry…we are connected, we are each other…breathe, breathe, we are together…as one…breathe…”
This is the end of the first record.
Yu Sheng stared blankly at the messy and strange words at the end of the record. Even though it was just a copy of the original notes, he still felt the chilling breath that seemed to permeate the text, transmitted through the paper and seventy years. He imagined that day, imagined that out-of-control action, imagined the sealed laboratory, and everything that happened in the laboratory in the last few hours or less. Unconsciously, his breathing became a little heavy.
"In fact, this is not the only document left inside the laboratory," Baili Qing's voice came from the side, interrupting Yu Sheng's thoughts, "There are other traces or 'records' left by other staff members who stayed at the scene and survived temporarily, but those traces are even more crazy and chaotic, and completely unreadable. If you are interested, you can directly turn to the last page."
Yu Sheng immediately turned to the end of the document, and a series of pictures taken on the spot and black-and-white rubbings of documents came into view.
There were strange scratches carved into tables or walls, abstract symbols on paper that had been smeared over and over again until only a mass of inky black remained, and weird lines written on clothes that were hard to tell whether they were words or abstract shapes. These were all things like that.
Just like Baili Qing said, it's impossible to tell the difference.
Even professional Secret Service investigators have not been able to draw any conclusions from these traces over the years. As an outsider, he certainly couldn't tell anything just by taking a quick look.
Yu Sheng turned the document back to the place he had just looked at and focused his attention on the second record.
It was a work note hastily written by a monitoring staff member who stayed outside the laboratory - it was short, but the content was obviously clearer and easier to understand.
"The lockdown process has been initiated. Operation 'Adulthood' has failed. My colleagues are following the process to transfer the data that needs to be urgently preserved. I am leaving this final record of the situation inside the laboratory.
“Forty minutes after the lockdown, life responses inside the lab began to decline rapidly, and our communications with the people inside were cut off. They may no longer be able to communicate rationally with the outside world.
"Fifty minutes later, the monitoring system recorded unusual noises. There were sounds similar to a baby crying echoing in the laboratory, as well as other sharp and chaotic sounds that sounded like... roaring. The life response in the monitoring area was close to zero, but the terrifying thing was that some internal personnel who had no vital signs suddenly began to move under monitoring. Although they were active for only a very short time, it was already a very terrifying scene.
"It was as if something had suddenly entered their dead bodies, driving them to stand up and walk. They moved stiffly in the laboratory, as if... observing this place curiously.
"Then, the bodies fell down again.
"Sixty-five minutes after the lockdown, the lab gradually quieted down, and the strange noises and shouting completely subsided. All life signs of the personnel disappeared.
"Seventy-two minutes after the blockade, the facility is still sealed according to standard security procedures. The monitoring area has fallen into complete silence, and all noise and unknown energy reactions have disappeared. The internal security department has now taken over the area and plans to open the gate in 24 hours to take my colleagues home..."
The record ends here.
Yu Sheng still kept his head down, maintaining his reading posture. After several seconds, he suddenly took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled.
This was the first time he had seen such "action records", and they were more...uncomfortable than he had imagined.
He raised his head and saw Baili Qing looking at him quietly, as if he had been looking at him like that for a long time.
"This is different from what I imagined at first," Yu Sheng frowned and shook his head after a few seconds of silence, "I thought I would see exploration records about the Black Forest or some other 'subset'..."
As he spoke, he suddenly understood the advice given to him by "Teacher Su" before, and understood why the other party had specifically reminded him to come here and take a look at the operational records left by the Secret Service that year.
This data recorded by the operatives 70 years ago... is indeed a completely different perspective from the intelligence that the children in the orphanage had drawn from their experience of the "fairy tale", and the information revealed in it is completely beyond his imagination! Baili Qing was not surprised by Sheng's words.
"'Fairy tales' show completely different attitudes to children and adults. What we record are its more dangerous and essential aspects."
"Behind the stage..." Yu Sheng suddenly said softly.
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Baili Qing frowned slightly, as if she had quickly associated and understood something from Yu Sheng's words.
But just as she was about to say something else, a sudden ring interrupted the actions of everyone in the room.
Yu Sheng raised his head in surprise, then followed Baili Qing's line of sight and looked to the side.
Opposite the huge window, a laboratory worker in protective clothing was waving over here.
Baili Qing quickly picked up the phone on the table and put the receiver to her ear. After listening to just two sentences, her face, which always lacked change, suddenly had a strange expression.
"Are you sure?" she asked quickly into the microphone.
The staff in the laboratory held the microphone in one hand and nodded vigorously.
Yu Sheng was confused and subconsciously moved closer to Baili Qing: "What's going on?"
"...The analysis results of that 'piece of paper' are out, and they have restored its original appearance." Baili Qing put down the microphone, turned to look at Yu Sheng with a complicated expression, and then quickly operated a few times on the console on the table.
The center of the huge window suddenly lit up, and an extra picture emerged, with the restored "piece of paper" in the center of the picture.
Yu Sheng slowly opened his mouth and looked at the familiar pattern and several lines of text on the paper in astonishment.
"This is……"
"It's an old work ID for a deep diver from the Secret Service, but the name has been erased," Baili Qing said softly. She lowered her head and glanced at the document in front of Yu Sheng, then gently flipped it open and turned to the page with the list of names. "...It's theirs."
Yu Sheng took a deep breath.
There was disbelief in his tone: "In other words... the 'Hunter' in the Black Forest was the deep diver who carried out the 'Adult' operation back then?!"
(End of this chapter)
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