Chapter 70 Contact
In the Secret Service, deep divers are combat elites who have undergone rigorous selection and rigorous training, and have gone through numerous tests to stand out from ordinary operators.
They are always sent to the most dangerous places, facing extremely difficult challenges that even exceed human reason. They know how to survive in the deadly environment of alien planets and how to chase crazy angel believers in lawless areas. They can even enter foreign lands and fight against the most dangerous entities, or go deep into nightmares and rescue those fallen souls in the strange maze of spirit and consciousness - diving deep, diving from the peaceful and tranquil world into the dark dimension beneath reason, this is their job.
But there are always some things in this world that human beings cannot understand or resist. Even the most elite deep-sea divers will fail sometimes, and this happens very often.
But the current situation still exceeded Song Cheng’s work experience—it even seemed to have exceeded the director’s expectations.
The six divers were immediately transferred from the "water tank" to the outside. Their power armor had automatically executed emergency rescue procedures the moment they returned to the real dimension. The built-in injection system of the armor injected large doses of sanity blockers and protective drugs into their bodies, allowing them to quickly calm down. Then the support personnel came forward to check the contamination status of each person, and at the same time confirm whether their consciousness had returned to the material world with their bodies - and confirm whether there was anything else that had "come back" with their consciousness.
Song Cheng and Baili Qing stood aside, watching the scene with frowns.
"Math problems?" After a long moment of silence, Song Cheng finally couldn't help but break the silence, "...math problems can have such an impact on the brain?"
Baili Qing shook her head slightly.
"The professors at Terra Academy can indeed attack their opponents by instantly injecting excessive amounts of knowledge into the brains of ordinary people, but it won't have this effect. Moreover, our deep divers have undergone professional training and are adaptable to 'knowledge' attacks. In addition to having a considerable degree of learning ability, their brains can actively go into hibernation when faced with 'knowledge infusion' that exceeds their processing capacity."
Song Cheng frowned: "You mean..."
"The 'math problem' that the deep diver mentioned before he passed out might just be some kind of concrete impression of what they saw during the dive. The real pollution... must be something else," Baili Qing said with a serious expression. "There is no Night Valley at the end of the passage... but why is it a math problem?"
Song Cheng didn't dare to speak, for fear of interrupting the director's thoughts.
After a moment of silence, Baili Qing suddenly turned around and said, "Xiao Song, you should not have come into contact with that 'Yu Sheng' yet, right?"
"Well, I was planning to contact that person today, but I didn't expect to encounter so many unexpected things..."
"Don't go." Baili Qing said lightly.
…
Yu Sheng heard some noise. He looked up and around, but couldn't find the source of the noise.
Business was slow and there were not many people in the cafe. There were only a few customers sitting at a few tables in the distance. Two waiters were browsing their phones boredly not far away. The store was very deserted.
Occasionally someone would look over here curiously - probably wondering why a young man in his twenties was sitting in a cafe at this time, concentrating on copying a large high school homework book.
Yu Sheng sighed, looked at the remaining half of the paper, and felt his hands slightly sore.
He had tried his best to write as carelessly as possible, and the answers to many of the big questions looked like scribbles. But after all, his hands, which were usually used to typing, had not picked up a pen to write so many words in years, and this task was much more tiring than he had expected.
But it’s hard to say whether it’s more tiring to do homework for high school students here or to go to the mall to buy clothes with a fox who knows nothing.
Yu Sheng thought about it and felt that it would be better to copy the paper here - he really didn't have the courage to take Hu Li into the lingerie store, that would make him feel like a pervert.
Especially when Hu Li showed his clear ignorance, it would be easy for the store clerk to mistake him for a pervert and report him to the police.
At this moment, Irene's voice suddenly came into his mind: "Hi~ Yu Sheng, how much have you written over there?"
Yu Sheng kept moving his hands: "I've only written half of it. High school students nowadays are really tired. Why are there so many homework assignments?"
"Come on, I just heard Little Red Riding Hood talking about how she actually had a physics homework book but forgot to bring it..."
"Let her go home and write it herself. I don't care about this," Yu Sheng replied unhappily. "How about you guys? Is everything going well?"
"It's OK. Hu Li doesn't know how to use the zipper, so Little Red Riding Hood taught her for a long time. Now the two of them are going to the dressing room together... They put me on a stool at the door of the dressing room." Irene sounded in a good mood. "Little Red Riding Hood even bought me a hairpin! She bought it at a doll shop, a red one..."
Yu Sheng thought about it and realized: "That was my money!"
"I know, I know," Irene said quickly, "Just think of it as a gift from you... I don't want anything else, just a hairpin, not expensive..."
"Okay, okay, I didn't say you can't buy it," Yu Sheng said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "I'm just reminding you guys not to shop too much. Also, don't forget to buy some toiletries for Hu Li, as well as bed sheets and quilt covers. Did you remember the sizes?"
"Oh, I remember it, don't worry, my brain..." Irene paused and changed her tone, "Hu Li's brain..."
Yu Sheng’s mind fell into a strange and awkward silence.
This is what happens when you can’t lead a team.
"How big is her bed?" Irene's voice sounded particularly unsure.
"One and a half meters by two meters," Yu Sheng sighed, "Tell Little Red Riding Hood this number and ask her to remember it for you two. Also, tell her everything you want to buy. She's a high school student and her brain works better than yours."
"Yes, yes..."
Yu Sheng reluctantly ended the conversation in his mind and lowered his head to continue writing the test paper.
However, at this moment, he suddenly felt that something was strange around him.
It was quiet. I didn't know when it became so quiet around me. I couldn't even hear the whispers of the few tables of guests talking.
Yu Sheng suddenly raised his head and looked around quickly.
He was still in the café.
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Countless tables and chairs are arranged neatly, extending infinitely forward and infinitely backward.
The endless cafe was empty, with only endless tables and chairs as far as the eye could see.
On his left hand side was the window facing the street - the window now also extended infinitely forward and backward, but no street view could be seen outside the window, only a vast expanse of white fog.
There were some huge shadows moving slowly in the fog, occasionally approaching the nearby window, as if looking into the cafe, but no matter how you looked, those shadows were only hazy and blurred outlines.
Yu Sheng looked at all this in astonishment and slowly stood up from his chair.
But just as he was about to open the door and leave, a voice suddenly came from the opposite side of him: "Hello."
It sounded like a slightly hoarse female voice, very young.
Yu Sheng was surprised to see that someone had sat down opposite the table. It was a lady who looked to be less than 30 years old. She was wearing a slim white suit and her long gray hair was tied into a ponytail. She was very beautiful, but there was an indescribable sense of alienation and coldness in her temperament.
Yu Sheng's attention was more focused on the other person's eyes. She had a pair of light gray pupils, as if they had lost their color. Even the boundary between the pupils and the whites of her eyes seemed quite blurred, so that at first glance she looked a bit... not like what a normal human being should look like.
Then, Yu Sheng noticed an incredible scene - he saw that everything around the lady was rapidly losing its color, from the nearest coffee table and chairs to the nearby floor and other tables and chairs. Everything was stained with a light grayish-white color, and the fading range extended for more than ten meters before it finally gradually weakened.
In the end, only the lady herself and Yu Sheng still retained their original colors.
Yu Sheng calmed himself down, and he remembered what Irene had said to him - there might be rational entities in foreign lands, but even the most human-like entities would have extremely obvious weird and inhuman characteristics. Although the lady in front of him looked a little strange, she was obviously not "weird and inhuman", which meant that she should be a human being.
Since he is a human being and took the initiative to greet me, it is obvious that I can talk to him nicely.
Yu Sheng temporarily gave up the idea of pushing the door and leaving, and sat down on the chair again, looking at the opposite side curiously: "Who are you...?"
"Baili Qing, the director of the Secret Service Bureau under the Border Region Council," the lady sitting opposite nodded gently, "I'm sorry to meet you in this way - this is for the sake of maximum confidentiality and some security considerations."
Yu Sheng was stunned.
The Secret Service did come to see him—but was it of such a high standard? The director came in person?! While Yu Sheng was in a daze, Baili Qing also glanced casually at the table in front of him.
She saw the pile of papers that Yu Sheng had placed on the table, and her expression froze for a moment.
Math questions, all math questions, authentic questions from previous years’ college entrance examinations.
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