Chapter 270 Research Conclusion
"That's basically the situation. The trapped citizens have been sent back home. The blockade of the mall will last until tomorrow. During this time, the assessors will confirm that there are no remaining risk factors in the blockade area," Song Cheng reported the situation while standing in front of Baili Qing's desk. "The technical department is stepping up the analysis of the data sent back by the deep-sea team and the audio and video records of their operations."
Baili Qing sat behind her extra large desk, her expression calm and emotionless. She only nodded slightly after Song Cheng finished his report: "Any conclusions so far?"
"It can be confirmed that this is a foreign land that has never appeared before. The depth range recorded by the diver's sensor is L-1 to L-2. The scene is a neighborhood covered by thick fog. This neighborhood may be a 'reflection' of the real world. The range is still unknown. It is initially suspected that the depth will increase as you move deeper into the thick fog.
"This alien world will randomly generate entities that should have been in other alien worlds. Currently, only three have been confirmed: Mohen, the carnival crowd, and the tree grandmother. Based on this, the danger level of this alien world is temporarily rated as level 3, but considering that the sample data is too small, this danger level rating is only for reference. It is not recommended that any spirit world detective organization or individual investigator, except for "experienced teams" such as Fairy Tale and Inn, take the initiative to go there.
"Of course, there is no need to worry too much about the last one. Other civilian investigators should not be able to enter either. We have not yet found a stable way to open this foreign land. There are only two ways to enter now. Either Yu Sheng's 'door opening' ability, or relying on the locator set there before the deep divers evacuated, and then sending deep divers in."
Song Cheng said so much in one breath, then paused for a moment, sorted out his thoughts before continuing: "In addition to the conditions for opening, the urgent issues that need to be confirmed about this alien domain are mainly focused on its entity generation rules. This is the first time we have encountered a phenomenon where an alien domain can generate other alien entities. We have to find a way to understand this mechanism - how many entities can it generate? Can it generate entities with a danger level of 4 or even higher? In the action report, Mo Hen, the carnival crowd, and the tree grandmother all appeared independently, but the possibility of them appearing in the thick fog at the same time cannot be ruled out...
"Based on the answers to these questions, the danger level of this alien world may be extremely high. Level 3... may be just its lower limit."
After Song Cheng finished speaking, Baili Qing did not speak for a long time. She seemed to be thinking about something quietly. After a long while, she raised her head and said, "Xiao Song, do you think that in addition to the entity generation mechanism, the abnormal conditions before and after the opening of this new 'foreign land' are also very suspicious?"
"You mean..."
Baili Qing tapped the table slowly with her fingers: "The hundreds of short vibrations that were almost ignored by the equipment, the short start-up time of only one second, and the traces that were cleaned up afterwards."
Song Cheng's eyes widened suddenly: "You said the traces were 'cleaned'?"
"It's a man-made incident," Baili Qing stopped knocking on the table and looked serious. "Doesn't it look like it? Those short vibrations look like some kind of experiment, and the goal of the experiment is to open this foreign land."
"The trapped citizens..."
"It could also be part of an experiment, a randomly selected test subject," Baili Qing said in a deep voice, "to confirm whether the entrance is truly open."
Song Cheng frowned deeply: "Who would be so bold as to do such a thing at the border?! And who has such great ability to..."
Having said this, he suddenly stopped and looked at Baili Qing with a somewhat awkward expression.
Then the two of them looked away tacitly.
Baili Qing: "Of course, it's definitely not him."
Song Cheng: "I didn't say it was him..."
The two of them were silent for a few seconds at the same time.
"In short, consider 'someone is sabotaging' as a possible direction," Baili Qing said calmly, "We have many enemies, and the vision of the angel falling that night has also been seen by many people. There is no guarantee that some fools will not come up with bold ideas - at this time, we must be vigilant."
"Yes, Chief."
After completing the report, Song Cheng left, while Baili Qing continued to sit behind his desk, seemingly thinking about something quietly.
After a long while, she turned on the computer on the desk and called up a series of video materials.
Streets filled with thick fog, scenes of fierce gunfire, and groups of destroyed revelers...
These are first-hand data captured by the deep-diving team members' personal recording equipment, from dozens of videos from different perspectives.
After a casual glance, Baili Qing stood up from behind the desk and knocked somewhere on the corner of the desk.
A soft humming sound came from the ceiling.
The next second, the lights in the room went out, and the projection device originally hidden in the roof and floor quickly unfolded. Dazzling holographic light and shadow hit the walls and various furnishings. The scene in the room was swallowed up by the light and shadow in the blink of an eye. Then, dozens of videos were projected into the entire room at once, and then they split again, and were cut into hundreds of pictures according to different time periods, filling every inch of space around Baili Qing.
All the images began to play simultaneously, fast forwarding at high speed.
Baili Qing casually poured herself a glass of water and drank it slowly while analyzing every moment and every perspective recorded by the divers frame by frame.
Outside the large floor-to-ceiling window not far behind her, the hazy fog rolled violently and began to reorganize rapidly, presenting a restored view of the street block in the fog.
A pair of phantom eyes appeared in the street scene "rendered" by Baili Qing's ability, and quickly moved through the ever-changing scenes.
"Stop." Baili Xue said suddenly.
The scenery outside the floor-to-ceiling window froze, and the holographic projection was also paused by Baili Qing.
The pair of eyes passed through the French window and came behind Baili Qing. The gazes of the two "people" fell on a certain frame of the picture nearby at the same time.
It was just an ordinary frame, facing the billboard of a roadside shop. Colorful confetti left by the shattered bodies of the revelers were scattered around the edge of the picture, and the bright words "XX Fresh" could be clearly seen on the billboard.
"...The characters are correct." Baili Xue said softly.
Baili Qing nodded: "That's right - if it is really a mirror image, the text here should be reversed on the left and right."
"So, the essence of this foreign land is not as simple as 'several streets reflected in the mirror', it's just that its entrance happens to be a 'mirror'," Baili Xue's voice had a little more ups and downs, "It is more likely to be an independent space, a..."
Her voice suddenly became a little hesitant.
Baili Qing continued for her: "A real-time copy of the real world city - or to be more exaggerated, 'another world city'."
The two sisters fell silent at the same time.
After several minutes, Baili Xue spoke cautiously: "Guess...how big is it?"
Baili Qing casually turned off the holographic projection in the room, sat down on the chair, and rubbed his temples.
"I don't want to guess at all."
The pair of eyes also drifted over and stared at the French window behind Baili Qing. After a long while, they said in unison -
"Why do such outrageous things always happen when I'm associated with him!?"
There was a sudden knock on the door.
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Baili Qing immediately adjusted her sitting posture, put away her slightly lazy look, and returned to her usual cool and calm state. She said in a deep voice, "Come in."
The secretary on duty came in and placed a stack of documents in front of Baili Qing.
"Director, this is the document that the technical department just sent over. It's about those 'Ankaela crystals'."
"Crystal test data?" Baili Qing raised her eyebrows, immediately took the document and flipped through a few pages, then her expression became subtle.
"According to the test results, the Ankaela crystals - both the mother crystal and the secondary crystals - show no special response to mental attacks," the secretary nodded and reported seriously, "including but not limited to common hypnosis, consciousness guidance, higher-level memory manipulation, mental control, or mental shocks directly released by the entity 'Phantom Butterfly'. The testing department basically tested all the mental shocks that can be created in the laboratory on the crystals, and the conclusion is what the report said... there is no protective effect."
Baili Qing took a deep breath slowly.
She looked through the document more carefully and noticed that there was another conclusion given by the testing department -
Apart from mental attacks, no crystal samples have been found to show any special response to any other type of "stimulation" so far, and they have no special features in terms of "protective specialization".
"So," Baili Xue's voice sounded in Baili Qing's mind, still mechanical and dull, but with a hint of subtle sarcasm in her tone, "This crystal can only be used to defend against that puppet... right? It has no other use?"
Baili Qing was also a little nervous: "So it's specifically targeting her...?"
…
Irene was so amused by the stupid variety show on TV that she fell off the coffee table with a thud. She then struggled to climb back up while complaining.
Yu Sheng rolled his eyes as he watched this scene: "Just watch it. Watching this kind of stuff all day long will make your brain weak to begin with. If you keep watching, your brain will be gone!"
"How can a puppet like me have a brain?" The other Irene stood on the sofa with her hands on her hips, and then she noticed the row of knives in front of Yu Sheng, "Hey? What are you doing with so many fruit knives and wallpaper knives here? And you're gesticulating... I'm telling you, you're a little creepy..."
Yu Sheng sighed helplessly, picked up a fruit knife, scratched his hand twice, and put it down again: "I thought that the knife I carry with me for bleeding is not working well, so I planned to change it, and ended up trying all the ones I could find at home..."
"The final conclusion is that the problem is not with the knife, but with you, right?" Irene was amused when she saw this. She held a small knife in both hands and poked Yu Sheng's hand. After a few pokes, the tip of the knife became less sharp. "You usually eat a mess, and that stupid fox stews things for you in a mess. I have always said that there is something wrong with your eating habits..."
Yu Sheng reached out and snatched the knife from the puppet: "Is it a problem if your body gets stronger the more you eat?"
"You're too damn strong. Next time you get appendicitis and the doctor can't operate on you, you won't be happy anymore!"
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, thinking that the little doll's imagination had some merits, but he quickly waved his hand and said, "If I really encounter the situation you described, the worst that can happen is that I can open a door to the crater and jump in. After 30 minutes, I will be a brave man without appendicitis again. It's faster than surgery..."
Irene was stunned: "...You're going to die to prove your point just because you're treating appendicitis?!"
"What can I do?" Yu Sheng threw the knife in his hand onto the table. "If this continues, I will have to carry an electric saw with me. Even a small-powered one will not work."
At this moment, Yu Sheng's cell phone on the table suddenly rang, interrupting their conversation.
Irene glanced at the incoming call on the screen, then held the phone and handed it over: "Here you go, it's from Baili Qing again."
Yu Sheng exhaled, took the phone and put it to his ear.
"…What is the 'anti-Erin crystal'?"
(End of this chapter)
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