Sequelae

There was a stack of neatly arranged papers on Xu Cheng's desk. He picked up the first sheet and handed it to Luo Chen and Andre.

Luo Chen saw a photo of a middle-aged woman pasted on it, and a printed interrogation record below.

Xu Cheng explained: "This is the first report the police station received after the explosion. The woman claimed that she was possessed by an evil spirit and her body was out of her control. She wanted us to help her exorcise the evil spirit."

Luo Tan: "So how did you do it?"

Xu Cheng sighed: "We found out that this woman was a religious believer, and sent her to the hospital, where we found that she had schizophrenia, so..."

"So you think she's crazy?"

Xu Cheng said helplessly: "Yes, actually when this person came, I was still asleep, so I didn't deal with this matter directly, but I heard them talk about a very strange thing."

Andre raised his head from the notes and asked with interest, "What?"

Xu Cheng: "They notified the woman's family to pick her up. When the woman saw her family, her madness and insanity were gone. She said there was no such thing as a demon. Before she left, she even thanked the police station. Her words were so rigorous and her thoughts were so careful that it was like she had become a completely different person."

Andre: "So, this is what you called the aftereffects of the blackout at the beginning?"

Xu Cheng said helplessly: "Yes, when I woke up, I knew about this matter. I was going to report it. But soon, I encountered the next case."

Xu Cheng turned the page, and the photo on the next page appeared in front of everyone. It was a minor girl.

Xu Cheng can still recall the girl's broken down crying and shaking with fear when she reported the case: "She told us that she saw another person in the mirror."

"That person looked exactly like her, but no matter what expression she made, he would only smile sinisterly, with no light in his pupils, and stand motionless behind her."

"Then I asked her if she had only seen the man in one fixed mirror?"

“She said, ‘No, every side.’”

"Even..." The girl's voice trembled, and she cast a frightened look behind Xu Cheng: "Even when you were questioning me, she was there as a shadow on the glass door, staring at me..."

"I turned my head back instantly, but I saw nothing."

"Hiss——" Luo Tan shivered. The ghost story really had a cooling effect. She even felt that the temperature in the office had dropped a few degrees.

"But within a few hours, she recovered and went home on her own."

Andre stroked his chin thoughtfully and said, "The mental illness only lasted for a while and he recovered quickly. It really looks like the sequelae of the Big Bang."

"Yes, but now that I think about it, they may fall into insanity again after they recover, and we just don't know it, just like the speeding car yesterday. I suspect that the second stage of evolution of the parachute company's design has been successful."

Andre thought thoughtfully: "That makes sense, and there are ten similar cases, which is indeed too many to be a coincidence. But what is the second stage of evolution?"

Xu Cheng shook his head: "I am also thinking..."

The next second, they both heard a familiar female voice:

【Isn’t the second stage the evolution of the soul? 】

Reflexively, Andre and Xu Cheng looked at Luo Tan at the same time. By the time they reacted, it was too late. They only saw Luo Tan doubtfully say -

"Why are you looking at me all of a sudden?"

"No, no." Xu Cheng supplemented: "I just want to ask if you have any ideas."

Luo Chen: "...It's possible that they are more focused on the spiritual and soul direction. After all, they are all crazy and don't seem to be evolving on a biological level."

Got it!

Xu Cheng said excitedly: "That's it! If the human spirit or soul is forced to evolve, it may behave strangely due to inability to adapt."

Luo Tan breathed a sigh of relief: [Finally, I sent this message out. It was not easy. My analysis was really clever.]

Xu Cheng: Finally, it didn’t arouse suspicion! Yay!

But the next second, Xu Cheng's eyebrows, which had just relaxed, wrinkled again, and he said worriedly: "The previous biological evolution at least had a shadow and a shape, but now the soul evolution is too abstract. We can't pull out the souls of the people, check them and put them back."

He suddenly felt powerless, as if he could not figure out the real problem.

Andre said: "If we want to deal with this matter, we can think from a different perspective."

Luo Tan and Xu Cheng asked at the same time: "What?"

Andre stood up and said, "Start with the instigator behind it."

"How can we defeat our enemies if we know nothing about them?"

He walked to the only screen in the office. When his fingertips passed across the screen, a spherical object appeared on the screen. He turned to look at Luo Chen and Xu Cheng: "This is the globe from that day."

Xu Cheng: "Yes, it is said that its composition does not belong to any element on Earth."

Andre nodded, then drew a straight line on the screen. As the lines became more and more, Luo Chen was surprised and asked, "What period of history are you drawing?"

Xu Cheng didn't understand.

"We once discussed that there was a very strange period in the history of interstellar civilizations, during which researchers had invested a lot of time and money in space exploration, but in the end nothing was accomplished," Luo Chen explained.

Then Andre hooked a long line next to the globe and connected it to the line representing that historical period.

He looked at the surprised two and explained, "I recently had someone investigate and found that this globe may have been made during that time and then hidden in the archives for decades for unknown reasons."

"It is related to an extraterrestrial civilization research center called Axel. Although its components are of extraterrestrial origin, it is indeed a masterpiece of mankind."

Luo Chen murmured: "So, it is used to protect us. It has been kept for so long to protect us... No..." Luo Chen's eyes lit up: "At that time, humans at that time might have experienced similar things, so they created such a weapon to protect us."

"Yes," Andre's expression became serious, "So it is clear that our opponent is also the instigator of the whole incident."

"The biology department recently studied the experimental results of the parachute company and found that many of the details did not come directly from their own research, but seemed to come from the help of others."

"To be precise, it came from the help of a higher civilization. They communicated through the communication in the basement."

Andre looked at the two of them and said, "Our enemies come from light years away. Our predecessors once built a shield that could resist everything. It brought us decades of peace and stability."

"After it was blown up, all of us were directly exposed to the gaze of alien creatures."