by <unknown>
"Cough… D*mn it, it's too difficult to take it out. It can't be done without some large equipment!"
The woman could not help complaining.
Just as they were gathered here, there was a sudden roar of engines not far away and several armored vehicles and hundreds of soldiers under Northern America drove in quickly.
"You guys! What are you doing!"
The distant army quickly approached, seemingly intended to surround them.
"Boss, the army is here!"
Everyone frowned and looked around.
"Humph!"
Zhao Shanhe shook his head, shot a disgruntled look at the deep hole by his feet, and then spread out one hand. Suddenly, a palm-sized black slate appeared in his hand out of thin air!
"Hum!"
An invisible wave swept in all directions and the group of soldiers in the distance suddenly screamed with their heads in their arms and even the tanks lost control and crashed into the surrounding buildings!
At the same time, because the fluctuations had spread in all directions, some of the fluctuations extended directly into the solid black fog, but the next second, at the moment a mass of black fog came into contact with the fluctuations, the black fog dissipated instantly!
Seeing this scene, Chen Chen's pupils shrank as he hid and watched from the building. He stared at the black slate, his eyes gleaming with a greedy light. "That slate has such a huge effect…"
However, when Chen Chen was taken aback by the function of the black slate, he suddenly discovered that the five of them were all walking in the direction of the black fog.
"Could it be…"
Chen Chen's expression flickered, showing a look of surprise. "Are they going to head in?"
Sure enough, after the team of five headed by Zhao Shanhe had defeated the army, they walked directly in the direction of the black fog, and then disappeared into the black fog…
"Huh!"
Chen Chen took a deep breath, only feeling that his heart was about to burst. He had never thought that the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey had such a huge secret hidden in it. After all, even Chen Chen could do nothing to the black fog. The reality anchor could only suppress the black fog but could not dissolve it, yet the black slate did just that.
"X-112, I need to return to reality."
Chen Chen could not be bothered with Zhao Shanhe's team. He just quickly commanded, "After I return to reality, the passage may be temporarily closed but don't worry, I'll open the passage again in a few days at most."
"Understood. I'll keep watch."
X-112 said, "But if you leave, how should we replace the batteries of these reality anchors? After all, the army will soon surround this place."
"Forget about them for now."
Chen Chen resolutely said, "Wait for my return before anything else!"
"Yes!"
After Chen Chen finished speaking, he flew directly out of the window and flew in the direction of Miami…
An hour later, Chen Chen returned to the end dimension, then took the time machine again to return to reality.
When Chen Chen returned to the end dimension again, he had brought an ordinary USB flash drive with him and the USB flash drive contained the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Immediately, he went straight to the computer, closed the portal leading to Event Horizon, and plugged the ordinary USB flash drive into the computer. Then, he transferred the old movie that was released in 1968 to the mysterious USB flash drive.
After that, Chen Chen quickly played the movie and stopped at the scene where the black slate appeared in the opening.
Following this, Chen Chen decisively stretched out his arm toward the screen as if he had done it a million times. He wanted to take out the black slate in the movie!
This stone slab was extremely important to Chen Chen.
Nevertheless, when Chen Chen reached in with his entire arm, his expression suddenly shifted… This was because he did not touch anything.
"Not there?"
Chen Chen was groping around the other side incredulously, but no matter what, all he could touch was air!
This was a situation that had never happened before ever since he obtained the USB drive and started extracting items from movies…
After he retracted his arm again, Chen Chen's expression was a little gloomy. He thought for a while and dragged the progress bar again to freeze the frame on the moon where the black slate appeared for the second time in the movie.
Then, he tried again…
He still could not touch anything.
Then, he simply dragged the progress bar to the end and tried again.
Still nothing…
Chen Chen withdrew his arm and fell completely silent.
"Why not? Could it be that…"
Chen Chen looked at the USB flash drive inserted in the computer, but he remembered that no matter where he went, even in his dreams, the USB flash drive would return to him. It could be said that it was completely bound to himself. Could it be that this black slate was similar or that it even possessed the same characteristic of being utterly unique?
This uniqueness meant that in the multiverse, across endless time and space, there was only one.
As the black slate had been taken away by Zhao Shanhe, it was impossible for Chen Chen to get a second slate from the movie.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen had no choice but to close the movie and instead reopened Event Horizon.
A few minutes later, under the ocean at Miami Beach, a black channel appeared again, and then Chen Chen stepped in and came back into the world.
"You're back, Sir Commander."
X-112's voice suddenly came from the headset.
"How long have I been away?"
Chen Chen looked at the time. Of course, he knew that he had only been away for slightly more than an hour but he needed to verify whether the Event Horizon dimension he accessed this time had become a different world.
"You were gone for one hour, thirteen minutes, and thirty-six seconds."
X-112 replied.
Hearing this, Chen Chen nodded.
He flew up quickly, rushing toward Washington while thinking silently. Zhao Shanhe knew a lot more than Chen Chen himself. Chen Chen questioned himself and realized, if he were Zhao Shanhe, he would not possibly rush into the black fog so rashly without first knowing what it was.
However, Zhao Shanhe and his team went in without hesitation, so they knew some information about the black fog.
This information was something Chen Chen so seriously lacked that though his strength had long surpassed Zhao Shanhe, he still dared not act rashly.
"At least I was right in coming to this dimension."
Chen Chen murmured in a low voice. It could be said that this was the first time he was this close to the secret of the USB flash drive. Perhaps here, he could find out what happened in the past and why Zhao Shanhe would die and what kind of relationship Professor Wang Xi had with the USB flash drive…
When Chen Chen returned to Washington, he saw that tens of thousands of soldiers had been stationed around the black fog. These troops tightly encircled the black fog and stretched out a ten-kilometer warning tape.
Even the position of the reality anchor set up by Chen Chen had been discovered by the group of soldiers but they did not seem to understand exactly what was inside this extremely deep pit.
As for the second black fog created by Chen Chen in the suburbs, because the reality anchor was erected early enough, the black fog had not spread out of the range of the house so far, so it had not been discovered by the army.
Seeing this, Chen Chen simply re-installed a miniature reality anchor two kilometers away from the black fog. As the suppression radius of the miniature reality anchor was five kilometers, it could cover the entire black fog at a distance of two kilometers and it was much more convenient to replace its battery.
Subsequently, Chen Chen forcibly rushed into the army array and recovered the prev
ious reality anchor that was discovered by the army.
Now that ten years had passed, Blacklight Biotechnology still had not produced the mysterious element 126, so the zircon in every reality anchor was extremely precious and must not be lost.
To Chen Chen, taking back the reality anchor under the guard of a group of soldiers was not a big deal, but the group of soldiers suffered a bad fright. To them, a figure who could be a man or a ghost forcibly rushed into the army. After wounding hundreds of soldiers and a few armored vehicles, it took something from the big mysterious hole they had found and then left calmly. This development deeply upset everyone and made the military leaders more frightened than ever.
Chen Chen did not leave either. On the contrary, he sent more Black Knights to sneak into downtown Washington, watching silently from the rear of the army, waiting for Zhao Shanhe's group to appear again.
That was right. In Chen Chen's opinion, since the other party was confident enough to enter the black fog, naturally there would be a day when they came out. If this was a waiting game, Chen Chen could afford to wait.
Even so, this wait took him no less than twenty days.
On the day when the Event Horizon returning from Pluto was about to enter the range of the interstellar sweeper missile, Chen Chen suddenly received a new update reported by X-112.
Zhao Shanhe had appeared in New York City!
Chapter 590: Zhao Shanhe |
"What, Zhao Shanhe has appeared in New York?"
When Chen Chen heard the news, he immediately showed a look of surprise. He turned his head and looked at the giant egg-shaped black fog in the distance outside the window. "Those two black patches of fog are interlinked?"
Although Chen Chen was not expecting this situation, he was not too taken aback. After all, he had even seen a cosmic life form such as the Consciousness Stealer and even the USB flash drive could shuttle between various major dimensions. What else could astonish him?
At this time, X-112 sent a video. In the video, he could only see a black fog that was much larger than the one in Washington, blanketing Manhattan, New York City. Countless soldiers were stretching out a warning tape not far away.
However, at this moment, a portion of the black fog protruded slightly and then two small figures came out of it and were immediately arrested by the soldiers on the spot.
The camera zoomed in and Chen Chen could see that one of the two figures was Zhao Shanhe and the other was a woman with a bandage on her chest. However, both of them looked to be in a pitiful state. Their bodies were full of scars and even their clothes were in tatters and could not cover them up.
Chen Chen even faintly made out that they seemed to be keeping their eyes closed and there were rows of black things on their eyes.
It was just that Chen Chen could not see what those black things were. After all, the distance was still too great.
"They have been captured by the army of Northern America and the two of them didn't resist."
X-112 said, "I've dispatched the Black Knights to secretly track the army team that escorted them to see where they will be sent."
"Only two of them survived?"
Chen Chen frowned. It was obvious that there was a certain danger in the black fog of the image. There were five people under Zhao Shanhe and he himself made six, but one was killed by a furious Chen Chen before.
Now five people had entered the black fog, but only two came out alive.
"I'm going to figure out what they experienced inside."
As he spoke, Chen Chen turned his head and looked at the Black Knight on the side. "X-112, the Event Horizon and the rescue spacecraft that are returning together have entered the range of the interstellar sweeper, right? If so, begin the attack and take down the two spaceships."
"Yes."
X-112 agreed and Chen Chen flew out of the window and hurried toward New York.
Following Chen Chen's orders, five XTN robots stationed in Miami slowly rose out of the ocean.
The build of these robots was a bit like the Terminator and there were hints of Alita and NS-5 too. Each robot had an over-the-top square cannon muzzle on the back and four pure black missile warheads protruded faintly from the muzzle with a fierce murderous aura.
"Beep!"
When the five robots surfaced, the barrel of one of the robots lifted slightly and aimed directly at the blue sky and a long and narrow sight popped out from the muzzle behind the robot. It began to collect electromagnetic waves from various types of aircraft outside the atmosphere.
"Discovering target…"
"Target confirmed, locking aim!"
"Target has been locked…"
"Successive launches at a frequency of once every five minutes… Three, two, one!"
"Whoosh!"
Suddenly, a flare of fire shot up from the sea and directly penetrated the atmosphere at an extreme speed!
"One kilometer, two kilometers, three kilometers…"
As the robot kept speaking, the number indicating the altitude of the missile was flipping rapidly like a stopwatch and it rose to a height of thirty or forty kilometers in one minute!
"It has broken through the stratosphere and is starting to accelerate…"
"…"
"Discarding the first-stage thruster, activating the second-stage thruster!"
"…"
"It has broken through the middle layer and is entering the ionosphere. Discarding the second-stage thruster, activating the third-stage thruster!"
At a speed that humans practically could never reach, the first missile arrived in outer space and quickly circled the earth like a slingshot, accelerating to an extreme through gravity, then shot toward the Event Horizon that was hundreds of millions of kilometers away!
"Discarding the third-stage thruster, activating the maximum power of the fourth-stage nuclear-powered thruster! It's expected to reach its speed limit in three hours and fifteen minutes and hit the target in three hours, fifty minutes, and twenty-three seconds…"
When this data report was announced, five minutes had passed.
"The Interstellar Sweeper Missile 1-2 is ready to launch…"
To prevent any accidents, Chen Chen prepared a total of 20 interstellar sweeper missiles for the two spacecraft targets. They were launched one after another at intervals of five minutes. In less than two hours, all twenty missiles had flown into the vast starry sky…
The missile launch scene naturally shocked the entire Earth Federation, but with the speed of the interstellar sweepers, forget about interception, they could not even figure out the missile launch site before the five XTN robots disappeared again without a trace.
When these missiles were continuously launched, Chen Chen also came to the sky over New York City.
At a distance of several dozen kilometers, Chen Chen had already seen the huge black fog, which was even more conspicuous during the day, just like a huge black mountain straddling the center of New York City. Its pitch blackness did not reflect the slightest light and it was stifling to the extreme.
Now, the black fog had long been known to the entire world, which had fallen into panic, but Chen Chen did not pay attention to the public opinion in this world. After all, it was not his original world. Chen Chen naturally felt a sense of detachment.
The reason he was willing to take action before was only to use this place as a testing ground. He wanted to see if his intervention could change the destiny of humanity being destroyed.
"Just half an hour ago, Zhao Shanhe and the woman were escorted to the secret military base in Islip."
X-112 notified, "The two didn't resist and out of the two, the woman was injured more seriously."
Chen Chen frowned. He stopped at the top of a building and looked at the location of Long Island. Of course, he who had stolen the information knew that the Islip secret military base was located in Long Island, New York, about 80 kilometers away.
"Since they have been caught, let's use the God chip to meet him."<
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Chen Chen said.
He had a faint hunch that told him, although Zhao Shanhe's group of people was not as strong as his own, Chen Chen did not believe that the other party would be caught so easily. Maybe this was also part of the other party's plan.
Thinking of this, he flicked his sleeves, turned, and disappeared from the rooftop.
…
"Who are you two? What is that black fog?"
In a clean, well-lighted interrogation room, Zhao Shanhe was lazily leaning against a chair with his hands in handcuffs. In front of him, a bald interrogator stood up and asked aggressively, "What is your plan? Tell me everything!"
"I've told you over and over."
Zhao Shanhe rubbed his eyes. There were several black scars on his upper and lower eyelids as if his eyelids had been sewn shut.
At this time, he smiled lazily. "I came from another dimension to save you. Your world is on the verge of extinction. Only I can save you."
"Do you think I'll believe that?"
The interrogator looked at Zhao Shanhe with a cold expression. "Why did you sew your eyes shut when you entered the black fog? What's in the black fog?"
Zhao Shanhe could not help sighing and shook his head slightly. Then, he stretched his hands under the table, spread them apart, and a palm-sized black slab faintly flickered on the palm of his right hand.
Suddenly, the bald interrogator's eyes dimmed slightly as if he had been hypnotized. In the next second, he slowly turned around and left the interrogation room.
After a while, several soldiers walked in, gripped Zhao Shanhe by the arms, and escorted him back to his prison.
"It's rather comfortable here…"
As soon as Zhao Shanhe returned to the prison, he stretched out lazily, then lay down directly on his bed, humming a little song while thinking about the next countermeasure…
Before he knew it, he fell asleep.
"Patter, patter…"
He did not know how much time had passed. Zhao Shanhe vaguely heard the faint sound of footsteps. The footsteps came from the end of the corridor, approaching from a distance, and soon stopped outside his confinement room.