I Have A Super USB Drive

by <unknown>

  When the Gantz server machine saw cracks instantly forming on the glass that was otherwise immune to bullets, it finally panicked. "Human, don't do this, I'm willing to help you purge off your afflicted mysterious phenomenon first!"

  "Really?"

  The cannon on Chen Chen's shoulder halted briefly as he raised his head. "Purge it right now, you have three seconds!"

  "As you wish!"

  Following Chen Chen's command, the statue on the opposite end of the observation window began moving!

  No, the enormous germanium-made statue did not move. Instead, traces of dark-red rays began appearing on its surface. These traces of light insidiously tracked along the surface of the Gantz server machine, appearing extremely malicious in nature. At a glance, it gave off a strong, ominous aura.

  The light appearing on the statue only lapped around it for a brief moment before dimming out again. At the same time, the voice spoke, "Alright, I've purged the mysterious phenomenon from you, you're safe now…"

  "I don't believe you!"

  However, Chen Chen immediately responded, "I don't feel anything at all. I think you're trying to make a fool out of me!"

  Without any hesitation, the shoulder cannon strapped behind Chen Chen produced a relentless microwave. What followed after was the sound of a roaring explosion, which shattered the thick observation window in a powerful display like an avalanche!

  The destructiveness of the microwave cannon continued to grow from this point on. Its gigantic force instantly bombarded the surface of the statue. In a split instant, thin cracks began forming on the surface of the statue which appeared like a work of art…

  The Gantz server machine, obliterated.

  Chapter 318: Crystalline Properties |

  It was Chen Chen who was slightly surprised when he saw the twin-spire tower shattering at the touch.

  Although he did expect a similar outcome, he never foresaw that it would only take a single hit from the microwave weapon geared with the PK Armor for the boss-tier monstrosity to crumble.

  When the Gantz server machine was destroyed, light was brought back to the underground base and the door behind Chen Chen shuffled opened again. At the same time, the slightly urgent voice of X-112 could be heard through the speakers, "Sir Commander, I was attacked by an unknown AI just now, are you hurt?"

  "I'm fine."

  Chen Chen answered expressionlessly, "How about you, did the opponent cause any damage?"

  "The opponent is extremely powerful and severely trumps me in terms of computing speed. It was originally going after my source code but for some reason, it stopped pursuing me after I was chased out of the internal server of the underground base."

  X-112 answered, "The opponent didn't trace along the wireless signal to continue invading my main program."

  "That's because it can't do that."

  Chen Chen nodded. "Let's discuss this later. Have the Black Knights bring the captives over. I'll question them myself."

  "Understood."

  After approximately ten minutes after Chen Chen gave the order, three Black Knights appeared on the far side of the corridor. Each of them carried a captive dressed in a military outfit on their shoulder.

  When the Black Knights approached Chen Chen, they rudely threw the captives onto the ground. All three of the knocked out captives produced loud thuds against the floor as they fell. They slowly awakened from the sudden pain.

  Chen Chen took a glance at them. The three of them were covered in blood all over. One of the blonde-haired ladies was even short of an arm, her wounds were left exposed like a dirty pile of mud.

  The other members of the underground base were all massacred by the Black Knights.

  If not for the ranks of these three officials and the secrets they carried with them, they may have ended up the same as the rest and turned into tomato paste by the microwave weapons.

  When Chen Chen saw the three of them gradually recollecting themselves, he approached them and asked in a belittling temperament, "I only have three questions. Whoever can answer all of them gets to live."

  Chen Chen hardly gave them time to mentally prepare themselves and began without notice. "First question, do you guys know that the Gantz server machine was a machine with a conscience?"

  Ignoring the blank expression on their faces, Chen Chen went on to the next question. "Who was it that arranged a deal with the Gantz server machine to allow it to connect to the underground base network?"

  There was a slight twitch in the elderly man and the middle-aged man's expressions.

  Chen Chen studied the expression of the elderly man and asked again, "Who was responsible for arranging a deal with the Gantz server machine and contributing to the destruction of human civilization?"

  This time, there was a not-so-subtle change of expression on the elderly man and the middle-aged man.

  The three questions were delivered in quick succession. Chen Chen continued glaring at the three of them but none of them spoke.

  Chen Chen abandoned whatever reservations he had and immediately wrapped his arms around the blonde-haired lady's neck and lifted her with one arm.

  The lady yelped miserably and struggled persistently in Chen Chen's claw. She felt as if Chen Chen's arm was made of bronze cast iron. No matter how much she resisted, her captor seemed to be completely unfazed.

  "Let, let go…"

  The lady barely managed to mouth the two words, before she could complete her sentence, Chen Chen suddenly squeezed tightly with all his strength. There was a quick snap, followed by the blonde-haired lady's eyes shrinking into themselves before her head dropped unnaturally. The final breath left in her was gone.

  The elderly man and the middle-aged man were horrified upon witnessing this scene.

  "My patience is very limited."

  Chen Chen relaxed his grip and tossed the lifeless body of the blonde-haired lady like tossing trash. He turned to the remaining two. "Do you need me to repeat my question?"

  "I'll talk, I'll talk!"

  The middle-aged man seemed to have been traumatized by what he had witnessed as he pointed at the elderly man beside him and began his tale. "It's this old guy, I saw him regularly coming in and out of the Gantz server machine section with my very own eyes. For quite some time now, I've suspected that the Basilisk patterns appearing in the world had something to do with this server machine. By the time I discovered everything, we had long lost contact with the government, I can only watch as he did everything…"

  "No, it's not me!"

  The white-bearded elderly man glared at the middle-aged man with hate in his eyes. "I don't know anything at all. This has to be the work of this vile dog, he wants to put the blame on…"

  Before he could finish, Chen Chen abruptly held down the arteries on the neck of the two men, causing them to immediately pass out again. He turned to the Black Knight behind him. "Take these two away and force a confession out of them. There's a chance we can find out the source of destruction of this dimension from them."

  "Understood."

  X-112 replied.

  Chen Chen turned around and approached the observation window shattered by the microwave weapon. The statue looked like a body viciously decapitated from its waistline. The upper portion of its body shattered into dozens of pieces like smashed glass. Only the lower part of it was kept intact.

  However, upon observing the tiny fragments, Chen Chen could not help but squint his eyes to get a closer look.

  Looking from the observation window, the square at the bottom had pieces of the Gantz server machine scattered all over the ground. From a distance, the fragments seemed to assume irregular shapes but upon closer inspection, Chen Chen noticed that nearly all of the pieces took on the same twin-spire form.

  With a gentle wave of his hand, one of the pieces the size of a regular fist leaped into the air and went straight toward Chen Chen's palm.

  The broken piece had a beautiful silver glow around it as it was not exposed to
oxygen. It was the clean and luminous glow of metal. For some unknown reason, this fragment shared the same twin-spire tower structure of its original body.

  It seemed to faintly resemble DNA structures.

  This implied that no matter how the Gantz server machine was destroyed and how many pieces it broke into, they would all retain the same shape.

  This remarkable attribute reminded Chen Chen of the crystalline.

  Crystal materials usually took on the form of regular geometric patterns, giving an impression that they were artificially carved that way. This was because the internal atomic arrangement was extremely fixed. Their formations were better than troops of soldiers.

  They were repeatedly arranged on top of each other in three-dimensional space to achieve the form of a crystal lattice. The result of this was that their appearance took on the form of a fixed geometric polyhedron.

  For example, most rock sugars were identical in shape, all standardized blocks. Sometimes, some of them may stick out from the rest as they became fused by multiple blocks. By crushing these rock sugars into tiny particles and placing them under a microscope, it should be observed that the rock sugar would always have the same shape no matter how small they were pulverized into.

  What he was seeing now was that this strange statue had displayed the same characteristics the original crystalline shown…

  "Its form will never be altered no matter how many times they are pulverized?"

  Chen Chen looked at the metallic statue which took on the form of a twin spire in his palm. This was of great interest to him.

  Chapter 319: Doomsday Trap |

  These characteristics of the Gantz server were, in Chen Chen's view, extremely outrageous.

  This was a crystal structure that would not change its change no matter how it was destroyed and it was easily replicable. Chen Chen would almost think that there was some conspiracy.

  According to the original plot of the comic, all of Gantz's technology was recounted by the German entrepreneur's daughter. She had this ability because Alien Civilization A was about to be wiped out by Alien Civilization B, so they transmitted their technology to the people on Earth.

  The reason for this was that Earth was Alien Civilization B's next target.

  This was what happened in this reality. In just a few years, Alien Civilization B came to Earth and waged a war, and the ending was that humans successfully defeated Alien Civilization B by using Gantz's technology.

  In the very end, the leader of Alien Civilization B was defeated by the protagonist Kei Kurono, which caused Alien Civilization B to blow up their own spacecraft, concluding the story of Gantz.

  However, long before coming into Gantz, Chen Chen had harbored a doubt. In his opinion, the Gantz technology that Alien Civilization A gave to Earth seemed to far exceed the level of Alien Civilization B's technology. Even human beings, with the Gantz technology, could defeat Alien Civilization B. Was it possible that Alien Civilization A, the original owner of these technologies, was vanquished?

  In Chen Chen's view, this would be illogical. It was ridiculous that Alien Civilization A itself had been destroyed while on the other hand, human beings could turn the tables, with just a group of stragglers who had not even undergone military training being able to defeat the menacing Alien Civilization B.

  Therefore, there must be something else behind the demise of this world. These were secrets that were not even mentioned in the original work. They were buried under the iceberg of the plot but were nonetheless inextricably linked to the storyline.

  As he thought of this, a dark look grew in Chen Chen's eyes. He lightly gripped the statue fragment in his hand. At once, the metal germanium chunk in his hand was crushed into smaller fragments.

  Even so, these fragments still maintained a complete double helix structure, totally unchanged…

  "Let's go."

  Chen Chen clapped his hands, turned away, and walked toward the outside world. After a long journey, he was finally leaving the underground base and returning to the ground.

  At this time, it was five o'clock in the evening and dusk of this second day was approaching.

  After waiting for an hour, Chen Chen got the answers he wanted. X-112 had already made the Black Knights interrogate those two.

  It turned out that the old man with a white beard was originally named Cary. He was the thirteenth person in charge of Area 51 and had the rank of major general.

  Around 1990, when the North American government acquired Gantz technology, they converted Area 51 into a Gantz research base. At the same time, they sent Cary to be the one in charge of all projects in Area 51 besides the actual research.

  This was how Major General Cary came into contact with the Gantz server for the first time, this grand statue of astonishing shape.

  When Major General Cary saw the statue for the first time, he was transformed from a forceful, military man to someone who only felt unparalleled shock. It was as if he was looking at the ninth wonder of the world. Whether in terms of artistry or style, this statue appeared to be flawless, almost like it should not exist in the world…

  As if possessed, Major General Cary repeatedly looked for excuses to enter the underground base and visited the Gantz server over the next few days.

  Even stranger was, as Major General Cary's visits increased in number, it was like this statue had gradually implanted its roots into Major General Cary's heart, making him progressively obsessed and crazy.

  It was like taking drugs.

  Of course, this was a madness that could still be suppressed by reason, so Major General Cary would only constantly find reasons to come and observe the statue, but he would never neglect everything else just to do so.

  Until one day, this statue bursting with artistic beauty suddenly spoke.

  Of course, this was not a speech, but rather a sort of voice that resounded directly in Major General Cary's mind. That voice kept bewitching him, causing his subconscious to feel like obeying the voice of the statue.

  It seemed that there was a human personality hidden in the statue.

  Moreover, initially, the statue only had heart-to-heart chats with Major General Cary, like a little girl next door. To Major General Cary, who had lost his daughter in his early years, it was as if something invisible had hit the softest part of his soul.

  In his eyes, the statue full of artistic beauty before him was no longer a cold Gantz server, but an elf-like lively girl.

  In this way, Major General Cary began to meet with the statue every day behind the backs of the group of researchers in the underground base, even to the point where one day apart felt like three years.

  Until one day, this statue made a request for the first time, a request that did not seem excessive — namely, to find a network cable that could connect to the Internet.

  The reason given by the personality in the statue was that it was so dark and cold and lonely there, so it wanted to observe the world through the Internet and not be lonely anymore.

  At this time, Major General Cary, who had been bewitched for a long time, barely hesitated. He found an excuse to send away the scientists who researched the Gantz server and personally ordered the engineers to secretly install a network cable that could connect to the external network in the laboratory.

  Thus, just a few days later, the first Basilisk pattern event in history broke out…

  When this major turn of events first occurred, Major General Cary knew he would not be able to escape the military court sooner or later. Plus, the matter was so serious that he had completely come to his senses. He was already prepared to spend the second half of his life in prison.

  Nevertheless, before his involvement was even revealed, the North American government and military had already collapsed…

  Not only that, the little girl in the statue even told him that within a 100-meter radius of the server, all mysterious phenomena would be suppressed. Within this radius, there would be no mysterious phenomena at al
l.

  Thus, Major General Cary relied on this information to win over a group of officers. Then, under the guidance of the statue, Major General Cary swiftly and decisively eliminated all the opposing officers and occupied this underground base by himself.

  Therefore, this radius was called the Death Radius and everyone in the base also called it —

  Dead Space.

  All of this was the story of Major General Cary.

  According to him, it was not only this Gantz server, but the other two Gantz servers located in Germany, Europe, and Jinping, Mainland China had also beguiled the highest person in charge of the base and launched the first cyber-attack on the same day.

  In other words, all the Gantz servers were connected. The Gantz server could emit a signal that humans could not detect. This signal could be sent out at a speed with almost no delay and received by other Gantz servers.

  It was precisely because of this that these servers could act as the terminals of Gantz spheres all over the world.

  After silently listening to the story of Major General Cary, Chen Chen could not help frowning.

  If what the old white-bearded man said was true, did this not mean that the Gantz server not only had the Basilisk patterns as a trump card, but it also had powerful intelligence and the ability to bewitch people?

  It was just not known whether it seduced people's hearts through words or some other enigmatic power…

  Chapter 320: Message |

  Having obtained the information, Chen Chen returned to the Bugatti Spaceship.

  As he looked at the ruins of the city flashing by the window, Chen Chen could not help wearing a rueful look.

  To think that one day he would be able to solve the mystery of a civilization's demise. Although all of this would happen sooner or later, as he got closer to the truth, Chen Chen felt that a crisis was gradually closing in.