by <unknown>
This group of soldiers wanted to flee, but before they got very far, they would be blocked by Chen Chen. Some of those who fled by car were shot and killed directly in the middle of the road. Finally, a few straggling soldiers escaped the Herrank Warehouse District. However, a few distorted transparent figures suddenly appeared in front of them and before they could react, their heads were separated from their bodies!
At this time, the second group of Black Knights sent by Little X had already arrived. Although their numbers were small and they could not join the fight directly, sealing the exit routes and killing any deserters was a piece of cake.
With the incredible marksmanship of the Black Knights, even those high-altitude helicopters were easily killed and one after another fell…
After about ten minutes, the periphery of the Herrank Warehouse District was full of corpses. There were exploded military vehicles and bodies everywhere and flames blazed to the sky, illuminating the fringes of the Herrank Warehouse District.
A soldier with torn legs made a low moan. While looking at a nearby distance, he pulled himself forward with his hands as if he wanted to escape the war zone. Still, in the next second, a pair of claws that was only half his size stretched out, tossed him up high, and then threw him down viciously!
"Splatter!"
There was a sound of bodily fragmentation and at the same time, the scream of the wounded soldier stopped abruptly!
In the flames, more than a dozen translucent figures emerged from the darkness. All of them were wearing black tights that covered their whole body, with strangely shaped weapons in both hands as they looked around blankly.
They walked along as if this was a battlefield in hell. Any soldier who pretended to be dead or unconscious, but who was still breathing, would be shot by them, and then they continued to search for the next life that had not yet been extinguished…
As for Chen Chen, he panted with mist emitting from his mouth while he walked slowly to an overturned tank. He bent over slightly but saw that the hatch of the infantry tank had been opened, and the tank was empty.
"Hmm?"
Chen Chen looked around with charcoal-like pupils and suddenly saw a line of bloodstains and footprints extending into the interior of the Herrank Warehouse District.
"Someone's slipped through the net?"
Chen Chen murmured in a low voice. He tilted his head while stroking his neck and then strode into the Herrank Warehouse District with dull thudding footsteps…
At this time, on the other side, a soldier was carrying Lieutenant Colonel Wilson and constantly traveling deeper into the Herrank Warehouse District. Another soldier was in charge of guarding the rear. The three of them kept panting and wandering into the depths of the Herrank Warehouse District.
"Pant… Pant…"
Wilson only felt his lungs burning furiously. After the armored car was overturned by Chen Chen, he had hit his chest severely. At this time, he did not know how many of his ribs were broken, so he could only rely on his soldiers to flee.
At this time, he panted while looking behind him, only to see the glare of fires surging into the sky from a distance, and the sound of gunshots that were gradually becoming more sporadic. The battle was over.
"D*mn, what the h*ll was that thing? Why is it invulnerable, with power and speed beyond any lifeform on Earth!"
Wilson growled unhappily, but he was immediately advised by the soldier beside him. "Lieutenant Colonel, now isn't the time to talk about this. I can't contact headquarters for some reason, so the most important thing for us is to escape and explain everything to the higher-ups. Otherwise the casualties of this battle today will be covered up by Blacklight Biotechnology!"
Hearing the advice of the soldier, Wilson's face turned even darker. He was just about to say something when suddenly, there was a loud noise behind him as if something heavy had fallen on the ground!
"Boom!"
Hearing this noise, both of their faces changed. At the same time, the soldier who was responsible for guarding the rear also ran over. "Lieutenant Colonel, that monster is coming over!"
Hearing this confirmation from the soldier, Wilson finally realized that he could not escape. He pushed away the soldier who was supporting him and shouted, "Split up and run. Only in this way will one of us have a chance to escape and expose everything that happened today!"
Hearing Wilson's order, the two soldiers also understood that he was speaking the truth, so the three of them stopped hesitating. They immediately separated and fled in three directions!
Just ten seconds after the three of them had rushed into the darkness, a huge black shadow suddenly crashed into the ground from the sky. In the smoke and dust, the huge inhuman body slowly straightened up from the ground and looked around. Chen Chen's keen sense of hearing suddenly picked up three sets of footsteps gradually moving away.
"Little worms, do you think you can escape by splitting up?"
Chen Chen grinned with two rows of fangs. He chuckled lowly, picked a random position, and then leaped forward formidably!
"Boom!"
Just as one of the soldiers had reached a fork in the road, Chen Chen landed directly in front of him. The huge shock wave knocked the soldier to the ground!
Seeing that his escape route was completely blocked, a glint of despair finally appeared in the soldier's eyes. Before he got up, he raised his gun and aimed a spray of bullets at Chen Chen!
"Rattle rattle!"
There were bursts of intensive gunfire, but before even a third of the bullets had been fired, his body was smashed like a meat patty!
"Splat!"
Chen Chen slowly retracted his palm and glanced at the soldier's body that had been reduced to only two dimensions. Then he jumped again in the other direction that he had memorized!
A few seconds later, Chen Chen looked at the other corpse that no longer resembled a human being in the palm of his hand, then threw the opponent down like trash. After that, he leaped toward the last position!
"Boom!"
This time, Chen Chen had blocked Wilson directly!
Looking at Wilson, who was backed into a wall, with his eyes wide and round, Chen Chen walked toward the other person step by step. "Run, little worm, why don't you keep running? Could it be that you have given up?"
Listening to Chen Chen's mocking, Wilson's eyes flashed with a sharp glimmer. A hint of joy turned up the corners of his mouth and he laughed uncontrollably. "Hahahaha, monster, no matter what the h*ll you are, it's all over now. Because you are dead!"
"Oh?"
When Chen Chen heard these words, he paused. His coal-like pupils moved slightly to the right. "Do you mean…"
Before Chen Chen finished speaking, Wilson, who had kept his eyes wide open, suddenly closed his eyes!
In the next second, Chen Chen suddenly felt a chill approaching behind him. Before he could turn his head, he felt a slight tingling in the back of his neck!
"Crack!"
There was a sound as if something was shattered. Wilson opened his eyes immediately after hearing this sound, but then his eyes bulged in sheer disbelief!
Behind the huge monster in front of him, there was a statue with both arms around the monster's neck. Even so, the monster simply tugged lightly and dragged the angel statue to the front.
"Not bad, it crushed a piece of my exoskeleton."
Chen Chen touched the split in the carapace at his nape, which then healed swiftly at a visible speed. After a second, the carapace had regained its smoothness as if the crack had just been an illusion.
After he had casually pinched the angel statue into dust, Chen Chen turned his head again to look at Wilson who was stunned. He grinned and uttered in a low voice like a brass bell, "Lieutenant Colonel Wilson, now there's only you and me…"
Chapter 482: The Law of Causality |
By the time Chen Chen returned to the battlefield, all the survivors had been cleaned up and even the corpses with gunshot wounds were
piled into a tall heap, which was drenched with gasoline, then burned.
Not only that, but also the onlookers who were involved had their memories wiped, forgetting everything they saw. This was replaced by a new memory of the angel statues slaughtering the army.
"Sir Godfather, I've already dealt with everything here and I haven't found any omissions."
At this moment, Little X's voice suddenly came from the headset. Although Chen Chen had transformed, his headset was still worn over his ears.
"Good. I've also gotten back my things."
Chen Chen nodded and threw a blue, glowing medicine bottle and a USB flash drive to a Black Knight beside him. At the same time, he looked at the sky and suddenly said:
"Time's up."
Following his words, Chen Chen's body seemed to be deflating and white mist began to pour out. Then the white mist became more dense, even covering Chen Chen's huge body.
In the next second, Chen Chen's body shrank rapidly like a deflating ball and the exoskeleton of his entire body directly turned into powder, emitting an unpleasant smell of rot…
When the white mist dissipated again, Chen Chen had regained his previous size. On the surface of his body, there was still a layer of monster skin that was gradually dissolving.
"Sizzle…"
Chen Chen came out of the decaying shell, naked, and he staggered on his feet. Two black knights immediately supported him.
It was only then that they could see that Chen Chen's body had changed from a muscular body to a skinny frame, just like a severely malnourished refugee who had not eaten for a few years.
Moreover, not only had his body become emaciated, but all the hair on his body had disappeared.
He was like an insect that transformed into a cocoon and turned into a butterfly. At this time, Chen Chen was covered in new skin from top to bottom. This skin was smooth and delicate, as fragile as a baby's.
However, no outsider would have seen all of this. The Black Knights that had been prepared immediately put on a warm duvet over Chen Chen and then several of them carried Chen Chen into a black car and quickly drove away…
When the car left, the rest of the Black Knights also re-assumed their invisible form, and turned and left the battlefield.
An hour later, Chen Chen returned to the Spire Experimental Base thousands of miles away via the Gantz sphere.
Chen Chen, upon his return to the base, immediately received top-level medical services. Glucose and nutrients were channeled into Chen Chen's body as if they were free. What Chen Chen had to do was to restore his body. Unlike ordinary people, with Chen Chen's physique and the medical methods of the Spire Laboratory, it did not take long for Chen Chen to return to his peak state.
…
One day later, Chen Chen woke up hazily in the hospital bed.
He stretched lazily, looked around, and saw that he was now in an intensive care unit. The room was filled with dazzling metal walls. At the same time, there were several bunches of flowers set out before the bed, giving off a hint of fragrance.
The light was not turned on. Still, it was very warm and bright because a shaft of sunlight was shining in from the window. Chen Chen looked toward the source of light and gazed out of the window, and he could even see that outside, there was a huge park with hills and streams. Dozens of visitors walked slowly by, laughing among themselves.
If he kept quiet, Chen Chen could even hear the laughter from the group of visitors and the chirping of birds outside the window.
Seeing this scene, Chen Chen was not surprised because he knew that all this was not real. The so-called scenery outside the window was a kind of 3D holographic image, and the warm sunshine was nothing more than LED light that simulated the real sun.
This kind of light was invented by a genius scientist who was discovered by the Eco Science City. A long time ago, humans had discovered that the natural light they perceived was the diffusion of the interaction between sunlight and other various particles in the air such as nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide.
Thus, this genius scientist used an LED floodlight to simulate the sun and at the same time, replaced the atmosphere with a layer of nano-material, reconstructing the Earth's atmosphere over a distance of more than 10 kilometers to obtain a sunlight experience that was close to reality.
At this time, in the scene outside the window, an additional optical system was added to enhance one's depth perception. When someone stared at the LED light outside the window, no matter from what angle, they would see the sun hanging high in the sky. It could be passed off as the real thing.
Within ten seconds of Chen Chen's awakening, Little X came in through the door in a white dress. She swaggered to Chen Chen's bed. "Sir Godfather, you're awake. Do you need breakfast?"
"Bring it on."
Chen Chen replied. After the mutation from the G-virus injection, his stomach was already unbearably hungry.
Little X immediately obeyed. Then, she jumped up and sat down on the chair next to Chen Chen's bed with her legs dangling and gently swaying. "Sir Godfather, there has been news from Northern America that all angel statues have been contained. The situation you were worried about will not happen anymore."
"I hope so."
Chen Chen shrugged indifferently. "I'm just afraid that it will leak out again in the future and cause an irreversible human crisis."
"By the way, Keith's dead body has been transported back."
Little X said again, "Moreover, his body has been dissected, but nothing has been found."
"That's to be expected. I just had a hunch. If there were any abnormality, it means there was a problem."
Chen Chen waved his hand.
"Right…"
Little X said dubiously, "A guy who couldn't be killed by four Black Knights even after being hunted for a day, yet he died so easily in the end. It does feel rather incongruous."
Chen Chen showed a thoughtful look when he heard these words, and then said, "If my guess is correct, it's because his 'mission' had been completed…"
"Mission?"
Little X blinked with some confusion. "You mean his mission to deliver AD-001?"
"Yes."
Chen Chen explained patiently to the increasingly anthropomorphic Little X, "You should know that there's often such a rule in movies, that once someone becomes the protagonist of the story, they will never die before the story ends.
"Everything about the protagonist represents the development of the story. Losing the protagonist means that the story cannot go on. Until the end of the movie, when the protagonist loses the value of advancing the story, then they may die…"
Just when Chen Chen was talking about this, the door of the intensive care unit was opened again. A Black Knight pushed a dining cart in and parked it next to Chen Chen's bed.
Chen Chen did not hesitate. He first picked up the bucket of milk and drank it in big gulps. After the bucket of milk was emptied, he grabbed the barbecued meat and various high-calorie foods in the dining cart and swallowed them.
While eating, Chen Chen continued to speak, "Remember, in the movie Deadly Crisis: A Shocking Scheme, the movie ends just as the protagonist hands the drug to the other party. This also means that the protagonist isn't needed to further advance the story, so the protagonist's plot armor begins to disappear. Since the movie doesn't say whether the protagonist is dead or alive at the end, then there's a possibility of him being killed."
Hearing Chen Chen's explanation, Little X was a little stunned by the realization. "So that's it…"
Then, she saw Chen Chen was still frowning, so she asked again, "Then Sir Godfather, why are you still frowning?"
"Because I'm thinking."
Chen Chen swallowed a piece of butter and then pointed to his head. "I'm thinking about how the USB flash drive interferes with reality and causes the situation in the movie to reoccur in reality. This principle is very important and it may even involve a branch of science that's more terrifying than memes.
No, it may have gone beyond the scientific system and now concerns the field of philosophy…
"Have you determined that the USB flash drive interfered with reality and caused the plot in the movie to happen, rather than the USB flash drive foreseeing the future and then influencing us to make the movie?"
Little X was a little puzzled about Chen Chen's affirmation.
"Of course!"
Chen Chen replied without hesitation, "X, you know that we've obtained AD-001 and we've also unlocked the manufacturing process of the drug and can produce this drug at any time. When Osmond's drug hits the market, we can even sue them for stealing our technology. So, why should I pay so much attention to the drug produced by Osmond?"
"Because AD-001 isn't important. What's important is to understand the rules of the USB drive."
Little X replied.
"Correct."
Chen Chen affirmed. "The reason I want to kill Keith isn't to vent my anger nor is it because I'm afraid that he'll become a dragon-slaying hero… Well, the second thing is a little true, but the most important thing is because I need to test whether I can kill him.
"According to the story of the movie I shot before, when Keith has already delivered the drug to Parker, the film ends. If even after that, I still cannot kill Keith due to various coincidences, then it means one thing — Keith isn't only the protagonist of the movie, he may also represent a more terrifying identity.
"This identity is difficult to explain, so let's call it the 'Dimension's Child' for the time being…
"According to the rules of fantasy, the Dimension's Child represents the will of the world and is loved and favored by heaven and Earth. In that case, he can't be killed by any method.
"Whereas according to the scientific view, the Dimension's Child represents the laws of the world. For example, the founding fathers of those unifying dynasties in ancient times. After the great chaos of the world, there must be someone who can calm the troubled times and stabilize the world. This was the law of human society in the Central Plains at that time. Even if the first person fails, there'll be a second and a third, and there'll eventually be one person who succeeds…
