Mystery: The New Dark Emperor Arrives

Chapter 768 Extra 6: The Awakening of the Ancient Sun God

(Continuation of the extra chapter 5)

A huge pit and a mysterious power suddenly appeared in Chernobyl, so people secretly built a research institute and gathered the world's top scientists to study the mysterious power!
With the world's oil suddenly disappearing, the research mission has become more urgent.

At this time, Zhang Hongwen from China and Angus Gale from Russia put forward a more reliable conjecture.

So we immediately designed an experiment, in which two mice in similar conditions were placed in pits 500 meters and 1000 meters deep respectively using steel cables, and then retrieved and observed after one hour.

After the two mice were retrieved, people soon discovered that the mouse placed at 1000 meters had a significantly increased appetite and was emotionally unstable.

Three days later, the mouse placed at 1000 meters had grown a lot bigger than the mouse placed at 500 meters, and was in a very irritable mood.

Even the little white mouse that was released to 15,000 meters turned into a monster not long after returning.

However, the mice below 15,000 meters could not be recovered. For some unknown reason, the steel cable broke and the box containing the mice disappeared.

By studying the cross-section of the broken steel cables, people found that some seemed to be burned by high-voltage current, some were burned by high temperature, and some were corroded.

At this time, everyone roughly understood that the illusory ocean should be about 15,000 meters underground.

After many, multi-faceted experiments, it was proved that Zhang Hongwen and Angus Gale's conjecture was basically reasonable. The imaginary ocean could make creatures stronger, but the current creatures could no longer withstand such a powerful force.

Now that there is a hypothesis that can explain the illusory ocean, the next step is how to further understand the ocean, or how to use the ocean.

The first problem facing people is sampling. It is difficult to carry out any operations at a location 15 kilometers underground, and it is obvious that all the materials known so far cannot easily collect the illusory water flow.

However, after everyone's discussion, a solution was soon found. At this time, China's "artificial sun" project had made certain progress. Scientists believed that they could use the force field that controls nuclear fusion to try to control the illusory water flow.

And you can wait for the "high tide" to collect! This will shorten the distance to collect.

The experiment began in full swing. The first thing to do was to solve the huge electricity problem required by the force field, which could not be sustained by a large diesel engine.

So after overhauling the No. 1 and No. 2 reactors at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the two reactors began generating electricity again.

In fact, after the Chernobyl incident, other reactors continued to operate normally for a period of time, and some even worked for about 20 years.

The nuclear power plant stopped generating electricity completely until Ukraine was unable to maintain the nuclear reactor.

There are huge safety risks in adding nuclear fuel again and letting the reactor operate at this time, but there is currently no better way.

So with tight preparation, all preparations for sampling were completed in just about ten days.

At the moment of another "high tide", 3 kilometers underground, the instrument that generated the force field immediately started working, but soon the instrument lost contact.

It took more than ten minutes before the signal between the control room and the instrument was reconnected.

Because there was no time to establish the relevant trigger device, it is currently unclear whether the sampling was successful.

All subsequent operations were handed over to smart computers because, according to previous information, people could not look directly at the illusory water flows.

The force field requires a large amount of electricity to maintain at all times. Under the control of a smart computer, the extremely large force field device is sent into a specially vacant laboratory using a pre-laid track, and after the metal door is closed, an enclosed space is formed.

Soon, according to computer analysis, there was a liquid-like structure in the force field.

Everyone in the institute cheered, the sampling was successful!

Subsequent research was carried out in full swing. The first study was the weight and density of the samples, basic structure, etc.

Surprisingly, the weight of the sample was very unstable. Sometimes the weight was shown to be 0, but more often the weight kept changing, ranging from 1 gram to 326 grams.

People exclaimed: These are really wonderful materials!

……

Russia, Second Baku oil field.

After the oil deposits disappeared, the oil workers here left one after another.

For more than half a month, there were only a few caretakers left in the vast oil field area.

Rumble~
Suddenly, a huge noise came from underground, as if some huge monster was about to break out of the ground.

Several gatekeepers in the oil field area came out of the rooms in their respective areas to look for the source of the sound.

Among them, the gatekeeper, Lao Jiali, saw the oil pump not far from him trembling, as if there was a force at a distance that was about to push it forward tremblingly.

Lao Jiali carefully watched from a distance and called his boss to report the situation here.

bang~
At the moment the call was connected, a black liquid emerged near the oil pump!

"Oh my God!" Old Jiali exclaimed, "That's oil! It's gushing out like this!"

But soon he found something wrong. The oil was growing bigger and bigger and actually formed a huge fountain!

Moreover, there was obviously something wrong with the oil. There were even some objects flashing with strange light in the black liquid.

Old Jiali sensed a huge danger, so he turned around and ran, but he was soon caught up.

The oil wrapped around him as if it had life, and amidst Lao Jiali's screams, he actually turned into black liquid and continued to flow forward with the oil.

……

An hour later, the Chernobyl Institute learned what had happened at the Second Baku oil field.

Five hours later, samples of the ejected oil and the objects with strange light in it were sent to the Chernobyl Research Institute.

Along with these samples came a preliminary investigation report.

According to eyewitnesses, at the beginning, the oil seemed to have life and would kill living things. All the creatures that were engulfed by the oil were also turned into black oil.

But after about a minute on the ground, the oil loses its "life".

As for those objects with strange light, they are more terrifying than radioactive objects.

Although no radiation or harmful substances can be detected from them, if you are within ten meters of them, your emotions will be significantly affected. If you are within one meter of them, you will go crazy in just three seconds and turn into a twisted monster!

So when collecting them, we used a robotic arm more than ten meters long to put them into boxes, and during the subsequent transportation, personnel always kept a distance of more than ten meters from the boxes.

This sudden incident completely disrupted the institute's research plan. All researchers knew very well that this meant that the underground virtual ocean had begun to overflow onto the surface in small amounts, and many people must have been affected.

So more scholars and scientists were invited here, and some routine experiments were skipped and directly started live experiments.

Use mice to come into contact with gushing oil, substances with strange glows, and samples collected from an imaginary ocean.

Because the mice would definitely turn into monsters, the experiment was conducted in a closed space with a steel structure. There were offensive weapons in the laboratory, and an observation window made of bulletproof glass was left for easy observation.

Through several rounds of experiments, it has been confirmed that the sprayed oil no longer contains too many harmful substances, and the mice did not have any severe adverse reactions after contact with it.

Further experiments were soon conducted using war refugees, further proving that the oil no longer had its strangely destructive properties after being on the surface for some time.

However, those substances with strange light will still make the mice crazy and turn them into monsters that have lost their sanity.

Further experiments using war refugees also proved this point, and the monsters transformed by these refugees possessed some wonderful abilities. Some could make their bodies emit light, and some could create lightning out of thin air.

Fortunately, the experimental site was strong enough, and the light and lightning failed to break through the steel frame structure and were burned to ashes by the electromagnetic weapons prepared inside.

After many rounds of experiments, researchers can even determine that those things with strange light can give the experimental subjects the ability to emit sunlight, and those can give the experimental subjects the ability to produce lightning.

As more exotic matter gushing from the underground is sent here, experiments continue to be used to determine some of the capabilities they possess.

The experiments on those imaginary water flows were the most thrilling. When the white mice came into contact with the glowing substances, they would at most turn into monsters that were one circle larger than their own bodies.

But if you come into contact with these illusory water currents, you can instantly turn into a monster as long as an adult's arm with powerful attack power.

No one dared to conduct further experiments for fear of creating uncontrollable monsters.

With the continuous implementation of experiments, we finally have the means to detect these strange forces. Only by monitoring the activities of microscopic particles can we monitor the existence of this force.

In the monitoring equipment, one can see that the substances emitting strange light have formed a small twisted vortex, while the illusory water flow collected is a huge twisted vortex.

But the experiment has to continue, because their ultimate goal is to make use of these strange substances.

……

Late at night, Angus Gale had just finished a video conference. According to official information from Russia, there have been many incidents of monster attacks in the country, and the situation has become more and more urgent. The research institute must achieve results as soon as possible.

Holding materials such as "Research on Re-production of Oil from Dry Oil Fields", he left the meeting room somewhat tiredly. He had seen too many human experiments in the past two days and was exhausted both physically and mentally.

At the end of the corridor was a huge glass stand. Angus Gale saw Zhang Hongwen standing alone on the stand looking down.

He quickly came to Zhang Hongwen's side and said, "It's not a good idea to continue human experiments."

Zhang Hongwen said, "Everyone knows this."

His eyes were fixed on the deep pit: "Do you feel it? There seems to be a sound underground."

Angus Gale nodded: "Many people have mentioned this. In dreams, inadvertently, there seems to be a voice underground that wants to communicate with us."

"Maybe, we are still lacking a channel between us." Zhang Hongwen withdrew his gaze.

Angus Gale immediately said: "Friend, I know what you want to do, but it's useless. You will become a madman in an instant."

Zhang Hongwen shook his head and said, "In the past few days, I have been carefully studying the reactions of those whose spirits were affected. I found that their incoherent words at the beginning were not meaningless.

"It's just that they are limited by their own knowledge and don't understand what they are experiencing, so they seem to be incoherent."

He looked at the Russian friend in front of him and said, "Actually, many people have thought of this, right?"

Angus Gale took a deep breath: "But no one wants to say it."

"It seems that the top management doesn't care about human trials at all."

"Brother, I know you have always been against human experiments." Angus Gale suddenly felt a little embarrassed: "But...but...well, most people know that human experiments are meaningless."

Zhang Hongwen took off his glasses and said, "No, you don't understand. If there is a chance, I will invite you to visit the exhibition halls of evidence of the crimes committed by the Japanese invaders in Northeast China.

"We are different from you. We still remember that painful history."

He wiped his glasses and put them back on: "In my opinion, it is a little more noble for me to volunteer to be a test subject than to let others be the test subject."

Angus Gale's eyes turned red as he held Zhang Hongwen's arm: "Friend, you... maybe, maybe we can also teach those refugees some theoretical knowledge..."

"There is no time." Zhang Hongwen smiled and said, "In this unknown disaster, we are too weak. If we want to know the truth, we must pay some price.

"If we don't try, how can we know whether it is because of our limited knowledge and intelligence that we are unable to obtain much useful information?"

He paused and said seriously: "This may be our last chance." Angus Gale was silent, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Zhang Hongwen's experiment was immediately approved, which made everyone realize how serious the situation had become.

After receiving many awards and commendations, Zhang Hongwen was sent to the laboratory, where he chose to directly come into contact with the illusory water flow brought from underground.

However, the contact distance is determined by him, so there are microphones for communication inside and outside the laboratory.

The illusory water flow was still under the control of the force field and was approaching the laboratory using the track. When it was thirty meters away, there were still several layers of thick steel plates separating it. Zhang Hongwen said that he had heard some strange mumblings.

When they were 20 meters away, Zhang Hongwen became noticeably more irritable. He seemed very angry. Why couldn't he hear those mumblings clearly?

As the illusory water flowed to the laboratory where he was, he suddenly said, "Stop."

At this time, Zhang Hongwen looked a little abnormal. With every movement he made, his hair fell down layer by layer. His skin turned gray and then white, and his eyes were bloodshot and red.

"It comes from the distant past." Zhang Hongwen said with a painful expression, "It is very, very far away. It existed before the formation of the universe!"

The director of the institute immediately asked, "What exactly is it? What is its purpose?"

Zhang Hongwen seemed not to have heard the director's question, and continued: "It doesn't seem to like me very much.

"It gives me so much information that I can only describe the useful parts!"

This is what makes him different from other experimental subjects. He knows what information may be useful.

Angus Gale grabbed the microphone from the director: "Lao Zhang, just tell us what it 'says'."

"It prefers people who wear crosses." Zhang Hongwen's bloodshot eyes were somewhat blurry. As his hair fell out, his skin also began to peel off piece by piece: "What we are grabbing is not that illusory ocean.

“That imaginary ocean is indivisible, and this is just some oil that has undergone a qualitative change because of the imaginary ocean.

"This is a substance we have never discovered before, between reality and illusion. There are six such substances on Earth, and only this illusory ocean has an entrance in the real world.

"The nature of the illusory water flow is different from that of the luminous substance. It is difficult for humans to tame these illusory water flows, but humans can use those luminous substances more easily.

"But this road will definitely be very tortuous. We will have to make many attempts and make many sacrifices."

Zhang Hongwen's flesh and blood were twisted at this time, making him tall and thin, and he looked more like a monster than a human.

He continued in a hoarse voice: "A great existence is about to awaken. I see that there is still hope for mankind. Yes, as long as we are not extinct, there is still hope.

"It, it said, it doesn't like the robe I'm wearing, it prefers you people wearing crosses.

“The only, only, no, not the only hope, the hope of controlling that illusory ocean, is at the bottom of the pit.

“We can do it, yes, we can do it.

"Haha, what a beautiful ocean... ocean..."

Zhang Hongwen suddenly looked outside the laboratory. All his skin had fallen off, his body was blood red, his muscles were wriggling, he was three meters tall, and his eyes looked more like those of a wild beast.

The moment they saw these eyes, everyone was stunned, their eyes blank, as if they didn't know why they were here for a moment.

Suddenly, the scientist closest to the laboratory door seemed to have received some kind of order. He pressed the button with blurry eyes, and the laboratory door was opened.

"Zhang Hongwen" immediately came out from the door and raised his hand slightly, and the observation room was filled with dark clouds.

Click~
Several loud thunders were heard, and six people were killed on the spot, while many others were paralyzed by the lightning.

The remaining people suddenly woke up from their dream and tried to flee outside, but they were blocked at the door for a while.

"Zhang Hongwen" spread his arms as if embracing the sun.

The scorching sunlight appeared above the door, and a ray of hot sunlight was about to shine into the crowd, burning most of them to death.

"Lao Zhang!" Angus Gale, whose whole body was numb from the lightning, shouted while struggling to get up.

Zhang Hongwen was suddenly stunned, and the sunlight above everyone's heads gradually disappeared.

The whole world seemed to be quiet for a second or two. At this time, Zhang Hongwen suddenly rushed to the door, and several researchers who were unable to dodge were knocked out.

Angus Gale struggled to catch up, and when he came to the corridor, he saw Zhang Hongwen smashing the glass of the stands and jumping onto the windowsill.

He turned around, smiled at Angus Gale, then leaped and jumped down.

Angus Gale cried out in a crying voice: "Lao Zhang!"

The director limped over and said, "Zhang Hongwen is very brave, but our research has to continue. Who will be the next one..."

Rumble~
At this moment, the research institute suddenly shook. Everyone looked at the flickering lights above their heads and had a bad feeling for a moment.

More than half a minute later, the company commander in charge of maintaining order came over and said, "Quickly retreat, there was a violent explosion in the No. 1 reactor!"

These devices, which were built more than half a century ago, finally became overwhelmed and suffered serious malfunctions.

The first thing that Angus Gale and others thought of was not to escape, but to look at the device that carried the illusory water flow.

Buzz~buzz~buzz~buzz~
The force field stopped working, and the metal wall outside the force field suddenly turned black and liquefied at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Angus Gale quickly turned his head away, he knew he couldn't look directly at the illusory water flows.

The company commander realized the seriousness of the problem and immediately ran to a glass-covered button not far away, smashed the glass with a punch, and then pressed the button hard.

An urgent alarm sounded immediately. At this moment, all the exits of the institute were automatically closed. After receiving the corresponding notification, an engineering company outside would completely block all the exits with concrete.

In order to prevent the monsters in the research institute from escaping to the outside world, this was an emergency plan that was determined long ago.

At this time, the illusory water flow had successfully "escaped" from the container. For a moment, some people turned into a pool of oil, and some people turned into monsters similar to Zhang Hongwen.

More people were fleeing for their lives in panic.

Angus Gale followed the director and others to the institute's emergency shelter.

This place even has anti-nuclear function, which temporarily blocks those monsters.

The monsters obviously have limited intelligence and are chasing the researchers who failed to escape here, so this place is still safe.

After the director used the emergency communication system to report the experimental results and current situation here to Moscow, he took out a pistol and committed suicide.

Despair filled the crowd, and everyone knew that there was no way out.

Angus Gale sat in the corner, not speaking, not drinking water, and not eating.

After about a day or two, he said with bloodshot eyes: "You must wear a cross and have enough determination to make use of that illusory ocean."

An Englishman next to him said, "It's useless. There's no hope. We have no hope."

"Yes!" Angus Gale said firmly: "Zhang Hongwen has found hope for us!"

He glanced at the Englishman, who was filled with despair. He looked down again and saw the Englishman writing something messy in his notebook:
"What on earth happened? The doctor just turned into a pool of black oil right in front of me!

The institute is sealed off from outside... No one can leave, no one can leave...

We were the only ones still functioning, but our food supply was running out.

I seem to be hallucinating, there seems to be a voice coming from underground, it is calling me, He is calling me..."

Angus Gale suddenly smiled, struggled to get up, and walked out while saying: “The matter is actually very simple. It is a substance that will make humans stronger, but the price is to turn them into madmen.

"It is different from all the elements we have discovered so far. It doesn't even have substance, and it doesn't even exist in the real world..."

As he spoke, he opened the door of the shelter.

No one stopped him, but when he went out, someone quickly closed the door again.

Angus Gale saw that the emergency lights outside were still on, but the place was in a mess, with clumps of oil on the ground and on the walls.

It seems that all the monsters before finally turned into oil.

Angus Gale walked forward and continued: "In the future, we will definitely be able to control this power, yes, we will definitely be able to..."

Although there was no audience, he continued: "But before that, we must have enough determination! We must believe that we can do it."

As he was talking, he came to the glass stand.

Call ~
Without the obstruction of the glass, the wind from the deep pit blew up, making him feel colder than ever before.

Angus Gale stretched his upper body and looked down. The pit was dark and the bottom was invisible.

He slowly climbed up to the windowsill: "Lao Zhang, I have the same determination as you do!"

After saying that, Angus Gale leaped down. He knew that this jump would most likely result in death, but his eyes were firm, and the smile of Zhang Hongwen when he jumped into the deep pit seemed to flash before his eyes again.

Boom~
At this moment, the surroundings began to shake violently.

Angus Gale saw that there was a massive collapse in the deep pit and the research institute collapsed in two, with one part falling into the ground with him.

The illusory ocean expanded at this time, more violently than any previous expansion!

Angus Gale saw an ocean that seemed to have infinite colors: "What a beautiful ocean..."

He fell into it silently and lost consciousness.

Time seemed to have become eternal, and Angus Gale had a very long dream. The outside world was destroyed beyond recognition by a sudden extraordinary force.

But humans really survived, and they underwent serious mutations. Some became vampires, some became elves, some became werewolves, and some became giants.

One day, he finally woke up.

In the void, he looked at his hands and instantly understood many things.

Next to Angus Gale, there is an ancient stone slab with the recipes of 22 paths of potions on it.

He realized that if these formulas were spread more widely, humans would be able to better control the extraordinary.

So he took the stone slab, turned into a stream of light, and returned to the laboratory from underground.

This place had already turned into a ruin. After a little nostalgia, he used the method of stealing space to pass through the thick concrete wall and came to the outside world.

It was pitch black outside, and he wanted to see what changes were happening outside.

So he said, "Let there be light!"

(End of this chapter)