The system is four years ahead of schedule, but Weird is still a cub.

When Shen Ge rushed to the Quanlongshan base, he found that it had entered a level one alert state, with troops patrolling and assisting in the investigation of the ghost warriors, as if something big had happened.

"What happened?" Shen Ge walked into the base and stopped a ghost warrior and asked.

The soldier was curious about who would ask such a question, but when he saw it was Shen Ge, he was immediately surprised and asked, "Detective Shen, you're back?"

"Something happened at the base?" Shen Ge asked again.

The soldier shook his head and said, "No, two days ago, Director Li and the captain suddenly issued a Level 1 alert order. Except for the patrol troops in the urban area, all other personnel were recalled to the base for alert. We don't know what happened specifically..."

Shen Ge nodded, motioning him to continue, and went directly to the registration counter to scan his face and enter the employee passage. Lin Yin had already received his call about his return and arranged two anti-counterfeiting agents to wait here.

Neither the soldiers patrolling outside the base nor the anti-terrorism agents who were there to support him knew what had happened. They only knew that this was an order from Director Li and Captain Lin Yin.

Shen Ge met Lin Yin in the administrative district. After not seeing him for a few months, Lin Yin looked stronger. When he saw Shen Ge, he gave him a big hug.

"So what happened?" Shen Ge asked.

Lin Yin shrugged helplessly and spread his hands, indicating that he didn't know either.

"You don't know either." Shen Ge was shocked.

"Ah? I should know?" Lin Yin was stunned.

"Aren't you the captain?"

"That being said, according to the authority, unless we are in the anti-ghost operation, Li Xiang and I are at the same level. In this case, I can only follow his orders?"

"Don't you want to ask why?"

"I asked him, and he said a lot of things I couldn't understand."

Shen Ge's expression suddenly became a little subtle when he heard this. Feng Chengxiu, who was standing next to Lin Yin, couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward and said, "Detective Shen, let me explain."

The reason why Li Xiang put all departments on alert was indeed complicated and had something to do with Cheng Shengnan's "illness".

But not only Lin Yin, but even Shen Ge couldn't understand his professional terms. Feng Chengxiu roughly summarized that the strange cells in Cheng Shengnan's body caused some kind of spatial reaction, resulting in the periodic appearance of unstable "strange space" at the Quanlongshan base.

The affected area is very small. Sometimes it is the operating table, and sometimes it is the entire operating room. So far, there has been no situation that exceeds the scope of the operating room.

Secondly, Jiang Peiwen also discovered that Cheng Shengnan's monster cells would cause strange reactions. When she extracted samples and sent them to the laboratory, the researchers inside were dissecting a third-level weird body.

As a result, this thing squeezed out some of the "resurrection" power that had been drained, and resurrected a tentacle that rolled towards the monster sample.

This incident caught Li Xiang's attention, so he found a few low-level monsters to conduct experiments, which were his favorite "breeding insects" experiments back then, where he let the monsters eat each other and observe the alienated state.

Li Xiang was surprised to find that Cheng Shengnan's monster cells had mutated into a "new species", which was very different from previous monster cells.

It can even be confirmed that the "new" monster samples Shen Ge obtained in the strange plane and the dream world are all intended to develop in this direction.

However, they all failed, but Cheng Shengnan had an unexpected gain.

There has always been a biggest problem in the Monster Organization. They become monsters by transplanting the original ancestor's weird cells into their bodies, obtaining the original ancestor's weird "devouring" power, thereby gaining the weird power to control weird energy, and then "nourishing" the original ancestor's weird cells by devouring weird flesh and blood.

Over time, problems arise.

There is only one original monster, but humans can increase its number through reproduction. In other words, the cells of the original monster are becoming less and less, while more and more people want to become monsters.

Therefore, the monster organization spares no effort to research "new" monsters in order to create a monster that can "feed back" to the weirdness.

In layman's terms, it is to let the weird devouring monsters have the ability to "devour" their flesh and blood, so that more humans can transplant them;
Or perhaps the cells of this "new type" of monster can be directly used for transplantation, allowing ordinary people to be transformed into monsters and master strange powers.

Fusion monsters are the closest thing the Monster Organization has come to this idea, but unfortunately, humans who have their cells transplanted will turn into flesh and blood monsters.

During the more than half a month that Shen Ge was investigating Donghuan Lake, since Cheng Shengnan was always under the care of Jiang Peiwen, and with the assistance of Xiaoqi's huge database and intelligent AI, Li Xiang had almost nothing to do and had a rare period of "free time".

So he sorted out all the research data that Shen Ge had obtained from the "future" world line of Sakura, the Rongshan Mental Hospital in the dream world, etc., and finally found some clues about the "motives" of the monster organization. Following this direction, he discovered that they were creating this kind of "repaying" monster.

Li Xiang immediately asked someone to send the new type of monster obtained from the strange plane provided by Shen Ge and stored in the underground laboratory of the Rong City branch to the Quanlongshan base.

Then he compared it with Cheng Shengnan's monster sample and finally confirmed his guess!
If the fusion monster studied by the Monster Organization is just a monster with a frame but no soul, then the existence of Cheng Shengnan completes this piece of the puzzle.

However, after working with Jiang Peiwen for more than half a month, Li Xiang still couldn't figure out why Cheng Shengnan was able to "evolve" successfully.

Red Mist Armor?

Classmate Xiaoqi?

Li Xiang had thought about these two reasons, but unfortunately, when he asked Xiao Qi to cooperate with him in conducting a series of experiments using the red mist armor, he did not gain anything.

However, the fact that Cheng Shengnan's monster cells are a "new type" of monster sample that can arouse strange scrutiny is enough reason for him to order martial law at the base.

Shen Ge didn't expect this to be the reason. Although she was surprised, she guessed why Li Xiang had been studying the sample for more than half a month without any clue. The reason was also very simple, because Cheng Shengnan said that she was forced to fuse the monster cells of the Red Mist Armor, but in fact it was the Red Mist Armor that peeped into her body's dream power and forced the cells to fuse.

In other words, it was the "power of dreams" that allowed Cheng Shengnan's human cells to successfully and "perfectly" fuse with the strange phagocytes belonging to the ancestor that were integrated into the red mist armor.

In fact, if Shen Ge had not asked Xiao Qi to restrain himself, Cheng Shengnan might have become the most "perfect" weirdo in history.

But Shen Ge is already half human, half monster, and he himself doesn't know when this state will completely get out of control and turn him into a monster, so he doesn't want Cheng Shengnan to follow this path.

"You're finally back! Come on, come quickly, I have a lot of questions to ask you!" Li Xiang, who was busy reading files in the laboratory, saw Shen Ge coming in with Lin Yin and Feng Chengxiu. He ignored the two big guys and dragged Shen Ge to the computer.

"I remember you said before that when you found this new type of weirdo on the strange plane, they had a very strong 'hiding' ability, and even you couldn't detect the strange energy on them."

"I have never understood why they want to study the evolution of this hidden strange energy. When it comes to hidden assassinations, weirdos always have the aura of weirdos, and even if the strange energy is low, it is possible to detect it. So why don't they just use normal humans to carry out assassinations?"

"You can say that normal people are far less powerful than monsters, but the fighting power displayed by this 'new type' of monster is not much stronger than that of normal humans."

"I finally figured it out in the past half month. It's not that the weirdos want to study this 'hiding' ability, but that they want to create the most human-like weirdos."

"Apart from some extremists and those who are simply after strange powers, in fact, most weirdos will choose this path simply because they want to bet their future on the next civilization. In their opinion, becoming a weird is the only way to survive."

"Who wants to be a monster if they can?"

"So I reorganized the research reports you brought back from the dream world and the 'future' in this direction, and I actually found a lot of clues."

"Is the existence of the 'Dean' real, or is it the embodiment of some evil thoughts? Because according to the experience about Wang Han that you later analyzed with me, I always feel that the identity of the Dean is not that simple. He is very likely just an evil identity that is the embodiment of the evil thoughts of one of your personalities."

"The second thing is about the memories. Can they really be explained by split personality? Look at these research reports. They are the ones you brought back from three different dream worlds."

"The research report on Sakura's 'Future', the report on the parasitic weirdness in Rongshan Mental Hospital, and the report on the Dajing Spire."

"Do you see the problem?"

"Yes, these three reports are essentially the same. They are all research reports on a parasitic weirdness that was transplanted into humans and has a 'devouring' ability similar to the original weirdness."

"Tell me, is there a possibility that you are also one of these researchers, but for some reason you changed from a researcher to a research subject, and these research reports are essentially from your 'memories'. This can explain why the reports you brought back from three completely different time and space and regions are similar."

Shen Ge's expression suddenly became a little strange when he heard this, and he couldn't help but complain: "Brother, you didn't become stupid after reading the reports for half a month? Don't forget that the people in the world who have done the most in-depth research on weird things all came from the Haiya Research Institute. Even if you suspect that the Monster Organization is behind them to control them and create new types of monsters, it is more reliable than your current speculation, right?"

Li Xiang shook his head: "No, you don't understand what I mean. Let me give you an analogy. A lumberjack loses his memory for some reason. When he helps a farmer chop wood, his muscle memory will subconsciously make him chop wood in a way that saves effort when he picks up the axe."

"Suppose this lumberjack lost his memory for some reason on his way home after working at a farmer's house, and went to work at a logging camp. The techniques he used might be the same ones he used to chop wood at the farmer's house, but in essence they were still the techniques he used when he was a lumberjack in the mountains."

"Similarly, although your 'hypothetical' monster organization is constantly manipulating organizations in various countries to conduct experiments in order to research new monsters, there is a certain possibility."

"But do you think it is more likely that the weird organization has all the means to manipulate the world's powers to serve them behind the scenes without leaking any information, or... the information you first obtained from the dream world was actually your false memories. It was not until your physical body entered the dream world that you truly entered the distorted and chaotic multi-dimensional space."

"Which of these two do you think is more likely?"

"last question--"

Li Xiang paused, his tone became extremely serious and solemn, and asked Shen Ge a question that hit him directly in the heart: "Given the appearance of the clone monster, how can you be sure that you are the 'master personality', and... your memories are not artificially fabricated false memories?"

"If you want to talk about the existence of the 'system', I can say with certainty that it is by no means a standard to prove that you are the 'master personality'."

"According to the theory that all monsters are created by transplanting the original weird cells, if I were to conduct this experiment, I could prepare ten or a hundred test subjects, and then divide the original '1', or even fewer, weird cells into ten parts and put them into the test subjects respectively. The one that survives is the 'main body'."

"This is the best choice for a researcher who wants to explore the unknown!"

Ugh.

Shen Ge took a step forward, sighed, patted Li Xiang on the shoulder, and said seriously: "I suggest you take a few days off, go shopping and watch movies with your junior sister to relax, and stop burying your head in the research reports brought back from the dream world. Or just tell me what you want me to do, and don't explain to me the reasons and motivations for doing this."

"Why?" Li Xiang was confused.

Shen Ge spread his hands and looked at Lin Yin and Feng Chengxiu, who had completely given up listening to Li Xiang's theory and hid in the corridor to chat. "Because the speculations you made are well-founded and it is difficult for me to refute them. From a researcher's perspective, there is no problem, but from a practical perspective, it makes no sense."

"It has no meaning other than making me feel anxious, feel the injustice of the world, feel sad about my fate, and go down a dark path."

"Ah?" Now it was Li Xiang's turn to be confused.

In fact, hasn’t Shen Ge ever thought about the assumptions and conjectures put forward by Li Xiang?
No, he had made such a guess more than once as early as when the clone of Shen Ge appeared.

The other party said that there were only three or four surviving clone samples, so Shen Ge automatically added the "∞" symbol to this number.

Just kidding, the endings experienced by Earth No. 123 are as numerous as the stars in the sky. Who knows how many "Shen Ge" there are among them?

Even if he is really a clone, or if he really fabricated false memories,

But what about that?
"I am who I am!" (End of this chapter)