Chapter 196 The person in the cracks (4,600 words)
"Pioneer Plan?"
Xiao Xiao never expected that he would act so calmly when he discussed these issues.
He even deliberately put away the pressure that his Insight Eyes brought to others, and only appeared cold and quiet. He looked steadily at the person in front of him who he should call his father, with a pale and hesitant expression.
Telling the past bit by bit.
"Yes...yes, the name is the Pioneer Project."
Father Xiao felt even more stressed in front of the expressionless Xiao Xiao. He didn't feel like facing his own child at all. He even felt that he was like a dummy, someone who only had the appearance of his own child but knew nothing about the inside.
Dummy, so the tension never goes away: "But specifically, I... don't know much about it. I only know the simple explanation given by Lord Shepherd..."
"He, he said, our world is under a powerful threat."
"It is a phenomenon in which a high-dimensional, mysterious force that we cannot understand invades and engulfs our world. As ordinary people, we don't know the nature of this force, its source, and we don't know how.
Only then can we fight.”
"I only know that this kind of invasion will completely corrode our world from the inside out. This kind of invasion is more thorough than any invasion in history that we understand. It will not only occupy our territory, but also our world."
resources, including our bodies and our spirits, he greedily devours everything, and no gun or bullet can withstand it..."
"In fact, even the will we are often proud of is not worth mentioning in the face of this kind of invasion."
"..."
Xiao Xiao frowned slightly. He had heard this argument many times.
Shepherd is the craziest and most determined guy who holds this view, and he has also known it for a long time.
But now, hearing these words coming from his father's mouth, I still feel a little weird.
He raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at him, and said, "Then what?"
"But... then, they proposed the Pioneer Plan..."
Father Xiao looked a little flustered and did not dare to look directly into Xiao Xiao's eyes: "This plan means to take the initiative to send our people into this invading force before it completely swallows up our world.
Within the scope of influence..."
"Go...explore, collect, and find the hope of success."
"..."
"Whoosh!"
Hearing this, Xiao Xiao's eyes suddenly flickered slightly, and he looked at his father fiercely.
Even the three clairvoyant eyes beside him suddenly opened up uncontrollably and stared at his father.
"Sending into hallucinations?"
"How to send it?"
"..."
Father Xiao's soul almost trembled when he looked directly into his eyes.
His body was like a puppet, out of control. He could only tell what he knew: "Through a potion."
"The Black Forest Biological Laboratory has been developing various pharmaceuticals that can improve the genes of ordinary people and allow people to have powers beyond the limit. But according to Mr. Shepherd, what Black Forest is really researching is actually a spiritual-level pharmaceutical.
, they have developed a new type of medicine that can make people's spirits rise to the level of α Kang Na Pi Α!?
"That is, in the face of the invasion of the mother's body, use this medicine to actively send people into the mother's body..."
"..."
Xiao Xiao's pupils were stagnant, but he was just silent, listening to him quietly.
"That potion is... very magical."
Father Xiao opened his mouth hesitantly. His instinct seemed to make him not want to say this, but the pressure radiating from Xiao Xiao made him uncontrollably say: "But the side effects are very strong, Black Forest
Biological laboratories have always lacked enough experimental products, so they once conducted a secret genetic test on the entire population without the public's knowledge."
"In the end, only a small number of people were selected and were... fortunate enough to try this medicine."
"Mr. Shepherd, that's when...that's when he found me!"
"..."
Father Xiao's instinct was to resist telling these things, but he had to say them.
As for Xiao Xiao's insight ability, he can quietly read Xiao's father's emotions, judge whether what he said is true or false, and even see some details that he tried hard to hide and did not honestly explain.
Complete what he said.
As a result, he became more and more silent.
I don’t know how to describe my mood at this moment, but the past four years ago seems to be flashing before my eyes.
At that time, there was a large-scale blood test in the school, which seemed to be to prevent some kind of infectious disease. At that time, at least in my memory of that period, everything was normal, and there was no flesh and blood crawling in the city.
There are no aborigines who can split open and stretch out tentacles, no abnormal people walking in the city of flesh and blood, dealing with aberrant creatures and enhanced elements...
However, everything soon became different.
During that time, my father's business seemed to be not going well, and he would lose his temper at home for a while. Later, he seemed to often fall into silence and entanglement. During dinner, he would always look at himself and hesitate to speak, as if he wanted to say something.
What are you trying to endure?
I even thought that he just had the idea of divorcing at that time and didn't know how to tell me.
Later, my father rarely went home and stayed with the woman almost completely, letting my mother cry and vent her sorrow.
My own headaches began to appear, and I suffered from a sense of mental tearing day after day.
The doctor said that there was nothing wrong with him, but when he said these words, he did not feel relaxed, but looked a little disappointed.
Is that person wearing a white coat and sitting in a room full of high-tech equipment really a doctor?
At this moment, his mind was almost filled with all kinds of details and crazy ideas. If he hadn't had the ability to think explosively, if he hadn't been used to this feeling, he wouldn't have known whether his head would be broken now.
It exploded.
"them……"
When he opened his mouth, he realized that his voice was a little hoarse. He paused slightly, adjusted it, and continued:
"What benefits did they give you?"
"..."
"I……"
Father Xiao suddenly became nervous and tried to explain: "I have no choice or choice, they..."
"That's it."
Xiao Xiao felt lazy and said, "I am also a member of this deal, so am I not qualified to understand this?"
Father Xiao suddenly fell into panic.
After a while, he said: "I really had no choice at the time. The Black Forest was not something small businessmen like us could fight against. However, later on, the Black Forest did give me some business in return and let me join the Black Forest."
Goat Club... Mr. Shepherd said that by becoming members of this club, we will all be protected by them from the invasion of that kind of power."
Xiao Xiao breathed out slowly, his eyes looking a little tired.
Father Xiao hurriedly said: "What's more important is that he assured me at that time that something might not happen to the selected person. There is a high probability that nothing will happen to him. After that period of time, you will be able to
Become like a normal person and don’t even remember these things.”
"High probability?"
Xiao Xiao suddenly laughed and said: "That means there is still a certain probability that you will die directly or have a mental breakdown?"
Father Xiao looked at his smile with a horrified look on his face, not knowing what to do.
Now that the question has been asked, Xiao Xiao can already see from his father's face that he has almost told everything he knows. Coupled with some details he learned before, he has begun to restore the whole process bit by bit in his mind.
...So, the reason why I felt that way four years ago was because of the so-called psychoactive drug developed in the Black Forest Biological Laboratory?
Why did nothing else happen for four consecutive years and the Black Forest never appeared again?
Is it because after testing the drug, their reaction was different from what they expected, so they were just observing in secret?
So, what about four years later?
Why did I start to meet their people four years later, and even met the shepherd who was tending the pain?
The answer was simple: four years later, I became a stranger in a foreign land.
Could it be that the result they wanted to see in the first place was to become a stranger in a foreign land, but they were just four years late?
However, they conducted such a huge experiment just to turn themselves into strangers?
Where is Yang Jia? And Ruanruan, Xiaosi, Mr. Ye...
They are all drug testers like me, and have experienced the same things as me?
After understanding some things, a bigger mystery emerged in his heart. Xiao Xiao felt that the blood vessels in his temples were bulging, and there was a dizzying pain. There seemed to be endless emotions accumulated in his heart.
There, he was scrambling for the first place, but could not be released. He could only ask his father with a strange smile: "Why do you want to leave the family?"
He didn't know whether he was sneering or showing pain at this time, but his voice was deliberately relaxed:
"Four years ago, you knew why I was in pain, but you left that home as if you were running away..."
"why?"
"..."
"I……"
Father Xiao stammered, not knowing how to explain.
In the past, he could explain that he and Xiao's mother were not emotionally compatible, so they separated, but now he can't say these words.
"Because you feel guilty?"
Xiao Xiao looked at his expression and suddenly understood, shook his head and said: "No, it turns out you are afraid."
"You know I might become a madman, and I'm worried that this madman will hurt you."
"..."
Father Xiao was speechless and didn't know what to say, but Xiao Xiao suddenly said: "You are very good to your brother..."
"You must let them go out before talking. Are you worried that it will affect your image in his heart?"
"..."
Father Xiao was suddenly worried and looked at Xiao Xiao blankly.
Xiao Xiao smiled happily and said: "Oh, I understand too. You know that my son is already dead. Although from the perspective of those four years, he is not completely dead, he is basically dead, so I have to give birth to a child as soon as possible.
If a child replaces me, does it mean that compared to him, I am inferior to him in every aspect? Is it because you have turned all your dissatisfaction and worry about me into love and care for him? "
Seeing Xiao Xiao's emotions almost out of control, Xiao's father could no longer do anything about it.
There is only endless worry, fear that he will say something threatening.
"You sold me..."
Xiao Xiao looked at Father Xiao with a smile and said: "We didn't even sell it at a very good price..."
"They didn't give me a penny..."
"..."
In his voice that couldn't be clearly expressed as happiness or anger, but only made people feel deeply uneasy, layers of cold sweat appeared on Xiao's father's forehead. Even before his eyes, there was a sense of emptiness. In a trance, it seemed that suddenly
He saw three dark red eyes floating behind Xiao Xiao, and saw that the sofas, tables, chairs, and walls around him were all squirming vaguely, revealing a bright red essence.
"monster……"
He lost his mind and was knocked to the ground by the huge impact, shouting uncontrollably: "You are a monster..."
…
…
"Chila..." "Chila..."
In another part of Black Gate City, in a dark room, the shepherd stared at the surveillance video in front of him and saw that when Xiao Xiao's expression became weird, all the pictures began to distort, as if he had been affected by a strong electromagnetic force.
Interference, sighing in a low voice:
"He must be in pain..."
"I have seen the twisted and terrifying side of the matrix world, but found that the reality is even more twisted and terrifying..."
"..."
"Why should he know this now?"
Beside him, there was a woman in a suit, frowning, as if she didn't understand: "In the original design, he was sent into this illusion to help us find the mother body. Now,
After telling him all this, if he develops a rebellious mentality, it will have a great impact on our plan, and may even pose a threat to the security of the Black Forest."
"Your understanding of the mother's body is too shallow."
The shepherd smiled faintly and said: "I proposed the Pioneer Plan, and I know it best. This plan is not just about sending people in, but to allow them to obtain higher-level permissions from the mother world, at least
Based on my current understanding, there are four levels of authority in the matrix world, from low to shallow, and he now belongs to the fourth level."
"The first level is ordinary people who are mentally polluted by the people in the mother's body. Such people exist in the form of slaves, just their assistants or housekeepers, or in other words, their puppets and slaves, just like the unlucky person just now
Like a fat man..."
"By chance, under certain conditions, you can transform into a real stranger, but the probability is extremely small."
"The second level of authority is for the truly 'awakened' people. These people have already communicated with the mother body and traded with the mother body in the form of points in exchange for the power to strengthen the elements. They are the power of the mother body distributed in this city.
Tentacles that carry out their will, they are spiritually completely different from us, trapped in hallucinations, and able to harness spiritual powers."
"The third level of authority is the knights. They have the ability to copy their own spiritual power and radiate others."
"The fourth floor is the lord."
"They have the ability to dominate other spiritual mutants within a city, which is the core of spiritual radiation."
"..."
He slowly explained with a mysterious and confident smile: "I know that the people in the Black Forest are dissatisfied with me and even call me crazy."
"But believe me, your so-called undercover plan is not the real pioneer plan."
"Those people in the Black Forest are old and have been afraid, so when they found out that the No. 0 drug tester did not completely fail, but successfully entered the maternal hallucination, they wanted to tell him the truth and make him agree.
Cooperating with the Black Forest, undergoing experiments, and collecting intelligence in the matrix... What the hell can you call this a pioneer? This is the stupidest method!"
"But I, I can represent the true core of the Pioneer Project."
"That is, help him, or even force him, to obtain higher authority in the mother body step by step!"
"Even, higher authority than lord level authority!"
"The mother body is a huge and mysterious fantasy-level power that can be shared by people. They are all in that ocean of fantasy. The higher the authority they have, the more they can use this fantasy power, and I, absolutely
I don’t just want him to help me see what’s in that ocean, I hope that one day he can own that ocean for us!”
"Explore and conquer!"
"This is the real Pioneer Plan!"
"..."
"..."
"Yes, this is the truth I have been unable to tell you."
At the same time, while Yang Jia's expression became a little horrified, Mr. Ye's voice was still gentle and calm: "He is now the president of our Black Gate City Strangers, and has even gained the respect of everyone in Black Gate City, but
Actually..."
"...He's an Aboriginal!"
"A person who can't help himself and lives a perfect life in the cracks!"