Almost consistent with Yun Ming’s recollection, Xia Yan’s description of Shenwu has a high degree of overlap with the characteristics of SCP-033:
"Shenwu is difficult to record. In addition to the fact that it automatically fades on paper, the chemical formula of Shenwu itself is also an extremely complex collection of symbols, which is impossible for ordinary people to understand."
"Although mankind has not given up research on the divine fog in the past forty years, our understanding of the divine fog is still rough and superficial due to its complexity and danger."
"But at least ten years later, the important connection between Shenwu and ability users has been grasped by the top leaders of the Federation. Oh, there was no Earth Federation at that time, and its predecessor was called the United Nations." Xia Yan's story gradually faded. Entering the good realm: "Realizing the opportunity of Shenwu to change the destiny of mankind, various countries quickly integrated the world's most outstanding physical and chemical scientists and engineers, investing manpower and material resources regardless of cost. Finally, just two years later, on the Siberian Plain in the Arctic Circle Go up and establish an ability user workshop."
"You mean, humans can produce superpowers in large quantities like industrial production?" Hearing the word workshop, Yun Ming immediately thought of the huge machines he saw soaked in seawater when he was trapped in the Xumizuo during the day. machine tool.
Xia Yan let out a sigh of regret: "It's already past tense. In the first thirty years of the 21st century, nuclear-level people were everywhere, and dragon-level people were as numerous as dogs. This description may be a bit exaggerated, but the number of high-level ability users It’s really quite a lot. Now…”
"Most of the ability users who came out of the workshop were killed in the Fire War?" Apart from this reason, Yun Ming could not think of any other reasons that led to the decline of high-level ability users and the lack of successors.
"That is indeed one aspect. Without the sacrifices of many high-level ability users, humanity may not be able to achieve the final victory." Xia Yan paused and said the second half of the sentence: "On the other hand, humanity's victory Bringing about the closure of the giant space bridge over Canberra."
"The largest and thickest divine mist transmission channel is just gone."
At this point, Yun Ming has fully understood the rise and fall of ability users: "No wonder. The divine mist is an element that does not exist on the earth. Human beings are currently unable to synthesize it through existing technical means. The only source of the divine mist is to refine and separate the atmosphere. "
"Yes, the divine mist floats everywhere on the global monsoon, and then accumulates in the human body through people's breathing, skin contact, and food intake. When the content of the divine mist reaches a certain value, there is a high probability that it will evolve into A capable person."
"Doesn't that mean that everyone has the possibility to become a person with abilities?"
Xia Yan shook his head: "The Canberra Space Bridge has been maintained for nearly twenty-two years. After calculation, the total amount of divine mist floating over is far from enough on average to allow everyone to awaken their powers. What's more, the divine mist in the atmosphere now is not enough." As of now, people with global abilities are already facing the dilemma of losing one if they die."
Yelena on the side interjected: "For example, in our revival organization, the reason why we have the four masters of day, night, morning and dusk is because when the organization was at its strongest, there were more than ten people with dragon level and above abilities, and all of them were famous. . The organization selected the four strongest among them and received the title of Day, Night, Morning and Dusk. But now, there are only four dragon-level ones left who can easily show up and take action, so there is no need to compete for this title."
"It sounds really like the setting of spiritual energy exhaustion in fantasy cultivation." Yun Ming thought this way.
Xia Yan, who was betrayed by his own people, laughed and turned the page: "By the way, humans are not the only ones who have changed. The earth's ecosystem has been affected by the divine mist, and many animals and plants have been alienated as a result. "
"Is that Gatanjie?"
"Gatan what? Oh, you mean the Kraken. It is an alien creature that invaded the world from the Manila No. 5 Well. It is not a local mutation."
Taking this opportunity, Xia Yan also popularized to Yun Ming the classification of supernatural creatures (see Chapter 145 for details) and their origins.
Excluding the option of alien invasion, the earth's indigenous monsters can be mainly divided into three sources: the birth of divine mist, ancient relics, and the emperor's plan.
Yun Ming, who has read countless films, finds it easier to accept, because the so-called ancient relics are the world view of the monster universe of "King Kong: Skull Island"; the Emperor Project is a desperate effort by a group of scientific lunatics (see Chapter 53 for details) ).
Of course, the fact that the person in charge of the Emperor Project was named Dr. Serizawa made Yun Ming secretly complain for a while.
"To put it simply, if I encounter strange creatures in the future, they will either be monsters transformed by normal animals and plants after contact with the divine mist, or they will be monsters in the first place, or they will be artificial monsters?" Yun Ming summarized.
"There is another possibility that what you encountered is a hybrid species." Xia Yan's words sounded almost threatening to Yun Ming: "Ancient monsters that have awakened supernatural powers or artificially modified ancient monsters are particularly dangerous types. But they The number is so small that it can be ignored, and the possibility of being hit by you is extremely slim."
"Haha, I'm not that lucky." Yun Ming responded with a smile. At this moment, he didn't realize what a bad flag he had set.
"Indeed, just like ability users, the growth in the number of supernatural creatures has also been cut off with the closure of Well Zero in Canberra. Not to mention that after many reports of animal disasters, IFEB sent out action teams to capture them. Wild supernatural creatures There’s a high probability that you won’t encounter it.”
Yun Ming felt that he had heard so many new terms tonight: "IFEB... is it an organization similar to BTS?"
"This question..." Xia Yan looked at Pu Cheshi, who had not spoken for a long time: "How about leaving it to the insiders of the Sixth Department?"
"Ahem," Pu Cheshi cleared his throat, but did not refuse: "IFEB, Institute for Extraterrestrial Biology, Institute of Alien Biology. Like the Time Supervision Bureau BTS, it belongs to the six special departments of the federation."
"Although its department name contains the word "alien", IFEB actually investigates, imprisons, monitors, and studies all abnormal creatures, regardless of their origin."
"In short, compared with BTS, this department has abundant manpower, rich funds, and broad jurisdiction. It can be said that everyone is jealous."
Hearing this, Yun Ming asked Xia Yan suspiciously: "Is it that IFEB is too popular or BTS is too useless that causes this gap?"
Xia Yan responded with a neutral and objective attitude: "Both."
"The constant impact of the beast tide is the only thing that can threaten the stable production of all Shenwu Wells. Therefore, it is very important to understand these creatures. The twelve cabinet members of the Federation are very happy to pour money into IFEB's research."
"But there is almost no return on investment in BTS. In the past forty years, the number of registered time-travelers, regardless of time or space, only adds up to a few hundred people. There are also a considerable number of people who have time-traveled The time was during the Battle of Fire, and he died before the end of the war." Xia Yan smacked his lips: "With all due respect, although they come from all over the world, they are very ordinary and of little use to the Federation or even the entire human race. "
"Uh..." Yun Ming felt even more stressed: "You shouldn't have had such high hopes for time travellers..."
"It's the same reason why the Emperor's Plan was approved. It's like a dog jumping over the wall in a hurry." Pucheshi spread his hands helplessly. He also knew that the original intention of BTS's founding was quite funny: "It was also at the beginning of the 21st century that time travelers appeared. There are those who have traveled through the body and those who have traveled through the soul. The government has found them and hopes to use the knowledge and power of different worlds to defeat the alien invaders."
"With the increase in the number of time-travelers, the United Nations simply launched a global lighthouse project, which was also the predecessor of BTS. It was designed to attract time-travelers to expose themselves and join the project to donate their minds."
Pu Che curled his lips and said: "Anyway, judging from the results, this lighthouse project might as well be renamed the Mosquito Killing Lamp Project. Many travelers died, but there was no result at all."
"You can't say that." Xia Yan comforted: "The emergence of Viking pirates and ancient Egyptians has greatly filled the gap in the field of history."
Yun Ming became even more confused: "Now that the theory of the uselessness of time travelers has been confirmed, why is there still a formal plan to set up BTS to replace the lighthouse after the war?"
"Because occasionally there are some incredible guys who come through time." Pu Cheshu recalled: "I have read BTS's archives, and there are records of vampires and succubi in it."
"You just read the BTS archives as "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", right?!"
"In short, the federation has been maintaining the Time Supervision Bureau with the speculative mentality of "in case BTS has any unexpected gains", but it is true that BTS has no other function besides protecting the openness and fairness of lottery winnings."
"Is it a common problem among human beings regardless of region or race to buy lottery tickets as soon as they travel through time..."
"Of course there are some that are deeply hidden. Twenty years ago, there was a time traveler who returned from 2043 to 2023. Not long after he time traveled, he borrowed money like crazy and spent huge sums of money to buy land and a house. Such an abnormal phenomenon certainly aroused BTS's vigilance. . A certain former BTS minister personally led people to suppress him and maintained the stability of housing prices in Long County’s property market.”
"That's a good thing."
"A few years later, the former minister went in and was charged with malicious real estate speculation, land settlement, behind-the-scenes operations, multiple companies under his name, violent demolition and land acquisition, etc."
"……Depend on!"
The driver muttered miserably: "Now you know why BTS is becoming more and more marginalized in the federation, right?"
Yun Ming: "Haha."
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