Everything clicked.
At this moment, Xiao Xiao actually felt tired.
It turned out that the shepherd really knew about Noah's plan and even participated in its formulation.
It turns out that he is indeed a product of the Pioneer Plan, and this plan does not only belong to the aborigines.
His heart was filled with strange emotions. He wanted to shoot the man in front of him a few more times, but also wanted to yell at him and express his dissatisfaction. He even wanted to leave with revenge and see him and the old president dumbfounded, but in the end , nothing was done.
He seemed to just sit on the sofa silently for a while, then looked at the shepherd calmly and said softly:
"So, tell me everything now!"
"..."
The shepherd was also a little surprised at Xiao Xiao's calmness. It seemed that this person didn't care about the bombshell news he had thrown out.
He was not afraid that he would see an angry Xiao Xiao today.
Even if he was shot a few more times or beaten up, he wouldn't mind, because the more this happens, the easier it is to control this person, so even though the bullet hurt him just now, he was very excited inside. Now, when Xiao Xiao suddenly fell silent, he felt a little more uneasy in his heart. He looked at Xiao Xiao and investigated for a moment before slowly nodding his head and starting to tell:
"The beginning of the problem is the invasion of the mysterious source, and our goal is to solve the power of this invasion."
He said with a smile: "I only learned about the existence of the matrix when I was promoted to a senior investigator in the Black Forest Biological Laboratory. At that time, the confidentiality level of mysterious power was much higher than it is now. Now even low-level investigators know it. Already..."
"Of course, to me at the beginning, Black Forest was just a very mysterious company. They could always develop some amazing, even epoch-making products. They were once powerful enough to create a team for the rulers. Just like Superman, a supernatural force with incredible power once shocked the whole world with just one product."
"During that time, the world's technological level was rapidly improving because of the existence of the Black Forest."
"Everyone thinks that the Black Forest is God's gift to the world!"
"but……"
A strange smile suddenly appeared on his face, he slowly shook his head and said, "Some strange things are also happening."
"In the ten years since the Black Forest appeared in this world, it seems that all problems, such as famine, war, and disease, have been solved. As long as you have enough money and power, you will never be affected by these disasters. You will even You can turn yourself into a superman, but just when some people think that the world has progressed to a whole new level, problems arise."
"First, there will be some weird people occasionally appearing on the streets. They are dancing, nervous, and sometimes attack others without warning. Later, there will be some places where a large number of people have amnesia, convulsions, or commit mass suicide, etc. Phenomenons, these phenomena that cannot be explained by science have attracted the attention of many people, and many people have also caused widespread panic."
"People from the Black Forest participated in the investigation and determined that the occurrence of these phenomena was not a virus or anything else, but a strange spiritual power. In the face of spiritual power, the human brain is like a sophisticated electronic instrument. And this kind of spiritual power can instantly affect the human brain through radiation, causing normal people to malfunction like machines."
"We call it: a psychotic phenomenon."
"..."
"The Executive Office at that time, with the help of the Black Forest, had formed a group of investigation agencies to stop this illusion. I was one of them at the time, but just when we started trying to find the source of these strange phenomena, But suddenly I discovered that a group of special people appeared out of thin air in this world. They claimed that they did not belong to this world, they were crazy, but they possessed terrifying power."
When the shepherd said this, he nodded towards Xiao Xiao: "They are the first strangers to appear."
"Our group of investigators were already equipped with many high-end technologies and weapons from the Black Forest. However, during the fight with these foreigners, we were shocked to find that although these people were crazy, they always said something about others. If you don’t understand, even their identities are often ordinary people who have not received any training and grew up overnight.”
"But their power is extremely terrifying."
"They can actually use those twisted mental force fields as weapons to contaminate or attack others."
"I have to admit that during that time, the investigators of the Black Forest Mysteries secretly fought with the strangers many times and suffered heavy losses. But fortunately, those strangers did not seem to have the intention of killing them all. As long as they were not stopped, they would not They will show hostility, and we have also arranged for people to investigate them, trying to understand their logic and their purpose."
"But the result..."
He said with a bitter smile on his face: "These people have no purpose at all."
"They spring up like mushrooms from ordinary people in this world. They possess terrifying power and do some extremely strange things. Sometimes they will suddenly organize and purposefully kill an innocent person, and sometimes they will appear suddenly. They can stand in front of a building and set it on fire, and sometimes they can change a person's will and turn him into a slave."
"Honestly, we were faced with such a group of enemies and our hearts were shattered."
"..."
The shepherd looked up at Xiao Xiao, with a hint of self-mockery on his lips: "Of course, we figured it out later."
"These people are actually not crazy. They do a lot of strange things because they live in illusions. They often do things that others can't understand. It's because their brains can receive a mysterious instruction. Just like a person who makes a phone call wearing a Bluetooth headset, in the eyes of people who don’t know the existence of Bluetooth headsets, he is a lunatic talking to himself.”
"The most important thing is their purpose. What they are chasing is actually the mental disorder force field that we wanted to eliminate at the beginning."
"At least every time they appear, the harm caused by this force field will tend to disappear..."
"...Of course there are times when it is more powerful, but people who cause severe consequences disappear afterward."
"..."
"After Black Forest confirmed the existence of this group of people, they also responded, that is, they wanted to communicate with and even cooperate with these people."
The shepherd sighed and said, "But the result is not good."
"Because they are incompatible with this world, are contemptuous, even hostile, and indifferent to human life."
"During that time, many of our people were killed by them casually. There were also some people who, after coming into contact with them, had their wills twisted immediately, or leaked some of our secrets, or directly became their Spies, and after the top management of the Black Forest realized this, they immediately made the choice to cut off their wrists, and a large number of our group died at that time."
"I have to admit that even within their own logic, they are normal people."
"But when people with two understandings of the world come into contact, the other person is indeed a madman."
"A group of moody, cold, cruel, and extremely terrifying lunatics."
"..."
When Xiao Xiao heard what he said, he couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable in his heart.
Since I left the bedroom, I have considered myself a stranger for a long time. Even the friends I have made now are also strangers. When I heard what the shepherd said, I couldn't help but feel a little reluctant to listen, but I I don’t know what to say.
I even subconsciously resisted in my heart: "Isn't this good?"
"If it's not easy to contact, then don't contact it."
"At least, even from your perspective, the strangers are eliminating those abnormal mental disorder force fields, aren't they?"
"..."
"It would be great if that were the case."
The shepherd suddenly turned to look at Xiao Xiao and said, "The scary thing is that this is not the case."
"The Black Forest initially believed that the appearance of the Strangers was beneficial to the world, but soon they discovered that wherever the Strangers passed by, the entire city's chaotic force field would indeed disappear, but it was not eliminated. But they were collected by them, and the longer they appeared, the more disordered force fields appeared in the city, and the more terrifying their power became..."
"Originally, this city was peaceful and quiet, but gradually, in just a few years, this city has turned into a chaotic and twisted city, filled with thugs, criminals, and those everywhere. A chaotic force field..."
"They are happy to deal with these incidents, but they are unable to prevent these incidents from increasing."
"..."
"..."
Seeing that he was getting more and more excited, Xiao Xiao suddenly interrupted him: "You want to say that it was us...they caused this phenomenon?"
"But in fact, the first person I saw who was miserable in herding and miserable in breeding was you!"
"..."
The shepherd paused, the excited expression on his face disappeared, and explained in a low voice: "I did do it, after all, I need verification."
Xiao Xiao raised his eyebrows: "Verify what?"
"Verify why there are more and more things like this..."
The shepherd looked at him quietly and said: "Moreover, we have also obtained some results. We have realized that behind the strangers, there is a mysterious source. It is these mysterious sources, they are like a high-dimensional world." Life has arrived in our city, and they should feed on that chaotic force field, or rather... feed on human pain."
"It is not ruled out that they were attracted by the pain in the city at first, but what is certain is that when the pain in the city cannot satisfy them, they will actively promote the emergence of these things in order to obtain higher-level food."
"The aliens are their puppets who graze and harvest this food for them."
"Can you imagine the consequences for a city if this continues?"
"When this kind of pain becomes more and more, when more and more chaotic mental force fields are born, the whole city will collapse sooner or later, as if all the life has been sucked away by this parasitic guy, and the city will collapse. It will die, and there is no doubt that before a city dies, the greatest chaos will inevitably break out, and that should be their favorite...the last feast."
"..."
When Xiao Xiao heard what he said, his heart suddenly beat heavily.
He had never heard the same argument as Shepherd before, but at this time, he felt that the theory that Shepherd said at this time was vaguely consistent with the pattern he had observed in Night City. Even exactly the same.
A high-dimensional life form that has parasitized the city?
Or is it a body that has been downloaded with new consciousness?
The only difference is that after downloading this high-dimensional life form, will this body die or continue to survive?
…
…
With these thoughts in mind, he finally slowly raised his head and looked at the shepherd:
"Are you just saying this to tell me that this world is being invaded by a mysterious source?"
"but……"
After a slight hesitation, he looked into the shepherd's eyes and said, "How did I hear about this invading power..."
"...We were actually invited here by ourselves?"
"..."
"you……"
The shepherd suddenly widened his eyes slightly and looked at Xiao Xiao in disbelief: "You even know this?"
Xiao Xiao just looked at him expressionlessly.
"You are indeed amazing..."
The shepherd's face showed a happy expression. He paused for a moment before continuing: "Yes, I have also gone through many years of investigation and even read some confidential documents that are far beyond my authority. Only then did I confirm this.”
“Our cities are being parasitized and our world is being devoured.”
"But this time the monsters that parasitize our city and devour our world are indeed invited by ourselves."
"And the reason..."
He paused for a moment, looked at Xiao Xiao, and said, "Aren't you curious, what is the most critical issue in my story?"
Xiao Xiao, in a state of explosive thinking, had already thought of this key issue.
He nodded slowly and said: "The birth of the Black Forest."
In his time before high school, he was just an ordinary kid who went to school and didn't care about national affairs. At that time, the Black Forest had already become a behemoth, closely related to everyone's life, and he took it for granted. , and after becoming a stranger, they just regard it as the background, and of course they will not consider those unreasonable things.
But now after listening to the shepherd's story, I suddenly discovered something unreasonable.
Why is the Black Forest so magical?
Why does it suddenly have the ability to change the world and promote the progress of the world?
"Whether they are foreigners or indigenous people, not many people know this secret."
Shepherd looked into Xiao Xiao's eyes and said softly: "But I am a curious person, and I have held great power for a while, so I have read some highly confidential documents. Therefore, I know about the rise of the Black Forest. , in fact, it is all related to one person, that should be a woman, or in other words, a patient, and all the research results that have changed the world originated from her."
“I didn’t learn that much.”
"But I know that her codename in those documents is: Patient Zero."
"..."
Xiao Xiao's heart suddenly skipped a beat as he remembered the woman he had seen when the insight element was strengthened.
The woman who whispered to the doctor that she saw a huge monster devouring the world, the woman who told the doctor with tears in her eyes about her panic and helplessness, but the doctor seemed to be more concerned about her abnormal strength and perception, so those women Did the doctor, or should we say Black Forest, really achieved the results in that woman that could give people super strength and perception?
So, are these mysterious powers really invited here by the world itself?
However, the drug tester I saw in that vision...
"Everything stems from this woman, and the loss of control at the beginning...should be the same."
The shepherd lowered his voice at this time and whispered to Xiao Xiao: "I first came up with the idea of the Pioneer Project because I saw records of this kind of thing from those confidential documents. Until now, I have not thought about it. I don’t know what the Black Forest did to Patient Zero earlier, but I know that in the early stages of research and development, the Black Forest once thought about copying this woman..."
"...or in other words, to copy people like her, the method is to inject her cerebral spinal fluid into other people's bodies."
"And after I later met Kuang Juemin, who had become the leader of the Strangers in Black Gate City at that time, we communicated with each other. When he began to realize that the Aboriginal people might not be real flesh and blood puppets, I also realized that the Strangers were not Not willing to be controlled by the mysterious source all the time, but with a desire in our hearts to return to our hometown, the two of us began to cooperate."
"We exchanged the information we learned from each other, and I gave him a lot of research materials on the Black Forest."
"One of my students even volunteered to be contaminated by him in order to better exchange information."
"So, strictly speaking, my friend was the first aborigine who tried to take the initiative to enter the world of foreigners."
"Of course, he didn't play a big role. The moment he was contaminated, his spirit had been rewritten."
"..."
"He's talking about the housekeeper in the old president's small building?"
Xiao Xiao's heart moved slightly, and he gradually understood many things more clearly.
Why are there so many research materials on aborigines in the old president's small building? It turns out that they are all related to the person in front of him.
"However, although the process was not smooth, it failed many times."
The shepherd sighed softly: "But we slowly discussed a plan, a plan that has the possibility of success."
"That's Noah."
"The two of us agreed that only the Noah plan could save the fate of the two gangs. However, because this plan is too bizarre, we have never been able to find anyone who can actually execute this plan. The Strangers are Those who cannot implement this plan are because they are born to be controlled by a mysterious source, and they have been living in huge illusions..."
"It is even more impossible for indigenous people, because their spiritual perception is too low and they are simply unable to resist the power of the mysterious source."
"That's why I decided to copy a certain plan in that confidential document."
"I persuaded the top management of the Black Forest to get the last batch of cerebrospinal fluid from Patient Zero that had been sealed for many years, and used it to make a batch of medicines with different proportions. I hope I can make People who can possess the will and perception of normal people as well as the abilities of strangers at the same time. Unfortunately, in those experiments, most people failed..."
"No, I should say everything."
"There are indeed a few who have given birth to some different abilities, but they are completely inconsistent with Kuang Juemin and I's standards."
"I was even punished by the Black Forest and kept away from the core of decision-making. Kuang Juemin was even more disappointed. In the years before his death, he had been trying his best to make up for this plan. However, none of us expected that time had passed. Four years later, Kuang Juemin has even died, but in the Pioneer Project, which was once considered a complete failure, a winner actually emerged..."
"that is you!"
"..."
When the shepherd said this, his expression was slightly excited: "You have fulfilled our executor standards."
"It wasn't until I discovered that you had entered the world of strangers that I realized that the original pioneer plan was successful, and that batch of potions was also successful. However, the time for this potion to take effect lasted Four years..."
"..."
"Four years..."
Seeing the faint excitement in his eyes, Xiao Xiao was just unusually silent.
Yes, four years...
These four years have been really difficult to get through...
The shepherd just saw his eyes and seemed to realize something. He suddenly smiled, looked at Xiao Xiao calmly, and said: "I won't mind if you seek revenge on me one day, whether it's killing me or killing me." It is your right to torture me."
"Besides, I'm not excusing myself, it's just..."
He paused, looked at Xiao Xiao seriously, and said: "If I have a choice, I would rather be the one who executes it."
"It's a pity that I failed the potion test."
"..."
Xiao Xiao scoffed at his explanation: "You are very honest, and I can feel it. You are really happy."
"But have you never thought that I would refuse to help you implement this plan?"
"..."
He looked at the shepherd coldly and recounted this fact, and he really had the confidence to make everything collapse.
"I knew you'd think so."
When the shepherd heard this, he looked at him quietly and said softly: "But there are many things where you have no choice..."
"Now, you have obtained the fourth level authority, right?"
"In other words, has the four stages of strengthening been completed?"
"..."
Xiao Xiao frowned slightly: "So what?"
"This means that you have entered the vision of those parasitic lifeforms..."
The shepherd lowered his voice and said: "Are you also curious about why Black Gate City didn't show rejection of you after you completed the fourth stage of strengthening? That's normal. The efforts of Kuang Juemin and I have made You have escaped the fate of being forced to wander, but there are many mysterious sources in this world...other mysterious sources will soon come to find you."
"Maybe it's already here..."
"They will try to devour you at all costs..."
"But it doesn't matter..."
"..."
He looked at Xiao Xiao with a smile and said, "When they want to devour you, that's when we start hunting them."
"Hunting the mysterious source is the first step of Noah's plan."
"The skeleton of this ship of hope needs to be built with the flesh and blood of the mysterious source!"
(End of chapter)
