Invade the World

  Chapter 458 The Prelude to a New Era

  Xu Xiangyang woke up.

  He opened his eyes, and what he saw was a large area of ​​white: the walls and the ceiling were all spotless white. Outside the window glass was the bright sky, so bright that he could not keep his eyes open.

  He tried to turn his head and looked around, only to find that the quilt covering his body was also white.

  …Hospital?

  The ward was empty.

   After Xu Xiangyang lay blankly on the bed for a while, the sound of the door opening caught his attention. He turned his head and saw a nurse pushing the door in.

  Seeing that Xu Xiangyang woke up, the other party quickly put down the items at hand, said "please wait a moment" respectfully, and left in a hurry.

   A few minutes later, it was Li Hengzhu and Zhou Xingjian who pushed the door open.

"…Ugh."

  Xu Xiangyang turned his head back.

   "Don't sigh, are you so disappointed?"

   "No way, I just woke up, and there is someone I want to see more in my heart."

   "Your boy is quite honest."

   Li Hengshou said with a smile.

"Don't worry, those two and your sister are all in the hospital now, and they have been taking care of you for the past three days. It's just that there are people who want to see them now. However, when they know you wake up, they will definitely come back immediately come over…"

   "So, let's not waste time." Zhou Xingjian took over the conversation, "We hope you can understand what happened in these three days in advance."

   "Can't they hear what you want to say?" Xu Xiangyang was a little puzzled, and he soon discovered the second doubt, "...wait, three days?"

"Well, you've been lying here for three days. By the way, during the time you fainted, there was a major power outage. So far, the hospital has been using the electricity that was transported in an emergency. Classmate Xu, Do you remember what happened before you passed out?"

   "..."

  Xu Xiangyang blinked.

   As for whether he has any impression, he only remembers that after he walked out of Qingjiang Garden, he felt that the sky suddenly darkened...

  Is there a power outage? So it turns out that the sky is not getting dark, but the lights in the city are going out on a large scale?

   "We'll talk about this later."

   Li Hengshou sighed.

"All in all, after you suddenly fainted, Lin Xingjie was so angry that he uncontrollably made a fuss. The ground sank three to five meters in a radius of hundreds of meters around Qingjiangyuan, a large number of buildings collapsed, and the river diverted. But Before the whole city was affected by the power of God, she was stopped by Zhu Qingyue in time, and no further economic losses and casualties were caused."

  “…For everyone, it’s a blessing. The worst didn’t happen, so we just feel like, luckily, it was you.”

  Fortunately it's me? How do you say that?

  Xu Xiangyang thought to himself, could it be "Fortunately, I have two girlfriends who are god-match"?

  If there is only one Xingjie, once he falls down as a stabilizer, it is likely to become the fuse of the explosion; now that there are two boats, it is easier to achieve balance?

  He thought it was a little funny, but looking at the other person's expression, it seemed that he really meant it.

  Xu Xiangyang shook his head, and decided not to dwell on this kind of topic, but directly asked about the topic he was most concerned about right now.

   "What is that thing I saw?"

He already remembered what happened at that time, but he still couldn't recall the connection; he knew that he had never seen the shapeless figure, but "I have seen it before", "It has something to do with my childhood." ", this instinctive feeling is extremely strong.

  As a psychic, Xu Xiangyang naturally believed in his intuition. The problem is...he still can't remember what happened in his childhood, so he still can't draw any conclusions.

   "—'Shensha Kongdie'."

  The other party answered very simply.

"what?"

"That... that 'thing' you came across is undoubtedly a sign of the death of the gods and spirits. It is a shadow-like evil spirit that does not harm people, but is occasionally witnessed near haunted houses , there will be nearly a hundred cases every year in the whole country, and if it is expanded to the whole world, it may exceed a thousand." The old policeman pondered, "Because it does not seem to cause any harm by itself, we generally use observation and monitoring as the basis host."

   "Speaking of 'Shensha Kongde', I introduced it before, do you remember what it is?"

   "Uh, I remember... it seems to have something to do with the 'Ominous Star Tai Sui'."

"That's right. The former evil star Tai Sui was the gate between the human world and the distant world; after Tai Sui disappeared, it was replaced by a huge black hole-shaped celestial body hanging high above the distant world, that is 'Shen Sha Kong Shi' .In short, Void Death is the wreckage left by the two world gates."

  The meaning of Tai Sui star is more than that. As the only distant landscape discovered by humans at that time that could be observed in the real world through modern scientific instruments, a large number of scientific researchers from all over the world gathered to study it, which was the predecessor of the "Star Gazing Club".

  After the star disappeared, people completely lost the way to observe, and only relied on special groups—psychics and psychics to understand the situation inside the far realm.

  Shen Shakong died... He couldn't help but be speechless, the mysterious "big guy" who could change the world pattern, could it be related to his childhood?

   It came to see him?

   "Do you have any impressions?"

   "...No." Xu Xiangyang shook his head, "I can't remember."

  Compared with himself, he would rather believe that it was due to other reasons, such as the war between the gods and the gods that caused the so-called "empty death".

"Xingjie fought against the nest mother in outer space, and I entered the haunted house to rescue Qingyue. Not long after this battle ended, 'Kong Zhan' appeared in front of me." Xu Xiangyang frowned, "I was thinking, what is the difference between these two things? Is there a connection between them?"

   "It is still difficult to make a judgment. In addition, the factors related to this matter are likely to be more complicated than you imagined, so we will come here to inform you in advance, hoping that you can initially grasp the whole picture of the matter..."

   Li Hengzhu's tone became serious.

   "During the period when you entered the haunted house, in fact, a major event also happened in the international community."

  The U.S. Navy’s Third Fleet and Seventh Fleet, which belong to the U.S. Pacific Command, organized a joint operation with unknown targets. The two aircraft carrier battle groups broke away from their original cruise routes and headed for the Polynesian Islands in the central North Pacific.

   This abnormal movement quickly attracted the attention of neighboring countries and even the whole world, and the international situation suddenly became delicate and tense.

  For a while, the atmosphere in the Pacific Rim region was about to come.

   These things were followed up and reported on newspapers and TV programs, but Xu Xiangyang and others at that time obviously didn't have the energy to pay attention.

  “At the time, no one knew whether this was a harbinger of war. Of course, we already knew that the Americans really had no intention of fighting with anyone, but their real purpose was more terrifying than war.”

   "Is there something related to the distant land hidden in that place?"

"Your sense is really sharp. To be precise, the destination of the US military is a place called Johnston Atoll in the archipelago. It was originally a nuclear weapon testing area and an aircraft refueling station for the Americans, and later it was also used as a storage for chemical weapons. and disposal site, but it is now abandoned."

"However, for the world of psychics, there is another special thing about that place: one of the eighteen known S-class haunted houses in the world, the 'Johnston Institute of Oceanography', is located here .”

   At first, no one knew what they wanted to do.

   Or, even if I guessed it, I still feel unbelievable.

  But it just happened so abruptly—

  Including the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and an entire aircraft carrier strike group, on the afternoon when Xu Xiangyang channeled Zhu Qingyue, the US military covered the entire archipelago with artillery fire, and…

   "Launching a nuclear weapon delivered by an ICBM."

A total of 3 missiles were launched from silos, underwater nuclear submarines and long-range bombers in the United States, each carrying 8 W88 hydrogen bomb warheads, and the targets of these weapons, which are enough to wipe out mountains and destroy cities, are not It's just an experimental building with a total area of ​​no more than 100 square meters located on this small island.

   "..."

  Xu Xiangyang couldn't help feeling "speechless".

  When he first learned about the haunted house phenomenon, he did have this idea: Can modern weapons work? For example, can the haunted house be knocked down and rebuilt directly by external force?

  Facts later proved that it is difficult for ordinary thermal weapons to have a direct effect on objects that exist in another world, and now everyone accepts this fact.

   But... what if it's a nuclear weapon? What if it was the hydrogen bomb, what if it was the most destructive weapon ever created by man?

   "The use of nuclear weapons to bomb haunted houses is not completely groundless. In fact, there have been similar proposals on the table of every nuclear power."

  The actions of evil spirits in the real world are often accompanied by electromagnetic interference, so it can be considered that there is a "certain connection" between the two. As for the nature of this connection, the current academic circles have different opinions.

On the other hand, a nuclear explosion will instantly generate strong electromagnetic waves, that is, the nuclear electromagnetic pulse effect. According to the speculation of some technical experts, it may produce some kind of reverse effect... But at least, all electromagnetic pulse equipment so far, including EMP based on nuclear technology Weapons cannot interfere with the structure of the haunted house.

   "Maybe it's not strong enough, or maybe the pure electromagnetic pulse effect isn't enough to cause a reverse effect. Instead of guessing and guessing, the U.S. military thinks it's better to go directly to the real thing—this kind of thinking is very simple."

"Simple?" Zhou Xingjian sneered, "It should be said to be simple and rude, strong and brainless. Everyone has considered a simple nuclear test. The reason why it has not been realized is because the current understanding of haunted houses is not enough, and I am afraid that if it affects far away environment, will there be irreversible consequences?"

"The results of it?"

   "As a result..." Li Hengshou handed over a photo, "This is it."

  I don’t know who made this photo, the composition is ingenious and the timing is precise, and the visual effect is quite shocking:

   The sky that occupies most of the background is empty and boundless, without a trace of clouds; a boxy laboratory building is floating in the sky on the blue ocean, and below the building is a huge whirlpool that is bottomless.

  The entire island has completely disappeared in the explosion, leaving only this strange and magnificent scene.

   "The haunted house has not disappeared, it still stands here; not only that, it has also implemented...'revenge' on humans."

   "Revenge?"

   "It's an image." Captain Li smiled wryly, "Maybe it's just an unknown stress response, but this time we did suffer a heavy loss."

"Do you remember what we mentioned before? In the past three days, there has been a large-scale power outage in the entire Jinjiang City. In fact, we are not the only ones who experienced power outages for no reason. The US fleet bombed the Johnston Research Institute Afterwards, an unprecedented phenomenon of radio wave interference quickly swept across the world, and the entire Pacific Rim region was affected. Taking my country as an example, 48 of the 54 coastal cities suffered power damage to varying degrees; Indonesia, Japan , Chile and other countries have been hit by earthquakes and tsunamis of different magnitudes..."

   "Hmph, the Yankees are still as arrogant as ever. The trouble they caused, but the whole world has to wipe their ass."

   "...However, this experiment is not completely meaningless. For the governments of the world, they have at least confirmed one thing—"

  With the scientific system and industrial technology that humans have built so far, it is really impossible to resist the power from another world city. Human beings can only rely on psychics and psychics, and various new disciplines that have arisen on this basis.

  Li Hengshu said again:

   "This time the incident is too big, and it is impossible to continue to hide it. If you still want to block the news, you will not only bear the pressure in the country, but the whole world."

  Xu Xiangyang heard the meaning behind his words.

   "That is to say, you don't plan to keep hiding it?"

"Yes. In fact, the higher-ups originally planned to gradually loosen restrictions. They just moved from loosening restrictions step by step according to the plan down-to-earth, and became forced to take this step. In today's world, if you want to let go of supervision, you must To attract ups and downs, we need to prepare in advance."

  Anyone can understand.

  Next, the group of psychics will step onto the stage of history openly and usher in their era.

   And tomorrow, it will be a new world turned upside down—

  (end of this chapter)