Chapter 96: Catastrophe

Su Xing and Ashen Jilan both felt that things exceeded their imagination.

It wasn't Fake Humans, Lizard Men, or more terrifying truths, but the government's reaction.

From the beginning, the biggest enemy the two expected was actually the government.

Ashen Jilan is a person in this scene, naturally in awe of the government.

And Su Xing confirmed the government's threat from the perspective of strength.

This world is a modern high-tech world, and it has military mechas. The technological level is stronger than the 21st century when he first fell asleep.

His current strength is brought to such a world. If he really opposes the government, he will be taught how to be a person again in minutes.

Not to mention anything else, he couldn't beat this mecha that descended with the helicopter.

This is a fact, it must be admitted. This mecha is about eight meters high. Its output is unclear, but it can fly. Both arms have been modified with modern thermal weapons. It is estimated to be a machine gun, or even a powerful weapon like a Vulcan cannon. It is cast from alloy steel. If there are sci-fi laser swords, laser guns, etc., then what is he using to fight? Or what is he using to fight?

Dismantling mechas by hand sounds very manly and awesome, but you have to have that kind of strength!

So Su Xing and Ashen Jilan both thought that the biggest threat came from the government, and the live broadcast, and asking everyone to write down text to record, were actually to force the government not to kill them directly.

But things suddenly exceeded their expected range.

"...We confirmed the existence of something eleven years ago."

The old man said with a heavy face, "At that time, we were still using the second-generation Skynet, and because of some reason, the national big data analysis of the second-generation Skynet was delayed, and there were loopholes..."

The old man's face was a bit awkward, and the officer beside him sneered.

Ashen Jilan sighed heavily at this time, and Su Xing asked with full curiosity, "What do you mean? Is the second-generation Skynet not as good as the first-generation Skynet?"

The old man, the officer, and Ashen Jilan all had awkward faces.

Ashen Jilan was better. He explained immediately, "No, looking at the algorithm and computing power, the second-generation Skynet exploded the first-generation Skynet, but at that time, it should be said that for about twenty years or even longer, our system had some problems."

Su Xing nodded, "Civil war? Or something else?"

The officer restrained his embarrassment and said in a deep voice, "No, it's too 'free'. The demons danced wildly with more than a thousand genders, plus the old-school powerism, the new-generation powerism, and the super-new-generation powerism ravaged together, and then even the elite political parties of the government were all obsessed. The monitoring big data screening that was originally implemented well was almost abandoned."

Su Xing was stunned for several seconds, then nodded silently with an "I understand" expression.

Only then did the old man continue, "So during the second-generation Skynet period, we didn't discover these things for the first time. The time lasted about ten years, or even longer, until eleven years ago, this kind of demon dancing wildly improved slightly, the new president issued a repatriation order, a ban, etc., we were ordered to improve the calculation mode of the second-generation Skynet, re-incorporate big data supervision, and at that time, we confirmed the existence of something."

Ashen Jilan asked immediately, "Is it a Fake Human!?"

"More than just Fake Humans."

The old man said with pain, "This kind of thing has a very important feature, that is, once it is 'killed', the entire world will erase the traces of its existence, and it can only be confirmed by the elimination method, including the records drawn by others with text, and the interactions that others have had with it..."

"We confirmed through big data elimination that about 1.5 million people disappeared globally, and according to the composition of these disappeared personnel, we confirmed that these things are divided into three levels."

"The lowest level is Fake Human, the upper level is Lizard Man, and the highest level is Illuminati. Their intelligence and functions are in order, and when they are at the Lizard Man level, they are no different from ordinary people, mixed into us, and even undertake important government functions!"

Su Xing didn't speak, just listened quietly, and Ashen Jilan roared immediately, "In other words, you knew about the existence of Fake Humans eleven years ago? Then why didn't you announce it? Why didn't you act?"

The old man sighed and didn't speak, while the officer said seriously, "Because we couldn't kill them."

Ashen Jilan looked at the officer in confusion. The officer still explained with a straight face, "Since the third-generation Skynet went online, we have indeed confirmed their existence through the elimination method, and also through big data analysis, found the traces of their existence, and found some camouflage monsters that are most likely Fake Humans and Lizard Men, but we have tried."

"We can't kill them, no method works, physical, electrical, kinetic, explosive, nuclear, chemical, viral... They are real and absolute immortals, because we can't even break a bit of their skin, and they can ignore all attacks!"

The old man took over the topic, "In order to test their abilities and find out how to kill them, we sacrificed at least ten thousand people, lured them into traps, lured them into the desert, and launched nuclear weapons directly... No, none of them work, just as if they don't exist themselves!"

Su Xing thought of the dragging feeling when he killed Fake Humans and that Lizard Man. If he didn't use blood energy, he couldn't attack and touch them, and instead would be dragged into their bodies because of touching them. It was hard to say what would happen by then.

It turns out that this kind of dragging is not just physical. According to their statement, it seems that all scientific means are ineffective?

That's terrifying.

The old man continued, "In our research on Fake Human monsters, we confirmed that a total of eight large cities with a population of more than 500,000 have disappeared worldwide, and then we found that our world has shrunk by about three percent..."

"What do you mean?"

Su Xing and Ashen Jilan asked at the same time.

Disappeared population can be understood, the quantity of Fake Cities exceeding imagination can also be understood, after all, it is the government-scale statistics and investigation, but the world shrinking by about three percent... completely incomprehensible.

The old man gestured with his hand, "Earth, our planet, this is our world. Please forgive my inaccurate wording. For the universe, it is naturally an insignificant bit of space, but for our planet, the space has shrunk by three percent, and these spaces happen to be the total area of the eight large cities that disappeared."

Ashen Jilan couldn't believe it at all, he roared loudly, "The city disappeared, could it be that its land also disappeared!?" "Not land, it's space!"

The old man said with a heavy face, "If it were land, then the disappeared city would leave an infinitely deep pit reaching the mantle or even the core. But it didn't. Instead, the space there disappeared. This is the result of joint calculations by more than 100 scientists, mathematicians, astronomers, plus the third-generation Skynet system. Other things may deceive us, but mathematics will not!"

"Our world is being slowly swallowed by some existence we cannot imagine, and Fake Humans, Lizard Men, and Illuminati are just the front tentacles of this terrifying existence!"

Just then, the helicopter landed at the destination. Su Xing and the three walked off the helicopter and found that it was a heavily guarded military base, not only with soldiers patrolling, but also mechas patrolling.

Ashen Jilan said immediately, "We have only flown for such a short time, is this still in the city?"

The old man didn't speak, buried his head and walked forward, and the officer took the three to follow, "Yes, still in the city, because full-shadow simulation was used to disguise it, what is seen outside is just a building."

Ashen Jilan asked while walking, "Why? Building a military base in the city doesn't make much sense."

The officer replied, "It doesn't make much sense from a conventional point of view, but if you want to study the existence of Fake Cities, you must be here."

The old man said without looking back, "Mr. Su Xing, the main purpose of establishing this research military base is to study the disappeared cities, which are Fake Cities. This time is both to tell you the truth and to hope to use your ability to confirm the existence of Fake Cities, expansion scope, and all other data."

The group followed the old man and the officer into the interior of the military base.

!

It was also heavily guarded inside, and it passed through more than a dozen monitoring instruments and scans along the way.

The old man said while walking, "These means can only detect the abnormality of Fake Humans, but they still can't kill them. They have already killed no less than five researchers or five warriors in this base. For Lizard Men and higher-level Illuminati, we are powerless."

The group quickly went deep into the bottom of the military base. Along the way, the old man seemed very busy, and people kept coming to find him to sign, and three phone calls came, and he said a lot to the people on the other side of the phone.

When they came to the elevator going down, the old man wiped the sweat from his head and said, "You made a big mess this time. The Presidential Palace is in chaos, and the Emergency Affairs Coordination Committee is clamoring to shoot you..."

Ashen Jilan said weakly, "Should... not shoot us, right?"

The old man laughed, "How is it possible, let them play eggs, a group of idiots, if it weren't for them..."

The next moment became the moment for the old man to vent wildly.

After a while, the elevator stopped, and the group went out of the elevator again, and saw that people had long been prepared with biochemical suits, weapons, exploration equipment, etc.

The old man and the officer put on biochemical suits with the help of others, and Ashen Jilan also put them on. Only Su Xing refused this set of biochemical suits, and then Jiu Jiu also refused after seeing it.

The officer said solemnly, "Su, you don't know what's down there! We have lost at least five thousand exploration team members in it, you..."

Su Xing waved his hand, "No need, wearing this thing, I can't kill Fake Humans."

The old man and the officer looked at each other, nodded slightly, and then the two led the way, with a few researchers following, and took Su Xing and the three to continue deep into the ground.

Walking along the passage for no more than fifty meters, the front suddenly became huge and empty.

A bottomless giant pit appeared in front of them, and when they got here, the surrounding walls were all natural rock walls that had not been built.

This is not the most exaggerated, the most exaggerated is that in this bottomless pit, there is a plasma covering layer that crackles and covers the entire pit completely.

"We found more than sixty similar pits worldwide, all under the ground of super large cities. We don't know what's below, because we don't even know if we have sent personnel to explore."

The old man said seriously, "It's not just personnel exploration, to be honest, who built this military base, when it was built, how many people we sent to station, how many people explored, how long the plasma protective net has lasted, we are all unknown, and I... have been presiding over the work here for less than two months."

Ashen Jilan looked at all this in shock.

And Su Xing's face was also ugly, because the picture he saw was different from others.

The rock walls here were covered with flesh tentacles, extending upward from the pit. The plasma kept burning these tentacles, but a small part still reached above the plasma, almost covering the rock walls here, and some flesh tentacles had extended into the base. From time to time, the tentacles bulged, and a human-sized flesh block fell into the pit along the tentacles.

Su Xing just wanted to say the picture he saw, and suddenly at this moment, the crackling plasma layer suddenly extinguished directly.

Everyone was stunned.

After at least two or three seconds, the old man roared, "Not good! Something happened to Skynet!"

Immediately after, the entire ground was shaking, and an earthquake seemed to come suddenly.

And in Su Xing's eyes, a large number of flesh tentacles surged out from the pit.

They were about to be swallowed by these tentacles!