"what happened?"
Seeing this scene, Chen Chen couldn't help but ask, "Are you sure this is what happened after the spacecraft docked?"
"Your Excellency, Commander, you are right. It is definitely related to the docking of the spacecraft."
X-112 replied, "Through Frank's sight, I have recorded the footage sent back by the New Domain when the spacecraft docked, but this video has been sealed by me."
Chen Chen nodded. X-112 was right. The plane "Black Hole Surface" is suspected of having unknown memes. The black mist in front of him is the evidence. After all, in addition to the memetic effect that can be spread through information, Chen Chen can no longer It’s impossible to explain why NASA’s headquarters turned into a building filled with black fog.
"This black fog first appeared at NASA headquarters, and then continued to spread, forming such a huge scope."
X-112 continued to explain, "At present, this black fog is still spreading, and it has almost reached the area where I am hiding."
"Retreat."
Chen Chen said, "Let the Black Knight take you away from where you are and exit downtown Washington."
Chen Chen said casually, and then he slowly approached the black mist in mid-air.
Through flying in mid-air, Chen Chen roughly calculated that the black fog is now roughly oval-shaped, with a diameter of about three kilometers and a height of about one kilometer, covering one-fifth of Washington. Not only that, as time goes by, the black fog The scope is also getting larger and larger.
According to the calculation from the edge of the black fog, the center of the black fog is indeed the location of NASA headquarters.
Chen Chen even personally approached the 80-meter range of the black mist, and then used his field energy to try to explore the inside of the black mist. However, what seemed to be fog directly blocked Chen Chen's field energy.
However, Chen Chen found that it was not a complete resistance, but a trace of power penetrated into the black mist, but the penetration was extremely shallow, and what penetrated was not the power of field energy, but spiritual energy.
Seeing this, Chen Chen frowned even more. It was almost unbelievable to be able to completely block his own field energy. After all, everything is composed of four basic forces, but this black mist seemed to be beyond the scope of electromagnetic force. , On the contrary, for Chen Chen, spiritual energy with greater auxiliary functions was able to penetrate.
Chen Chen even saw that the black mist swallowed up several citizens who ran a little slower, thinking that they could escape by hiding in their houses. These citizens originally watched the black mist approaching and kept screaming, but As the black mist filled in, they screamed. The cry for help immediately disappeared without a trace!
It was as if the black mist had isolated reality and shrouded the group of people into another world...
Chen Chen frowned when he saw this. He turned his head slightly, and a huge bus was lifted up with a roar and rushed straight into the black fog. However, after the front of the bus extended into the black fog, Chen Chen suddenly With a strong effort, he tried to pull the bus out of the black fog.
Buzz…
There was a sound of metal twisting, and as the field energy exploded, Chen Chen pulled out with force, and immediately, most of the car body was pulled out!
That's right, only half the body...
Chen Chen looked around in shock, only to see that the part of the front of the bus that had penetrated the black mist had completely disappeared, and there were signs of force tearing at the break.
The black mist is like a living creature, silently devouring anything that enters its territory. Not even steel can escape...
"interesting."
Chen Chen snorted coldly. He once again took out the miniature reality anchor from the package behind him, used his field energy, and thrust it into the ground!
boom!
The reality anchor was immediately driven into the ground. At the same time, an invisible wave hit. The next second, the huge black mist a hundred meters away suddenly stopped!
Chen Chen originally just wanted to give it a try, because he found that the black mist could isolate field energy, but not psychic energy, so he thought of using the Reality Anchor, but he did not expect that the Reality Anchor would actually be fixed. This black mist!
"Black mist, not moving..."
Chen Chen looked at all this in astonishment. He saw that the black mist that was still surging and billowing from all sides suddenly decreased in a large area, and then the edges gradually became calmer, just like the waves on the beach. The originally turbulent water suddenly slowed down and gradually calmed down.
The Reality Anchor actually suppressed this black mist!
A miniature reality stabilizing anchor has a suppression radius of five kilometers, so it can completely cover the black mist with a diameter of only three kilometers, and it is more than enough.
Of course, if the black mist is given another period of time to expand, it will be difficult to say.
Seeing this, Chen Chen took a deep breath. He became more and more curious about the origin of this black mist.
Of course, Chen Chen was not arrogant enough to go directly into the black mist to explore. He just followed X-112's prompts and came to a house in the suburbs. The residents here had long been evacuated by the military, and there were only a few people within dozens of miles. Several people still refused to leave.
In the room, two black knights were standing there blankly, one of them still holding the X-112 storage device in his hand.
Chen Chen took the X-112 from the Black Knight, opened a nearby computer, plugged it in, and then asked, "What happened when the New Territory docked with the rescue spacecraft during the time I was away?"
"After the two sides connected, a picture appeared."
X-112 replied, "It was fine at first. It was almost the same as the plot of the movie. The rescue team opened the sleep cryo chamber and released the two survivors, Lieutenant Stark and Cooper. But the next second, Lieutenant Stark suddenly looked at They screamed at the picture, and then there was interference in the signal... After the interference, everyone at NASA saw a picture."
X-112 was silent for a moment, "After that scene, Frank lost connection with me, and at the same time, the black fog began to appear from NASA headquarters. As for what happened after the connection was lost, I don't know."
"is that so?"
Chen Chen looked thoughtful, "It seems to be a memetic effect. It seems that the focus is on that picture."
Chen Chen did not ask what the content of the picture was, and X-112 did not describe the picture, because both of them understood the strangeness of the memetic effect, because some memes are not only infected through the sense of "seeing" , some memes will indiscriminately infect you as long as you know their existence, or others describe their characteristics to you.
This meme is hard to guard against.
"Let the Black Knight try it."
Chen Chen thought for a while and looked at the two black knights behind him, "I want to see if the black knights who have no brains and can't think will also fall for this meme."
With that said, Chen Chen asked X-112 to load the video into the computer. Then he unplugged X-112 again, opened the window, turned and left the room, and retreated to a distance of eighty meters.
At this distance, his field energy can completely cover the entire room through the open window, and observe the situation of the two black knights after watching the scene. This is also one of the best ways to unlock the memetic effect.
"let's start."
Following Chen Chen's order, X-112 began to control one of the black knights to sit in front of the computer, and at the same time clicked on the video that had been left out. Chen Chen subconsciously allowed the field to bypass the computer screen, making him unable to Observed what appeared on the computer.
The two black knights watched the video bit by bit.
Time passes minute by minute.
Suddenly, just as the video was coming to an end, two of the black knights were shaken. At the same time, the computer made a tearing sound, and then the two black knights slowly fell to the ground.
"Your Majesty Commander, the two black knights have lost contact!"
X-112 immediately reminded.
Chen Chen was even more attentive in observing all this through the field energy. Then, he actually saw streams of black mist slowly pouring out of the computer.
Boom!
Black mist instantly poured out from the computer screen, flooding the entire room bit by bit, and at the same time excluded Chen Chen's field energy!
It turns out that this is how the black mist appeared...
Chen Chen withdrew his field energy little by little and silently looked at the house eighty meters away. He saw endless black mist quickly pouring out from the cracks in the windows and doors. Gradually, a new black mist formed!
"Suppress it!"
Seeing this, Chen Chen immediately took out a miniature reality stabilizing anchor from the package behind him and inserted it directly into the ground. Suddenly, the newly formed black mist was suppressed in place again and stopped expanding.
"The capacitor of a miniature reality anchor can only power for about twelve hours."
X-112 prompted, "Do we need to order the remaining Black Knights stationed in Miami to bring more reality anchors?"
"good."
Chen Chen nodded, "Be careful and be careful not to be discovered by the North American officials."
The reason why Chen Chen did this was of course not because he wanted to be a savior. He was just testing the power of "Black Hole Surface". As for cooperating with the official, it would restrict Chen Chen's actions and prevent Chen Chen from using it.
However, while Chen Chen was silently exploring "The Surface of a Black Hole", the officials who had withdrawn from the White House had boarded the Air Force One presidential plane and left the confines of Washington.
"What? The black mist has stopped spreading?"
The President of North America looked at the video sent. It was a picture taken from a high altitude. In the picture, the black fog had lost its signs of surging, and had completely turned into an oval-shaped fog with smooth edges. .
The fog stretches across the center of downtown Washington, like a black egg, extremely abrupt even in the dark.
The darkness was far more solemn and conspicuous than the night.
"Damn, what the hell is this..."
The President of North America gritted his teeth and looked at the black mist, then looked at the man in military uniform beside him, "General Bob, are you sure this black mist erupted from NASA headquarters?"
"It can't be wrong."
The man known as General Bob was a middle-aged man with gray hair but a stern expression. He nodded and solemnly said, "We can also prove this based on the aerial view we sent. Mr. President, please take a look - this is Washington. By overlaying the map of the urban area with the aerial view taken now, we can see what is in the location shrouded in black fog... "
"Although this black mist has an oval shape when viewed from the side, like a big bowl upside down on the ground, but if you look at it from a high altitude, you will find that the black mist is in a perfect circle. As long as the radius of the black mist is calculated, , we can predict what is at the center of the black mist.”
"And our prediction was good. The center of the black fog is the headquarters of NASA!"
After hearing this, the President of North America nodded slightly. He asked again worriedly, "Where are the number of missing people in this incident?"
"Unable to count at the moment."
General Bob shook his head and looked solemn, "Because the black fog appeared so suddenly, we could only do our best to evacuate the crowd, but during the time when the black fog spread, it swallowed up at least several blocks, and now It’s still late at night, so I’m afraid the number of missing people is not optimistic…”
The reason why the two mentioned the number of missing people instead of the number of casualties was because even they did not know what would happen after being shrouded in black mist. At first, they sent troops and armored vehicles into the black mist, but no matter how many people entered, they would all die in an instant. losing contact.
As a result, they were so frightened that they no longer dared to send anyone into the black mist.
"Mr. President, please don't be discouraged."
The Minister of National Defense suddenly came over and interjected, "Now that the black fog has stopped spreading, this is good news. The biggest fear is that the spread of the black fog cannot be stopped, which will be difficult to deal with."
"I just want to know what those black mist are."
The president nodded, with a sad look on his face.
"It's easy to know."
The Secretary of Defense reminded, "NASA is an agency directly under the White House, and all daily activity logs there are stored in a secret server of the Department of Defense, which we can fully access."
Hearing this, the president's eyes lit up. Yes, he was confused because he was concerned. He completely forgot that everything at NASA headquarters is under the control of the Department of Defense and can be investigated at any time.
Following orders from many high-level officials, the log report was soon retrieved and played on Air Force One, the president's exclusive vehicle.
"Is this... the New Territory docking with the rescue team?"
Everyone immediately saw the picture recorded in the video, and also saw the huge screen in the command hall in the picture.
"It's a normal activity. New Territories disappeared for seven years. This was a rescue operation reported by NASA and then approved by me."
The President of North America looked at the scene in front of him, frowned, and had an ominous illusion, "Could it be that all this has something to do with the New Domain?"
As he spoke, he looked slightly at the sky beside him, only to see a field of lights flickering beneath his feet.
"Where have we been?"
The President of North America turned around and looked at the officials beside him who were all staring at the screen.
"We're now over New York City."
The Secretary of Defense glanced out the window and said, "We will soon arrive at our destination—the secret military base in Islip."
But at this moment, the Minister of Defense suddenly opened his mouth and widened his eyes, staring at the screen.
"Minister Franklin?"
The president of North America asked doubtfully, but the other party was still full of surprise. The expression on his face seemed to be as stiff as death, with an inexplicable strangeness.
At the same time, not only the Minister of Defense, but also General Bob and others next to him had the same look.
Seeing this, the President of North America only felt a chill in his heart. He slowly turned his head and looked at the screen in front of him...
boom!
Over New York City, a large passenger plane with black fog constantly pouring out of the cabin, making an irresistible dive, fell towards the city center...