Chapter 589: Black Slate
Chapter 589: Black Slate
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Black Knights, go in.”
Chen Chen waved his hand and a Black Knight walked straight toward the fixed black fog not far away.
However, when the Black Knight walked into the black fog, there was nothing left, not an echo. No signal was received either.
Chen Chen hesitated over whether to continue sending Black Knights in.
“Sir Commander, the latest update.”
X-112 suddenly notified, “The Air Force One which the President of Northern America boarded was confirmed to have met an accident and crashed into the eastern part of Manhattan in New York City. At the same time, the black fog was also generated after the crash and had spread over the crash site.”
Hearing this news, Chen Chen only felt as if his head was exploding. “That’s to say, a third black fog spot has appeared...
“If this continues, I’m afraid that black fog will appear everywhere in the world.”
X-112 said, “That image isn’t that classified and many high-level officials have viewing authority. To explore the secrets of NASA headquarters, there will be many people watching that scene.”
Chen Chen could not help frowning when he heard this. Indeed, this was a problem. It was not that Northern American officials were trying to kill themselves. It was just that who in the world would think that an image in a video could kill people or even destroy the entire planet?
If he told this to anyone on the street, they would only think he was crazy.
“Send the Black Knights over and confine it.”
Chen Chen had to say, “We can only confine it in a few locations and if there are more, there’s nothing we can do.”
“Perhaps we can inform the senior management of Northern America?”
X-112 asked, “Telling them these key points may prevent them from continuing to die.”
“But the top leaders in Northern America have already disappeared.”
Chen Chen said helplessly, “So, who should we tell?”
“...”
X-112 was also speechless.
During the conversation, an army with tanks had begun to move toward the place from a distance. As the black fog had stopped expanding, the military was preparing to set up a defensive net to seal the area.
Seeing this, Chen Chen directly took off and hid inside a high-rise residential building.
Still, when he had just left, he saw five people stealthily walking out of a building not far away, a little closer to the edge of the black fog.
“It’s them?”
Chen Chen raised his eyebrows and looked over quickly.
At this time, Zhao Shanhe led his team out of the building and slowly approached the place.
“What’s the matter, the subspace countercurrent has stopped spreading?”
Looking at the black fog that had completely calmed down in front of him, Zhao Shanhe’s eyes glinted with puzzlement. “Even our original Force can’t be used. It feels like it must be that person...”
In his mind, the face of the mysterious young man he had encountered before flashed suddenly. He still remembered that when they fought a month ago, the man had used an instrument to block their hard-earned acquisition from the Star Wars dimension, the Force.
“Boss!”
Just then, a surprised voice came from not far away. “Look here!”
Zhao Shanhe and the others quickly went to the person’s side, only to see a young man pointing at his feet, where there was a deep and dark hole. It was a hole that had penetrated the concrete pavement directly as if a massive force had pounded something deep underground.
“It’s that guy’s handiwork...”
Zhao Shanhe’s pupils contracted. He still remembered that the mysterious young man had driven an instrument into the ground and then the Force in their bodies was blocked.
“It’s this instrument that has blocked the diffusion of subspace countercurrents.”
The young man reminded. “He came prepared!”
“Cough...”
With a bandage wrapped around her chest, the woman who kept coughing also suddenly said, “I still remember that person. He has a more complex and powerful power than our original Force. You can see that a piece of equipment with the thickness of an arm was punched three hundred meters deep underground. This is something our Force cannot do!”
This woman was the one who was sent flying by Chen Chen’s Field before, but she who had crashed through a wall in the first place could now move around freely. Zhao Shanhe’s team also had some kind of powerful recovery method.
“At that time, all of us were restrained by him and Karl died instantly. Fortunately, he didn’t kill us at that time. If he wanted to kill all of us, we wouldn’t have been able to live until now...”
Another person said, “Only Boss’ Civilization Monolith can just about suppress him.”
“Can this instrument be taken out?”
The third person’s eyes were a bit fiery. “It can restrain the subspace countercurrent and at the same time, it can also block our force. I want to see what kind of machine it is...”
“Let me see...”
The young man who first found the opening of the hole bent down slightly and took out a laser measuring pen to shine into the gap. Then he said in surprise, “Three hundred meters. This small hole with only the thickness of an arm is three hundred meters deep!”
“So deep?”
Everyone looked astounded not by the depth of this hole, but by the ability of the other party to plunge an instrument to a depth of three hundred meters in an instant.
“Cough... D*mn it, it’s too difficult to take it out. It can’t be done without some large equipment!”
The woman could not help complaining.
Just as they were gathered here, there was a sudden roar of engines not far away and several armored vehicles and hundreds of soldiers under Northern America drove in quickly.
“You guys! What are you doing!”
The distant army quickly approached, seemingly intended to surround them.
“Boss, the army is here!”
Everyone frowned and looked around.
“Humph!”
Zhao Shanhe shook his head, shot a disgruntled look at the deep hole by his feet, and then spread out one hand. Suddenly, a palm-sized black slate appeared in his hand out of thin air!
“Hum!”
An invisible wave swept in all directions and the group of soldiers in the distance suddenly screamed with their heads in their arms and even the tanks lost control and crashed into the surrounding buildings!
At the same time, because the fluctuations had spread in all directions, some of the fluctuations extended directly into the solid black fog, but the next second, at the moment a mass of black fog came into contact with the fluctuations, the black fog dissipated instantly!
Seeing this scene, Chen Chen’s pupils shrank as he hid and watched from the building. He stared at the black slate, his eyes gleaming with a greedy light. “That slate has such a huge effect...”
However, when Chen Chen was taken aback by the function of the black slate, he suddenly discovered that the five of them were all walking in the direction of the black fog.
“Could it be...”
Chen Chen’s expression flickered, showing a look of surprise. “Are they going to head in?”
Sure enough, after the team of five headed by Zhao Shanhe had defeated the army, they walked directly in the direction of the black fog, and then disappeared into the black fog...
“Huh!”
Chen Chen took a deep breath, only feeling that his heart was about to burst. He had never thought that the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey had such a huge secret hidden in it. After all, even Chen Chen could do nothing to the black fog. The reality anchor could only suppress the black fog but could not dissolve it, yet the black slate did just that.
“X-112, I need to return to reality.”
Chen Chen could not be bothered with Zhao Shanhe’s team. He just quickly commanded, “After I return to reality, the passage may be temporarily closed but don’t worry, I’ll open the passage again in a few days at most.”
“Understood. I’ll keep watch.”
X-112 said, “But if you leave, how should we replace the batteries of these reality anchors? After all, the army will soon surround this place.”
“Forget about them for now.”
Chen Chen resolutely said, “Wait for my return before anything else!”
“Yes!”
After Chen Chen finished speaking, he flew directly out of the window and flew in the direction of Miami...
An hour later, Chen Chen returned to the end dimension, then took the time machine again to return to reality.
When Chen Chen returned to the end dimension again, he had brought an ordinary USB flash drive with him and the USB flash drive contained the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Immediately, he went straight to the computer, closed the portal leading to Event Horizon, and plugged the ordinary USB flash drive into the computer. Then, he transferred the old movie that was released in 1968 to the mysterious USB flash drive.
After that, Chen Chen quickly played the movie and stopped at the scene where the black slate appeared in the opening.
Following this, Chen Chen decisively stretched out his arm toward the screen as if he had done it a million times. He wanted to take out the black slate in the movie!
This stone slab was extremely important to Chen Chen.
Nevertheless, when Chen Chen reached in with his entire arm, his expression suddenly shifted... This was because he did not touch anything.
“Not there?”
Chen Chen was groping around the other side incredulously, but no matter what, all he could touch was air!
This was a situation that had never happened before ever since he obtained the USB drive and started extracting items from movies...
After he retracted his arm again, Chen Chen’s expression was a little gloomy. He thought for a while and dragged the progress bar again to freeze the frame on the moon where the black slate appeared for the second time in the movie.
Then, he tried again...
He still could not touch anything.
Then, he simply dragged the progress bar to the end and tried again.
Still nothing...
Chen Chen withdrew his arm and fell completely silent.
“Why not? Could it be that...”
Chen Chen looked at the USB flash drive inserted in the computer, but he remembered that no matter where he went, even in his dreams, the USB flash drive would return to him. It could be said that it was completely bound to himself. Could it be that this black slate was similar or that it even possessed the same characteristic of being utterly unique?
This uniqueness meant that in the multiverse, across endless time and space, there was only one.
As the black slate had been taken away by Zhao Shanhe, it was impossible for Chen Chen to get a second slate from the movie.
Thinking of this, Chen Chen had no choice but to close the movie and instead reopened Event Horizon.
A few minutes later, under the ocean at Miami Beach, a black channel appeared again, and then Chen Chen stepped in and came back into the world.
“You’re back, Sir Commander.”
X-112’s voice suddenly came from the headset.
“How long have I been away?”
Chen Chen looked at the time. Of course, he knew that he had only been away for slightly more than an hour but he needed to verify whether the Event Horizon dimension he accessed this time had become a different world.
“You were gone for one hour, thirteen minutes, and thirty-six seconds.”
X-112 replied.
Hearing this, Chen Chen nodded.
He flew up quickly, rushing toward Washington while thinking silently. Zhao Shanhe knew a lot more than Chen Chen himself. Chen Chen questioned himself and realized, if he were Zhao Shanhe, he would not possibly rush into the black fog so rashly without first knowing what it was.
However, Zhao Shanhe and his team went in without hesitation, so they knew some information about the black fog.
This information was something Chen Chen so seriously lacked that though his strength had long surpassed Zhao Shanhe, he still dared not act rashly.
“At least I was right in coming to this dimension.”
Chen Chen murmured in a low voice. It could be said that this was the first time he was this close to the secret of the USB flash drive. Perhaps here, he could find out what happened in the past and why Zhao Shanhe would die and what kind of relationship Professor Wang Xi had with the USB flash drive...
When Chen Chen returned to Washington, he saw that tens of thousands of soldiers had been stationed around the black fog. These troops tightly encircled the black fog and stretched out a ten-kilometer warning tape.
Even the position of the reality anchor set up by Chen Chen had been discovered by the group of soldiers but they did not seem to understand exactly what was inside this extremely deep pit.
As for the second black fog created by Chen Chen in the suburbs, because the reality anchor was erected early enough, the black fog had not spread out of the range of the house so far, so it had not been discovered by the army.
Seeing this, Chen Chen simply re-installed a miniature reality anchor two kilometers away from the black fog. As the suppression radius of the miniature reality anchor was five kilometers, it could cover the entire black fog at a distance of two kilometers and it was much more convenient to replace its battery.
Subsequently, Chen Chen forcibly rushed into the army array and recovered the previous reality anchor that was discovered by the army.
Now that ten years had passed, Blacklight Biotechnology still had not produced the mysterious element 126, so the zircon in every reality anchor was extremely precious and must not be lost.
To Chen Chen, taking back the reality anchor under the guard of a group of soldiers was not a big deal, but the group of soldiers suffered a bad fright. To them, a figure who could be a man or a ghost forcibly rushed into the army. After wounding hundreds of soldiers and a few armored vehicles, it took something from the big mysterious hole they had found and then left calmly. This development deeply upset everyone and made the military leaders more frightened than ever.
Chen Chen did not leave either. On the contrary, he sent more Black Knights to sneak into downtown Washington, watching silently from the rear of the army, waiting for Zhao Shanhe’s group to appear again.
That was right. In Chen Chen’s opinion, since the other party was confident enough to enter the black fog, naturally there would be a day when they came out. If this was a waiting game, Chen Chen could afford to wait.
Even so, this wait took him no less than twenty days.
On the day when the Event Horizon returning from Pluto was about to enter the range of the interstellar sweeper missile, Chen Chen suddenly received a new update reported by X-112.
Zhao Shanhe had appeared in New York City!