After Waking up Beside the Villain

    The lights of dozens of instruments flicker wildly.

    The original dark and closed console screen lights up one by one, and the sound of zizi electric current flows through the entire underground laboratory, erratic, strange and psychedelic.

    Two strings of viscous and dark footprints extended from behind the test bench to the front of the hanger at the door.

    The transparent liquid dripped from the slightly raised green bamboo-like skeleton, and fell on the pale instep with the undulating muscle lines.

    A slightly loose white coat was put on, which was a little dark.

    Suddenly, a wet, bright and handsome face was pressed against the glass door without warning, squeezed out of shape, weird.

    It's full of psychedelic voids.

    "Can't...can't wake up..."

    "Can't wake up..."

    "But I want to see him, I want to see him..."

    "I listened to him and left, but why didn't he come back...why, why, why..."

    "No...can't wake up..."

    It pressed against the upper jaw, against the teeth, against the soft lips, against the misty glass - it trembled and murmured like a dream.

    The eyeballs were attached to the glass, and the bones were rolling. The cold and sensitive stimuli and the familiar entanglement of human nature made his frantically beating brain gradually return to the former frequency.

    Dreamland and hallucinations rolled over, covering the indescribable strange color that almost penetrated the body again.

    The revival of consciousness that climbed to nearly half, was defeated again in an instant, and fell back into the endless darkness, only a trace of it remained, still driving and controlling this body, ordering it to lift its fingers and fasten it. Nice round buttons.

    The last button was fastened and the metal door of the laboratory opened silently.

    Wrapped in an empty white coat, he looked like a walking corpse, or sleepwalking at night, with his back slightly hunched, his stiff legs swaying crookedly, and he walked into the long passage.

    The screen of the secret surveillance room was covered with snow.

    The researcher on duty on patrol has just left and doesn't know anything about it.

    In the second half of the night, the cold and empty research institute was dark, and the sound of dragging footsteps was like a monotonous and dry music, with a strange and eerie tone, slowly approaching the reception room.

    The security agent on duty in the communication room was alert to the surroundings, but at the moment when the strange tone entered his ears, he yawned a lot, and the idea of ​​​​sleeping sleep appeared in his heart. Without any resistance, he leaned against the iron door beside the wall and lowered his eyelids naturally.

    The muzzle clicked.

    A pair of pale bare feet staggered past him.

    …

    On November 3, 2025, a strange event with a great influence occurred in Haicheng.

    From one to four in the morning, on the main street from south to north, whether it is humans, animals, or plants, all fell into a strange state of sleep.

    The seventh place is fortunate that the accident happened in a cold enough time and did not cause any casualties, otherwise the panic it brought would be so great that all previous explanations by the security bureau were pale. People will no longer believe in the nonsense of what chemical gas leaks will cause sleep and hypnosis.

    Beijing, early morning.

    The seventh isolation room.

    Chu Yunsheng woke up before six o'clock. After washing up and addressing his physiological needs, he began to wait for the test results and analysis report to come out.

    We waited until the afternoon.

    Chu Yunsheng has a general understanding of the process of the seventh isolation test and the time it usually takes, so he is also very clear that his situation is probably too normal, which makes those experts surprised and hesitant , and even disagreed when analyzing and summarizing and determining follow-up arrangements.

    But this disagreement should not last long.

    Because he has been involved in the matter of the channel, as long as there is no obvious abnormality, the value that can be played is far greater than the strange suspicion.

    Sure enough, after lunch, someone from the seventh place led a middle-aged man to the isolation room.

    "President Chu, are you interested in attending a meeting?"

    The middle-aged man smiled gently: "The topic of the meeting is the passage to the new world, whether it exists in the unknown area of ​​the East Siberian Sea."

    "It is my honor." Chu Yunsheng nodded.

    The person who came was from the Security Bureau headquarters.

    Chu Yunsheng left the isolation room with him and went to a hidden underground conference room in another residential building.

      long.

    The rest are unfamiliar faces.

    It seems that the matter of the New World Passage is indeed a top secret. Except for him who reluctantly entered the nine major research institutes, only the president of the first research institute knows about it.

    "Little Chu, come and sit here!"

    The dean of the First Research Institute is full of gray, seventy years old. He was a recipient of many scientific research achievements in China. He was famous all over the world when he was young. Long, it seems to be ordinary, and fades out of the public's sight.

    But in fact, the old dean just changed the place and continued to shine.

    Chu Yunsheng walked over and said respectfully, "President Xu."

    Xu Hai patted him on the shoulder and smiled at him with the kind eyes of elders watching the younger: "Looking in good spirits, it's fine, it's fine, just come back alive. This time When it's over, don't keep thinking about it, keep thinking, forget it, bring it up when you need it, don't think too much. Come, sit down, listen more here, speak more, don't be afraid."

    Chu Yunsheng sat next to Xu Hai's meaning.

    Not long after all the participants arrived, Guo Yao, director of the Huaxia Security Bureau, got up and turned on the gray projection screen.

    "Most of you here are acquaintances, so we won't introduce you much, let's get started."

    The director's style is very resolute: "There is only one thing we need to make clear first, and that is the clue to the passage to the new world, and only the last one is left."

    "Everyone should have heard about the team led by Deputy Director Hou returning back yesterday. The seventh place brought back Adeline and Arno of the Ferguson Brotherhood, as well as the God of Fire. They lurked near the Pingxi mining area in Xiaofeng Mountain, Qianxi Province, all because they successfully found a passage in an abandoned coal cave in the Pingxi mining area.”

    "The process of the matter will be explained to you later by the parties involved, President Chu Yunsheng and Deputy Director Hou. Now the result we want to say is that the passage of the Pingxi mining area is opened, but the door is only A strange wasteland, a different space."

    "The bureau sent a lot of people over to explore this wasteland last night, and the news was very clear. Although this wasteland is extremely vast, it has a boundary, and there is no trace of damage outside the boundary. There are no wormholes or shadows of another world."

    "The location of the Pingxi mining area has been excluded, which means that all possible location coordinates of the passages we obtained from the secret of the astral world have been completely excluded."

    "However, the records of the secrets of the astral world are not necessarily complete. We know from Ferguson's interrogation that there may be a final passage in the East Siberian Sea in Russia. They have Follow the clues there, and also think that's the last hope."

    "Our meeting today is to explore whether the passage of the East Siberian Sea really exists."

    Guo Yao's national character face is serious and condensed: "The past research materials of the nine major research institutes on the East Siberian Sea, as well as all the files that can be retrieved from the Security Bureau, have been placed in front of you. , if anyone has more needs, you can say it directly.”

    "I can first express the attitude of the Security Agency to you, as long as there is a probability of more than 30% in the East Siberian Sea, there is a passage to the new world. Then the Security Agency will do whatever it takes , go there."

    "This month has been exponentially more spooky than last month, and has far exceeded our estimates."

    "We can't wait too long."

    The voice fell, and the whole place was silent.

    The opening remarks of Guo Yao, Director of the Security Bureau, made everyone present feel heavy and depressed, gloomy and hopeless.

    Old Dean Xu Hai next to Chu Yunsheng sighed heavily, stretched out his thin fingers, supported his reading glasses, and began to read the half-foot-thick paper materials distributed.

    At the same time, on the projection screen in front of the conference table, the video of the events of the past two days in the Hepingxi mining area of ​​Xiaofeng Mountain also began to be played.

    After the video was played, Chu Yunsheng and Hou Wanguo briefly recounted their own experiences, and the meeting fell into silence.

    Many of the documents on the table were Chu Yunsheng's first time seeing.

    Neither in the original plot nor in the original memory, they never appeared.

    The amount of information contained in these materials is also enormous.

    Eastern Siberia Sea satellite monitoring images every month since the establishment of the Security Agency, geological and magnetic changes, biological and climate studies, part of the deciphered text of the secrets of the astral world, and the security agency can investigate The situation of other passages around the world that they have visited or personally explored, the activities of the major forces in the East Siberian Sea, the gods they worship, the sacrifices they hold, and some metaphysical analysis and speculation.

    The aspects that Chu Yunsheng could imagine and the aspects that he could not imagine were all listed.

    Fortunately, most of the people present here are people with excellent brains, otherwise it would take more than ten or twenty hours to read these materials, not to mention analysis and discussion.

    Chu Yunsheng spent about three hours flipping through these papers, and then applied to Guo Yao to view the video materials of other channels.

    Through the comparative analysis of these materials, he can make it clear that there is definitely a channel in the East Siberian Sea, or a different space similar to a channel, which has great exploration value. But he couldn't be sure that this would be the gateway to the new world.

    And he is more concerned about those other channels that the Security Agency has explored in the past few decades.

    "It's all there, you can read it slowly, the information is very complete."

    Guo Yao seemed to have expected that someone would want this video material, so he flipped over on the table, and he was prepared to pull out a tablet and hand it to Chu Yunsheng: "President Chu, to other The channel is questionable."

    This is an affirmative sentence.

    Chu Yunsheng didn't want to hide his thoughts, except for Rong Chen, he was extremely frank with the Security Bureau. Because in this world shrouded in inexplicable shadows all the time, deception may mean more twists and turns and dangers in the future.

    "Among the other twenty-three passages that have been explored, two passages are very close to the description of the New World passage in Mystery of the Astral World."

    Chu Yunsheng pondered: "Is there a possibility that the passage to the new world is one of these two, it has been destroyed, broken, and can no longer pass. If they are not , then their exploration images and data should be able to provide a lot of reference value for the exploration of the East Siberian Sea Passage."

    Guo Yao was silent for a moment, then said: "I hope it is the latter. Everyone hopes it is the latter. But the facts are the most important."

    The meeting lasted for ten hours, including reading materials, analyzing and discussing, and having a final vote with all the great figures and scholars.

    Chu Yunsheng did not finally see any clues from the video of the channel in Lampu County in Tibet and the submarine channel near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.

    The latter, after excavating some underwater ruins, was further confirmed to be the original mission site of the Chaos One worshipped by the Dead Stars Sect, the kingdom of God on the earth hundreds of millions of years ago.

    This even ruled out the possibility of a new world recorded in Mystery of the Astral World.

    Chu Yunsheng voted in favor.

    The final vote of the meeting was 27:9.

    The Huaxia Security Bureau officially approved the exploration operation through the East Siberian Sea New World Passage.

    11:30 midnight.

    Rows of bare trees stand along the street.

    Chu Yunsheng watched Dean Xu Hai of the First Research Institute leave in a special car, then raised his hand and pulled the collar of his jacket, took out the mobile phone he brought back after the quarantine, took a taxi, and went to the airport.

    While waiting for the online car-hailing order to receive the order, Chu Yunsheng logged into the internal website of the Security Bureau and searched for the strange events that have occurred in Haicheng in the past two days.

    The large-scale biological slumber event on the main street suddenly appeared on the dimly lit screen, which made Chu Yunsheng's eyes immediately freeze.

    Suddenly, Chu Yunsheng's spirit seemed to sense a strange movement. He subconsciously put down his mobile phone and walked quickly towards an alley in front of him with a broken street lamp.

     After walking for about 300 meters, he stopped and looked into the alley filled with debris and garbage and smelling rancid.

    A slightly crooked and twisted white figure sat on a trash can against the wall, tilting his head as if awake.

    "I... come to pick you up from get off work. When you're in a relationship, you have to pick up your baby from get off work..."