End of Mystery

Everything fits right.

At this moment, Xiao Xiao actually felt tired.

It turned out that the shepherd really knew about Noah's plan and even participated in its formulation.

It turned out that he was indeed a product of the pioneer plan, and this plan did not only belong to the aborigines.

His heart was full of strange emotions, he wanted to shoot the person in front of him a few more times, he wanted to yell at him, pour out his dissatisfaction, and even wanted to leave in retaliation, seeing how dumbfounded he and the old president were, but in the end , does nothing.

He just sat on the sofa silently for a while, then looked at the shepherd calmly, and said softly:

"Well, tell me everything now!"

"..."

The shepherd was also a little surprised by Xiao Xiao's calmness, as if he didn't care about the heavy news he threw out.

He wasn't afraid to see an angry Xiao Xiao today.

He doesn't mind even if he gets shot a few more times or gets beaten up, because the more this is the case, the easier it is for this person to control, so even if he was hurt by the bullets just now, he was very excited in his heart, but Now, when Xiao Xiao suddenly fell silent, he felt a little more uneasy in his heart. He fixedly looked at Xiao Xiao, investigated for a while, then nodded slowly, and began to tell:

"The beginning of the problem is the invasion of the mysterious source, and our goal is to solve the power of this invasion."

He said with a smile: "I only learned about the existence of the mother body when I was promoted to a senior investigator in the Black Forest Biological Laboratory. At that time, the level of secrecy of mysterious power was much higher than it is now, and now junior investigators know about it." It's..."

"Of course, at the beginning, for me, Black Forest was just a very mysterious company. They can always research some amazing, even epoch-making products. They were once powerful enough to create a Just like Superman, the supernatural troops possessing unthinkable powers once shocked the whole world with just one product.”

"During that time, the world's technological level was improving rapidly because of the existence of the Black Forest."

"Everyone thinks that the Black Forest is God's gift to this world!"

"but……"

A strange smile suddenly appeared on his face, he shook his head slowly, and said, "Some weird things are also happening."

"In the ten years since the Black Forest appeared in this world, famine, war, and disease seem to have solved all the problems. As long as you have enough money and power, you will never be affected by these disasters. You even You can turn yourself into a superhuman, but just when someone thinks that the world has advanced to a whole new level, the problem also arises."

"First, on the streets, occasionally there will be some weird people. They are dancing, nervous, and sometimes attack others without warning. Later, in some places, a large number of people have amnesia, convulsions, or collective suicide, etc. These phenomena, which cannot be explained by science, have attracted the attention of many people, and many people have caused widespread panic because of this.”

"The people in the Black Forest participated in the investigation and determined that these phenomena were not caused by viruses or anything else, but by a strange spiritual power. In the face of spiritual power, the human brain is like a sophisticated electronic instrument. And this kind of spiritual power can instantly affect the human brain through radiation, causing normal people to malfunction like machines."

"We call it: the phenomenon of psychosis."

"..."

"At that time, the Administration Office, with the help of the Black Forest, formed a group of investigative agencies to stop this illusion. I was one of them at the time, but when we began to try to find the source of these weird phenomena, Suddenly, I discovered that a group of special people appeared out of nowhere in this world, they claimed not to belong to this world, they were crazy, but possessed terrifying power."

When the shepherd said this, he nodded towards Xiao Xiao: "They are the first strangers to appear."

"Our group of investigators already possessed many high-end technology and weapon blessings from the Black Forest, but in the process of fighting these foreigners, they were shocked to find that although these people were crazy, they always talked about other people If you can't understand, even their identities are often ordinary people who have not received training before, and they grow up overnight."

"But their power is extremely terrifying."

"They can actually use those distorted mental force fields as weapons to pollute or attack others."

"I have to admit that during that time, investigators of mysterious things in the Black Forest fought secretly with foreigners many times, and suffered heavy losses. But fortunately, those foreigners don't seem to have the intention of killing them all. As long as they are not stopped, they will not will show hostility, and we also arranged for people to investigate them, trying to understand their logic and understand their purpose."

"But the result..."

He said with a wry smile on his face: "These people have no purpose at all."

"They spring up from ordinary people in this world like mushrooms after a rain. They possess terrifying power and do some extremely strange things. Sometimes they will suddenly kill an innocent person in an organized and purposeful way, and sometimes they will suddenly appear In front of a building and setting it ablaze, sometimes they can just change a person's will and turn him into a slave."

"To be honest, we were devastated when we faced such a group of enemies."

"..."

The shepherd looked up at Xiao Xiao, with a self-mockery on the corner of his mouth: "Of course, we figured it out later."

"These people are not lunatics. They do a lot of strange things because they live in illusions. They do things that others can't understand because their brains can receive a mysterious command. Just like a person wearing a bluetooth headset on the phone, in the eyes of people who don’t know the existence of the bluetooth headset, is a lunatic talking to himself.”

"The most important thing is their purpose. What they are chasing is actually the force field of mental disorder that we wanted to eliminate at the beginning."

"At least every time they appear, the harm caused by this force field will often disappear..."

"...Of course there are times when they are even more powerful, but those who caused serious consequences disappeared afterwards."

"..."

"After confirming the existence of this group of people, Black Forest also reacted, that is, it wanted to communicate with these people, and even cooperate."

The shepherd sighed and said, "But the result is not good."

"Because they are incompatible with this world, contemptuous, even hostile, and disregarding human life."

"During that time, many of us were killed by them casually, and some people, after contacting them, were immediately distorted, or leaked some of our secrets, or directly became theirs. After realizing this, the high-level officials of the Black Forest immediately made the choice to cut off their wrists, and a large number of our group died at that time."

"I have to admit, although in their own logic, they are normal people."

"But when people who have two perceptions of this world come into contact with each other, the other party is indeed a lunatic."

"A group of moody, indifferent, cruel, and extremely terrifying lunatics."

"..."

Hearing what he said, Xiao Xiao couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Since I left the bedroom, I have considered myself a stranger for a long time, and even the friends I have made now are also strangers. When I heard what the shepherd said, I couldn't help but listen to it. I don't know what to say.

I even subconsciously resisted in my heart: "Isn't this good?"

"If it's not easy to touch, then don't touch it."

"At least, even from your point of view, the strangers are eliminating those abnormal mental disorder force fields, aren't they?"

"..."

"It would be great if that's the case."

The shepherd suddenly turned his head to look at Xiao Xiao, and said, "The scary thing is that this is not the case."

"At the beginning, the Black Forest also thought that the appearance of foreigners was beneficial to the world, but soon they discovered that wherever the strangers passed by, the disordered force field of the entire city would indeed disappear, but it was not cleared away. Instead, they were collected by them, and the longer they appeared, the more disordered force fields in this city appeared, and the more terrifying the power..."

"Originally this city was peaceful and quiet, but gradually, in just a few years, this city has become chaotic and distorted, full of thugs, criminals, and those A chaotic force field..."

"They deal with these incidents tirelessly, but they can't stop this kind of thing from increasing."

"..."

"..."

Seeing that he was getting more and more agitated, Xiao Xiao suddenly interrupted him: "You want to say that we...they caused this phenomenon?"

"But in fact, you are the first person I've seen whose grazing is miserable and breeding is painful!"

"..."

The shepherd paused, the excited expression on his face disappeared, and explained in a low voice: "I did, after all, I need verification."

Xiao Xiao raised his eyebrows: "Verify what?"

"Verify such things, why are there more and more..."

The shepherd looked at him quietly, and said: "Besides, we have also obtained some results. We realized that behind the stranger, there is a mysterious source. It is these mysterious sources, they are like a high-dimensional When life comes to our city, they should feed on that chaotic force field, or in other words... they feed on human suffering."

"It can't be ruled out that they were attracted by the pain in the city at the beginning, but what is certain is that when the pain in the city can't satisfy them, they will actively promote the emergence of these things in order to obtain a higher level. food."

"And the strangers are their puppets for grazing and harvesting this kind of food for them."

"Can you imagine the consequences of a city going on like this?"

"When this kind of pain increases, when more and more disordered mental force fields are born, the whole city will collapse sooner or later, just like being sucked away by this parasitic guy. will die, and there is no doubt that before a city dies, the greatest chaos will inevitably erupt, and that should be their favorite... the last feast."

"..."

Listening to his words, Xiao Xiao's heart suddenly beat heavily.

He hadn't heard of the shepherd's argument before, but at this moment, he felt that the theory that the shepherd said at this time was indistinctly consistent with the pattern he observed when he was in Night City. Even exactly the same.

A high-dimensional life form that parasitizes the city?

Or a body that has been downloaded with a new consciousness?

The only difference is that after this high-dimensional life form is downloaded, will the body die or continue to exist?

...

...

Thinking about this in his heart, he finally slowly raised his head and looked at the shepherd:

"You just want to tell me that this world is being invaded by a mysterious source?"

"but……"

After slightly hesitating, he still looked into the eyes of the shepherd and said, "How did I hear that this invading power..."

"...Actually, we were invited here by ourselves?"

"..."

"you……"

The shepherd suddenly widened his eyes slightly, and looked at Xiao Xiao in disbelief: "You even know this?"

Xiao Xiao just looked at him blankly.

"You really are amazing..."

The shepherd's face showed a happy expression, he paused, and then continued: "Yes, I have also gone through many years of investigation, and even read some confidential documents that are far beyond my authority. That's what was confirmed."

"Our cities are being parasitized, our world is being eaten."

"But this time the monster that parasitized our city and devoured our world was indeed invited by us."

"And the reason..."

He paused slightly, looked at Xiao Xiao, and said, "You are not curious, what is the most critical question in my story?"

Xiao Xiao had already thought of this crucial question in his mind-exploding state.

Slowly nodded, said: "The birth of the Black Forest."

When I was in high school, I was just an ordinary kid who went to school, and I didn’t care about national affairs. At that time, the Black Forest had already become a giant, closely related to everyone’s life, and I was used to it , and after becoming a foreigner, he only regards it as a background, and of course he will not consider those unreasonable things.

But now after listening to the shepherd's narration, I suddenly discovered something unreasonable.

Why is the Black Forest so magical?

Why did it suddenly have the ability to change the world and promote the progress of the world?

"Whether it is a foreigner or an aborigine, not many people know this secret."

The shepherd looked into Xiao Xiao's eyes and said softly: "But I am a curious person, and I once held power for a while, so I have read some highly confidential documents, so I know the rise of the Black Forest , are actually related to one person, that should be a woman, or a patient, and those research results that changed the world all came from her."

"I didn't learn that much."

"But I know that in those files, her code name is: Patient Zero."

"..."

Xiao Xiao's heart skipped a beat suddenly, remembering the woman he saw when he strengthened the seer element.

The woman who whispered to the doctor that she saw a huge monster devouring the world, the woman who told the doctor her panic and helplessness with tears in her eyes, but the doctor seemed to care more about her abnormal strength and perception, so those Did the doctor, or the Black Forest, really achieve what he wished to achieve in that woman, allowing people to have super strength and perception?

So, these mysterious powers were really invited by the world itself?

However, the drug tester I saw in that illusion...

"Everything originated from this woman, and the loss of control at the beginning...it should be the same."

The shepherd lowered his voice at this time, and whispered to Xiao Xiao: "I had the idea of ​​the Pioneer Project at the beginning, and it was also because I saw records about this kind of thing in those confidential documents. Until now, I have not I don't know what the Black Forest did to that patient zero, but I know that in the early stages of research and development, the Black Forest thought of duplicating this woman..."

"...Or, to copy someone like her, the method is to inject her cerebrospinal fluid into other people's bodies."

"And after I got to know Kuang Juemin, who had become the leader of the aliens in Heimen City at that time, we communicated with each other. When he began to realize that the aborigines might not be real puppets of flesh and blood, and I also realized that the aliens were not real puppets. Not willing to be manipulated by the mysterious source all the time, but with a desire to return to our hometown, the two of us started to cooperate."

"We exchanged the information we learned with each other, and I gave him a lot of research materials on the Black Forest."

"Even one of my students volunteered to be polluted by him in order to better exchange information."

"So, strictly speaking, my friend is the first aborigine who tried to actively enter the world of foreigners."

"Of course, he didn't play a big role. The moment he was polluted, his spirit was already rewritten."

"..."

"He's talking about the housekeeper in the old president's small building?"

Xiao Xiao's heart moved slightly, and he gradually understood many things better.

Why are there so many research materials on aborigines in the small building of the old president, all of which are related to this person in front of him.

"However, although the process was not smooth, it also failed many times."

The shepherd sighed softly: "But we still discussed a plan slowly, a plan that has the possibility of success."

"That's Noah."

"The two of us agree that only Noah's plan can save the fate of the two groups of people. However, because this plan is too bizarre, we have never been able to find anyone who can actually implement this plan. The stranger is Those who cannot carry out this plan, because they are born under the control of the mysterious source, they have been living in a huge illusion..."

"The aborigines are even more unlikely, because the spiritual perception ability is too low to resist the power of the mysterious source."

"That's why I decided to copy a certain plan in that confidential document."

"I persuaded the higher-ups of the Black Forest to obtain from them the last batch of cerebrospinal fluid from patient zero that had been dusty for many years, and used it to make a batch of potions with different proportions. I hope to make a People who can have the will and perception of normal people and the abilities of foreigners at the same time, but unfortunately, in those experiments, most of them failed..."

"No, it should be all."

"It is true that there are a few, and some special abilities have been born, but they do not meet the standards of me and Kuang Juemin at all."

"I was even punished by the Black Forest because of this, and I was far away from the core of decision-making. Kuang Juemin was very disappointed. In the few years before his death, he has been trying his best to make up for this plan, but we didn't expect that time has passed In four years, Kuang Juemin was even dead, but in the Pioneer Project, which was once considered a complete failure, there was actually a successful person..."

"that is you!"

"..."

When the shepherd said this, his expression was faintly excited: "Your completion meets our standards for executors."

"I didn't realize until I found out that you had entered the world of aliens. It turned out that the original pioneer plan was a success, and that batch of potions was also a success. However, the duration of this potion's effect is limited. For four years..."

"..."

"Four years..."

Looking at the faint excitement in his eyes, Xiao Xiao was just unusually silent.

Yeah, four years...

These four years have been really hard to get through...

The shepherd just saw his eyes, and seemed to realize something, suddenly smiled, looked at Xiao Xiao calmly, and said, "I don't mind if you seek revenge on me one day, whether you kill me or It is your right to torture me."

"Besides, I'm not trying to excuse myself, it's just..."

He paused, looked at Xiao Xiao seriously, and said, "If there is a choice, I would rather be the executor."

"Unfortunately, I failed the drug test."

"..."

Xiao Xiao sneered at his explanation: "You are very honest, I can feel it too, you are really happy."

"However, you never thought that I would refuse to help you carry out this plan?"

"..."

He looked at the shepherd coldly, narrating this fact, and really had the confidence to make everything collapse.

"I know you think so."

Hearing the words, the shepherd also looked at him quietly, and said softly, "But there are many things that cannot be chosen..."

"Now, you have obtained level 4 authority, right?"

"Or in other words, completed the four-stage strengthening?"

"..."

Xiao Xiao frowned slightly: "So what?"

"This means that you have entered the vision of those parasitic life..."

The shepherd lowered his voice and said, "Are you also curious why Heimen City didn't reject you after you completed the fourth stage of strengthening? That's normal. The efforts of Kuang Juemin and I have made you You have escaped the fate of being forced to wander, but there are many mysterious sources in this world... soon there will be other mysterious sources coming to you."

"Perhaps, it has already come..."

"They will try to devour you at all costs..."

"But it's okay..."

"..."

He looked at Xiao Xiao with a smile, and said, "When they want to devour you, it's also when we start hunting them down."

"Hunting the mysterious source is the first step of Noah's plan."

"The skeleton of this ship of hope needs to be built with the flesh and blood of the mysterious source!"