Chapter 293 Terror ComesOn the other end of the phone, Zhang Wei had already left the room. Some things were not something she could listen to at her level. Fortunately, Ran Ran didn't mind who she was talking to.
"Officer Zhang, can you now explain to me what is going on with Jiang Yingxue?"
After getting Ran Ran's verbal promise to join the Non-Investigation Bureau, Zhang Hongshen became more polite and respectful towards Ran Ran.
To some extent, he already regarded Ranran as his own.
"I'm a little curious, Master, how are you sure that I know Jiang Yingxue?"
Ranran took the trouble to open the iron gate again. Actually, she had used all the keys in her hand once. She thought that there would be a different scenery behind this cold steel door.
"If you and Officer Zhang Wei didn't know some accurate information, you wouldn't have asked me to evacuate right away."
Ranran heard Zhang Hong take a deep breath on the other end of the phone.
"You are very perceptive."
"That's right, Master. What I am about to say may subvert some of your perceptions, but you don't need to question their authenticity at all."
"Every sentence and even every word has been verified with blood."
Ran Ran listened and his expression unconsciously became serious.
"Do you believe in existence beyond the Blue Planet?"
Ran Ran frowned, "Do you want to say aliens?"
Zhang Hongshen smiled bitterly. “When this topic is brought up, it is inevitable to think of this long-standing science fiction concept, but this is not what we are facing… We don’t even know how to define it.”
"It has no concept of physical form at all!"
Zhang Hongshen became emotional. "From the outside, it looks like a black hole. The only thing that can be confirmed is that this black hole-like thing suddenly descended on the Blue Planet."
"In order to avoid panic, the authorities suppressed the news, so the public still doesn't know that this thing exists, and they don't know... that the world has changed."
Ran Ran asked uncertainly: "Are you trying to say that Jiang Yingxue's hand... is related to this 'black hole'?"
"That's right!"
Ranran seemed to be thinking about something. No wonder Jiang Yingxue was clearly using some strange technique that seemed to utilize spiritual power, but she couldn't detect any fluctuations in spiritual power.
It turns out that it is a power that fell from the sky, or to be more precise, a power that fell from outside the sky.
"If this 'black hole' only gave people all kinds of strange abilities, you wouldn't be so nervous."
Zhang Hongshen sighed, "You are both right and wrong."
"Allowing ordinary people to randomly possess extraordinary abilities is a disaster for the officials of any country, and the same is true for ordinary people."
"This ability is a variable, and variables are bound to destroy the existing rules."
"Normally, people always complain about the rules, but that's when things are peaceful and stable. The premise for people to complain about the rules is that the rules themselves protect everyone! But what's happening now... is undoubtedly eroding the rules bit by bit."
“Eating away people’s shelter.”
Zhang Hongshen's tone was unusually heavy. "Perhaps in your opinion, our Non-Investigation Bureau is a very bad organization. I admit that it is true."
"Because the incident happened suddenly, it was difficult for the authorities to temporarily set up such an organization."
"Look at Weiwei. What special abilities does she have? She was also recruited to work in the Non-Investigation Bureau. She was excited for a long time after she found out. But from my selfish point of view, I don't want her to get involved in this kind of thing at all..."
"The fact is, we are so short of people..."
Ranran had lost most of her empathy, so when she heard Zhang Hongshen's words, no matter how sincere his words were, or even if he spoke from the bottom of his heart to her, she just felt that he was playing the victim.
And by playing the victim, she strengthened her sense of belonging to the AFI organization.
Ran Ran felt indifferent, but Zhang Hongshen on the other end of the phone was already emotional. "The chaos of superpowers alone is enough to give us a headache, but it's far more than that. These alien creatures..."
“It will kill people!”
"From the time the incident happened to now, we simply cannot estimate how many innocent people have been involved and lost their lives."
Ran Ran caught the point again, "These? Aren't there more than one 'black hole'?"
"Yes... This is also the characteristic that our investigators have recently concluded. It has the ability to reproduce. If it is not eliminated in time, not only will its main body continue to expand, but new horror holes will also be born around it every once in a while."
Ran Ran said affirmatively, "So you know how to eliminate it, otherwise you wouldn't be able to come to such a conclusion."
“…No…” Zhang Hongshen’s voice trembled, “We don’t know the specific method…This conclusion…is the result of countless lives…”
"After learning about the existence of the horror cave, the authorities immediately sent out investigators, but... none of them ever returned..."
"You can't imagine how many experts and scholars we lost in this process... They were all cultivated with the hard work of the country and the people!"
Ran Ran didn't seem to be surprised, "So what's the turning point?"
"Later, I was desperate and tried everything I could think of... Someone suggested recruiting some Feng Shui magicians to try it out. I didn't expect it would actually work!"
"Hundreds of magicians recruited from all over the country were divided into ten groups and entered ten different horror caves. In the end... eight people came out alive. What is shocking is that two of the survivors chose to enter the horror cave. After they came out..."
"It dissipated on its own!"
Ran Ran said softly, "Only one out of ten survives."
Zhang Hongshen's voice continued.
"The authorities finally saw a glimmer of hope from these two cases, but the person who made the most outstanding contribution was not the two survivors, but a man named Qin."
"The terror cave where he survived did not dissipate, but before he entered, he split his heirloom in two and left half outside the terror cave."
"Master, you can think of this as a video communication! Through that half of the magic weapon, we can see what the magician named Qin is doing in the horror cave!"
"You know, any previous means of communication won't work in the horror cave!"
Ran Ran suddenly said, "The unknown is the most frightening thing."
"That's it! Thanks to this magician named Qin, our research on the horror cave has finally made some progress."
It was hard for Ran Ran not to make associations. "Could this magician named Qin you mentioned be related to Miao Men?"
"That's right! It was through Master Qin that we learned about the existence of Miaomen and quickly established cooperation with them."
Ran Ran raised her eyebrows. It seemed that the scale of Qin Yan's father's organization was going to expand rapidly.
No matter what it is, as long as it is affiliated with the official, its development speed will be astonishing.
"Officer Zhang, you have been calling this thing a terror hole. Is this the official name for it?"
Although she couldn't see Zhang Hongshen's appearance, Ranran seemed to be able to feel him nodding vigorously on the other side of the receiver.
"That's right! The reason for this name has a lot to do with the images displayed on Master Qin's magic weapon. We originally thought that those images were produced after being distorted by the horror hole. After all..."
"Too weird and scary."
"But later, Master Qin confirmed that the images stored on the magic weapon... were exactly what he experienced in the Terror Cave."
"The other seven survivors' accounts were roughly the same. What they saw in the Terror Cave was extremely terrifying."
"Strange and terrifying, this is the main style of these alien objects."
Zhang Hongshen said slowly:
"So we also call this elusive 'black hole' a horror hole."
"Because it's like a terror that comes all of a sudden."
