pertwk Chapter 184 A Cataclysmic Disaster! He knelt in front of the courtyard, tears streaming down his fac
Chapter 184 A Cataclysmic Disaster! He knelt in front of the courtyard, tears streaming down his fac
"Alive? What do you mean by 'alive'?!"
Li Zhenguo trembled at the shout, his soul, which had just entered a state of post-coital meditation, seemed to be pulled back to reality, and he suddenly sprang up from the command chair.
He grabbed the young researcher by the collar, his eyes wide open, bloodshot instantly filling his eyeballs.
"Explain yourself! What exactly happened?!"
What he fears most right now is hearing anything new about that courtyard house.
His old heart really can't take it anymore.
"It..." The young researcher gasped for breath, his face contorted with a mixture of terror and ecstasy, making him look almost inhuman.
"It used that... the 3 billion dollar 'Quantum Entangled State Observatory' that we used to analyze it..."
"He...ate it!"
"have eaten?!"
Li Zhenguo felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, and a surge of hot blood rushed to the top of his head.
Three billion worth of equipment!
China's most advanced observation instrument!
Imported from Germany, we had to wait in line for a full three years!
Now, it's just been swallowed up by a rock?!
"It's not eating in the physical sense!" The researcher was terrified and hurriedly explained, fearing that the commander would slap him so hard that he would be stuck in the wall and unable to get out.
"It's 'assimilation' at the conceptual level!"
"That observation instrument...it too has become the Philosopher's Stone!"
"Exactly the same! We just tested it, and it now also possesses the Midas touch!"
The researcher's words were like a nuclear bomb detonating in the deathly silent command center.
Everyone was so shocked that they stood there dumbfounded.
A national treasure worth 3 billion yuan was knocked over by a stone and turned into another stone of the same kind.
This is not the Philosopher's Stone at all!
This is clearly a fantasy version of the "Ship of Theseus" paradox, like the T-virus from Resident Evil!
Li Zhenguo's mind was buzzing, completely blank.
He finally understood why Academician Zhang, the titan of physics, was so excited when he first saw the stone that he fainted on the spot.
This thing simply cannot be defined by "science"!
It is itself a "law" that can self-replicate and self-proliferate!
A terrifying "concept" capable of polluting and assimilating the real world!
And yet, they treated such a terrifying thing as a priceless treasure, locking it away in the most heavily guarded laboratory in the country.
This is hardly research!
This is clearly raising a poisonous insect! It's cultivating an ineradicable cancer cell in the entire world!
If we let it continue to "eat" like this, it won't be long before the entire Xishan base is "assimilated"!
Then it extends to the whole of China, and even the whole world...
Li Zhenguo dared not think any further.
A bone-chilling cold instantly crept up his spine and spread throughout his body, making him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave!
Suddenly, he remembered a scene he had witnessed in that courtyard house.
This thing, which they considered taboo, a terrifying "concept weapon"...
In that courtyard, it was used as a whetstone.
Beside it, there was a freshly sharpened, gleaming kitchen knife.
At the time, he felt that the man was wasting resources and that the behavior of a god was bizarre.
Now he finally understands!
That's hardly a waste!
That was clearly using a supreme method that mortals could not comprehend at all to "suppress" and "raise" this terrifying being!
The rust on the knife, and the tiny amount of energy generated during sharpening, are used to fill its "hunger."
Thus, it remains peacefully dormant in a stable and harmless state!
A master!
This is a true master!
The greatest truths are the simplest; return to simplicity and authenticity!
They easily resolved a massive crisis that could have destroyed the world using the simplest and most ordinary methods!
And these self-righteous mortals...
But they treated it like a treasure and "stole" it from someone else's "garbage dump"!
madness!
How foolish!
Li Zhenguo wished he could slap himself twice on the spot!
"Sir! What do we do now?!" The young researcher cried, completely breaking down. "That... no, those two 'Philosopher's Stones' are still infecting everything around them! We can't get close at all!"
"Don't panic!"
Li Zhenguo forced himself to calm down.
He is the backbone of this place; he absolutely cannot be allowed to lose his composure.
His brain was working at an unprecedented speed.
The one who tied the knot must untie it.
Right now, there is only one person in the whole world who can clean up this mess!
"Get the car ready!"
Li Zhenguo made a decisive decision and roared in a hoarse voice.
"No! Prepare the fastest armed helicopters! I need to see Mr. Lin immediately!"
"And one more thing!" He turned and roared at the group of terrified experts, "Temporarily seal those two stones with our highest-level 'spatial stabilization anchor'! At all costs! Hold them off until I return!"
……
at the same time.
The atmosphere in the courtyard was peaceful.
The newly appointed "Chief Horticulture Consultant," Zhang Sanfeng, was holding a small hoe and piously loosening the soil in that sacred vegetable garden.
With each turn of the soil, he could clearly sense the immense vitality contained within the "Nine Heavens Breath Soil" and the pure power of law emanating from the "Fragment of the Godhood of an Alien Deity".
He felt like he wasn't farming.
Instead, they were sorting out the earth veins and dragon energy of a newly formed small world.
This feeling captivated him, and his mind became clear and enlightened.
He even had a premonition that farming here for a hundred years would be better than secluded meditation in the Kunlun Mountains for a thousand years!
Inside the facility, the other "employees" also performed their respective duties.
Aiolia had painted that wall a gleaming gold, radiating auspicious energy; its sacred and majestic aura surpassed even that of the Twelve Golden Palaces of the Sanctuary.
Ares was assigned by Lin Fan to chop wood. He was wielding an axe made of an unknown material, struggling against a pile of equally unknown divine wood "firewood".
Fang Qingxue and her three friends were in the kitchen, preparing dinner with smiles on their faces.
The entire courtyard exudes a simple yet thriving atmosphere of life.
Lin Fan lay on the rocking chair, watching the scene before him, a satisfied smile on his face.
Hmm, not bad, not bad.
This is the retirement life he has always dreamed of.
An old Taoist priest who knew horticulture tended the vegetable garden.
A group of strong foreign lads were doing manual labor.
There are also a few pretty young girls who are good at cooking who are in charge of three meals a day.
This life is even more blissful than that of a god.
He squinted contentedly, preparing to take a short nap.
Sudden.
A loud, buzzing sound of propellers approached from afar, shattering the silence.
Lin Fan opened his eyes with displeasure.
He looked up.
A jet-black armed helicopter, exuding a menacing aura, hovered above his courtyard house.
The powerful airflow made the "World Tree" in the courtyard rustle.
Lin Fan's brows furrowed instantly.
"Hey, are you ever going to stop?"
"Who is this?!"
"They even fly over to visit?"
"Do you really think this place is a tourist attraction?!"
He was about to get up and start cursing.
On the helicopter, a familiar figure slid down the rope ladder, almost tumbling and crawling.
It was Li Zhenguo, who had just left not long ago.
But at this moment, his face no longer held any of his previous high spirits; only ashen and endless panic remained.
As soon as he landed, he rushed towards Lin Fan without regard for anything else.
Then, three meters away from Lin Fan.
With a "plop" sound!
This important figure, whose every stomp outside could shake the entire nation, suddenly had his knees buckle and knelt down!
His voice was filled with heavy sobs and endless regret.
"Sir! Help!"
"We...we...have committed a terrible disaster!"