After Waking up Beside the Villain

The lights of dozens of instruments flickered wildly.

The originally dark and closed console screens lit up one by one, and the sound of electric current flowed through the entire underground laboratory, erratic, strange and psychedelic.

Two strings of sticky and dark footprints stretched from behind the test bench to the coat hanger at the door.

The glass door on one side of the hanger has countless scratches vertically and horizontally, and a shadow is vaguely protruded on it, slender and skewed, thin and chaotic.

The transparent liquid flowed over the slightly raised green bamboo-like skeleton, followed by the undulating muscle lines, and fell onto the pale instep.

A slightly loose white coat was put on, and was slightly darkened.

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

It's filled with psychedelic emptiness.

"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 hasn't he come back...why, why, why..."

"No...can't wake up..."

The wet red lips opened stiffly, uncontrollably revealing the tip of a colorful tongue.

It rests on the palate, between the teeth, under the soft lips, and on the misted glass—it trembles and murmurs dreamily.

His eyeballs were stuck to the glass, and his bones were turning. The cold and sensitive stimulation and the familiar entanglement of human nature made his frantically beating brain gradually return to its previous frequency.

Dreams and hallucinations crushed over, covering up the indescribable strange color that was almost coming out of the body again.

The recovery of consciousness, which climbed to nearly halfway, was crushed again in an instant, and fell into endless darkness again. Only a trace remained, still driving and controlling the body, ordering it to lift its fingers and fasten the 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 bent, his stiff legs crookedly moving, and he walked into the long passage.

Large flakes of snow appeared on the screen in the secret monitoring room.

The duty researcher on patrol has just left here and knows nothing about it.

In the middle of the night, the cold and empty research institute was pitch black, and the sound of dragging footsteps was like a monotonous and dry piece of music, slowly approaching the reception room with a strange and creepy tone.

The special agent of the security bureau on duty in the communication room was vigilant about the surroundings, but at the moment when the strange tone came to his ears, he yawned a lot, and the idea of ​​slacking off to sleep emerged in his heart.Without any resistance, he leaned against the iron gate by the wall and lowered his eyelids naturally.

The muzzle clicked.

A pair of pale bare feet staggered past him.

……

On November 2025, 11, a strange event with a huge impact occurred in Haicheng.

From one to four in the morning, on the main street from south to north, no matter whether it was humans, animals, or plants, they all fell into a strange state of sleep.

The Seventh Office was fortunate that the accident occurred at a cool enough time and did not cause any casualties, otherwise the panic it brought would be so great that all previous explanations of the Security Bureau would be powerless.The public will no longer believe the nonsense about chemical gas leaks that lead to sleep and hypnosis.

Beijing, early morning.

The seventh isolation room.

Chu Yunsheng woke up before six o'clock. After washing up and satisfying his physical needs, he began to wait for the test results and analysis report to be released.

This waited until the afternoon.

Chu Yunsheng has a general understanding of the process of isolation and testing at the seventh place and the time it usually takes under normal circumstances, so he is also very clear that his situation is probably too normal, which surprised and hesitated the experts, and even analyzed and concluded to determine the follow-up Disagreements arose in scheduling.

But this disagreement shouldn't last long.

Because he has already been involved in the channel matter, 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, the people from the seventh department led a middle-aged man to the isolation room.

"Dean 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's an honor." Chu Yunsheng nodded.

The people who came were from the headquarters of the Security Bureau.

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

When Chu Yunsheng arrived, there were already many people sitting in the spacious conference room full of high-tech feeling. Among them, Hou Wanguo from the seventh office was familiar to him, who was the dean of the First Research Institute.

The rest are all unfamiliar faces, and they don't know each other.

It seems that the matter of the New World Passage is indeed top-secret. Among the nine research institutes, only the dean of the first research institute knows about it, except for him who barely entered by mistake.

"Xiao Chu, come and sit here!"

The dean of the First Research Institute is gray-haired and seventy years old. He was once the recipient of many scientific research achievements in China. He was famous internationally when he was young. After he became the dean of the First Research Institute in middle age, he seemed to be ordinary. , out of the public eye.

But in fact, the old dean just changed places to continue to shine.

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

Xu Hai patted him on the shoulder, and smiled at him with the kind eyes of an elder looking at a younger generation: "It looks like you are in good spirits, as long as you are fine, as long as you come back alive. This time the matter is over, don't worry about it all the time." , keep thinking about it, forget it to the back of your head, 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 followed Xu Hai's wishes and sat beside him.

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

"Most of you here are acquaintances. We won't make many introductions, let's start directly."

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

"Yesterday, everyone should have heard about the return of the team led by Deputy Director Hou. The Seventh Division brought back Adeline and Arnold from the Ferguson Brotherhood, as well as members of the Vulcan Cult, and some undead Followers. They lurk near the Pingxi mining area in Xiaofengshan, Qianxi Province, all because they successfully found a passage in an abandoned coal cave dwelling in the Pingxi mining area."

"Dean Chu Yunsheng and Deputy Director Hou will tell you about the process of the matter later. What we want to say now is that the passage in the Pingxi mining area has been opened, but the door is just a strange wasteland, a strange space. .”

"Last night, the bureau sent a lot of people to explore this wasteland, and the information they got was very clear. Although this wasteland is extremely vast, it has a boundary, and there are no traces of damage outside the boundary, and there are no wormholes or other Shadows of the world."

"The location of the Pingxi mining area has been excluded, which means that the coordinates of all the possible locations where 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 may not be complete and comprehensive. We learned from the interrogation of Ferguson's population that there may still be a last passage in the East Siberian Sea in Russia. They have clues there and also believe that That is the last hope."

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

Guo Yao's Chinese-character face was serious and solemn: "The past research materials of the Nine Research Institutes on the East Siberian Sea, as well as all the files that can be retrieved within the Security Bureau, have been placed in front of you. If anyone has more Needs can be said directly.”

"I can first express the attitude of the Security Bureau to everyone. As long as there is a probability of more than 30.00% in the East Siberian Sea, there is a passage to the New World. Then the Security Bureau will go there at all costs."

"The number of weird events this month has doubled compared to last month, which has far exceeded our expectations."

"We can't wait too long."

The voice fell to the ground, and the audience was silent.

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

The old Dean Xu Hai next to Chu Yunsheng sighed heavily, stretched out his thin fingers, adjusted his reading glasses, and began to read the handouts that were half a foot thick in paper materials.

At the same time, on the projection screen in front of the conference table, images of the incidents in the Xiaofengshan and Pingxi mining areas in the past two days also began to be played.

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

Many of the documents on the table were seen by Chu Yunsheng for the first time.

Neither in the original plot nor in the memory of the original body, they have never appeared before.

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

Since the establishment of the Security Agency, the satellite monitoring images of the East Siberian Sea every month, geological and magnetic field changes, biological and climate research, part of the deciphered text of the secret of the astral world, and the world that the Security Agency can investigate or personally explore The situation of other passages within the range, the activities of the major forces within the range of the East Siberian Sea, the gods they worship, the sacrifices held, and some metaphysical analysis and speculation.

Whether it was the aspects that Chu Yunsheng could imagine or the aspects that he couldn't imagine, they were all on the list.

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

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

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

And he was more concerned about those other passages that the Security Service had explored in the past few decades.

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

Guo Yao seemed to have expected that someone would want this video file, so he rummaged through it on the table, and preparedly took out a tablet and handed it to Chu Yunsheng: "Dean Chu has questions about other channels."

This is an affirmation.

Chu Yunsheng also didn't want to hide his thoughts. Except for Rong Chen, he was extremely honest 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 23 passages that have been explored, two passages are very close to the description of the new world passage in the secret of the astral world."

Chu Yunsheng pondered: "Is there a possibility that the passage leading to the new world is one of these two. It has been destroyed, broken, and can no longer pass through. 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 Channel."

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

The meeting lasted ten hours, including reviewing materials, analyzing and discussing, and the final vote that almost had a big fight with all the big shots and scholars.

In the end, Chu Yunsheng did not see any clues from the videos of the channel in Lampu County in the Tibetan area and the submarine channel near the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific.

Among them, after excavating part of the seabed ruins, the latter was further confirmed as the original missionary place of the Chaos One worshiped by the Dead Star Sect, the kingdom of the gods on the ground hundreds of millions of years ago.

This even ruled out the possibility that it was the new world recorded in the secret of the star world.

Chu Yunsheng voted for it.

The final meeting vote was 27:9.

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

11:30 in the middle of the night.

The abandoned residential areas on the outskirts of the capital are cold and empty. In November, the capital has entered a real winter. The night wind is icy cold and whistling. The last few autumn leaves fall alone, leaving only rows of bare trees along the street. And stand.

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

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

The large-scale biological dormancy incident on the main street suddenly appeared on the dimly lit screen, making Chu Yunsheng's eyes fixed immediately.

Suddenly, Chu Yunsheng's spirit seemed to sense a strange pull, he subconsciously put down his phone, and walked quickly towards a small alley with broken street lights ahead.

After walking about 300 meters, he stopped and looked into the alleys full of sundries and rubbish, smelling rancid.

A slightly crooked white figure sat on a trash can against the wall, looking over it with a dreamy look.

"I... come to pick you up from get off work. If you are in a relationship, you have to pick up your baby from get off work..."