Chapter 279
"S-class phenomenon, initiating highest level of alert, transferring to E5 councilor, requesting for activation of S-class Base Overseer." The director of Base Overseer was holding a special communicator in his hand, speaking in a frenzy.
An S-class containment base normally only had five anomalies, or even fewer. Compared to other containment rooms, there wasn't a lot of work to be done here, but whenever there was work to be done, it would most likely be a major incident.
The S-2-3 Phenomenon Alarm Device had a total of five levels of alert, ranging from D-class to S-class. Under normal circumstances, D-class containment failures were common, so there was no need for any alarms. Base S2 was only responsible for recording it, only when containment failures of C-class and above failed would personnel be dispatched to respond.
And an S-class containment failure was the highest level of disaster. Normally, a disaster of this level would affect the entirety of human society, most likely leading to the destruction or distortion of human society.
After obtaining the Phenomenon Alarm Device, an S-class phenomenon would only occur three times, each of which would be a world-shaking disaster, such as a timeline shift, the resurrection of the ancient lizardmen, or cognitive distortion. If any of them were not dealt with properly, human society could collapse into a completely different state.
For this reason, as soon as the Phenomenon Alarm Device sounded, the 24-hour watchman immediately reported it to the director of Base S2, who was also the person in charge of Base S2, who was then transferred to the E5 councilor of the SCR Foundation through a special connection room.
The E5 councilor was a committee made up of the highest-ranking members of the SCR Foundation. The identities of the councilors were all confidential, so all councilors were referred to by their numerical codenames: E5-1 to E5-10, where E actually meant Earth.
Very quickly, the director of Base S2 connected to a certain communicator, from which came a voice that had been altered by a voice changer. The director hurriedly reported the situation and requested the use of S-2-5, which was the fifth anomaly of Base S2.
[Request approved, key is ★ ★ ★, the E5 council will continue to monitor this matter closely] The communicator was then turned off. Under the supervision of several other personnel, the director of Base S2 arrived in front of a containment room and used the key to open the containment room. After going through several security checks, he finally stood in front of S-2-5.
S-2-5 was a stone statue with a single large closed eye, behind which were several tentacles that reached into the void of space. Seemingly sensing someone's arrival, the stone eyelid of the giant eye opened up, revealing a tentacle that reached out. A mouth was opened at the tip of the tentacle, from which an ancient voice resounded: [I know why you're here …]
"Hmm?" Sitting in the archives, Negri who was flipping through the records of anomalies suddenly looked up. He had sensed that something had touched him earlier, but because he had just arrived in this world and wasn't familiar with the rules of this world, he couldn't find the thing that touched him.
But just now, some things began to touch his existence, trying to obtain his information.
[Some sort of predictive anomaly?] Negri wasn't surprised, there were countless strange anomalies in this world, it wasn't impossible for them to sense his presence.
"But sometimes, it's better not to know." Negri smiled. In a place that was beyond human observation, a large number of golden particles were moving. In the void, there was a network of countless tentacles that were constantly exploring, searching for the aftershocks of information in this world.
"Please tell me the specific information that caused the S-class containment to fail." Standing in front of S-2-5, the director of S2 clearly spoke as he observed the gigantic stone eyeball.
S-2-5 was named the Omniscient Eye, claiming to be able to know everything that was happening in this world as well as their detailed information. However, according to previous tests, every time the Omniscient Eye obtained information, it would cause a memetic event, or an information plague event.
These memetic events could be big or small, a small one would be the addition of a new popular song or phrase, like the horse-riding dance of old, while a large one could cause social unrest.
For this reason, under normal circumstances, the SCR Foundation would avoid using S-2-5.
Various information was flowing, through the aftershocks of information vibration, the Omniscient Eye slowly explained: [That is a supervirus known as Negri. He is currently infecting Earth, and once he succeeds, the entire world will be his to usurp]
[This virus …] the Omniscient Eye's words abruptly stopped. The tentacles behind it that reached into the void began to glow golden, followed by golden runes that manifested on the entire stone eyeball. The originally silent eyeball now showed a hint of mockery.
"So this is the thing that's spying on me?" numerous golden beads manifested in front of the eyeball, manifesting into Negri's figure.
Negri glanced at the director of S2 who didn't retreat, then looked up at a surveillance camera in the corner of the room and smiled warmly: "Greetings, gentlemen, you may call me Negri"
"Even S-2-5 has fallen under his control?" S2's director's mind quickly turned through various thoughts, then maintained a neither servile nor overbearing attitude as he spoke to Negri: "Then, what is the reason that mister Negri has come here?"
"Just as it said, to infect the world, then dominate it" Negri glanced at the Omniscient Eye next to him. Up until now, he still hadn't been able to fully control this thing. This thing held the authority over this world's information sea, if it wasn't so inflexible, even Negri wouldn't have been able to infiltrate it.
In another secret base, a D-class personnel was brought in front of a notebook with the word 'Death' written on it.
The word Note.
At the same time, a picture of the surveillance camera was placed in front of him, followed by the cold voice of the operator: "Please remember this person's appearance, and quickly write down the following words on the notebook: Negri, died of exhaustion"
Although the D-class personnel was trembling, under the long period of hypnosis, he still quickly moved. He stared at the picture, then raised the pen and prepared to write down the notebook.
"Please do not make any unnecessary moves. That D-class personnel called Brewer is already under my control. If he really writes down my name on the notebook, then I may suffer some losses, but the notebook will also fall into my hands" Negri maintained his smile, then slowly said: "Then your chances of winning will be even lower"
S2's director's eyes narrowed, while the D-class personnel in front of the base heard the order to stop.
"That's right, I'm a lover of peace. If there's no need, I won't harm any lives" Negary said with a smile that looked like the sun, but the director of S2 who was standing in front of him felt a chill down his spine.
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