roccoschili Chapter 75 : Eternal Night Falls
Chapter 75 : Eternal Night Falls
Volume 2 - Eternal NightA City
"Well, if it isn't the famous Doctor?"
A man in magician's clothing sitting on a table smiled at the Doctor before him.
"I can help you open the door to the cognitive filter."
Hearing this, the magician spun around on the table and appeared at the door.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"
"Let's be clear first - we're just destroying the cognitive filter so people worldwide will no longer be deceived. We're doing this to liberate them, to free those living in an ignorant world!"
"Of course, that's what we think too!"
The Doctor led the magician toward the Anomaly Investigation Bureau headquarters.
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In A City, a gigantic building composed of core technologies rose from the ground overnight. This was the spear Heaven's Secret would use to break through the veil!
"Director, everything is ready."
"Mm, I should need to detect for several hours. During this time, I'll trouble you all."
"Leave it to us."
Heaven's Secret entered that huge building, activating this massive detector. He continuously scanned for tainted object locations, then used Heaven's Secret's power to destroy them after locking onto their positions, until destroying the main body!
Underground at the Investigation Bureau
The Doctor led the magician through the Investigation Bureau's interior without obstruction. Here, the seemingly smooth white walls actually contained various technologies inside, requiring genetic lock identification every certain distance.
"Really troublesome, isn't it?"
"You'd better not talk."
Just then, the surrounding walls suddenly began emitting red light, and alarm sounds rang out.
"Alert, alert. Unknown voice detected in interior basement level 25, west corridor."
"See?"
"Really irritating."
"But with that Heaven's Secret guy away, no one can stop me."
Just then, a fully armed Investigation Bureau team in uniforms rushed over. Seeing the magician, they opened fire without hesitation.
"Tch."
He took off his hat and felt around inside. Suddenly doves flew out of the hat. Everyone quickly fired at the doves, but no matter how they shot, the doves were unaffected and approached them.
"Bang!"
A huge shock wave came. Those ordinary team members without contracted anomalies died instantly, their body fragments scattered everywhere.
"Ugh!"
The Doctor, having never seen such a scene, vomited directly.
"Hurry up and lead the way, Doctor."
The two came all the way to the innermost corridor. The final door ahead was the entrance to the cognitive filter.
"You two, stop here. You should halt now."
A person hung from the ceiling, feet on the ceiling, looking down at the two upside down.
"You two, passage ahead is forbidden."
"Be careful, he's very strong."
"Hehe, very strong? Could he be stronger than me?"
The magician launched the first attack, throwing a dice that spun on the ground. The dice grew larger as it spun and approached the man on the ceiling, occupying half the passage.
Claw performed a roll and leaped down, inserting his hand directly into the dice. As gas sprayed from Claw's hand, that huge dice was instantly shattered.
The giant dice scattered on the ground, becoming countless small dice that began rolling, continuously rushing toward Claw.
Seeing this, Claw drew two daggers from his back and wielded them skillfully, cutting all the dice to pieces in an instant. But the moment he cut through everything, the magician had already inserted a card with a clown's smiling face at his feet.
With a flash of light, codename Claw suddenly appeared 10,000 meters high in the city sky.
"Hahahaha, what Claw? Just a stupid pig."
"Open the door quickly, we're so close!"
As the door opened, the moment the man saw that giant device, he confirmed it. No mistake - this was the Anomaly Investigation Bureau's cognitive filter!
As a Joker and a Little Joker playing card were thrown out, a huge explosion sounded. The device representing the cognitive filter was destroyed. Human memories would no longer be tampered with from this moment. Those anomalous phenomena once seen began being recalled one by one. Various events that couldn't be searched online before could now be found.
People outside
"I... I think I remember something."
"Did I see anomalies before?"
"I never realized before - how could anyone run faster than cars?"
"Last year when driving, I picked up several anomalies. I thought they were cosplaying!"
"So anomalies really exist in the world?"
"Suddenly remembered. Very strange."
"Stop talking, I'm scared."
With fear of anomalies, black mist formed in the sky worldwide, covering heaven and earth. That was people's fear of unknown existence!
When Claw returned here, the two had already left and the cognitive filter was destroyed.
"Damn it."
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At Director Heaven's Secret's location, after continuous screening, the final tainted object's location was - above my head?
A figure appeared in the black mist in the sky - a man with black wings on his back, pulling a little girl through the air, holding the anomalous tool representing the veil in his other hand.
"Come, eat. What wonderful emotions."
"It's called fear!"
"I don't want to!"
"Be obedient."
"No, don't!"
The man grabbed her throat. The pain made her open her mouth. The man stuffed in a tainted object's main body, then masses of black mist continuously entered her body. The man laughed maniacally.
"Endless darkness is coming. God, do you see? We're not far from the new world. Hahahaha."
Later generations would call this day - the beginning of eternal night.
The sun could no longer be seen in the sky, only masses of black mist. Strangely, stars were still visible, or rather, these stars could see you!
The little girl who absorbed massive amounts of black mist had crimson eyes. She slightly raised her right hand and pointed toward A City. Codename Heaven's Secret quickly tore through space trying to attack the little girl, but it was too late. With her gesture, massive black mist swept across the entire city like a tide.
The city immediately fell into chaos. Black mist pervaded, mutations began. There were buses with legs walking, streetlights with eyes, houses with giant mouths, etc. Screams and cries rose and fell!
The Doctor on the ground looked at this scene and muttered:
"How could this be? How could this happen?"
"Hahahaha, it's too late to regret now."
The magician laughed and threw his coat into the air. As the coat fell, he disappeared.
"Are the consequences of humans learning about anomalies this severe?"
Just then, golden light appeared - A Company's core technology, Sand of Time - Rewind. Time returned to three minutes ago, before the black mist descended, but their memories weren't rewound.
【Note: The magician had already left the range and wasn't rewound, so he wouldn't be beside the Doctor】
The Doctor, back in the Investigation Bureau's underground, quickly made a phone call.
"All our company's energy goes to generating barriers!"
As he hung up, a golden barrier rose around A City's outskirts, enveloping the entire city and blocking the black mist's invasion. The energy used to create gods was so abundant it could last several months.
"In the end, I was wrong. Terminus Cult! Damn it."