From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Ta-ta-!

The faint sound of gunfire combined with the suppressor and 6.2mm subsonic bullets echoed in this convenience square.

These 'ghosts' cannot be observed with the naked eye and can only be "seen" through the dynamic capture function of the holographic screen and the hyperspectral camera function, and bullets do not pose the slightest threat to them.

Leon and his teammates, supported by various equipment, would not make any mistakes in shooting accuracy, not to mention that the two were elite agents who were proficient in firearms.

However, the bullets did not form any feedback when they hit the "ghost", as if they were bursting and strafing into the air.

Seeing this situation, as investigators, they immediately realized that physical attacks were ineffective.

And his teammates also opened the communication and reminded urgently: "This is Team G! Physical attacks are invalid! I repeat, physical attacks cannot cause effective damage... um...!"

As soon as he finished the report, Leon saw his teammate standing at the front being passed through by the ghost. Then he instantly lost his vital signs, shook, and fell heavily to the ground.

"No! Mike!"

Seeing that his teammates were killed and seeing one of the ghosts attacking him, Leon instinctively rolled to the left and successfully dodged the attack.

But before he could stand up, hundreds of ghosts had already arrived in front of him with "baring their teeth and claws"...

…

Main universe time: November 13, 1996.

Iceland.

In a private office at the forward base;

Sui Yang was sitting behind his desk, staring at the image displayed on the holographic screen and lost in thought. The date of shooting of this image was "1996/11/14", which is [tomorrow].

This means that he has completed a [reset].

The real-time individual videos of Ada, Leon and others are transmitted to the ruins base in the main universe through the wired base station, and are copied and organized by dedicated personnel.

After he completes the [Reset], those dedicated employees who perform their duties will transmit the relevant information to him through wired communication.

Looking at the "ghost" scene, Sui Yang realized that the background of Universe 04 was most likely related to an unpopular movie——

"Netherworld".

After all, they cannot be seen by the naked eye, nor can they be observed by thermal imaging. In addition, the faint outlines and other features captured by the holographic screen indicate that those ghosts are the Bose Einstein Condensate from "Netherworld".

There are usually four forms of matter, solid, liquid, gas and plasma. As for the Bose-Einstein condensate, it is an artificially created form and is not any of the natural forms.

In the movie, an Eastern European country named Moldova relied on the energy provided by nuclear power plants and used the raw material "rubidium (rú)" to successfully mass-produce Bose-Einstein condensates.

This material has resistanceless and non-viscous particle flow, can gather a large number of particles in the same quantum state, and has extremely low temperatures close to absolute zero.

Being completely penetrated by absolute zero through the body, the result is severe damage to the internal organs, brain, skin and other tissues, which in turn leads to instant death. This also explains why the human corpses discovered by Lyon looked like burns, but There were no signs of burning on the clothes.

Looking at these characteristics alone, condensed matter is far less suitable for weaponization than plasma. After all, the manufacturing process is quite cumbersome and the cost is extremely high, which is not proportional to the actual lethality and destructive power.

However, condensed matter cannot be observed by the naked eye. They move silently and can pass through all walls or facilities except ceramics and pure iron. They can also release considerable energy in an instant.

If an experienced human soldier possesses these characteristics, it makes an excellent weapon.

Therefore, in the drama "Netherworld", the Moldovan scientific research team that set up the research center in the nuclear power plant first used molecular-level scanning instruments to scan the human experimenters, and then forcibly extracted the complete neural network system, and then combined it with 3D printing Technology, using condensed matter as "flesh" for printing.

In this way, Moldova has successfully developed a batch of self-aware "humanoid condensed matter".

But the neural network system responsible for controlling the condensed matter body was caught between life and death, enduring unimaginable pain and torture, and eventually fell into madness and began to hate all living creatures.

In the movie, part of the condensed matter escaped due to a safety accident.

At first, they did not cause large-scale casualties. However, they could absorb energy through various channels and divide themselves exponentially. In just a few days, they massacred millions of innocent citizens, as well as fighting rebel and government forces. and the US military, almost causing the country of Moldova to fall.

The originally hostile human forces chose to temporarily put aside their prejudices because of the common threat of condensed matter.

At the same time, the male protagonist Mark Klein in the movie happens to be a scientist who specializes in developing weapons, and he realizes in time that the ghosts raging in Moldova are not supernatural phenomena, but human-shaped Bose Einstein condensed matter.

After confirming what the enemy was, Klein said a wise saying, "Anything can be destroyed, it all depends on the energy required."

Condensed matter ignores bullets, but cannot ignore extremely high-temperature plasma. So Klein relied on his knowledge and the only remaining weapons and equipment of the US military to successfully create a batch of disposable plasma discharge guns.

Armed with weapons and knowing that the enemy could be "killed," the military chose to assemble the remaining soldiers and launch a surprise attack on the nuclear power plant at the source of everything, in an attempt to curb the runaway control of the condensed matter.

After a series of battles, the soldiers confirmed that the plasma discharge gun was indeed effective, but the energy released was still not strong enough to cause a real kill.

At the end of the movie, it was Klein and others who "unplugged the network cable" to cut off the power supply, which successfully cut off the connection between the "neural network system" and the condensed state.

However, Sui Yang does not think that the condensed state alone can cause the nuclear winter of Earth Zero Four.

Even if Klein and his team in the movie failed, humans can still choose to drop nuclear bombs and hydrogen bombs to saturate Moldova, which has become a dead city and a dead place, which can also end the out-of-control of the condensed state.

Therefore, Sui Yang speculated that it was Moldova on Earth Zero Four that developed the technology for mass production of humanoid condensed states without any safety accidents and successfully promoted the technology.

Moreover, the Earth in the background of "The Netherworld" belongs to the near future, and the situation between countries is tense and delicate. If you are not careful, you will fall into a new round of world war, even nuclear war.

It was obviously a nuclear doomsday caused by the war, and the uncontrolled condensed matter began to wreak havoc on the surface, causing the human survivors to choose to hide underground for refuge.

As for the fact that no condensed matter was found in Iceland where they were, it may be that it could not continue to maintain its shape and dissipated, or it may have been transferred after the population was wiped out.

However, this is just Sui Yang's speculation. At this stage, his primary goal is to save his fellow human beings hiding in Sanaa, Yemen by [tomorrow].

The second is to obtain more information about the past of Earth 04 through his fellow countrymen, so that Atlas can lock the source of the condensed matter.

But before that, he needs to be prepared.