Latent Syndrome

Chapter 189 188. South Pacific

"The tasks the next two will perform are very important."

"The head of Section 1 has unsealed top-secret documents from the predecessor of the Countermeasures Bureau."

The liaison officer's eyes were a little solemn.

"The predecessor of the Countermeasures Bureau?"

Colin realized that the Countermeasures Bureau was not formed after the outbreak of Abyssal Syndrome. It had more background, such as the group of guys studying aliens in Area 51, although this was just an urban legend.

"As a liaison officer, I don't fully understand. This is related to top-secret content. Even within the first department, everyone has different permissions to access information."

"In short... there is no doubt that this is all related to an astronomical phenomenon three years ago. You should also know that the solar eclipse lasted for a whole day."

"According to scholars' multiple judgments on the orbits of celestial bodies, the cause of this solar eclipse was not the moon, but other objects blocking the sun, plunging the entire earth into darkness that day."

At this point, the liaison officer showed some fear. Not everyone has a superb psychological quality. There are not only agents in the first department, but also many functional personnel responsible for operation.

Colin waited for the liaison officer to continue speaking. He heard Hoshino Manatsu say similar things.

"I don't know if you have paid attention to it, but there has been no news from outer space in the past three years, because on that day, all the space stations were affected by magnetic field interference and all lost contact. It was impossible to find out what happened."

The liaison officer raised his head and glanced around the entire cafe. After seeing that the entire store was filled with people from the first department, he continued.

"After the interference disappeared, all the astronauts in the space station died. They died in the same way as those infected people who had been infected. Their bodies were covered with crystals, ugly flesh, or other things, with bleeding from seven holes, and their faces were completely distorted, as if they had experienced Something extremely horrific happened."

"We later launched a manned space capsule to dock with the space station, trying to figure out what happened, but failed. Anything launched would be blocked by an inexplicable force. The astronauts died suddenly and lost contact completely. .”

"Until the space station completely lost contact, an extremely blurry photo was taken. This is a copy of that photo."

The liaison officer placed a photo in front of Colin.

Colin took it over and looked at it carefully. It was not that the photo itself was very scary, but the image reflected contained an inexplicable pressure.

"On the space station... maybe someone is still alive and has become an infected person, but that's not necessarily the case. We have given up on this futile and hopeless investment. Maybe the thing photographed is something else, and it is hindering our exploration of the truth of the matter. .”

The liaison officer looked a little desperate.

Colin felt his sadness and helplessness from his tone. Although it sounded like a fantasy, there was no need for him to lie to himself. It was all too confusing.

"Then what is my mission?"

Not only does Colin want to know the truth behind Exhibit 256, but he also doesn’t know where the idea came from. He must end it all. Perhaps because he is at the top of the infected and one of the few who can end it all. Man, even though he doesn’t even know what the end of the puzzle is.

The liaison officer took a deep breath and began to explain the task.

"In fact, a spacecraft that can freely navigate short distances between planets has been successfully developed and was put into use before the Abyssal Syndrome broke out."

"There is a spacecraft among them, called the Observer. We suspect, no, almost certainly, that this spacecraft arrived at the mysterious object that blocked the sun on the day of the solar eclipse."

This is also the maximum content that the liaison officer can access.

"What is that mysterious object? Did it cause all of this?"

Colin was also aroused with endless and pure desire to explore.

"I don't know, the magnetic field was severely disturbed that day, and that thing was just dark."

"The Observer, is it a spaceship? It's a real spaceship. Why are you so suspicious?"

The development of things was a bit beyond Colin's expectation, because this kind of thing would only appear in science fiction novels or movies.

"Because we found the wreckage of the Observer, the spacecraft finally returned to Earth and crashed into the Pacific Ocean."

"But the ocean is too vast, and it took countless resources to pick up a few pieces of wreckage."

"By the time we got there, it was an afterthought."

The liaison officer believes that if the response speed could have been doubled or even doubled, the situation would not be like today.

"Based on these, how do you conclude that the spacecraft has arrived at that mysterious giant object?"

Colin was a little confused.

"That's because, according to the report of the agent who lurked into the SCT headquarters a year ago."

"The largest wreckage crashed on an extremely remote island."

"A fisherman with a low level of education saw him from a distance and sold the news to a geologist for 5 alliance coins. The geologist had already been killed by the SCT, but at that time, as he spread the news to It caused quite a stir in the surrounding areas, and some scholars who heard the news in the surrounding areas immediately rushed over."

"This may be the origin of latent disease."

"It's impossible to say who the scholars were who went there at that time, because that area was too remote and located in a South Pacific island country. Most of them were just indigenous people. Only some scholars doing experiments and weirdos who made documentaries would go there. There were no sound people at all. management system.”

"When we arrived at the complete wreckage of the spacecraft, only the wreckage was left."

"There is no doubt that there are shocking things in the wreckage. Finding those scholars who are still alive is the key to finding out the truth."

The liaison officer said so.

Colin was completely stunned. Could it be that his father was one of those scholars? Impossible, the time doesn't match up. That person did die during that time, but he was drinking all day long and never went anywhere before his death. He stayed in Liberty City, let alone the South Pacific.

He is an archaeologist, right... Could it be that one of his friends was there at the time, and after he gained something, he asked him to help, but because this kind of thing was too important and shocking, he couldn't involve everything around him. , so he chose... to fake death.

Stringed together...

That's probably the case, very likely!

"What's wrong with you? Agent Colin?"

The liaison officer saw something wrong with Colin's expression.

"It's nothing. You know, people like me sometimes have some hallucinations."

Colin suppressed it and said nothing. That rotten man... was still alive. The owner of Exhibit 256 was definitely him.

"Is it some bad hallucination?"

The liaison officer looked vaguely angry when he saw Colin. He had to find out the psychological state of these people. Once such people went berserk, it would be a disaster-level event.

Perhaps it was due to the early death of Colin's brother that he completely failed to fulfill his fatherly responsibilities to Colin and was always immersed in the accident.

Colin has never been under any control. Even when he was imprisoned for maliciously wounding others, he did not say a word. He was just fished out and asked someone to expunge his criminal record. That was all, nothing was said.

"nothing."

"So the next task is to find the scholars who went there."

"There will be such a decision, so you must have a clue."

Colin calmed down, which was consistent with his goal, to solve everything, and also to solve... the things that had troubled him for many years.