The System Arrived Four Years Early, but the Anomaly Is Still a Juvenile - Chapter 133

What is this?

Shen Ge held the eyeball in his hand, studying it carefully. Apart from its identical appearance to the “Unseen Eye of the Aberration,” he couldn’t detect anything particularly special about it.

Most importantly, the system hadn’t provided any prompts, which meant this eyeball was, for now, just “material” and not Aberration-energy equipment.

Shen Ge stored the eyeball away and began sifting through the laboratory reports, hoping to find some information about it.

“The Eye of the Aberration (2)”

The lab reports didn’t mention the origin of this Eye of the Aberration. Judging by the dates on the reports, the headquarters research institute had been studying it for two years, attempting to discover its “original form” and trying to turn it into Aberration-energy equipment.

The process and research involved a lot of data and technical terminology. Although Shen Ge often spent time with Li Xiang, Li usually explained Aberration-energy research in simple, easy-to-understand terms. So, faced with a room full of reports and experimental data, Shen Ge could only have Little Seven record everything first to study later after returning.

After Little Seven recorded the data from the lab, it said, “Master, while storing the relevant data, I found video recordings related to the ‘Eye of the Aberration.’ Would you like to view them?”

“Have you found any reports related to the deep-sea humanoid aberration?” Shen Ge asked.

“Master, the files are heavily encrypted. Processing will take approximately seven more minutes.”

“Then play the important research videos related to the Eye of the Aberration,” Shen Ge said as he walked toward the next laboratory.

“Yes, Master.”

As soon as Little Seven finished speaking, a one-foot-long virtual screen projected from the watch on Shen Ge’s left wrist, playing an experimental recording.

In the recording, researchers were studying the “Eye of the Aberration.” Through computer simulation, they recreated the observed imagery.

In the center of a pitch-black space was a dark red “black hole vortex,” surrounded by three azure-blue planets resembling Earth about 80-90%. These three planets formed a triangle around the black hole.

The researchers labeled these three planets “1,” “2,” and “3” from top to bottom left and right.

In the second recording, a researcher placed the “Eye of the Aberration” into a device resembling VR goggles and put them on.

Then, the researcher sat at an experimental desk and began recording information. It seemed that through this method, they could clearly see the imagery transmitted by the “Eye of the Aberration.”

Seeing this, Shen Ge returned to the laboratory where the “Eye of the Aberration” was stored because he had seen those VR goggles there earlier.

While Shen Ge went back to find the VR goggles, Little Seven began playing the third recording. This also featured a researcher wearing the VR goggles with the “Eye of the Aberration.” However, this time, instead of recording information themselves, they verbally described what they saw to others.

“I see a dark space that looks very much like the ‘universe,’ with no end in sight. In the center is a dark red, fog-like substance resembling a black hole. Around it are three planets very similar to Earth, arranged in a triangle around the black hole.” The scene described by the researcher was identical to the computer-generated 3D imagery from the first recording.

Shen Ge found the VR goggles in the cabinet. He turned on the switch at the back; the slot inside was just the right size for the “Eye of the Aberration.”

After placing the “Eye of the Aberration” inside and putting on the goggles, Shen Ge indeed saw the scene described in the first two recordings. The difference was that it now felt like he was observing the universe through a astronomical telescope.

At that moment, Shen Ge suddenly noticed that the azure-blue planet labeled “1” at the top was gradually growing “dim,” as if a thriving plant were slowly withering.

As the planet “withered,” it faintly emitted a black smoke that grew from faint to dense, increasing until the black fog completely enveloped the entire planet.

Then, the completely enveloped “Planet 1” burst open with a bang. After the black fog dispersed, the planet returned to its original state.

A few seconds later, the withering, black fog, explosion, and restoration repeated. The entire process cycled continuously.

However, only “Planet 1” underwent these repetitive changes. Planets 2 and 3 remained unchanged, just as they were.

Shen Ge watched for a few minutes until Little Seven prompted that it had successfully decrypted the files and found the archives related to the deep-sea humanoid aberration. Only then did he remove the goggles.

“Master, all files regarding the deep-sea humanoid aberration have been recorded. According to the research reports, over a decade ago, the first laboratory researching aberrations was established on an island in Haiya. Top researchers from across the country found the first aberration, which resembled a tumor, from ‘X.'”

“The discoverer deleted information related to ‘X’ to conceal certain details. Over two years, they found many like-minded individuals and, with national support, began researching it. Through their research, they discovered the existence of Aberration-energy and followed it to find another aberration still in slumber.”

“During the research, a researcher’s error led to the ‘death’ of the second aberration. The research team then proceeded to dissect and study it. The ‘Eye of the Aberration’ in your possession, Master, comes from this second aberration. Following the death of the second aberration, supernatural incidents began occurring worldwide.”

“To combat these aberrations, the team at the Haiya Research Institute attempted to accelerate their research. However, a infiltrator exposed the institute’s secrets to other nations. After three months of negotiations, our country, adhering to the principle of confronting world crises together, agreed to a joint research plan. But someone attempted to steal the corpse of the second aberration, causing an experimental accident.”

“The Haiya Research Institute sank into the sea, and all members of the first research team went missing.”

As Little Seven spoke, it displayed a map marking the location where the Haiya Research Institute had “sunk.”

Haiya is one of the country’s most famous coastal tourist destinations. The “Haiya Research Institute” was located on a small island about a hundred miles from Haiya Bay.

However, after that experimental accident, the entire island sank. The area around where the Haiya Research Institute sank was cordoned off with warning lines and sealed.

After marking the location on the map, Little Seven continued, “Years later, while salvaging the wreckage of the Haiya Research Institute, a salvage team discovered a large aberration approaching the institute. After paying a great price and suffering significant casualties, they successfully repelled the large aberration and found the remains of a deep-sea humanoid aberration.”

“The Aberration Research Institute believed this deep-sea humanoid aberration was the result of a fusion between a researcher from the Haiya Research Institute and an aberration. Therefore, they decided to establish a ‘Second Research Institute’ near the sunken Haiya Research Institute to study the remains while continuing salvage operations.”

Reading this, Shen Ge finally understood why, in recent years, the authorities had closed Haiya Bay to tourism citing water pollution, developing other bays instead. Turns out, the entire area had been sealed off.

However, the information in these secret files shared many similarities with the intelligence obtained from “You.”

According to the leader of the Twelve Branches, Aberration-energy was originally buried deep underground. It was only when the people at the Haiya Research Institute studied the first aberration and discovered Aberration-energy that they followed it to find the “plug” that had been blocking the underground Aberration-energy channel—the second aberration.

Humans had pulled out the “plug,” leading to the emergence of supernatural incidents.

Shen Ge rubbed his forehead and glanced at the date on the report related to the “Haiya Second Research Institute” displayed by Little Seven.

That year was precisely the year after Shen Ge’s family of three traveled to Haiya, where his father transformed into an aberration, swallowed his mother in one bite, and plunged into the sea.

“What did my dad do for work again?” Shen Ge patted his forehead, trying to awaken those distant memories.

Although he was already ten years old at the time, three years of “advanced studies” in a psychiatric hospital had made his memories of that time very fuzzy.

He could barely remember his parents’ faces, let alone their jobs back then.

“I remember Uncle Tang mentioned once that he had worked with my dad on something. Tang Jinze was also influenced by my dad to study medicine.”

“A doctor?”

Shen Ge tried to recall. In his mind, there was a faint image of someone in a white lab coat, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t remember what that face looked like.

In contrast, the memory of his father transforming into a tentacled monster in the car was vividly clear. Now that he thought about it, that tentacled monster somewhat resembled the Parasitized. The difference was that the Parasitized appearing in the recent capital disaster only had a tentacled head, whereas his father at that time was more like an octopus monster.

“Could Dad have been a researcher at the Haiya Research Institute back then? Was he parasitized by an aberration during those two experimental accidents? Or did he take away some aberration corpse or Aberration-energy equipment and lost control?”

Shen Ge felt there was something suspicious about what happened that year. When Mom saw Dad mutate, she acted like she knew what that thing was!
Could it be…?

Boom!
Boom!

At that moment, the hatch door of the a-7 experimental area was being slammed violently, interrupting Shen Ge’s train of thought. Clearly, the four-armed, six-limbed creature had chased him all the way down.

“Only two Mental Apples left.” Shen Ge still had most of his mental energy, plus these two Mental Apples. It was enough to ensure he had sufficient mental energy to maintain “Unseen” and escape after confronting the four-armed, eight-limbed creature.

Boom!
Boom!

The hatch door at the entrance was already beginning to deform and twist, seeming like it wouldn’t hold much longer.

Shen Ge thought for a moment, then took out the last remaining Molotov cocktails from his backpack and threw them around, igniting the laboratory hall.

Then, he planted some explosives around the hatch door, activated “Unseen + Non-flammable,” crept next to the distorted hatch door, and waited with the Aberration-hunting Revolver in hand for the four-armed, eight-limbed creature to break through.

The previous attempts of shooting its head and cutting off its head hadn’t killed this four-armed, eight-limbed creature. Shen Ge decided to change the fatal point and attack its heart.

Boom!

With a loud roar, the hatch door was successfully broken open, and the figure of the four-armed, eight-limbed creature appeared in the doorway.

It still had three of its four heads. From its neck down to its calves, and at its wrists, its body was enveloped in red aberration mist.

“Tch, quite cautious.” Shen Ge was somewhat disappointed to see the other party enveloping its body in red aberration mist, but it also proved that the body was more vital than the head!

The four-armed, eight-limbed creature carefully walked in from outside, attentively observing its surroundings.

Just as Shen Ge was about to detonate the explosives planted at the hatch door, the left human face of the four-armed, eight-limbed creature suddenly changed expression, as if it had seen Shen Ge’s invisible position.

Shen Ge noticed a slight “sniffing” motion from it; it seemed to have determined his position by scent. But this hadn’t happened during their previous encounters.

“Could it be that the head containing the red mist exposed my position? Can it smell red mist Aberration-energy?” Shen Ge had no time to think further. He directly dodged into the nearby laboratory and detonated the explosives.

The moment Shen Ge stepped into the laboratory, the four-armed, eight-limbed creature also pounced in his direction, but it was a step too slow.

Boom!
Boom!

Shen Ge hid by the wall. A strong air current blew in from outside, toppling the experimental racks and cabinets in the office.

The next second, the four-armed, eight-limbed creature burst out from the flames.

The four consecutive explosions—high-explosive bombs + timed bombs + fragmentation grenades + shrapnel—only managed to dissipate some of the aberration mist around its body without even blowing off a single head. Shen Ge’s face darkened.

“See ya!” Shen Ge directly used the Unseen Aberration-domain “Collapse” on the ceiling, then jumped with his Aberration-leather Boots, leaping up to the next floor.

He had obtained the reports on the deep-sea humanoid aberration and still had one of the four-armed, eight-limbed creature’s red mist heads. His mission was “overachieved.”

Since the other party could determine his general position through the scent of red mist Aberration-energy, it somewhat countered the effect of “Unseen.”

Unless Shen Ge discarded this head, he had completely lost his advantage.

Fortunately, Shen Ge had the good habit of “never fighting prolonged battles.” The more the other party valued this head, the more valuable it proved to be.

Perhaps by studying this head, he could find a way to deal with it. Understanding this, Shen Ge decided to first transfer the four-armed, eight-limbed creature’s head out before returning to deal with it.

But just as he escaped to the upper floor using “Collapse,” he heard a series of hurried footsteps. The four-armed, eight-limbed creature had already charged up from the lower floor.

“It really can find me through scent.” Shen Ge used “Collapse” on the ceiling again, repeatedly and quickly, to return to the ground floor.

The four-armed, eight-limbed creature was running, so its speed naturally couldn’t match Shen Ge’s “short-distance teleportation.”

Reaching the office area where he had dealt with the Chong Aberration first, Shen Ge deliberately waited for a minute. Hearing sounds from the emergency exit, he confirmed the four-armed, eight-limbed creature was chasing him. Then, munching on a Mental Apple, he used “Collapse” on the wall, directly moving from the first floor to outside the comprehensive building.

Boom!

When the four-armed, eight-limbed creature broke through the emergency exit’s iron door and entered the office area, it saw two flashlights placed in the center of the dark office area, illuminating the space.

On the wall, two large letters were stuck with tape:

S.B

Below it, a line was written with a pen:

Your pig head is in my hands, come and get me!

Enraged, the four-armed, eight-limbed creature kicked the stool holding the flashlights away. Then, a series of “click, click” sounds was heard.

Boom!
Boom!
Boom!

All the explosives Shen Ge had previously planted on this floor—high-explosive bombs, PF98 120mm anti-tank rockets, etc.—were detonated.

Explosions, flames, collapse… instantly engulfed the four-armed, eight-limbed creature.

Shen Ge had already deactivated his attribute state. Holding the Aberration-hunting Revolver, he stood not far from the comprehensive building, watching the movement in the collapsed area.

Boom!

At that moment, the pile of collapsed rubble was flung away. A cloud of red mist burst out from the ruins. This time, it enveloped its head, hands, and feet—clearly, it had “destroyed” another blood hand.

Shen Ge raised his gun and fired at the chest area of the four-armed, eight-limbed creature. The bullet penetrated the red mist instantly, though it was unclear if it caused any damage.

“Give me back my head!” the four-armed, eight-limbed creature roared, leaping towards Shen Ge.

Shen Ge raised his hand—

No Exit Aberration-domain!

Clang!

The four-armed, eight-limbed creature crashed into an invisible barrier. The impact shook the black mist surrounding its body, giving the illusion that it might disperse.

Crack.

Crack.

Under the collision between the red mist Aberration-domain and the No Exit Aberration-domain, part of the red mist dissipated, revealing the head of the four-armed, eight-limbed creature. The No Exit Aberration-domain cracked like shattered glass.

“Don’t even think about running!” Having hit the wall, the four-armed, eight-limbed creature was now wary. Although its sprinting speed was still fast, its momentum was much weaker than before.

Clang!

After running just two steps, it was blocked again by Shen Ge’s No Exit Aberration-domain.

“Ah!!!!”

The four-armed, eight-limbed creature swung its black bone greatsword, hacking fiercely at the No Exit Aberration-domain. It felt like Shen Ge was mocking it. Clearly, rage had clouded its mind. It didn’t even notice that Shen Ge, to conserve mental energy, had made this No Exit Aberration-domain much smaller than before, only blocking its head and body.

Crack!

Crack!

The No Exit Aberration-domain shattered once again. The four-armed, eight-limbed creature charged forward again!

Clang!
“…”

As the saying goes, the first blow is half the battle; the second weakens; the third exhausts. After being blocked repeatedly by invisible barriers, the four-armed, eight-limbed creature had lost its initial momentum.

It was just about to attack again when it discovered in horror that it couldn’t move.

“Its weakness is its body, but the red mist is a defensive shield similar to an aberration-space that can neutralize attacks. Its heads are very important to it. I’ve already cut off one. Hurry up and attack, get another one down!” Shen Ge shouted.

These words were obviously not meant for the four-armed, eight-limbed creature. As soon as he finished speaking, a figure rushed out from a nearby building. A fist clad in a black armguard slammed fiercely towards the head of the four-armed, eight-limbed creature.

Deng Yuqi.

She had eliminated a tier-2 aberration and broken through the aberration-space to enter this area. She saw Shen Ge fighting the four-armed, eight-limbed creature. Although she didn’t understand why it had suddenly stopped moving, Shen Ge had already told her its weakness. She wouldn’t miss such a good opportunity to attack.

With the power boost from the mechanical armguard, Deng Yuqi’s full-force punch directly dented the forehead of the young man’s head on the front of the four-armed, eight-limbed creature.

Then, as she descended, she drew the pistol from her waist and fired continuously at the eyes of the four-armed, eight-limbed creature.

“Fall back!”

Shen Ge timed it perfectly, giving Deng Yuqi time to retreat before deactivating the Immobility attribute: “Be careful of its black sword!”

While speaking, Shen Ge charged at the four-armed, eight-limbed creature from the right with his butcher knife. Seeing that her gun was ineffective, Deng Yuqi pressed the switch on her mechanical armguard, turning the energy to maximum.

Clang!

Once released from the Immobility control, the hands within the red mist of the four-armed, eight-limbed creature immediately swung the black bone greatsword at Deng Yuqi. It struck the mechanical armguard, sparks flying.

“Little Seven! Investigator Shen!” At that moment, Old Fang’s voice came from the direction of the military base on the right. He and two elite aberration investigators had successfully broken through the aberration-space. Hearing the gunshots, they immediately came to support.

Now, the battle changed from 2 against 1 to 5 against 1. While fighting, Shen Ge relayed the information he had observed to the others. The four-armed, eight-limbed creature, fighting one against five, found it increasingly difficult. Suddenly, it retracted its hands into the red mist.

“Not good, it wants to escape!” Shen Ge said, taking the blood-leather backpack off his back and throwing it to Deng Yuqi. At the same time, he also took out a mechanical controller.

Two white flashes later, both the four-armed, eight-limbed creature and Shen Ge disappeared from the sight of Deng Yuqi and the others.