The System Arrived Four Years Early, but the Anomaly Is Still a Juvenile - Chapter 210

Whether it was a guess or not wasn’t important. The key point was successfully rooting out these Aberrants hiding among the passengers, which saved a lot of trouble.

However, the appearance of the Aberrants caused panic among the passengers in the cabin. Fortunately, Li Jianjun reacted quickly, immediately ordering his men to restrain the few passengers trying to push towards business class and calm them down.

Yet a bizarre scene unfolded. Li Jianjun had merely turned his head to give an order to one of his men. When he turned back to look at Shen Ge, the other man had already hauled that Aberrant out of his seat and thrown him towards the direction of the lounge.

So fast?
Li Jianjun had only looked away for a second. How could the other man be this quick? He couldn’t help but be shocked. He didn’t know, however, that what seemed like a second to him was extended several times under bullet time control, which was more than enough for Shen Ge to eliminate a Tier 2 Aberrant instantly.

These new-type Aberrants had reduced the anomalous energy concentration within their bodies, using a special method to suppress its overflow. This also resulted in very low anomalous energy intensity within them; the strength of a Tier 2 was even inferior to a normal Tier 1.

At this point, Shen Ge could easily handle even normally strong Tier 2 Aberrants, let alone Tier 3 ones—they’d be like punching toddlers—so he naturally wouldn’t waste much time on them.

After throwing the two Aberrants into the lounge and dealing with them, Shen Ge directly sold their corpses to the system this time. The anomalous sleeping bag already contained two corpses; first, it wouldn’t fit more, and second, having the same type wasn’t very meaningful.

Shen Ge walked out of the lounge and stood at the entrance to the aisle, glancing into the economy class section. He said to Li Jianjun, “The situation is a bit more complicated than I imagined. I suspect there are more hidden Aberrants. No matter what happens next, you must ensure all passengers remain in their seats. They cannot leave their positions, even if force is necessary.”

“Yes, Investigator Shen,” Li Jianjun replied seriously.

Shen Ge didn’t tell him that these Aberrants likely weren’t from the “same family.” Most were probably covert surveillance sent to monitor him, who just happened to clash with the Aberrants Liu Jiayi and others were investigating, making this incident more complex.

After arranging tasks for the flight security, Shen Ge began patrolling the cabin, trying to identify hidden Aberrants by detecting anomalous energy reactions.

However, Little Seven reported a strange phenomenon. When they first boarded the plane, the anomalous energy on the aircraft had been somewhat shielded.

But after the Anomalous Octopus died, Little Seven detected more and more anomalous energy reactions spreading throughout the plane. Shen Ge initially thought it was those “omnipresent” parasitic-type anomalies. But after having the system scan, he discovered a massive red dot moving on the [Map].

If this huge red dot wasn’t the plane itself fused with an anomaly, it meant there was a large anomaly on the aircraft.

And this large anomaly was the culprit causing the “shielding” of anomalous energy.

Although the security officers had the anomalous energy firearms Shen Ge “lent” them, they could manage against mindless Tier 1 anomalies, but facing half-human, half-anomaly Tier 2 Aberrants would be somewhat challenging.

Given Shen Ge’s “status,” he could verbally claim not to care about the passengers’ lives, but he couldn’t just watch them be slaughtered by Aberrants.

However, to find the root of the problem, he had to leave this area.

“Go to first class and call over a young female passenger. Tell her Mr. Shen is looking for her,” Shen Ge said, stopping a flight attendant.

This flight attendant happened to be the one who had witnessed Shen Ge and Kaede Hanabi’s intense “exercise” in the restroom earlier. She was curious why he wanted to see her now but obediently followed Shen Ge’s instructions.

Not long after, Kaede Hanabi was brought over. “Mr. Shen, what do you need?”

“Want me to help? Paying some deposit first is no problem, right?” Shen Ge said.

“?”

Seeing Kaede Hanabi’s puzzled expression, Shen Ge got straight to the point. “An anomaly incident has occurred on the plane. Passengers have already died. The hidden anomaly is quite tricky. I need to find it quickly, otherwise the plane might crash and kill everyone. These hundred-plus lives include yours. So I need you to guard here, command these security officers while I investigate…”

Leaning closer to Kaede Hanabi, Shen Ge lowered his voice. “There are quite a few Aberrants hidden among the passengers. Their strength isn’t high, but they have the ability to conceal anomalous energy.”

Kaede Hanabi was taken aback, instinctively asking, “Mr. Shen, aren’t you worried I might be working with them and would take this chance to harm the passengers?”

Shen Ge said, “Although Aberrant organizations don’t treat ordinary people as human, they aren’t bored enough to kill indiscriminately for fun. At most, they’d use this to trip me up. If you can’t even handle this small matter well, then I can’t even be bothered to consider your previous proposal.”

“I understand, Mr. Shen. Don’t worry, I will handle the passengers in the cabin properly,” Kaede Hanabi vowed earnestly.

Shen Ge and Kaede Hanabi had “cooperated” before. Judging by her future performance, this woman’s capabilities were commendable.

Having her help deal with Aberrants and anomalies was also “killing two birds with one stone.” If she was part of the Aberrant group, then to win Shen Ge over, she naturally wouldn’t cause trouble now. If she wasn’t part of them, then it would be a case of the pot calling the kettle black, with both sides getting hurt—which would also be good for Shen Ge.

Snap!
Snap!
Snap!

Right then, as the two were talking, starting from the tail section, the cabin lights began to dim, and faint tremors were visible in the air—a sign of an anomalous space manifesting.

“Li Jianjun!” Shen Ge called.

Li Jianjun hurried over. “Investigator Shen.”

“For some reason, the previously ‘dormant’ anomaly has now awakened. The good news is I can roughly locate its position, so finding it shouldn’t be hard. The bad news is I have to leave here. From now on, all of you will take orders from this lady. Understood?” Shen Ge said.

“Her?” Li Jianjun looked at Kaede Hanabi, clearly taken aback.

Shen Ge patted Li Jianjun’s shoulder, briefly explaining Kaede Hanabi’s situation—like “Sakura covert agent,” “Anomaly Fighter,” etc.

But upon hearing the “covert agent” identity, Li Jianjun clearly couldn’t hold back.

This is believable?

Shen Ge saw his doubt and said seriously, “Don’t worry. The enemy of my enemy might still be the enemy, but right now, we can still make use of some… waste.”

“…” Kaede Hanabi didn’t know how to respond to that for a moment. So he was just treating her as “waste utilization.”

“Remember, keep the passengers here under control. Even if you have to use force, don’t let them leave their seats.” After saying this, Shen Ge entered the lounge and closed the door.

“Investigator Shen!” Li Jianjun followed him in, wanting to ask for more details. But when he opened the door, Shen Ge was nowhere to be seen.

The lounge’s surveillance had already been handled by Little Seven. As soon as Shen Ge entered, he activated his intangible anomaly domain, then used collapse to descend to the lower cargo hold to search for traces of the anomaly.

After Shen Ge left, the passengers, already tense from the earlier Aberrant appearance, grew even more nervous as the cabin lights dimmed. Many gasped in surprise, and some questioned the flight attendants and security officers.

“Why are the lights dim?”

“Is it the monsters’ doing?”

“It’s so dangerous in economy class. Let us hide in first class! What’s the point of staying here?”

“Where’s the Anomaly Investigator? Didn’t they say there was a specialist handling it?”

“I don’t want to die!”

“…”

At that moment, Kaede Hanabi stepped forward. “Quiet! This area is now under the control of our Anomaly Response Department. According to international anomaly response regulations, during an anomaly incident, civilians must unconditionally accept our arrangements and directives. If irreparable consequences occur due to individual actions, accountability will be pursued afterward!”

“Who is this woman? Is she also an Anomaly Investigator?”

“She’s speaking Chinese, but with a heavy accent. She’s not from our country, is she?”

“A foreigner?”

“Asian features…”

The passengers looked at Kaede Hanabi standing at the cabin entrance speaking through a megaphone, whispering and murmuring among themselves.

Kaede Hanabi took out her Sakura Anomaly Fighter credentials, pretending to be a member of an international anomaly organization, and announced loudly, “I am a member of the International Anomaly Response Organization, cooperating with the Great Heavenly Dynasty’s Anomaly Investigator this time to handle the anomaly incident on this flight. The investigator is already investigating the anomaly. Please remain calm.”

“As for the dimmed lights, it’s to help everyone calm down and rest. Perhaps by the time you wake up from a nap, the anomaly will already be resolved.”

“If everyone cooperates with our work, we can resolve the anomaly faster. Causing trouble now would be treating your own lives and everyone else’s as a joke!”

Kaede Hanabi calmly tried to soothe the passengers’ emotions. As a professional Anomaly Fighter, this kind of work was familiar to her.

After all, Sakura was currently the country with the most severe anomaly disasters worldwide. The number of anomaly incidents happening daily was countless. Cities were falling one after another with the spread of the Takiguchi City anomaly disaster. It could be said Sakura fighters were either combating anomalies or on their way to do so every day.

Sakura was in dire straits; aside from not having sunk yet, it wasn’t much different from a “dead nation.” Therefore, what fighters did most daily was “soothe” and hypnotize citizens into believing the anomaly disasters weren’t severe and the nation was handling them with full force.

However, reality struck swiftly. As soon as Kaede Hanabi finished speaking, two strange sounds came from the tail section, and two lights that had dimmed went out completely.

Then, a male passenger stood up. He was quickly spotted by a security officer, who pressed him back into his seat. “Sir, please remain in your seat.”

“I… I need to use the restroom,” the man said nervously.

The security officer glanced at a flight attendant, who immediately understood and handed the man a plastic bag. The officer said, “Special circumstances. Please endure.”

“Ah! I don’t want to stay here! Look at the tail section, the… the lights are out! I know what that is! I’ve seen anomaly incidents before!” the man immediately shouted.

The security officer acted swiftly, covering the man’s mouth and pressing him back into his seat. But he had already shouted it out, drawing the attention of other passengers.

Some braver passengers took out their phones, turning on flashlights and shining them towards the pitch-black space at the tail.

Strangely, when the light beams hit the dark area, they seemed to be severed, “disappearing” without a trace.

Now the observant passengers realized something was wrong. Screaming, they got up and rushed towards the first-class section. In an instant, the situation descended into chaos.

“Use the tasers!” Seeing they couldn’t stop the panicked crowd, Kaede Hanabi immediately told Li Jianjun to order the use of tasers on the leading passengers.

Li Jianjun hesitated at first, but he also knew that once the situation spiraled completely out of control, regaining control would be even harder.

Upon his order, the security officers, though hesitant, picked up their tasers and stun batons to block the charging passengers. Seeing the situation turn hostile, the passengers also started trying to grab the weapons.

Just as chaos reigned, a sudden change occurred!
From the pitch-black space at the tail section, a rustling sound emerged, followed by the sound of something crawling on the floor.

The next second, countless pitch-black beetles crawled out of the dark space. Passengers who were slower were immediately covered by the black beetles, being devoured.

And the passengers devoured by these parasitic-type anomalies had their heads pop open, growing flesh-petal heads sprouting from the parasitized bodies.

“Open fire!” Kaede Hanabi could no longer worry about whether gunfire would cause cabin decompression. If they didn’t stop those parasitized individuals now, the entire cabin would be doomed.

Fortunately, the weapons Shen Ge provided were relatively low-powered pistols and submachine guns. Only the bullets were special anomalous energy rounds, weaker than regular firearms but exceptionally effective against anomalies.

However, having weapons didn’t mean the security officers alone could handle anomalies. They had only received ordinary firearms training, never having faced anomalies before.

Two security officers were so frightened their legs went weak. In just a moment of hesitation, their heads were bitten off by the parasitized individuals’ opened flesh-petal heads!

At that moment, the Aberrants hidden among the panicked passengers also took action. But their target wasn’t the passengers or security officers—it was the parasitized individuals attacking the passengers.

These Aberrants also wanted to remain hidden, but the parasitized individuals clearly attacked indiscriminately, regardless of their Aberrant status.

They were originally just “spies” sent by the eccentric organization to keep an eye on Shen Ge, but who would have thought they would run into such a vicious and bizarre incident?

The leader of this new-type Aberrant reconnaissance team currently regretted his decision deeply. Had he known they’d get dragged into an anomaly incident, he would have rather revealed themselves to Shen Ge and sought cooperation from the start, instead of letting two companions die for no reason.

The Aberrants’ actions quickly caught Kaede Hanabi’s attention. Seeing them dealing with the parasitized individuals, she didn’t let her guard down. Instead, she seized the opportunity to have Li Jianjun lead the security officers in retreat, trying to evacuate passengers in an orderly manner as much as possible.

It wasn’t that the security officers were unwilling to evacuate economy class passengers initially, treating passengers from the three cabins with inequality. It was that first class and business class had limited space and simply couldn’t accommodate so many people.

However, during the evacuation, a loud boom suddenly echoed. The midsection of the cabin collapsed, the floor seemingly torn open as if by an invisible force, causing many to fall to the lower level.

Those who fell discovered, to their horror, that they hadn’t fallen into the lower cabin, but rather into what seemed like the belly of a giant beast!

All sorts of terrifying, anomalous internal organs, writhing intestines, thick and disgusting flesh walls!
“Help!”

“Save me!”

“Ah—”

Before these passengers could react, the flesh wall beneath their feet “writhed,” gradually swallowing them like quicksand!

In the dark space, a thump-thump sound, reminiscent of a heartbeat, could faintly be heard. It was as if the people in the aircraft were now standing atop a gigantic heart.