As soon as he heard Bai Liqing's story, Yu Sheng knew that the failure of that operation was destined to end - they had made a huge mistake, and it was so wrong.
However, this misjudgment is almost inevitable.
The weird characteristics of "Fairy Tale" are beyond the imagination of those who come into contact with them for the first time. Its slowness in the early stages of the outbreak, its weak effect, and the fact that it is only targeted at children are extremely confusing. And more importantly, it has an "ontology-child"
With such a unique "structure" like "Collection", the real core of "fairy tale" is hidden behind the dream stages it weaves, and the Secret Service decades ago... would not have been able to understand this.
Yu Sheng opened the file and slowly glanced at the action record codenamed "Adult". At the beginning of the file, there was another piece of information attached, which recorded the appearance of the "fairy tale" exotic land in more detail.
Records and its early impact events, most of which are consistent with what Little Red Riding Hood revealed to him in the orphanage.
The initial outbreak point of "Fairy Tale" was located in an orphanage called "Nuanyang Welfare Institute". The orphanage was affiliated to a public welfare unit under the council. About half a month before the initial outbreak, there was an incident in the orphanage.
There were several incidents of children waking up in their dreams and wandering around or fainting during the day. At night, some night watchmen reported hearing strange sounds like howling wolves, wind or soldiers marching in the accommodation area.
According to records, these situations did not attract official attention. In fact, the day after the night watchman reported the abnormality, a Secret Service investigation team entered the orphanage and conducted a detailed investigation. At the same time, a "weird doctor" accompanied them.
", and conducted physical examinations on children who suffered nightmares and fainting. It can be said that in terms of "standard procedures", the Secret Service and the Directorate at that time had done a good job, and there were no major omissions.
However, these investigations failed to find traces of the existence of "fairy tales" - perhaps because the technical means at the time were insufficient, or perhaps because the "fairy tales" at that time were really weak and still in the early latent stage, so much so that they could not even control the extraordinary
Even the skilled "exotic doctors" could not find any clues from those children's nightmares.
Shortly after the initial investigation ended, "Fairytale" finally "slightly" showed its fangs in the real world for the first time.
A wildly growing rose bush centered on the orphanage's accommodation area, covering the entire campus overnight - the rose bush receded at dawn, and the whereabouts of a girl and two night-time security guards have been unknown since then.
"We later confirmed that the first story that went out of control was "Sleeping Beauty," but at first, the Secret Service judged this incident to be just a 'leakage' phenomenon from an unknown foreign land, and believed that this foreign land was the orphan that was parasitic in that place.
"In the hospital," Bai Liqing's voice sounded from the side, "the council organized the evacuation of all the people in the orphanage and temporarily housed the children in other facilities. Then, a special service team composed of elite investigators
The Bureau's action team entered the orphanage and conducted an extremely thorough search there...
"It is not difficult to imagine that they did not find any clues related to foreign lands in the orphanage, and just when the investigation work reached a deadlock, a second case of loss of control occurred - a child who had been temporarily transferred suddenly fainted.
Turned into an out-of-control giant wolf.
"Fortunately, when we transferred those children, we considered the possibility that the personnel had been contaminated, so the new 'containment facility' had a higher security level, and the out-of-control giant wolf was quickly subdued, although we finally
We were unable to save the child, but the damage did not expand, and due to timely intervention, we finally captured some clues to the 'Fairy Tale'... We confirmed the existence of the 'Black Forest', which was the first to be confirmed and named
'Subset' of."
As she spoke, the female director pointed at the file in front of Yu Sheng.
"After this, it's the 'adult' action."
Yu Sheng looked at the follow-up content of the information without looking up: "Did you initially think that the 'Black Forest' was all about the 'Unknown Foreign Land'?"
"Yes, the existence of other 'subsets' could not be confirmed at that time," Baili Qing nodded. "The 'structure' of fairy tales was discovered long after that."
Yu Sheng hummed softly and continued to look down.
He saw that the Secret Service at that time used technical means to lock the "intervention window" in the "Black Forest" and conducted a "deep dive." The core of the entire so-called "Adult" operation was this deep dive.
After seeing the word "deep dive" mentioned in the information, the first thing Yu Sheng thought of was Xu Jiali - that tough man was a senior deep diver. According to previous inquiries from him and Li Lin,
After seeing some situations, Yu Sheng knew that the so-called "deep divers" were a kind of special agent who were more sophisticated than ordinary secret service agents.
Operators are more powerful, more versatile, and more elite "special operations team members". Not only are they good at performing extreme missions in various dangerous areas, but they can also enter some "battlefields" that ordinary people can't imagine through special equipment and technical means.
To fight against those things that are beyond reason and common sense.
"The 'deep dive' mentioned here...what is the specific process?" Yu Sheng asked curiously.
"You can think of it as a controlled and directed technology of 'sinking' towards a specific foreign land," Bailiqing did not hide it, as if this was not a secret. "By injecting inducers and covering neural signals, we
The consciousness of action personnel can be artificially drawn to the edge of the rational world, and then through specialized equipment, these 'hypnotized' personnel can be sent to a foreign land and awakened on the other side. This technology does not always work.
, but at least it works for most foreign lands.”
Irene, who was next to me, muttered: "...it sounds troublesome, and it feels very dangerous."
"Yes, it is troublesome and dangerous," Baili Qing nodded, her eyes falling on Yu Sheng, "especially compared with your 'door', but the advantage is that its process is controllable, reproducible and popular, and can be used in
More people - to fight against the huge number of foreign lands and entities, we need an equally large number of manpower."
Yu Sheng said nothing and just continued to turn to the next page.
However, the first thing that caught my eye was a long list.
The moment he saw the list, his expression changed slightly.
He heard Baili Qing's voice reaching his ears, still calm, but with an inexplicable heaviness and seriousness:
"In the operation codenamed 'Adult', a total of 12 deep divers, 13 Secret Service agents and seven logistics and auxiliary personnel were killed or missing. Another four children died on the spot due to loss of control in foreign lands, and six
The peripheral surveillance personnel were affected by the impact and fell into madness within a few years and eventually died early."
This time, even Irene, who was always laughing and joking, suddenly stopped laughing. The little doll was stunned, looking at the information with complicated eyes, and did not speak for a long time.
Yu Sheng flipped through the pages with a serious expression. He skipped the content that was too professional or already known, and his eyes scanned the action records line after line -
The deep divers conducted a total of three "dives", and the first attempt failed. The inducer made the personnel involved in the operation fall into a coma for a period of time. However, at the hazy "border of consciousness", they only found a barrier of chaos.
Unable to enter any foreign interior.
In the second attempt, some of them briefly entered an "empty, dark space, entangled with a large number of strange mesh structures", and heard that the space was filled with "crying noises" - which did not seem to be
Any subset of fairy tales.
In the third attempt, massive casualties broke out.
Almost all the deep-diving team members who entered the "different space" were lost instantly. Only two people survived and "returned", but they only survived for a few dozen minutes before they quickly became weak to death due to unknown reasons. Then the pollution broke out, and some unknown
The "thing" entered the real world and began rapidly killing all adults present.
At a critical moment, safety procedures came into play, the facility was quickly shut down, and the contamination was contained in the laboratory, but at the cost of the Secret Service agents and other staff who were unable to evacuate - and four children.
Yu Sheng's brows furrowed little by little. Looking at the observation records during the second dive and the loss of control during the third dive mentioned in the action record, he always felt that something was wrong.
Soon, he realized where this sense of dissonance came from.
"...Did they enter the 'Black Forest'?"
He raised his head, looked into Baili Qing's eyes, and then added: "I have been in the black forest. There are indeed dangerous things there, including wolves, shadows, and some deadly rules, but as for me,
My personal feeling is that as long as you are more cautious after entering, at least it will not be fatal in the short term - even if adults will encounter targeted malice there, it will not be like what is mentioned in the report..."
He shook his head and said nothing more.
——Those deep divers who have received professional training and rich combat experience should not be so quick after entering the "fairy tale" even if their entire army is eventually wiped out.
Because the Black Forest does not have a "mechanism" that instantly swallows intruders, nor is it a space filled with "crying noises", and is also "empty, dark, and entangled with a large number of strange network structures."
"Yes, this is the crux of the problem." Faced with the students' questions, Baili Qing nodded gently, "According to the direct observation data left at the time, the place they entered...is not actually the Black Forest."
Yu Sheng's eyes widened: "Where is that?!"
"It could be a 'subset' that is only open to adults, or it could be the 'nihility area' between subsets, or it could even be a deeper 'fairy tale' ontology, there are too many possibilities," Baili
Chapter completed!