Source of World-Ending
This was a handwritten work log.
"July 12, Deep Blue No. 3 officially launched for the '?????' obliteration mission. As the general person in charge of Deep Blue No. 3, I will have full command over this operation."
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"Early morning of July 13, Deep Blue No. 3 successfully dived deep to 600 ters. After continuous patrol and search of the target area, no signs of '?????' activity were found."
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"Afternoon of July 13, Deep Blue No. 3 received orders to continue diving deeper to 750 ters."
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"Deep Blue No. 3 still hasn't found any signs of deep-sea animal activity."
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"After discussion at the Command Center eting, it was decided to let Deep Blue No. 3 dive deep to 820 ters. This is the deep dive limit of a military nuclear submarine. If traces of '?????' still aren't found, we can only think of other thods."
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"Currently, Deep Blue No. 3 has reached the target depth. After multiple investigations, there are still no traces of '?????'... The Command Center ultimately decided to let Deep Blue No. 3 temporarily surface and dispatch the special deep subrsible Rover for deeper exploration. If possible, use the Rover to lure '?????' to a depth of around 750 ters, and let Deep Blue No. 3 use thermal weapons to forcibly obliterate it."
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"The continuous deep-sea exploration missions have exhausted everyone in Deep Blue No. 3 imnsely. Fortunately, as the Rover began to dive, we got a chance to rest. The al standards equipped in Deep Blue No. 3 this ti are very good. This might be our only comfort in the deep sea."
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"As a world-top special deep subrsible, the Rover's maximum deep dive depth is 10,700 ters. By the ti we finished resting on Deep Blue No. 3, it had already completed a deep dive of 5,500 ters. But strangely, it still hasn't found traces of '?????'."
"How is this possible? According to sighting reports, the size of '?????' is extrely massive. A whale, if at a depth of 5,500 ters, would have long been crushed to pieces by the water pressure, right??"
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"The Rover has already dived deep to 7,600 ters... Further down is the life forbidden zone for vertebrate animals. Do we really have to descend below 10,000 ters? But at that depth, shouldn't there only be microorganisms and an extrely small number of amphipod crustaceans able to exist?"
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"Strange, communication with the Command Center suddenly cut off, and the Rover has also completely lost contact. It shouldn't be a problem with Deep Blue No. 3, is it a technical failure on the Command Center's side?"
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"Sothing's wrong. All electronic equipnt on Deep Blue No. 3 has also malfunctioned. Technicians inspected but couldn't find any problems... It's like they all inexplicably failed completely. What's going on??"
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"In deep-sea operations, losing electronic equipnt is equivalent to going blind. I've decided to let Deep Blue No. 3 start surfacing to establish contact with the Command Center first."
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"Now we have surfaced to the shallow water area! But for so reason, the marine life in the entire sea area seems to have gone crazy. I heard a loud noise, as if sothing crashed into the sea... That was definitely not a cannonball. Was it a teorite? Or sothing else??"
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"Red... the sea area that the chanical periscope can see has completely turned red! Sothing is surfacing from the deep sea, heading towards that red color! Just what exactly is..."
As the content of the work log went further back, the handwriting beca increasingly scribbled. The final "is" character wasn't even fully written before everything abruptly stopped.
Chen Ling's brows furrowed tightly.
If Chen Ling was only suspicious before, now after seeing this work log, he could be almost certain that the Xitan Nation Experintal Subject here was the Calamity of Taboo... Or rather, the early stage Calamity of Taboo.
After humanity in this world put the Calamity of Taboo into the seabed, it seed to have undergone so sort of change again in the deep sea. Just as humanity was about to use a nuclear submarine to obliterate it, the Red Star descended.
From the few words and phrases on this, Chen Ling couldn't deduce the full picture of the event. But if nothing unexpected happened, it should be that after the Red Star descended, it caused all technological equipnt to fail, cutting off the communication between Deep Blue No. 3 and the Command Center. Imdiately after, the Red Star pierced straight through this Candlelight World.
Unlike brushing past the Human Domains, under a head-on collision, human civilization in this world collapsed almost instantly. And that teorite that crashed into the sea was most likely a fragnt split off after the Red Star pierced through the Candlelight World...
One of the fragnts crashed into the ocean and was exactly swallowed by the Xitan Nation Experintal Subject, and only this created the Calamity of Taboo and the Forbidden Sea.
If following this logic, then the other World-Ending Calamities and Calamity territories were also created by Red Star Fragnts?
He himself was also a product of a Red Star Fragnt?
No wonder he could absorb Red Star Aspiration Power from the Scarlet Heaven Cult... If the Calamity of Mockery was compared to a monster born amidst Nuclear Radiation, then after being affected by Nuclear Radiation, it could naturally also treat the radiation itself as nourishnt. Moreover, theoretically speaking, the other World-Ending Calamities could too. It was just that they wouldn't often leave their territories, and most importantly, in their peak periods, they already looked down on this tiny bit of snack that wasn't even enough to fill the gaps between their teeth.
"The fragnts split by the Red Star in the Gray World created the Six Great Extinctions; the fragnts split when passing over the sky of Earth created the Nine Monarchs..."
"Just how terrifying is the main body of the Red Star??"
As expected of an existence capable of piercing through a Candlelight World...
At the sa ti, the youth's figure also unhurriedly entered from the opening of the submarine. Seeing Chen Ling holding a pile of docunts in his hands reading carefully, he glanced at him in surprise:
"You can read these?"
Chen Ling was taken aback, then nodded, "Yeah."
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"What's wrong?"
"Nothing... Did you discover anything?"
Seeing a trace of curiosity in the youth's eyes, Chen Ling finally realized that the youth before him wasn't uninterested in the birth of Calamities... He truly couldn't read them.
Chen Ling briefly stated his discoveries and deductions. After the youth finished listening, he nodded slightly:
"Your deduction should be correct."
"If the prototype of the Calamity of Taboo was an experintal subject abused by humans... then what are the prototypes of the other World-Ending Calamities?" Chen Ling paused for a mont. "What is the prototype of the Calamity of Mockery?"
Although Chen Ling was curious about the prototypes of the other World-Ending Calamities, what he truly cared about and concerned himself with was still himself.
He couldn't imagine exactly what kind of existence could evolve into a monster like the Calamity of Mockery, which was internally divided and fighting itself?
The youth shook his head. "I am not Omniscient and Omnivision, and even my understanding of these two worlds of yours is far inferior to yours... Most of the ti, I stay in Civilization Embers, so I have no way to answer your question."
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