Chapter 840: Mysterious Events
Many people could not withstand the flood-like surge of Primordial Information pouring into their brains. After suffering nightmares for days and nights on end, their Mind Indexes plummeted, their minds collapsed, and they suffered Cultivation Deviation.
Some had vacant eyes, haggard faces, and trembled nonstop. Even the faintest change in light or sound could make them scream and faint.
Others flew into violent frenzies, attacking people without distinguishing black from white. They knew neither pain nor fatigue; even when locked in Spirit Energy Shackles, they would snap their own limbs by force to escape and continue attacking. They had practically become "enhanced zombies."
Still others became completely lost in their nightmares, mistaking themselves for real monsters. Wearing human skin, they displayed the habits of all manner of beasts—some reversed their joints like arthropods and crawled across the ground; some hung upside down from ceilings like bats, sleeping by day and emerging by night; some lurked in dark, damp places, going days and nights without food or water, utterly motionless.
Including the Relic Research Institute, every faction was helpless in the face of this mysterious phenomenon.
The experts theorized that, during humanity's experiments on the "Giant Brain," they might have accidentally stimulated active tissue of the "mother body" that remained in deep hibernation. This caused the "mother body" to release a few more ripples of spiritual energy, stirring Stormy Waves within human brains.
Yet even after humanity suspended its experiments on the "Giant Brain," and even injected massive amounts of Mithril Stabilizing Fluid and Hibernation Potion into it, freezing the enormous Giant Brain hundreds of meters in diameter solid—
The nightmares randomly appearing in the depths of the Transcendents' minds still did not subside. Instead, they only grew fiercer by the day.
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