Chapter 153: Two Notes, One Scrap of Paper
Yu Sheng quickly found the two records.
The first thing he saw was a note hastily written by an on-site operator who had remained inside the laboratory. By the time the note was written, the operation had already spiraled out of control, and the laboratory was under lockdown. The note was therefore chaotic and hurried, with many sections that the writer had either crossed out for unknown reasons or deliberately left blank:
"Isolation doors have descended. Alarms are blaring everywhere. Hallucinations and noise are invading my mind, and I can't determine how much longer I'll be able to remain conscious. I'm leaving this final record here and will record as completely as possible everything I have seen and felt... But my senses are being affected, so this record may contain distorted or altered content. I hope that subsequent investigators will distinguish carefully and treat these words with caution.
"Both deep divers who returned from the deep-diving device are gradually dying. Neither the equipment nor the medical personnel on-site can determine the cause. Their consciousness, or what you might call their 'souls,' seems to have been destroyed by something before they returned to reality. They are now merely two bodies still undergoing biochemical reactions, maintaining activity through inertia and attempting to transmit their final intelligence outward...
"The one in better condition kept repeating several strange words until he completely lost the ability to speak. He repeatedly mentioned 'a baby crying' and 'an umbilical cord,' as well as 'slumber' and 'distortion.' He also mentioned a word that seemed to be 'ship,' or something similar, but it was nearly a scream and impossible to make out...
"I can't imagine what they saw or experienced 'on the other side.' It was clearly something beyond human understanding.