How Could They Dare Stay Without a Backup Plan?
"On July 20 of the summer before you were admitted, the entire city suffered a power outage. But it wasn't just a blackout. Several nearby provinces also experienced precision instruments shutting down, which led to several major accidents. The area affected was too vast, and technology at the time couldn't explain what had happened, so the matter was sealed away."
"Ten years ago, when you were seventeen, the same thing happened again, but on a much smaller scale. Researchers at the time believed that fluctuations in Cosmic Matter had affected the instruments. Some monitoring equipment did indeed detect abnormal energy fluctuations."
Team Leader Wu paused. "Neither incident could be explained back then, but from where we stand now..."
"Another civilization... or, rather, Players invaded District 014." Xu Huo picked up where he left off, quickly skimming through the files as well. "District 014 is located at the E27 wormhole point. There must be other wormhole points beyond it. There are civilizations that created the game and Players who entered it long ago. So it's not entirely impossible that someone crossed the vastness of space and arrived in one or two less advanced civilizations."
After hearing Yang Chao's account yesterday, he had already formed a theory. These files only confirmed his suspicions.
The second sealed report also dated back to before the other four children disappeared or died. He was certain that someone at the Seventeenth Hospital had deliberately been raising him and the other four children. He didn't know why, but as the only one who hadn't "disappeared" or "died," he had paid for it with Xu Zhi's life!
The bottle shattered with a sharp crack. Xu Huo shook his hand, then calmly pulled the shards embedded in his palm free