Corpse of the Source

Wu Pifu looked at the nearly endless negative energy before him. His first suspicion was that something had gone wrong with the pre-Third War hibernators sleeping in this laboratory.

From the information obtained so far, it was clear that the Azure Government had long discovered abnormalities in the people cryogenically hibernated before the Third War, and several incidents had occurred because of them. Afterward, as the Azure Government became corrupt, its upper ranks and elites separated themselves from the public, their desires growing ever more bloated. They progressed from ordinary extravagance to eating human flesh and drinking human blood—literally—while ideas of longevity, immortality, transcending the mundane, controlling the supernatural, and so on arose alongside them.

Human civilization in this era was still within the absolute reality layer, one with not even the slightest sign of the Dream World. Therefore, supernatural power was absolutely impossible in this era. Even the Biochemical Beast Tide merely possessed power suspected to be supernatural.

The Biochemical Beast Tide in the real world was vastly different from the Super Soldier Dream World Wu Pifu had experienced. That had merely been an information projection of the Biochemical Beast Tide in the Dream World. There was no First-Born God in the real world.

Even the thirteen Singularity Corporations that appeared later, or the Singularity Technology mastered by the Human Revolutionary Union, were pseudo-supernatural phenomena forcibly built up through technology. At their roots, they could still be explained by science.

From the Azure Government all the way to the era of the Fourth War, only two things possessed genuine and unquestionable supernatural characteristics. One was the negative backlash mutations that occurred a year after the pre-Third War cryogenic hibernators awakened. The other was Superbrain users.

At this point in time, the Superbrain was still unknown to the world. The