Case Review

Inside the Dark Sky Eye.

All types of detectors detected the unidentified intruder.

The entire interior of the base was flashing red light.

The piercing alarm sounded like a terrified girl screaming, but no matter how long she screamed, no one would come to her aid.

The base's Guardian, and all sorts of staff, had now turned into skeletons scattered in the corners, visible everywhere.

Qin Yiguan and his two companions walked slowly down the corridor.

Since the alarm system is working, it's highly likely that the base is still operating normally.

The Caregiver used the spatial rift in his hand to cut a line of molten metal on the giant alloy door in front of him.

Rumble.

The massive alloy door was pushed open by the Underworld.

Ahead lies the core area of the entire base, codenamed ' Pupil '.

Upon entering, one discovers a vast spherical space with a long, narrow floating passageway leading directly to the center of the sphere.

The inner wall of this spherical shape is densely packed with at least a million void screens, one next to the other.

at this time.

Although these screens were lit, they all displayed a straight line and a few Chinese characters: 'In Hibernation'.

The device is working fine, but it has inexplicably gone into hibernation.

Qin Yiguan narrowed his eyes slightly, "God's Abandoned, can you handle it?"

The black AI on the shoulder slowly rose, rotated slightly, and the visual detectors gradually lit up.

The Caregiver and the Underworld stared silently at the little gadget.

From the moment Qin Yiguan appeared, they were quite curious about this little gadget, because in their own universes, there was no such thing as Personal Brain, nor did the concept of it exist.

"No problem."

"But I need to readjust to the internet in this world."

God's Abandoned responded with one sentence and then fell silent, while the visual detectors flashed even more intensely.

Qin Yiguan and his two companions stood at the very front of the floating passage, and began to wait, silently waiting.

Suddenly.

The screens within the entire spherical space went out instantly, and when they lit up again, a hazy eye pattern slowly appeared against a dark background.

This eye is made up of simple lines, yet it has a captivating illusion.

It was as if millions of eyes were watching Qin Yiguan and his companions intently from all angles.

When the eyes first appeared, they were shrouded in mist, but as time passed, the eye pattern became clearer.

This is similar to a program restart process.

Swish!

The millions of eyes on the millions of screens suddenly went out, and then the entire spherical space lit up, with all the screens combining to form a single pattern.

A single, enormous eye appeared in the sky!

They watched over us as if we were gods.

The three men, Qin Yiguan, felt a strange sense of unease as they faced the enormous pattern.

"Nailed it."

The voice of God's Abandoned came.

The giant eye disappeared, and the spherical space transformed into millions of tiny screens!

Sizzle...

One of the small sections of the screen slowly lit up.

The scene became clearer, revealing a quiet park.

Another screen lit up.

It was a private bedroom, with a wedding photo of a newlywed couple on the wall, and on the red bed, a pair of snow-white skeletons embracing each other.

More screens lit up.

Schools, police stations, highways, shopping malls, public transportation cabins, tunnels, military restricted areas... countless images appear one by one.

The entire spherical space is now a kaleidoscope of colors, transforming from cold and desolate to vibrant and lively.

But all these scenes have one thing in common: there isn't a single living person in them.

Because this is real-time monitoring.

Underworld and Caregiver looked at the world with sighs.

Qin Yiguan slightly opened his eyes. "Retrieve footage from two years ago, from a random perspective."

In an instant, the scene changed.

All the scenes are played in reverse, taking us back two years.

The scenery is the same, but the content gives people a completely different feeling. The scene is bustling with activity and people are making a great commotion!

Residents of all kinds, dressed in all sorts of ways, went about their lives as usual, some laughing happily, others frowning; there were Child playing, adults under immense work pressure, and elderly people who were very old.

In conclusion

Once you gain popularity, the whole world changes.

Two years ago, this was a normal world.

Qin Yiguan's emotions were complex; "The timeline is moving forward by one month."

Millions of images change instantly.

Qin Yiguan's Pupil suddenly contracted!

That moment was like Hell.

Everyone is dead! They've all been killed!

Not one was spared!

But their bodies were not completely decomposed; the wounds on their necks were still open. Although the bloodstains on the ground had dried, a dark red flower had formed in front of each corpse, and various flies were swarming around the bodies.

The impact of this scene is even more brutal than facing Hell directly.

One second a living, breathing human being is the next a corpse lying in the street; the contrast is so stark that it's hard to accept.

"The body is only slightly decomposed; the time of death is not long."

Qin Yiguan remained calm. "Time has moved forward by two days."

The scene was bizarre, like a twisted nightmare.

In that instant, people came back to life, and the world was once again bustling with activity.

The killer hasn't committed the crime yet.

Qin Yiguan maintained his composure, saying, "Let's move forward one day."

The constant switching of the screen caused discomfort in the eyes of the other three people, and a slight dizziness in their brains.

Then, a scene as horrific as Hell suddenly appeared.

Everyone in the scene is either crooked or lying down, with a hideous wound on their neck, dripping with blood, the skin rolled back, exposing the neck bone!

The Caregiver gritted her teeth, suppressing the gagging that was rising in her throat.

He wasn't unfamiliar with corpses; he had even killed people.

But the extreme reversal and distorted impact of this million-pixel high-resolution image was unbearable for him!

The Underworld tilted his head slightly, gritting his teeth as well, and said, "What the hell have I done to deserve seeing these things!"

Qin Yiguan's expression grew increasingly grim. "Let's rewind time by 24 hours."

The scene changes.

People lived peacefully in the twilight.

"Move forward 10 hours!"

At dawn, corpses littered the fields.

"Rewind time by 5 hours!"

"Fast forward 2.5 hours!"

"Go back one hour!"

Fast forward half an hour!

"Rewind 15 minutes!"

Fast forward 7.5 minutes!

"Rewind 3 minutes!"

"..."

Fast forward 10 seconds!

Rewind 5 seconds!

The scenes keep changing, but the strong contrast remains!

The expressions of Qin Yiguan and the other two were utterly shocked!

Five seconds ago they were alive, five seconds later, everyone had their throats slit!

5 seconds!

All of humanity is dead!

How is that possible!

Qin Yiguan originally wanted to carefully observe the scene before and after the murder to gather as much information as possible.

But the result shocked him.

The timeframe has been narrowed down to 5 seconds.

Before, people were alive; after, people died!

The murderer has not yet appeared!