It was about two hours and twenty-five minutes ago that I arrived in this city, which was completely dark.
And what happened in those short two hours and twenty-five minutes was so terrifying that I had to leave this record.
First, I want to state that I was not the only one teleported to this city. Some employees of the organization also came with me, most of them high-level employees of Grade Three or above. However, the directors of each department were separated.
We were in a meeting when we were suddenly teleported to this city without any warning.
Any kind of teleportation should have had corresponding signs before it happened, such as glowing, dizziness, or loss of consciousness.
But this time, there were no signs at all. When I came to my senses, I was already in this city.
This was the first time I had encountered such a forced teleportation. Some of us immediately realized that something unexpected had happened.
Then we started to investigate our surroundings.
Unlike the ‘darkness’ of Black Street, this city was truly pitch black. If it weren’t for the fact that everyone around us was a ghost scholar, creating light in various ways, we would have had to grope our way in the dark.
Although succubi have night vision, of course.
Actually, it wasn’t that bad at first. On the contrary, the people around me were full of curiosity about this unknown place.
The employees in the organization are all guys with strong curiosity. Sometimes their desire for knowledge even outweighs their survival instinct. There are even fervent employees who want to know even if they die.
This place was like an unexplored inner world, where everything was unknown, so most people were in high spirits.
In the distance, part of the city center seemed to have light, and it looked like some video was being played. But because the place where we were teleported was too remote, a wilderness where not even a single building could be seen, we couldn’t hear or see what was being broadcast there.
But in any case, the presence of light meant there were people there. I temporarily made an action plan to head towards the city center first.
However, this not-so-long journey was not peaceful.
Because it wasn’t just us who came to this city. There were other anomalies, and even some anomalies that were still being held in the Black Youth Pavilion appeared.
They appeared before us brazenly and mocked us endlessly.
So, I decided to show him some color.
However, it was supposed to be an on-the-spot capture. But one of the Control Department staff, because they couldn’t reveal internal organizational information, let’s just call her Employee A for now.
Employee A shot the anomaly dead on the spot.
Employee A was a Grade Four employee. Employees of Grade Four or above in the organization had the authority to execute anomalies on the spot. But Employee A was usually a stable person. As one of the core members of the Control Department, she participated in almost every suppression mission, and for the sake of obtaining follow-up information, she would choose to capture them alive.
Even stranger was that none of us thought her behavior was wrong.
Looking back now, it was obvious that we had already been initially affected.
Then Employee B from the Research and Development Department, who specialized in occult studies, excitedly came to the corpse and told us:
“Subject B-801 is still alive!”
None of us understood her words, because no matter how you looked at it, this anomaly was completely dead.
But she said, “This is just the body losing its function. In terms of the concept of death, this person is not dead yet.”
“Because…”
“Because the soul is locked!”
The soul is locked.
If it were in the outside world, after any being died, its soul would return to the cycle of death and rebirth. Even if it became a ghost, the connection with the body would be severed.
It would be defined as ‘already dead’.
But it’s different in this inner world. The connection between the soul and the body is not severed. It’s like being connected by a chain, and even if the ‘body completely disappears,’ this connection won’t break.
Actually, this is unreasonable. After all, if the body is truly gone, what is the soul connected to?
An unsolvable problem, a paradox.
Rather than saying this is the rule of this world, it’s more like a loophole in this world.
After discovering this, we also realized that things were not good. Because this meant that as long as they could regenerate themselves, they would never die in this world.
And many of the anomalies we held had regenerative abilities. If those anomalies were also teleported to this world, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Death is actually not that scary. Death is also a rule, a limit, a concept that all living things should revere.
Often, the thing that anomalies fear the most in the end is death. Because they fear death and don’t want to die, they were caught by us.
And if the concept of death disappeared…
Wouldn’t those anomalies go wild?
Realizing this, we immediately launched a pursuit plan.
To capture all the escaped anomalies.
Although we couldn’t contact the outside world, and we didn’t know how to get out at this stage, with these elite employees who had been through countless shura fields, we would definitely complete the mission smoothly.
After all, we had endured all sorts of terrifying situations before.
One hour later.
I realized I was too naive.
I overlooked a crucial issue.
Why did I think that the organization’s employees could remain normal in this world?
Originally, most of them were anomalies themselves. They already possessed ‘abnormalities’.
Things started to go wrong with Employee ID.522.
She suddenly said, “I want to try modifying the soul and see if I can break this ‘immortal’ state.”
Modifying the soul is a forbidden act within the organization. Because of the soul’s special nature, there are too many unexplored aspects, and it’s easy to cause accidents. Therefore, modifying the soul is forbidden, and anyone who violates it will be imprisoned in the Black Youth Pavilion.
I also emphasized again. She seemed to agree on the surface but looked very unwilling. I saw that, but because the situation was special now, there was no time to guide her.
After successively capturing a few anomalies, while we were interrogating them, Employee A brutally killed one of the anomalies.
She claimed she was just trying to get information and accidentally lost control, but the violent aura in her eyes had already begun to emerge.
I sensed that something was wrong and thought it would be better to correct it first, so I ordered everyone to rest nearby for a while.
At this time, Employee B and Employee D secretly modified the anomaly’s soul behind my back.
The anomaly’s body became extremely swollen, like a… creature.
“The soul affects the shape of the vessel! Ahhh! So the soul is not just a black box! It can truly affect the physical body! This is definitely a world-shattering discovery!”
“Leader! We have now grasped the biggest secret of the underworld! This is why they want to reclaim souls!”
Her eyes were full of fanaticism, more excited than ever, reaching a climax.
Although people in the organization have always been abnormal, especially those lunatics in the Research and Development Department who call themselves scientists, they always come up with some messy and astonishing experiments, but they also have bottom lines and follow the organization’s rules.
But they all became so strange.
So strange.
Everyone became so strange!
Shouldn’t something have made them stranger than usual?
And the situation continued to spiral out of control.
At this time, the modified soul lost control, absorbing other nearby anomalies, and the souls mixed together, engulfing the employees as well, swelling into a giant monster. It was no longer recognizable as human, like a hybrid of a stitched-together chimera.
At this instant, a bright light burst forth in the sky, so dazzling it was like the sun.
Then came a terrible heat, and it hit the ground!
Instantly, extreme heat dissolved everything. Everything in sight was broken down into dust. I was almost caught in it, but at the edge, I was still grazed, and my legs were taken away.
And that monster was also decomposed, but then regenerated.
There is no death in this world.
Beings that can regenerate do not die.
Is it really a good thing to be unable to die?
No, it’s the worst!
Enduring the severe pain, I spread my wings and fled the scene. It was truly pathetic.
I am the leader of the organization, but I could only watch as my subordinates… If it were her, she definitely wouldn’t have let things turn out like this…
I vaguely felt like I had forgotten something, but I couldn’t recall it at all.
Have I become strange too?
I closed the notebook. I’ll write the report here for now.
I leaned against the wall, exhausted, and the sounds gradually faded into the distance.
So tired.
My body is so tired.
My heart is also so tired.
I feel like I can’t hold on anymore.
I really want to lean by his side.
At this moment, I heard someone say:
“Huh? How strange, you haven’t been affected by the madness.”
