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Time seemed to pass incredibly slowly at this moment.
Jing Xia and the other two were no longer sitting quietly in their chairs. They all focused their attention and intently watched the scene in the opposite room. Zhang Sijing's nervous face began to turn pale, as if she had overexerted her ability and was having trouble adapting.
Everything was proceeding steadily as everyone had expected. The warm white light in the girl's palm silently hinted at the smooth progress of the experiment.
Just as the white light became brighter and more stable, after an unknown amount of time, Zhang Sijing suddenly exclaimed, then her whole body abruptly retreated, almost falling to the ground! The white light covering Su Weishang's forehead instantly disappeared. The young man, who was supposed to be in a state of anesthesia, seemed to mumble uncomfortably. His delicate brows slightly furrowed, as if he was about to wake up from the anesthesia.
Qi Yang immediately turned his head and gave the assistant a look. The assistant immediately increased the anesthetic, successfully calming Su Weishang's restless eyes, and his breathing gradually stabilized.
Zhang Sijing struggled to stand up, leaning against the heavy black machine. As she raised her head, her frightened and terrified eyes looked tremblingly at Qi Yang, whose face was serious, and she said in a trembling voice, "M-Major, this person... this person is not normal!"
This sentence was like a bolt of lightning, exploding upon landing, shocking everyone.
Ji Chuancheng immediately activated the communicator, and in the next second, a deep male voice echoed throughout the laboratory with a hint of urgency, "What's the problem? What's wrong with him?"
Zhang Sijing trembled in fear, "It's... he's absorbing my ability! When I was scanning his... his chest, I felt a kind of attraction like a black hole, swallowing my ability. I wanted to take it back, but I felt like I was being pulled by something. The powerful suction almost drained all my ability!"
Grasping the key point in her words, Qi Yang frowned and asked, "Suction?"
"Yes!" Zhang Sijing finally seemed to suppress the terror that came from deep within her heart. She swallowed and replied, "Major Qi, it's not just my ability, I feel that when I touch 'it', my blood, tissues, bones, they all creak, as if they are being drawn in. But... I have a feeling that if I'm really sucked in, I'm afraid— I'll die."
"It's Su Weishang's mysterious power!" Jing Xia's voice suddenly rose, echoing in both rooms through the communicator's connection. He muttered to himself, "Could it be his ability? No... he doesn't have double abilities, his wind ability is definitely normal, so what the hell is this..."
"Is there anything else abnormal?" A calm voice sounded beside Jing Xia, interrupting his words.
He instinctively turned his head to look, and saw Ji Chuancheng staring at the young man in the center of the laboratory with deep eyes. Except for his beautiful and delicate features, everything else seemed ordinary and no different from other people his age. But this boy, who was so normal in every way, possessed a special power that no one present could understand.
This time had allowed Zhang Sijing to calm down enough. She suppressed the bone-chilling feeling of death in her heart, thought carefully for a moment, and then replied, "Although the contact was very short, I'm very sure that when my ability was sucked away by that force, I clearly encountered— an anomaly in the weak interaction of molecular quarks, just like the green jade stone that Major Qi asked me to test before, the CKM matrix element anomaly."
As these words landed, everyone present fell silent.
Except for the assistant Zhang Bendan and the lab assistant who didn't understand what was happening, it was no longer realistic for Jing Xia to ignore the possible existence of this bizarre reason.
The green stone and Su Weishang.
And even... the small green stone that was swallowed by Chirpy.
When all the impossible things began to point to the same place, when all the unscientific clues converged into the same explanation, it became possible to say things that were impossible, and it became the final answer.
Slowly raising his head, Jing Xia pressed the communicator, sighed, and said, "I think... I have an idea."
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Under the puzzled gazes of Zhang Bendan and the others, the lab assistant pushed Su Weishang, who was still unconscious, out of the laboratory, leaving only Jing Xia, Ji Chuancheng, and Qi Yang in the closed and secure underground laboratory, with silence spreading.
The bright, blinding incandescent light made the already cool temperature drop a few degrees. Jing Xia stood under the round ceiling light, slightly lowering his head, blocking most of the light above. Time passed quietly. He didn't speak for a long time.
Finally, Jing Xia couldn't help but express his opinion first, "I've spent more time with Su Weishang than you guys, and this whole thing... you're also helping me solve a problem that's been weighing on my mind. And now, I think I can guess the reason."
"You think... this?"
Speaking in a matter-of-fact tone, Qi Yang reached out and took a jade stone, as green and clear as jade, from his coat pocket. The moment it appeared in the three people's field of vision, it was as if deep, clear water was rippling within it, creating waves.
"Since we have the apocalypse, then... I think the existence of magical artifacts is also possible." Jing Xia solemnly looked at the green jade in Qi Yang's palm and said, "Over the years in China, there have been countless legends of gods and immortals. I think this is very likely a magical artifact that Su Weishang obtained, allowing him to absorb whatever he wants."
Upon hearing this, Ji Chuancheng frowned slightly, "You think... this thing's function is to absorb objects from afar?"
Jing Xia nodded, as if he had thought of something else, and immediately added, "Maybe it also has a function to... hide objects from afar?" As he said this, even Jing Xia himself felt it was a bit inaccurate. He pondered for a moment and said, "I think... this thing might be able to hold things inside?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Jing Xia and Ji Chuancheng's gazes both shifted to Qi Yang, who was calmly observing everything. The latter still had a smirk on his face. Suddenly seeing the two people's gazes focused on him, he was slightly stunned, then smiled, "It seems... you want to hear my opinion?"
Jing Xia nodded, "Yes. After all, you seem to have done a lot of research on these abnormal... cough, strange things."
Hearing Jing Xia's words, the smile in Qi Yang's eyes deepened. He didn't mind the sarcasm in the other person's words, and instead seemed to take it as a compliment, chuckling and saying, "Magical artifacts? That's almost impossible. The China Nine Bureau has been dedicated to research in this area for many years, conducting many experiments but ultimately failed to find those legendary things. I don't think we'll be able to easily get proof."
Playing with the smooth and transparent jade in his hand, the smile on Qi Yang's face slowly disappeared and he continued, "After I dissected that mutated rose in the S City Base, I extracted its spinal fluid and mutated nucleus, mixed it with some things I had discovered from other mutated creatures, and condensed it into an energy body." After a pause, he added, "This energy body later became the energy center of that high-power, high-speed electromagnetic cannon."
Not quite understanding what he meant, Jing Xia frowned in confusion and was about to ask, when he heard Qi Yang say with a serious expression, "I still haven't discovered the cause of this mutation, and I haven't found any patterns in it. The type, intensity, and direction of the mutation, these are all things I can't choose. If I were to admit that magical artifacts exist in the world, I'd rather believe that this jade stone, or Su Weishang himself, due to a special mutation in his CKM matrix element, has formed a dimension that others cannot detect, an independent space."
"Independent space?" Grasping the key word in his words, Ji Chuancheng lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then added, "This could explain why he can hide and take things out. But how does that suction work?"
"In 1960, five US reconnaissance planes disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle in broad daylight. If you want to form a space that can swallow five of the most advanced fighter jets at the time, you can compare it to something similar to a black hole. However, this black hole is currently under human control, specifically Su Weishang's personal control, so it won't indiscriminately absorb things." Qi Yang's voice was calm and composed, but his tone was a bit urgent, "Dimensions are a realm that I currently cannot access, but I'm now 80% sure that Su Weishang possesses a dimensional space similar to a black hole."
Ji Chuancheng's deep eyes lightly scanned the green and crystal-clear jade stone. Under the light, the jade stone emitted an abnormal, brilliant light, as if silently echoing Qi Yang's words.
Ji Chuancheng pondered for a moment and said, "If we explain it this way, then all the problems can be solved. Su Weishang, wind ability, ability value 176. In numerous missions and enemy attacks, he used his personal dimension to alleviate crises and concealed a large amount of resources unknown to others."
Jing Xia also suddenly realized, "He can easily obtain resources when others are struggling to find them, because he carries them with him. He can escape from danger time and time again, undoubtedly by using the space to suck in those things that threaten his life."
Qi Yang shook his head lightly. His fingers slightly tightened, holding the green jade in his palm, but the green light couldn't help but leak out from between his fingers, showcasing its unique color.
"No, I don't think his dimension can contain living things. First, if he really has such a high-level ability, then he wouldn't need to personally face mutated beasts, he could just use a thought to absorb all the living things in his field of vision into space. If he really had this ability, he wouldn't be someone humanity needs to guard against, but— a savior."
Jing Xia looked at Qi Yang's serious and solemn expression and nodded understandingly. The latter continued to explain, "Second, I've been paying special attention to what you and Zhang Sijing said. 'Danger', 'death'. When you felt that suction, there was a premonition: being sucked in means death. Based on this reason, I deduce that Su Weishang's space cannot suck in living things, only dead things, and if it does suck in living things, there are only two possibilities."
"First, the living thing dies, without any other side effects."
"Second, the living thing dies, and there is a great backlash effect on Su Weishang himself."