Doomsday: I Build an Infinite Train.

Chapter 475 Enemies and Foes Share the Same Origin
What does "enemies and allies share the same origin" mean?

Lin Xian frowned: "Are you saying that human superpowers and supernatural entities are the same?"

"This point is beyond proof." Ding Junyi said, typing on the keyboard without looking up, "With the discovery of cold dark fundamental particles and the data on dark energy potential, our understanding of dark energy is becoming clearer and clearer. If we were to use an analogy, it's like oxygen on Earth, which is the foundation of our life. Similarly, dark energy is the foundation of those strange creatures."

"So, are humans mutated and gained superpowers because of this 'oxygen'?" Lin Xian shook his head: "Although we try to explain it scientifically, the differences in individual superpower systems don't seem like random mutations of the body."

"you're right!"

Ding Junyi then turned around and said, "What I meant by 'enemy and friend share the same origin' is this."

Lin Xian's expression gradually turned serious.

"Are you saying that the superpowers awakened by superhumans are traceable, and were 'granted' under certain conditions?"

Ding Junyi paused for a second before saying, "There is still a lack of valid evidence. It is just a conjecture that I have come up with after integrating the data on disaster plants, forbidden objects, and the growth of all the superpowered personnel in the vehicle. I think that disaster plants are actually a kind of organic matter on Earth, while forbidden objects are a kind of random inorganic matter. These special objects can release different properties, which makes people think of myths and magical artifacts."

"Forcing a scientific explanation won't work either," Lin Xian said.

“I understand what you mean.” Ding Junyi adjusted her glasses and said directly, “The essence of mythology is also the fantasy of mankind extending from all things in nature. Conversely, if we want to awaken those strange fire and material powers, does it mean that that civilization has already mastered the power that can regulate nature, biology, and physics?”

Lin Xian was taken aback upon hearing this: "Okay, I still don't understand."

Ding Junyi looked at him, her voice cold: "I don't like beating around the bush. My guess is that human ability users are essentially the same logic as the bizarre beings created by the Dark Mother Nest. The evolutionary lattice of humans can fully utilize the power of dark energy, and so can the blood essence of the bizarre beings. In other words, ability users and bizarre beings are the same, creatures modified by dark energy. However, before the lattice evolved, humans relied on their own life and spiritual power to bear this power. 99% of people simply could not bear it, so this power destroyed their life logic, turning them into walking corpses driven by this power. This also explains why the people of the Falcon Sea Group could immediately double their spiritual energy value after the lattice evolved, because essentially, this lattice is the blood essence of humans born under the nurturing of dark energy!"

"Of course, these are all just my theoretical conjectures at the moment, lacking effective experimental and evidence support. The reason I am telling you this conjecture in such a loose manner is because this conjecture can effectively and reasonably explain many of the difficulties we encounter in our research."

Lin Xian's face darkened after hearing this, and he subconsciously asked, "What questions?"

"First, the zombie problem, excluding the spread of the virus, can be explained to a certain extent by the characteristic of the individual's infinite vitality."

"Second, there's the issue of evolution. Humanity's adaptation to darkness and its mutation mean it's walking on the edge of being transformed by dark energy."

"Third, the crystal lattice problem. This is a question that you and the Phoenix Society both have. Perhaps the Phoenix Society has also considered this and is conducting a lot of research and comparison."

Lin Xian nodded: "I have indeed thought about that. A crystal core growing inside a person's body looks like a strange entity."

He shrugged and looked at Ding Junyi again: "But this still comes back to the original topic. The common origin refers to dark energy. It's also reasonable to say that human superpowers and evolution are similar to those of the strange beings. There's nothing wrong with that, is there?"

“The common origin I’m referring to isn’t ‘oxygen,’ but rather the individual.” Ding Junyi walked to the side, her green clothes quickly withering and falling off. She took a document from beside the bed and tossed it to Lin Xian, then found a set of clothes and slowly put them on: “Take a look at this.”

When Lin Xian got his hands on it, he realized it was a confidential document from the early days of Project Angel. Lin Xian was familiar with it because KIKI had shown it to him when he was still in North Bay.

"I've seen this. It's the earliest assessment and investigation report of superhumans. The term 'Spiritual Aura Value' probably originated from this Angel Project."

Lin Xian said as he flipped through the pages, "Special Ability System, Peak Assessment. The Phoenix Society later improved upon this."

Ding Junyi dressed smoothly, put on her coat, tossed her hair, and walked straight to Lin Xian. She opened one of the pages of the document and pointed to the end.

Lin Xian's gaze fell, his pupils narrowing: "Beyond awakening and superpowered zombies, I've seen this before. Some superpowered individuals, after awakening, have their peak Spirit Aura directly reach the Vajra level or even higher. I once heard Zhou Wu'er from the Nightwalker organization mention this; he was like that, as were Wen Zhuo and many experts within the Phoenix Society. As for this sudden disappearance of superpowers..."

With a snap, Lin Xian closed the document and looked at Ding Junyi: "Just tell me."

Ding Junyi took a deep breath and calmly looked at Lin Xian, saying, "Do you think there is some connection between the disappearance of a superhuman's ability and the destruction of a specific strange entity?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian's pupils constricted sharply, and he immediately gasped, exclaiming in horror, "Is this what you mean by 'enemies and allies share the same origin'?!"

Ding Junyi glanced sideways: "If forbidden objects and calamity plants are singularity reflections of 'natural phenomena' in a dark world, then human superhumans are 'reflections' of advanced bizarre entities on individual life forms on Earth. This is completely understandable."

"understand?"

"Is that a surprising conclusion?"

"The sky is falling and the earth is cracking." Lin Xian's face darkened. "If that's the case, then all of humanity's evolution of superpowers will be meaningless."

Ding Junyi seemed to anticipate Lin Xian's reaction. With her hands in her pockets, she looked at him in a reassuring tone and said, "Don't be surprised. In fact, if this can be proven, it would be a good thing for humanity to some extent."

Lin Xian smiled silently: "Superhumans, especially those who have undergone crystal lattice evolution, are now humanity's greatest reliance in dealing with the apocalyptic disaster, aside from the Interstellar Army and Project Monarch. All major organizations are desperately trying to evolve and break through the limits of superhumans, seeking higher limits and attempting to break through the shackles in this direction to find a way to save human civilization. Currently, superhumans with 20,000 Spirit Points can already defeat special-level monsters. Everyone believes that if the Spirit Points reach 50,000 or 100,000, even S-level, corpse-driving, or world-class monsters might be defeated by humans. But now you're telling the world that superhumans are the reflection of bizarre entities in the human world. Isn't that equivalent to saying that humanity has absolutely no chance of defeating those monsters in the darkness?!"

Ding Junyi shrugged: "If the theory is proven, there are several directions worth considering: 1. When the supernatural entity dies, the superpowered individual's ability disappears. Does the death of the superpowered individual have any impact on the supernatural entity? This is an extreme consideration. 2. From a game theory perspective, there is currently no superpowered individual capable of dealing with S-level, corpse-driving, or even world-class superpowered individuals alone. If point 1 works, then the strategic value of superpowered individuals will be extremely high. 3. From a balance perspective, if superpowered individuals and supernatural entities can maintain the same strategic deterrence, then wouldn't humanity's technological power become an important factor influencing the balance?"

Lin Xian closed his eyes, his head aching: "What a joke. If superhumans could maintain the same strategic deterrence as the supernatural beings, then Dawn City wouldn't have suffered such a devastating defeat."

Ding Junyi fixed her gaze on him: "The premise is that the dark civilization knows that we have this knowledge and the means to counter it."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian immediately opened his eyes, his whole body stiffened, and his gaze met Ding Junyi's. At this moment, it felt as if thunder had exploded in his heart!
He slowly took two steps back, his mind racing. Although what Ding Junyi said was just speculation, the discovery of this viewpoint did indeed illuminate countless mysteries of the world. He kept searching his memories, looking back, and the more he thought about it, the more his scalp tingled.

If what Ding Junyi said is true, then humanity's deterrence against darkness may also be closely related to this.

"Project Crescent Moon..."

“Connecting to S-level…” Lin Xian murmured, suddenly recalling the experimental log of the Nightwalker organization after crystal cultivation that Ye Lan had shown him after entering the ocean orbit.

The list of superhumans in that experimental log was mostly made up of people who had broken through the 1 peak value after crystallization. It did achieve the effect of doubling or even higher peak value of superhuman abilities, as Vanessa said. However, he also noticed the observation log under each person's information. There, many people who had undergone crystallization experienced strange visual phenomena in a short period of time. The visual phenomena reported were very similar to what Lin saw through the corpse driver after he arrived in Dawn City. Some came from the night, and some came from the deep sea. They were basically some abnormal scenes.

What's even stranger is that some of these people, despite having very high peak abilities,... underwent mutation.

“What they saw wasn’t a hallucination…” Lin Xian looked at Ding Junyi with an extremely solemn expression: “If it is true, then those superhumans who have undergone crystal evolution are very likely seeing the perspective of the strange entities!”

Ding Junyi frowned but remained silent.

Lin Xian suddenly turned around as if he had just thought of something, but Ding Junyi called out to him.
“If you cancel Monica’s lattice cultivation now, she will likely die. I know what you’re thinking. First of all, you know this is just my deduction, and if my deduction is correct, then it has nothing to do with lattice evolution anymore, because this diffraction correlation was already formed when they awakened their superpowers, or rather, the supernatural entity found them!”

Lin Xian stopped in his tracks, his gaze shifting, and he spat coldly, "What a worthless civilization."

He turned to Ding Junyi and said, "Director Ding, I think your reasoning is very constructive. We can continue to study along this line of thought. I have a feeling that if we move in this direction, we may soon have a better understanding of superpowers and supernatural entities. Now we must figure out what form this diffraction between superpowered individuals and supernatural entities takes, whether it is one-sided or mutual, whether the individual evolution of superpowered individuals has an impact on supernatural entities, and most importantly, whether the death of superpowered individuals is really related to supernatural entities. These are the real deterrents."

After Lin Xian finished speaking, he took a deep breath: "Perhaps this is why Hua Xiaoling came to us. What I don't understand is that we don't have this kind of deterrent."

“Perhaps you have already mastered it.” Ding Junyi looked at him, put her hands in her pockets, and said calmly.

Lin Xian chuckled and said, "To be honest, evolved superhumans can experience hallucinations. It seems that I do have such a phenomenon, or rather, such a subject."

After saying that, Lin Xian turned and left the cabin, immediately hurrying towards the second hull.

Walking through the inner passage of the Sky Starship, the surroundings were silent. Lin Xian kept hearing Ding Junyi's words, which were echoing in his ears. The more he thought about it, the more alarmed he became. He remembered asking KIKI when he was still on the Infinity Ship why the superpowers of the superhumans would suddenly disappear. As he traveled, Lin Xian had not actually seen any superhumans exhibit such a situation, or perhaps he had never paid attention to it at all.

His original intention was to use the images he saw from the gray fog to investigate the Pacific Abyss No. 13. His purpose was to see what the Foundation was doing. The Phoenix Society was making a big fuss about the Deterrence Era and Project Spark. In addition to boosting the confidence of human survivors, Ye Lan probably had the same idea, which is why she chose to split up with Chu Yan.

But looking at it from another perspective now, the reason why the Descent Party attacked Chu Yan might not be entirely because they were the Swordholders, or because of the Southern Heavenly Gate.

Thinking of this, Lin Xian's thoughts were complicated. He decided to contact Chu Yan directly through the Black Star Forge. He had originally planned to rest for a few days, but it seemed that the day to head to South America, set foot on the continent, and face the crimson sky was about to be put on the agenda.

Chi~
The hibernation pod's automatic door opened, and a blast of cold air rushed out. Lin Xian strode in and immediately checked on Monica's condition.

Monica, lying in the hibernation pod, was in good health, and the pain on her face was gone. On her chest, the blood-red patterns on the crystal lattice cultivation device were constantly circulating, and a tiny but intense dark energy fluctuation surged and pulsated like a heartbeat. Looking at the sleeping Monica, Lin Xian's expression was complicated, and a million possibilities were on his mind.

He immediately found a seat next to Monica's hibernation pod, and with a sinking consciousness, entered the space of the Black Star Forge and began to call out to Chu Yan.

"Chu Yan, can you hear my voice?"

After a long while, a deep voice finally rang out from the depths of the Black Star Forge.

"I can hear you..."

His consciousness sank, quickly connecting to a place on the other side of the ocean. Lin Xian opened his eyes and found himself in a dilapidated apartment room. The windows were sealed shut with rusty iron gates, and the room was already decaying and stinking. The half-hanging curtains smelled musty, and a cold light lamp on the floor served as a mere source of light. Chu Yan, dressed in advanced power armor and wearing a full-face mask, was standing by the window, peering out through the crack.

It's night here!
Chu Yan noticed Lin Xian's arrival and said without turning her head, "You really know how to pick your time."

Lin Xian cleared his throat: "I saw you on a mission last time, and I was planning to wait until you returned to headquarters before looking for you."

"You want to contact Professor Ye?" Chu Yan said, "I'm on my way back. The Star Gazing Laboratory is still testing other communication methods to connect to the South Heavenly Gate, but there haven't been any breakthroughs yet."

"What happened?" Lin Xian immediately frowned.

Chu Yan glanced at him sideways: "Xingyuan, it's starting to move again."

"Has the spread accelerated?" Lin Xian asked.

"No." Chu Yan stepped aside: "The crimson tide descends with the darkness, and in the area it covers, dawn will never rise again!"

Lin Xian frowned, walked over, and his pupils suddenly contracted the moment he saw what was outside the gap.

Outside the window, it was no longer the darkness of human perception. The world was torn into scarlet and inky black shreds. A viscous storm, carrying the smell of burning asphalt, swept across the wasteland, like the tongue of hell licking the earth. Steel power line towers twisted into skeletons howling to the sky in the scarlet storm. The ground kept cracking, and the whole world seemed to be shrouded in a tropical storm that could corrode the heavens and earth.

Human cities have been completely reduced to rubble and ruins. In the distance on the horizon, indescribable shadows stand between heaven and earth, like some kind of creature, or like a huge, crimson, twisted ghostly shadow. Its outline is burning. After looking at it for a few seconds, one's brain begins to feel dizzy. Thousands of hexagonal holes crack open at the top of one shadow pillar, while another pillar extends its branches infinitely like a fractal tree. All structures are slowly pulsating against the laws of physics. Lin Xian rubs his eyes, not knowing whether he is hallucinating or if the outside world is already distorted.

At this moment, he looked up at the sky. In the center of the sky, the eye of the storm was like the eye of a galaxy from outer space, or the eye of chaos, or some kind of interstellar creature lurking in the dark matter cloud, gazing at the world.

Upon seeing this scene, he subconsciously thought of the eye-shaped nebula he had seen in the night sky outside Hengshan Pass, and at the same time recalled what was recorded in the Phoenix Society's Fire Book.

No. 02, Iris-like Star Ring.

"Don't stare at it for too long."

Chu Yan's cold voice stopped him, and Lin Xian turned around to meet her gaze.

"Do you see that? Our world is being swallowed up!"

(End of this chapter)