World War I

Chapter 9 Shadow Matter and Witch Matter

The pursuers were no longer in a hurry and followed slowly. They wanted to watch Luo Ye until he was too tired to walk, just like they were teasing a pair of prey that had nowhere to escape.

When the men in black were only a dozen meters away from Luo Ye, one of them raised his pistol.

The red-eyed man lowered his gun.

"Let's see how far his endurance can go."

Luo Ye's pace could no longer be considered running, he was walking, slowly.

"Irina, can't you be a little thinner? How can you get married if you're tall and strong?"

As his final farewell words, Luo Ye grumbled self-deprecatingly.

After saying this, he suddenly stopped.

Red-eyed man: "You still have to give up."

"Yes, give me ten seconds to catch my breath, I can still run!"

Luo Ye suddenly heard a ticking sound in his head.

He seemed not to have heard the ticking sound since he started chasing the red-eyed guy, but now he suddenly heard the ticking sound again. It was not because he could not hear it just now, but because he was highly concentrated.

The ticking sound did not disappear, but suddenly became louder. With every tick, it felt like a tiny person was hitting the inner wall of his skull with a hammer, which was extremely uncomfortable.

I'm really going to die this time.

He was worried that if the ticking got any louder, his skull would be shattered, so he needed to stay still to feel better.

A voice suddenly sounded in my head: "Shadow Matter Awakening, Countdown 10 seconds, please be prepared! Are you ready?"

The countdown starts.

10-9-8-7-5-4-3-2——

Suddenly, a firefighter's alarm sounded in my head.

Ring ring ring————

A huge, harsh, sudden sound suddenly exploded in the center of the head like a landmine!

In an instant, Luo Ye's head was shocked to the point of bursting, and it bloomed in the air like a watermelon!
Luo Ye instinctively cried out in his heart: Don’t explode!
His hands couldn't hold Irina up.

Irina thought her death was near, so she sat on the ground silently, holding her head, and stopped running.

It was only ten seconds, but Luo Ye felt like a century had passed, as if he had walked back and forth to the gates of hell countless times.

脑袋中的声音再次响起：时间转换中，2024年7月11号调至2001年7月1号——

Three seconds later, a prompt sounded: Time conversion ended, map conversion in progress—

Another three seconds, prompt tone: Map conversion completed, space conversion in progress——

Still three seconds, prompt sound: space conversion is completed, awakening program is completed, your first trial mission is to become the chief of the Kursk Town Police Department and control the Kursk Town Police Department, valid for one month.

Luo Ye understood instantly that the ticking sound he heard might be the countdown to the awakening of shadow matter.

And a memory flashed through his mind. It seemed that the key research project of Bureau 98123 was shadow matter.

"Brother, I'm truly sorry. I don't know who you are, but how did you manage to talk to me at my core? You're asking too much. I'm naturally clueless and unfocused. In the real world, being promoted from trainee auxiliary police officer to full-time police officer without losing points is the highest level of my life."

If you fail to complete it, the game ends, and you will be -over. Of course, for each task you complete, you can make a request as a reward.

Luo Ye was startled.

——If people don’t do as you say, it will cost their lives. That’s too much. Speak clearly, are you the so-called system?

After a few seconds.

—There's something wrong with your brain. You can understand it as a system, but it's not a system. It's living matter. You currently have within you the seeds of shadow matter that you can't comprehend. —Seeds?
——Yes, seeds. You cannot understand their profound and vast connotations now. It will be easier for you to understand if I use easy-to-understand names.

——Okay, not to mention seeds, does shadow matter refer to dark matter? It’s just one word difference.

——No.

——It's English. I've read a book on mysticism, which said that according to the Azande people [an ancient African tribe], everyone has something called witchcraft substance in their body, hidden in every corner of the body. Is the shadow substance you mentioned this substance? Is it true that the richer the witchcraft substance in a person's body, the easier it is for them to travel through time?

—The first question is somewhat close. The sorcery materials the Azande speak of bear some resemblance to shadow matter, but they are not the same substance. Regarding your second question, if we replace sorcery materials with shadow matter, you're correct. The more shadow matter a person possesses, the easier it is to transcend. So, congratulations, you're not stupid. Shadow matter exists in a person's body from the moment they are conceived, the more it varies. Mostly, it's a few tenths of a microgram, the source of supernatural powers. However, this substance is normally dormant, dormant. It requires a seed to awaken before it can rapidly increase and accumulate, transforming from quantity to quality, and then to sublimation. When it reaches a certain level, it will possess extraordinary abilities. However, seeds require external forces to produce or be implanted through other means. Ordinary people don't have these seeds. Their shadow matter content remains constant from birth to death.

How did the seed in my body come about? Who implanted it?

——You will know later, it’s very complicated. You experienced some things when you traveled through time. You are lucky that the last ten seconds of the shadow matter awakening did not turn you into a vegetable. Congratulations, good luck!
Luo Ye really couldn't remember what happened during the time travel. He only remembered that sentence: Don't steal things from others casually. If you can grab them, grab them. If you can't grab them, run away.

—Good luck? Stop talking nonsense, strength, give me some strength to escape! Not some super strength, just enough to get away, now! Now! Now!
In an instant, something hot flowed in the dantian, and explosive power suddenly emerged throughout the body.

I'll go, right?

Luo Ye was ecstatic.

He turned around and said, "Boss, I know I can't escape. Before I die, I urgently want to know who you are. Is the fortress your personal experimental base? And who are those people in white clothes in the base?"

"Who am I? I don't know who I am. All you need to know is that my home is at the Secret Experimental Base in Mommiase. I was born there. Some people call me Mammoth Spirit, but that's too ugly. You can call me Product No. 1. The experimental equipment in the base was all brought back from the Secret Experimental Base in Mommiase. The experimenters you just saw were the ones who developed and created me, but now I'm controlling them. Isn't that funny?"

"Correct."

"Okay, now let me ask you, how did you escape from the river? You couldn't have stood up without my instructions."

"You developed the White Spider, right?"

"Yes, my latest product. How is it? It feels good after entering your body."

"Can spiders control a person's consciousness and nervous system?"

"No, it's just a medium."

"I understand. You are controlling the white spider in some way, and thus controlling its host, which is humans like me."

"Do not."

"Is it the red liquid that triggers it to control the human central nervous system and consciousness?"

"You're very smart. You guessed some things correctly. I've told you everything you're interested in without reservation. Now, can you tell me how you were able to escape from the river and follow me to my base?"

"Of course. I have one last question. What will be the final outcome for Deputy Sheriff Mark?"

"If you just surrender, I'll tell you everything, everything."

"Okay, I want to have a private conversation with my colleague. Can you please fulfill my last request? I hope you can let her go."

"of course can."

"Can you step back a little? Just a dozen meters."

The red-eyed man smiled and actually retreated more than ten meters.

As soon as they stopped, Luo Ye started running, as fast as a wolf, and rushed into the dense forest.

The pursuers had never expected Luo Ye to play this trick.

"Come on!"

The pursuers were chasing the two people in front who were jumping like Superman. Product No. 1 sneered contemptuously, stretched out his long legs and shortened the distance in an instant. After all, Luo Ye was carrying a person on his back.

Luo Ye cursed inwardly: Damn Scud, I wish there was a heavy fog in the forest.

(End of this chapter)