Infinite Terror: Infinite Reversal

Chapter 555 Frequency Bands
"If that's really the reason... why didn't Mu Xiang discover it sooner?" Zhang Heng asked, puzzled, after hearing Zhang Jie recount the situation at the Australian competition.

Liu Xi was operating her phone without looking up, while her other hand was writing symbols incomprehensible to others in her notebook. Hearing Zhang Heng's mutterings, everyone fell silent, but she spoke up: "It's simple. The ability to distinguish signals is something he acquired after enhancing his S-level bloodline and combining it with a fourth-order gene lock… Before that, he certainly had no reason to specifically memorize the characteristics of various signal data. Besides, this is Earth in the 26th century, and the forms of signals are different from what we're familiar with."

“Indeed… could Zhang Heng please not be so serious all of a sudden?” Zhan Lan nodded, then rolled her eyes at Zhang Heng. “The way you put it, it really sends chills down our spines.”

Zhang Heng was taken aback: "What do you mean?"

"Because of your tone... it sounded like you were saying Mu Xiang was hiding something from us." Zhan Lan couldn't help but rub her forehead. "Wasn't that just making us worry for nothing?"

Zhang Heng gave an awkward smile: "I was asking this sincerely! Never mind, I won't say anything, lest it reach his ears."

“It’s too late. He can hear everything we say,” Liu Xi said calmly.

"Well then, I must warn him: a clear conscience fears no accusation!" Zhang Heng's expression changed, and he immediately became righteous and stern.

Zhang Jie chuckled, a cigarette dangling from his lips, but instead gave new instructions: "There's a gladiatorial contest in Southeast Asia tomorrow, so we'll go check it out. Remember, make sure Wang Xue observes the referee; it's a necessary test... Only after that can we make a proper judgment."

"Mu Xiang said... if we can figure out the secrets behind it, we might be able to reduce a lot of limitations." He exhaled a smoke ring.

Upon hearing this, everyone's expression hardened... The meaning behind these words wasn't hard to guess. This is a world of reincarnation, not a vacation estate. When the complex restrictions are broken, it might just be a time of violent conflict and armed clashes!
"But before that, we need to modify the underlying data... I roughly know how the so-called referee committee interacts with the real world, so it shouldn't be difficult to hide it from them."

Liu Xi spoke softly, as if talking to herself, yet also as if addressing someone. After a long while, she raised her head, silently gazing at the distant horizon… The words Mu Xiang had told her earlier now flooded her mind. Zhang Heng's unintentional humor, however, resonated with the hidden worries they had foreseen. This seemingly nonsensical guy was indeed not simple.

On her forehead, a dark, understated line seemed to flow... and in the center of this line was a shining third eye!
“Almost everyone on our team has unlocked their genetic potential. Even the newcomers, Cheng Xiao and Xie Yu, officially unlocked it at the East Front training base.” In Australia, Mu Xiang shrugged. “Only Luo Gandao and Wang Xue haven’t officially unlocked it yet… So what I’m comparing is quite obvious.”

At this point, Mu Xiang looked at Zheng Zha: "Obviously, for both reason and emotion, we will not be interfered with by such methods... I also asked Ying Kong before, and with her second-level gene lock, she can also eliminate hidden influences, otherwise she would not have been able to complete the mission."

Zheng Zha frowned: "People without the genetic lock will be affected... Indeed, the natives of this world are not immune. Even Alexander, when I asked him, I could see the inconsistencies in his worldview."

“Then…then if we don’t have the gene lock, wouldn’t that mean…” Luo Gandao’s expression changed as he said this.

Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses: "Your vigilance is indeed a good thing... That's right. If none of us have the gene lock, then everyone will be deceived, and then we can only carry out the mission of the main god and become mechanical dragons from the main god space."

"Hehe, I suppose that's part of the difficulty of this reincarnation world," Zhang Jie waved his hand and laughed. "It seems the main god is aware of the difficulty; logically, there's no reason for a rookie team to be assigned to a world like this." Mu Xiang nodded: "That's right, what's more terrifying than blatant terror is a crisis that's completely imperceptible..."

Zheng Zha pondered for a moment: "No wonder you made that inference. Is it convenient to verify?"

“We still have plenty of time… If the truth behind the mission is uncovered, then the one-year time limit set by the Supreme God will be irrelevant,” Mu Xiang said.

After repeatedly confirming with Zhang Jie that the logistics personnel's body and mind had not been altered, the first external factor that Mu Xiang thought of was something specific, yet mixed in with something indispensable.

Like a type of poisonous gas in the God Realm, it's colorless and odorless, easily spreading through the air. Its effect is to cloud the mind of those who inhale it, thus controlling them. However, even for ordinary people, this kind of item, which can be obtained without side quests, presents numerous problems.

With Mu Xiang's perception abilities, if something permeates the entire world and can affect all of humanity... it's highly unlikely to escape his notice. Unless, of course, this thing is deeply hidden, and the object it's attached to is generally outside Mu Xiang's perception.

If he had to guess, Mu Xiang's theory was that it was electromagnetic waves of a certain frequency. Mu Xiang had only recently entered his current level of perception, and before that, he couldn't even see the transmission path of electromagnetic waves with his eyes... It was too early to expect him to be as sensitive to the electromagnetic waves around him as he was to the air.

The reason why humanity, including this logistics personnel, ignores so many irrational things and even becomes puppets is probably because of this kind of inducement that permeates the entire Earth... while the members of the Central Continent Team, who possess the genetic lock, have not been affected. Therefore, in Mu Xiang's view, the truth is about to surface.

That is... someone encoded the genes of Earthlings, transcribed them into some form of electromagnetic waves, and then mixed them into the ubiquitous electromagnetic waves. Afterwards, Earthlings became numb and ignorant subjects of the ruled.

Although Zheng Zha and the others may not be convinced by the electromagnetic wave theory, based on the findings of Mu Xiang and Zhang Jie, they still have to admit that it is more reasonable to look for external causes than to dwell on whether some powerful force has caused the imperceptible changes in the world's humans.

“Every species’ genes have their own characteristics… Since they have characteristics, they can be targeted. I don’t need to explain what ‘targeting’ means, right?” Mu Xiang pushed up his glasses, his gaze growing even colder. “So, after deciphering the genetic characteristics of Earthlings, wouldn’t we be able to develop various gene-level attack methods to address their specific needs?”

"And combining our previous deductions... Earthlings have been defeated. They are not being invaded, but being ruled. So why is the logic of this world's operation so frivolous? Because Earth has essentially become an entertainment venue for another civilization. With means sufficient to monitor the reincarnation team, the internal struggles of Earthlings and the battles of countless mechs are just entertainment."

"And the point in time of defeat... is probably in that period of history that has been covered up by the name of 'nuclear war'?"

As he spoke, Mu Xiang gestured for Zheng Zha to give the instrument to Zhang Jie.

"Zhang Jie... use your mental power to scan and transmit this instrument to her, so she can build a model. This is an instrument that works using photoelectric signals; the specific frequency band might be found here."

(End of this chapter)