novelslam Chapter 389 Peeking into People's Hearts! Chaos Makes His First Appearance!
Chapter 389 Peeking into People's Hearts! Chaos Makes His First Appearance!
A week has passed.
This change skips the first two episodes, "Warm Memories" and "Alien Girl," and moves the core storyline from the original world, which belonged to episode 24, to the current episode 25.
In the first two episodes, Gu Nan introduced a brand-new audiovisual grammar that reignited the passion for tokusatsu (special effects) films across the internet.
Although in this parallel world, most viewers are unaware of the existence of the action genius "Koichi Sakamoto," let alone that the scene was filmed entirely according to his action style.
But they truly felt that Light Chaser Animation had made another terrifying evolution in action stunts.
Therefore, when the twelfth episode of "Ultraman Cosmos" was released on major video platforms at 8 PM tonight, countless viewers who could no longer contain their excitement flooded the playback page.
The screen lights up.
Accompanied by slightly suspenseful background music, the plot unfolds a series of chilling urban legends.
Recently, a series of inexplicable and mysterious disappearances have occurred in the bustling city of Jingzhou.
Witnesses said the victims all saw a strange, eerie light and then vanished without a trace within seconds, leaving behind only a pile of their belongings.
Even more bizarrely, these missing victims are often rediscovered after about ten days.
However, they completely lost all their memories of those ten days.
The atmosphere in the command room of the youth elite team was somewhat heavy.
A map of Jingzhou City was displayed on the large screen, densely marked with dots of various colors.
"Yellow signal dots indicate the locations where disappearances occurred, while blue signal dots indicate the locations where victims were found."
As Tu Jing reported to the group, the lights on the large screen flickered intermittently.
"Do the missing victims share any common backgrounds or professions?"
Captain Qingguang, arms crossed and brows furrowed, asked...
"Or rather, were there any unusual emotional states they experienced before they went missing?"
"They have absolutely nothing in common."
Rena shook her head and flipped through the documents in her hand.
"There are both men and women, and their professions are all kinds of things."
Looking at a set of band data on the screen, Tu Jing gave a serious prediction:
"At the scenes of these consecutive disappearances, we detected a faint response to the Chaos virus."
"Furthermore, I compared the physiological data of the victims after their return and found that their cerebral cortexes all had traces of some kind of high-frequency wave sweeping. It can only be concluded that this is the work of the light virus."
"The Chaos Virus..."
The captain's eyes turned cold. "What exactly is its purpose?"
At this point, a barrage of comments appeared on the screen.
This is a bit of a creepy start.
Were they abducted by aliens to be used for human experiments?
[To return unharmed after being missing for ten days, is it just amnesia?]
[The Chaos virus's modus operandi is rather gentle.]
Something unusual is definitely going on; the Chaos Virus is definitely brewing some big move!
The scene shifts from the tense defense base to a small county town far from the hustle and bustle of big cities.
Here lives a very ordinary but extremely warm family—the Shouye family.
The sun was shining brightly in the early morning.
The father, who was the head of the family, was carrying his briefcase, preparing to go on a long business trip.
"Son, thank you, you're so clever."
Shouye stroked the head of his young son Zhengtai, his face full of affection.
Zhengtai looked up at his father with a hopeful expression and asked, "Daddy, I want a cell phone for my birthday!"
"At such a young age, a toy phone is enough."
The mother, standing to the side, chuckled and joked.
"But if I had a cell phone, I could text my dad anytime!"
Zhengtai refuted this with righteous indignation.
The mother shook her head helplessly:
"What are you saying? You can just use my phone and computer to send emails. It's such a waste for kids to use phones."
Then, the mother carefully straightened Shouye's collar, her eyes full of concern:
"More importantly, please be careful on the road."
"A lot of strange things have been happening in Jingzhou City lately. I heard that some people have disappeared without a trace."
Shouye smiled dismissively. To reassure his wife, he took out a genuine tokusatsu model toy from his bag—a collaboration between Tokyo and Bandai—and waved it in front of his son.
"It's alright! If any bad guys in Jingzhou City dare to bully me, I'll definitely use this to save you! Right, son?"
"Leave it to me! Please take care of things when the time comes!"
Shouye excitedly took the toy.
"Okay, listen to Mommy and be a good boy/girl."
Shouye waved his hand, turned around and walked towards the door.
"Yes, Dad too!"
Zhengtai nodded obediently.
Shouye was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter:
"Okay, Dad will try to be a good boy too."
"I'm leaving, bye-bye!"
While watching the heartwarming interaction between the father and son, the comments in the live stream were not optimistic.
A loving family
[This is a recipe for disaster! A father setting this kind of flag before a business trip is definitely a bad omen!]
[Damn it, it's a bug in the bootlegger B-group's logo!]
Sigh, if I had a toy like that when I was a kid, I would have been the leader of all the kids.
The plot developments indeed confirmed the viewers' concerns.
As night falls, neon lights illuminate the streets of Jingzhou.
After a busy day, Shouye walked alone on the dimly lit street, holding a phone in his hand, letting his wife know he was safe.
"Yes, I'll definitely be able to go back next week."
"I've even bought Zhengtai's gift."
A happy smile spread across Shouye's face.
"Yes, yes, guess what it is? It's the toy that Zhengtai has always wanted..."
Just then, a patrol car from the elite youth team slowly drove past him.
Sitting in the car were Musashi and Vice Captain Mizuha, who were conducting a routine patrol of the area.
The two passed each other without noticing each other.
However, less than two seconds after the patrol car drove away.
A strange light suddenly shone above Shouye's head!
The blinding light instantly enveloped Shouye's entire body.
He didn't even have time to scream before he vanished into thin air in a burst of light!
"Honey? Hello, can you hear me? What's wrong? Hello, honey?"
The wife's anxious cries came from the other end of the phone, but the only response was the phone lying on the ground.
And official documents scattered all over the ground.
When Musashi and Mizuha noticed the unusual energy fluctuations on the instruments and hurriedly turned the car around to rush to the scene, it was already too late.
The scene was deserted, except for the cell phone that was still on a call.
Holy crap! Snatching people right in front of the defense force, this virus is too audacious!
[Passing each other by, isn't that a provocation?]
The person disappeared before the call was even finished.
We didn't see the method used in the crime.
Does the Chaos virus also possess teleportation technology?
The next day, Musashi and Mizuha went to the home of Moriya in the county town and told his wife the bad news.
Upon hearing the devastating news, the wife was overcome with grief, and tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.
"How could this happen... He works so hard, he's away on business trips at least 300 days a year, he's sacrificed so much for this family..."
Vice-Captain Mizuha stepped forward and gently patted his wife's shoulder, softly comforting her:
"Please don't worry too much. The previous victims all returned safely in about ten days. Our elite youth team will do everything we can to find him."
In a corner of the living room, young Zhengtai sat blankly in a chair, his eyes fixed on the laptop on the table.
That was something his father had patiently taught him to use so that he could talk to him anytime he was away on business.
In front of this computer filled with memories, Zhengtai stubbornly bit his lip, refusing to let the tears fall.
Seeing this, Musashi could only comfort the child.
"Jungtae is amazing, he keeps sending emails to his dad."
Musashi looked at the densely packed message logs on his computer screen and felt a pang of sorrow.
"He'll definitely reply to me, right...?"
Zhengtai's voice was tinged with a sob.
But just as he was typing a message to his father using pinyin, one character at a time...
A flurry of snowflakes flashed by...
It sounded like my father's voice coming from inside...
the other side.
"We must hurry for the sake of that child."
"Vice Captain Mizuha said with a solemn expression."
However, that very afternoon, Shouye's wife anxiously contacted the youth elite team.
Zhengtai has disappeared!
"Musashi, that child has disappeared!"
The urgent voice of Vice Captain Mizuha came through the communicator.
"Could that child have also been kidnapped by the Chaos virus?"
"Perhaps he went to Jingzhou City to find his father."
Musashi made a judgment immediately based on his intuition.
"How is that possible? How far is that small county from Jingzhou City? How could a child possibly go there?"
Tu Jing found it unbelievable.
"That's why they do it, precisely because they're children."
Musashi started the patrol car and said in a deep voice,
"I had a similar experience when I was a child."
"My father, who went to another city, got caught up in a disaster and we can't contact him for the time being."
"I ran out of the house and walked all night, wanting nothing more than to see my dad. I'd go anywhere as long as I could see my beloved dad."
Musashi's intuition was correct.
At that moment, Zhengtai secretly slipped into the cargo compartment of a truck bound for Jingzhou City.
His small body was huddled in the gaps between the goods, but his eyes were unusually firm.
This is a 3,000-mile journey to find one's father!
This kid is incredibly brave, running hundreds of kilometers all by himself!
[She's really going all out to find her dad.]
This is truly amazing.
[New player protection period!]
Meanwhile, inside the base of the elite youth team, the radar suddenly emitted a piercing alarm.
"Captain! It's a severe Chaos virus reaction!"
Rena quickly located the coordinates.
"Located in the R region along the bay coast!"
"Musashi, proceed to the R region immediately!"
When Musashi drove to a desolate warehouse district by the bay, he was surprised to find the exhausted child by the roadside.
"Zhengtai! Cheer up!" Musashi carried the weak child into the car.
"Brother Musashi..."
Zhengtai forced himself to open his eyes.
"A few days ago, Dad... Dad sent me a message, he said..."
"He's in Warehouse No. 3 in the Bayside District..."
Upon hearing this news, alarm bells rang in Musashi's mind.
This is very likely a trap deliberately set by the Chaos virus to lure him.
"I'll go in and investigate first. You stay in the car for now and don't come out."
After settling the child in, Musashi immediately called for reinforcements from headquarters and drew his sidearm alone.
They cautiously entered the dark and damp Warehouse No. 3.
The warehouse was dimly lit, filled with a pungent musty smell and a chilly atmosphere from having not seen sunlight for a long time.
In a dilapidated, unfinished corner, there was a simple desk piled high with messy work documents.
Under the dim glow of the computer screen, a man was slumped wearily over the table.
The amplified sense of loneliness felt particularly eerie in the vast, dimly lit space.
This scene is practically a concrete representation of the deep-seated fear that modern urban "office slaves" have of endless work.
"Mr. Maintaining the family business?"
Musashi, gun in hand, slowly approached, cautiously observing his surroundings.
"You must be Zhengtai's father?"
The man slowly raised his head.
His eyes had completely lost their human focus, and strange colored patterns had appeared on his face.
Combined with the man's behavior, it creates a chilling sense of emptiness and eeriness.
"You are... the Chaos Virus!"
Musashi reacted instantly, his finger pressed tightly against the trigger.
The possessed Shouye's lips curled into a stiff, cold smile, his voice overlapping and icy:
"The Chaos Virus...does that refer to us?"
"Why? Why possess a human body? To steal someone else's freedom!"
Musashi questioned him sharply.
"Because...human emotions are very interesting."
Shouye slowly stood up and approached Musashi step by step.
Just like a few days ago, when Shouye was first brought here by Chaos.
At that time, he could only curl up, feeling his brain being dissected and read little by little by something!
He clutched his head tightly with both hands, letting out a heart-wrenching scream: "No...no! My heart...don't peek into my heart!"
He felt as if something was moving freely inside his body, like an invisible scalpel.
They cruelly and forcibly dissected his thoughts, his memories, and all his joys and sorrows.
The feeling of having his inner thoughts forcibly dissected made him wish he were dead.
"I won't allow... you won't be allowed to peek into my heart!"
Shouye rolled on the ground in agony.
At this moment, deep within Shouye's mind, countless images were flashing wildly.
It wasn't the hardships and suppression he suffered in the workplace, but rather the happy and playful times he spent with his youngest son, Zhengtai, on his rare days off.
The reason the Chaos virus drove him to such a twisted state was entirely because it was causing extremely harmful mental pollution!
The virus keeps saying that "it's interesting to spy on human psychology," but as a pure energy entity, when analyzing human emotions, it is obviously more focused on and more easily attracted to the dark side and negative emotions of the human heart.
It greedily feeds on fear and exhaustion, completely ignoring and utterly unable to comprehend the warmth and love hidden deep within human memory.
Looking at his tormented father, Musashi recalled what the victims had said during his previous investigation.
A storm raged in my heart.
The Chaos virus is not simply for destruction.
It chose to possess humans for experiments in order to explore the human mind and to forcibly analyze and interpret the complex thoughts and emotions of humans!
This Chaos virus not only takes over the body, but also tries to spy on memories!
This is disgusting; they don't even spare privacy.
[Forcibly reading minds—no wonder the victims returned with amnesia; their brains had been wiped clean.]
Is the Chaos virus learning human emotions?
The virus doesn't understand love; it can't see the greatness of a father's love.
In this dark warehouse, a cruel exploitation of human nature is unfolding.
At this moment, Shouye, who was completely under control, widened his eyes and fired orange destructive light bullets!
This forced Musashi to take cover behind a bunker.
Just as Musashi was about to step forward, a childish but anxious shout suddenly came from outside the warehouse door...