Chapter 319 - Doomsday Trap

These characteristics of the Gantz server were, in Chen Chen’s view, extremely outrageous.

This was a crystal structure that would not change its change no matter how it was destroyed and it was easily replicable. Chen Chen would almost think that there was some conspiracy.

According to the original plot of the comic, all of Gantz’s technology was recounted by the German entrepreneur’s daughter. She had this ability because Alien Civilization A was about to be wiped out by Alien Civilization B, so they transmitted their technology to the people on Earth.

The reason for this was that Earth was Alien Civilization B’s next target.

This was what happened in this reality. In just a few years, Alien Civilization B came to Earth and waged a war, and the ending was that humans successfully defeated Alien Civilization B by using Gantz’s technology.

In the very end, the leader of Alien Civilization B was defeated by the protagonist Kei Kurono, which caused Alien Civilization B to blow up their own spacecraft, concluding the story of Gantz.

However, long before coming into Gantz, Chen Chen had harbored a doubt. In his opinion, the Gantz technology that Alien Civilization A gave to Earth seemed to far exceed the level of Alien Civilization B’s technology. Even human beings, with the Gantz technology, could defeat Alien Civilization B. Was it possible that Alien Civilization A, the original owner of these technologies, was vanquished?

In Chen Chen’s view, this would be illogical. It was ridiculous that Alien Civilization A itself had been destroyed while on the other hand, human beings could turn the tables, with just a group of stragglers who had not even undergone military training being able to defeat the menacing Alien Civilization B.

Therefore, there must be something else behind the demise of this world. These were secrets that were not even mentioned in the original work. They were buried under the iceberg of the plot but were nonetheless inextricably linked to the storyline.

As he thought of this, a dark look grew in Chen Chen’s eyes. He lightly gripped the statue fragment in his hand. At once, the metal germanium chunk in his hand was crushed into smaller fragments.

Even so, these fragments still maintained a complete double helix structure, totally unchanged…

“Let’s go.”

Chen Chen clapped his hands, turned away, and walked toward the outside world. After a long journey, he was finally leaving the underground base and returning to the ground.

At this time, it was five o’clock in the evening and dusk of this second day was approaching.

After waiting for an hour, Chen Chen got the answers he wanted. X-112 had already made the Black Knights interrogate those two.

It turned out that the old man with a white beard was originally named Cary. He was the thirteenth person in charge of Area 51 and had the rank of major general.

Around 1990, when the North American government acquired Gantz technology, they converted Area 51 into a Gantz research base. At the same time, they sent Cary to be the one in charge of all projects in Area 51 besides the actual research.

This was how Major General Cary came into contact with the Gantz server for the first time, this grand statue of astonishing shape.

When Major General Cary saw the statue for the first time, he was transformed from a forceful, military man to someone who only felt unparalleled shock. It was as if he was looking at the ninth wonder of the world. Whether in terms of artistry or style, this statue appeared to be flawless, almost like it should not exist in the world…

As if possessed, Major General Cary repeatedly looked for excuses to enter the underground base and visited the Gantz server over the next few days.

Even stranger was, as Major General Cary’s visits increased in number, it was like this statue had gradually implanted its roots into Major General Cary’s heart, making him progressively obsessed and crazy.

It was like taking drugs.

Of course, this was a madness that could still be suppressed by reason, so Major General Cary would only constantly find reasons to come and observe the statue, but he would never neglect everything else just to do so.

Until one day, this statue bursting with artistic beauty suddenly spoke.

Of course, this was not a speech, but rather a sort of voice that resounded directly in Major General Cary’s mind. That voice kept bewitching him, causing his subconscious to feel like obeying the voice of the statue.

It seemed that there was a human personality hidden in the statue.

Moreover, initially, the statue only had heart-to-heart chats with Major General Cary, like a little girl next door. To Major General Cary, who had lost his daughter in his early years, it was as if something invisible had hit the softest part of his soul.

In his eyes, the statue full of artistic beauty before him was no longer a cold Gantz server, but an elf-like lively girl.

In this way, Major General Cary began to meet with the statue every day behind the backs of the group of researchers in the underground base, even to the point where one day apart felt like three years.

Until one day, this statue made a request for the first time, a request that did not seem excessive — namely, to find a network cable that could connect to the Internet.

The reason given by the personality in the statue was that it was so dark and cold and lonely there, so it wanted to observe the world through the Internet and not be lonely anymore.

At this time, Major General Cary, who had been bewitched for a long time, barely hesitated. He found an excuse to send away the scientists who researched the Gantz server and personally ordered the engineers to secretly install a network cable that could connect to the external network in the laboratory.

Thus, just a few days later, the first Basilisk pattern event in history broke out…

When this major turn of events first occurred, Major General Cary knew he would not be able to escape the military court sooner or later. Plus, the matter was so serious that he had completely come to his senses. He was already prepared to spend the second half of his life in prison.

Nevertheless, before his involvement was even revealed, the North American government and military had already collapsed…

Not only that, the little girl in the statue even told him that within a 100-meter radius of the server, all mysterious phenomena would be suppressed. Within this radius, there would be no mysterious phenomena at all.

Thus, Major General Cary relied on this information to win over a group of officers. Then, under the guidance of the statue, Major General Cary swiftly and decisively eliminated all the opposing officers and occupied this underground base by himself.

Therefore, this radius was called the Death Radius and everyone in the base also called it —

Dead Space.

All of this was the story of Major General Cary.

According to him, it was not only this Gantz server, but the other two Gantz servers located in Germany, Europe, and Jinping, Mainland China had also beguiled the highest person in charge of the base and launched the first cyber-attack on the same day.

In other words, all the Gantz servers were connected. The Gantz server could emit a signal that humans could not detect. This signal could be sent out at a speed with almost no delay and received by other Gantz servers.

It was precisely because of this that these servers could act as the terminals of Gantz spheres all over the world.

After silently listening to the story of Major General Cary, Chen Chen could not help frowning.

If what the old white-bearded man said was true, did this not mean that the Gantz server not only had the Basilisk patterns as a trump card, but it also had powerful intelligence and the ability to bewitch people?

It was just not known whether it seduced people’s hearts through words or some other enigmatic power…