Chapter 032: The Truth of the World - Part 1

After hearing Loffy's explanation, Bai Yuxi nodded, half understanding, half confused.

"Boss, your explanation is way too mystical!"

"How can a total newcomer grasp all these convoluted intricacies? Let me explain it to him..."

Willy, who had a bit of a chatterbox tendency, suddenly butted in and snatched the conversation from Loffy. Gesticulating animatedly, he launched into a rapid-fire explanation.

Loffy just smiled and kindly ceded the floor to him.

"Let's leave everything else aside for now!"

"Let’s first talk about the so-called 'LDH Transcendence Management Division, the Supernatural World, Paranormal Organizations, and Underground Paranormal Organizations'!"

Willy smacked his lips and went on, "Before you know the context, it's hard for a newcomer like you to understand the complicated relationships between these institutions."

"So, just think of the official Paranormal Events Management Agency of Yan Nation, the 'LDH Transcendence Management Division,' as the imperial 'Six Gates.'"

"Then, take the 'Supernatural World' as something you Yan people are very familiar with: the 'martial world' of heroes and warriors."

"As for the 'Paranormal Organizations,' see them as the orthodox sects within that world—like Shaolin, Wudang, and so on."

"And finally, the 'Underground Paranormal Organizations'—what we colloquially call the 'Black Supernatural World'—are like the demonic cults such as the Sun Moon Sect or the Divine Dragon Cult."

Willy grinned, "Now it's easy to understand, right?"

Everyone stared at him with speechless expressions—seriously, you’re a foreigner, and instead of reading Harry Potter, you’re out here studying the tales of Jin Yong’s martial heroes?

But on second thought, the analogy really did fit. There was no need to even elaborate on the details; it all boiled down to grudges, vendettas, and the violent entanglements of the martial world.

"Alright, I know my analogy is a little off!"

"But if you swap out the 'martial world' setting for 'urban superpowers,' doesn’t it make more sense?"

"As for supernatural gathering spots like the ‘Hellfire Bar,’ it’s actually easy to understand if you think of them as the branches or halls of the great sects."

"This is the stronghold of the 'Hellfire Squad.' Besides providing foreign supernatural personnel in River City a place to gather and socialize," Willy glanced at everyone's exasperated faces and shrugged, continuing to address Bai Yuxi, "it also doubles as an intelligence exchange and an underground black market."

"And because the Hellfire Squad itself is so powerful, and receives official support, this place counts as a 'safe zone.'"

"You know what a safe zone is, right? Like in games, an area where PK is forbidden!"

"Of course, it’s not quite as secure as the Jialuo Mountain Base, which is an 'absolute safe zone,' but it does qualify as a 'relative safe zone.'"

Seeing Bai Yuxi nod, Willy went on, "If you don’t want to face the Hellfire Squad’s retaliation, generally no one would dare stir up trouble here."

While Willy’s metaphors might not have been the most accurate, at least they were easy to grasp.

"Can you explain a bit more about the so-called 'Origin, Chaos, and Compromise' of the Supernatural World?"

"I want to understand the whole story. For example, what was that cluster of light I saw before, the one that looked like shattered glass?"

"And what was that humanoid monster? What do you mean by things like pheromones, X-particles, bio-energy... what are those?"

Bai Yuxi thought for a moment. "And what about the strange changes happening to me? Not knowing anything and being kept in the dark feels terrible!"

"That’s a long and complicated story, but fortunately, we have plenty of time," Willy said, glancing at the silver watch on his wrist and striking a storyteller’s pose. "It all started many years ago, with what was once an internet sensation—the 'Stargate Incident.'"

As the public knows, back then, various countries mobilized carrier fleets powerful enough to destroy half the Earth, heading to a certain sea area to strike pirate organizations armed with AK-47s, RPGs, and other 'ferocious firepower.'

Though all sorts of legends about 'stargates' and 'space-time doors' spread online afterward, thorough investigations by experts and scholars confirmed these were mere 'rumors'!

So, a mysterious incident quickly faded away, leaving only a handful of questionable stories circulating online.

But what most people don’t know is that the joint operation codenamed 'Blue Moon' was far from as simple as the experts made it out to be!

After the 'Blue Moon' incident, mysterious phenomena began to appear frequently around the world—strange, colorful, glass-like clusters of light.

The scientific community’s research into these optical anomalies—which did not occur naturally—need not be recounted in detail. In any case, the outcomes were so arcane that 99.99% of people wouldn’t understand a word, involving high-level topics like geomagnetism, black holes, and gravity.

According to the experts, these were caused by the Earth’s magnetic poles being affected by some kind of gravitational force from deep space. This resulted in a dimensional overlap between Earth’s space and unknown realms, forming what scientists called 'Explicit Dimensional Overlap Points'—the luminous clusters.

No matter how special these 'Explicit Dimensional Overlap Points' were, they had little direct impact on ordinary people. They might drive a few scientists mad or add a dash of mystery to internet folklore.

Given how modern people handle strange phenomena, unless they saw it with their own eyes, they would quickly become accustomed and forget all about it.

But as these 'Explicit Dimensional Overlap Points' continued to appear, even stranger things began to happen!

A highly infectious substance, named 'Multidimensional Zero-Point Energy,' codenamed 'X,' began to leak silently from these clusters scattered across the globe.

Any native organism within the energy field of this 'Multidimensional Zero-Point Energy'—anyone who accidentally wandered in—ran a certain risk of being contaminated by a trace of 'energy-matter pheromone' from the multidimensional space.

This 'multidimensional energy-matter pheromone' acts like an 'identification device.' Any organism carrying the pheromone would continue to be infected by the ambient 'Multidimensional Zero-Point Energy particles,' known as 'X-particles.'

Creatures infected by X-particles would then begin to secrete, within their bodies, a substance called 'pituitary protein peptide exogenous hormone,' causing them to undergo rapid ecological, morphological, and even fundamental changes!