Chapter 1387: Hidden Clouds and Gentle Waters

In the next twenty minutes, Yang Xiao detailed his encounters since leaving Shennongjia.

From going to Suzhou to find Su Zhiwei, to his first awakening of power, to the battles with those assassins, to meeting Lu Xun, rescuing Chu Changqing, and the resistance against the Calamity tide and nuclear strike at Wushan, and then to the Tongzhou incident...

Yang Xiao told almost everything he could, only concealing some of the inside story of the Tongzhou nuclear strike and not mentioning that he had annihilated an entire Seventh Fleet at sea. After all, this was too shocking for the current Nine Lords, and the subsequent events had nothing to do with the Gray Realm.

After listening to Yang Xiao's narrative, everyone present, except for Chen Ling, Su Zhiwei, and Lu Xun, was dumbfounded.

"No... wait a minute." Ji Xuan stared at Yang Xiao in disbelief.

"Dr. Yang, are you making up stories to mess with us? Assassins, emperors, God-path possessors... and those 'Calamities'. Why haven't I encountered any of these things you're talking about??"

"I haven't encountered them either," Dr. Qi added immediately. "It feels like Dr. Yang is in a completely different world from us."

"I have indeed heard of things related to the 749 Bureau before... I don't know about the rest."

Dr. Wen, who hadn't spoken much, shook his head.

Chen Ling never spoke. It should be known that Yang Xiao had almost always been acting alongside him. With the blessing of the [Emperor's Fate], it would be difficult not to encounter these things... In the eyes of others, his experiences would naturally exceed imagination.

"It's true," Lu Xun said proactively. "I can testify for him."

"Me too," Su Zhiwei nodded.

After Yang Xiao came Su Zhiwei. Her experiences overlapped with Yang Xiao's for the most part, so she didn't speak for long, and then it was Lu Xun's turn.

The stories of the three verified each other, presenting a complete, bizarre world before the eyes of the other Nine Lords.

After they finished speaking, according to the seating order, it was Dr. Qi's turn.

Dr. Qi hesitated for a moment before letting out a light sigh:

"Compared to you, my encounters are nothing... There's really nothing to talk about."

"After returning from Shennongjia, I have been continuing my research on chaotic meteorology. Recently, I came up with a very interesting direction, which I call 'Atmospheric Sculpture', which is to artificially and precisely sculpt atmospheric values through chaos theory, fluid mechanics, and climate models. However, the difficulty of this topic lies in..."

"Dr. Qi," Lu Xun interrupted him somewhat helplessly, "we don't understand what you're talking about..."

"Oh, oh, oh, sorry, I went off-topic." Dr. Qi smiled apologetically.

"Anyway... during that time, some strange things happened to me... The atmospheric values I wrote on the blackboard before going to bed would become reality when I woke up the next day."

"At first, I thought it was a coincidence. After all, in the early stages of model building, I was using the meteorological values of the city where I lived over the past twenty years as a reference. But then I realized something was wrong... Typhoons, hail, and even thunderstorms, all kinds of extreme weather that shouldn't appear in this season, came one after another like crazy. It wasn't until the government asked me about it that I realized something was wrong."

"You don't know, the model I was studying that day was to weaken the thickness of the ozone layer by 85%... If the values I wrote down that day really became reality, a radiation storm would sweep through the entire city, hundreds of thousands of people would die... and even the ecological chain itself would suffer irreversible damage."

"Honestly, this scared me... I didn't understand what had happened to me, but soon government people found me, saying it was because I had come into contact with that Red Star, and they wanted to take me for research and testing."

"Maybe it's because I've watched too many TV shows on related topics, but I was really afraid of human research, so I secretly found an opportunity to slip away... Later, I met Dr. Wen, who had also run away from the research institute, and we stayed together for the next few days."

Dr. Qi's gaze shifted to Dr. Wen beside him.

"Dr. Wen, why don't you tell us what happened next?"

Everyone's gaze shifted to Dr. Wen. The first sentence he spoke almost made the jaws of the others drop:

"After returning from Shennongjia, my life didn't change much... until the fourth day, when I prevented a disaster that would have wiped out hundreds of thousands of lives."

“？？？”

Lu Xun said in astonishment, "What did you say?"

Dr. Wen continued unhurriedly,

"That day, I saw on the news that the ozone layer thickness in the neighboring city had suddenly decreased by 85% for unknown reasons. Acute photokeratitis caused a large number of people to go blind, and tens of thousands of car accidents happened simultaneously; at the same time, most of the people outdoors went into shock due to ultraviolet burns, and with the car accidents, the death toll within three hours exceeded one hundred thousand."

"Communications and electronic equipment were largely paralyzed, elevators stopped working, and since most modern office buildings use glass curtain walls, they almost became large ovens after the ozone layer weakened, with the indoor death rate exceeding 93%, even surpassing the outdoor death toll."

"Coupled with the excitation of chlorine disinfection by-products from the exterior, generating deadly chemical components, and the toxic fog generated by road asphalt under irradiation, the death toll increased again..."

"Not long after I saw the news, I was taken away by government people. They claimed that the neighboring city's disaster was caused by Dr. Qi's ability going out of control, so they had to forcibly control everyone who participated in the Red Star exploration."

"They locked me in a large laboratory in the suburbs and injected me with some unknown agents... Perhaps because of the agents, my ability was gradually stimulated. Later, in a state of blurred consciousness, a part of my thoughts seemed to become entangled with the past. I don't know how to describe that feeling... but I seemed to be able to intervene in another sense of... 'the past'?"

"I tried to entangle my consciousness with the consciousness of the government personnel and transmitted some information about the neighboring city's disaster. By the time my consciousness returned to clarity, I had already left the laboratory and returned to my own research institute..."

"At the time, I didn't quite understand what had happened, but I checked the news, and all events related to the neighboring city's meteorological disaster had disappeared, as if nothing had happened... But time was still at the normal time."

"Later, I thought about it. It must have been my consciousness entanglement that reset this history and changed the fate of a city. After realizing all this, I immediately went to the neighboring city to find Dr. Qi..."