Chapter 270: Prometheus
At this current moment, a laptop was placed inside a fully-enclosed isolation room, away from any form of viruses and bacteria.
The laptop contained the two movies which Little X had downloaded ahead of time, waiting for Chen Chen’s arrival.
Accompanying him were four Black Knights armed with pulse rifles and suited in the GS Combat Suit.
The GS Combat Suit by itself was already fully enclosed. To ensure they were fully protected upon entering the alternate dimension, Chen Chen had helmets and oxygen tanks designed for them.
The helmets were pure black. Even the masks were an unfiltered black. This was a variant of high-caliber polycarbonate, an extremely assistant material commonly used in bullet-proof glass, airport windows, and even helmets for astronauts.
Additionally, the bottom section of the helmet was designed to connect seamlessly with the GS Combat Suit collar, providing full enclosure.
After being disinfected in the changing room, Chen Chen entered the isolation room wearing the GS Combat Suit and inserted the USB drive.
After that, Chen Chen selected the USB drive and transferred both movies inside it.
At last, the two movies were placed into the USB drive.
“Perfect, looks like the USB drive acknowledges Prometheus.”
Chen Chen let out a sigh of relief. Pokémon Detective Pikachu was the very first movie Chen Chen had inserted into the USB drive, so there was no surprise there. Prometheus was about the origin of aliens. Since even Pikachu could be accepted by the USB drive, it was only reasonable to assume that aliens could be acknowledged by the USB drive as well.
After that, instead of opening the passages to the two movies right away, Chen Chen remained idle and lost in thought.
“Sir Godfather?”
After approximately ten minutes, Little X suddenly asked, “Your heart rate is thirty-percent higher than usual, is there something bothering you?”
“I’m thinking about what sort of spectacle I’ll see upon opening the passage to the movie Pokémon Detective Pikachu.”
There was a hint of sarcasm in Chen Chen’s voice as he spoke, “Will mankind be wiped out by Pokémon, leaving behind nothing but a bloody wasteland? Or perhaps the Pokémon would’ve disappeared as well, leaving the world in disarray?”
“…” Little X had nothing to add.
“If it weren’t for the fact that the holographic imaging devices were not properly presented in the movie, I wouldn’t have to go through the trouble of entering the universe to find the holographic technology.”
Chen Chen sighed. “This is what bothers me the most. Previously when I first instantiated the NZT-48, I couldn’t obtain the immunity shot to counteract the effects of the drug. Despite the protagonist finding it at the end of the movie, it wasn’t presented on screen. I ended up having to spend several more months taking detours to obtain the immunity shot.”
“If it wasn’t for that, you wouldn’t have created me and we’d never have met, isn’t it?”
Little X remarked.
“That’s true.”
Chen Chen seemed surprised and smiled. “There’s another thing I’m more concerned about. Since the Prometheus spaceship had crashed inside the movie, where will the passage lead to once I open it?”
“This…”
Little X hesitated with her answer as well. “The void? Planet LV-223? Or perhaps back to the timeline before the spaceship had exploded? Or perhaps…”
Planet LV-223 was a planet in Prometheus which the “Engineers” race resided in and which the protagonist’s group arrived at.
“It’d be perfect if it leads to the timeline before the spaceship exploded.”
Chen Chen shook his head. “I have countless methods at my disposal to take control of the spaceship, perhaps I can even bring the scientists into reality and have them work for me…
“Sadly, it’s extremely likely for this to be the case.”
Arriving at this mention, Chen Chen turned to Pokémon Detective Pikachu with a strange expression. “Still, if I had to rank both these movies by the degree of potential danger, I’d still lean toward Prometheus. After all, the number of both ‘Engineers’ and aliens are extremely limited, so the threat they may pose to us may not be as significant. In contrast, Pokémon Detective Pikachu may be far more threatening than Alien.”
After all, the Pokémons in the movie all had superpowers, some of them even equivalent to weapons of mass destruction. If the Pokémon were to make a joint rebellion effort, humans were no match for them.
With this in mind, Chen Chen ended up placing his cursor on Prometheus. He clicked the movie and skipped to the frame showing Weyland representative Meredith Vickers’s room in the spaceship.
From the display, Chen Chen saw devices resembling blue lamp posts in the room. These were the environmental holographic simulators depicted in the movie.
Although these devices were significantly inferior compared to the holographic imaging in Pokémon Detective Pikachu, they were still considered rather advanced technology in the real world.
With this in mind, Chen Chen no longer hesitated and opened the passage.
“Boom…”
Chen Chen saw the display immediately turning pitch-black as its original 2D perspective turned into 3D. At the same time, an endlessly spiraling small black dot all appeared in the center of the display.
In just a split moment, the black dot rapidly expanded and devoured the entire display to a point where it even spilled out!
“Hm? Why does it feel like the passage is bigger than before?”
Chen Chen raised an eyebrow quizzingly and stepped backward instinctively. The Black Knights behind him stepped forward unprompted and aimed their pulse rifles at the passage.
Fortunately, apart from the passage being a notch larger than in the past, nothing else peculiar like a monster charging out of the passage happened.
“T0421, put on the safety belt and get ready to enter the passage.”
Chen Chen issued the order.
One of the Black Knights immediately strapped the safety belt on his back to an iron railing on the wall behind him before moving into the passage with his weapon in tow.
“Chi….”
Stepping into the cloud of black mists that even light could not penetrate, the Black Knight completely vanished into the passage established by the USB drive.
At this point, Chen Chen had the Black Knights troop separated into two categories. One group was the earlier Black Knights with the code “A” stamped to their forehead. There were approximately 1,300 of such Black Knights.
These Black Knights were just common cloned humans. Despite having their body honed to perfection under the influence of the chip, they were still a long shot away from the latter T-virus Black Knights.
Chen Chen assigned the “A” labeled Black Knights to various highly-confidential factories or to serve as assistants to the researchers. Meanwhile, the new Black knights were labeled with “T”, they were Chen Chen’s true combative force.