Chapter 29 The First Generation

Chen Ke returned to the motel, changed into his own clothes, prepared himself, and went to Pihom's gun shop.

The Python revolver and M1911A1 were not used for the time being, so he put them in his assault bag. In the holster was a Glock 17 with the silencer removed.

The sacred diamond and Glock spare magazine were in the inner pocket of the windbreaker, and the ARK folding knife was in the pocket of the jeans. As for the spare clothes, Chen Ke did not put them in the bag, after all, he had to leave space for bullets.

Taking out the red E63 from his pocket, Chen Ke finally had time to go online to learn about this world.

Before this, he already knew that psychic events had been happening frequently in this world a long time ago. In 1910, countries around the world established Psychic Administration Bureaus to deal with it.

Just like the Industrial Revolution after the steam engine, what is the milestone event of the Psychic Era? In which year did it originate? There seems to be no conclusion on the Internet.

1910 is a relatively recognized year when governments around the world began to face up to "monsters", "holy objects" and "alien objects".

In this year, "supernormal" was no longer a secret or urban legend passed down by word of mouth among ordinary people, but became a "new normal".

It was also in this year that countries no longer concealed and blocked the streams about psychic power and supernormality, but began to popularize and publicize this new phenomenon in the world on a large scale.

Chen Ke also deliberately looked through the relevant historical information of this world, such as years, key historical events, and historical celebrities.

In fact, except for the emergence of psychic-related events out of thin air, other things that happened were not much different from the world he knew.

But it is not to say that there is no difference at all, for example, there have been three world wars in this world.

The causes and results of World War I and World War II were generally the same, but between these two battles, there was a short and fierce world conflict.

In 1917, the Entente Alliance countries and the United States Federation, which had not yet formed an alliance, were briefly involved in a high-intensity conflict. But within just one year, all parties ended the war.

The units participating in the war were not the army, but the investigators of the management bureaus of various countries and the first generation of psychics.

The cause of this war was not the fight for colonies, but the dispute over the ownership of the psychic explosion space.

After the end of World War I, a large number of battlefields in the war formed a very large-scale psychic explosion space. The psychic administrations of various countries had just been established at that time and lacked experience in dealing with psychic explosion spaces. There was no technology to make psychic bullets and firearms at that time, so psychics and investigators had to fight unknown enemies under very difficult and dangerous conditions.

After helping the Allied countries deal with a considerable amount of psychic explosion space, the administration of the United Federation believed that they should also have the right to use these resources.

At that time, although the progress of psychic research was limited, everyone knew very well how huge the potential would be. Moreover, these psychic explosion spaces were all on their own territory. How could they be shared with other countries?

After the failure of multiple negotiations and coordination, the relationship between the administrations of various countries fell into a stalemate. The fuse of the war occurred on a very ordinary afternoon.

On April 12, 1927, when several teams of investigators were conducting routine exploration missions in the psychic explosion space, an investigator from the United Federation accidentally fired his gun and injured an investigator from an Allied country who was walking in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, the companions of the injured investigator pulled out their guns and attacked all the United Federation investigators present, causing extremely tragic casualties.

The speed and intensity of the escalation of the conflict exceeded everyone's imagination. If the battle between investigators was just another version of the fight, then when the psychics ended up tearing each other apart, it made all countries see the broad prospects of psychics in the military field.

This battle ended with a situation where both sides suffered losses. Both warring parties lost a lot of psychics and investigators. The Allied countries have since become a stable multinational alliance, sharing each other's resources in various fields. And the United Federation has since given up the idea of ​​spying on the psychic explosion space of other countries.

This war is called the First Psychic War, or the Psychic War, and some people directly call it World War 1.5.

This short war, which was close to nonsense, had a profound impact on the outcome of the next world war.

Because in this world... there are no nuclear bombs.

There is no so-called "Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty", but it has been changed to "Psychic Non-Proliferation Treaty".

After the first Psychic War ended, countries began to attach great importance to their psychics, because not everyone can become a psychic, which involves a whole set of techniques for infusing psychic energy into the human body.

There is no such thing as "visualization" or "cultivation method" in this world. If you want to obtain psychic energy, you can only use complex and unstable medical methods to liquefy the spiritual energy in the atmosphere and then inject it into the spine of ordinary people.

Not everyone can withstand this power, and coupled with the immature injection technology in the early stage, many people have become disabled. A person who can withstand a larger dose of psychic energy will become the target of every country's competition.

The level of psychic injection is also graded like the investigator's license, but it is not distinguished by letters, but simply divided by numbers. Level 1 is the most basic psychic level, and level 5 is the highest level.

In fact, there is not much difference between investigators and psychics. The former can use psychic weapons, relying on the psychic energy in the body, and the holy objects are also summoned by psychic energy, but why can't investigators use holy objects?

Because the psychic content in the investigator's body has not reached the level that can summon holy objects.

Investigators are psychics whose psychic energy is less than level 1, and injection surgery is relatively easy.

When the Second World War in this world reached a tense stage, the United Federation of the Rising Sun sent a 5th-level psychic codenamed "Superman" to end the war.

Due to the performance of "Superman" in the war, all countries with conditions launched a "psychic arms race". After millions of people were sacrificed, hundreds of new "supermen" emerged all over the world.

In 1947, the Su Luo Union and the United Federation launched a cold war. Both sides continued to invest in the cultivation of "supermen" at all costs, and the whole world lived in the shadow of "Superman's destruction of the world".

It was not until 1968 that countries that realized the seriousness of the problem began to sign the "Psionic Non-Proliferation Treaty" to limit and reduce the number of "supermen" in the world. The Cold War ended completely when the Soviet Union went bankrupt and split into more than a dozen small countries in 1991.

Chen Ke searched the word "Superman" in the search box and several pieces of information appeared.

Item 1: The superhero series of comics launched by the United Federation DC Comics in 1938, the world's best-selling superhero comics.

Item 2: Clark Kent, Superman. Characters in the United Federation DC Comics series, the world's most popular comic hero No. 1.

Item 3: The title song of the third solo album launched by the United Federation rock singer Damian Wayne in 2001.

Item 4: The psychic fitness drug series launched by Weber Spirit in 1969.

Item 5: An action movie adapted from the story of World War II by the United Federation Warner Bros. Entertainment in 1948.

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Entry 24: Kochmerlin (1910-1967), a United Federation man, a hero who ended World War II. The first generation of "superman".

After reading this information, Chen Ke was shocked. The existence of "superman" allowed him to understand in an intuitive way how powerful psychics are. It also made him understand the relationship between investigators and psychics.

Combined with the existence of holy relics and the power exerted by combining the special effects of multiple holy relics, a "superman" wearing a complete set of powerful special effects holy relics and extraordinary skills is indeed a very terrifying humanoid self-propelled war machine.

With human intelligence, he can obey orders. As long as he doesn't do anything out of the ordinary, he can sneak into almost any area, which is much better than nuclear bombs. No wonder this world doesn't spend resources to develop nuclear bombs.

"Superman" is the ultimate goal of national power to monopolize holy relics and psychic injection technology.

So what are extraordinary skills? Chen Ke moved his fingers, trying to find the answer. But no matter how he searched, he couldn't get relevant information, and even the relevant information about holy relics was very unnutritious.

"A small stone that is unique to the spiritual explosion space, similar to diamond, cannot be processed and used, and is a useless stone." This is how Wikipedia describes the holy object.

In fact, the number of people who can access the holy object is very limited. Ordinary people have no chance to see the true appearance of the holy object. Even if it is in diamond form, they may not see it a few times in their lifetime.

The psychic content in the investigator's body is not enough to summon the holy object. Even if he looks at those small diamonds every day, he can't get more useful information.

Most of the psychics who know the true power of the holy object are also from state institutions. They have no reason and dare not leak information casually.

Therefore, this explanation of the holy object on Wikipedia is indeed the existing cognition of ordinary people about the holy object: a beautiful but useless stone.

Chen Ke turned off the screen. The useful information that the search engine could search for ended here. The more critical things were blocked, either lies or pretending not to exist.

And now, he must re-examine the strength of the Si Consortium.

It can cultivate professional killers with extraordinary skills like himself on a large scale, and has its own branches in all states of the federation, just like a psychic giant! With his current status and resources, he couldn't fight them directly.

And to be honest, Chen Ke still couldn't determine where his strength was.

He imagined a line in his mind, with Parker on the far left and "Superman" on the far right.

Taking Parker as the starting point, the investigator of Rank: D can be said to be almost the same as ordinary people.

Taking "Superman" as the end point, although not as awesome as the one in the comics, he is also the strongest creature on earth at present.

In between, there are investigators of Rank: C, B, A, S, and psychics of 1, 2, 3, and 4.

In fact, investigators are just psychics who are less than level 1.

Chen Ke tried to find his position on this line, but he had no clue.

He believed that he was much stronger than Parker. At least he was not bitten to death by the human-faced dog, and he could fight back and forth with the toad in the sewer, which was not bad at all.

But Chen Ke didn't know whether extraordinary skills were exclusive to psychics.

D-level Parker should not have any skills, otherwise he would have used them long ago. So would higher-level investigators have skills? He had no way of guessing, and could only hope to find another investigator to ask for clarification in the future.

He hoped that the threshold for possessing extraordinary skills would be as low as possible, because in this way, it would be easier to find and deal with Pangia.

Too many questions, too little information, Madfak.