Chapter 368 · Volume 1

Top-Secret Files

Zhongzhou Central Supernatural Management Bureau · Top-Secret Files
File Number: T-Ω-01
Archive Level: Divine Calamity · World-ending
Notice: The contents of this file involve evil gods, conceptual entities, and high-dimensional contamination. Unauthorized contact, leakage, or dissemination is strictly prohibited.
Target Overview:
Name: Far Side of the Moon / Evil Moon / Sovereign of Absolute Evil.
Nature: Evil God / Conceptual Entity / Authority Aggregate.
Threat Level: World-ending. Possesses the ability to distort the rules of reality and trigger the collapse of regional civilizations.
Current Status: Unknown; last recorded missing after the Forging City incident.
Origin and Background:
The target is suspected to have originated from the containment object Number 005, the Book of Creation.
It was later confirmed that it may be an Outer God from a higher dimension. The Book of Creation and the Deep Red Continent are merely one of the worlds it has invaded.
Analysis of Observed Target Abilities:
Core Essence: A human avatar of an evil god. It can be viewed as the extension and executive body of the god's will, possessing a high degree of autonomy.
Human Form: Appears as a young male with long hair, possessing a level of beauty that transcends the limits of human aesthetics.
True Form: Manifests as a human-faced moon in the sky. In this form, the target possesses the capacity for indiscriminate area-of-effect attacks, mental contamination, and the large-scale induction of malice, madness, and erotic chaos.
Within the range of the moonlight, occult laws will tilt toward corruption and depravity.
Authority Delegation: The target is suspected of being able to exercise part of the positive authority related to the concept of the "Moon," but all positive authority wielded by it will be transformed toward a negative and evil direction.
According to survivor accounts, the target causes chaotic affection, suspected to be a distortion of "Fate and Marriage." Although the evil god's human form appears perfect, it easily triggers the uncanny valley effect, inducing fear and loathing, which is suspected to be a distortion of "Beauty."
Behavioral Patterns and Risk Assessment:
Personality Profile: Exhibits high intelligence, coldness, arrogance, a twisted sense of humor, and an intense desire for dominance. It is keen on observing, manipulating, and creating chaos, finding pleasure in the suffering and fall of all living beings. It holds deep contempt for human moral order and emotions.
Action Patterns: Tends toward disguise, infiltration, and indirect manipulation. It uses its human form to blend into society and gradually achieve unknown goals. When its disguise is seen through, it shows no hesitation in unleashing destructive power.
Ultimate Risk Assessment: The target's existence itself is a continuous threat to social stability. It must be contained or destroyed immediately.
Disposal Recommendations:
Priority: Highest. Any sightings or suspected contact incidents must be reported to the Bureau headquarters immediately.
Contact Guidelines: Any form of direct dialogue, negotiation, or attempt at compromise is prohibited. Upon encounter, combat units below █-rank must evacuate immediately and call for support.
Counter-strategies: It is recommended to use rule-based or conceptual containment objects, or high-level combatants with causality-based powers for suppression. The effectiveness of physical and conventional energy attacks is questionable and must be supplemented by reality stability anchors.
Remarks: There may be unknown connections or conflicts between this target and other abnormal entities that escaped from Number 005, the Book of Creation. Some abnormal entities have defected to the Bureau; their provided intelligence can be utilized at discretion, but one must be wary of information contamination and double traps.
File Administrator: [Authority Erased]
Last Updated: After the Forging City disaster incident
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Zhongzhou Central Supernatural Management Bureau · Containment Object Files
File Number: A-001
Archive Level: Strategic Deterrence
Item Name: Sun-Shooting Divine Bow (Replica)
Item Overview:
Composition: Consists of a simple, dark-colored longbow made of a material that is neither metal nor wood, and one arrow (originally ten) of the same material.
Source: Investigated to be a replica of a forbidden creation left over from ancient times, with the original legend tracing back to the Mythical Era. After countless repairs, refitting, and reinforcements, it is now one of the Bureau's strategic deterrence assets.
Characteristics: The bow and arrow can be separated into independent components, both of which possess powerful and unique abilities. When used together, their power increases geometrically.
Ability Details:
Bow Body Ability: 【All Forces Return to the Source】. Does not require physical arrows; when drawn, it automatically gathers free energy from the user's surrounding environment to form energy arrows. These energy arrows amplify the attack effects of the properties injected by the user.
【Law Reinforcement】: Significantly enhances the stability of the shot arrows, ensuring their lethality is not lost when passing through distorted space or rule-chaos zones.
Arrow Ability: 【Conceptual Sharpness】. Has a special attack effect against divine, immortal, or conceptual existences.
【Causal Lock】: Once fired, the arrow will ignore spatial-temporal interference, conventional defenses, clones, illusions, destiny interference, and other evasive measures. It will strike the essence directly, ensuring it hits the target.
Combination Effect: 【God-Slaying】. Launching this arrow with the bow drastically increases damage against things possessing divinity, godhood, or objects of faith. Legend has it that the original prototype once slew ancient deities, and theoretically, it can pose a fatal threat to world-ending evil gods.
Current Status and Limitations:
Arrow Inventory: Only the last one remains. Historical records show the other nine were consumed during past responses to evil god disasters. The possibility of reproduction is extremely low, as core materials and techniques have been partially lost.
Cost of Use: None. Anyone can use it.
Storage: The bow and arrow are stored separately in different vaults in the deepest layers of the Bureau headquarters. Deployment requires authorization from at least three permanent directors of the General Bureau.
Appendix: Forging City Incident Application Record
During the Forging City disaster, in order to stop the evil god from conducting indiscriminate destructive attacks, the A-001 Sun-Shooting Divine Bow was activated under emergency authorization. The executor used the last physical arrow from a safe zone two hundred kilometers away to aim and shoot at the human-faced moon.
Result: The arrow ignored the distorted space-time surrounding the moon and hit the target accurately.
Follow-up: See Event Summary Report A-001-10.
File Administrator: [Authority Erased]
Last Verified: After the Forging City disaster incident.
Arrow Status: Missing.
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Zhongzhou Central Supernatural Management Bureau · Event Summary Report
Report Number: A-001-10 (Forging City Catastrophe)
Archive Level: Top-Secret
Reporter: Headquarters Special Investigator, Lin Mou.
Date: Fifth day after the incident
Event Overview:
This incident originated from an operation to locate and suppress the evil god Far Side of the Moon.
The target was lurking within the Wang family of Forging City. After its identity was suspected to be exposed, the target clashed with the first special action team to arrive.
Brief Description of the Action:
Contact and Conflict Escalation: The special action team attempted to suppress the target using targeted arrays and high-level combatants based on intelligence.
However, the target displayed strength far exceeding intelligence estimates, quickly dismantling the arrays and killing or driving several action team members mad through cruel means.
When the action team was on the verge of collapse, the target completely abandoned its disguise, assuming its evil god form to conduct indiscriminate attacks on Forging City, causing large-scale building collapses and heavy civilian casualties.
Situation Assessment and Decision: Frontline observers and the headquarters command center determined in real-time that conventional means could no longer stop the target. If its evil god form continued to attack, it would likely destroy the entire city of Forging City in a short time and possibly trigger a wider disaster.
Through the emergency plan activation procedure, the General Bureau's Permanent Council approved the use of the strategic deterrence weapon A-001 Sun-Shooting Divine Bow and its last physical arrow in a very short time.
Application and Direct Consequences of A-001:
Execution: The executor successfully locked onto the moon from a preset safe location and fired the arrow.
The arrow perfectly utilized its characteristics, ignoring all of the target's defenses and interference, scoring a direct hit.
Unexpected Result: The executor was dismembered on the spot, and all frontline observers were killed.
After the arrow hit, the human-faced moon was not killed as expected; instead, it suffered a violent loss of control.
The moon lost its ability to hover and fell from high altitude toward the ground, causing a catastrophic impact.
The falling moon directly crushed Forging City and seven neighboring cities. The impact triggered a super earthquake.
Subsequent secondary disasters led to millions of deaths or disappearances, and Forging City and its surrounding areas were erased.
Current Status and Loss Assessment:
The wanted target was lost in the chaos caused by the impact. All tracking methods, including causal tracking, divination, and conceptual sensing, have been ineffective.
The target is missing, its status is unknown, and its destruction has not been confirmed.
A-001: The bow body has been returned to the headquarters' highest storage vault. The last arrow is missing; extensive searches have yielded no results, and no fragments were found at the scene.
Personnel and Facilities: The first special action team was almost completely wiped out. The Forging City branch and several important nearby facilities were completely destroyed.
Social and Geographical Impact: Forging City and its surrounding areas are no longer suitable for human habitation and have been designated as the permanent forbidden zone, the "Land of the Moon's Fall."
The refugee wave has intensified, social order has been severely impacted, and official credibility is facing questioning.
Preliminary Conclusion:
This operation achieved basic success.
We successfully prevented the evil god's indiscriminate attacks. Although the final result slightly deviated from expectations, everything is within a controllable range.
Future Direction:
It is recommended to establish a special task force to continue searching for the evil god and the missing arrow.
Conduct a comprehensive reassessment of all response plans for known world-ending threats.
Perform long-term monitoring and research on the "Land of the Moon's Fall" to stay alert for the possibility of the evil god returning or performing other rituals through the area's unique nature.
Reporter Signature: Lin Mou.
Approval: [Electronic Seal of the Bureau's Highest Permanent Council]
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After finishing the summary report, Lin Mou felt like a wreck.
He felt as if his noble virtues, his fine character, and even his very soul were being ground down.
Every word in the report had to be carefully weighed to avoid being caught by anyone's scrutiny.
An operation failure couldn't be called a failure; it had to be called a "basic success."
It was just like when a team insisted on dismantling the Sun-Shooting Divine Bow's arrows because they wanted to study the technology and manufacture more.
In the end, they failed and broke several arrows.
Yet, the word "failure" couldn't appear in the report; it had to be called "destructive data collection."
For a massive, redundant, and face-saving bureaucratic system, getting them to admit failure was harder than achieving godhood.
When the moon fell, why didn't it just crush everyone to death?
Many malicious thoughts popped into Lin Mou's head.
Zhongzhou was very suitable for ordinary people to survive in, but moving up was impossible.
It wasn't a small probability; it was simply impossible.
Take Lin Mou himself—he had been stuck in this position for many years. Even if he wanted to advance, there was simply no opportunity.
Because the people above him were a group of old monsters who had lived for hundreds or thousands of years!
The top tier was completely controlled and solidified; all paths upward had been occupied and blocked off.
It was just like the Heavenly Court in the myths. After eons, the Jade Emperor was still the Jade Emperor, Taishang Laojun would forever be Taishang Laojun, and the gatekeeper was still the gatekeeper.
The lifespan gap between the upper and lower tiers was simply too vast—so vast it was despair-inducing.
Lin Mou was considered a once-in-a-millennium cultivation genius. Unfortunately, the last once-in-a-millennium cultivation genius wasn't dead yet, and neither was the one before that.
With a sigh, Lin Mou immediately adjusted his mindset. He couldn't let himself fall into internal strife.
Compared to those geniuses who were so desperate to advance that they didn't hesitate to castrate themselves or even abandon their physical bodies to apply for the Human Emperor Banner Soul Cultivation Academy, Lin Mou felt his own growth experience was actually quite decent.
As expected, comparing yourself to those worse off was the fastest way to gain a sense of happiness.
Seeing others living such miserable lives made him temporarily satisfied with his current situation...
After resting for a short while, he had to continue working.
In the Forging City incident, there was an action team member who had faced the evil god and unexpectedly survived. He was a cultivator skilled in running away and saving his own life.
However, his sexual characteristics had been stripped away, and his entire mental state was in terrible shape.
There was also a surviving special investigator from the local Forging City Bureau who was possessed by a special type of ghost. He could use the power of the ghost and was suspected to be related to the evil god. He also needed to be properly settled.
He would likely be treated as a humanoid containment object.
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A few days ago, Jiang Kun was crouching on the windowsill of an abandoned office building. His bionic prosthetic eye adjusted its focus, scanning the street below.
This was the Hu City East District.
He possessed the authority of a high-level investigator and had joined the local cleanup team. His task was to eliminate mutant plants.
Jiang Kun was doing quite well.
Using his hidden ability to lower his presence, he had just personally dealt with a mutant vine.
Just as he was recording the data and preparing to transmit it back,
Suddenly, a vibration came from beneath his feet.
Everything was shaking in all directions, as if being rattled by a giant hand!
Rumble!
The entire office building let out a groan. Dust and plaster fell, and cracks widened.
The windowsill shook, and Jiang Kun barely managed to steady himself.
"An earthquake?"
The tremors grew more intense, and tall buildings began to collapse and shatter.
Jiang Kun quickly activated emergency mode, engaging full-power protection.
The emergency program had just responded,
When, in the next moment, he was submerged in a torrent of ruins.
The world tumbled and collided.
The alarms of his mechanical prosthetic body kept ringing, and his vision became chaotic.
He didn't know how much time had passed.
The vibrations finally subsided.
Only the sound of building debris sliding remained, with faint cries for help echoing in the distance.
Jiang Kun pushed aside the things pressing down on him and sat up. He looked around and froze in place.
Everywhere was ruins. As far as his eye could see, the Hu City East District had been completely destroyed.
There were almost no intact buildings. Rubble formed mountains, and streets were buried or turned into cracks.
Fissures appeared on the distant hills, billowing smoke and dust.
An aura of deathly silence shrouded the ruins.
Jiang Kun checked his body. The good news was that he wasn't injured. Only his mechanical prosthetic limbs were damaged; mechanical modification had shown its advantages at a time like this.
But he still felt it was absurd.
What exactly had happened?
Why would an earthquake of this magnitude occur?
He stood on the ruins, trying to gather his thoughts.
Just then, the system's voice suddenly rang in his ear.
【You have a new mission...】

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