The Ultimate Evolution

Year 2032. The future.

Alaska, USA.

The former suburbs of Anchorage.

Aleutian military base. 𝑓𝑟eℯ𝒘𝗲𝑏n𝑜𝚟𝙚𝒍.𝒄o𝐦

Before the outbreak of Judgement Day, because of Alaska’s unique position to the east of Russia, the importance of the Aleutian military base was comparable to the one in Guam. The two constituted two major military bases, one in the north and one in the south, which played off each other. They were like the bridgeheads that firmly blocked Russia’s eastward route.

It was for this reason that the Aleutian military base was well equipped with all kinds of strategic materials. In addition, because Alaska did not border the U.S. mainland, Skynet had moved his main body to this place to face off against the fierce retaliation of the Resistance forces.

At this time, the various external defensive facilities in the Aleutian base, such as the barbed wire mesh, had rusted and decayed in the wind and rain. Some U.S. military uniforms that were rotten and in tatters could be seen hanging on the barbed wire mesh. Skeletal remains were also a common sight here.

Skynet had simply performed a severe nuclear leak in this area in order to hinder human assaults here. It had transformed the original vibrant land into a barren territory.

The Aleutian base was currently brightly lit, and if you were to look at it from a bird’s-eye view, you would see that all 14 of the nuclear power plants operating in Alaska and nearby Canada were brightly lit at the moment, and that the power generated by their full-capacity operations was frantically being transmitted to the Aleutian base at the same time.

Skynet seemed to be planning something big this time. Large groups of T-600s that had removed their armour and equipment, so numerous they looked like ants from afar, were mechanically handling and assembling various parts in the base. At the core of the base, there was a huge pit the size of a basketball court.

The pit was in the shape of a uniform spiral, burrowing deep into the earth’s interior, as if an invisible giant drill bit had appeared out of the sky and tried to penetrate through the earth’s crust!

The pattern of the inside of the huge pit had a very strange appearance. It looked like an ordinary screw thread at first glance, but if you stared at it for too long, you would be overcome by a feeling of dizziness, and risk losing your balance and falling into the pit. You would also feel blood pumping hard within your chest, which was very uncomfortable.

The very bottom of the huge pit sometimes felt really deep and sometimes felt like it was within arm’s reach. There seemed to be a great secret hiding at the point at the very bottom of the pit. Space and time congregated at this point, so the secret could never be unearthed.

This point was what we usually call a spatial rift.

On the Bermuda Triangle region on earth, cargo ships and airplanes often disappear because of the dense and unstable spatial rifts there. Once natural phenomena such as thunder and lightning occured, energy would be poured into them and the spatial rifts would crack open, swallowing the helpless victims into them. 𝘧𝚛𝗲𝘦𝚠𝙚𝙗𝙣o𝙫𝗲𝚕.𝐜o𝓂

Although the spacial rift chosen by Skynet was located deep in the ground, it was also an active area like the Bermuda Triangle. However, because it was deep underground, it could not be charged by natural phenomenon such as lightning, so it was relatively stable.

At least it was for robots. Humans would definitely not describe the place as “stable”. In some places, buildings would be unknowingly built on top of spatial rifts such as this. Although the buildings would not suddenly disappear without a trace, the people living in them would start hallucinating due to the leakage of time and space from the spatial rifts. Sometimes, the phantoms of the deceased would also appear. Those with weaker mental fortitude would start performing actions that were contrary to common sense, which gave rise to rumours of haunted houses.

At this time, a large number of T-600 Terminators had entered the bottom of the pit to lay down various cables in the soil… In the buildings adjacent to the pit, a neatly arranged group of Terminators were sitting upright with their backs straight like soldiers. A thick electrical cable was connected to the socket on each of their necks; they were obviously charging for the last time before they departed.

Fifteen minutes later, Skynet connected the power supply. The cables leading to the bottom of the huge pit flashed with blinding lights. The spacial rift greedily absorb all the energy fed to it. Soon after, electrical currents could be seen dancing around the pit, while something indescribable gradually materialised at the bottom of the pit. It looked like a pond containing spacial tide.

The long-readied Terminators marched neatly into the huge mysterious pit without showing any expression. In the process of entering the pit, many of the Terminators were actually hit by the high-power electrical currents dancing around the area, resulting in their bodies being severed amidst dazzling sparks and violent explosions. From the looks of it, only less than two-thirds of the Terminators managed to step into the spacial rift!

**

In the present time in the Terminator world, Sheyan and his group arrived at the residence of the woman they had “impregnated”.

Before this, Sheyan had actually thought to mislead Skynet by asking Dolittle to provide some false information to it; he wanted to try to change the address of John Connor’s family into the location of the highest security military base in Los Angeles. However, the nightmare imprint warned him that such an attempt would easily be seen through by Skynet. In the end, they could only provide truthful information.

It was worth mentioning that Ms. Adess, the woman who was quietly injected with the fertilised egg, still had no idea that she was pregnant, despite the fact that Mr. John Connor was joyfully thriving in her body.

What Part Ace had to do now was to send Ms. Adess to a safe and hard-to-discover location. Another important thing to pay attention to was that, as a pregnant woman, they could not cause her too great of a shock, or there would be a risk of miscarriage.

Fortunately for them, Ms. Adess was a religious person – a devout Catholic – which meant that Reef, who had dreamt of being a holy knight since he was a child, was given a stage to perform. All the tedious courtesies he learned as a young man were put to good use.

“Ma’am, the Lord has decided to convey His will through my mouth. Demons are coming to threaten your son’s life,” Reef, dressed as a priest, stood at the door of Ms. Adess’ home, and said with a pious face.

He was so frank that Ms. Adess, on the other side of the burglar-proof door, was stunned for more than a few seconds before she could reflect on the rich implications in Reef’s words. So her first reaction was…..to call the police. She had even planned what she would tell the police:

“Officer, a madman dressed up as a priest is causing trouble at my door.”

However, Reef did not give her a chance to do so. The lock of the burglar-proof door was torn away with a slight pull of his weapon. He proceeded to walk into Ms. Adess’ home uninvited. At the same time, a “holy light” glowed from his body (it was actually a side effect of using the ‘Goldpearl of the Caribbean Sea’). That stopped her from making the phone call.

While she stared at him with her mouth agape, he said to her, “Sorry for the intrusion, ma’am, but the demons have already started to come to your house.”

As he said that, he directed the cross in his hand at a vase nearby. The vase immediately shattered, and there was crimson blood flowing out of it. The blood was poured into the vase by Mogensha who had sneaked into the house ten minutes ago. As for the vase exploding, that was, of course, thanks to Zi.

When Adess’ husband heard the vase breaking, he rushed out of a room from the inner part of the house while screaming furiously, before he abruptly stopped in surprise.

“Who broke my favourite….vase?”

“Are you talking about this object that was possessed by demon, sir?” Reef bowed slightly. “I apologise for that.”

Then, Reef showed his “miracle” again. He shattered the TV in the living room, and blood also splashed from the TV — the result of a bag of blood Mogensha attached to it. After that, Zi displayed the illusionary image of a Sithspawn. Reef “fought bitterly” against the demon and in the end, managed to drive the evil away.

Even an atheist would be convinced after that, let alone a devout believer like Ms. Adess.

The next action taken by Reef dispelled the last trace of their suspicion. Everyone knows that all con artists were after money. No one who was a con artist would give away money instead. Reef provided them with a huge sum of money to let them travel around for a period of time, under the condition that no one could know of the couple’s whereabouts during this time. Reef warned them that “the demons” could imitate the voice of any human, including him!

Ms. Adess immediately agreed to Reef’s request without hesitation. Although she was frightened, she left quickly with great joy — not because of the money, but because Reef had told her that she was pregnant! Her boy would become a great enough man that he was chased after by demons before he was even born!

Sheyan did consider the risk of Ms. Adess being killed while she was out of their sight. However, he had some confidence in her staying safe. In the case of the group of contestants who were proficient in mystical arts, it was almost impossible for them to discover Ms. Adess under Zi’s deliberate planning. As for the Terminators, Reef had put a jammer made by Dolittle on Ms. Adess. It would ensure that they could not be tracked by the Terminators for a short period of time. That was the most effective way of ensuring her safety.

After resolving the problem of Ms. Adess, thus dealing with their biggest weakness, Party Ace started to make some arrangements around the house in preparation. The first thing Sheyan had to consider was not how to get the body part of a T-1000, but how to handle the first wave of the Terminators’ fierce assault without casualties!

***

Ten minutes later, at a scrap metal dump site about twenty minutes’ drive from Ms. Adess’ house.

The dump site was the graveyard of cars. It was a place of messy parts, broken windshields, flat tires, gasoline and mold mixed in the air, and barbed wires that could hinder no one. Emergency lights that looked like weird-looking eyes illuminated the place with yellow lights.

It was in this place that some chaotic electric currents, interweaving together like a web, suddenly popped up!