by Chen Ran
The man-faced moth struggled, but was unable to break free. In the darkness, a scarlet light shone from the entrance of the testing room. A weird fish swam in through the door, and it quickly swam under a many-faced moth. However, the man-faced moth was quite a distance away from the surface of the water. The strange fish opened its mouth to bite, but instead bit the air. However, the strange fish was not willing to give up. It sank into the water, and with a twist, it quickly dove into the water.
The moment it broke through the surface of the water, two streams of water spurted out of the tail of the monster fish, creating a huge burst of momentum. It was as if the monster fish had jumped out of the water at a distance of five meters!
The strange fish jumped up and down, as fast as lightning, and fell towards the face of the moth. It opened its mouth wide and bit into the face of the moth before suddenly pulling down. The man-faced moth immediately fell into the water with the strange fish. The water surface began to boil, but calmed down in an instant. Following which, a large number of blood blisters rose from the surface of the water.
At the same time, more and more strange fish swam into the testing room. They churned the calm water like sharks waiting to devour a man, and repeated the movements of sinking, falling out of the water, and tearing at their prey. Suddenly, the three hundred square meters of testing room were filled with strange fish, the number was at least a hundred!
While the strange fish were busy hunting, a grenade was thrown in from outside. At the same time, the door to the testing room was quickly closed and locked by someone.
The grenade flew through the air in a beautiful arc before landing lightly on the head of a strange fish. The strange fish naturally did not know what it was, but as the grenade rolled in front of it, a hot stream of air was suddenly released from the grenade. Following which, an orange glow filled the monster fish's eyes.
The energy released by the high-energy grenade reached its peak in the limited space around the testing room. The light from the explosion burned the air, creating a vacuum that provided a favorable environment for the flow of energy. As a result, the terrifying shock wave destroyed everything they touched, the sewage was blown all over the place, while the weird fish and human-faced moths were directly torn into pieces, and the testing room shook even more violently. Although it did not collapse in the end, a series of soul-stirring cracks appeared, revealing the complicated circuits hidden within the metal walls.
When the door of the testing room was pushed back by the explosion, a dense cloud of smoke mixed with the stench of blood floated out. Seeing that, Ma Pei gave a thumbs up.
The dozens of Human-Faced Moths were captured by the group from four-tier base and then intentionally nailed onto the walls of the testing room. The smell of blood that the monster fish smelled was actually the scent of blood that Feng had specially collected from the humanoid moth. Otherwise, when the human faced moth blood in testing room flowed to the area that the strange fish occupied, who knew how long it would take, and the blood was diluted by the sewage, the smell might not be strong enough to attract the strange fish's attention.
All of this had been planned out meticulously, and the trap was just the beginning of the whole plan. Then, the loud explosion that followed attracted all the strange fish nearby. But what greeted them was the line of fire formed by the crossover of the bullets. The school of fish that was attacked head on chose to retreat temporarily due to their instincts. However, the sudden surge of killing intent from behind told the school of fish that this was a trap that they would never be able to return from.
Right behind the strange fishes, Eva used her sword to break through the water. Beside her was the giant-like living corpse. The tyrannical aura formed by this master and her servant charging through the water deeply shocked the descendants of these Crypt Lord.
The overlapping of layers of traps was the first part of the plan that was envisaged by Su Hao, which was called bait the enemy. After the monster fish's line of sight was shifted, the empty passage would naturally facilitate the plan to enter the second half of the base from zero!
Chapter 260 - Deep Base
Zero advanced on the cold water, the sewage had reached his waist, creating a huge resistance to his advance. If not for Gounabel's words, the physically fit Zero could use the fifth stage Agility to run at a speed that was provided by the vertical wall as the starting point. But now, regardless of whether it was strength or strength, all he could do was to act like a normal person and swim across the water. Moreover, he needed to consume a certain amount of energy to maintain his body temperature in order to avoid the cold sewage from numbing his limbs.
Of course, this consumption was negligible to anyone of the fifth step. However, Zero had always been cautious. He knew that even if he were to use up less than a third of his strength, it would still be a waste. They would grow like snowballs, perhaps turning into a straw that would overwhelm you at a moment you didn't expect.
As he walked, Zero suddenly stopped and followed him silently to the nearby wall before climbing up like a gecko. Zero didn't have a sucker, but his hands and feet were exerting a tremendous amount of force. Although he had only grasped the power of a rank 2 Magus, it was enough for Zero to dig holes in the metal wall for him to grab onto tightly. Using this method, it didn't take long for Zero to reach a distance close to ten meters from the surface of the water.
At this time, the sound of water splashing could be heard from the direction of the passage. Not long after, a strange fish slowly swam over. Obviously, this strange fish did not set any traps or traps for Feng and the rest. It floated up from the water, exposing its shark-like fins. The body of the monster fish was a beautiful streamlined shape, allowing it to move quickly through the water.
The dense white teeth that came out of his mouth were very sharp. If one was bitten by it, even metal would be bitten off. Other creatures' bodies were nothing to it. But even so, the descendant of the Crypt Lord was still just one of many ferocious mutated fish. In the polluted Endless Sea, there were countless creatures that were even scarier than strange fish.
Zero gathered his thoughts and returned to the dark base. Right now, the strange fish's head was looking around, but it was obviously useless. It then sunk back into the water like a submarine. As the water surface started to rise, a small white bubble appeared, marking the movement of the fish. After that, Zero gently climbed down from the wall. Concealment and related actions had consumed another 1.5 percent of his energy.
It wasn't that he couldn't kill the strange fish, but that would only attract more enemies. Zero could not remember that the mission during the assessment was about eliminating the fish herds, so he focused on collecting the experimental diary. Moreover, the number of strange fish was not something a single person could handle. At least, not now.
Zero continued forward, floating in the tunnel like a ghost. When he encountered a shoal of fish, sometimes he would climb the wall, sometimes he would hide in the ventilation ducts of nearby buildings, and sometimes he would even lie flat on his stomach underwater, not more than 10 centimeters away from the monster fish! Just like this, after more than two hours of groping, Zero finally arrived at the mission location.
Seeing the three words "Archives" on the sign, Zero's heart became heavier. The task had already reached the end stage, but Zero believed that this was just the beginning. He took the experimental diary, left the five-tier base, and walked out of the Cossacks. There was a huge distance between them, so far that any accident could happen. As for the new era, the thing that they lacked the least was accidents!
He gently pushed the door with his hands. The door only opened up a crack, but it stopped there. The door was locked, but there was no problem. He fumbled with the door with both hands for the best point of action. A moment later, Zero made its decision. He gave the door a light shake, and the second power passed through the door and into the lock behind it.
It wasn't too powerful
, just enough to break the lock. With a gentle push, the lock fell into the water with a splash. After a moment of silence, he quietly pushed open the door. Inside the helmet, he could see the whole picture of the Archives through the infrared mode. This was a huge Archives with an area of 500 square meters. Inside the Archives, there were many computers, and most of the base's information was stored within the computers.
However, on the western wall of Archives, there was a whole row of metal cabinets that served as storage areas for the media files. The paper was made of waterproof paper, and it was resistant to high temperatures. Plant fibers were added into the paper, making it tougher and harder to tear. It could allow the files recorded on it to exist for hundreds of years without fear of being damaged by unintentional external forces. Every metal cabinet had different password lock s, they were powered by pocket-sized batteries, and other than the correct codes and the fingerprints of a few people, they were unable to open the rest. If he tried to unlock it violently, he would trigger a miniature bomb in the password lock.
Although the bomb was not powerful, it was powerful enough to kill anyone close to the metal cabinet and destroy all the files inside.
And the Archives on the fifth floor only stored the secret items of the Cossack Empire!
Following the instructions on the data, the experimental diary that was requested by the mission was stored in the fifth archive. Maybe in the old era, this kind of password lock would make things difficult for many people. However, in the new era it was difficult for them to represent the Adepts that were evolving in the direction of the Homo Evolutis. The setting of password lock was very troublesome, but in general, as long as it was an electronic device, it would be affected by the energy. No matter how complicated and precise the electronic equipment was, it was not an exception. Otherwise, when the radiation clouds enveloped the sky, no organization would be willing to build an aircraft despite the fact that they were in the process of manufacturing the technology. The reason was that the energy activities in the radiation clouds had interfered with the operation of the instrument, and now, as long as Zero released its biological energy, it could cause the password lock to appear fake.
However, when Zero found the fifth filing cabinet, he suddenly thought of a problem. If the password lock had never been opened, how did the quest's publisher know that the experimental diary was in that numbered filing cabinet?
This question was like a domino effect, causing Zero to have a series of questions. At the same time, Zero could faintly feel that the quest itself had a strange flavor.
Suddenly, the sound of water outside Archives interrupted Zero's train of thoughts. He took a deep breath and then continued to press his hand on the electronic lock. No matter how suspicious he was, now was not the time and place to think about it. The only thing Zero could do was to get the experimental diary and bring the group back to the surface as soon as possible.
Wisps of hot air seeped from the tips of his fingers into the electronic lock. In the New barracks's training, even though he was born in the wilderness, he could still freely control his own energy. Once the energy entered the password lock, it immediately interfered with the electronic circuit of the password lock. The long term fluorescent light that was constantly released from password lock suddenly pulsed erratically. After flickering for a few seconds, a light "pa" sound came from inside the password lock. However, the electronic circuit was destroyed by the biological energy.
He reached out his hand to press down on the entire password lock, then fiercely pulled down, pulling the matchbox sized electronic lock from the metal cabinet. When the password lock left, he easily opened the filing cabinet and found that thin experimental diary on the number of the documents displayed. The diary was an ordinary notepad, only about twenty pages long. On the lower right side of the black leather cover was a label.
On the label was a line of English, with the words "Willost" written on it. This was a personal name, and it should be the host of an experiment project in the underground base. Otherwise, his experimental diary would not have been so carefully stored in an encrypted file cabinet.
A notepad, representing the important history of a certain period of time in the old era. Regardless of whether it was out of curiosity or some other reason, when Zero came back to his senses, he found that he had already opened the cover of the diary. When Zero's gaze fell on the title page under the cover, his gaze could no longer leave it.
On the snow-white title page, there was this short sentence: Halson, my friend. I will definitely surpass you!
Such a simple line of encouragement had a great meaning to zero. What was meaningful was not the sentence, but the name of a person within it.
Halson!
This was the name that appeared on the hibernation chamber that was sleeping soundly. After almost three years of time, it was also extremely far from the Z7 base, and it impressively appeared in Su Yun's eyes.
Unknowingly, Zero's breathing had become slightly heavier. He didn't have time to think about it too carefully and immediately opened the diary. The notes in the diary were simple, with only one or two scattered sentences. But at the end of the diary, there was more and more content, and more and more content.
He quickly captured the contents of the diary in his eyes and stored them in his mind so that he could rephrase them later. But now, he could only look on helplessly. When he turned to the last page of the diary, the speed of Zero's reading slowed down, almost reading out the contents one word at a time.
"March 19, this is a day I will never forget. My hard work for almost twenty years has finally paid off. So Halson's so-called plan to become a god turned out to be like this. " Pausing for a moment, he clearly felt that this so-called plan to build a god had something to do with him. "The so-called god is just a biological weapon created by the very substance of the nucleus to the contrary. The god's only role is to fight against the sin that destroyed the Atlantean civilization. It was hard to imagine that Halson and the others actually found a Divine Weapon and tried to create a new Divine Weapon. However, Halson, my good friend, you better not be too proud. I have also created it, and compared to your artificial god, it is not inferior at all. Moreover, the artificial god was limited to the main body, and the potential for its development was limited. But it's different, at least so far, and I don't know where the end of its evolution lies. It will surpass the gods in the Atlantis, and, will even surpass its original sin and become the life at the very top of this planet! "
This was the end of the journal. The contents of this page were even more important than any previous records. Thus, Zero could probably understand the purpose of the previous experiments that involved biological modification, genetic evolution, and so on.
The military base of the Cossack was a tool to conceal the identity of the enemy. In this underground base, what they were working on was the creation of a weapon that could rival or even surpass the life of a god!
Chapter 261 - One Thousand Average
After he finished reading the diary, he quickly went through the other documents in the cabinet. He had even ripped off the password lock s on the side. Not long later, there were already seven or eight metal cabinets that revealed the secret of the Cossack under the gaze of Zero. This military base coincidentally happened to be the Cataclysm Day at the time. The meteor shower came very suddenly and the people in the base were completely caught off guard, so they did not move the secret documents away.
However, Zero was very strange. Even they could break in here. That day, why did Callio and the others not bring these important documents away? But now, Su Yun had no time to bother with them, he activated all of her calculation abilities and rapidly memorized and stored all the documents in her head.
In these pieces of information, there were no more words regarding Doctor Halson, not even a mention of the artificial god's plan. Even the file records that Willowström had been working on were full of references to it. From the rec
ords, it can be seen that Willost named it a pioneer, representing a new form of life. In the arcane jargon, it is not hard to see that the pioneer is not at all like the natural life of the earth, but more like a biological machine. With an almost perfect setup, if all of the ideas that Willost had mentioned were realized, the pioneer did indeed have the power to rival a god.
All the research projects in the underground base of the Cossack Empire were related to the construction of pioneers. As mentioned in the journal of one of the bases found by Zero, the pioneers had already proliferated into their basic form before the catastrophe. As long as it matures and implants a variety of power plug-ins, it would be able to meet the most basic requirements for awakening. When the pioneer completed the construction of the base, it was secretly transported out of the Cossack military base. The base was originally going to research on another project, but with the arrival of the Cataclysm Day, the base was forever frozen in the middle of a day fifty years ago.
Where the pioneer went was not mentioned in the records. It could be imagined that there should be more than one base for this kind of secret research. Additionally, according to the records, the power of the pioneers had to be upgraded, maintained, and so on. The conditions were not something that could be found in a base like the Cossacks. Therefore, a larger and better base should exist elsewhere, and it is not known whether it has been damaged or not.
After reading through this information, Zero can roughly understand what kind of existence a pioneer is. Rather than calling it a new life, it would be better to call it biological weapon that was created specifically for battle. From the information mentioned, the weapons' collocation, power plug-ins and the other random Source Su s point of view, the pioneers were not created for the benefit of humans no matter what. It was more like a creation for destruction, and the reason why Willost called it a new life was no doubt that the doctor had placed his own work in an unrealistic fantasy.