Chapter 225

Teaching building—as soon as Lin Xian entered, the smell of building dust rushed toward him. The surroundings were pitch black. Lin Xian turned on his flashlight to observe; the lights from just now were on the second floor, so he needed to find the stairs to go up.

"Over here."

Soon, he found the stairs to go up and, without a word, prepared to run up.

But he had only run a few steps when he inexplicably felt that something was not quite right.

"Kiki?"

Lin Xian turned around and suddenly discovered that Kiki was gone!

"Where is she?!"

Lin Xian ran back, rushing out of the teaching building's main entrance again. At this moment, he discovered that outside it was pitch black; the playground, plaza, corridor, and the motorcycle the two had been riding were all gone!

His heart went cold, and he hurriedly turned his head back. Inside the teaching building's main entrance, it was as dark as ink.

"Damn it, this trick again!"

Lin Xian immediately remembered the weird radio station from 1542; at that time, he had also suddenly disappeared from the spot and appeared in a special frequency space.

He pressed the communicator directly—click, click~

"Lin Xian, Lin Xian," Kiki's voice came through, "Where are you?"

"I'm right at the entrance of the teaching building."

"I can't see you. The wall in front of me just seemed to change."

Lin Xian frowned upon hearing this: "It must be the ghost of this test site. Wait for me for a moment."

He looked up at the dark dome, his heart tightening. Since this place was controlled by a mechanical structure, it certainly could not stump him.

Whoosh—whoosh—

At this moment, Lin Xian could only hear his own heartbeat and breathing. He used his flashlight to shine into the pitch-black doorway; the white light pierced the darkness, bringing a sense of lonely terror.

Tightening his grip on the electric blade, Lin Xian turned on the power armor's collision volume perception system to enhance his protection.

【Collision volume perception system activated】

Outside it was pitch black, and Lin Xian felt a chill down his back. He held the flashlight and shone it toward the distance, unable to see the edge at all. In that darkness, there seemed to be many unknown existences slowly approaching the teaching building.

Lin Xian reached out to touch the ground, but below was a concrete floor, and the Heart of Machinery could not extend at all. His face sank; he could only retreat back into this only building to look for clues. The surroundings were all buildings, and only just now had he seen lights upstairs; he should be able to find the circuit control terminal there.

The electric light shone over; the corridors on both sides were incomparably deep, with no end in sight. The nearby classroom doors were almost all open, desks were crooked and scattered, and every environment seemed to be exactly the same, the only difference being that there were no corpses and no zombies.

Thump, thump, thump—Lin Xian went directly from the stairs to the second floor, following the classroom where the lights had been just now.

And when he arrived at the second-floor corridor, he discovered that the room with the lights was the first one next to the stairs. The dim light shone through the window, giving one the illusion that the scene had turned black and white.

The room door was ajar. Lin Xian shone his electric light and discovered that this was a utility room, not a classroom. Looking inside, the floor was clean and tidy, completely lacking the chaotic feeling of the other classrooms.

His heart tightened, and he walked in carefully. The moment the flashlight's beam swept across the inside, Lin Xian's hair suddenly stood on end.

Because in the middle of this utility room, there was a pile of white-clothed mannequins; at first glance, he almost thought a group of people was standing there.

And in this room, an old-fashioned incandescent lamp was still glowing with a faint light, which was exactly what Lin Xian had seen from downstairs.

This was completely different from what Lin Xian had imagined; he had thought it would be the light of some monitoring room or an emergency exit.

But this light was in such an inexplicable utility room, which was baffling. Lin Xian looked at that pile of mannequins, and for no reason, he felt a strange sensation.

Lin Xian walked in directly, his gaze constantly observing the surroundings.

Since there were lights, there were circuits...

Lin Xian knew that this was a huge test site, so there must be professional experimental equipment control. Therefore, his train of thought was very simple: he could fully utilize his mechanical abilities to grope for some clues and then violently break it open.

Lin Xian walked to the wall and began to use the Heart of Machinery's scan to explore, searching for mechanical structures.

At this moment, the lights in the room suddenly flickered, and then, they went out directly!

The entire utility room was suddenly pitch black, with only Lin Xian's flashlight beam remaining.

This sudden situation made him start to feel nervous—click, click~

At this moment, a subtle sound came from the darkness, sounding like the sound of some joint dislocation.

Lin Xian immediately shone his light toward the pile of mannequins, but the white beam shone over, and there was no abnormality. So, he widened the aperture and looked at the corner of the utility room.

At this moment, Lin Xian discovered that the door he had just walked in through had been closed. He immediately sensed something was wrong, walked over, and twisted it a few times, discovering that the door was locked.

"Playing this game?"

Click!

The Heart of Machinery activated directly, and the door lock was forcibly opened by him!

And the moment the door opened, a white child mannequin appeared at the doorway. Lin Xian's gaze immediately froze, and his electric blade was held horizontally in front of him.

The white mannequin was motionless; apart from its strange appearance, this mannequin was no different from those in ordinary shops.

Click, click~

The small joint sound rang out again. Lin Xian turned his head abruptly, and the flashlight beam shone over. The next instant, Lin Xian's back felt cold, and he had a skin-crawling feeling.

Those mannequins that were originally placed in the middle of the utility room just now,

At this moment,

Were actually all standing behind him!

At this moment, the air seemed to have frozen.

Lin Xian's flashlight shone on these white mannequins, and the strange atmosphere rose infinitely. His gaze froze, and he aimed a wind spear directly at the white mannequin closest to him.

Boom!

The mannequin's plastic head exploded immediately, its face incomplete, revealing the metal frame inside, but the mannequin remained motionless.

"What is this thing? A zombie? A human ghost??"

Lin Xian's gaze swept over this group of mannequins; he knew these things must have problems, but he did not know where the problems were.

So he shot out several wind spears directly—whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Blasting these mannequins in front of him into pieces, turning them into a pile of fragments one after another.

Clatter~

In an instant, inside the utility room, there was a loud sound. These white mannequins, which had been standing still with smiles on their faces, had their heads blasted off by Lin Xian one by one, or their necks broken, or their faces unrecognizable. A large number of fragments fell to the ground, and the sound echoed in the room and the corridor.

Just as Lin Xian was dealing with these white mannequins, in the darkness where his electric light did not reach, a short child mannequin suddenly twisted its joints and crawled up.

【Moving target approaching】

The power armor's reminder sound had just rung out when Lin Xian suddenly saw a pale face appear in the black shadow on the side. The mannequin's mouth suddenly opened, revealing a huge mouth full of sharp teeth!

Swoosh!

Lin Xian only felt his nerves shake. The black spear in his other hand stabbed out toward the front as a conditioned reflex. The mannequin's chest was held back by the spear tip, which prevented it from biting his neck off, pushing him to stumble back a few steps.

"What the hell is this!?"

Lin Xian reacted, pressed the tail of the spear against the ground to stop the mannequin's momentum, and then a flash of electric light appeared in the palm of his right hand.

Woo-zee~

The electric arc flickered and struck directly into the mannequin's mouth. Only a crackling sound of sparks was heard, and a burnt smell rushed out. Then, this mannequin that had attacked him suddenly stopped its movements and fell to the ground.

Seeing this scene, Lin Xian frowned. He calmed his mood and hurriedly picked up the flashlight to shine into the mannequin's mouth, only to discover that inside the mannequin's mouth was actually some kind of mechanical structure!

"A robot?"

Lin Xian had a face full of question marks and immediately reached out to press on it. A mechanical scan passed over, and he indeed discovered that this was a magnetic-controlled passive robot, which did not possess any power source but was a mechanical mannequin controlled in series.

"Using robots to deal with me, you really have a way..."

Patter, patter.

At this moment, in the corridor outside, a faint sound of footsteps suddenly came.

Intermittent, gradually approaching in the darkness.

"Ghost knocking on the door, huh?"

Lin Xian directly manufactured a high-power lighting lamp, and after lighting it up, he made the entire gloomy and strange room as bright as a sunny room.

Afterward, he stood up directly, walked over, and grabbed the door frame. The power armor outputted torque—clang! He directly dismantled the entire door completely.

Then he raised both hands, and light flickered in his hands.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh—a large amount of tank armor forged metal flew out. In a breath, a huge metal door 40cm thick, like a bank vault, was created, completely sealing the entire room.

And for this door, Lin Xian did not design a lock or handle.

At the same time, he also incidentally built a high-voltage discharger connected to it, turning on the high-voltage electricity.

"Alright, this door is specially designed to treat ghost knocking. Welcome to test it."

After doing all this, Lin Xian began to turn his attention to the room, preparing to scan the electrical structure of the building along the light circuits from just now, and then find the mechanism.

... And at this moment, inside the research institute's monitoring hall, the staff member responsible for the release of test subjects in Zone F looked at the screen in front of him, his hands leaving the keyboard, his eyes widening more and more.

"Hey!" A colleague on the side reminded him in a low voice: "Test subject No. 072 should be making its appearance. Quick, don't delay the time."

"There... there's a situation."

"What's wrong? Did it not knock on the door?"

This staff member pointed at the screen with a face full of horror. Inside, a ferocious monster was frantically scratching at the door, but the steel door that had appeared out of thin air did not budge at all, not even having a door handle.

"It... it can't even knock this open!"

"What's going on? Why hasn't the test footage of the Crying Classroom started yet?"

Security Supervisor Feng Chun looked at the time on his watch, pressed his headset, and asked with an unhappy expression.

"Supervisor, the test ghost body failed to enter the area..." a researcher replied hurriedly.

"What?!"

!

Feng Chun walked over directly and said sternly to the large monitoring screen: "Get me the monitoring footage of the utility classroom!"

"That..." At this moment, another researcher responsible for the footage had an ugly expression, turned his head, and stammered: "Report, the indoor monitoring has all been taken over."

Feng Chun frowned, and his expression began to grow solemn: "What did you say?"

"I said, we have lost internal monitoring," the researcher said with a strange expression.

For a time, the atmosphere in the research monitoring hall became strange.

"Then switch to the inside of the passage!" Realizing that the matter had become serious, Feng Chun said hurriedly: "The higher-ups require us to obtain data and characteristic investigations useful for mechanical abilities, and we must also pay attention to the target's safety status at all times. There must absolutely not be any problems!"

"Yes!"

"The monitoring footage inside the passage is normal. Currently, no life forms have been detected entering."

"Then the test target should still be in the utility classroom..."

Inside the bright room, to ensure no future trouble, Lin Xian devoured all the smashed magnetic-controlled robots into materials, leaving only a pile of broken plastic on the ground.

The entire room was incomparably transparent. At this moment, Lin Xian stood on the ladder he had manufactured, released the Heart of Machinery to begin connecting the path, and began to scan the mechanical frame structure outside the room along the circuits.

"Little girl, how is your situation?"

Click, click...

At this moment, inside the communicator, the signal began to become intermittent.

"Lin Xian, I can't find you. Where are you?"

"I'm right inside that teaching building, on the 2nd floor."

"I... I don't have a teaching building here," Kiki's voice came through, carrying a hint of panic.

Soon, the signal in the communicator disappeared. Lin Xian frowned, his heart suddenly becoming anxious. He estimated that the distance between the two should not be far. Lin Xian looked at the knocking sound coming from outside the steel door and thought it should be the signal-shielding effect of the dark energy produced by some kind of strange body.

"This research institute really has brought in some incredible monsters."

Lin Xian's thoughts shifted. At this moment, his gaze froze; the Heart of Machinery had finally found something.

Then he climbed down from the ladder, walked to the side wall of the room, and reached out. The Heart of Machinery directly took over the power system of a hidden door behind it, and then forcibly opened it!

Hiss.

At this moment, on the wall, the outline of a door frame slowly appeared and then retracted into the wall, revealing a dark passage behind it.

"Confirmed, the target has already appeared in the passage."

"Collecting target vital sign information. Vital signs are normal, no injuries, heart rate is normal."

Inside the research institute's monitoring hall, the researchers finally saw Lin Xian's figure on the monitoring screen.

Feng Chun looked at that figure, let out a sigh of relief, and pressed his headset to say.

"Close the passage, release the berserk zombie horde, and collect combat data."

"Confirmed, currently releasing the berserk zombie horde into the passage."

In the pitch-black passage, bright lights suddenly lit up. Lin Xian shielded his eyes slightly, looked up, and saw that he was currently in an incomparably long white passage, unable to see the end at a glance.

Ugh, ah!!!

Before he had walked a few steps, Lin Xian felt the floor vibrating slightly. At the same time, a tiny wailing sound came from the distance.

Lin Xian immediately looked back; the door he had just forcibly opened had closed again, leaving no way back.

So he looked up at the few hidden cameras above his head.

"Attention, control the zombie density. Don't give too much pressure all at once; we must ensure the survival of the target person."

"Understood, the density is currently at Level 1."

Feng Chun arranged the test intensity and looked at the monitoring screen. He suddenly discovered that the person in the monitoring was also looking up at the direction of the monitoring at this moment, as if he were looking him in the eye.

"This guy, how does it seem like he can see us?"

Feng Chun frowned and immediately gave instructions: "Attention, if the monitoring is destroyed, you must confirm the target's movements and vital sign information."

But before his words had even fallen, the light on the monitoring screen suddenly dimmed, and the entire monitoring turned pitch black.

"What's going on?!" Feng Chun shouted immediately.

"Currently troubleshooting and confirming, the circuit system is completely normal," a researcher said, sweating profusely while operating the computer.

Rat-tat-tat!

At this moment, a series of gunshots came from the monitoring sound, and the sound was becoming increasingly dense.

"The target has made contact with the enemy, quick, fix the lighting!"

Clang.

Before he could finish speaking, the lights in the monitoring lit up again. Everyone looked over in unison, only to see that the passage was already a bloody mess, filled with more than a dozen zombie corpses with blood splattered everywhere. On the other side, in front of Lin Xian, appeared—who knows when—a Roaring Gatling electric rotary machine gun mounted on a cart, the scorching muzzle still emitting steam.

"Where did he pull that out from?"

"How is there still a cart???"

"Such a big thing couldn't possibly be taken out of his body, could it be related to some kind of special space?"

"Confirm the target's ability activation mode and movements—is it manufactured out of thin air, taken out, or transformed?" Feng Chun was sweating on his forehead at this moment, very angrily saying: "Keep your eyes peeled! Even if he pulled it out of his crotch, you have to see clearly whether he used his left hand or his right hand!!!"

"Continue preparing the berserk zombie horde."

"Supervisor, what level should we arrange this time?"

"Full level!"

Ugh, ah!!!!

In the distance of the passage, the secret doors on both sides opened in unison, and countless zombies frantically surged out. These zombies seemed to have undergone some kind of modification and mutation, running frantically toward the entrance direction where Lin Xian was.

Doo-woo!!!!!

The Gatling gun roared frantically. Lin Xian fired and swept while pushing the gun cart, rolling over the corpse fragments and advancing toward the passage. The densely packed zombies in front were pierced through by his metal stream, which was like rain; ordinary human bodies simply could not withstand it, and they were in a sealed passage.

The bullets were like a hot knife cutting through chives, with no pressure at all, directly crushing through.

Lin Xian did not waste any time, pushing the gun mount, holding the electric blade in his hand, and moving forward quickly. Soon, he arrived at the end of the passage.

Clang—an iron door was opened by Lin Xian. Moving forward, it was a black passage like a circular pipe, completely different from the bright passage just now.

Lin Xian reached out to touch it, the Heart of Machinery unfolded, and then he frowned, immediately taking a step forward and walking quickly ahead.

(End of chapter)