Chapter 234: Mysterious Container

"Didn't I say to get the medical cabin back first?"

"Lin Xian, you have to come and see, there really is something good!" Kiki's voice sounded very urgent.

Lin Xian frowned upon hearing this, immediately gripped his black gun, and called Ding Junyi: "Let's go, let's go down to the 9th floor and see."

Ding Junyi seemed somewhat reluctant to part with the stack of data she was holding, but Lin Xian directly grabbed her arm and pulled her along.

Walking all the way along the corridor to the elevator area, Lin Xian pressed the elevator and took Ding Junyi to the 9th floor.

This was the area Hua Xiaoling had taken him to before. Lin Xian had a deep impression of the layout here. The space on this floor was very open, which was vastly different from other floors. The floor height alone was as high as the previous three floors combined. On the ceiling were materials similar to sky-screen reflectors, playing blue skies and white clouds in real-time.

Some fake windows in the corridor also showed high-rise buildings, jungles, and green fields, which seemed to be a design to relieve pressure, so that Foundation members who had been engaged in research work underground for a long time would not feel too depressed.

Lin Xian took Ding Junyi through several large office areas, kept walking along a straight passage, and soon saw Da Lou waiting for them at a doorway.

"Brother Xian."

"What's the situation?" Lin Xian asked.

He looked at the nameplate on the room, which read 【Hua Xiaoling】, and immediately understood that this should be Hua Xiaoling's office.

Da Lou scratched his head: "I'm not too sure, you go and see for yourself."

Lin Xian didn't say a word upon hearing this, pushed the door and entered directly. What caught his eyes first was a huge semi-arc room. Outside the huge open porthole was the giant research square that Lin Xian and Kiki had seen before, but at this moment, it was already empty.

Various glass culture cabins were broken and exposed, and the maintenance platform for mechas was also empty, with only some research equipment that didn't look very important left in place.

"Team Leader Lin."

Shu Qin's voice came from behind. Lin Xian looked back and found that Kiki was standing in front of an opened mechanism wall at this time, her hands crossed on her chest, looking excited and curious. She pointed to a large blast-proof metal password door with a diameter of two meters beside her and said to Lin Xian: "Guess how I found it?"

Lin Xian walked over and took a look: "This wouldn't be Hua Xiaoling's safe, would it? But this is too big."

"Anyway, there must be some secret inside." Kiki used her telekinesis to turn a statue used for decoration not far away, and the mechanism wall behind her closed again.

"Look, isn't it amazing?"

"Open it." Lin Xian's eyes flickered. Waiting for Kiki to open the mechanism wall again, he walked up directly, placed his hand on the blast-proof metal password door, and began to activate the Mechanical Heart to cover it.

After a while, he frowned: "It's a bit complicated. There should be a very large space behind this. Everyone, be careful."

Hearing this, Da Lou and Shu Qin took out their weapons and stood in a triangular formation, staring at the door.

*Clang~*

A sound of metal closing rang out, and the metal password door was slowly opened by Lin Xian. Just as Lin Xian opened it, a burst of skin-numbing electricity suddenly vibrated out.

"Careful!"

*Woo~*

Kiki took over from Lin Xian and opened the door with telekinesis. The few pushed the door open and cast their gazes into the door at the same time. At this moment, they found that there was a black corridor inside, and at the same time, lights on the ground lit up, shining all the way to the distance, where there was a room emitting a dim red light.

Lin Xian didn't say a word and walked in directly, with Kiki following behind.

As soon as they stepped into the corridor, both felt a sense of extreme quietness hit them. The ground was spotless, and even as they stepped in, they felt their own footsteps disappear instantly. This room and corridor seemed to have used some very high-end sound-absorbing materials.

Lin Xian and Kiki looked at each other, then looked forward. After only a few steps, they arrived at the room emitting the dim red light. Facing it, both of their expressions changed.

"What is this?"

Kiki asked in surprise.

In that secret, open room, there was a circular metal base, surrounded by various diamond-shaped pillars, all neatly surrounding the top. And on that metal base, at this moment, there was a very strange device, clamped in the air by a slender metal arm. The diamond-shaped pillars around it were emitting a faint red light.

Lin Xian frowned. He saw that the device looked like a small solidification cabin, about one meter high, and the cylindrical container in the middle was filled with red liquid. He didn't know what was inside.

"It looks like a special containment device, but I don't know what's inside that tube." Lin Xian said.

"Forget what it is, let's take it and see."

Kiki wrinkled her nose and didn't say a word. She directly raised her hand and grabbed it, pulling the device over through the air.

But just when she thought she could get closer and take a good look, as this containment device approached, her whole face turned pale, her eyes widened, and the telekinesis in her hand flickered, actually causing the device to fall toward the ground.

Lin Xian was quick-witted and stepped forward to catch it.

With a *bang*, a heavy force came from his hand. The spine of the power armor on his body felt unstable, and it automatically outputted torque. The hydraulic power group emitted a hum, finally forcibly catching it.

"Oh my~" Kiki hurriedly took two steps back, panting, looking at the containment device in Lin Xian's hand in surprise, and said: "So strange, why do I feel like my ability is a bit unstable all of a sudden?"

Lin Xian's forehead was covered in cold sweat. His surprise at this time was no less than Kiki's, because he felt it too.

This feeling was the same as when he faced Ding Qing at the Rain Town chemical plant.

If it weren't for the power armor on his body, he wouldn't even have been able to catch this thing.

"Be careful." Lin Xian looked at the red liquid in the cylindrical container with a solemn gaze: "There might be the same substance as the mist sprayed by that Pseudo-Demon Giant Louse inside."

Kiki frowned and backed away upon hearing this, saying: "So it was filled with this thing. Is it specifically used to suppress ability users?"

"This... doesn't seem like it."

Lin Xian leaned closer and looked, feeling that there seemed to be something in the red liquid, but no matter how he looked, he couldn't see it clearly.

Lin Xian tried to study the structure of this device to see if there were any switches, but after searching for a long time, there was nothing.

So he took a deep breath and tried to use the Mechanical Heart, wanting to understand what this thing was through scanning.

【Scanning complete, obtained Unknown Device 03 (Blueprint)】

Unexpectedly, the device was scanned successfully very easily, but it was not a useful device blueprint. And only after scanning did Lin Xian realize that this was actually an automated containment vessel, which seemed to need a password to be unlocked.

Lin Xian felt a chill in his heart. He immediately flashed an electric arc from his palm. Instantly, a light appeared above the red containment device, and then a holographic light screen appeared.

【Please enter the matrix password: ————】 Kiki and Lin Xian looked at this scene, and the two looked at each other.

"Need a password? Can't your mechanical ability open it?"

Lin Xian frowned. The Mechanical Heart sank in, and he quickly found the unlocking element in the structure, and then activated it gently.

Who would have thought that the next instant, the holographic light screen in front of him flickered and emitted a sharp screech.

【Warning: Violent opening will cause the re-suspension liquid to disintegrate internally, damaging the contained object】

Lin Xian was confused: "Re-suspension liquid, what the hell is that..."

"How would I know." Kiki backed away repeatedly. After leaving a few meters away, she finally felt her whole body relax. She looked at the giant device in Lin Xian's hand and said with a complex expression: "Strange and weird, everything in this Foundation is strange and weird."

Lin Xian looked at the password light screen and found that it was actually an 11-digit number format, and his head immediately grew big. How could he open this?

*Squeak, squeak~*

Lin Xian stood up. Although his whole body was somewhat sore, he was not in a state of complete exhaustion. It seemed that because of the shielding of the container, the things inside did not have such an intuitive influence on the two.

"Can't you open it either?" Kiki asked when she saw Lin Xian didn't open it.

!

Lin Xian shook his head, placed the containment device gently on the ground, and said: "This thing is very precise and has an anti-theft device. Forcing it open might cause trouble."

"Then what should we do?"

"Throw it away." Lin Xian clapped his hands and said.

"Throw it away?" Kiki looked puzzled: "Hey, this thing was hidden so tightly, it must be some top secret. Why throw it away?"

Lin Xian was indifferent: "The entire research institute evacuated, so why didn't they take this 'top secret' with them? Besides, this thing can't be figured out what it is, and it has an inhibitory effect on human body functions. If it can't be opened, it might cause risks, so besides throwing it away, what use can it have?"

"Uh..." Lin Xian's words left Kiki speechless, and then she said: "Fine, whatever you say."

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief and signaled to Kiki: "Let's go."

He glanced at the containment device on the ground and followed Kiki, preparing to leave this room.

Who knew that just as Lin Xian walked to the entrance of the corridor, his Mechanical Heart suddenly began to run wildly out of control.

【Mechanical Heart, activate!】

【Mechanical Heart, activate!】

【Mechanical Heart, activate!】

*Boom, boom! *

"What's going on?" Lin Xian thought to himself, how could his Mechanical Heart run spontaneously.

*Woo~!!!!!!!!!! *

The sound of some giant engine rang in Lin Xian's mind!

【Lin Xian!】

A low mechanical roar exploded in his ear. Lin Xian's whole body shook. In an instant, all the hair on his body seemed to stand up. He turned his head back violently, only to see the giant containment device emitting a very faint red light.

"Lin Xian?!!!"

"Lin Xian!!"

The humming in his ears gradually faded, and Kiki's voice came from far to near, pulling Lin Xian out of his daze.

*Whoosh! *

Lin Xian was covered in cold sweat at this time. He looked at Kiki, who was surprised beside him, and said: "Did you hear that?"

Kiki looked around very inexplicably upon hearing this and said strangely: "Hear what? I walked out and saw you didn't come out. I turned my head and found you stunned here. I thought something happened to you."

"You didn't hear such a loud sound just now?" Lin Xian frowned.

"Hear what?"

Lin Xian was stunned. He hurriedly looked at the red container on the ground in the distance, his eyes full of complexity.

What's the situation? How could his Mechanical Heart run out of control?

Where did that engine sound just now come from?

Who is calling me?

At this moment, Lin Xian felt as if he had experienced a terrifying nightmare. At this time, he couldn't understand the situation at all.

His rapidly beating heart gradually slowed down. A sharp edge flashed in Lin Xian's eyes. He walked over immediately, raised his hand to manufacture a precision-structured heavy metal box, then put the containment device into it, and closed the metal box.

At this time, the power that suppressed body functions also immediately decreased a bit.

"Lin Xian, did you change your mind?" Kiki saw Lin Xian's actions and said.

"Take it back first and find time to study it." Lin Xian's expression was somewhat solemn. The situation just now was too eerie. At this time, a strange thought arose in his subconscious, that is, this thing might be of great use to him in the future, so he changed his mind temporarily and prepared to take this thing onto the *Infinite*.

Shu Qin and Da Lou looked at Lin Xian and Kiki bringing out a large iron box from the secret room, and were somewhat puzzled.

At the same time, the two also felt the weak inhibitory power.

"Big guy, you carry it."

Kiki used her ability to hand the iron box to Da Lou. Da Lou thought he could take it easily, but as soon as he got it, he felt his body go soft and almost didn't catch it. He had to bow his waist and sink into a horse stance, grunting, before he finally caught the iron box.

"Eh, so heavy?"

"It's not that the thing is heavy, it's that your strength has weakened." Lin Xian said directly: "Let's go, let's go and move that medical cabin back first."

The entire research institute area was very large, and it was impossible to search it all at once. Since it was empty here, Lin Xian just happened to pick up a bargain. The underground research institute that could accommodate thousands of people must also have quite a few various living items. Although many important things had been moved away, there were quite a few research instruments in this research institute that he could completely use for devouring.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 235 =====