Chapter 358: Just go here

*Woo~*

Following a sound of the system shutting down, the remaining defensive weapons of this mysterious laboratory all went offline. The muzzles of the automatic cannons drooped, the electromagnetic cannons were powered off and retracted, and the sky-filling swarm drones fell like raindrops.

And at this time on Lin Xian's side, in his and Qian Suxun's holographic panels, Grace was calculating the key opportunity based on the real-time angle of the fish-lion colossus.

【Based on your current position and distance, the best startup time is 23 seconds later.】

【This time is still within the observation range of the front left side of the colossus, please be careful to guard against it.】

Grace's voice came. In the picture, Lin Xian and Kiki both clearly saw the floating colossus in the surveillance slowly rotating. In the area swept by its front, the dark space and fog were crazily twisting and deforming. A thin layer of scarlet color emerged on various decaying man-made objects such as houses, streets, electric towers, and signal light poles. At the same time, fine frost began to condense, and the surfaces of those metals were trembling at the microscopic level!

15 seconds, the colossus began to sweep toward the unfinished building factory area where Lin Xian and the others were. Even separated by hundreds of meters and a wall, Lin Xian and the others felt a deep, bone-chilling fear instantly, as if ignoring all obstacles, piercing through their bodies. A large amount of dark invasion power constantly took away body heat and mental sanity. All heart rates began to accelerate, and brain waves erupted with abnormal resistance spectra.

10 seconds.

5 seconds.

Lin Xian gripped the steering wheel tightly, his gaze staring fixedly at the screen. Kiki on the side had already raised her hands, and the telekinetic fluctuations in her eyes were surging crazily.

3 seconds, 2 seconds, 1 second!

The time has come!

*Boom! *

Kiki pushed hard, and the wall several meters high was torn apart and separated. Along with the street lamp posts and wire fences in the road ahead, they were razed to the ground under her power, clearing the way for Lin Xian. At the same time, Lin Xian and Wen Sixuan started the transport vehicles simultaneously. The high-energy motors exploded with torque, and the two vehicles rushed out from the darkness, driving toward the gate of the sewage treatment plant!

Southeast, north, west—Chen Sixuan, Xiang Xiang Ningjing, Bai Xiaoqing, Bai Bai, Qian Dele, Mo Nika, Tianye Lan, and Long Zhijie were all fighting everywhere, constantly erupting with ability fluctuations around the sewage treatment plant. The huge humanoid creature in the darkness could not see its face, but just by suddenly appearing in front of Chen Sixuan and the others, it brought a terrifying sense of horror.

On Lin Xian's side, the speed was increased to the extreme, rushing through the steel gate that had been swept into fragments by the bullet storm, rushing straight in, crashing through various broken robots and blocking pillars along the way, and rushing into the office building.

As soon as they entered, a musty smell of decay hit their noses. Under the lights of the car, it was a completely dark factory office building. Rainwater dripped along the rusted pipes, knocking out hollow echoes on the concrete steps. Lin Xian and Qian Suxun's 5 people got off the vehicle. Although they successfully avoided the observation of the colossus, at this time, all of them could feel that an extremely oppressive eeriness was above their heads. The concentration of dark invasion here was much greater than in other places.

*Weng~* Shizhi exerted her purification ability with all her might, helping several people suppress the strong dark invasion around them.

"This way!"

Lin Xian didn't talk nonsense and followed Grace's guidance path directly to the middle of the factory. This was originally a pile of decaying and collapsed control cabinets, but at this time, the floor had separated to both sides, appearing a circular elevator. Grace stood in the middle of the elevator with her hands behind her back and said to Lin Xian,

【The research institute system has been taken over by me, and no biological targets have been found yet.】

"Red Human Anomalies, clones, none found?"

*Woo~*

At this time, several people stood on it, and the elevator platform began to descend slowly.

【This research institute is divided into multiple research areas and has multiple secret exits, connecting to the Baicheng commercial street underground parking lot, Yuxiu Park, and Baicheng orbital station. Currently, Dancer No. 1 and ACS are still scanning and exploring below.】

Grace looked at Qian Suxun at this time: 【The intrusion plan has been completed. Now I will return the command authority of the ACS robot and the hard-assault mech to you.】

Qian Suxun smiled faintly: "Okay, thank you for your hard work."

Lin Xian nodded at him and signaled simply. Qian Suxun's three heavy mechs played a key role this time. If it weren't for these three mechs attracting firepower, they really wouldn't have been able to break through such a dense firepower line. Facing heavy cannons, needle missiles, and electromagnetic cannons, their armed power armor simply couldn't withstand it.

Qian Suxun took back the control of the ACS. At this time, through the information sent back, his expression changed immediately.

"This place below is much larger than we expected."

"Sending one or two thousand clones in each batch, it can't be small." Lin Xian said. He looked at Lu Xingchen, who was slightly quiet on the side, and said: "How is it?"

"Ah... no problem."

Lu Xingchen nodded at him: "Staying in the dark for these two days, I have already gotten used to it."

When the elevator descended to the bottom floor, the first thing that came into view was a huge hangar. Inside, there was a medium transport ship of the kind they had encountered before. Besides that, there were only some automated vehicles. The vast majority of the space was empty. There were guide rails for automated transport lines on the ground, extending along the yellow danger signs to the end of the hangar.

When they walked to the end of the hangar, the moment the airlock slid open under Grace's control, the breathing of the five people instantly stagnated!

Corpse warehouse!

Hundreds of huge transparent culture pods extended from the ground to the ceiling, like oil storage tanks in a large factory, densely arranged. Each pod was piled with hundreds or thousands of corpses, men and women, the vast majority of whom were 20-40 years old. They all had the same Deep Red World work uniforms, and their brains were embedded with brain-computer interfaces, but they no longer had memory banks. A large amount of white mycelium was spreading and growing, like a spider web. Some pods seemed to have been placed for a long time and were already covered with mycelium, while some pods were already empty, with broken glass scattered on the ground, dragging out dried brown traces. The few "specimens" closest to the door were liquefying, their skin melting like wax, revealing the dark red muscle tissue underneath.

"These should be the clones that had 'normal wear and tear' after being sent in..." Qian Suxun said faintly: "Keeping these corpses must have other purposes for the Deep Red World, otherwise there's no need to store them separately."

The picture was sent back to the bunker center, and Mochizuki Shinji's voice also came.

"Corpses also have the use of corpses. Those clone researchers who come in are themselves experimental subjects."

"Ah?" Kiki frowned upon hearing this: "Even if they are clones, they have their own independent consciousness, and they aren't robots. Will they be so obedient and fanatical?"

Seeing these pictures, Shizhi, who was following in the middle, shrank her neck and walked forward without saying a word, occasionally providing help to others with purification power, not daring to look too much.

"There must be individuals who appear cowardly, but the Deep Red World must have corresponding plans to deal with this situation." Qian Suxun said.

"For example, the memory banks they import must be the latest version of people who have been over-brainwashed, in the most fanatical stage, to reduce the rebellion probability and cowardice degree of the generated clones. This is similar to genetic screening. Just copy the consciousness version of the most fanatical and firm research personnel in the organization. They can also be classified and sequenced. Once someone's clone has a high rebellion probability, even the original person will definitely be implicated. For them, managing these is as simple as managing a program."

Kiki shook her head: "Hard to imagine. If my consciousness became a program that could be mass-copied, am I still me? Is digital life still life?"

Once these words were spoken, Qian Suxun looked at her with great interest, as if wanting to say something.

At this time, Mochizuki Shinji's leisurely voice came: "The programmability of digital life and the programming exploration of human DNA are essentially the same. Reducing errors and reducing genetic diseases, copying excellent thinking programs and copying excellent scientists, athletes, and artists—where is the difference? So, philosophical discussions about the essence of life have no meaning; it's just that human civilization has not yet developed to this stage. The social mode of advanced civilization must be increasingly simple. Unordered entropy increase is the beginning of destruction. Of course... now is not the time to talk about this problem."

"I have already checked through the ACS just now that the transport ship can start normally. You can use this vehicle to evacuate later." Mochizuki Shinji returned to the topic.

Lin Xian was silent. He knew that the people of the Silent City themselves were also loyal supporters of digital life, but the question Kiki just asked was also one of the reasons why Mochizuki Shinji's digital life plan was called off before the end of the world, which was the ethical essence of life.

However, he had no time to discuss these with Mochizuki Shinji now. The group of people quickly continued to walk forward. A door opened, and Dancer No. 1 stood in the center, waiting for Grace and Lin Xian's group. Then, these two robots led the way and scouted for Lin Xian and the others all the way.

Qian Suxun was right. Below this sewage treatment plant were automated research institute programs. There was almost no living area here. Each laboratory had automated transmission channels to send quantitative energy blocks and water. The laboratory was in a fully sealed state, and internal personnel communicated through holographic communication. There was no private space, and there was no individual activity path. Each experimental area was isolated and divided. There was an eerie cleanliness here, like a prison full of experimental instruments.

"Distributed laboratory. The difference between it and my automated laboratory is the presence or absence of people. They shielded any communication other than work."

In the bunker main control room, Mochizuki Shinji looked at the sent-back picture and analyzed: "If you don't consider it from a humanitarian perspective, to some extent, they have initially constructed the social production mode of an intermediate civilization..."

"If they don't treat other survivors as clone consumables." Lin Xian responded with a cold gaze.

"But ironically, their technological progress is indeed faster than ours." Qian Suxun sighed.

Lin Xian was silent for a moment and did not continue to discuss this issue, but directly released 25 Lei Sun drones: "Grace, take over the drones and conduct a comprehensive search."

【Understood.】

*Hua~*

Under Grace's powerful computing power control, 25 Lei Sun drones flew out at high speed in all directions instantly. At the same time, the 25 pictures sent back were processed by Grace's quantum computer and integrated into concise information for Lin Xian.

This was something Lin Xian couldn't do at present. If he really built 100 or 1000 drones, he could only rely on Grace, this assistant. So for Lin Xian, Grace would definitely become an important tool for his mechanical ability in the future, and he had to pay more attention to it.

"Brother Lin~" Lu Xingchen said at this time: "If there is no other way, why don't we destroy this place? If the power is cut off, wouldn't the cleansing command outside..."

"No."

Before he finished speaking, Kiki interrupted him: "We don't know what that cleansing device is. If it's a separate device, what if it only needs a remote signal to start?"

Lu Xingchen closed his mouth again upon hearing this.

At this time, the group walked all the way to a place like a central hall. The lights were bright, and it was dead silent and unmanned. In the holographic picture, dozens of drones appeared in front of Lin Xian through the scanned pictures calculated by Grace. Below this research institute, besides the transport hangar and corpse pods, the rest were hundreds of various classified laboratories. But strangely, the huge underground base did not find a program main control room, which made Lin Xian feel a bit strange.

"Grace, where is the system integration main control?"

【Each classified experimental area has a separate main control room, but within the control unit, there is no general control room or similar integration center.】

"Strange..." Qian Suxun said: "For the Deep Red World to dispatch the entire laboratory, it's impossible to have zone-based main control. From the logic of automated design, it simply doesn't work, unless they also have an AI robot like Deep Red No. 3 here for general control."

"Suxun is right, but there is another possibility."

Mochizuki Shinji said at this time: "For a special research institute like this, if it is to prevent invasion by external enemies or to obtain key backup data, it may set up an invisible system independent of all systems. This kind of system will disconnect from the base after being threatened and perform one-way control, commonly known as..."

"Secret room."

Qian Suxun nodded upon hearing this: "It looks like it's very likely to be like this, but this place is too big."

After speaking, he looked at Grace: "Deep Red No. 3, can you find relevant clues from the consciousness information just now?"

【I have already conducted a search and did not find such a setting.】

"Those clones only understand the field they work in. Besides that Umbra-cell, other research data is also limited. After all, he is just one of thousands of researchers." Lin Xian looked back at the experimental laboratories that were like cages in all directions and frowned: "This information definitely has nothing to do with these clones."

"Then what should we do?" Kiki looked at the time. At this time, the tide ebb had passed for 25 minutes, and Chen Sixuan, Xiang Xiang Ningjing, and the others outside were still fighting fiercely with anomalies. Their time was running out.

Lin Xian's gaze was cold, and he walked out immediately, saying in a deep voice,

"Then we can only use the stupidest method."

After speaking, he stood directly in the middle of the central hall, with his hands facing down, his mechanical heart at maximum power, and began mechanical scanning!

For Lin Xian, although this consumed a lot of energy, he had now mastered remote scanning. As the domain expanded rapidly, the entire base's large amount of circuits and architectural structures began to be constructed and generated rapidly toward all directions with him as the center, like a holographic map.

Pipes, lines, guide rails, ventilation openings, data connection, information desk, experimental instruments, lights, along with ground steel structures, elevators, passages...

The appearance of this underground secret base of the Deep Red World began to be displayed in Lin Xian's mind without any blind spots.

Such linear expansion instantly caused Lin Xian's energy consumption to soar in a straight line, and cold sweat broke out all over his body. But at this time, there was no other way, and he could only grit his teeth and persist.

But as his energy was consumed in large quantities, the crazy dark invasion fear power began to gradually occupy his sanity. He felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar all around, and even the bright light dimmed. The figures of the members of the several teams beside him were constantly twisting, and countless terrifying and desperate pictures attacked him crazily in front of him.

At this time, a strong energy suddenly poured into his body, instantly dispelling most of the fear power, and at the same time making Lin Xian feel a sense of warmth, and even his brain began to clear up.

Shizhi!

After noticing Lin Xian's change, this young girl immediately took action. She immediately concentrated all her purification ability on Lin Xian, helping him perform mechanical scanning.

With the addition of this power, Lin Xian felt as if he had been charged by the energy transformed by the heterostructure magic cube. Instantly, the expansion of mechanical scanning began to accelerate. And at this time, he finally discovered a special area.

This area was at the very bottom of these several layers of secret research institutes. Countless cables connected to a sturdy bunker of about two hundred square meters. It was just that these cables were not powered. In one of the laboratories there, there was a secret elevator leading straight down.

"Found it!"

As soon as the words fell, Lin Xian immediately withdrew the mechanical scanning, took a group of people to the elevator, went all the way to the bottom experimental area, and then came to the outside of a laboratory marked A1, and let Grace operate to open the automatic door.

And at this time, Lin Xian rushed in directly, his mechanical ability activated quietly, and he activated a hidden switch. Instantly, the original metal wall slowly opened, and a small elevator actually appeared.

This elevator looked very small, and several people were crowded standing in it. For the sake of caution, Lin Xian let Grace's twin stars go down first. After taking over the system of the main control secret room, they would go down.

Sure enough, when Grace completed the takeover and Lin Xian and the others went down in that small elevator, they found that the place below was a main control room filled with a large number of control cabinets. However, the more eerie place came. In this main control room full of various cables and cabinets, they actually found a living area.

This living area was right in the middle of the main control room, a circular area surrounded by glass curtain walls. Inside, besides many surveillance computers, there was a bed, a simple restroom, and many food supplies placed on the display cabinets around. Beside the bed, there was even a TV playing old movies. And on those tables and the ground, there were leftovers of food packaging, empty cans, and it looked very dirty and messy. It looked very sloppy and embarrassed. Even on that bed, there was a fair-skinned, 1:1 scale mechanical silicone doll, with its used part pointing straight at the ceiling, making people know at a glance that the person living here must be a man.

"There's someone here!"

"Grace." Lin Xian said immediately.

Instantly, several people immediately dispersed, and the mech's system scanned over, but nothing was found.

Qian Suxun walked to the front of the TV, reached out and touched the instant noodle bowl that still had residual warmth, and said sternly: "This guy is right here. When we broke into the upper level, he should have noticed it, so he cut off the system path between the main control room and the upper laboratory."

Kiki scanned around, but the power armor's radar system still saw nothing. Shizhi also tried to use her ability to find it, but Qian Suxun interrupted her: "Shizhi, this is a person, don't waste your ability."

"Strange thing, this place is not big, how could a living person disappear? Could it be some kind of invisible ability user?" Fire Brother didn't believe in evil. He walked directly outside and fired a few small fire chains toward the shadow corners of those cabinet servers.

Kiki looked at his action and couldn't help but remind him: "Hey, be careful, if you burn it, we really won't be able to find that cleansing device."

Who knew that as soon as her voice fell, a scream suddenly sounded from the shadow of a cabinet in front of Lu Xingchen. In an instant, Lin Xian and the others rushed over quickly. They saw a black shadow rolling and crawling out of the shadow in the corner with flames burning on its body. But the strange thing was that even though this person had already appeared in front of them, Lin Xian's power armor radar system still did not identify the existence of this person.

"What kind of monster is this!" Lu Xingchen spoke first. He didn't expect that his fire really pulled a 'person' out of the darkness.

Kiki immediately used telekinesis to control the person. Just as she grabbed the person, she heard the other party's begging voice.

"Don't... don't kill me, don't kill me, I'm useful, I have information!!!"

"Kiki." Lin Xian felt that this voice was somewhat familiar, so he stopped Kiki. Kiki grabbed him out of the shadow. At this time, the lights on the power armor of several people shone, and they found that this was a fat man who looked to be in his thirties, wearing a mechanical collar around his neck, and dressed in casual clothes. He was clearly not any combat personnel.

But just when Lin Xian and Kiki saw this guy's face, both of them had their gazes tighten, and they couldn't help but be surprised at the same time,

"It's you!"

"Ah??? You know me??" The fat man was full of fear at this time. Seeing these people wearing power armor, he suddenly felt that his life was not long.

Lin Xian shone the flashlight on the fat man's face and opened his power armor mask at the same time, saying with a suspicious expression,

"You guy, your life is really big."

The fat man was blinded by the strong light of the flashlight. It took a long time for him to adapt. His pupils focused. After seeing Lin Xian's face clearly, he was dumbfounded, and his face turned pale.

"Actually... it's you guys!"

The person in front of him was none other than the fat man Zhou Lei who betrayed Qian Yu in Beiwan and then stole Lu Xingchen's RV in Yubei!!!

"Didn't you steal Fire Brother's RV and run away? You didn't go to the high-altitude corridor and you're still alive?" Kiki also recognized him, and then she reacted and said: "Even the radar couldn't find you. It turns out you're an ability user."

Lin Xian was also extremely surprised in his heart at this time. He didn't expect that the person he would see in the underground main control room of the Deep Red World would be this guy!

This Zhou Lei, in Beiwan Town, allied with Qian Yu of the Black Jiao fleet at the time, as well as Lin Xian and Building Shu Qin and the others, preparing to rush out of the Beiwan fog. Later, this guy secretly colluded with Tang Hai and Feng Yu Ming to turn against them in the middle of the night, killed Qian Yu, grabbed half of his heavy fleet, and fled. As a result, his power hadn't expanded yet before he was finished by the Black Crow Four-Person Group. Relying on a glib tongue, he actually survived in the Black Crow Four-Person Group who killed without blinking. He even mixed into a small leader. As a result, the Black Crow Four-Person Group was killed through by Lin Xian and Shu Qin's fleet in Yubei City. At the critical moment, this guy stole Lu Xingchen's doomsday RV and slipped away, so Fire Brother joined the Infinite.

Logically speaking, that night, only the tens of thousands of people who rushed to the high-altitude corridor in Yubei City survived. Lin Xian really couldn't imagine how this guy survived in Yubei City, which had monster tides, nuclear explosions, and corpse drivers?

"Hmm? What?"

Hearing Kiki's words, Lu Xingchen on the side was stunned for a moment. How could his business be involved here?

So he focused his gaze on the fat man's face. While extremely unfamiliar, he was also inexplicably somewhat familiar.

Suddenly, his face changed, he took a deep breath, and cursed angrily,

"It's you, you villain!!!"

Lu Xingchen reacted that this guy was actually the culprit who stole his precious seat, causing him to have no clothes to wear. Thinking of this, Lu Xingchen felt a mouthful of old blood surging, and he was about to go berserk: "Heaven has eyes, fate revolves, today I swear to..."

"Fire Brother!" Just when Lu Xingchen was about to go berserk, Lin Xian immediately stopped him.

Qian Suxun and Shizhi on the side were also quite curious when they saw this scene.

"Shinji, you also wouldn't have thought that there would be a living person here, heh, it looks like it's still Lin and their 'old friend'..."

"Old friend can't be counted as..."

Lin Xian didn't waste time. He looked at Zhou Lei and said coldly,

"Give you two minutes. If your information is useless, I will let you die very comprehensively."

"I'll say, I'll say!"

Zhou Lei was both surprised and terrified. Seeing that the other party was actually Lin Xian, he felt bitter in his heart. How could he run into this guy everywhere? If it were someone else, he might be able to deal with it, but this guy had already seen his multiple betrayals and knew his little thoughts, which made his only remaining fluke press down again. After thinking about it, he swallowed a mouthful of saliva fiercely and said,

"Team Leader Lin, I'll tell you everything I know. Can you spare my life?!"

"1 minute 58 seconds." Lin Xian looked at the time, his voice cold. He didn't want to bargain with this kind of guy at all.

Zhou Lei's face changed greatly, and he said hurriedly,

"The Deep Red World and the Dawn City high-level have collusion. They created something that is expanding the No. 5 Star Abyss!"

After speaking, he looked at Lin Xian's expression, which had no change, and immediately cold sweat flowed down. He continued,

"They are researching the evolution and cloning of ability users here, but this path is wrong. Ability users cannot be cloned at all. But he also created something that can colonize and control zombies and human anomalies. They are also preparing to try to use this thing on anomalies, B-level, A-level, huge entities..."

Hearing this, Lin Xian directly raised his finger, and the mechanical cannon aimed at Zhou Lei's brow. He was about to accumulate energy.

*Woo~*

A cold electric current sound rang out.

Lin Xian's action made Zhou Lei's pupils dilate, and he shouted hurriedly,

"There's more, there's more..." He said, trying to struggle out of Kiki's telekinesis in a panic, but found he couldn't move. He could only signal with his gaze to a device emitting blue light in the center of the main control room not far away, and shouted with dry lips: "There is the latest data summary of this research institute, which is the total backup of the latest progress of all 930 laboratories here."

"Wow~"

Qian Suxun looked disdainful and said: "You mean the Deep Red World left all the research results here and let you, this talent, be responsible for guarding it, right."

"No, no, no!!"

Zhou Lei explained hurriedly: "These total data are verified and recorded with the outside every 12 hours, otherwise they will be automatically destroyed... Be... because the researchers sent in are all those who don't know the latest research progress, and they need to continue the file here. One is to prevent leaks, and the other is that only specific 'people' can go out each time. They need to conduct internal and external information review, and I am mainly responsible for guarding here, monitoring all clone batches and external verification..."

Lin Xian frowned upon hearing this: "Why do you know these, and why are you here?"

"Yeah, most of the people sent in can't survive. This place is all automated. How did you live here for so long?" Kiki also questioned directly.

"I... I just said, the researchers sent in are all those who don't know the research progress. All the situations inside, including location, experimental content, must all be those who don't know. After coming in, they must be reviewed for survival and psychology, and then connected to the latest research progress to start work. I am here because they need a person like this to supervise and isolate the clones. At the same time, it is also to... ensure that the system is not invaded."

Zhou Lei was lifeless and said a lot in one breath. Lin Xian and the others understood that Zhou Lei was the 【Double Insurance】 placed here by the Deep Red World, and at the same time, he was the 'loop learning' object of the AI intelligence of the base here. To ensure that if the system was invaded by the outside or encountered some kind of ability interference, there could still be a living person who could forcibly disconnect the important main control center below to protect the safety of the data. Even if he died, the recorded data would be automatically destroyed after 12 hours, and the Deep Red World would have no worries.

In addition, he had another important task, which was to monitor those clones. Although the brain was controlled by memory banks and mycelium, essentially the technology of the Deep Red World was not mature enough, and often there would be interference from the original object's consciousness, or the consciousness of those researchers would spontaneously appear to resist, rebel, be cowardly, or deceive. But what these awakened clones didn't know was that there was still a living person here monitoring them!

After Zhou Lei finished speaking, he looked at Lin Xian and the others, his face struggling, and said,

"I know you won't believe it. Not only do you not believe it, but the Deep Red World can't believe a person like me either. But the reason for choosing me is because... I am a person of Divine Revelation."

"You joined Divine Revelation?" Lin Xian asked.

"I didn't want to join!" Zhou Lei said with a bitter life expression: "That time in Yubei City after encountering you, I turned around and met a huge sky jellyfish, almost losing my life. As a result, the jellyfish was burned to death by fire. I picked up a life and drove out of the city, hiding in a supermarket warehouse in the suburbs. Later, Yubei City fought all night, and there was a big explosion. The warehouse also collapsed, and then, and then I picked up a candle..."

"Then I was inexplicably found by a group of people called Divine Revelation. These people are a bit evil. It turns out they discovered that the candle was actually a forbidden item. As long as the candle is lit, I can hide in the shadows and not be discovered, and even anomalies can't see me. But as long as the candle burns out, I have to die... Later, they asked me if I wanted to live, and I said yes... Then, I was sent here..."

Lin Xian was surprised and curious upon hearing this: "So that candle burns for a month, and you can live in here for 12 months?"

Zhou Lei nodded.

"What kind of candle can burn for a month?"

Zhou Lei:...

"Ghost talk, Brother Lin, let me burn his candle in advance!" Fire Brother said unceremoniously.

"I... I really didn't lie to you!!!" Zhou Lei begged for mercy immediately upon hearing this: "The people of Divine Revelation told me that I would die if I left the Star Abyss, because my life is in their hands. Plus they took a fancy to the characteristic influence of this forbidden item on me, so the Deep Red World would arrange me here. Actually, I know I am just a pawn of the Deep Red World and Divine Revelation. If it weren't for this, how could I have lived here for so long... Team Leader Lin, am I right???!"

Qian Suxun's eyes narrowed upon hearing this: "This can explain why the radar can't find him, and why he can live in this Star Abyss for so long. Is it another forbidden item? Heh."

Zhou Lei's words sounded a bit eerie, but the logic made sense. And in Lin Xian's view, there was no point in him lying about this problem, because Lin Xian was not concerned about the conspiracy of the Deep Red World and Dawn City, or the research data, or why Zhou Lei was here. He was only concerned about the cleansing plan that was about to arrive. Otherwise, all the intelligence secrets and research data would be meaningless.

So Lin Xian said directly: "Since your work is so important, you must know where the Deep Red World's cleansing device is, right?"

"Cleansing device? What cleansing device?" Zhou Lei looked confused upon hearing this.

"Triggering an anomaly riot to cleanse the whole city." Lin Xian said quickly: "You won't tell me you don't know, right?"

Zhou Lei reacted immediately upon hearing this. He looked at Qian Suxun and Shizhi next to Lin Xian and said hurriedly: "They are people from the Silent City, right? Aren't you here to grab research materials?"

"Don't change the subject."

Zhou Lei was anxious: "I didn't change the subject. There is no cleansing device here at all, because the purpose of the anomaly riot is not because of you. We... ah pui, the Deep Red World has indeed been eyeing the people of the Silent City for a long time, but this is not the main purpose of the Deep Red World!!!"

As soon as Zhou Lei's words came out, Lin Xian and the others all had their gazes change slightly. Even Mochizuki Shinji, who was standing in the Xishan bunker main control room, had his gaze tighten.

Zhou Lei looked up at the clock on the control room and said hurriedly: "Actually, I don't know much either, but the space turbulence that erupted here several times was not aimed at you. That's because the Deep Red World is using some ghost device or forbidden item to expand the Star Abyss, filling it crazily with human lives. Many people died. Every time that device is activated, all anomalies in the entire No. 5 Star Abyss will riot. Didn't it happen the day before yesterday? It fought all night from here to the swamp lake side of Butuo Lake. Didn't you feel it?"

Lin Xian took a cold breath: "What did you say?!"

Butuo Lake, isn't that where the United Train's current defensive line is located? He immediately turned back and exchanged glances with Qian Suxun and Kiki. Several people seemed to understand something.

The so-called cleansing plan sounded exactly like the Star Abyss internal shock caused by the Deep Red World using the fish-lion colossus to trigger the Star Abyss abnormal expansion!

Qian Suxun frowned and said into the communicator,

"Shinji, the situation is more troublesome than we imagined."

"Oh, I know what you want!!" Zhou Lei saw the expressions of Lin Xian and the others and reacted immediately, saying hurriedly: "Every time such an expansion is to be carried out, I will receive a command to enter silence in advance, which requires disconnecting the main control room and the upper research institute. So if I receive a command here, you will be very safe hiding here as long as you don't have a dark mark."

Lin Xian took a deep breath. At this time, his face sank completely. According to this situation, they simply couldn't stop the Star Abyss riot.

It seemed that Zhou Lei didn't know that the Deep Red World's research had disturbed the No. 01 creature, nor did he know that the command he received this time was likely the last one.

Lin Xian checked the time at this time. 40 minutes had passed, and they only had 20 minutes left.

"Suxun, Lin."

Mochizuki Shinji's voice came: "Check the total backup information quickly. There must be complete content here."

Lin Xian and Qian Suxun looked at each other and immediately prepared to act.

"Code." Lin Xian pointed to the blue information cabinet and said to Zhou Lei.

A flash of panic flashed in Zhou Lei's eyes: "Team Leader Lin, you won't kill me after I say it, right?"

"Your life is hanging on a candle, living here every day, are you still afraid of death?" Lin Xian asked back.

Zhou Lei's gaze dimmed. He heard the meaning in Lin Xian's words. The whole person seemed to be deflated, and he said in a low voice: "Verification code 5a6h0. Team Leader Lin, after you get it, can you let me live a few more days in this ghost place." He said, crying with tears and snot, "This damn ghost doomsday has tortured me into neither human nor ghost, but I really want to live a few more days, woo woo woo..."

Here, Lin Xian and Qian Suxun ignored his ghost crying and wolf howling, successfully took out the total backup inside, and then the ACS robot and Grace linked up again, starting to extract useful information.

【Forbidden Item SIID-04: Fish-Lion Colossus】

【Discovery Location: Lion City】

【Appearance Characteristics: Three 16-meter-high sculpture colossi, lion face and fish tail, the eyes of the statue emit terrifying red light.】

【Evaluation Characteristic 1: Frontal visual observation will lead to a large amount of fear power intrusion and will teleport to the observer's position.】

【Evaluation Characteristic 2: By taking it out of the Star Abyss and the polar night area, it will trigger the 【Black Edge】 phenomenon of the Star Abyss, leading to abnormal expansion of the Star Abyss. At the same time, it will perform anchor point transfer on the existence in the area. This phenomenon must occur after the Star Abyss stabilizes.】

【Containment Conditions: Observer death, no containment conditions found yet.】

Soon, Grace exported a piece of forbidden item information compiled by Divine Revelation from it.

At the same time, Mochizuki Shinji also retrieved an important piece of information.

"Lin, it seems that they have not done this kind of expansion for the first time. The bad news is that the area for the Deep Red World's next expansion is Luling."

"Luling?" Kiki looked at Lin Xian in surprise upon hearing this: "East side?!"

If the anomaly erupted from the direction of Luling, wouldn't they be running straight into the muzzle of the gun by escaping the Star Abyss through the orbit to the east?

Lin Xian's expression changed sharply upon hearing this, and he immediately had the urge to curse.

At this time, not only Lin Xian, but in the channel, Xiang Xiang Ningjing, Qian Dele, Chen Sixuan, and others who were fighting desperately outside the sewage treatment plant also took a deep breath, and the atmosphere of despair rushed to the sky!

"I don't understand..." Fire Brother looked at Zhou Lei with anger, and said: "You villain, you said the Deep Red World and Dawn City are colluding, then this accelerated expansion of the Star Abyss, isn't Dawn City seeking its own destruction!?"

"I, I, I, I... I don't know?" Zhou Lei also had a helpless crying expression and said: "This damn Deep Red World and Divine Revelation don't have a few normal people. You have dealt with them and know that this is a group of evil things!"

"Lin." Qian Suxun also felt that several people were a bit chaotic. He looked at Lin Xian and said: "There is not enough time. Let them enter below to hide from anomalies first. After the tide rises later, they won't have a chance to get rid of the dark mark."

Lin Xian nodded upon hearing this and immediately shouted to the teammates outside.

"I'll let Grace go out to cover you, all retreat down first."

The current situation is not a problem of the cleansing command at all; they can only wait for the arrival of the Star Abyss riot.

Soon, with the assistance of Grace and Dancer No. 1, Chen Sixuan and the others finally escaped safely. At this time, they all came to this underground main control room of the Deep Red World.

"According to this situation, even if we leap to Baicheng through magnetic levitation, it's useless? Wolves in front and tigers behind, and there is a Star Abyss overlord in the sky?!" Qian Dele did not wear power armor. At this time, he was covered in dust and the blood of unknown anomalies.

Mo Nika's consumption was also very large. At this time, with Shizhi's help, she calmed down a bit. She put forward her own idea: "Perhaps we can avoid this riot and find the next opportunity to leave?"

"Yeah, haven't the people of the Silent City been hiding in the Xishan bunker for so long and been safe?" Chen Sixuan also said: "As long as we don't have a mark, we are not afraid of being targeted."

Xiang Xiang Ningjing nodded: "I think so too."

Lin Xian looked at Qian Suxun: "The problem now is not just the problem of our United Train and Xishan bunker, right."

"What do you mean?"

Chen Sixuan and the others also looked at Qian Suxun along with his gaze, and found that Qian Suxun, Tianye Lan, and others all had sinking expressions.

At this time, Mochizuki Shinji's voice came from the communicator.

"You're right, Lin. The original plan is no longer feasible."

Mochizuki Shinji stood in the main control room, looking at the calculation information constantly sent back by Grace. His tone at this time was obviously a bit heavier than before.

The reason was not hard to guess, because he had already told Lin Xian.

Silent City City No. 2 is currently in the Luling Forest!

Lin Xian's brain was a mess at this time, his gaze flickered. He glanced at Zhou Lei, who was tied up in the corner, and then said to Mochizuki Shinji,

"Tell me your plan."

"I do have a new plan." Mochizuki Shinji's voice sounded: "Lin, your suspension leap plan remains unchanged. After you drive to Wangshangkou, besides the bait plan, I will release one of the four floating cities for you, enough for your thousands of people to escape. Of course, the premise is that there is enough time."

Lin Xian's heart sank upon hearing this. He looked up at Qian Suxun and the others and said: "You are not planning to evacuate, right?"

"It seems so."

Qian Suxun smiled slightly, as if he had put life and death aside. After hearing Mochizuki Shinji's plan, they immediately understood.

"If City No. 2 is drawn in, we will definitely go to save our residents."

Tianye Lan also squeezed her knuckles, her expression cold and stern: "That's right. Since that's the case, then we have no meaning to evacuate. It's better to rush into the depths of the Star Abyss. With our strength, we might be able to save quite a few people."

Long Zhijie said nothing, silently expressing his attitude. Shizhi, who was on the side finishing purification for Xiang Xiang Ningjing and the others, heard this and immediately took two steps in three steps, standing next to Qian Suxun, her small face under the power armor mask tense and firm.

Once these words were spoken, an extremely heavy and heroic atmosphere rushed over. Xiang Xiang Ningjing, Chen Sixuan, Qian Dele, and several others all looked at Qian Suxun and them with disbelief.

Unexpectedly, the situation changed suddenly, and the original evacuation plan suddenly became like this.

And on Lin Xian's side, Mochizuki Shinji did give him a plan for everyone to successfully evacuate. A floating city, the members of the entire United Train fleet might be able to survive.

Seeing the decision of Qian Suxun and the others, it instantly made people feel the fatalistic influence of Mochizuki Shinji. What kind of person could make a group of people like Qian Suxun choose to follow to death without hesitation? And the plan proposed by Mochizuki Shinji for Lin Xian under such circumstances also made him suddenly infected with a burst of heroism!

22:00, 5 minutes left until the tide.

"Lin Xian..." Chen Sixuan's voice came. She looked at Lin Xian, wanting to say something, but didn't.

Lin Xian knew she wanted to ask about Mochizuki Shinji's plan. This was indeed a good plan to survive. Abandon all trains, everyone enters the small floating city, and escapes in the Silent City's bait plan. These thousands of people plus the hundreds of people on Hu Lushou's side would have a great chance to leave.

"Lin." Qian Suxun looked at Lin Xian solemnly at this time and said: "Just follow this plan. After this tide ends, it will be the last chance. You need to complete the train leap and personnel transfer to the floating city within 1 hour. We also have to start the Silent City to prepare to meet the enemy."

Zhou Lei, who was tied in the corner, listened to the conversation of these people, his eyes changed in shock. Through his keen nature, he immediately realized that this No. 5 Star Abyss would definitely have a major change. And this time, he wanted to survive, which might not be so easy, because the main control room was lost. For the Deep Red World, he had no value. Perhaps the people of the Deep Red World and Divine Revelation would directly extinguish his candle. Thinking of this, his gaze flickered constantly, pondering how to survive...

Everyone's gaze gathered on Lin Xian. The atmosphere in the main control room was heavy.

Lin Xian lowered his head at this time, his brain full of messy thoughts.

Akse, Star Abyss, time dilation, cleansing plan, fish-lion colossus, abnormal expansion, Star Abyss behemoth, flesh colonization...

Countless huge troubles pressed on his chest in this short time, making people unable to breathe.

At this time, Lin Xian slowly looked at Grace, his eyes condensing. He constantly condensed all his thoughts, and then, his brows slowly raised.

Suddenly, he broke the silence and said to Mochizuki Shinji in a low voice,

"Mochizuki Shinji, I'll accept your kindness first, but I suddenly have a plan that you might be very interested in. Do you want to hear it?"

"Oh?" Mochizuki Shinji, who was alone in the main control room, heard this and smiled suspiciously,

"It won't be another bold and risky plan, right."

"Yes."

"Bolder than your magnetic levitation leap plan?"

"A hundred times crazier than that, and it might even save all 100,000 people in your Silent City City No. 2!"

Before Mochizuki Shinji could reply, Qian Suxun on the other side couldn't sit still, his gaze looked at Lin Xian in shock, and Tianye Lan on the side was surprised: "What did you say?!"

The smile on Mochizuki Shinji's face solidified slightly, and he asked seriously,

"Where do you need my Silent City to fly to?"

Lin Xian's gaze tightened,

"Just go here!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 359 =====