Chapter 604: Wild Paradise

Ten minutes later.

Xiong Hanzi, who had originally been worried about what threats might be here, was now sitting on a chair, crossing his legs.

"Lin Dui, is this bird thing broken?"

The synthesized mechanical sound never stopped for a moment.

"In his mouth" he kept chanting:

"Commander lost contact, now contacting deputy commander..."

"Deputy commander lost contact, now contacting senior researcher..."

"Senior researcher lost contact, now contacting...."

Repeating like this, it has now reached contacting the sanitation manager, colloquially called the toilet cleaner...

Lin An was also somewhat speechless.

The AI here might as well be an artificial idiot.

After realizing that the defense installations here seemed unable to determine his identity to launch an attack, he simply turned the place upside down.

But unfortunately, it was too clean.

No data storage devices or paper could be seen.

Except for a tightly closed alloy door leading underground.

After several attempts, his mental power could only sense that there were many hollows below, and he gained nothing else.

Is this the place that produces blood corpses?

Or is it the origin of the zombies before the blood corpses?

Thinking of those transport ships, Lin An couldn't help but develop a strong interest.

If it weren't for the base's AI constantly contacting the management staff, he would have considered violently breaking in.

Opening doors is something Lin An is extremely skilled at.

"Wait until it finishes, then see how it handles it."

"If we attack the base facilities now, I estimate it will trigger the defense systems."

"There are blood corpses outside."

"Being attacked from both inside and outside is very disadvantageous for us."

Based on the 'trust' in the first Ascetic Practitioner, Lin An still chose to have a bit more patience.

About twenty seconds later.

The chattering AI finally finished contacting everyone it could reach.

Stiff, a brief pause.

"Beep, unable to contact any base authorization holder."

"According to base regulations, begin automatically contacting downward."

Contact downward?

Just as Lin An subconsciously looked up at the ceiling, a vague contact message suddenly appeared in his mind:

"Beep, greetings, esteemed test subject."

"According to base regulations, you will automatically obtain the highest base authorization in 10 seconds."

"Currently, 77% of the base's spiritual energy facilities are damaged; please repair and inspect them as soon as possible."

"Note: Intruders have already entered; please deal with them promptly."

As if it hadn't communicated with anyone for a long time, the base's AI suddenly dumped a large amount of information and questions all at once.

After a while.

As if struck by a data impact, Lin An stared blankly for a long time before coming to his senses.

Thousands of years, up to six hundred thousand various events all crowded into his mind, his brain almost burst.

What means of information transmission?

It can actually directly enter my thoughts?

No time to be shocked, he could only choose to quickly digest this information.

"Lin Dui, what's wrong with you?"

After discovering that the base's defense facilities had suddenly retracted, and even hearing welcoming music for the commander's return echoing everywhere, even Xiong Hanzi, no matter how stupid, realized it.

"Lin Dui must have triggered something."

Silence lasted a long time.

Lin An let out a long breath of foul air, his eyes flickering.

He had digested all the information.

From the information sent by the AI, he also learned the full background of this Secret Realm.

No wonder the first Ascetic Practitioner felt so desperate after entering here...

This really is a...

... grand and tumultuous yet extraordinarily cruel epic...

He sighed, Lin An gazed at the dark-blue spiritual energy core, the shock in his heart lingering for a long time.

"Lin Dui! Lin Dui!!"

Chattering.

Zhang Tie scratched his ear and cheek, watching Lin An sigh one moment, feel emotional the next, then seem stimulated.

Tormented by curiosity, he was like a monkey stealing peaches.

"What the heck is going on here?!"

Are there any monsters left to fight!

How is the mission supposed to be completed?!!

I don't want to stay in this damned place even for a moment.

Xiong Hanzi stared at him nervously, wishing he could drill into Lin An's head to see what he was thinking.

On the other side.

After calming his emotions, Lin An helplessly glanced at the anxious Xiong Hanzi and slowly spoke:

No need to worry about anything anymore.

Our mission can be said to be already completed.

The first Ascetic Practitioner... he has already done everything for us.

Later, you just go straight into the control hub and let the control system there become aware of your presence...

Huh?!

Zhang Tie froze.

What the hell, the mission is already completed?

Wasn't Team Leader Lin still having a bunch of unsolved riddles before?

Wasn't the goal to kill all Ascetic Practitioners and blood corpses?

Outside, the Ascetic Practitioners and blood corpses are still locked in battle!

Could it be that Team Leader Lin left some hidden move?

Will they fight to the death until only one remains?

A small brain, a big problem.

Lin An saw Xiong Hanzi full of doubts, so he straightforwardly began to explain:

Under normal circumstances, we indeed still have a lot to do.

For example, our charging in here was actually a shortcut; we only got in by relying on the power of all the Ascetic Practitioners.

But conversely, the fact that all Ascetic Practitioners are present also adds tremendous difficulty to our mission.

With so many Ascetic Practitioners, if they scatter and flee, even if Lin An exhausted himself to death he couldn't kill them all.

Some miscalculations.

Originally, Lin An thought this place should hide that person's means to batch-eliminate Ascetic Practitioners.

After all, this cultivation path was explored by him.

Therefore, Lin An unscrupulously mass-produced Ascetic Practitioners, forcibly shortening the time to break in.

But who would have thought, in fact there isn't any...

What do you mean, Team Leader Lin?

Utterly puzzled.

Xiong Hanzi didn't see the information given by the artificial intelligence, so naturally he didn't understand.

Lin An smiled, pondered for a moment, then began explaining from the start:

It's very simple.

In this Secret Realm world, the solution to all missions and crises is actually only one method.

That is to destroy it, or in other words, to reboot it.

If the world ceases to exist, the Ascetic Practitioners and blood corpses will naturally disappear.