Chapter 635: Transformation Technology

"Lin Dui, what's going on?"

In the middle of half a hotel ruin, Zhang Tie sat with half his butt on the off‑road vehicle's front, asking doubtfully.

The weight was too heavy, pressing the whole vehicle body so it tilted slightly upward.

In mid‑air, Lin An hovered, lost in thought as he stared at the half‑piece glass‑like fragment in his hand.

"Nothing."

He shook his head slightly.

Ignoring the survivors who had shrunk back beside the ruins like they'd seen a ghost, he put away the phantom shard and slowly landed.

【Phantom Shard: Special Product, Consumable】

After use, it drags the target into an illusion and, based on what the target yearns for most, generates a phantasm.

Note: Within the generated illusion, you might be able to glimpse the target's memory.

Note: This product is a faulty output.

No rating, no rank.

Upon seeing the words 'faulty output', Lin An keenly noticed.

Special products... should not fall into players' hands.

Although it's a phantom shard, the description shows nothing special about it.

But after killing the mutant, no other equipment or props dropped at all.

Lin An then realized that this fragment's value was probably extremely high.

Thus it 'swallowed' the equipment that should have dropped, giving him only this fragment.

Therefore, after realizing this, he simply demolished half the hotel, trying to see if any other fragments remained.

Unfortunately, he found nothing.

He pondered silently.

The illusion just now...

It was very real.

A second‑level mutant actually managed to drag him into it.

You should know, his will attribute is 49 points unarmed, and at peak condition it reaches as high as 67 points—an abnormal level.

Even so, it took him nearly ten‑something seconds to break free from the illusion.

The engine roared, and the searchlight on the front of the vehicle tore the night open with two beams of light.

Driving on the road to Twin Star Base.

All around were ruined, lifeless buildings.

In the pitch darkness, if not for the sparse starlight overhead, the post‑apocalyptic world would be like a ghost‑filled gloomy forest.

The hotel had already been destroyed, and after the phantom incident Lin An no longer felt like resting.

In the driver's seat, Xiong Hanzi chatted with him on and off about team matters.

"Lin Dui, are you saying that mutant is of the mental type?"

"That thing, it ate a lot of people's brains?"

In the back seat, Lin An nodded slightly, recalling the detection information that the Judgment Eye had transmitted back from the mutant just before its death.

"It parasitizes the human body."

"When parasitizing, the host retains human thought and moves with it."

"When it wants to attack humans, it can burst out and, using mental power to spread, drill into a person's brain."

"A very strange ability."

"That guy... ate a lot of people's memories."

The mutant's abilities keep coming.

If it weren't for my strong mental power and firm will.

Who knows, this time I might really have capsized in a gutter.

In my past life, it often happened that third‑rank Awakened Ones died at the hands of second‑rank ones.

After hearing that, Zhang Tie felt quite moved; he never expected that Lin Dui would have just warned him earlier, and then he'd actually run into this.

I myself had indeed been overconfident before.

If it were him being dragged into the illusion, eight or nine times out of ten he'd suffer.

After finishing the chat, Lin An slightly turned his head to look at Li Enzhu sitting beside him.

The girl was still trembling from fright.

From the mutant's appearance until after getting in the car.

Li Enzhu was like a frightened rabbit, her body trembling uncontrollably.

Even a brief glance, just catching a glimpse of the death god's mask.

But an equipment effect of this level is still too terrifying for her.

"You said earlier, the Twin Base has human experiments..."

"What do you mean?"

Asking casually, the sudden question made the girl's body tense.

Under Lin An's deliberately released mental power, it shifted to a gentle nature, helping her calm down a bit.

"Human experiments..."

Her voice was timid.

Holding the clothes she had taken off, Li Enzhu didn't dare look Lin An in the eyes, and after a moment of distraction she hurriedly replied:

I also heard it from my friend.

He was already working at Twin Star Group before the Apocalypse, so after the Apocalypse he has stayed there.

However, his rank isn't high, so he only knows a little bit about the situation.

He said...

The survivors there are often sent to the laboratory. Many die after entering.

Those who come out alive will become 'strange' in appearance, as if humans and machines have merged together.

Will become stronger...

Become stronger? How to become stronger? Similar to an individual exoskeleton?

What's there to be afraid of?

Getting stronger, isn't that good?

Lin An's eyes twitched slightly, and he casually asked with a hint of interest.

He remembered it very clearly.

When Li Enzhu mentioned the Twin Star Base, she obviously worried about her fate after entering.

After the girl finished speaking somewhat stammeringly, seeing Lin An suddenly become interested, she hurriedly added.

Not that kind.

Is it the hand or foot that has become mechanical?

I'm afraid... because I heard them say.

Although the transformed survivors have become stronger, they seem to have lost the ability to think and have turned into machines.

So I'm afraid that if I go in, I'll also encounter such a thing.

The Twin Star Base's transformation of survivors is not voluntary!

The voice suddenly rose considerably.

The girl's eyes showed some desolation and resistance.

If it weren't for having nowhere else to go, they wouldn't have considered going to the Twin Star Base before.

In the Fushan War Zone chat channel, the reputation of the Twin Star Base isn't very good....

Therefore, she previously hoped so much that Lin An would let her follow him.

Thinking that her hands, feet, and even organs might be removed and then turned into a pile of metal.

She couldn't help but shiver.

Too scary...

After listening to Li Enzhu's account, Lin An nodded thoughtfully.

Kind of interesting.

Is it a method of transforming flesh and machinery?

Able to appear immediately after the Apocalypse...

Before the Apocalypse, the Twin Star Base already mastered this technology, right?

Thinking about Twin Star Group's military-industrial strength before the Apocalypse, Lin An wasn't surprised.

A military-industrial commercial conglomerate, it controls 37% of a nation's fiscal revenue.

Twin Star, in a sense, can be considered a state.

However, this matter reminded him of the Capital Military Region.

In his past life's memory, before the escape plan was launched, the Capital Military Region also had similar rumors spreading.

For example, a commander who had all his organs transformed and was proclaimed invincible among those of the same Fourth Rank?

However, that person died in battle when he was at the third rank.

He died in a certain city defense battle, never even reaching the Fourth Stage.

Huaxia and Twin Star...

Did they both master similar technology before the Apocalypse?

Or rather, do most countries in the world have mastered it?

It's just not known to the lower levels.

In his past life, after the Apocalypse broke out, he kept fleeing east and west, only able to obtain information through chat channels.

Therefore, Lin An knows very little about this.