Chapter 76: No Sound

This loud shout, which echoed throughout the base, stunned almost everyone who heard it.

The officers, who appeared to have experienced a fierce battle but had actually suffered few casualties, were stunned.

The Ash Priest invaded the base just to turn the clones against him?

Among this group is a clone who serves as a guard.

He stood there blankly for a moment, then ran to the ruins, craned his neck, and strained to look at the tall building.

The reason why the crowd, who were either busy running away or risking their lives to watch the spectacle, were all stunned was: There was a bomb in the clone's brain?

In the dimly lit dormitory, Chen Ji, who was sitting against the wall, sat up like a clone of a guard and stared blankly into the sky.

Chen Xi felt alive again.

His heart, which had almost died, started beating again, and it seemed to have never beaten so fast before!

This sentence seems to be directed at him, and at him and Lin Jiaran!

He turned and was about to rush towards the building, but then stopped...

Li Heng must have fainted several times already. When the tentacles loosened, his face, which had been buried, seemed to have aged 10 years in just ten minutes, looking extremely disheveled.

However, among all his expressions, confusion and bewilderment seemed to be the most prevalent:

"You still retain complete human emotions and will? Was all your fighting just now merely to let Lin Jiaran and Chen Xi escape?"

Qi An, enjoying the breeze, ignored these words.

But that's true.

That remote control was definitely not the only detonator; she searched Li Heng's memory for a control platform.

There are three people in the new base who possess the key to log in to the platform and issue detonation orders: Li Heng, Li Heng's pale-faced trusted bodyguard, and the deputy commander of the land defense army.

The deputy commander was used by Li Heng to check and balance the commander-in-chief. The commander-in-chief held the key to the clones' fate, but the deputy commander held the key to the clones' fate.

The guards' and deputy commander's dying memories both indicate that they hadn't yet revealed the key to anyone else, or hadn't had the chance.

Li Heng didn't have a chance either, as Qi An wrapped him up tightly the whole time, not giving him any opportunity to speak or give orders.

Qi An hoped that Chen Xi and Lin Jia Ran would leave as soon as they heard her voice.

300 kilometers away, Zhou Yanying and her team cleared out an operating room in an abandoned hospital.

The environment was a bit harsh, but the equipment was disassembled and transported there, and Zhou Yanying already had experience with it.

Only by completely removing the bomb from their minds can Chen Xi and the other person truly be free.

...maybe I can be free.

After a short pause, Qi An was surrounded by drones.

They are mostly heavy-duty combat drones, capable of stable flight and precise targeting even in strong winds.

Li Heng's face, which had just seen the light of day, was once again tightly covered up, with only his two nostrils showing.

Qi An spread his wings, and all the drones retreated in fright.

She couldn't help but smile, glancing back at the enormous wings that could wrap around her three times.

It was really strange; she had never had this kind of limb movement before, nor had she ever activated those muscles.

But once they grew, she immediately took them under her wing, as if they were born to fly.

Pollution is a power of thought.

Qi An spread his wings wide and leaped off the tall building once again!

Sparks flew everywhere in the air, and smoke billowed in all directions!

All eyes were drawn to this place.

No matter where the clones were in the base, they all heard her announcement.

Some people were confused and bewildered, just staring blankly at the sky, while others felt their hearts, like the night sky, igniting with great sparks!

However, the light and heat from the sparks cannot reach every corner.

At Satellite Base No. 3, located northeast of the main base, Lin Weiying stood by the window.

With the window half-open, she saw several extremely bright orange stars rising in the sky above the main base.

Was that an explosion? Lin Weiying heard a roaring sound in the wind and became even more certain that it was an explosion.

But there seemed to be some sound before the explosion.

It's like there's some very important sound!

Lin Weiying was a little anxious. She had been afraid, but now she spoke up. She whispered to the woman sitting in the office chair:

"Excuse me... has something happened at the main base? I think there was an explosion and something else just now... Did you... did you hear that?"

The short-haired woman sitting in the office chair—formerly known as Qiu Yunmeng, the Ash Priestess—heard it.

She heard her companion's voice.

My companions were just outside the main base, and they saw just as much excitement as the general public.

Upon hearing this, Qiu Yunmeng immediately laughed. First, she raised her lips, and then she couldn't help but burst out laughing, almost bending over backward.

Lin Weiying was startled and quickly reminded her, "You...you shouldn't make such a loud noise, or someone will find out!"

The voice that seemed like a hallucination from earlier was still on her mind, so she quickly asked, "What happened at the main base?"

“It’s a lively and exciting event,” Qiu Yunmeng replied with a smile.

Lin Weiying quickly asked again, "Was there any sound?"

Qiu Yunmeng said calmly, "No, it was just an explosion."

Lin Weiying was somewhat disappointed: "Oh... okay."

There were more than just the two of them in the room. Next to the desk, there were three other people, bound together by tentacles.

It was Manager Huang and his secretary, along with the small-eyed engineer, Wang Shuo.

This room is Manager Huang's office. Turn left after exiting the building, and you'll find the main office of the Information Department.

It's already past closing time, but there are still people in the office.

Today's routine maintenance involves the dedicated data transmission path for scientific research between the satellite base and the main base.

Maintenance started at 8 o'clock. Supervisor Huang had already given the authority and was about to pack his bags and go home.

He had barely left the chair when Qiu Yunmeng knocked on the door.

Qiu Yunmeng was dressed just like any other staff member, wearing large black-rimmed glasses, and at first glance, she looked very much like a female engineer.

Manager Huang was disturbed just before leaving get off work and became a little annoyed.

The secretary opened the door, and when Manager Huang saw who it was, he was about to start yelling, but the next second he couldn't even move his tongue.

At 8:01 AM, a notice was issued announcing the start of maintenance. The main line was cut off, and the access route was switched to a temporary line.

At dinner time, Huang Yajun, who had gone back to his dormitory to change clothes, was already back at his workstation, working overtime without complaint.

He started uploading the test scripts.

Wang Shuo stood in front of the monitor screen, somewhat puzzled: "Why is this data packet so big? Is this the same packet we had before?"

He was about to walk to Huang Yajun's workstation when Huang's secretary rushed over and called out to him, "Teacher Wang, the supervisor wants to see you!"

Wang Shuo was stunned for a moment, thinking that Manager Huang had already left.

He didn't dare delay and hurriedly followed the somewhat flustered secretary into Manager Huang's office.

The three people were tied up very tightly.

In the large office, prompts and feedback instructions are popping up one after another on the monitoring screen.

Satellite Base No. 3, as well as Satellite Base No. 5 which is currently under construction for a nuclear reactor, have both begun line maintenance.

Maintenance request approved, maintenance initiated, all permissions enabled, security protocols partially disabled...

Test script upload...

Test data arrives at the main base's intranet gateway, data verification passes, and the data enters the main base's intranet...