Chapter 343 Heading for the distant stars!

In the underground nuclear fortress on the West Mountain of Baicheng, in the main control room on the lowest floor, all the equipment and energy of the entire fortress seem to be integrated and controlled here.

Lin Xian initially thought that Shinji Mochizuki was a manager, but he didn't expect that he himself was the "brain" center here.

Not only that, he is also the core of wisdom of the entire Silent City.

This surprised everyone in the exploration team. Who could have imagined that a former global billionaire would actually digitize his life.

However, after scanning, Lin found some differences between Shinji Mochizuki and Grace. He inexplicably felt that the Shinji Mochizuki in front of him might not be a complete robot.

Because it is impossible for a robot to have fluctuations in its soul value.

In the huge main control room, the lights were bright and countless cables converged. Shinji Mochizuki asked a drone to carry an exquisite tea table, and several service robots handed out tea. In this underground fortress in the midst of the Star Abyss crisis, this arrangement made the exploration team feel a little strange, as if Shinji Mochizuki was not that afraid of death.

Lin Xian and the others had taken off the facial armor of their power armor at this time. He looked up at the robot in front of him that was handing him tea. The robot had a delicate face and a typical neon Kabukicho maid style appearance. He suddenly thought that if Mochizuki Shinji was a robot like Grace, he would not have to worry about death.

"Someone doesn't want us to leave?"

Lin Xian looked at Shinji Mochizuki, who was wearing a plain Taoist robe with his sleeves rolled up and his eyes narrowed, and couldn't help but say, "You mean the Crimson World."

"NO, NO, NO," Shinji Mochizuki shook his head and corrected him, "This is a prediction, not a specific one, so I used the word existence, not a certain person or organization."

He looked at Grace behind Lin Xian and said directly, "If it's convenient, can you let this robot not participate in our discussion?"

"Okay." Lin Xian certainly knew what Mochizuki Shinji was worried about, but it didn't matter. For safety reasons, he let Grace leave the main control room.

Mochizuki Shinji was very satisfied and continued with a smile.

"Well, let me guess. You have mechanical abilities, and the Doomsday Orbital Train is indeed a good plan. In my opinion, it should at least be in the top five of the 'Doomsday Survival Plans'. And now you are trapped in the Star Abyss, and you sent a Crimson Intelligent Robot to scout the White City. Oh, of course, you also scouted my Silent City. So combined with your mechanical abilities, I guess your plan must be related to the Silent City, such as using the aircraft above, the propulsion engine or some other device."

As he spoke, he walked back and forth, as if thinking. Then he turned around and looked at Lin Xian with his deep quantum eyes.

"But I don't know much about your mechanical abilities. I heard that you can devour machines and create them out of thin air?"

Lin Xian was a little surprised when he heard this. He looked at Shinji Mochizuki, who looked like a 16 or 17-year-old boy, and said directly, "Okay, but my plan is a superconducting suspended magnetic anchor array device."

Unexpectedly, Mochizuki Shinji fixed his eyes upon hearing this. He stared at Lin Xian, then opened his mouth, nodded, and praised with astonishment.

"The train will be equipped with EDS distributed magnetic levitation coils, and then the train will be launched to Baicheng to connect to the track and leave? Wow... I can only say, good idea, wonderful, how can I describe it, well, I like this bold and creative plan!"

"But as things stand now, if the track wants to leave Baicheng, it must pass through Wangshankou, which is where the Silent City is located. If you can't deal with the Star Abyss Overlord, your plan can only be considered to have completed the first stage."

He walked over and squatted in front of Lin Xian's desk, looking at him with interest.

"So how about we cooperate and escape together?"

"Are we going to kill that monster that's above S-level?" Qian Dele took a sip of tea and said, "I don't think we have the power to do that."

"How to cooperate? Do you have a plan already?" KIKI's eyes lit up and he said directly.

Chen Sixuan looked at Mochizuki Shinji, her brows slightly frowned. For some reason, in her eyes, Mochizuki Shinji looked very complicated. Not only her, but several other people also had doubts in their hearts at this time.

According to the other party, there were only a few hundred people in the entire Silent City who stayed in the Star Abyss for nearly two months. This was definitely a huge test. With such a concentration of dark invasion, it would be impossible for the current human beings to survive without effective measures.

You have to know that the first polar night wiped out 99% of the human race, let alone the interior of this star abyss?

But at the same time, Lin Xian was also very curious about what Mochizuki Shinji was doing if he really stayed in Xingyuan for so long, so he spoke directly.

"Are you talking about the Star Abyss beast, or the one that's targeting us?"

“Good question.”

Mochizuki Shinji seemed to have caught everyone's doubts. He slowly stood up, folded his arms, and spoke leisurely.

"First, you expressed confusion about being trapped in Silent City and how we were able to survive in it for two months."

"It's actually very simple." He explained decisively while counting on his fingers in front of Lin Xian: "For supplies, robots are used to transport them from Silent City. For survival, I analyzed the rules of the internal tides on the first day I arrived here, and all staff strictly abide by them. To deal with the invasion of darkness, we have three treasures: a special disaster plant, the psychic ability user Hoshino Shiori, and a reflective material that I am developing. The progress is currently 10%, but it has also shown some effects."

"Secondly, why did I stay here for so long with hundreds of people? In addition to my Silent City, there are other reasons. For example, the speed of time here is fast, which is very helpful for me to solve the dark particle dimension formula of the dark invasion. Of course, if we ignore the dangers and consequences, but from a practical point of view, we don’t have much time. Because of various factors and those damn Adventists, according to current calculations, we don’t have 1 year and 96 days. Maybe soon we won’t even have 1 year."

"Because in the current situation, global darkness is even secondary. If the problem of darkness invasion is not solved, according to the current water resources and toxin concentrations, human civilization will not be able to last even three months."

Mochizuki Shinji spoke very quickly, continuously throwing important information at Lin Xian.

That is, the other party not only possesses disaster plants, but has also made progress in resisting the invasion of darkness. This guy even uses time dilation to speed up his research calculations.

I have to say, this is definitely a ruthless person.

Lin Xian frowned when he heard this: "Are you using the time dilation effect here for scientific research?"

"In fact..." Shinji Mochizuki raised a finger, the mechanical pupils of his eyes quickly contracted and expanded, and said to Lin Xian: "In addition to these, we found some interesting things here, such as forbidden objects, red ghosts, and oh, by the way, you got a deep red intelligent computer, you should know that these guys are faster than the Phoenix Order and the Federation in research progress."

When these words were spoken, everyone was shocked.

"You mean, the Crimson World also uses this time principle to speed up the progress of dark research?" Lin Xian was shocked at this time, but at the same time he felt something was wrong.

"It's impossible. The Crimson World is just a human organization. How could they survive in the Star Abyss for so long..."

Ning Jing and the others were stunned: "Could it be that they also have some kind of calamity plant or taboo object?"

"Disaster plants and forbidden objects are essentially a kind of dark existence. They are double-edged swords. It is impossible to completely block dark disasters, not to mention that this is the lair of the weird entities." Qian Suxun on the side said at this time: "If there are such things, then there will be no doomsday for mankind. Even we must evacuate in a short time."

Lin Xian did not say anything after hearing this. In a sense, Qian Suxun's words were worthy of recognition. His heterogeneous Rubik's Cube was obtained by completing the heterogeneity through mechanical superpowers, and it could only block the fear power of the invasion of darkness. It had no way to defend against strange bodies and various entities. Another point was that combined with the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, part of the negative energy of the forbidden objects in the car was transformed. The combination of the two allowed Infinity to obtain a relatively safe environment.

But once you are marked, the results are not much better.

"How is it possible for people from the Crimson World to conduct experimental research here?" Monica asked at this time.

Mochizuki Shinji stood up at this time and walked to the center of the main control room. Everyone heard a hissing sound, and then some huge cabins filled with transparent liquid suddenly rose from the ground, one on each side. As the liquid cabins gradually rose, two corpses appeared in front of everyone.

There were two corpses, one male and one female. Their limbs had been transformed into mechanical prostheses. The male's leg prostheses were torn and there was a big hole in his chest. The female corpse had half of her head bitten off by some strange creature. The strange thing was that a mechanical device was added to the back of the head of the male and female corpses, and everyone also saw some white mycelium-like objects covered with brains in the broken skulls.

As soon as they saw the hyphae, Lin Xian and others immediately realized that wasn’t that the hyphae network they encountered in Yijin City?

"What the hell is this, a mechanical intelligent brain and mycelium?" KIKI asked in surprise.

Qian Dele also asked, "Are they all from the Crimson World?"

"Yes and no." Mochizuki Shinji smiled helplessly: "Sorry, friends, please forgive me for the way I speak. These two are researchers from the Crimson World Organization, responsible for conducting various experiments in the secret research institute in Xingyuan. But from another perspective, they are not from the Crimson World."

Mochizuki Shinji's words were very confusing, but his next words made everyone's faces suddenly darken.

"Strictly speaking, these people are all superpowered people captured from all over the world by the Crimson World. They were temporarily put together as 'people' through a converter of dark mycelium and digital memory."

"Patchwork?" Lin Xian didn't expect that this simple word would give him a creepy feeling at this moment: "You mean, the people from the Crimson World occupied their brains?"

Shinji Mochizuki pointed at the void and said approvingly: "This conclusion is very accurate."

"To put it in detail, the researchers in the Crimson World copy their uploaded memories, and then use this converter to 'iterate' the captured mutants into their own containers. Then, this replica enters the Star Abyss to conduct research. Generally speaking, a Diamond-level evolver can only survive in the Star Abyss for two to three days at most. Upgrading prosthetic limbs can increase this survival rate, while the Berserker-level can survive for about a week. This efficiency is very high. Through this method, they make a large amount of seeding-style investment, and with the time flow rate here, the experimental data obtained is by leaps and bounds in the outside world. However, it has no effect on the researchers themselves, as they are fanatics themselves."

"What!?" Chen Sixuan was so surprised that she was speechless: "He...they used the captured mutants as carriers to enter Xingyuan for experiments?"

"I don't understand, why don't they just use robots?" Ning Jing asked.

Shinji Mochizuki shrugged. "This friend from Longshan No. 1 obviously has little knowledge of information engineering in the current world. Didn't I just say that there are only a few intelligent brain-level processors in the world that can form the initial deconstruction level of human consciousness? Even AI robots can only show their "intelligence" through large computing power and cloud networks. Ordinary terminal computing power cannot achieve too deep intelligence, let alone be used for super experiments."

"So the benefit of the Crimson World's cult solution, the Mycelium Brain, is that it can quickly replicate the consciousness memory of a professor-level researcher in the form of digital life at a very low cost. Although the lifespan is extremely short, if there are a thousand engineering professors, a thousand biology professors, and a thousand physics professors, then wouldn't it be very fast?"

Shinji Mochizuki's words echoed in everyone's ears like the devil's whisper. Lin Xian frowned slightly. He now finally understood why in Aksai, the sand bandits had set a price for kidnapping people with special abilities. What kind of experiment required so many people? Lin Xian could never have imagined that the purpose of the Crimson World kidnapping people with special abilities was not just for research, but to use living people as consumables!

"In addition, this kind of mycelium is not completely controllable for the Crimson World, so the mortality rate is still very high." Mochizuki Shinji continued

"Of course, there will be some 'cowards'. After all, after the memory uses the human brain as a processor through the mycelium, there will be some changes in the way of thinking or the original psychic's own thinking. This shows that the Crimson World is still in the very early stages of research and mastery of this mycelium..."

At this point, Mochizuki Shinji put his hands into his sleeves, his brows slightly drooped, and said with some emotion:

"Oh, to be honest, I was the one who initiated the Digital Life Project. Although I had never anticipated that the Crimson World would use hyphae to occupy the bodies of living people, the technologies of uploading consciousness to memory and iterating people in the loop are all related to our Mochizuki family. Therefore, I have an unshirkable responsibility for this. Hmm, 30%? 20%? Maybe..."

"So there is a research institute of the Crimson World in White City. You are monitoring them, and do you want to directly intercept their information and data?" KIKI said bluntly.

"That's right." Mochizuki Shinji did not hide: "This lady is very smart."

Monica looked at him with scrutiny: "So you mean to say that the purpose of doing all this is to quickly develop technology to resist the invasion of darkness, to benefit mankind and alleviate your own guilt?"

Her words were sharp and to the point. Lin Xian knew a little about this Silent City before. After the apocalypse, the city had been cooperating with major organizations through its industrial strength and expanding its own power. He did not believe that the other party would take such a big risk for the sake of humanity, so in his opinion, Mochizuki Shinji must have other purposes.

Unexpectedly, after Monica's words came out, Mochizuki Shinji just smiled and did not directly answer. Instead, it was Sensu Shun, the director of the Technical Research City, who spoke first to break the silence.

"As human beings, we all agree that we want to quickly develop technology to resist the invasion of darkness. Since the purpose is the same, is there any difference between saving humanity and saving ourselves?"

After Qian Su Shun finished speaking, Lin Xian found that Mochizuki Shinji looked at him calmly: "Captain Lin, I have a question for you. If your team uses light vehicles and has learned the laws of the inner tides, there is at least a 40-50% chance of escaping Xingyuan. Why did you choose... Oh, such a risky plan to use a superconducting suspension magnetic anchor array device to launch your train?"

Lin Xian understood what he meant and said bluntly: "Like you said, the end of the world may be a year away, but if I lose my train and teammates, I won't survive for a few days."

Lin Xian's words were very realistic. Everyone on the united train was tied together for survival, including Hu Lushou and others. In times of desperate danger, humans always believe that unity can unleash greater power. This survival instinct is engraved in their genes.

"Bingo!"

Shinji Mochizuki answered very seriously: "We are the same as you, but I think further. My goal is not just to open the Silent City out of Xingyuan and survive for another year."

He pointed at Sensu Shun and said, "My companions and the 100,000 residents of Silent City have higher ambitions. As long as they can crack the secrets of the Dark Invasion and Xingyuan, my Silent City may have a chance..." As he spoke, Mochizuki Shinji looked at Lin Xian and said leisurely.

"Break through the veil of the sky and sail towards the distant stars with the brilliant civilization of mankind!"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Lin Xian looked at Mochizuki Shinji meaningfully. The words coming out of the mouth of this boy who looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old made him feel a surge of heroic passion.

Shinji Mochizuki held his sleeves with his hands, his eyes were calm, he stood there like an unshakable mountain, people often feared being seen through, but it seemed meaningless to him, his eyes were like the abyss, unfathomable, yet surprisingly open, as if to say: "See, this is my path, why hide it?"

Being able to make powerful people like Sensu Shun, Ryunosuke and others follow him, not caring about the mere one year, but taking the initiative to intervene after discovering the secrets of Xingyuan and the Crimson World, the situation is no longer confined to a small space.

After hearing what Mochizuki Shinji said, Lin Xian inexplicably felt that his anxiety had calmed down a lot, so he said.

"Tell me about your plan."

As soon as Lin Xian finished speaking, everyone in the exploration team focused their attention.

Shinji Mochizuki smiled faintly, looked at Lin Xian and others and said

"The first problem is that I have my eyes on the Crimson World, and the Crimson World has also been eyeing my Silent City. So if we want to complete the transfer, we must deal with the Consumables Research Institute in White City. Otherwise, they will definitely disrupt our plan to leave. There are three difficulties in dealing with them."

"They are the Red Man Trick, the inner tide, and the protection device of the mycelium memory."

"What protective device?" KIKI asked at this time.

Qian Suxun replied: "We have attacked the clones they sent in more than once, but every time we succeeded, the clone's mycelium memory would self-destruct, resulting in us being unable to obtain any information or data."

"How disgusting." At this time, two people spoke at the same time, neither of them had said a word since they came in.

Brother Huo and Xiaoqing.

Brother Huo crossed his arms, his eyes filled with anger. "To kill one's own kind, and to use such despicable means, I don't understand, could it be that the dark creatures are in cahoots with these people?"

"That's impossible." Mochizuki Shinji said calmly: "They just recognize themselves. Do you know what the ultimate goal of the Crimson World organization is?"

Everyone looked at him.

“Fusion.”

Shinji Mochizuki narrowed his eyes and smiled: "They believe that they can create a new world and survive in the dark dimension as a new race with eternal life."

KIKI was surprised when she heard this: "They want to become dark life???"

Qian Dele suddenly realized and said, "Oh, I understand..."

Monica continued, "You forgot, they don't think it's a weird body."

"Superpowers, genetic evolution, dimensional breakthrough." Chen Sixuan nodded and said solemnly: "They call them gods."

"Stupid."

At this time, a very low voice was heard, and everyone looked and found that it was Ah Bai who said it quietly. He didn't expect that his low curse would be so loud, so he immediately shrank his neck, picked up the teacup on the table and pretended nothing had happened.

Lin Xian smiled and looked at Shinji Mochizuki: "Inner tide, limited time, high risk in the city, mycelium memory self-destruct device, these two points can be solved, now let's talk about the red ghost."

Lin had heard the term "red man trickster" several times since he came in, and he had always been curious about it. Now that the conversation had come to this point, he asked directly.

"All of them can be solved?" Qian Suxun was a little surprised when he heard that. They spent so much time and still couldn't solve it, but you came up with a solution just half an hour after you came in?

However, Mochizuki Shinji raised his hand and suppressed Sensu Shun's words and said directly to Lin Xian:

"The Red Man Ghost is very simple. Didn't I just say that their cloned researchers used the bodies of psychics, the consciousness memory of the Crimson World researchers plus the mycelium converter? The Red Man Ghost is a combination of a mutated human ghost and a special inhibitor? I guess the appearance of this thing was not their original purpose, but it has become a big trouble."

Lin Xian's pupils shrank sharply when he heard this. He stood up on the spot, his hair standing on end, and shouted:

"You mean the Crimson World has colonized the strange entities with flesh and blood!!!"

(End of this chapter)