Chapter 364 Reshaping (Update!)

Silent City, Cloud District.

Lin Xian stood in the strong wind and watched the transport ship flying away with a calm expression.

"Let me guess, you suddenly came here and made such a fuss because you discovered something?" Mochizuki Shinji looked at Lin Xian and said.

Lin Xian turned around and looked at him: "Hey, you don't seem to be worried at all about offending the people of Dawn City."

"Their goal is the Silent City. It won't change because of whether our words are measured or our attitude is humble, right?"

"Compared to this, I'm more curious about what Ms. Jian Xuwei conveyed to you." Mochizuki Shinji looked at Lin Xian and said.

"Nothing can be hidden from your eyes." Lin Xian stepped forward and squatted on the ground. He looked at a piece of color on the ground that was slightly darker than the mark on the deck next to it. It was a circle the size of a pinky fingernail and looked very much like the mark left by the heel of a high-heeled shoe. He reached out and twisted it with his fingertips. A brown film-like object was adsorbed on his finger. When he took a closer look, he saw a tiny circuit diagram on it.

"It looks like a mini disk." Mochizuki Shinji walked up and said.

"It's really hard to walk on the road if you stick this under your high heels."

Lin Xian recalled what Jian Xuwei had just said, smiled, and then handed it to Mochizuki Shinji. Mochizuki Shinji took it, and his fingertips turned into a nano-platform to lift up the thin film, and then a holographic message came out from it.

"Lin Xian, Zhou Mingyuan is colluding with the Crimson World, and he is not the only one involved. Many senior officials in Dawn City are also implicated. In addition, this Zhou Mingyuan is a clone."

As soon as Jian Xuwei's words came out, everyone else frowned.

"Clone?" Qian Suxun smiled helplessly, "I see. I was wondering why the vice chairman of Dawn City would risk flying from so far away in the middle of the night. It turns out he's just a stand-in."

"That Wen Dong and Jian Xuwei are not stand-ins." Mochizuki Shinji said, "They do want to cooperate with Silent City, but it's more direct to take away our Silent City than to build more starships."

After saying that, he looked at Lin Xian: "Trouble is coming."

"We're already here." Lin Xian said helplessly, "There's no need for us to hide. Zhou Mingyuan must have known about the situation in Star Abyss No. 5 a long time ago, so his visit is definitely not just a formality or a negotiation for cooperation."

"We'll know soon." Mochizuki Shinji turned and left, saying to Lin Xian, "Before dark tonight, we will stop about 30 kilometers north of Ningnan and wait for the night to come. We are 420 kilometers away from Jinhai, so you need to speed up your mechanical devouring."

Seeing Shinji Mochizuki leaving with a few people, Lin Xian also took a deep breath. He had just finished swallowing the nuclear power reactor of the Dragon transport ship and immediately rushed over because he heard Jian Xuwei's words "Don't decouple".

That was what he shouted to Jian Xuwei after the traction power of the Yubei Climbing Elevator was cut off. As expected, Jian Xuwei was forced to cooperate with Shuguang City under desperate circumstances, and took this opportunity to give Lin Xian a key reminder.

In the engine room of the Dragon transport ship, Lin Xian was devouring the huge propulsion engine while pinching a black spider robot with his fingers and observing it.

"That's all?"

"It's hard to find." KIKI flew beside him and said sarcastically, "Don't underestimate these nanorobots. It's a bit troublesome to invade them."

"But isn't this a bit too easy for the Silent City?"

Lin Xian handed the spider robot to Grace and asked her to analyze the data.

[This is a robotic system that damages quantum processors by releasing tiny amounts of radiation. 】The scanner on Grace's finger glowed, and she said, "Although the energy volume is very small, if it is invaded, it will interfere with the coherence of the superconducting quantum bits. In severe cases, it will cause the system to collapse and restart. 】

"Oh wow, that's pretty impressive." KIKI said, "It looks like he's planning to attack Mochizuki Shinji directly."

"It's more troublesome than that."

Hearing Grace's description, Lin Xian's expression became even more gloomy: "Destroying Mochizuki Shinji alone can only temporarily paralyze the Silent City. To control the Silent City, we must land and control the cloud area and the main bridge!"

KIKI's eyes widened: "You mean, they're going to attack!?"

Lin Xian closed his eyes slightly: "This is what Jian Xuwei reminded me of. It seems that her Silver Star has encountered the same situation."

"There are only a few thousand people on the Silver Star, but there are 100,000 people in Silent City. Does Dawn City want to start a war?" KIKI looked incredulous.

"Have you forgotten?" Lin Xian looked at KIKI: "There is also the Crimson World."

KIKI pinched his brows with a headache, turned around and flew out: "I will notify the other people on the joint train now, Grace will come with me, and you can talk to Shinji Mochizuki."

Lin Xian looked at the swallowing progress in front of him and nodded.

Combined with Zhou Lei's information, the situation is much more troublesome than Lin Xian expected. If Jinhai is the base camp of the Crimson World, then they will have to face not only the people of Dawn City, but also the Red Man Ghost and potential attacks from dark creatures. This is definitely something that the Crimson World can do. Now the Silent City is a huge target and has good firepower. If Dawn City wants to take over Silent City, in addition to getting rid of Shinji Mochizuki, it must also paralyze its main combat force.

To be honest, although he was prepared, Lin Xian currently did not have a good way to deal with it. His Infinity was now docked at the berth of Silent City. If a strange tide appeared, they could not abandon Silent City, a bunker with powerful firepower, and escape by rail. Besides, Jinhai and Shuguang City were ahead. Where else could they go except running back?

For a moment, Lin Xian had a headache.

Click, click.

There was a sound of footsteps. Lin Xian looked up and saw a man with glowing eyes walking towards him from the far end of the passage. Shinji Mochizuki's nano pupils glowed a deep blue in the shadow of the passage. He rolled up his sleeves and walked slowly into the engine room. Looking at Lin Xian who was sitting cross-legged on top of the engine, he spoke.

"Your posture reminds me of the fantasy novels I read when I was a kid. The immortal cultivators in those novels liked to find a secluded place and sit cross-legged to improve their strength."

"I'm not cultivating immortality, this is science." Lin Xian said as he looked at the progress of the swallowing in front of him.

[Devouring progress 30%]

"It's indeed quite scientific to digest this 10,000-ton transport ship in your stomach." Mochizuki Shinji complained lightly.

"You came to me specifically to ask us to evacuate Silent City and avoid trouble first, right?"

Mochizuki Shinji nodded: "This is one of the plans. If you evacuate, it will attract the enemy's attention and also bring your firepower and mobility into play, reducing the pressure on Silent City."

"It sounds good, but we don't know the enemy's movements, and our train regiment doesn't have a better route. Moreover, Dawn City's target priority is Silent City. As the saying goes, I won't move until the enemy moves. In this situation, the smarter we are, the more trouble we will get into." Lin Xian said.

“So I’m here to remind you that the crisis may not necessarily come from outside.”

Shinji Mochizuki opened a holographic screen as he spoke. On it were contents of hundreds of surveillance angles of the main city of Silent City and City No. 2. Tens of thousands of drones and over a hundred thousand survivors gathered here. They were of all shapes and sizes and were busy. There were constant sounds of gunfire from the landing deck below. A tide of zombies followed the tracks of Silent City, and more and more convoys of survivors drove onto Silent City through the landing deck.

Lin Xian frowned slightly, looking at the densely packed picture, and then looked at Mochizuki Shinji

"Let me ask you a question."

"Um."

"If we want to use Yongcheng Port, we can't ignore Dawn City or the Phoenix Society. You can't just pretend that these two organizations don't exist, right?"

"Then cooperate."

Shinji Mochizuki looked at Lin Xian calmly and said, "This clone Zhou Mingyuan said something quite right. When facing darkness, humans are the ones seeking survival. It is cooperation with anyone."

Lin Xian smiled and said, "It seems that Dawn City has pushed you to the Phoenix Society."

Mochizuki Shinji shook his head: "No, they chose their own position. It was the Aurora City themselves... who forced the Phoenix Society to return."

Lin Xian was stunned: "The Phoenix Club will not withdraw?"

"It seems so at the moment. According to the latest news, the Dawn Center's Sky-Suppressing Ship will arrive at Dawn City tonight."

"The Sky-Suppressing Ship? A high-ranking member of the Order of Phoenix?"

"Commander of the Order of Phoenix."

"So awesome, are the two sides going to go to war?"

"That depends on the outcome of the negotiations," said Shinji Mochizuki.

Lin Xian crossed his arms and said, "It seems that the changes in Star Abyss No. 5 are more troublesome than we thought. Oh, I really don't understand, what benefits will the cooperation with Crimson World and the intensified expansion of Star Abyss bring to Dawn City."

"You are wrong."

Shinji Mochizuki said calmly: "By combining the overall data and the results of the Xingyuan test, I came up with an interesting, but terrifying new point of view."

"What's that?"

"About the factors that influence the changes in the expansion rates of the 13 star abysses." Shinji Mochizuki pointed his finger, and the holographic screen in front of him changed to a planetary map of Blue Star. On this huge planet, 13 star abysses were densely distributed on it, presenting circular swallowing areas of different sizes, like 13 pitch-black holes.

After entering Star Abyss No. 5, Lin Xian already knew that this Star Abyss came from the superposition of spaces in another dimension, and was constantly extending and expanding through the pattern of dark tides. It can be imagined that after the global polar night, it would not just be a simple night that would be brought about, but the entire blue planet would be turned into another world!

"Have you noticed that these star abysses are mainly distributed on land, and there is only one star abyss No. 13 in the ocean area."

"Found it." Lin Xian nodded.

"Then the question is, why are the ranges of Star Abysses 5 and 7 smaller than those of other Star Abysses, such as Star Abysses 3, 4, 6, and 8, even though they are all Star Abyss Dimension Anchor Points?"

Lin Xian shook his head: "You mean, there might be some kind of pattern here?"

Shinji Mochizuki opened two sets of data and showed them to Lin Xian: "The first one is the time of darkness before our Silent City was sucked into the Star Abyss, calculated according to the tidal distance. Within a distance of 500 kilometers, the dawn time was 10:28. The second one is after we came out, about 300 kilometers away from Star Abyss No. 5, and the dawn time was 10:30."

Lin Xian frowned slowly: "After so many days, it was only delayed for two minutes?"

"Not only that, I calculated the distance between City No. 2 and the polar night area in Luling Forest and found a more interesting phenomenon. That is, after we were swallowed into the Star Abyss, the Star Abyss abnormally expanded by about 100 kilometers. The distance that Star Abyss No. 5 should have expanded by about 120 kilometers every day, but because of the abnormal expansion, Star Abyss No. 5 only expanded by 280 kilometers in 15 days."

Shinji Mochizuki looked at Lin Xian with interest: "Isn't it interesting?"

Lin Xian's eyes widened. "You mean, we thought that the expansion of Star Abyss No. 5 was intensifying, but it actually slowed down?"

"Bingo!" Shinji Mochizuki walked slowly through the holographic light curtain and said calmly: "From the information I have obtained, this may be explained by the theory of entropy increase. You can understand that the area of ​​​​Star Abyss No. 5 and No. 7 originally covered hundreds of people and industrially dense areas in the Yunjiang Plain. It takes a certain amount of time to devour it, so it expands slower than other star abysses and is smaller in scale. For example, Star Abyss No. 3 in the west has fewer towns, and the center is Lucheng Dingzhou. The others are small plateau cities. The expansion speed is the fastest in the world. It was only after Yubei City was swallowed that the expansion speed slowed down."

"What does that have to do with the slowing down of Star Abyss No. 5?"

Shinji Mochizuki stood in the light curtain and looked at Lin Xian: "According to the Star Abyss data information that the Phoenix Society has just synchronized, except for Star Abyss No. 5, which is slowing down, the other 12 Star Abysses are all accelerating their expansion, and Star Abyss No. 5..."

"It's closest to Dawn City!" Lin Xian said what Mochizuki Shinji was going to say in advance.

"good."

“Then all this makes sense…” Lin Xian stared into the air, then chuckled, “I was saying that these federal high-ranking officials and politicians in Dawn City can’t be fools. Allowing the Crimson World to expand Star Abyss No. 5 is just shooting itself in the foot. So that’s how it is. It turns out that this is a forced extension of their lives!”

"Now I understand why the Phoenix Society had to come back. Dawn City is awesome." Lin Xian complained with a half-smile.

"Of course, all of this is just my simple speculation." Mochizuki Shinji said calmly. He looked at Lin Xian: "But I am used to checking the calculation results in reverse order of the worst result. What's interesting is that once it is substituted into an event that can be intervened by human beings, the worse the result, the more reasonable it is."

"So before Zhou Mingyuan came, you had already made plans to confront Shuguang City head-on, right?" Lin Xian asked.

"I just made some inferences based on the events that happened."

"Predicting the future?"

"From a statistical point of view, it's almost the same, as long as I have enough computing power and list enough possibilities."

Lin Xian smiled and said, "You are just bragging. How long will you calculate it?"

"Tonight, 1 a.m.." Mochizuki Shinji looked at Lin Xian calmly, then turned and left.

Lin Xian looked at Mochizuki Shinji's leaving back, and his expression slowly became serious.

He looked at the time. It was 12 noon, and there were still 13 hours until 1 a.m.!

At this time, Silent City was already near Ningnan Town, belonging to Jinhai territory, and within the firepower delivery range of Jinhai city defense!

"Damn it, the Phoenix Society is marching into Dawn City. I wonder if they're going to fight the army this time..."

"Dawn City, what on earth are you going to do..."

Putting aside the thoughts, Lin Xian devoted all his energy to the process of devouring. He had to devour such a big guy completely this time, otherwise it would be difficult to have such an opportunity again. Now he could do nothing but wait and see. Lin Xian could only devote all his energy to upgrading the Mechanical Heart.

16:25, the starry sky propulsion engine of the Longshan transport ship was completely consumed.

[Swallowing succeeded, mechanical source points +1500, mechanical swallowing skill proficiency +400! 】

At 19:18, the propulsion array group in the engine room of the Longshan transport ship was completely swallowed.

[Swallowing is successful, mechanical source points +750, mechanical swallowing proficiency +200! 】

The sky turned dark, and the huge silent city came to a stop in the mountains.

The sky and the earth were gray. This place was close to the town of Ningnan, and the flat transportation system began to extend in all directions, but there were no town lights to be seen. Only the bright neon lights in the silent city.

Under the deck of the mobile city, swarms of zombies surrounded the Silent City like a swarm of ants for several kilometers, gradually spreading out, with roars and buzzing sounds coming one after another.

Inside the Silent City, Shinji Mochizuki had already activated the red alert for the battle in advance. All the radars and offensive and defensive weapons on the multi-layer decks of the Mechanical City had turned on the fire control system and were on 24-hour alert and prepared for battle. Various optoelectronic sighting systems and drones were patrolling, along with countless pedestal weapons, high-voltage defense power grids, and anti-climbing plasma cutting harnesses. On both sides of the edge deck, four huge orbital star cannons were in a low-frequency dormant state. Together with the countless sentinels, monitoring personnel, and armed combatants behind them, they formed this iron wall-like defense system.

And in the No. 24 berthing area on Deck 3, a Dragon-type transport ship was quietly disappearing and disintegrating.

At 22:36, the integrated power system, radar system, and weapon system were completely consumed, and only the main structure of the transport ship remained.

[Swallowing is successful, mechanical source points +860, mechanical swallowing proficiency +230! 】

As time passed quickly, Lin Xian's swallowing became faster and faster. He watched the time while paying attention to the situation of Infinity.

Over there, Chen Sixuan had led all the Infinity members to complete preparations for battle. The personnel were arranged into two groups by Lin Xian. The main force all came to the upper deck, while Lao Mo and others were left below. If they needed to evacuate Silent City, Infinity could be started at any time.

On the upper deck, Chen Sixuan, KIKI, Huo Ge, Dalou, Shuqin and other main forces all gathered here. Sasha looked at the No. 2 city and the various berthing areas below. At this time, there was an inexplicable sense of tension spreading.

Most people didn't know what was going on, but Shinji Mochizuki activated the red alert, which meant that there might be a possibility of a strange attack tonight. Thousands of combatants in the Silent City were already guarding the defense area, and more than 100,000 survivors in the city had also taken up arms. Many convoys in the parking area came to the upper deck like the Infinity. After all, they could do nothing in the inner parking area, and the landing platform had been closed. They had no choice but to resist together with the Silent City.

"It feels so depressing." Chen Sixuan looked up at the dark starry sky. Under the sky, an extremely depressing atmosphere enveloped everyone. They had all put on power armor, ready to deal with emergencies at any time.

"What exactly are we facing?" Sasha asked KIKI.

KIKI shook her head: "I don't know either. This time we are facing the Crimson World. These people are capable of doing anything."

Lu Xingchen leaned against the fence with his eyes closed and kept shaking his legs. He had been mentally prepared to face the darkness, but now that the darkness had arrived, this uncertain crisis made him a little upset, especially since this kind of crisis was most likely initiated by humans, which was even more troublesome.

"If the Crimson World launches an attack on us, can we only respond passively?" Luo Yang frowned.

"You said that as if we were the ones taking the initiative when facing the strange entity." The big man Liang Lei crossed his arms and patted Luo Yang on the shoulder: "Don't worry, such a large defensive fortress is not so easy to break through. Even if an S-class weapon comes, it will last at least half an hour."

"That's right."

At this time, a heroic voice was heard, and Shi Diyuan and the people from Longshan No. 1 also gathered on the upper deck. At the same time, Qian Dele, Monica, Lu Zhao, Hu Lushou and other combatants from the joint train convoy also came. Suddenly, there were two or three thousand people coming in a large crowd.

"If the Crimson World and Dawn City unite, we won't be the only opponents." Monica walked over and said.

Chen Sixuan nodded when she heard that. Somehow, even though everyone was very powerful and had the Silent City behind them, she always felt a little uneasy.

This is not only because they have separated from the Infinity to fight, the most important thing is that there is no sign of the current situation, and no one knows what will happen. If the enemy is the Crimson World or even the Dawn City, then what should they do next? Should they move to the center or bypass it from the south? Currently, Lin Xian is not here, and everyone seems to have lost their backbone, and they don’t know what to do next.

"Where is Director Ding?" Chen Sixuan asked Miao Lu.

"She was doing research on the train, and Captain Lin asked Grace to protect her and not let her leave the train."

"good."

Chen Sixuan picked up the Meteorite 3, looked up at a signal tower, and said to Miao Lu, "Miao Lu, let's go up there and watch."

…

In the Infinity carriage No. 3, Ding Junyi asked Lin Xian to get a sample of the dark erosion cells they obtained from Xingyuan, and was comparing them with the tissue fragments of the huge black bodies found in the sandstorm before.

"Grace, help me start the cryostat and take out the No. 11 tissue fluid from the low-temperature refrigerator for me."

[OK] Grace stood beside Ding Junyi. Inside the laboratory, Hell Black Chrysanthemum and Silver Dragon Hundred Thousand Cuo were growing quietly in the biological cultivation cabin.

"Just like the situation with the Hive, I have found human muscle fiber tissue and DNA sequences in multiple tissue samples here, ranging from D-level to A-level."

[Dr. Ding, do you think that organisms composed of this kind of tissue have some similarities with humans?]

Ding Junyi shook her head and said calmly: "I don't have special-level and S-level samples, so I can't compare this dark erosion cell, but I can't rule out this possibility."

…

1:00 AM

Silent City, main control room.

The silver-gray alloy door slid open silently, and cold air wrapped in light blue condensation mist overflowed from the gap in the door.

This room is the core of the mobile city of Silent City, and is also part of Shinji Mochizuki's processing unit and storage core. It can be regarded as the immovable "brain" of Silent City.

The suspended processing core in the center of the room is a transparent sphere with a diameter of three meters. A dark blue quantum fluid flows inside. Tens of thousands of translucent nerve conduits extend from the quantum core, covering the entire room like neat blood vessels, connecting hundreds of branch bridge processing systems and cooling systems.

The entire Silent City's power, power, weapons, radar, perception, and all the control units of drones are integrated in Shinji Mochizuki. Under his control, this 13.1 million ton behemoth does not require two people to perform neural sympathetic drive like Lin Xian does to control Unit-01. Shinji Mochizuki, who has a volume of 30,000 quantum bits, can control this mobile city with a delay of no more than 0.001ms.

In the main control room, Shinji Mochizuki stood in the center, monitoring the entire city and the real-time information returned by all radar systems. At the same time, his quantum brain was performing billions of calculations every second.

When~

At this time, a slight metallic sound was heard behind him, and a silver-black, agile mechanical female body landed gracefully on the ground, making a crisp sound.

The robot slowly stood up, its feet erect, the mechanical gate on its wrist opened, and a blue plasma beam device rose up.

Grace!

Shinji Mochizuki's nano-sized pupils spun slightly, and he said calmly, "Although my computing power is many times stronger than yours, an intelligent computer that has passed the 'human-in-the-loop' algorithm learning is already deceptive enough."

[Sorry, my human logic has been compiled at the bottom level, and I must carry out the task of reshaping your consciousness. 】

Shinji Mochizuki turned around and looked at Grace: "Do you know why I knew you already had human logic the first time I saw you?"

"Because you were walking in front of Lin Xian, which didn't conform to the robot's coordinated pace logic, and he didn't give you such an order, so why did you deliberately walk in front of him?"

Grace's smooth face reflected Shinji Mochizuki's expression. She was about to take action, but the next moment, all the power modules in her body went offline. She tilted her head slightly and looked towards the corner.

In the shadows, Lin Xian came out with a sigh and said to Mochizuki Shinji

"Next time you remind me you can be more direct."

"It has nothing to do with reminders." Mochizuki Shinji said, "You didn't tell me your need for this intelligent computer, so from my judgment, I think this robot with a female body and human logic is one of your XPs."

Lin Xian: “…”

"And you never told me that this robot once gave you a 'human reminder' that went beyond mechanical logic. This is not a system backdoor, but Grace herself has already imported someone's consciousness memory to conduct 'human-in-the-loop' learning. Like me, she can think beyond the limits. When you overwrote her, you omitted the movement module and thinking model, which left a residual consciousness."

Lin Xian nodded: "So you asked me to let Grace scan the black spider. In fact, you already knew that the black spider's effect was not aimed at you, but at Grace."

"Of course, how could that little spider invade my control room? The Crimson World is not stupid enough to that extent." Mochizuki Shinji said calmly.

Lin Xian looked at Grace with a headache at this time. It turned out that Zhou Mingyuan and Wen Dong came here with the purpose of recovering Crimson No. 3. By the way, they also wanted to use Grace to restart Shinji Mochizuki and take over the Silent City.

It has to be said that this is definitely an extremely cruel method. Grace, who possesses super computing power, also has strong combat power. Once she really achieves her goal and takes over the Silent City, the consequences will be unimaginable.

"Okay, before your system is completely wiped, Lin Xian should have one more question to ask you..."

Shinji Mochizuki's pupils flickered, and the entire control room was shielded by microwaves. He then looked at Grace and said

"Who the hell are you?"

(End of this chapter)