Chapter 418 Hidden Dangers

Inside the information room of the Neptune, the air was silent.

Lin Xian looked at Ryan, and seeing that he had a calm face, he couldn't help but think in his heart that since Ryan had revealed the core of the plan, he naturally expected that Lin Xian could guess his real purpose. Although the Infinity was now docked at Haiyan Island, Lin Xian knew that it might be difficult for them to avoid this trouble directly.

As expected, Ryan did not deny it, but directly told Lin Xian his guess.

"These anomalies are not accidental. They may not only be due to the taboos, but also something else." Ryan took a deep breath and smiled. "It's very strange, isn't it? After the Dawn City incident, strange things are happening all over the world. The original fog is deeper, and the movements of the strange bodies are getting weirder. Star Abyss No. 8, Taku Mist, Garan Volcano, and the strange bodies that are surrounding us..."

"Heh, they are all big guys, and their direction is surprisingly consistent, as if they are targeting something." Erica looked at Lin Xian: "What do you think, Swordsman?"

"Why not just say it straight?" Monica responded immediately.

"You think the Dawn City incident triggered more violent actions by the Darkness, and that their goal is to eliminate the Sword Wielder, right?"

"There are always some cowards who have such thoughts." Vanessa said at this time: "The Adventists will also think he is an enemy. It doesn't matter. After all, do we have any other choice besides running away and giving feedback?"

Lin Xian's eyes flickered. He certainly understood what the Falcon Sea Group meant. Before setting out to sea, he remembered that Monica had mentioned this matter.

So, he thought about it, looked at Ryan and said

"If you simply want to leave here, there's no need to investigate forbidden objects and volcanoes. There must be other reasons, right?"

"certainly."

Ryan smiled and responded: "When I first investigated this crisis, I did prepare to retreat immediately. But what's interesting is that we learned from the intelligence of the Holy City Organization that your Infinity had entered the ocean orbit. Lin... I have always wanted to see what kind of person you, the savior, are."

Ryan's words seemed calm, but the people on Lin Xian's side immediately noticed something unusual.

"You mean, this matter may be related to us?" KIKI asked.

"Yes, Ryan admires Lin very much." Gaddy said at this time: "He immediately thought that the taboo of Haiyan Island could not happen to appear at this time. This is a problem."

"Forest."

Ryan looked serious, and he looked into Lin Xian's eyes: "You may have many ways to avoid those troubles, such as floating islands, storms, volcanoes, and tsunamis, but I need to remind you that you'd better take a break. Once you leave Haiyan Island, you will enter the endless deep Pacific Ocean. If I were targeted, I would definitely be more careful."

Lin Xian remained calm, and understood something from the other party's words, so he asked

"What kind of organization is that Holy City?"

"A super-large alliance of survivors at sea." Erica put one hand on her waist and introduced to Lin Xian: "It can almost be said to be a refuge city swimming on the sea. They have many island bases. In addition, they have a sea fleet composed of hundreds of ships. The main ship is the former Kraken Floating City on the Sea."

"Kraken? The sea observation ship?" KIKI asked. "That thing has been in service for decades, right? It hasn't sunk yet?"

Many people on Lin Xian's side were familiar with this name. The Kraken Floating City was a large-scale offshore 'oasis' project built by the Randy Shipbuilding Group decades ago. It was known as the 'unsinkable offshore city'. It was a large-scale marine paradise with a displacement of millions of tons, which could accommodate over 90,000 people. The oasis included hotels, restaurants, amusement parks, zoos, commercial entertainment, gambling and various sightseeing projects, and stopped at various intercontinental coastal deep-water ports along the way.

A long time ago, this was a famous marine attraction and was even mentioned in textbooks. Lin Xian remembered that the cheapest ticket for this ship was only more than two thousand yuan. When he was a child, he always wanted to go on it to play, but unfortunately he didn't have the chance. With the increase of years of operation, the equipment became increasingly outdated, and with the popularity of various floating cities and space projects, this famous floating city on the sea gradually faded out of the public eye. Unexpectedly, he heard the name again here.

"Yes, it was occupied by Weyland's mercenary group after the Apocalypse," Azir said seriously. "It's indeed a good place to avoid zombies. It's large, like a small city, and can store a lot of supplies. The Holy City has grown to its current size of over 200,000 people with this as its core. I don't know how this organization has colluded with the Adventists of the Crimson World, specifically targeting other survivors, and their behavior is becoming increasingly deranged."

"According to our understanding, the size of the Holy City's staff is constantly decreasing. They are now gradually becoming more elite internally, specializing in the study of the evolution and improvement of superpowers. They are very powerful and have had many conflicts with the Phoenix Society's Noah City." Erica said.

Pop.

Ryan snapped his fingers, and the topographic map of Haiyan Island appeared on the holographic screen.

"Recently, we discovered that several fleets of the Holy City appeared in the waters southeast and northeast of Haiyan Island. They frequently came to the island to do something. We bought the information about the forbidden items from the black market. We think this is very likely related to what the Holy City is doing..."

He looked at Lin Xian and said, "It may also be related to you, Lin, you have to be careful."

"Thanks for the reminder."

Lin Xian looked at Ryan's mark on the topographic map and said, "This is very helpful."

"Forbidden objects, crystal lattices, holy cities, be more specific..." Monica came out at this time and said straight to the point: "How do you want to cooperate?"

Ryan shook his head. "Didn't Lin say that forbidden objects and crystal lattices are not as important as life? We have been tracking the actions of the Holy City in the city. Maybe they are all involved. Should we fight them or find out something? We can do it together as an alliance."

Lin Xian smiled, took out a special communicator and handed it to him, saying, "Okay, we'll see you on the island later."

"Forest."

Seeing Lin Xian about to leave, Ryan took the communicator and said to him, "Don't get easily stained with the Dark Mark at sea, otherwise you never know what monsters will appear under the sea."

Lin Xian nodded, and then the two teams of Lin Xian closed their power armor masks, took off one after another on the deck, and flew towards the distant sea.

In the bridge information room, Ryan looked through the porthole at the figures of Lin Xian and his companions leaving with a calm expression.

“It seems that nothing has been achieved.”

Gaddy said: "The Sword Bearer is a mechanical psychic. Flying vehicles, land, sea and air should not be a problem for him. Their team is full of powerful elite psychics. Maybe they will be interested in the lattice."

Ryan waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "The crystal lattice is not important. As long as they want, they can easily get enough information from the Phoenix Order."

Azir said at this time: "The situation on Haiyan Island may be completely out of control, but it seems that we can't provide any other cooperation except warnings. What's the point of this?"

Vanessa smiled and said, "You big fool, you know that something is going to happen on Sea Rock Island, and they will definitely find out. Ryan's meaning is that even if we can't help, a friendly reminder in advance also shows goodwill. At least we don't have to be enemies with the Sword Wielder."

"Who said we can't help?"

Ryan turned around, looked at everyone solemnly, and said seriously

"Get ready, we'll land on the island tonight."

"tonight?"

"That's right." Ryan walked quickly towards the outside of the information room and said without looking back: "If the Holy City's target is them, the forbidden object will appear tonight!"

…

Passing over the sea close to the waves, Lin Xian felt the air was a bit stuffy. He kept searching the sea surface with radar. Looking at the approaching Haiyan Island, he immediately tried to contact Qian Dele and Ning Jing's team.

"Everyone, how is it going?"

"The weather is not good." On the top of the tall building, Qian Dele held up an electronic telescope and looked towards the dark cloudy sky in the southeast direction. He said into the communicator: "The weather system detected that the storm over there is rapidly expanding. It may rain on the island."

“Zizizi…”

At this time, Ning Jing's voice sounded in the communicator: "Captain Lin, there is no one in the city. The coastal docking port on the east side of the city has been attacked..."

On Ning Jing's side, countless drones were patrolling and scanning rapidly, fire was flying rapidly in the sky, and strong winds were sweeping the garbage in the ruins of the city into the sky. This seaport looked like it had been burned by a fire, with everything charred black. The huge track base fell down and half exposed on the sea, like a giant kneeling in the sea.

"Brother Huo went out to sea to investigate just now. The nearest track section is at least several kilometers away, and we are not sure about the road conditions further away... It looks like we can only fly over there, or row a boat."

After hearing the report from the communicator, Lin Xian's expression froze slightly. The two teams flew to the top of a hillside along the west coast and landed. Lin Xian looked at the dead silent city area below and fell into deep thought.

Strange things happened after the defense of Dawn City. The [No Resistance] on the defense platform, the metal dice at Taku Deepwater Port, the storm and floating island moving towards Sea Rock Island...

Lin Xian felt as if there was a fog in front of his eyes and he couldn't see clearly. He could feel that although there were only about 20 people in the Infinity Group now, they were being watched secretly by some existence, giving people a feeling of depression in the tranquility.

"How come there isn't even a single zombie in such a big city..."

Sasha stopped her Flying Peach, jumped off, turned the scanner on the power armor mask and looked towards the city: "Don't you think it's so quiet..."

"The more this happens, the more cautious we must be." Monica said at this time: "The Holy City Organization must be keeping an eye on us."

"Lin Xian." KIKI turned to look at Lin Xian: "An underwater volcano and some strange nest are coming this way. Do you want me and Brother Huo to go out to the sea and patrol the track to explore the way?"

Lin Xian looked up at the sky. Patches of altocumulus clouds slowly blocked the sunlight, and huge shadows swept across the city. At this time, he summoned Viola from the Black Star Forge, and she was equipped with a set of special flying power armor.

"Viola, conduct high-altitude reconnaissance according to the sea area intelligence just now from the Falcon Sea Group. After the end, quickly patrol along the ocean track section passing through the G3-G25 base stations, and then come back to report."

[Viola understands that if she finds any abnormalities in the strange body, does she need to return early? ]

Lin Xian nodded: "Yes."

Viola received the order and turned around immediately. She activated the thrusters of her flight kit and flew straight into the sky, creating a sonic shock wave and quickly rushed into the sky.

"The track is damaged, and there are problems both under the sea and on the surface. Although I was thinking that we could directly activate the sky dome, I always feel that the things in the sky may be more troublesome."

"What should we do? Should we just wait here for Viola to come back?" KIKI asked.

"Although the Falcon Sea Group said that the Holy City Organization has its eyes on us, I don't think this is the biggest trouble." Monica said, crossing her arms and looking at Lin Xian.

Lin Xian nodded, indicating that he also understood

"Volcanoes and floating islands, these are more of a concern."

"Also..." Monica looked at Lin Xian: "Enemy attractant."

"We have to guard against this thing."

Lin Xian thought for a moment and said, "We probably can't leave today. While it's still daytime, each of our teams should go into the city to search and make some preparations in advance."

"This is the only way for now~" Monica nodded.

Afterwards, according to the regional situation of the city, Lin Xian asked Monica's team to go to the coastal commercial district, Qian Dele was responsible for the industrial port area on the southeast coast and returned with Ning Jing's team, and he took KIKI Shizhi to explore the Baita District in the center of Haiyan City. However, before that, he sat on the hillside on the west coast, sank into the Black Star Forge while it was still early, and contacted Chu Yan with his consciousness.

On the Zhentian ship, in Ye Lan's office, Lin Xian appeared beside Chu Yan in an ideological position for the first time in a long time and communicated with Professor Ye.

"I just told Chu Yan that you should come to ask me about the crystal lattice soon."

Ye Lan sat in his seat, looking at the empty seat next to Chu Yan, as if he could see him.

"Does the Phoenix Society think that crystallization has hidden dangers?" Lin Xian asked.

"It's not that simple." Chu Yan answered him. She said, "About a month ago, crystallized mutants began to appear in the Pacific Ocean. We received a lot of data and information from Noah. The Dawn Center and Phoenix City began to study them. Our North American United Front began to organize investigations in major cities in North and South America at that time."

"Lin Xian."

Ye Lan looked at him calmly: "What do you think when you see the four-word message transmitted by the photovoltaic wing surface of Nantianmen?"

"I don't know, it's very strange." Lin Xian didn't know why Ye Lan suddenly asked this, so he said, "It sounds like nonsense."

Chu Yan conveyed Lin Xian's meaning.

Ye Lan nodded and said immediately: "When dealing with information exchanges between civilizations like this, we are often extra careful, including when you and Chu Yan are connecting to the dark civilization. In fact, this is also the case. We don't know what kind of information we will get, or what price it will bring. This lattice is exactly the same."

Lin Xian's eyes fixed.

Ye Lan continued, "We have conducted hundreds of crystallization experiments and observations within our Night Walker organization. Combined with the information continuously integrated and summarized from various regions, the superpower research team has summarized a lot of experience and methods for this superpower development. The results are roughly the same as you imagined. It can be regarded as a breakthrough leap in human superpower control. With this kind of crystal power storage, superpowers can achieve new breakthroughs above the angel level. For the time being, we have renamed the superpower level above 30,000..."

"A new level?"

"Transcendence level." Chu Yan responded.

(End of this chapter)