Chapter 109

Chapter 109

When we say it is a resemblance, it is not a resemblance in the intuitive sense, but rather a resemblance to a person’s eyebrows and eyes. The person in the photo was a woman in her thirties, wearing a white research coat that most researchers wore. Only half of her face was covered, leaving only her eyebrows and eyes. She looked 90% like Ying Chenlin who was standing next to the portrait.

Ying Chenlin noticed that You Su's gaze shifted, and then the person next to him moved his hand away, "What's wrong?"

You Su's gaze was on the portrait and Ying Chenlin's face, and he took his hand away from the portrait. He originally thought it was just an illusion, but when Ying Chenlin compared the portrait with him at such a close distance, the familiarity of each person on the portrait seemed to be copied.

He asked, “Look at this man.”

The person standing in front of him took a few steps back. Ying Chenlin turned sideways to look at the portrait of the woman and was slightly startled.

It is difficult to judge similarity between people intuitively, especially when it comes to a single part like eyebrows or eyes.

Seeing Ying Chenlin's attention, You Su added: "Her eyes look a lot like yours."

"Hey, they really look alike!" Theo's voice rang out, "His eyes look just like Ying Chenlin's!"

You Su glanced sideways and saw something strange about Ying Chenlin.

Ying Chenlin did not move. His attention was entirely on the photo, from the person's eyes to her entire face. This face gave him a feeling of both familiarity and strangeness. This familiarity was not due to his judgement of appearance, but because he had seen this woman before.

In an old photo album that his grandfather showed him when he was a child, there were several photos of his parents, and this person looked exactly like his mother.

Ying Chenlin seldom recalls things related to his parents. In fact, he has no memory of having any experience of getting along with his parents. He was raised by his grandfather since he was a child, and the only memory he has about his parents is the brief mention of his grandfather. These memories, which accompanied the changes between his previous and next lives, had long since become unimportant to him. When he thought back to his parents now, he only remembered that they were excellent people who died in an accident.

But when he first saw this photo, Ying Chenlin suddenly discovered that his parents were a blank area in his memory. ⑨This⑨work⑨is⑨made⑨by⑨

There are about ten photos on the portrait wall. The photo of the woman is in the middle of the third row, and to the side is some text information about this research topic. Ying Chenlin stared at the photo closely, as if he was determining the similarities between the photo and the photos he had seen in his memory. At the bottom of the photo was the identity of the woman - Chief Researcher (Shi Xuejun).

Shi Xuejun... Ying Chenlin's gaze paused slightly, and immediately swept to the other portraits next to him. His sight swept through very quickly, and he finished looking at all ten or so photos in a short while. After looking at them, he walked a few steps to the side.

There were no portraits on the other side of the portrait wall. Instead, densely packed text summarized the research objectives of the research institute inside the base station. Ying Chenlin glanced at the key words "pollutants", "weapons"... He hurried his steps, as if he wanted to quickly determine something from this information.

The information on the wall was not comprehensive. The virtual screen seemed to have been damaged by something, and there were cracks all over the screen.

The information on the broken virtual screen was almost disconnected, with black blocks everywhere.

You Su watched Ying Chenlin walk from the location of the photo to the end of the virtual screen wall, and followed him over. When he thought Ying Chenlin would go to look at the information on the other side, he found that Ying Chenlin stopped at the end of the virtual screen, and his eyes seemed to stop at a certain point.

The virtual screen at the end was mostly filled with color blocks left after the destruction. In the mixed and blurred information, only the second half of the text information was left. It could be vaguely determined that this piece of information had nothing to do with the research project here. You Su noticed that Ying Chenlin's eyes had not left, "What did you see?"

Ying Chenlin's hand hovered at the end of the text message, "Here."

You Su saw the very end, which was a signature information.

When he saw the end of the message, You Su frowned and said, "Yes."

The stationmaster of the C-147 base station in the Kolya contaminated area - should.

The second half of the name is blocked by the color block, and we can only see that the original owner of this base station was named Ying, and there is no other information.

"Is it related to you?" You Su asked.

Ying Chenlin did not respond. His gaze stayed on the word "Ying" for a few seconds, and then suddenly looked at the only operating table in the hall. He ran straight over without hesitation.

There were several layers of dust on the operating table, and it seemed that no one had set foot in this place for many years. The photos on the portrait wall, the signature of Ying in the notice, and Yuan who had been reacting since approaching the restricted area, Ying Chenlin did think that all of these were unrelated, but he just didn't know where these connections lay.

Is Yuan related to this place? Or are his parents, who have never appeared in his memory since childhood, related to this place?

There is too little external information, and it is impossible to see more details with the damaged virtual screens. If you want to know more, you can only go through the base station system.

Just when Ying Chenlin touched the start button of the operating console, a launch pad suddenly popped up in front of him, with a series of special characters popping up on it, asking him to enter the permission password.

Looking at this string of familiar characters, Ying Chenlin was suddenly stunned. He recognized this character. This was the permission algorithm of Yuan initialization system.

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In the control room of the base station, the layout of the main building of the base station was not complicated. The two quickly arrived at the control room of the base station along the road. However, before entering the control room, Huo Yan slightly blocked Qi Sicheng with his hand, "Captain Qi, how about I go in alone?"

Qi Sicheng looked at Huo Yan and said, "When I came in with you, I was ready to share the responsibility with you."

The restricted area is full of secrets. From the attitude of the Koria Administration and the direction of the border army's actions after they moved in, it is not difficult to guess that this place is closely related to the administration and the border army. Such a secret place and a restricted area base station that has been in operation all the time must be no simple matter.

The most sensible thing to do is to avoid this base station directly, ignore everything else, and take a detour to find the entrance and exit of the restricted area.

In this way, when the border troops and the administration hold them accountable, at most they will be considered to have violated the rules by trespassing into a restricted area.

Qi Sicheng observed that the facilities of this base station had not been renovated, and many of the facilities had long been outdated from connecting with the outside world. It was obvious that except for the shielding system at the outermost edge of the restricted area, the Administration or the border troops had not entered for a long time.

No one has entered this base station, nor has the base station been renovated.

The reason for not renovating it is probably that they believe the existing functions of this base station are sufficient to achieve the purpose.

That's very strange. In a restricted area where no outsiders can enter, turning on the outermost defense system can be said to protect the base station from pollutants, but why are all the systems inside the buildings in this restricted area turned on? Not only does this waste energy, but it is also full of unreasonableness everywhere.

Before, Qi Sicheng would have chosen to avoid risks, but when he saw the pollutant, he changed his mind.

"There is no pollution reaction, but the energy reaction is intense. The direction of extension is just disappearing near this operating base station." Qi Sicheng had a bad feeling. "The base station has a large number of anti-pollution systems turned on, which can affect the radar's detection and judgment accordingly. I suspect that the pollutant that attacked us may be under the base station."

Huo Yan asked: "Aren't you afraid that this place is a secret location of the border troops?"

"I know what the Shuguang border troops are like. If they were really worried that we would discover their secrets, the safest way would be to keep us where we are and not let us go anywhere." Qi Sicheng said, "But obviously, they didn't do that."

Qi Sicheng and Huo Yan both had their own judgment on the strength of that pollutant.

It was difficult for a task force of the Border Army to complete the cleanup mission. They suspected that the existence of the pollutant might not have been discovered by the Administration or the Border Army. If that was the case, something was obviously wrong.

"It's better to be our illusion."

When Huo Yan was about to push open the door, he discovered that he needed access to the control room. They tried to log into the system using the Mecha Alliance's universal mission identification code, but failed.

"It seems that unlike other polluted areas, the authority of this base station is obviously higher." Qi Sicheng said after seeing this situation: "They are indeed not afraid of us walking around randomly. There is another threshold set here."

"…It's not a permission issue, it's an automatic lock." Huo Yan made way for Qi Sicheng to see the prompt on the operation screen. "When I was on a mission before, I passed by some abandoned base stations in polluted areas. The control room there was automatically locked. Generally speaking, if no one accesses the base station for more than 7 days, it will automatically lock, and you need to re-access it to unlock it."

"Can't this automatic lock be opened?" Qi Sicheng asked.

"These are automatic programs and have nothing to do with the remote control of the Administration. Access to the base station is required to activate the entire system. If no one has used it for too long, the system will automatically shut down. You need permission to turn it on."

Huo Yan shook his head. "If there wasn't this automatic lock, maybe we could still get in—"

Before he could finish his words, the virtual screen in front of them that asked them to enter the permission password suddenly jumped. The two people who were talking noticed the changes on the virtual screen. The page for entering the permission password disappeared in an instant, and another interface popped up.

——[Welcome, please enter the access code]

Qi Sicheng asked: "Did you encounter anything?"

"No." Huo Yan paused when he saw the access code. "The automatic lock disappeared... and it turned into the access code interface."

The two looked at each other. Qi Sicheng asked, "Is it the authority granted by the Administration?"

Huo Yan denied it, "It's impossible. The management bureau is a remote access. This kind of internal access can only be done manually through the facilities in the base station."

Internal lock that can only be released manually -

The expressions of the two changed slightly. Qi Sicheng looked at the corridor behind him and said, "Someone accessed the interior and unlocked the automatic lock."

Qi Sicheng and Huo Yan looked at each other and said, "Come in?"

Huo Yan entered the universal identification code of the mecha commander's mission without saying a word. Once entered, the access interface opened, and the door of the control room that had been sealed for a long time slowly opened, and the scene inside was completely unfolded to the two of them.

At the same time, in the control room of the Koria Administration.

The coordinate system showed that all the mecha warriors had entered the abandoned base station. Director Corea and Mr. Qiu were staring at the coordinate interface closely. When Ji Feng and KID entered the abandoned base station, they had already communicated with the abandoned base station through the restricted area system as soon as possible.

"Haven't you contacted KID and Jifeng's people yet?" asked Director Kolya.

Staff: "We have sent communication requests to their captain Qi Sicheng and Huo Yan many times, but there has been no response."

Elder Qiu took a few steps forward, his eyes fixed on the restricted area system. The abandoned base station was the core midpoint of the restricted area and also supported the existence of the entire restricted area system. If KID and Jifeng had restricted area programs on their mecha systems, they should have been in contact by now. "We thought too much. We should have let them wait where they were at the beginning. We didn't expect them to walk to the base station."

"No one has been there for a long time, so they probably won't find anything." Director Kolya felt a little headache. "I hope they went into the base station just to contact us. I'll write the report then. They don't have bad intentions."

At this moment, a red warning message suddenly popped up on the restricted area system. The staff member was startled and immediately shouted, "Oh no, Director, there's an emergency warning from Lieutenant Colonel Lu."

Director Coria, who was discussing the follow-up solution with Mr. Qiu, was stunned when he heard this. "Emergency report!?"

Elder Qiu stepped forward quickly and said, "There is no information about pollutant reports in the restricted area system."

"Are you sure it was sent by Lieutenant Colonel Lu?" asked the director.

Before he could finish his words, the latest contact request popped up on the restricted area system, from the border army team.

The staff hurriedly answered the call, and the voice of Colonel Lu, the leader of the border troops, appeared in the communication channel.

The voice on the communication channel was interfering with some current. He said seriously, "Mr. Qiu, the situation in the restricted area has changed. We have discovered unknown energy pollutants."

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In the Kolia restricted area, several mechas were flying at high speed through the scorched woods. Under the dead branches and rotten leaves, numerous strange things were crawling out of the rotten leaves. The internal pollutant detection of the mecha system only showed a small amount of pollutant reaction, but the pollutants that appeared in their field of vision were obviously more than those detected by the restricted area system.

Everything changed 10 minutes ago. While moving towards the base station, they found signs of ground movement and discovered several huge ditches hidden under the scorched earth and rotten leaves. Before they could carefully investigate the causes of the ditches, they were attacked by a large amount of pollutants.

"Lieutenant Colonel, there are thirty to the east."

"There is also pollution coming towards us from the west!"

"Lieutenant Colonel, all the information has been transmitted back to the Administration through the system."

Lieutenant Colonel Lu quickly distanced himself from the enemy and locked onto those strange pollutants while shuttling back and forth. The pollutants that had just attacked them were no less than Class A, but there was no corresponding Class A pollutant signal on the restricted area system.

Lieutenant Colonel Lu frowned and said, "Approach the base station at full speed."

Outside the abandoned base station, Ji Qingfeng and the mother mantis were waiting at the entrance of the base station. He had just finished dealing with the mother mantis's hind legs and took out the space-displacement crystal from the back of the mother mantis's body. The offspring that fell during the process had already quickly crawled away. "My daughter, you have too many descendants."

After processing it, he realized what the inside of the female mantis looked like after being hollowed out. The originally sharp and barbed shell had no deterrent effect at all. There were basically bugs inside. After several cuts, no usable materials could be decomposed. It could be said that only a shell was left.

Even if Ji Qingfeng took away the energy crystal, the king insect could still move by controlling the mother mantis. The presence or absence of the energy crystal made no difference to it.

It’s easy to deal with the supernatural crystals, but how to deal with the king insects?

Ji Qingfeng was hesitating whether to unlock the restraints first, or wait for Ying Chenlin to come out before deciding on the follow-up steps.

Suddenly, he noticed that there seemed to be some movement in the scorched woods in the distance. Something was moving in the dense forest. A pollutant swept through the scorched woods and suddenly rushed towards him.

Ji Qingfeng paused for a moment, and the next second he dragged the female mantis's body to the side.

He had just dodged the attack when he heard a loud speaker calling out urgently, "Lao Zhao! Yao Bao!"

A large number of dark things were moving back and forth in the scorched woods. Ji Qingfeng kicked the thing away and turned around to see a large number of things coming towards them in the dense forest. There were several mechas flying in the front.

Zhao Lejie was talking to Jifeng's medical mecha technician on the base station's helipad. When he heard Ji Qingfeng's shout, he turned around in surprise, "What? So loud?"

Ji Qingfeng knocked away the pollutants, "It seems that the brothers of the border army are coming here with a lot of pollutants."

Zhao Lejie: ​​“?”

The next second he saw the scene outside the base station, "Fuck! Is this too exaggerated?"

The medical mecha technician was stunned: "Why are there so many!? Why didn't the base station call the police?"

Outside the base station, a large amount of pollutants are gathering towards this place. It is very quiet inside the base station, and even the most basic alarm system has not sounded.

The silent approach caught the mecha masters off guard. The mecha masters who were originally resting and waiting for contact ran back to their mechas and immediately went into combat status. #

Lin Yao jumped onto the cockpit of the mecha and shouted, "Ximei, go notify the others!"

Lu Xi was two steps behind Lin Yao. When she heard Lin Yao's shout, she noticed that the base station behind her had no warning. Ying Chenlin and the others were all inside the building of the base station. She turned around and ran into the building, "I'll go find them!"

The entire abandoned base station was humming, and a large amount of pollutants gathered outside.

Ji Qingfeng looked at the border army mecha flying in the sky. Just when he was about to judge what was going on, the next moment he felt a strong wind coming towards the left side, and then he saw familiar tentacles rising high in the sky.

Years of combat experience enabled him to make a timely turn at the critical moment and narrowly avoid the attack.

The tentacle's attack target was very clear. It swept quickly towards Ji Qingfeng. This time its attack was no longer as mechanical as before. The huge tentacle bound the female mantis's body in an instant.

They simply couldn't break the tentacles, and the mantis's body would be dragged away directly.

"Fuck!" Ji Qingfeng's pupils shrank. The moment he saw the female mantis being tied up, he immediately withdrew the binding sickle and switched to his commonly used short blade. A large amount of energy was condensed on the short blade. Ji Qingfeng quickly jumped onto the body of the female mantis and cut off her neck with one stroke.

Ji Qingfeng cut off the fragile shell and the king insect fell out from the mantis's neck.

Ji Qingfeng: "Owner! Run!"

The fallen queen insect lost all restraints, its movements were a little slow, and it seemed to be aware of the danger, and it swooped into the ground in a few steps.

When Lin Yao came out to support, he saw this scene, "Da Feng!"

The tentacles grabbed the mantis's shell, but did not leave directly. Instead, it used the tentacles to continue attacking Ji Qingfeng.

Ji Qingfeng's short blade hit the tentacles many times. The king insect was their prey, and they didn't kill it, so how could they let this ugly thing get away with it!

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There was chaos outside the base station, but it was relatively quiet inside.

The special soundproof building blocked out all external sounds. When Ying Chenlin successfully entered the permission password on the console, the door inside the institute was completely opened in front of them. When entering the research institute, Ying Chenlin saw the brightly lit corridors and flickering virtual display screens at the entrance of each room.

You Su followed Ying Chenlin into the corridor behind the research institute's hall and frowned slightly when he saw this scene.

"What did you just enter?" You Su asked.

Ying Chenlin paused for a moment, and finally answered him: "I am familiar with the permission algorithm."

You Su didn't say anything, his eyes remained on Ying Chenlin.

The corridor was very quiet as two people walked in one after the other.

When he reached the fork in the stairs, You Su thought Ying Chenlin would go downstairs, but noticed that Ying Chenlin did not move forward.

"What's wrong?" You Su asked.

Ying Chenlin grasped the mecha key inside his coat slightly. For some reason, his intuition told him that he should not go up.

He glanced to the other side and felt the heat coming from the key in his hand.

You Su looked at him.

Ying Chenlin took out a maintenance kit from his belongings, rummaged through it, and finally took out a small energy detector.

"I feel like the road is not going up." Ying Chenlin turned on the energy detector, and a large number of red dots appeared on the virtual screen. "Sure enough, the energy reaction in this research institute is too abnormal."

He looked at the location displayed on the energy meter and walked to the other side of the corridor. When his finger touched the wall somewhere, a virtual screen popped up in front of him.

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Outside the restricted area, after receiving the message from Colonel Lu, the entire administration bureau became busy.

The abnormal reaction of the detection system and the attack of a large amount of pollutants were obviously beyond their original cognition. All staff were trying to use the restricted area detection system to relocate the pollutants. Without locating the pollutants, it would be too difficult for the Border Army Mechanized Division to operate.

Beyond that, there are bigger problems.

"The reconnaissance reports of the past few years were all normal... The border troops should have discovered so many pollutants long ago." Elder Qiu said seriously: "Contact Lieutenant Colonel Lu and ask him to prioritize protecting the safety of the base station."

Staff: "Mr. Qiu, we can't contact Colonel Lu, but their coordinates are near the base station, and they may be fighting!"

Director Corea: "That's terrible. At least we have to confirm the situation in the restricted area. Can't we connect to the base station?"

"It's very strange." The staff member said: "We did send a docking request to the base station, but the base station has not responded."

Director Coria and Mr. Qiu both had serious expressions on their faces. While other staff members were busy restoring the detection system, their attention was all on the failed response signal reminders, especially on that special system which was particularly important in the facilities inside the base station and had not yet responded.

At this time, a communication request pops up on the base station page.

Everyone was shocked and the staff quickly answered the call. The next second, they heard the voice from the other end of the communication system.

“Isn’t that how it should work?”

"This system is too old. It should be like this according to the instructions."

A staff member recognized the voices: "It's the voices of Captain KID Huo and Captain Ji Feng Qi."

By chance, they remembered that KID and Jifeng's men had broken into the base station.

Director Corea didn't have time to explain too much. "Tell them to assist the base station in responding immediately."

The staff responded: "Captain Qi, Captain Huo, can you hear us?"

Qi Sicheng and Huo Yan had just contacted the Administration through the communication system. They thought they were coming to call them to task, but they didn't expect the other party to be even more anxious than they were.

The two looked at each other, and Qi Sicheng said, "You say."

"As Director Kolya, I am issuing a temporary mission call to the Dawn Mecha Alliance."

Director Correa said solemnly: "In case of special circumstances, we will guide you to operate and make sure to help restore the base station system."

The Koria Administration immediately became busy. Mr. Qiu took a few steps back, keeping his eyes on the various systems in the base station. He searched step by step in those unresponsive systems, and finally saw at the end of the system that the system representing the special research institute inside the base station was disconnected.

Seeing Director Corea connecting with others, Mr. Qiu walked over and asked, "Has this system never been connected?"

Staff: "No, we are trying to control it remotely."

"There are people in the main control room. Operate through the main control room system." Mr. Qiu said seriously: "Use special permissions to access remotely."

The staff immediately did so, and after a few minutes, they said, "Strange, there are signs that this system has been accessed."

Elder Qiu was stunned when he heard this, "How is that possible?"

"I'm checking the access records. The latest access record was 5 minutes ago." The staff member checked the access records and said, "I found that it was a login access inside the base station. The other party logged in with permission."

Qiu Lao frowned: "Whose authority?"

"It's a high-level permission. The permission algorithm is..." The staff member paused, "It's the stationmaster of C-147, Ying Songshan."

The author has something to say:

Sorry, I had some urgent matters to attend to this afternoon.

I just finished writing it. I'm going to update it now. You guys can come and read it tomorrow.

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