When the 'Heavenly Dog' devoured the sun, the apocalypse descended. Xu Zhi, a young girl with a heart condition, was cruelly abandoned by her parents in a dead city.
Countless mutated...
Chapter 407 426. Agent of [Casting]
Whether it is multi-attribute circuits or the fusion of circuits from different organisms, in the final analysis, what we are studying is only the circuits of organisms.
However, Xu Zhi keenly observed something that surprised her extremely among these fragmentary clues. In fact, she did not "see it with her own eyes", even her spiritual body did not see it with her own eyes. It was a laboratory located deep inside, and her spiritual body even broke through the wall to discover this hidden laboratory.
This was relatively the cleanest laboratory to be evacuated. The other laboratories were unable to take away anything because the spirit bodies arrived too quickly. Only in this laboratory, most of the experimental contents disappeared, leaving only some scraps that were not taken away in time.
It seems that even though the location of the laboratory is extremely hidden, the other party is still not at ease and took away most of the core contents inside.
Based on these scraps, she discovered a surprising fact.
It is very likely that what is being studied here is not the talent circuit, but the talent circuit and rules!
There isn't much about "rules" in these corners, but it's not entirely absent. At first glance, it seems to be just some simple mentions, but why would you mention rules when studying circuits?
The things were cleaned up neatly, without leaving any trace for her to see what kind of circuit they were researching, but there was no doubt that they were trying to integrate [rules] into the talent circuit.
This also means that all researchers here must be named persons, and they cannot be low-level named persons.
Integrating rules into the circuit is not an unworkable approach. She herself is a very good success case, but the fact that [Gods Heavy Industry] is also conducting such experiments undoubtedly makes Xu Zhi feel a sense of crisis.
But if that were all, she wouldn't have called this experiment outrageous.
Just because she saw the word "glow" in these scattered information.
The appearance of [Glow] in a place like this can't be a song of praise, right?
She didn't think that [Heavy Industry of the Gods] would blindly praise [Glow] like everyone else. On the contrary, she thought that the people of [Heavy Industry of the Gods] had a different kind of ambition and desire for Glow.
When the word "glow" appeared in the highest-level laboratory of the Gods Heavy Industry, even if nothing had been done yet, and it was just mentioned, the meaning behind it might be considered disrespectful in the eyes of some extraordinary people who madly worshipped "glow". What's more, she didn't believe that the Gods Heavy Industry really did nothing.
She has not forgotten the pursuit of the organization Gods Heavy Industry.
We are proficient in all methods of creation, trying to construct all things in the world, pursuing more powerful secrets, and building a ladder to reach the sun.
To create a ladder to reach the sun, the sun can only refer to the glow, but the intention of the Gods Heavy Industry is obviously not just to create a ladder that can approach the glow.
In Xu Zhi's opinion, their ambition is probably greater than finding a way to ascend.
Creating a god through machinery is not their ultimate goal. What Gods Heavy Industry wants to do is to artificially create a [Glow].
This is also why Xu Zhi felt that Zhushen Heavy Industry was doing something "treasonous".
Xu Zhi is not from this world. She comes from the Federation and has no feelings for the glow, so after analyzing and figuring out this possibility, she was at most shocked, shocked by the boldness of the Gods Heavy Industry. But from the perspective of the locals, it was different.
Creating an artificial sun is such an incredible thing that miracle is not enough to describe such a feat. Once it succeeds, the world will be completely overturned and all truths will be in the hands of the gods.
This is an experiment that countless people hope to succeed, but countless people do not allow it to succeed. But now that Zhushen Heavy Industry can conduct such an experiment, Xu Zhi does not believe that there is no connivance or even support from other organizations behind it.
The extraordinary people in this world want to ascend so much.
Perhaps, if we create a glow, we will have the opportunity to ascend?
Even if there is no evidence, you can tell with just a little thought that such experiments must be secretly funded by someone behind the scenes.
However, Xu Zhi didn’t know how far their experiment had progressed. Obviously, the experiment would not be carried out here, but should be carried out in a more hidden laboratory, such as in a corner of the Lost Land.
I'm afraid that what the headquarters is conducting is only the experiment of integrating the talent circuit with the rules, and perhaps if something helpful for [artificial glow] is discovered in it, it will be recorded in the data.
No one would have thought that they would launch a surprise attack at this time, so most of the information could only be transferred in a hurry, but Xu Zhi still deduced what they were doing from the remaining fragments.
But this is actually not very useful, because she cannot see the specific content. She only knows that the other party may be doing this experiment, but she has no idea how it is carried out or what stage the experiment has reached.
Her identity as the Archbishop also meant that she could not obtain such "secrets", but today's gains had already exceeded her expectations, and Xu Zhi was also satisfied.
Ever since she found this hidden laboratory, the strange bone nails no longer attacked her, as if they had accomplished their mission of restraining her and no longer needed to bother with her.
One of the archbishop's talents is the ability to sense whether there are any living creatures nearby. After Xu Zhi realized that there was no breath of living people here, and there were no living people above, she planned to go down to help her colleagues.
It’s also strange, why hasn’t the agent of [Casting] come out until now?
Her colleagues are about to tear down the bottom, right?
But when Xu Zhi arrived at the location of her colleague, she found that things were not as she thought.
Her two colleagues actually looked like they were about to be defeated!
"Tsk tsk tsk, what's going on?"
"I was just strolling around, why did you guys get beaten to death?"
Even if his colleague looked embarrassed, Xu Zhi just slowly made a few jokes.
In fact, although Xu Zhi spoke frivolously, her eyes and body movements clearly showed that she was alert to her surroundings, because she didn't know what could suppress the two archbishops who joined forces?
Soon, she saw what it was.
Ten white bone nails suddenly shot out from the empty air in front of her at the same time, and their target was naturally her two colleagues.
Just one bone nail was enough to make Xu Zhi feel alert. It was easy to imagine how difficult it would be to deal with ten bone nails locking all their positions from different directions.
This also explains why her colleagues have so many wounds on their bodies and look so miserable.
It seems that not only her, but even other archbishops are not immune when they encounter this thing.
This thing is absolutely a natural counter to the [Cup], but if that were the only reason, her colleagues wouldn't be in such a miserable state now. There must be other factors.
"Are you just watching the show?!"
The colleague was obviously a little furious. Xu Zhi originally wanted to wait and see, as her colleague's life was not a matter of life and death. But now that the other party was already furious, she could not just stand by and watch.
"You have to tell me what this is about, right?"
She had observed this place before coming here. This was the center of the first floor. The people around it had obviously evacuated. The agent of [Casting] didn't seem to be here either.
"What nonsense are you talking about! Of course, it's to fulfill the Lord's command!"
With Xu Zhi's keen sense, she realized when the other party said this that in this seemingly empty central hall, there was an agent of [Casting] hidden.
However, apart from a large open space, the only thing left in this central area is the particularly obvious and sturdy load-bearing column in the center.
This load-bearing column is pure black like the black tower, but it seems to be composed of countless mechanical parts. At this moment, it is slowly rotating, making a sound like mechanical gears, heavy, dull, but exquisite.
But no matter how you look at it, this doesn't look like a human being, does it?!
Xu Zhi had an absurd guess in his mind: "Could the agent you mentioned be this thing?!"
This load-bearing column? !
This is too.
"Is there something else here?! Stop dawdling and break this pillar quickly. He should be inside!"
"OK."
Xu Zhi instantly became excited when she looked at the load-bearing column. She had never encountered such a strange enemy before. It just so happened that her extraordinary ability had a certain restraining property on any substance in a certain sense. The moment the extraordinary ability was released at the load-bearing column, the rotation of the gear slowed down visibly.
Seeing this scene, the two colleagues' faces lit up with joy. [Gluttony] was the strongest among the three, and his attack method was more direct. Seeing the gears slow down, he took a deep breath, as if he had eaten something, and then slammed towards the load-bearing column!
A loud crash sounded from the center, and Xu Zhi felt that the ground seemed to tremble slightly for a moment. Then, the originally intact load-bearing column was directly smashed into a big hole by the body of [Gluttony].
The gust of air created by [Gluttony] blew across Xu Zhi's body, and then she saw blood seeping out from the broken iron blocks of the supporting pillars.
Is this really a "body"? ! !
The next moment, as if in pain, several bone nails shot towards the archbishop's position again, but this time, Xu Zhi became the main target of attack.
She dodged quickly, but found that it was not so easy to dodge with so many bone nails!
Different bone nails seemed to have different extraordinary circuits. There was one that she couldn't dodge no matter what; it was almost certain to hit her.
She could only make sure that the nail didn't hit her fatal spot, and try not to hit her tendons and bones.
These bone nails cannot be used indefinitely, and even seem to be quite burdensome, forcing the person using them to pause for a while.
Now Xu Zhi is almost certain that the user should be the agent of [Casting].
The bone nails should be some kind of weapon made by [Zhu]. One of his extraordinary abilities is probably that he can launch and recover these weapons out of thin air.
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"How are we supposed to get this thing back alive?"
Xu Zhi felt a headache looking at this huge and heavy pillar.
It’s not that I can’t carry it, but how should I separate this thing?
"I can sense his vitality and strength, which should make me jealous, like a raging furnace, probably in this position."
A complex circuit flashed through [Jealousy]'s eyes, and then he felt that [Casting]'s agent was stronger than him.
What is surprising is that the vitality of this agent would even make the archbishop [Jealousy] feel jealous, which is enough to show how exaggerated the vitality improvement he obtained after merging with this load-bearing pillar was.
You must know that ordinary agents can certainly surpass the archbishop in their respective areas of expertise, but the archbishop has always had an absolute advantage in vitality.
[Cast] is obviously superior in strength and skills, and its vitality is even inferior to [Heart]. But now an accident has occurred.
Fortunately, there is [Envy] in their team, who can sense the specific location. Otherwise, they really can only smash the pillar bit by bit and slowly search for it, but that might accidentally kill the agent of [Casting].
The location that Jealousy pointed to was roughly in the middle. The black tower had more than one load-bearing pillar, but this one was obviously the most important one and should have many functions. Once this pillar broke, most of the functions of the black tower might be shut down.
The agent will certainly try his best to stop them, but unfortunately, if only an archbishop comes, he will definitely fail. After all, no one expected that [Cast] would hold something so targeted at [Cup].
But unfortunately, there are three of them today, three against one. Even if the opponent has a restraining weapon, it is almost certain to be a defeat.
The subsequent battle situation was just as Xu Zhi had expected. Amidst the constant sounds of collisions, the load-bearing columns kept turning, the position of the core was changing, and the bone nails kept attacking the three people. Other mechanical equipment in the room assisted the agent, but most of them could not withstand the archbishop's attacks and suffered continuous losses.
Until the end, almost all the mechanical equipment in the central area had been destroyed by the three archbishops. [Casting] had no machinery to control anymore, and only the black tower itself was left. However, with [Laziness] there, the operation of the black tower became extremely slow, and there was no time to replace the three people. They attacked again and again, and the original huge load-bearing columns, even though they were made of extremely rare materials and engraved with countless solid defense circuits, were constantly shattered under the full-scale attack of the three archbishops.
Even the ten bone nails that he could originally control have degenerated to four.
From the number of bone nails, it can be seen that the agent is on the verge of exhaustion.
Soon, Xu Zhi subconsciously commanded his two colleagues to launch the final attack. During the previous running-in, [Gluttony] and [Jealousy] had already recognized Xu Zhi's abilities. Although [Jealousy] was very jealous of this, in order to better complete the Lord's orders, he could temporarily obey Xu Zhi.
So after another full-strength attack from [Gluttony], a huge cracking sound came from the supporting pillars, and then all the debuffs attached to them suddenly disappeared, which also meant the failure of the [Forging] attribute agent.
In the shattered load-bearing pillar, a strange heart that seemed to be made of steel and flesh slowly emerged before the three people.
It is a [Mechanical Heart] and also an agent of the [Forging] attribute.
Xu Zhi took a closer look and confirmed that the heart was still beating. Then he nodded and said, "It's still alive. Let's go and take it back to report."
The only pity is that the agent seemed to realize that he was going to lose, and after taking back the ten magical bone nails, he never sent them out again. At this moment, no one knows where the bone nails have gone.