Chapter 117 Welcome Ceremony?
His words were interrupted by a sudden vibration.
The entire ice field was shaking violently, and cracks were spreading towards their feet at a speed visible to the naked eye!
Xiaobai instinctively grabbed Tang Jingmo's arm, and they both jumped back at the same time.
Right where they had been standing, the ice collapsed, revealing a perfectly circular hole with a diameter of ten meters.
There were no ladders, no ropes, only the mirror-smooth ice wall extending vertically downward into the dark blue.
"Welcome ceremony?" Xiaobai raised his eyebrows.
Tang Jingmo's expression was unusually solemn: "No... it's not a screening. Only those who have avoided the danger just now can continue to explore."
He pointed to the ice wall - a closer look revealed that the surface was covered with an almost invisible blue film that was slowly wriggling.
Xiaobai took the dog-beating stick from his waist and touched the membrane tentatively.
The moment the metal touched, the tip of the stick was immediately dyed blue, and the color was spreading to the handle at a terrifying speed!
She immediately broke the stick, and the infected part fell into the abyss. After a few seconds, a strange "sizzling" sound was heard.
"Nano-decomposer." Tang Jingmo's forehead trembled, as if he was suppressing his anger.
"Any non-living matter will be broken down and reassembled... Only living tissue will pass through."
"It looks like a meeting among acquaintances." Xiaobai said with the corner of his mouth curled, and he was curious about which experimental subject the person below was.
The two looked at each other and simultaneously understood the viciousness of this design - this was a threshold that only allowed people with special abilities to enter.
Even an ordinary person with the most advanced equipment would be devoured during the descent.
"I can weave a buffer net with vines," Xiao Bai whispered, with tiny green sprouts sprouting between his fingers.
"But you need to use your mental power to conceal your life characteristics and deceive the recognition system of those nanorobots."
Tang Jingmo nodded, a silvery-white light flowing in his eyes.
As Xiaobai's vines weaved into a large elastic net, his mental force field enveloped the two of them like mist.
The moment they jumped into the cave, the blue film indeed fluctuated slightly, but did not launch an attack.
The descent was breathtakingly long.
The blue light on the ice wall became brighter and brighter, until it was almost blinding.
Just when Xiaobai was wondering if this abyss really had no end, they suddenly passed through a sticky "membrane" and landed heavily on...
"Lawn?" Xiaobai propped himself up in confusion, and under his palm was real, dewy green grass.
Looking up, they found themselves in a huge hemispherical space with a holographic image simulating blue sky and white clouds on the top.
It is surrounded by neatly trimmed shrubs and flower beds full of flowers, and there is even a gurgling stream in the distance.
But this beautiful appearance cannot cover up the weirdness of its essence——
The veins of every blade of grass glowed blue, and the stream water was a strange fluorescent blue.
And the "sun"... it was a blue sphere suspended in the air, with human face-like outlines appearing on its surface from time to time.
"Ecological dome." Tang Jingmo's voice was tense. "It's a simulated environment built entirely by nanorobots."
Xiaobai was about to respond when she suddenly froze - her plant ability was stirring uncontrollably, as if she had been summoned by something.
At the same time, the blue grass on the lawn began to sway regularly, forming a "road" pointing to the distance.
"It's guiding us." Tang Jingmo held her hand, and his mental power enveloped the two of them like armor. "Hunter should be just ahead."
They followed the direction indicated by the blue grass and passed through a "forest" - the branches of those trees had blue liquid flowing inside and the leaves were made of translucent blue crystal.
At the end of the path is a white research institute, the architectural style is a strange mixture:
Part of it looks like a military base of the American Federation, and part of it looks like a scientific research station of the Northern Federation, but some of the decorative details... clearly bear the patterns of ancient Chinese civilization.
"What the hell..." Xiaobai stared at the Taotie pattern on the porch, "Why is there a pattern from the Shang and Zhou dynasties in this place?"
Tang Jingmo did not answer, his entire attention was focused on the open main door of the institute.
There stood Hunter, but he was... different.
His exoskeleton armor was completely integrated into his body, blue lines crawling all over his exposed skin, and his right eye turned into a mechanical structure similar to Sato's, but more advanced and more like...human.
"Welcome, champion." Hunter's voice had a strange harmony effect, as if multiple people were speaking at the same time. "As expected, you found this place. Let's go, the Watcher is waiting for you."
Xiaobai's fingers had already grown sharp wooden thorns, but Tang Jingmo used his mental power to convey a message: "Don't do it! He's already a puppet... The real mastermind is inside."
Hunter turned and led the way, his movements so precise that they were inhuman.
Walking through the long white corridor, various...things are floating in the transparent culture chambers on both sides.
There are semi-mechanized animals, monsters that are a fusion of humans and plants, and the most horrifying one is the largest cabin in the middle -
Inside was a woman who looked 70% similar to Xiaobai, but her skin had a bark-like texture and her hair was made of living vines.
"Test subject No. 47, 'Forest Goddess' project." Hunter said in a tone like introducing a work of art.
"Unfortunately, we are unable to stabilize the superpower gene chain... until your competition data is transmitted back."
Xiaobai's stomach ached as she suddenly understood the real purpose of the Watcher's competition - a global search for samples of people with special abilities!
At the end of the corridor is a door engraved with ancient characters.
Hunter pressed his palm into the groove on the door, blue light scanned it, and the door slid open silently.
"Dr. Reagan, your guest has arrived."
In the center of the circular hall behind the door, a huge blue cube was suspended. It rotated slowly, and each face showed real-time monitoring of different regions.
China's Kunlun Mountains, Egypt's Pyramids, Peru's Nazca Lines...and standing in front of the console is a figure wearing a white research suit.
When the man turned around, Xiaobai and Tang Jingmo froze at the same time.
"Dr. He...Dr. He?"
But they immediately realized something was wrong.
This man had the exact same face as Dr. He, but his eyes were a cold, mechanical blue, and his lips had an inhuman smile that Dr. He would never have.
"No, kids." The fake Gu Xicheng's voice was as precise as a synthesized sound.
"I'm Watcher No. 7, you can call me Dr. Reagan. Oh, this skin is modeled after my teacher, Dr. He."
He stroked his face with his fingers, "Without him, there would be no us... In his memory, we had to copy his biological shell."
Tang Jingmo's mental power quietly exploded, and the silver-white light flowed around his body like a substance: "What is your purpose?"
Dr. Reagan—or Watchman No. 7—shaked his head regretfully:
"What a perfect psychic power... but it's too bad it's limited by the inefficient human brain."
He snapped his fingers, and the walls around him suddenly became transparent, revealing the vast blue ocean outside - they were actually at the bottom of the sea!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
