Chapter 451 Apophis
At this moment, Li Muhan, who was in the dark spiral, finally saw the end under his feet.
It was another hidden laboratory, but there were no guards or androids here, only researchers who were busy with their work.
Judging from their facial features and skin color, Li Muhan discovered that these researchers came from all over the world, but they all wore uniform uniforms and had a badge on their chests that Li Muhan had never seen before.
Li Muhan's eyes were flashing with golden light at this time.
The deeper Li Muhan went into this spiral underground facility, the more he felt an invisible sense of oppression quietly descending upon him.
Every step he took was accompanied by a dull echo in the empty corridor, as if the hidden danger was getting closer with every inch he moved forward.
The demon's super senses gave him the ability to sense chaos and death, but the crisis at this moment seemed to be growing out of nothingness.
If you try to grasp this feeling, this sense of crisis will instantly be replaced by an indescribable harmony, as if they have always been orderly and harmless.
This made Li Muhan very difficult to understand.
He tried to ask the busy researchers, but they were all immersed in their own world.
Hands flew over the intricate consoles, and incomprehensible streams of data danced across the screens.
Their eyes were fixed on nothing else, and they even showed a surprising indifference to the presence of this uninvited guest.
It was as if their minds had been completely absorbed by this huge research base, leaving them no time to be distracted.
Li Muhan had no choice but to rely on his intuition and walk into the depths of the unknown alone.
Time passed under his feet, and each step carried a heavy weight of decisiveness.
More than ten minutes later, he arrived at the destination of this exploration - a huge experimental cabin.
The cabin almost occupies the entire floor, and the contents inside are obscured by fog, making it difficult for ordinary people to see its true appearance.
But this is not a problem for Li Muhan.
So when he slowly approached the outer wall of the test chamber, his pupils suddenly contracted.
Because he saw a jaw-dropping mechanical structure standing inside the foggy cabin.
It only showed half of its body, like a mountain lying in the darkness.
Its face is made of cold, hard metal, and its eyes are lightly closed, as if it is immersed in an eternal dream, waiting for the moment to be awakened.
Tens of thousands of wires are connected on its back.
Each one is as thick as an arm, and contains thousands of tiny circuits.
They each carry out specific tasks and constitute a complex data world.
Despite the staggering number, these lines present a surprising order. They are methodically interwoven like a sophisticated loom, suspending this mechanical giant in mid-air, silent and majestic.
This is not only a feat of technology, but also a work of art that vividly displays power and silence.
"Li Muhan?"
Just as Li Muhan was staring in a trance, a familiar voice came from the side.
Li Muhan looked back and saw Xia Yue running towards him.
The weight hanging in his heart finally settled down. Li Muhan reached out and hugged the girl. "...You scared me to death. You suddenly disappeared in the secret room. I thought Conan had come."
"I also want to find you, but Mo Qiao asked me to follow her..."
Li Muhan understood that if it were someone else, Xia Yue would definitely not listen, but Mo Qiao was one of their own, and Xia Yue was a little afraid of Mo Qiao, so she listened to her and followed them obediently to this shadowy place.
"It's okay, it's okay. I'm here to find you. Where's Mo Qiaoren?"
Xia Yue turned around and pointed to another building connected to the huge cabin. Li Muhan discovered that it was a huge terminal control room. After slowly walking in, he felt that this place was unusual.
It's completely different from the bioengineering laboratory where Liu Mingliang and his colleagues are.
Both the scale and equipment here exceeded Li Muhan's imagination. There was almost nothing he could name.
At this moment, in the terminal control room, researchers from special management bureaus around the world were nervously staring at the control panels of their respective areas of responsibility.
Mo Qiao was also among them. She was independent of the others and was responsible for the most important operating table.
Jörmungandr stood beside her, and the two of them whispered to each other from time to time, as if they were discussing something. Then Jörmungandr shook his head, and Mo Qiao's face became more serious.
"Why has the atmosphere become so serious? What are you doing?"
Li Muhan looked at the group of people. Even the man named Smith in Area 91 took off his hat and coat and nervously operated the platform in front of him.
It seems that he should also be a very good technician.
"A man suddenly appeared and said that Prometheus would be launched at 2 o'clock tonight."
Xia Yue said expressionlessly.
As if the meaning of this sentence was not as important as the dinner she had.
Li Muhan was stunned.
He suddenly remembered the abnormalities of those bionic people.
So he hurried to the terminal room.
"Minister Mo!"
Li Muchan was stopped by several burly men at the door, but he raised his hand and pushed them to the ground. One of them got up and tried to pull Li Muchan, but was lightly kicked in the face by Xia Yue who followed behind.
After seeing Li Muhan, several members of the Special Management Bureau muttered a few words impatiently.
"Why is he here?"
"You useless piece of shit, just messing around. Now is a critical moment."
"That woman from the Blood Moon Church brought her here, right? How ungrateful! A newcomer to the Special Management Bureau actually dared to do something like this without permission."
"Hehe, let's wait and see how that little bitch Mo Qiao handles it."
Most people were disdainful of Li Muhan's appearance, and even felt a little malicious, and this maliciousness was also transferred to Xia Yue and Mo Qiao.
But Mo Qiao didn't seem to care, and was just slightly surprised when she saw Li Muhan.
"What brought you here?"
Although she looked up and spoke to Li Muhan, her hands did not stop moving and she was still recording some data.
Jörmungandr, who was standing next to Mo Qiao, also reached out his hand at the right time to help Mo Qiao improve some places that she had not noticed.
"This is the abnormal situation I want to tell you about!"
Li Muhan told her about the situation of Rhea 035 and how 067 later opened the passage leading to here for him.
Finally he tried to express his point of view: "Could it be Moriarty?"
Mo Qiao frowned.
Of course, she couldn't possibly think that the androids' actions were due to a protocol error or calibration error.
With Prometheus's computing power, such an error is impossible.
If it weren't for the error, from the time Li Muhan mentioned until now, they have not received even the most basic node error log.
In other words, these obviously abnormal situations actually did not present any problems at all according to Prometheus's underlying logic...
"Something's wrong." Mo Qiao frowned even deeper.
"I also feel something is wrong, so..."
"I'm not talking about the kind of wrongness that can be seen at a glance." Mo Qiao interrupted Li Muhan and then fell into deep thought.
Jörmungandr raised his eyes slightly, met Li Muhan's equally golden eyes with his golden eyes, and then said with a smile.
"What Mo Qiao said is not right. That's why those androids let you come here."
After Jörmungandr's reminder, Li Muhan immediately understood.
"Hehe, the little devil is not too stupid." Seeing that Li Muhan understood what she meant, Jörmungandr continued to operate the panel with his head down.
"What do you mean..." Xia Yue tilted her head, still seeming to not understand.
"I didn't receive any false information, which proves that Prometheus... thought it was normal. However, this is something humans absolutely wouldn't allow. So Prometheus should have tried to stop me from reporting these things to others, but it didn't."
Li Muhan slowly turned his head and looked through the huge transparent window at the mechanical body sleeping quietly in the cabin.
"It even... opened the way here for me..."
"The awakening of Prometheus must be stopped immediately."
Mo Qiao finally made a decision.
But just as she made this decision, a slight shaking came from the cabin.
Then everyone fell into a state of shock.
"What's going on?"
"I...I'm here..."
Cold sweat broke out on Smith's forehead.
He stared at the screen in front of him and took a deep breath.
"Hurry!! Look at me!"
His roar attracted everyone's attention. Mo Qiao pushed everyone aside and walked to Smith's side, looking at the platform that he and several scientific researchers from the Special Management Bureau of Area 91 were operating.
This is the first key responsible for awakening Prometheus.
And now, the key has been unlocked...and the countdown is underway.
"Who told you to open it! The time hasn't come yet!" Mo Qiao's petite body burst out with tremendous strength. She pushed Smith away and started operating the platform with a roar.
But she was shocked to find that she might have wronged Smith.
Because no matter how she operates now, the platform does not give her any feedback... Wait...
A bad feeling arose in her heart.
They had always believed that the awakening of Prometheus was in their own hands...
But in fact, Prometheus was not completely asleep at all!
It has always possessed the most basic computing capabilities!!
And this level of computing power, even the lowest level...
"Everyone! Hurry! Stop it! It's learning! It's imitating us! And it's deducing the awakening process at the same time!!"
Mo Qiao hurriedly shouted to everyone in the control room.
Her voice was trembling a little. This was the first time Li Muhan heard Mo Qiao so panicked.
But it seems too late.
No one is operating it anymore.
But their faces were as pale as paper, because just as Mo Qiao had guessed, all the terminals were calculating on their own, and the trajectory and pattern of their calculations were almost exactly the same as the behavior patterns of those who had just controlled them.
It's learning... learning how to wake itself up...
“Get out of here!!”
Mo Qiao kicked away Smith who wanted to come over to check the situation, and then rushed to the main console where she and Jörmungandr were.
Her main console allows monitoring of all processes.
The lines of code jumping on the screen at this moment made Mo Qiao extremely shocked.
The shackles are being opened one by one, and the keys of the Special Management Bureau are being activated one by one.
And after this, what will they awaken...
It is Prometheus who brings hope and future to mankind...
Or maybe...
"Or perhaps it's Apophis, the one who dragged this world into an endless abyss."
On the second floor of the terminal room.
The blond man in the robe stood with his hands behind his back. Although he was only a holographic projection, he was looking through the glass window at the huge mechanical object as if he were there in person. He was shocked and trembling...
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