Chapter 95: Brother Tongzi is so hungry he's crying!
"left!"
At this critical moment, Cheng Gan's loud shout exploded in Zhou Jue's ears like a thunderclap!
Zhou Jue turned his head subconsciously.
On their left, the white wall, smooth as jade, rippled slightly due to the instability of the space.
In a brief moment of fluctuation, she glimpsed the interior of a room! It was a space behind a wall, briefly exposed due to the folding of the wall!
"Walk!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Zhou Jue shoved Cheng Gan in the back!
Using this thrust and the suction of the spatial vortex, the two of them slammed straight into the unstable wall like cannonballs!
"Buzz—"
The feeling of passing through the wall was incredibly peculiar. It was like jumping into a cool jelly, my body enveloped by a soft, viscous force.
The next second, the world spun around.
The two of them fell heavily into an empty room.
"Bang! Bang!"
Almost the instant they entered the room, the sound of rifles firing rang out behind them, followed by the dull thud of bullets hitting the walls and the space returning to its stable state.
If they had been a second later, they would have been riddled with bullets.
"Huff...huff..." Zhou Jue lay on the ground, panting heavily, his heart pounding wildly.
The life-or-death race against time just now sent her adrenaline soaring to its peak.
"Don't move!" Cheng Gan grabbed Zhou Jue, who was about to get up, and then, like a cheetah, silently slid to the door and peered out through the crack.
Outside, the corridor was filled with the sounds of lively conversation.
"The target has disappeared! Thermal imaging and life detection have detected nothing!"
"Damn it! How did they get through the walls of the Gamma Zone? Seal off all exits immediately! Retrieve the CCTV footage from just now!"
"Sir! All the surveillance footage was corrupted during the spatial fluctuation just now!"
"waste!"
Hearing the commotion outside, Zhou Jue and Cheng Gan exchanged a glance and saw relief in each other's eyes.
The Concealing Breath Talisman saved their lives once again. And the damage to the surveillance system was thanks to the system's effective intervention.
"Where are we now?" Zhou Jue asked the system in a low voice.
[Relocating... Location successful. Congratulations, hosts. You have inadvertently entered the 'observation room' outside the main control room of the 'Technology Core'.]
Our ultimate goal lies beyond this one-way observation wall!
What? !
Zhou Jue perked up and immediately got up, joining Cheng Gan in front of the huge wall.
The walls were smooth and shiny, reflecting their figures clearly.
But when they focused their attention and looked inside, the sight before them made them hold their breath.
On the other side of the wall lies a magnificent space that defies description.
It was a huge, spherical, pure white void, and in the center of the void, something was quietly suspended.
That is the "core technology of the previous civilization"!
It was about the size of a truck cab, its entire surface a flowing silver-blue. Its surface was not smooth, but composed of billions of tiny, ever-changing geometric runes. These runes sometimes combined into intricate circuit diagrams, sometimes evolved into vast star maps, and sometimes flowed like waterfalls of data.
At its core, a light more dazzling than the sun pulses rhythmically.
With each pulse, invisible energy is drawn from the void and injected into the core.
"That is... the 'Ether Energy Conversion Engine'..." The system's voice was filled with an unprecedented longing.
So beautiful... I really want to eat it...
Zhou Jue could sense that the system in his sea of consciousness was transmitting an almost greedy hunger.
According to the system, this thing is a great tonic!
"How do we get in?" Cheng Gan asked, her voice tinged with shock. The scene before her completely exceeded her understanding of "technology."
The main control room is completely enclosed; the only entrance is the spatially folding corridor we just saw. The system provided a disheartening answer.
【but……】
The system abruptly changed its tone.
[Host, you can use the 'Starry Sky Box's' devouring function directly here, across this wall.]
[While this observation wall can block most energy probes, it cannot withstand the power of the laws of space!]
Zhou Jue's heart skipped a beat: "Make a move here? What about the alarm..."
"The alarm will resound throughout the entire base instantly; we will have no time to retreat," the system calmly analyzed.
However, this is our only chance. Once they strengthen their defenses or relocate their core, we'll have to wait for another opportunity.
Zhou Jue looked at Cheng Gan.
Cheng Gan was also looking at her.
No words were spoken, but a single glance conveyed all the information.
Dry!
It's all or nothing!
"Sister Cheng Gan, protect me!" Zhou Jue said in a deep voice, his tone filled with a do-or-die determination.
She took out a teleportation talisman and handed it to Cheng Gan: "We can't return using conventional methods, so we can only rely on this. After I absorb it, stick the talisman on yourself and keep going. Remember, you must hold onto me, or we'll get separated!"
"Use this gun." After saying that, he handed Cheng Gan another gun that he had brought back from the apocalypse, in case the US could use bullets to target their country. Things without a source are more suitable for causing trouble!
"Don't worry." Cheng Gan nodded, turned around and leaned against the observation wall, holding a gun in one hand and a "teleportation talisman" in the other, his eyes sharply fixed on the only door in the room.
She knew that once Zhou Jue started, that door would be their gateway to hell.
And she was the last line of defense guarding the gates of hell.
Zhou Jue took a deep breath, clearing his mind of all distracting thoughts.
Her entire being was absorbed into her consciousness.
"Brother Tong! I will activate the Starry Sky Box's Devouring ability to its maximum extent. The rest is up to you! Let's finish this quickly!"
"Target: 'Core technology of the previous civilization'!"
"Give it to me...swallow it!"
[Command confirmed!]
"Buzz—!"
An invisible yet terrifying fluctuation, powerful enough to make the space itself tremble, erupted instantly from Zhou Jue's center!
The seemingly indestructible obsidian observation wall in front of her appeared as if it had become a mere illusion.
The power of space pierced through, like an invisible behemoth that opened its greedy maw and bit down hard on the silver-blue core that was suspended in the pure white space!
Almost at the same time!
"Waaaaaah!"
The piercing, highest-level alarm instantly resounded throughout the entire underground base!
The red warning lights flashed wildly, staining every corridor with a layer of blood!
Inside the main control room, the silver-blue technological core seemed to sense a deadly threat. The billions of runes on its surface lit up in an instant, bursting out with dazzling light, attempting to resist the devouring power of space!
While the system was fully resisting the Starry Secret Box, it took a bite out of it!
"Warning! Warning! An unknown spatial anomaly detected within the core module!"
"The core area is under attack! Repeat, the core area is under attack!"
"Everyone! Assemble in the core module! Red alert! Repeat, red alert!"
The entire base has gone completely mad!
Countless footsteps, roars, and the sound of weapons being loaded surged toward the small observation room from all directions like a tidal wave!
Zhou Jue could sense that the process of devouring was encountering tremendous resistance.
That core of technology is instinctively rebelling!
"Come here!"
With his eyes bloodshot, Zhou Jue almost roared as he poured all his spiritual power into the Starry Secret Box without reservation, activating it with all his might!
A deafening roar erupted in her mental world!
That dazzling silver-blue "sun" finally succumbed to the "double attack," and its core data was devoured by the system! Its material shell was forcibly pulled into the Starlight Secret Box!
[Ding!]
[Successfully absorbed the 'core technology of a previous civilization'!]
[System upgrade process officially launched!]
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