Chapter 390 Launch (20,000-13K)
A few days ago, in the Silent City.
"I am currently combining the overall data of the Crimson World's flesh-and-blood colonization suit with their original principles, along with the information they are researching at the White City Research Institute. I will synchronize all of them with you later," Mochizuki Shinji said calmly.
"Uh... okay." Lin Xian asked seriously, "Am I being a little abrupt?"
"It couldn't be more abrupt."
Lin Xian: …
"It seems that all powerful psychics are being targeted by the Crimson World."
Before leaving, Lin Xian mentioned this to Shinji Mochizuki: "But you shouldn't worry, after all, you're not a psychic."
"I'm afraid you're wrong." Mochizuki Shinji looked at Lin Xian calmly, "From the initial research subjects obtained, a large part of them are ordinary people, or people who have not awakened their special powers. Obviously, the Crimson World has different paths for individual research."
"What's the meaning?"
"Is this hard to understand?" Mochizuki Shinji said, "Psychics are used to study the development of psychic powers, as well as the human-ghost and colonial systems, but what the Crimson World really wants to understand is the process of why humans awaken psychic powers."
Lin Xian always remembered what Mochizuki Shinji said. After seeing the huge group of clones in the venue hall, it reminded him that Chu Yan had told him that the Crimson World had obtained her DNA for human cloning in order to try to reproduce Xingyuan's BUG-level survival ability of psychic powers, but all of them failed.
So during the conversation with Chu Zhaonan last night and the discussion with Chu Yan on the way here about the fanatical logic of the Crimson World, Lin Xian has been thinking about a question.
That is why the Crimson World reached a cooperation with Chu Zhaonan so easily and provided the mycelium brain-computer technology, inhibitor and constraint array technology. From the failed A-class colonization suit underground in Jinhai, Lin Xian once thought that their purpose was to obtain this S-class corpse for experiments, but now this corpse has been made into a curtain-breaking device and is about to be launched. So after Chu Zhaonan dissolved the Federal Parliament and handed it over to the Phoenix Order, facing the garrison of Dawn City, the Iron Guard Brigade of the Phoenix Order and millions of survivors in the city, what can the Crimson World take away from here?
It's impossible that they did all this just to silence their own people, and then run away in a hurry after being used by Dawn City.
It's impossible. Logically speaking, Chu Zhaonan wants to use the Crimson World, and the Crimson World must also want to use Chu Zhaonan.
Chu Zhaonan's reminder to Lin Xian last night, coupled with Julius' words at this moment, made him even more certain of this.
Targon Launch Center, White Hall.
Julius's face turned completely gloomy at this time. He stared at Lin Xian with narrowed eyes. Then he smiled with a sense of defiant.
"Chu Zhaonan is a man who is so meticulous that he is almost impeccable. Dealing with him is much more troublesome than dealing with politicians like Zhou Mingyuan. I once believed that he would be willing to disregard the destruction of the world for the sake of the Vanguard Project. Unfortunately... the fact that you are here shows that his principles have wavered..."
"I guess that the control of the Heart of the Galaxy is now in the hands of your Phoenix Order. Alas, the slow development of human civilization is precisely because of the lack of rigidity in thought and reason, so there are weaknesses. Unfortunately, I have also made some preparations."
At this time, there was a hissing sound from the ground, and a ground gate opened. Behind Julius, a row of large freezing chambers rose up. Each freezing chamber was several meters high, and inside were all red ghosts of various shapes.
There were ten of them, both huge and human-sized. Each of them exuded a violent aura of dark invasion, with their soul-draining values fluctuating violently. They were connected by various restraints and suppression pipelines. The moment they appeared, the strong infection fluctuations caused the lights in the entire hall to begin to flicker abnormally, and the 'Julius' clones that were originally sleeping around them were directly affected and mutated into zombies on a large scale. They began to struggle and roar frantically while still in the water, their blood vessels turned black, and they were stained with blood. They stretched out their claws and began to scratch the cabin wall.
Julius raised his hands and said to Lin Xian with some regret in his tone: "You had the opportunity to lead most people away after dawn. After all, this replica experiment is to comprehensively observe how those weak people in despair, those ordinary people, mutate in fear, how they evolve and awaken their abilities. But now I have changed my mind. I think it will be a very interesting scene if the large weapons and drones on the city walls are aimed at the 7 million survivors in the city. But don't worry, for the sake of the experiment, we will definitely selectively... leave some behind."
"You're dreaming!" Lin Xian responded coldly.
Julius shrugged with a smile on his face: "Goodbye, I will come to collect your bodies later. After all, they have certain research value!"
After saying that, he turned around and prepared to leave.
drop!
A sharp siren sounded, and instantly, ten freezing chambers were activated at the same time. The suppressor on the red ghost inside stopped working, and his heartbeat sounded like a drum. Ten pairs of blood-red eyes all looked towards Lin Xian.
"KIKI!"
Lin Xian immediately shouted to KIKI, and KIKI immediately understood and used her telekinesis to catch Julius.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a mass of black water suddenly overflowed from the ground and burst out over a large area. The water droplets shot towards everyone like sharp swords. KIKI's face changed, and he reflexively opened the telekinesis shield to avoid it!
Bang!
Like a tsunami, large amounts of water arrows sprayed onto KIKI's telekinetic shield.
Ugh!!
At this time, the 10 red ghosts had already launched an attack. Among them, a huge butcher roared, tore off the cables all over his body, and opened his mouth to spray a raging flame towards Lin Xian!
Fire-related abilities!
"Get out of the way!"
KIKI was the first to react, he took a step forward and blocked it with telekinesis. The flames immediately exploded in all directions, and the fire instantly shattered most of the freezers in the hall, trapping these 'Julius' in a sea of fire. Some of them who had undergone mutations ran out of the fire screaming crazily, while some were burned to death.
"Don't let him get away!"
As soon as he finished speaking, several terrifying human figures suddenly appeared in the sea of fire on both sides and attacked Lin Xian's team.
when!
After Zhou Jin emptied his magnum of bullets, facing a black shadow breaking through the wind, he took a step forward, his whole body turned into silver-black metallic skin, and he rushed forward with an iron lean. A huge shock wave burst out in an instant, and the ground under Zhou Jin's feet directly shattered and ripples appeared. At this time, he looked up and found that it was a black man in heavy armor. His skin was almost integrated with the metal armor, and his scarlet blood eyes were glowing darkly. The next moment, a recoil force actually pushed him back.
"drink!"
Zhou Jin snorted and quickly passed on the message: "Xiao Yan, Li Su, protect Captain Lin!"
Xiao Yan held two electric knives with arc lights flashing. She jumped out of the joint attack of the two ghosts and came directly to Lin Xian: "Captain Lin, I will cover you!"
Lin Xian now opened the AT force field shield, and activated mechanical power control and devouring at the same time, quickly crushing the armor and weapon devices of a tall human ghost in front of him. The mechanical energy cannon blasted two bloody holes in its body, but did not cause much damage.
KIKI rushed over, raised her hand, and used her telekinesis to grab a small-sized human ghost that was attacking from the air, and pushed Lin Xian and Shizhi to the rear passage.
Buzz buzz buzz, Lin Xian's drone army was bombarding the entire white hall frantically. All kinds of laser beams and magnetic storm shocks suppressed the red man ghost and Julius who had turned into a zombie.
“Grace!”
【I am here! 】
Bang!
Grace, who was standing on the head of a human ghost and tearing its brain armor apart with her five fingers, heard Lin Xian's order and immediately jumped up and landed to cover Lin Xian's rush into the passage behind.
As soon as he came out of the research institute's passage, Lin Xian immediately located the main control room.
boom!
At this moment, a rapid impact suddenly came from the top of the floor. Lin Xian reacted quickly, pulling Shizhi back. KIKI on the other side also quickly retreated using his telekinesis. With a loud bang, a black object smashed through the floor where Lin Xian had just stood like a meteorite, and then went all the way down, smashing a big hole. It seemed to be a red ghost covered in iron armor!
The shattering of the floor suddenly caused a chain reaction, and the place where everyone was standing began to break and collapse. Lin Xian was caught off guard and immediately activated the power armor jet device, grabbed Shiori and turned while she was falling in the air and jumped onto a platform.
"Lin Xian!"
KIKI leaped over, and as soon as Lin Xian landed, he turned around and fired a mechanical energy cannon!
Phew!
The azure light penetrated and directly hit a black shadow approaching KIKI. Then he raised his hand and summoned four "Iron Curtains" to protect Shiori under his body. With a thought, energy burst out of his body. A magnetic storm shock with a diameter of more than 10 meters burst out from the center of the forest. The scorching white plasma sparks suddenly exploded, and a fist shadow that was about to hit his back was forcibly shaken away!
Triple attack!
Beep! ! One wave of attacks followed another. In the smoke and dust, a barrage of violent bullets swept directly towards the position of Lin Xian and KIKI. Lin Xian supported the AT force field and rushed out in an instant.
"There is a person with superpowers, angel level!"
Before he finished his words, a man in power armor appeared in front of Lin Xian like a ghost, raised his hand with a red flash, and was ready to chop Lin Xian in the face.
Click!
The next moment, the joints of his power armor were locked, and the chopping action directly caused his arm power armor to crack. After being blocked by Lin Xian in such a fast action, the man was obviously a little surprised. He was about to make the next move but immediately stopped. An electric knife flashed with an arc of light and broke through the air. The man stepped back violently and disappeared in a red flash.
Xiao Yan rushed out at this time, took back the electric knife, turned around and was knocked away by another human ghost. At this time, Li Su rushed over and fired a few pulse cannons to fight back, bang bang bang!
"Captain Lin, be careful!"
Lin Xian stepped back on the spot, but saw a shock wave burst out in the smoke and dust. A woman in a black tights was blasted out by KIKI's telekinesis. Zhou Jin, who was fighting fiercely on the upper floor, raised his gun and jumped two floors in a row. He punched a woman ghost with a steel straight punch, and faced the artillery bullets pouring down from the red ghost on his back. He grabbed a huge concrete boulder and smashed it directly at the woman in the tights. The woman was not wearing power armor, and facing the boulder, her whole body was like black water mist, splashing in the air, and quickly condensed in another place.
Bang! The concrete cracked a wall, making a loud noise.
"Water-based abilities?" KIKI was surprised. She had seen Han Jun's water-based abilities controlling the rain, but she never thought that a person could actually become an element. Even Brother Huo couldn't do that. Could it be that abilities would undergo a qualitative change after reaching the angel level?
Lin Xian's face darkened at this time. He picked up Shiori, who was still restoring his mental strength, and carried her on his shoulders. He was facing a formidable enemy. He scanned with his mechanical ability and found that the two people just now did not have any brain-computer devices on them, which meant that they were not clones like Qin Feng who were grafted with mycelium brain-computer, but individuals with real independent thinking!
"Attention, two of them are superpowers, not human ghosts!"
As soon as Lin Xian finished speaking, his mechanical ability immediately scanned something and activated the jet system to leap on the spot. However, the floor under his feet suddenly broke open, and the giant shadow that had just fallen like a meteorite stretched out a hand and directly grabbed one of Lin Xian's feet, trying to pull him down.
“You dare!”
KIKI reacted instantly, his eyes emitting powerful supernatural light, and tens of thousands of tons of telekinesis directly grabbed the black hand, and in an instant squeezed and twisted it into a state 1/3 smaller than its original size. A metallic scream rang out, and three superstring reactor phase rainbow rings lit up directly in the air. Mixed ionization sounds rang out, and he turned his hand downward, mechanically decomposing the black hand's mechanical device layer by layer, and in the blink of an eye, a bloody monster hand appeared before his eyes.
Just when Lin Xian was about to peel off his entire body, the owner of the black hand seemed to realize the crisis and suddenly launched a powerful explosion. Red ripples vibrated, instantly causing the floors of several underground city streets to shake violently. Smoke and dust rose in the sky, and then a whole four floors collapsed. KIKI held up the telekinesis shield, grabbed several people with his backhand, blew away a cloud of smoke all the way upwards, and finally rescued Lin Xian and Shiori from the floor.
There are 10 red monsters and two psychics who are at least angel level. Neither Lin Xian nor Zhou Jin expected that the Crimson World actually had such a powerful fighting force hidden here.
"Lin Xian!"
At this time, Chu Yan's voice came from the communicator: "I will go after Julius, you deal with the Heart of the Galaxy, and don't let the Crimson World control Dawn City!"
"good!"
Lin Xian was carrying Shiori at this time, and he started the jet and flew up from the broken floor of the underground city. Unexpectedly, a red flash burst out in the air, and Lin Xian's eyes were as sharp as lightning. At the same time as the AT force field was summoned, 50 Iron Rain UAVs fell from the sky at hypersonic speed, with 10 of them forming a circle and rushing past Lin Xian's side. The man did not expect Lin Xian to be able to control the drones so accurately. While attacking at high speed, he was hit by an Iron Rain UAV and rolled out of the air.
Lin Xian took this opportunity to charge 200 Thunder Falcon drones in mid-air, and immediately shot out 200 pulse rays.
whoosh!
The ultra-high temperature rays instantly cut and separated an entire floor slab. The black-armored ghost in front suddenly rushed over and punched Lin Xian in the face. At this moment, Grace appeared and kicked the fist accurately in the air. Although Grace's toes seemed small, the strong material directly pierced the black-armored ghost's fist armor, and metal fragments burst out.
Lin Xian immediately controlled the two Iron Rain drones to fly back to the main control layer, and found that KIKI was being suppressed by the woman in tights and three other ghosts. Zhou Jin, Li Su, and Xiao Yan were simply overwhelmed. On his side, in addition to the speedster with red flash, an extremely powerful black-armored ghost, there were also other ghosts rushing towards him.
There was a flash of red light, and dozens of drones were destroyed and fell to the ground, heading towards him. Lin Xian used his backhand to dodge. The instantaneous speed made the man who missed the target exclaim in surprise. He looked at Lin Xian with a bit of madness and said in a low voice:
"Can mechanical superpowers actually have such strong individual combat capabilities?"
"Then you'll see the world today!" Lin Xian raised his finger and fired a mechanical energy cannon.
The man smiled strangely and disappeared from the spot in an instant. The next moment he was behind Lin Xian. Lin Xian's power armor instantly activated the thrusters, but he was grabbed by the shoulder armor.
"Too slow, the evolution is too slow!" After the man said this, he immediately put his hands into swords, with red superpowers flashing, ready to pierce through the armor directly.
Bang!
There was a powerful impact, an arc of electricity flashed, and the smile on the man's face suddenly froze. A hexagonal transparent barrier appeared behind Lin Xian, completely blocking his hand knife, and the next moment, 8 mechanical chains appeared out of thin air and were about to wrap around it like spirit snakes.
The man reacted and immediately used his supernatural power to retreat violently, grinning: "It's creative, but still too..."
boom!
Before he could utter the word "slow", a train carriage suddenly appeared above his head and fell vertically, directly blasting him and the floor completely, smashing him into the ground.
The man never expected that a train would appear out of nowhere in the underground city and hit him.
Lin Xian put away the Black Star Forge, carried Shiori on his back and rushed into the main control room, only to find that the intranet terminal here was completely destroyed. His face changed and he immediately looked at the time. There were less than 6 minutes left!
He immediately summoned all manufacturing and maintenance drones and asked Grace to take over.
"Grace, check the damage!"
[Scan completed, intranet terminal equipment maintenance in progress.]
[Intranet cable break detected. ]
Lin Xian frowned: "Can you find the location?"
[Yes, but it is time-consuming, and if it is cut manually, it is uncertain how many breaks there are. ]
Lin Xian felt a chill in his heart when he heard this, and he was stunned for a few seconds. His eyes kept flickering, and he looked at the huge gray fog messenger outside the window and reacted immediately.
"It must have been cut off manually. The Grey Mist Messenger must be connected to the Heart of the Galaxy when it is launched. This channel cannot be cut off. We can access it from here!"
"Lin Xian!"
After a huge shock wave, KIKI's voice came from the communicator: "There is another problem. This is the configuration point of the intranet root server. If Julius deliberately destroyed the terminal equipment and cables, it is very likely that he also set some kind of key!"
"Fuck you!"
Wow!
At this moment, a huge stream of water rushed into the main control room, sweeping Lin Xian and dozens of drones out. An arm stretched out from the black water and grabbed Lin Xian's neck. Countless streams of water began to try to penetrate into Lin Xian's mecha through the gaps in his mecha.
At the same time, the man with the flashing red light stepped out from the shadows and whispered.
"There is no chance. Give up. Mechanical mutant, maybe you can join us..."
Beep beep!
Lin Xian looked at the alarm information on the holographic panel of the mecha at this time and directly used the magnetic storm shock. In an instant, a white electric arc exploded, instantly evaporating a large amount of water vapor. As soon as Lin Xian got away, the black-armored figure fell from the sky again and punched Lin Xian in the chest.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a particle shock wave came crashing down, knocking the black-armored man flying and pinning him against the wall. Even the building was shaking.
At the same time, several waves of supernatural power erupted everywhere, and a storm of bullets swept in, instantly reducing the pressure on Lin Xian, KIKI, Zhou Jin, Li Su, and Xiao Yan. The man with the red flash quickly fled at this time.
Lin Xian looked up and found that it was Qinuo's team that finally came to support.
"Sorry I'm late!"
Zino jumped down from the floor, punched out a row of resonance waves, and blasted a fire-breathing ghost away. He said to Lin Xian: "What's the situation now?"
"No time to explain! Help me hold off these ghosts. I'm going to connect the cables first. Be careful, they have two angel-level superpowers!"
Without saying anything, Lin Xian activated the propulsion system of the power armor and flew towards the gray fog messenger opposite with Shiori.
At this time, countless black rains shot towards Lin Xian like bullets, but just before they hit Lin Xian, a strong updraft engulfed them all. KIKI stood in the air and said to Lin Xian: "Go quickly, leave this to us!"
In the passages of the upper buildings, more and more of the former red-blooded ghosts began to run down the corridors. In the passage of the main control room, Zhou Jin's team was also fighting a bloody battle. In the several floors of corridors outside the dungeon, KIKI, Grace, the Drone Corps, and Night Walker Zino's team were fighting fiercely with the two psychics and many colonial ghosts.
Lin Xian now came to the berth launch pad of the Gray Mist Messenger. The mechanical scanner quickly scanned the information connection terminal. Then he made a repeater and began to reconnect the cables in the main control room.
The closer he got to this giant S-class colonial suit, the more Lin Xian felt a strong dark invading force constantly tormenting his sanity. Shizhi looked horrified and used all her supernatural powers to help Lin Xian suppress it.
Buzz buzz buzz!
At this time, Lin Xian even directly deployed the superstring reactor phase rainbow ring to increase his peak supernatural power, and the mechanical heart was running wildly.
Empty~
At this time, Lin Xian suddenly heard a series of strange noises coming from the bottom of the dungeon, as if countless dark creatures were ready to move. He didn't know whether it was simply because of the darkness or because of the power resonance generated by the S-level gray fog.
"It seems like there are a lot of monsters down here, and they are blocked by something."
"valve."
Lin Xian thought about when he first entered the city, Ke Zai took them into the closed underground city transportation track system. Those were all sealed, but it seemed to be connected to somewhere underneath.
He immediately opened the topographic map of the underground fortifications that Zhou Jin had given him before, and found that several ports were outside the city wall No. 1. Once opened, billions of strange creatures would drill into the underground fortifications, and the city would fall directly into hell!
Shiori also reacted at this time, and said with horror: "If those monsters get into the city from here, where will they lead to?"
"Dungeon No. 1!"
Lin Xian’s eyes were stern: “In the center of Dawn City! The Crimson World wants to turn Underground City No. 1 into a monster fountain. When the night falls, the whole city will panic and be attacked from both inside and outside. Dawn City will become their huge testing ground, and millions of people will be their experimental subjects…”
"This...this is terrible!" said Shiori.
At this time, on the other side, Chu Yan and other members of the team were fighting against several red ghosts chasing Julius, and the battle was fierce.
The wellhead passage of the Giant God Peak launch site was a bloody road. Several red monsters were killed, and the young lives of Chu Yan's team members were also left along the way. A small transport ship was docked on a platform at the edge of the launch site.
At this time, the remaining team members were still fighting with the two human ghosts, while Chu Yan chased them to the platform of the transport ship.
Julius was standing at the boarding gate. Unexpectedly, at this moment, another Julius in a suit walked down from the transport ship.
When Chu Yan saw this scene, her expression changed slightly.
“Are you surprised?” Julius looked at the corpses along the way calmly and said calmly, “It’s all thanks to you. In order to deal with your psychic team, I have to give it some extra consideration.”
The two Julius looked at Chu Yan with a smile on their faces, one on the left and one on the right.
Swish!
Suddenly, a red flash came, and Chu Yan used her mental power to shock her mechanical body, and she barely avoided the attack by rolling over.
"Do you know why I am waiting for you here?" One of them, Julius, laughed sarcastically, "Because I am curious, do the people of the Order of the Phoenix know what despair is?"
Chu Yan's delicate face was now covered in blood. She glanced at the two Julius, and was wary of the man with the red flash of speed.
The opponent was too fast. Although it was difficult for the opponent to get close to her within her mental field, it was also difficult for her to focus and defeat him.
Julius sneered: "Psychic power, you can kill people with just a thought, what a perfect ability, comparable to God, haha, the trump card of the North American United Front, why are you hesitating now?"
"Oh, because you can't kill me, and you still want to get all the information about the dark world from me, Ye Lan will definitely tell you that this may be the last chance for humans to take the initiative."
Chu Yan did not respond. She was alert while contacting Lin Xian through the communicator.
"Lin Xian, how are you doing? Can you ensure that you can capture the Heart of the Galaxy?"
"It's not that simple..." Lin Xian was sweating profusely. All the manufacturing sequences of the Black Star Forge were cleared to manufacture cables and intranet terminal equipment.
When he used the repeater to connect to the intranet cable, he found that, as KIKI said, the entire Targon Peak launch site was set up with a strict authentication key. His face immediately changed, and he said to Chu Yan: "Now there is a problem. To connect to the intranet for central control, Julius' iris authentication is required."
Chu Yan frowned at this time: "Can it be broken by force?"
"The root server's iris key is doubly encrypted. Time is running out. He must be there in person!"
"I have some problems here too." Chu Yan looked at the two Julius in front and reported the situation to Lin Xian simultaneously.
Lin Xian frowned upon hearing this and said, "Do you know which one is him?"
"I can scan the differences in mental fluctuations between individuals. Clones will be different due to time and training, but these two seem to have undergone the same training, or they are not Julius himself."
"So cunning, what should I do?!"
If neither of them is Julius himself, then they cannot be sure who is the one who is connected to the dark world.
Chu Yan naturally realized this.
Bang!
On Chu Yan's side, her superpowers exploded and another fierce battle broke out. The team members behind her killed a red ghost and came to support her, but they were unable to withstand the man with the red flash. At this time, the remaining two teammates were both injured.
Chu Yan took the opportunity to step back and said to Lin Xian
"We can only solve the problem of the Galaxy Heart first. The Heavenly Guard and the 83rd Iron Guard Brigade have already come to support us. I don't know how long it will take for dawn. If the weapon system is seized at this time, both inside and outside the city will be doomed!"
“I know!” Lin Xian was sweating profusely at this time, frantically operating the repair project, and shouted: “Moreover, the Crimson World has tampered with the underground network fortifications. Those strange entities can directly enter the city from the launch site or other means. They want to conduct experimental observations throughout the city under this kind of comprehensive fear!”
Chu Yan's eyes flickered when she heard this, and she said to Lin Xian: "No matter whether these two people are really Julius himself, I can be sure of one thing!"
"What?!"
"If authentication is required, the activation of the Gray Mist Messenger is also included, so the one who can perform iris verification must be among them!"
Lin Xian reacted: "That makes sense. Given Julius's caution, he must make sure that Crimson Three completes the takeover of the entire city's central hub, otherwise their long-prepared plan will be in vain."
Lin Xian's thoughts were working rapidly at this time, and he said: "Chu Yan, don't let Julius run away, I will come to you right away, I have a way to solve this problem remotely!"
Chu Yan wiped the blood off her face and whispered
"good!"
Drop, drop, drop!
At this time, a loud alarm sounded at the Targon Launch Center.
[The launch plan is about to start, and the launch silo is being opened. ]
In a suburban area far outside Shuguang City, the streets and buildings shook violently, the ground cracked, and a giant gate hundreds of meters long slowly opened.
In an instant, a large amount of ruins and rubble fell from the sky like rain, along with countless strange creatures rushing in the darkness.
Boom!
Muffled thunder exploded, echoing throughout the launch site. Heavy rain fell from the sky above the Targon Peak launch site, splashing on the Gray Mist Messenger and various engineering supports.
Seeing this, Lin Xian installed the repeater and suddenly handed a photon storage device to Shizhi: "Shizhi, I will be done soon. You will be responsible for inserting this control key later."
“Ah?!” Shiori’s face turned pale when she heard this, and she spoke incoherently: “I…I…”
"Listen!"
Lin Xian held her shoulders and said to her solemnly, "There are still three minutes left. As long as the connection is established at 10 o'clock, the Heart of the Galaxy will open the port due to the activation of the curtain-breaking device. The Crimson World must be ready to use this opportunity to control the Heart of the Galaxy. Although Julius has set up a secret key on the server here, he doesn't know that Chu Zhaonan deliberately stayed offline for 10 seconds, because it takes 10 seconds for the computing power of Crimson No. 3 to take over the entire city, so we will have 10 seconds to retake the control center!"
"But..." Shiori looked nervous. She didn't expect Lin Xian to give her such an important task.
Lin Xian kept panting and whispered in Shizhi's ear: "Don't be afraid, I believe you can do it."
"I...I..." Looking at Lin Xian's determined gaze, Shizhi's face turned red, and then she nodded seriously.
"I see."
Lin Xian gave the control key to Shizhi because she was the only person here, besides Chu Yan, who was not greatly affected by the invasion of darkness.
Originally, he was considering letting Grace carry out this mission, but now Grace needs to deal with the Red Man Ghost while operating the drone to repair the terminal. Only Shiori has the energy to complete this task.
Afterwards, Lin Xian completed the cable connection and flew back to the floor where the main control room was located with Shizhi via the thrusters. A large area of the streets and floors here had collapsed at this time, and the entire command post began to shake.
"Zhou Jin, Qinuo, protect the main control room and Shiori!"
"clear!"
Boom! On the other side, KIKI was suppressed by the seemingly invincible black water and was unable to breathe. Her mental power seemed to be hitting the sea and the air, making her a little exhausted to deal with it.
The black water sometimes turned into rain and mist, and sometimes flowed in the air, looking extremely flexible.
When Lin Xian saw this scene, he immediately realized, "She has a real body! This water is just a deformation she controlled!"
"Grace! Find the real body of the psychic!"
“Grace!”
【Grace understands! 】
Hundreds of drones were scanning like a storm, and sure enough, a black shadow was found on a higher floor. In an instant, countless drones opened fire at its main body, and Black Water quickly leaped away.
KIKI took the opportunity to suppress him, and the two sides began to fight each other with their supernatural powers.
Lin Xian took the opportunity to enter the main control room and summoned Iron Curtain drones and construction drones to surround the entire control room.
"Captain Lin!" Zhou Jin came over with a steely look on his face: "There are more and more of those cunning people!"
"You guys guard this control room!"
"good!"
In an instant, all the team members began to gather towards the main control center while fighting and retreating. Lin Xian operated the power armor jet system and several drones to fly towards the launch site.
As if aware of Lin Xian's actions, the building suddenly shot out countless black water arrows, like a rainstorm trying to stop Lin Xian.
Boom! The telekinetic wave rushed over, and KIKI arrived quickly, clenched his silver teeth, and exerted all his strength to form a protective shield to block for Lin Xian, and a lot of blood flowed from his nose.
Lin Xian was about to take action when he saw this, but KIKI, without even turning back, used her telekinesis to lift him up higher:
"Don't worry about me, just go!"
Two minutes left!!
Lin Xian didn't have time to think about it. With the help of KIKI's telekinesis and the propulsion system, he rushed straight up in the storm and finally broke out of the ground.
At this time, the outline of the night could not be distinguished between heaven and earth. Outside the high wall of Dawn City No. 1 in the distance, intensive bombing and artillery barrage were like a rainstorm. The tide of strange bodies seemed endless. The tall strange bodies climbed and bombarded the city walls. The reinforced concrete and metal armored city walls had already had large and small gaps.
In the sky above the city, millions of survivors were fighting against the sky and the mutated people. The smoke of the war rose into the sky like dark clouds. Even more than ten kilometers away, Lin Xian could smell the bloody and burnt smell through the rain.
Direction to the control room.
When Zhou Jin saw the secret key for continued control in Shizhi's hand, he immediately understood their mission. At this moment, the black-armored ghost rushed towards him. He gritted his teeth and shouted angrily, standing tall and fearless, and attacked directly!
"Li Su, Xiao Yan, defend this place to the death!"
"receive!"
"Old Qi, don't f*cking destroy the command post, the battlefield is separated!"
"I know!" Qinuo, whose body was covered in blood, had trembling hands. His four teams had been fighting in the underground fortifications tunnel since last night, and now there were only less than 20 people left out of the 40-plus.
The fire-breathing red ghost rushed out of the passage, and Zino rushed forward together with two teammates.
"Wei Chen, Zhang Xufei, shut its mouth!"
"good!"
boom!
In the main control room, countless drones were quickly repairing the terminal equipment, and fierce fighting was taking place at both ends of the main control room. In the passage, Li Su, Xiao Yan and several teams organized by the Night Walker were fighting hard, and outside the main control room, there was a fierce battle on several floors, and it was a tragic scene.
At this time, Shiori stood in front of the cabinet with her hand holding the secret key, her eyes fixed on the time. Through the window, in her eyes, the giant S-class colonial suit outside was emitting a terrifying world-destroying black aura.
One minute left!
Under the automatic equipment, the cables of the fuel tower began to detach and the hydraulic support tower slowly separated.
Beep! Beep!
The yellow alarm sounded throughout the Targon Peak Transmission Tower, and each sound was like a heavy hammer!
In the passage, Xiao Yan, whose chest was pierced directly by sharp claws, roared angrily before dying and inserted two electric knives into the red man ghost's jaw, directly piercing his head!
Li Su, who had only one arm left, detonated the explosives placed on the passage, burying himself and the people who followed him alive, and completely blocking the passage on this side of the hall.
Outside the main control room, the Night Walker team had been suppressed by countless human ghosts and was outside the main control room. There were less than 10 people left. Zhou Jin, who was made of steel, grabbed the black-armored human ghost and crashed through several concrete walls. The black-armored human ghost was so powerful that he broke the wrist of Zhou Jin, who was covered in metal skin. Zhou Jin became angry and bit his neck, tearing off a piece of his breathing tube and jaw.
Bloody battle!
On the other side, as soon as Lin Xian flew out of the launch silo, he immediately saw Chu Yan and two "Julius" who were fighting their last battle outside the small transport ship at the edge of the platform!
"careful!"
Before he could speak, Chu Yan's voice came from the communicator.
Woo! The sound of breaking wind came instantly. While Lin Xian was still in the air, a red flash came at high speed. He subconsciously held up the AT force field shield, but the whole person was blasted out by this huge force and smashed on the ground like a cannonball. Before he could get up, another red ghost had already raised his fists and aimed at him.
Bang, at the critical moment, a female member of Chu Yan's team rushed over quickly, used an air knife to cut off half of the red ghost's arm, and then blew Lin Xian away. She was hit by another punch from the back, and blood spurted out of her whole body immediately.
Lin Xian dodged and pulled the female team member out from under his fist, then grabbed a Destroyer UAV with his backhand, and immediately activated the propulsion system on the back of the Black Hawk armor to lift the female team member up and flip her over in the air, then punched the red man on the head with an electric hammer in the air, causing it to fall head-on on the Destroyer UAV.
boom!
There was a loud explosion in an instant, and in a flash, Lin Xian had already deployed the superstring reactor phase rainbow ring and released a large AT force field shield to protect himself. The huge shock wave directly sent both of them flying dozens of meters away.
The smoke cleared, and gravel flew everywhere. Lin Xian seemed to be able to only hear the sound of his own breathing through the mask. The violent explosion made him feel as if his entire body was about to fall apart.
The holographic screen of the power armor kept flashing, and time passed by second by second.
He wiped away the smoke and dust on the power armor mask and looked at the female team member next to him. He didn't know whether she was dead or alive. He staggered to his feet and prepared to walk towards Chu Yan, but found that the man with the red flash had disappeared.
Lin Xian immediately became alert, and at this time Chu Yan's voice in the communicator finally became clear.
"Lin Xian... Lin Xian, can you hear me?"
"Yes."
"We're about to launch. Has the internal network equipment been repaired?"
Lin Xian looked at the progress information sent by Grace on the holographic interface.
98%.
"Absolutely." Lin Xian said in a deep voice: "There is a person here who can unlock the iris. Perhaps, this person also knows the information of darkness..."
Julius looked at Lin Xian, who had struggled to get up from the rubble, with a disdainful smile on his face.
"Chu Zhaonan has proved the theory of 'humanity is doomed to fail' with his actual actions. He broke the principle, but he also taught you, Phoenix, a lesson."
Julius checked the time and immediately raised his watch to the two of them.
"Oh, it looks like you guys are out of time."
Lin Xian and Chu Yan looked and saw that the time had just jumped from 9:59 to 10 o'clock!
[Launch procedure started, thruster ignition countdown! ]
boom!
An earth-shaking tremor came from the Targon Launch Site, accompanied by mechanical sounds, and the alarms stopped completely.
At the same time, on the far side of the No. 1 city wall, the sounds of a large number of weapons and automatic artillery suddenly stopped!
At this time, the sky was still dark, and under the dark night and rain, a violent and strange wave of bodies came crashing down.
The garrison troops and millions of survivors who were fighting desperately on the city walls felt that the world seemed to have suddenly become much quieter. At this moment, an extreme fear grew in everyone's heart.
"Weapons are stopped!"
"No more ammo?!"
The garrison on the city wall shouted, and the commander was sweating coldly at this time: "Fight back with individual weapons! All mecha squadrons go to the city wall!"
When all automatic weapon systems shut down, the entire Dawn City's defensive firepower seemed to be reduced by 2/3 at once. For a moment, a large number of strange creatures rushed onto the city walls, and huge ones began to crash into areas of the city walls that had already had gaps. In the sky, dense flying creatures swarmed out, and the Dawn City was filled with despair and screams.
At the Targon launch silo, a mechanical voice began to announce the countdown to the launch.
[Launch sequence countdown starts, 10]
【9】
"Lin Xian!" At this moment, Chu Yan's face was full of expression. She shouted to Lin Xian without hesitation: "Listen to me, I will control Julius in a moment, you scan his iris immediately, and then..."
【8】
Julius watched all the weapons stop working, and a smile finally broke out on his gloomy face. "Look at this spectacular scene. I won't kill you. After all, you two are still my most promising experimental subjects."
"Now, let the Phoenix Society take over this mess and quickly run away from my test site. Perhaps you can take away one or two million with the remaining vehicles. Haha, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, it's useless for you to take along the old, weak, sick, disabled, and children. Those large convoys and those highly evolved strong men should be eager to get rid of these burdens. So our Crimson World is actually solving the problem for you, isn't it?"
"I'll take care of your mother!" Lin Xian said to Chu Yan at this time: "If it's a dead person, can you still use your psychic power to steal dreams?"
"Even if his brain dies, the brain cells will not lose their activity immediately. The micro-electric signals of each neuron will be completely cut off, and all "thinking", "memory", "judgment" and "organ perception" will remain in existence for a few minutes..." Chu Yan replied.
Lin Xian looked at the repair progress of the intranet terminal, 98%!
"Then kill him!"
【7】
Julius was calm when he heard this: "How naive! Do you really think that my body contains information about the dark world and is left here for your psychic team to seize?"
"I won't fall for the same trick twice."
After saying that, the two Julius immediately prepared to board the transport ship.
【6】
Chu Yan shouted at this time: "Lin Xian catch him!"
“Don’t any of you even think about escaping!!” Lin Xian shouted, and his mechanical power was activated. He instantly manipulated the boarding ladder of the transport ship behind him to transform into two hinges to tie up the two Julius together.
【5】
Julius frowned immediately because he saw that on the other side, Chu Yan's eyes, the psychic power had been activated.
boom!
In an instant, both Julius' eyes began to bleed and their minds went blank. It was obvious that they had been forcibly controlled by their mental powers.
【4】
At this moment, the man with the red flash suddenly appeared, but he did not attack Lin Xian and Chu Yan. Instead, he inserted a dagger directly into the temple of Julius on the right.
"Sorry, I guessed this move of yours a long time ago. If a psychic ability dies in the target's consciousness, I will also die."
The red-lit man smiled strangely.
But at this moment, he did not see any surprise on Lin Xian's face, but saw Lin Xian extending a finger towards him.
【3】
His face suddenly changed, and he wanted to retreat in an instant, but in a flash, the space behind him suddenly twisted, and a small black hole instantly captured the red light on his body along with his flesh and blood. The man looked extremely terrified at this time, because he found that his super speed could not escape!
"impossible?!"
Lin Xian gritted his teeth and shouted angrily, using the gravitational lens in his right hand and summoning the Black Star Forge with his left hand.
【2】
Buzz!
A terrifying mechanical door slowly opened from a huge thundercloud in midair. Inside it, a whole set of root server networks and intranet terminal devices along with cables coiled out like a black python, condensing into a terminal iris recognition device at the front, and pounced directly in front of Julius, who had a dagger stuck in his temple!
This scene is like a mechanical wonder!
At the same time, on Lin Xian's holographic panel, the intranet terminal repair finally reached 100% at this moment.
The network data flashed, the cables were like snakes, and the identification screen swept across Julius' face, emitting green light!
The sound was extremely small, but at that moment it was like a loud bell, causing Julius on the left to suddenly wake up from the mental control.
【1】
Boom! !
Under the Targon Peak, Gray Mist Messenger's eight super-heavy plasma thrusters ignited with a loud bang. The powerful thrust caused the ground within a radius of several kilometers to vibrate. A huge airflow rushed up from under the launch site shaft, dispersing all the rain curtains. The raging heat waves continued to melt all the launch pads and supporting devices.
At this moment, this super-large S-class colonial suit, hundreds of meters high, slowly rose into the air!
“What did you do!?” Julius asked angrily at this time. Before Lin Xian could respond, all the automatic weapons on the walls of Dawn City in the distance suddenly ignited, and powerful firepower erupted again. The muzzles of these firepower were not directed at the survivors and the garrison, but still aimed at the dark monster tide, violently releasing the full metal storm of human industrial civilization!!!
“How is this possible!!!!” Julius’ face changed drastically after seeing this scene: “Crimson Three has clearly taken over Dawn City!!”
Click!
The sound of a mechanical motor sounded, and Lin Xian stood opposite him, pointing his finger mechanical energy cannon at the center of Julius's brow, and said coldly:
"It's obvious that you don't know that much about being a human being."
Julius was furious and said fiercely: "Lin, I swear, you will..."
Bang!
The mechanical energy cannon pierced through his forehead, and the cloned Julius fell to the ground before he could finish his words.
Lin Xian immediately rushed over to help Chu Yan up. At this time, Chu Yan's eyes, nostrils, and mouth were all filled with red blood. She tried to open her eyes, but she was shaking, her head kept twitching, and her body's mechanical devices were frantically sounding alarms.
[Heart rate overload, heart rate overload...]
[Detecting that vital signs are about to disappear, the AED system is automatically activated]
Woo~sizzle!
The AED system on Chu Yan's body started up automatically. There was a sound of ionization, and Chu Yan seemed to have regained some consciousness. She still closed her eyes and trembled as she tried to speak.
Lin Xian looked at this scene and quickly put his ear close to it.
"This is... the only... choice... Lin... don't... give up on me..."
The panting sound gradually stopped, and Lin Xian slowly raised his head. The woman in front of him had stopped breathing, and the bright red blood bloomed like a flower on her beautiful face.
Lin Xian stood up and heard KIKI's voice in his headphones.
"Lin Xian...we have successfully obtained the Heart of the Galaxy."
In the main control room, Shiori successfully inserted the secret key for continued control into the control panel at the last moment, and the consciousness core of Crimson No. 3 was captured by Grace before it completely controlled the Heart of the Galaxy.
The smell of blood filled the air. At the gate, Zhou Jin, whose chest was completely torn, died together with the black-armored man. Qi Nuo, whose lower leg was half broken, leaned in the corner and lit a cigarette for himself. Shizhi, whose face was already covered with tears, was trying to treat him.
Qinuo looked around and saw his former teammates and friends everywhere.
Except for a few construction drones, most of Lin Xian's drones had been destroyed in the battle. Grace rescued the exhausted KIKI from the rubble and brought her to the passage outside the main control room.
Boom!
At this moment, the few remaining people looked at the steaming heat waves and smoke that filled the entire launch silo after the launch of the Gray Mist Messenger, and it seemed as if they were in another world.
Lin Xian stood at the entrance of the huge launch silo, looking up at the huge gray fog messenger slowly rising into the sky in the dark rainy night amid the war on all sides. At the same time, in the Dawn City's star port, 7 giant starships, under the cover of countless anti-aircraft weapons and air combat ships, brought a string of brilliant arcs of light and headed towards the sky together.
That arc of light was like the last torch before the darkness of humankind. While illuminating the night sky, it also seemed to take away the last glory of Dawn City.
Listening to the sound of the Galaxy Heart being recaptured, Lin Xian felt an indescribable complexity in his heart. He knew that they had survived the night, but he also knew that the remaining humans might only be able to make a final desperate escape.
(End of this chapter)
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