Chapter 414 Search
Inside the bedroom of Carriage No. 1 of the Infinity, Lin was observing the mysterious container in the dark. Strange noises continued to be heard outside the window. It was only 2 a.m. and it was pitch black.
Just like before, if this thing is not placed in a lead box, it will emit a force that can suppress supernatural functions, making people feel that they cannot use much strength. Fortunately, it is in a relatively safe environment. Lin Xian now has the Black Star Forge for storage, so it is much more convenient for him to operate.
"What did you find?" Chen Sixuan stood aside holding a cold light lamp, frowning. That power also made her feel uncomfortable.
Lin Xian shook his head: "No, at first I found that this thing seemed to resonate with my Mechanical Heart, so I brought it with me. After escaping through the snowy plains of Hengshan Pass, I forgot about it and didn't know what was inside it..."
"And this time, my name was actually displayed." He sighed and looked at this strange container with a serious expression.
"Hello, Lin Xian." Chen Sixuan's eyes changed: "It sounds like I'm talking to you."
"I feel the same way." Lin Xian said
"But this is very strange. This thing... logically, no information should be transmitted into it."
The Black Star Forge is a special space for Lin Xian's mechanical abilities. Apart from his own consciousness, it is impossible for any external information to be transmitted, so he naturally ruled out the possibility of someone remotely delivering this information. At this time, Lin Xian seemed to have only one guess left, that is, this container possessed some kind of intelligence or self-awareness, otherwise it would be difficult for him to understand how a password matrix screen could talk to him?
Lin Xian triggered the matrix password screen above, thought for a moment, and entered 0 to 9 this time. Because it was an 11-digit password, he added a 0 at the end.
[Wrong password]
[Reopening time limit, 23:59:59]
Not surprisingly, the password was wrong.
This made Lin Xian extremely confused and even more curious about this mysterious container. He was eager to open it and see what was inside, so he called Viola.
"Viola, can you crack this matrix code?"
Viola stretched out her hand, twisted her knuckles and stretched out several silk threads, which were connected to the code device. Then she said
[The device uses a superlattice password based on the physical unclonable function PUF. The principle is based on the physical properties of semiconductor superlattice materials. Password verification relies on the true randomness of hardware signals. Each verification must match the real-time response of the physical device. Only one correct input is allowed. Incorrect attempts will cause the signal to fail. The device has a self-destruct mechanism. If a brute force crack is detected, the physical device will automatically trigger an irreversible circuit fuse or signal distortion, permanently destroying the password generation capability. ]
Viola said to Lin Xian: [Based on the analysis, it is impossible to use brute force to crack it. According to the prompt, forcibly destroying the physical structure will cause the re-suspension fluid to leak. At present, I cannot know the basic properties of this liquid. I can only infer that it has a certain degree of danger. Are you sure you want to dismantle it? ]
Hearing this, Lin Xian took a deep breath and looked at the mysterious container in front of him, feeling itchy. His mechanical ability could devour this device, but he didn't know what the consequences would be if the heavy suspension fluid leaked, and he was at a loss for a moment.
"It said hello to me, but there was no follow-up. It's really strange."
Lin Xian thought of Hua Xiaoling, and his subconscious told him that he should handle this matter with caution.
"Since it is related to that foundation, we should have the answer as long as we find their people." Chen Sixuan looked at Lin Xian and said comfortingly: "One of your purposes in traveling to the Pacific this time is to explore this mysterious organization."
Lin Xian nodded, raised his hand and threw the mysterious container into the Black Star Forge, saying: "When I was connecting with the consciousness of the corpse chaser, I did see some humans appear, and they all had a mark on them."
He pinched his brows and said, "When we were at the Qingshui Town test site, KIKI and I both saw that kind of sign. I think I remember it correctly."
"Does the Phoenix Society believe that this organization may have some kind of communication with the dark civilization?" Chen Sixuan said.
"The Order of Phoenix did investigate a lot of things."
Lin Xian said, "Professor Ye told me that Qingshui Town is just one of them. According to the investigation conducted by the Phoenix Society and organizations from all over the country, there are hundreds of post-apocalyptic organizations of all types, but this SIID Foundation was not established after the apocalypse. Before the Apocalypse, the Luofei Consortium was a well-known consortium on Blue Star with abundant funds and wealth, and it had close cooperation with the Federation. Chu Yan and I learned from Julius's intelligence that even organizations like the Crimson World were supported by the Foundation in the beginning, which is enough to show that its power is not small."
Lin Xian thought of the large test site with a sky dome in Qingshui Town, and said with a frown, "At first, I just thought that the Crimson World relied on bloody experiments to make radical breakthroughs in the research of dark creatures and superpowers, but this idea is actually a bit naive. Organizations like the Phoenix Society cannot be weak in research in various fields. Those scientists and those scientific research teams on the front line are definitely not fools. If we combine the intelligence obtained by secret investigation teams such as the Night Walkers and the North American United Front, the Crimson World and the Foundation are indeed more than just adventists in terms of thinking and consciousness..."
He looked at Chen Sixuan and said in a deep voice: "There must be some kind of communication between them and the dark civilization. This communication may not be mutual or just one-sided, but no matter what it is, we can guess that this communication may really have been established before the Apocalypse Day!"
Chen Sixuan's pupils trembled slightly. When she heard this, her eyes were solemn.
"So this foundation, maybe it knows important information, is some kind of spy?"
"I hope so." Lin Xian said.
"hope?"
Lin Xian sighed and spread his hands, "If they are, then we will have a chance to know something, right?"
Chen Sixuan looked at Lin Xian after hearing this: "Lin Xian, do you and the Phoenix Club have any plans?"
Lin Xian nodded: "I guess so. When we get to the Republic Islands, we may need to assist Noah's Phoenix Headquarters. We'll talk about the specific situation when we get there."
"What about the Falcon Sea Group?" Chen Sixuan came to the window, opened half of the sunshade and looked outside, then lowered her voice and said to Lin Xian: "You said you wanted a bigger share, but I guess you don't want to cooperate."
Lin Xian was stunned: "How do you know?"
Chen Sixuan smiled slightly: "Because this is not your character. The night is dangerous and unknown, and the sea is treacherous and hard to find. No matter how attractive the crystal lattice is, you will not take the initiative to hunt for strange bodies for this purpose unless you have to. Besides, we currently have three level 4 blood essences. You must be thinking that as long as you can get the cultivation device, even if you can use resources and weapons to exchange for level 4 blood essences, you will not take the risk of looking for trouble with special-level strange bodies on the sea, right?"
Hearing Chen Sixuan's words, Lin Xian smiled and said, "Teacher Chen knows me well. Yes, I can understand the team that kills D-level and C-level weird bodies to obtain blood essence for survival, but taking the initiative to find the special level, or a group, is simply a brain problem."
Although the Infinity team members are quite powerful, humans are still not strong enough in front of the strange bodies. What's more, those strange bodies are not monsters in the game. Their ways of appearing and attacking are strange. If he is not careful, even if he drives Unit-01, he may suffer heavy damage. Instead of taking this risk for some blood essence, he might as well exchange resources for it.
Lin Xian's mechanical abilities have a natural advantage in this regard, so he is more interested in the offshore black market that Vanessa mentioned. As long as he scans the cultivation device and understands the cultivation process of the crystal core seeds, things will be very simple, and sometimes it won't even be that troublesome. After daybreak, he can communicate with the Phoenix Society through Chu Yan, and perhaps things will become much clearer.
Chen Sixuan came over and sat next to Lin Xian, leaning gently on his shoulder, closing her eyes and saying
"This journey was like a dream. Our train kept moving forward, and more and more people were on board. Fortunately, you always put survival first, so we didn't take those reckless risks."
"But there will be trouble."
Lin Xian took Teacher Chen into his arms and said sadly, "I felt something was very unusual during the first dark night at sea. Just like what the two people from the Falcon Sea Group said, the forces at sea are intertwined, and the strange bodies are evolving. The monsters under the deep sea are basically showing their cards, and the danger level is higher than on land. The purpose of our ocean track is to quickly reach South America and then cross the Storm Strait to the polar regions, so we have to hurry."
"Hurry up and get going?" Chen Sixuan said, "Hasn't Viola finished scouting the route to the sea yet?"
"No, I said we should hurry up." Lin Xian pointed at his watch: "It's almost three o'clock."
Chen Sixuan reacted when she heard what was said and her face suddenly felt hot. Just as she was about to say something, Lin Xian had already stood up and carried her directly to the big bed in the bedroom.
"Hey, there's a monster outside. It would be bad if we make any noise!" Chen Sixuan said anxiously in a low voice.
"Don't worry, if we could be discovered by the sound, we would have been dead long ago."
Lin Xian's mechanical heart started to move, and he manipulated the room's automatic doors and window shades to close. Only a cold light was left in the bedroom. The dark and enclosed space gave people an extremely contrasting sense of stimulation.
Outside the enclosed armored carriage was a dark and empty platform of the rail station. The entire city was dead silent. The breathing of the monsters in the darkness was cold and terrifying, which was very different from the breathing on the soft bed in the carriage.
Lin Xian really likes this feeling that there is an unknown fear outside the walls and a safe haven inside the car. It gives him an irresistible sense of security.
Perhaps influenced by Lin Xian, Chen Sixuan also began to become fascinated by this feeling of intimacy accompanied by fear in the darkness.
I was so absorbed in it that I couldn't help myself.
…
In the morning, before daybreak, the entire city was still shrouded in darkness, and the coastline was surging with tides.
Inside the rail station, the Infinity train was parked quietly. In carriage No. 5, there was thunderous snoring. Mo Xiaotian got up early, washed up, and began to exercise according to the "Thunder Breathing Method" that Lu Xingchen had developed for him.
The so-called practice breathing method is actually a set of modified radio gymnastics combined with Taoist meditation breathing method mixed in by Brother Huo. This set of things was created by Brother Huo from the original practice forum. Although it is very childish, it is very intimidating. For Mo Xiaotian, it has the effect of exercising the body and improving concentration at the same time.
After doing all this, Mo Xiaotian began to try to control the lightning arc at his fingertips according to Brother Huo's request.
In the dark carriage with thunderous snoring, Mo Xiaotian was seen sitting cross-legged in the corner with sweat on his brow, operating the machine with a serious look on his face. As the electric arcs flashed, there were bursts of slight crackling sounds in the carriage.
The tiny white electric arc continuously transmitted from the left hand to the right hand, and then from the right hand to the left hand. It can be seen that Mo Xiaotian's control has become more skillful and meticulous.
“Huh~”
He adjusted his breathing while concentrating fully. As a rare person with lightning abilities, Mo Xiaotian lived up to everyone's expectations and practiced hard, hoping that one day he would become as strong as Brother Huo so that he could protect his mother, grandfather, sister, and the other people in Infinity.
Phew.
However, at this moment, when Mo Xiaotian conducted the electric arc again, there was a flash of lightning, and he suddenly disappeared in the car out of thin air, and then the whole car immediately became quiet.
"Lin Xian!"
In carriage No. 1, Lin Xian was still sleeping soundly. The door of the carriage was suddenly opened. Chen Sixuan, who had gotten up early to inspect the carriages, stood at the door with a serious expression.
"Something happened!"
…
"When exactly did it disappear?"
In Car No. 2, the backbone members of Infinity gathered together. The atmosphere was extremely serious. Building Fire Brother Sun Yuzhen and several others gathered in front of KIKI's information center with solemn expressions. KIKI pointed to the corner of the surveillance camera and said immediately
"8:06."
"Why did it suddenly disappear?" Lin Xian frowned.
"Brother Xian." Dalou said with a guilty look on his face: "I'm sorry, we..."
"It has nothing to do with you." Lin Xian waved his hand and said seriously: "The most urgent thing is to find the person first."
"According to the screen, it was as if they disappeared out of thin air. Viola also immediately issued a warning, but no one was found in the car, and there was no trace outside the car at all." KIKI said anxiously: "It's strange, it's like teleportation, is it some taboo?"
Chen Sixuan's face changed when she heard this. They had encountered similar situations before: "Is there a strange radio station here too?"
Lin Xian shook his head: "Our train has protective equipment, and there is no radio in carriage No. 5."
"That's weird." Qian Dele crossed his arms and said, "This doesn't look like a strange entity invading. Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible for only one person to have problems."
Brother Huo stood behind the crowd with a sharp gaze, staring at the young man who disappeared from the surveillance camera, his fists crackling.
“Brother Lin, why don’t you let me go out and look for it? Don’t worry, if there is anything strange, I will never harm the team and will definitely solve it outside!”
"And I, I can search from the air, Captain Lin..." Mo Xiaotian is Sun Yuzhen's son. No one is more anxious than her at this moment, and her face is pale.
"Don't worry."
Lin Xian gestured to the two of them and said, "I will first send out drones for a large-scale search. Drones have life recognition systems and a large enough search range, so it will be more reliable than you guys searching alone."
Brother Huo opened his mouth and wanted to say something but swallowed it back. He knew that Lin Xian's arrangement was right. As Mo Xiaotian's "master", he was extremely anxious at the moment, but there was really nothing he could do.
Sun Yuzhen was even more flustered. Everyone here was aware of the danger of the darkness outside. The entire Infinity had to turn off the lights and avoid the storm. If Mo Xiaotian, an 11-year-old child, disappeared, it was hard to imagine what would happen to him.
"Viola."
Just as Lin Xian was about to arrange for Viola to send out the drone, a voice came from far away in the corridor.
"I can track him down!"
Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and saw Gaddy and Vanessa, who were rescued yesterday, walking over quickly. Gaddy's mechanical eye was flashing blue light. She raised her left arm, and a small mechanical device rose from it and spun rapidly. At the same time, she kept saying, "That child used his superpowers, which will leave ripples of the Soul Value. I have a Soul Value Micro-Array Radar for searching the sea surface. I should be able to find him."
As soon as she finished speaking, her device responded immediately. Then Gaddi raised his head and looked at Lin Xian, and spoke in a stern voice.
"Southwest, 7 o'clock."
Ning Jing frowned and stood up when she heard this: "Coast?"
"Never mind for now. Kiki and Shiori are with me, as well as Sister Ning, Xiaoqing, and Brother Baihuo. We are the most mobile teams, so let's go and take a look. You stay here, and if there is an outbreak mark, just fire back." Lin Xian took out the nano-power armor and began to cover his entire body. He looked at the time and said, "It's not even 8:10 now, and it will be dawn at 10 o'clock at the latest. We should be able to hold out for two hours if the worst happens."
"Okay, don't worry." Chen Sixuan and others also immediately put on power armor.
Sun Yuzhen wanted to stand up anxiously, but her reason told her that she had to listen to Lin Xian's arrangements, so she could only nod and said nothing, and followed Chen Sixuan to start deploying firepower.
"Let's go with you. We know the situation at sea better." Vanessa also said at this time.
"good."
Lin Xian didn't waste any time and immediately organized a team. KIKI also put on power armor, and then the explosion-proof door of the carriage opened. Everyone started the propulsion device and flew straight out of the train.
Uh ah!
In an instant, a chilly aura poured into the carriage from the darkness of the railway station, and strange movements were heard in every shadowy corner.
Lin Xian led his men to fly out from the collapsed hole in the roof of the orbital station and flew directly towards the coastline in the distant southwest direction. Under the optoelectronic screen of the power armor, the entire city was pitch black, with a faint deep blue light appearing in the sky, but only the outlines of some buildings could be seen on the ground.
It should have been dawn at this time, but the sky was obscured by the dark tide. The entire sea looked pitch black, like an endless abyss.
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(End of this chapter)
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