Chapter 431: For Evolution
"How ridiculous!" Brother Huo stood up from the ruins at this time, he was completely furious. After a hundred days of traveling around the Apocalypse, this was the first time he suffered a big loss from the fire-type supernatural power, especially a move he created himself. He was immediately ready to attack in anger.
But Lin Xian immediately called him over the communication frequency.
"Brother Huo, don't do anything!"
Brother Huo's special ability was displayed on a huge scale. They were now in this underground base and it was easy for them to accidentally hurt their own people. Moreover, Lin Xian immediately realized that if this monster could absorb special abilities, then Brother Huo's fire-based special abilities would be countered, which would be even more threatening.
After interrupting Huo Ge's counterattack, Lin Xian saw that the strange figure melted a large area of the shield of Lin Xian's "Iron Curtain" drone with extremely high temperature. He decisively controlled more "Iron Curtain" drones to surround it. At the same time, he asked a large number of "Thunder Prison" drones to consider and prepare to use high-voltage arc shock.
"KIKI."
"I know."
KIKI and Lin Xian cooperated well. When Lin Xian was about to launch an attack with a drone, she immediately surrounded him with her telekinesis.
Sizzle!
The arc of the "Thunder Prison" drone vibrated, and the violent flash of light enveloped the entire hall in dazzling light. As the Thunder Prison erupted, the space became quiet.
Just as Lin Xian was preparing for the next move, the power armor system suddenly detected a strong release of energy density. The next moment, the white monster wrapped in countless "iron curtains" in the air suddenly burst out with thousands of electric arcs!
This electric arc seemed to be a response to Lin Xian's attack, and its power seemed even greater, even penetrating KIKI's telekinetic shield and destroying a large number of surrounding equipment!
"This thing can absorb and transform all potential energy, not just superpowers!" Lin Xian removed the AT force field shield, and saw that the white figure had violently drilled out from the half-melted drone fragments. At this time, an arc of light flashed, and Xiaoqing made a move at high speed, directly cutting off one of the monster's arms in the air. I don't know if it was due to the gap caused by the release of energy just now or because there was no time to use the biological force field, the white monster fell to the ground with a bang. Xiaoqing accurately nailed a grappling hook on its forehead, and the whole person approached at a high speed like a bullet, with the gun blade in his hand flashing and flashing, ready to behead it.
The white monster seemed to have sensed the danger as well. It grabbed the hook on its forehead with one hand and suddenly aimed it towards Xiaoqing. A low, trembling moan came from its mouth, which was sewn together with black thread.
As soon as the sound was uttered, even the surrounding air sent out shock waves. Xiaoqing chopped down the gun blade with a knife, and the front end was instantly twisted.
Infrasound!
Bang!
At this moment, there was a huge explosion. Ning Jing quickly approached from the side and punched. The monster realized the danger and the dark gray biological force field on its body had appeared. At the same time, a sharp claw burst out with an arc of electricity and attacked Ning Jing directly. Unexpectedly, Ning Jing's punch was like a landslide, directly exceeding the pressure relief limit of its own power armor joints, and a thunderous explosion was emitted in this confined space. The punch directly blew up the white monster's biological force field, along with its head and half of its shoulder!
boom!
Blood mist and tissue fragments sprayed out in a fan shape, staining most of the area with blood.
At this time, the white monster twisted a few times, and the flesh and blood on its body twitched randomly as if it was a mixture of many kinds of things. Then it collapsed in a pool of blood and lost its life.
Ning Jing stood up panting, clenched her fists, and turned to look at Lin Xian.
"Captain Lin, this looks like a... person."
"Is it some kind of human ghost again?" KIKI asked after hearing this.
The battle just now lasted less than a minute. Although it was quickly resolved, everyone felt a strong pressure. Lin Xian stepped forward and picked up some flesh and blood tissue with a drone. "Leave it to Director Ding."
"This thing is so powerful. It can absorb energy, fire, electric arcs, become invisible, and emit infrasound waves. It's more than just one supernatural power." Ning Jing said.
"It seems that there has been new progress in the research of the Crimson World." Xiao Qing put away the gun blade and said coldly.
"Studying such evil things really makes me want to kill him!" Brother Huo patted the burnt area of his power armor, his face full of murderous intent.
When talking about human ghosts, the first thing that comes to people's mind is the Crimson World.
"Lin Xian."
At this time, KIKI was tapping on a computer in the monitoring center and said in a mysterious tone:
"Look what I found."
Lin Xian walked over and saw that KIKI had opened several surveillance screens. One of them was in a large underground deep-water floating port. A black Abyss-class Borei-09 strategic nuclear submarine appeared in the screen. At the same time, on the shore, more than a dozen members of the Quds Organization in uniform were using a crane to lift some kind of special-looking torpedo to the submarine.
In another scene, Lin Xian saw a certain experimental area. A door was opened and the system displayed a [dangerous] body shape.
"We found them. They are in the submarine harbor below. It seems that they knew we were coming, so they released a monster to cause us some trouble." KIKI analyzed at this time.
Lin Xian focused his gaze towards the surveillance screen and said in a deep voice:
"It's dark now. Where do they want to go?"
…
The lights of the nuclear submarine inner harbor cast mottled reflections on the dark water.
The Abyss-class Borei-09 strategic nuclear submarine is like a sleeping steel behemoth, half floating on the dark green water. The black hull has a cold metallic luster, and the sonar array on the bow is like a silent giant mouth, ready to swallow threats from the deep sea at any time.
At the dock, a dozen researchers in white radiation-proof suits were busy operating a huge lifting robotic arm to slowly lift up specially made torpedoes. The torpedo shells were painted with special attractant markings, which looked particularly dazzling under the dim light.
"Be careful! Don't damage the stabilizer!" A middle-aged man wearing goggles shouted sternly, his voice echoing in the closed port area.
The hydraulic system of the lifting robotic arm made a low humming sound, the steel cable was tightened, and the torpedo was steadily sent into the vertical launch compartment of the submarine. Another group of personnel was checking the sealing of the hull, and a handheld detector was scanning back and forth at the weld. The beeping sound of the instrument sounded like some kind of strange counting.
In the submarine's command tower, several members of the Holy City in black uniforms were communicating with the internal cabin through communicators. Their voices were low, but their tone revealed unquestionable authority.
"Loading progress?"
"70% complete, estimated to be eight minutes left."
"Speed up, the tidal window waits for no one."
The water surface in the port area fluctuated slightly. The submarine's buoyancy adjustment system was being fine-tuned to ensure stability during the loading process. Occasionally, water droplets slid off the hull and dripped into the bottomless water, stirring up circles of faint ripples, which were quickly swallowed up by the darkness.
The air was filled with a mixed smell of motor oil, sea water and metal, damp and cold.
On a metal walkway on the shore of the floating harbor, a middle-aged man wearing an armored vest and sunglasses quietly watched the busyness below, groping for a silver pocket watch in his hand.
At this time, a burst of hurried footsteps came from the distant passage entrance.
"Professor Chen!" A young subordinate walked over quickly. "The surveillance shows that they have eliminated Composite Test Subject No. 3. They should have discovered us and will engage us soon. Should we retreat?"
"Or, open the closed gate of the flood discharge channel and let that thing in. We can definitely stop them." An assistant beside Professor Chen whispered at this time.
Chen Yanxiu slowly raised his head and pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose. He looked through the lenses and calmly glanced at the surveillance screen.
In the picture, Lin Xian's figure is walking through the metal corridor and approaching the inner harbor.
Chen Yanxiu was silent for a moment, then spoke lightly:
"A special-level creature wants to stop the Swordsman of the Order of the Phoenix?"
"This..." The assistant was speechless.
"The Lord has already made some arrangements." Chen Yanxiu waved his hand. "Inform everyone. If you don't want to die, lay down your weapons."
"Put...put down your weapons?" The subordinates looked surprised.
"That's right." Chen Yanxiu turned around and said, "Let's go and meet this swordsman."
"No need, I'm already here."
At this time, a voice came from Chen Yanxiu's communicator. He was about to take a step but his body stopped. Several people were shocked. Chen Yanxiu looked at the communicator in his hand with a complicated expression. After a long time, he sighed gloomily.
"Mechanical ability..."
Boom boom boom.
Below, everyone put down their guns and raised their hands high. In the distance of the passage, footsteps were heard. Before anyone could be seen, a large number of metal devices flew out of thin air, accurately finding each member of the Holy City Organization and locking their hands and feet. At the same time, a large number of "Thunder Falcon 2000" drones flew out, and the pulse cannons were aimed at everyone's eyebrows.
The moment they entered the inner harbor, all the communicators here had been taken over by Lin Xian.
"You're a smart guy. What you just said saved these people's lives for 30 minutes."
Lin Xian, along with KIKI, Ning Jing, Huo Ge and the others, appeared fully armed and surrounded by drones. Although there were only 7 people, the firepower displayed by Lin Xian's group at this time was no less than that of an armored regiment.
Chen Yanxiu looked at Lin Xian walking in front of him, stood quietly in his place, and said calmly, "Hello, Captain Lin."
"Do you know me?" Lin Xian looked at the middle-aged man, his eyes swept over him, and when he caught the silver pocket watch, a trace of vigilance flashed in his eyes.
Chen Yanxiu smiled when he heard this: "We all know you. My name is Chen Yanxiu. You may have heard of my name."
Chen Yanxiu?
Lin Xian felt that he must have heard this name before. At this moment, Shizhi's voice and a piece of information came to his ears.
"He is the leader of Holy Revelation. He and a man named Chen Tuo founded Holy Revelation, an adventist organization that fanatically worships supernatural powers and the power of forbidden objects."
The light screen in front of him showed a piece of information about Chen Yanxiu, and Lin Xian finally recognized the person in front of him.
"Are you guys planning to run away?" KIKI looked down at the nearly 50,000-ton Abyss-class Beifeng-09 strategic nuclear submarine and asked with interest, "At this time?"
Chen Yanxiu said: "Darkness is not necessarily an enemy. Sometimes in times of crisis, if you change your perspective, everything will become clear."
"Oh?" Lin Xian pointed at the torpedo hanging in the air. "You're so confident, why are you using this thing? I thought you had allied with the dark civilization, and the strange bodies wouldn't eat you anymore."
Lin Xian's drone swarm hovered on both sides of the passage, and the red dot of the pulse cannon locked onto the brows of every Holy City member. Chen Yanxiu stood on the steel platform, the silver pocket watch flipping between his fingers, and the eyes behind the lenses were calm and almost indifferent.
"Captain Lin," he said, his voice as steady as a laboratory thermostat. "Do you believe there are superior and inferior civilizations?"
"Are you trying to lecture me here?" Lin Xian smiled. "I didn't kill you. Guess why?"
"Of course I know your purpose." Chen Yanxiu chuckled and asked him, "Aren't you curious about why you encountered all this?"
Lin Xian nodded after hearing this, then remained silent for a moment. He then looked at Chen Yanxiu and said, "I'd also like to know how the former head of the Special Items Research Department of the Angel Project came to establish Divine Revelation and now join the Holy City Organization?"
"Oh, you misunderstood. We haven't joined the Holy City Organization." Chen Yanxiu raised his sunglasses and smiled, "We are all just acting according to the Lord's will."
"Also... don't get me wrong." Chen Yanxiu stroked the silver pocket watch in his hand and said to Lin Xian, "I just want to talk to you, the Sword Bearer. Now that the Lord has canceled the order to kill you, you don't have to worry about me attacking you. Maybe I'm not your opponent, but please believe me, I'm not your prisoner. If I want to leave, you can't stop me."
Lin Xian's eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at the other party's silver pocket watch. He could feel the distorted dark energy fluctuations of the forbidden object, and subconsciously used his mechanical ability to detect it. Sure enough, mechanical manipulation and mechanical swallowing had no effect.
"Hey, you're quite arrogant." Kiki was unhappy when she heard this and immediately said, "Then let's give it a try!"
After she finished speaking, she used a telekinesis wave to grab Chen Yanxiu. However, she immediately realized something was wrong as soon as she moved. It seemed as if KIKI's telekinesis disappeared around Chen Yanxiu and she fell directly into the quagmire.
"Hey, what's going on?"
"this."
Chen Yanxiu smiled calmly, mentioned the silver pocket watch and said calmly, "Number SIID-05, Silver Pocket Watch. This forbidden object will continuously produce a property similar to the space-time force field in Xingyuan, allowing it to expand the environment three meters away by about seven seconds. So, theoretically, if I want to leave, you will not be able to detect me until seven seconds later. At the same time, all attacks on me will be slowed down. Very interesting, isn't it?"
Lin Xian and the others all changed their expressions slightly when they heard this, but Chen Yanxiu continued speaking after he finished speaking.
"Also, I have more than one taboo item on me, but for safety reasons, I won't tell you all their characteristics one by one."
Lin Xian looked at him: "Why do I feel like you are showing off?"
"No, I just want to say that these powers are very advanced, far beyond human civilization, so they are very fascinating."
After saying that, Chen Yanxiu said to Lin Xian, "That's why I wanted to talk to you. You are the one that the master has set his sights on. You may not know that this is an opportunity that can change everything."
Lin Xian thought about it and asked directly
"You just said that the Lord has canceled the order to kill me. What did you mean?"
"It's simple. The dark civilization wanted to kill you, but the order was rescinded. We believe this means the Lord may have other ideas about you."
"You don't know the reason?" Lin Xian asked back.
Chen Yanxiu shook his head.
"Actually, you don't have to think too much. If the Lord wants you dead, you can't leave this island." Chen Yanxiu chuckled. "Captain Lin, have you ever seen the tsunami caused by the Great Ocean God? That kind of mighty force that can throw a 10,000-ton ship into the clouds is as natural as breathing to it. If that being wanted to kill you, would you still be standing here talking to me now?"
"That's not necessarily true."
Lin Xian opened the power armor mask at this time and looked at Chen Yanxiu calmly: "I am a stubborn person. I just feel that your master wants to kill me, but can't do it, so I am here. I don't think it will give up killing me for any reason. Besides..." He looked at the Abyss-class Beifeng-09 strategic nuclear submarine below and said seriously
"You said you could leave at any time, but I don't think so. You know I'm a mechanical mutant, so you should know that crushing this thing is like a toy to me, right?"
Chen Yanxiu's pupils narrowed slightly when he heard this, and his calm expression changed a little.
"You think the darkness can't kill you?"
"Isn't it the answer that I'm still standing here?" Lin Xian asked back.
Chen Yanxiu closed his eyes and took a deep breath: "I have to say, it takes a character like yours to become the Sword Master of the Phoenix Society. You are still stubborn and hard-headed."
He looked at Lin Xian and asked again, "What do you think of dark civilization compared to human civilization?"
Lin Xian said in a deep voice, "You mean to say that dark civilization is a more advanced form?"
"Isn't it?" Chen Yanxiu said, "The Dark Invasion can actually be termed something else, like the Spiritual Limit. You can understand it as a new ecological structure. Those environmentalists, oh, like that Gu Zheng, used to love to preach environmental protection and save the Blue Planet, save the world. But in fact, the Blue Planet has existed for billions of years. There have been times when the temperature on the Blue Planet was hundreds of degrees higher than it is now, and when the carbon dioxide concentration was dozens of times higher than it is now. There have been millions of years of continuous torrential rain and floods, and asteroids crashing into the continental shelves were even more common. Humanity can't save the Blue Planet, humanity can only save itself. Any environmental change is like this, it's all about exploring how humans can adapt to this environment."
"So, if we understand the Dark Invasion as a new environment, it's not that complicated. Those who survived have successfully adapted. Evolution is nature's reward for these survivors, isn't it?"
"So you have become accomplices of the dark civilization, and killing survivors is also evolution?" KIKI asked disdainfully.
"No," Chen Yanxiu corrected. "The Crimson World and the Holy City Organization merely represent the individual interests and practices of our human camp. These aren't instructions from the dark civilization. But isn't it tragic? Even in times of peace, there are racial conflicts, class oppression, hegemonism, struggles between the rich and the poor, and suspicions of interests among humans. Even at the end of the world, there are still racial conflicts, class oppression, hegemonism, struggles between the rich and the poor, and suspicions of interests. Doesn't this precisely demonstrate... that human civilization is extremely low-level and backward?"
Lin Xian heard this and said, "So, the dark civilization doesn't want to exterminate humanity?"
"Captain Lin."
Chen Yanxiu looked at Lin Xian and said seriously, "What kind of evolution do you think an advanced civilization needs to eliminate racial conflicts, class oppression, hegemony, the struggle between the rich and the poor, and suspicion of interests?"
"What?"
Chen Yanxiu raised his glasses, his gaze fixed. "When all life..."
“Merge into one.”
(End of this chapter)
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