Chapter 497 The Darkest Hour
Lin Xian was originally planning to go north to explore the Jaco orbit line, but the reconnaissance drone captured a violent explosion wave. From the analysis, it was obviously caused by human weapons.
So he immediately changed his route and went to investigate. Sure enough, he saw the siege of Raymond's team. When he discovered that there were living people, Lin Xian's first reaction was to try to contact the other party in order to obtain some necessary information.
But after his reconnaissance drone approached the battlefield, he immediately recognized the Night Walker cloaks on Raymond's team. He had seen this kind of cloak on Zhou Wuer and Peng Peng. Then, he captured KIKI's telekinetic fluctuations. This time, he immediately attacked without hesitation. After blocking Gao Liren's detection last night, he thought that this dark energy frequency might be able to withstand the scarlet giant wall, so he used it directly on several people, and also to avoid accidental injuries.
Rumble!
Lin Xian, dressed in black Night Star power armor, stepped through a bloody battlefield. 6,000 "Iron Man" and "Dragon Lady" combat mechas stood still in every corner of the battlefield. The ground was littered with all kinds of charred or neatly cut limbs by VK electric knives. After these monsters were hunted down, more scarlet blood mist burst out, further reducing visibility.
This was the first time that Lin Xian had used his mecha army, but he had no time to pay attention to the combat data for evaluation. He simply walked quickly across the scorched earth and headed towards the central protective window.
whoosh~
Before he could get close, a streak of light suddenly tore through the scarlet mist and rushed straight into Lin Xian's arms at an astonishing speed. The huge impact made Lin Xian, wrapped in power armor, stagger back a few steps. The figure hugged him tightly with all his strength through his cold armor. A familiar voice, trembling with excitement, sounded in his ears:
"I knew it was you! I knew you wouldn't die!"
Hearing this familiar voice, Lin Xian's heart trembled. Without hesitation, he stretched out his arms and hugged her back tightly through his power armor. The two of them hugged each other tightly, and time seemed to stand still for a moment. The warm touch in Lin Xian's arms made his heart surge with complex emotions. Thousands of words finally merged into a low and apologetic voice:
"sorry……"
He didn't know how to explain it, and could only apologize. He evolved from the lattice, but saw the strange planetary head after hibernation. He was inexplicably captured by the black star celestial body, and spent three months to complete the celestial body resonance. After waking up, he saw this unrecognizable world filled with scarlet. Everything seemed like a lifetime ago, which made him feel very heavy.
When KIKI in his arms heard the word "I'm sorry", her suppressed emotions instantly erupted. She suddenly burst into tears, punching Lin Xian's breastplate with her fists while crying and cursing incoherently: "You damn bad guy! I thought you would never wake up! I thought you were dead! Woo..."
At this time, Raymond and his team members barely recovered from the shock and gathered around cautiously. The brief lull in the battlefield did not bring peace. The scarlet fog around them was violently swirling, and from the depths came heart-pounding rustling and growling, which far exceeded the number before. It was obvious that a bigger movement was brewing.
Raymond suppressed the turmoil in his heart, forced himself to calm down, and looked at Lin Xian with sharp eyes: "You... are the swordsman Lin Xian?"
"It's me." Lin Xian's voice came through the mask, steady and certain.
Hearing the response, Liszt and Song Wei, who were still in shock behind Raymond, took a deep breath.
"Fuck, you're really still alive?!" Aaron couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise
"No wonder a safe house suddenly appeared out of nowhere underground. Damn, I thought we were captured by something..." Lister also spoke.
Song Wei looked at Lin Xian and said, "It's the same as what headquarters said. He can create large-scale industrial weapons out of thin air. His mechanical abilities are really amazing!"
Raymond took a deep breath and looked at KIKI's back with a complicated expression as he was emotionally exploding. As the captain, he immediately said calmly, "It seems that the result is better than we expected, but now is not the time to reminisce. The Scarlet Tide may be about to break out! It will be really troublesome if we are targeted by too many hunters! Our mission is to rescue you. We should not stay here for long. Come back to the safe house with us!" He spoke quickly with an unquestionable sense of urgency.
Lin Xian immediately agreed: "Okay!"
He lowered his head to inquire about Kiki's condition, only to find she had lost all her dignity. Like a wronged child seeking support, she hugged his waist, her face buried in his breastplate, sobbing uncontrollably, her shoulders heaving. Lin Xian's heart softened, knowing she must have endured unimaginable fear and hardship while carrying herself alone for so long. He patted her back gently and said nothing more.
Everyone set off immediately. Several rugged flying motorcycle engines let out a low roar, tearing through the sticky scarlet fog and flying at high speed close to the ground. KIKI pulled Lin Xian and used telekinesis to fly and follow. They sped low over the ground, heading east. Soon, in the blurred vision, they arrived at a small town called Parita near the Jaco coastline. This was originally the place Lin Xian planned to bypass, because the scarlet color of this area on the map was so thick that it was terribly thick. He originally thought that there were no living people there, but he didn't expect that the Phoenix Society had a base here.
Lin Xian followed all the way, looking at the seaside town covered in scarlet. The town was terribly silent, as if all the colors had turned gray. The houses looked like they had been decaying for twenty years. There was no sign of life at a glance. The corners of the streets were littered with various remains of corpses that were as white as charcoal, all shrouded in scarlet like thick fog. Standing on such a street, he would not be surprised if any horrible thing walked out of the scarlet.
The flying motorcycle expertly weaved through the twisting streets, eventually dashing into an unremarkable abandoned garage. The interior of the garage was empty, covered in dust and scarlet moss. After the team stopped, Lister closed the garage's shutter door, operated something on his mobile computer, and then said to Lin Xian, "Watch your step."
Empty!
At this moment, Lin Xian subconsciously pushed it open, and the ground made a dull metal friction sound. A thick armor plate slowly slid away, revealing a spacious elevator. Lin Xian was a little surprised. There was actually a bunker underground in this damn place?
And it looks like this bunker is quite new.
Soon, everyone entered, the elevator door closed, and then descended smoothly and quickly.
After a long descent, the elevator door opened again.
Suddenly, the view in front of him opened up, and Lin Xian realized that this bunker was actually quite large. After the elevator stopped, everyone walked into an empty disinfection room. KIKI signaled to Lin Xian, and several people stood apart. Soon, countless automatic sprinklers appeared on the wall, spraying out water mist like a rainstorm, cleaning all the blood stains on the power armor of several people.
Lin Xian noticed that in addition to the dark energy isoelectric frequency in this bunker isolation room, there was also an isolation network composed of no less than three types of energy. KIKI noticed Lin Xian's curiosity and whispered to him in the communication band
"Scarlet, radiation, erosion, and some dangerous substances that Phoenix might find must all be cleaned and isolated."
Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief and consoled himself: "It's better than having no solution at all."
Soon, they walked out of the isolation room and began to remove their power armor protection. Outside, the cold metal walls reflected the neatly arranged white tube lights above their heads, emitting a steady light. The air was filled with a mixed smell unique to disinfectant, engine oil, and human settlements. As far as Lin Xian could see, pipes were winding above his head and on the walls, and emergency indicator lights were flashing a faint green light. In the spacious main hall, there were shadowy figures. At a glance, there were at least seventy or eighty people, some of whom were maintaining weapons, and some were handling some strange instruments.
As they walked forward in the passage, Raymond pointed at this busy and guarded underground world and introduced it to Lin Xian: "This is the Scarlet Outpost of the Phoenix Order. It was a temporary stronghold built after the Scarlet Outbreak. We all call it the 'safe house'."
"Safe house?" Lin Xian looked at KIKI curiously, then at Raymond: "What's it for?"
"Experiments, reconnaissance, and outpost support." Song Wei, who had untied her power armor, was a capable woman with short hair, appearing to be in her early thirties. She said, "The scarlet is spreading too quickly. We still have a lot of supplies that need to be rescued. At the same time, we Night Walkers must understand this disaster as quickly as possible so that headquarters can provide a timely response plan!"
Chi~
At this time, the automatic door at the end of the passage opened first, and a group of people walked out of it swiftly and decisively and walked towards the few people. The leader was a middle-aged man, tall and thin, with a dusty appearance, as if his blood had been sucked out ten times by the scarlet giant wall. But despite this, this man had a pair of deep and sharp eyes, which were piercing.
Raymond and his companions retreated to the sides, and when the group of people approached, they immediately introduced Lin Xian.
"Let me introduce you, Team Leader Shi Weidong, the person in charge of the Hako 374 safe house!"
Shi Weidong saw the young man from a distance. He walked over quickly with an expression of disbelief on his face. He stopped in front of Lin Xian and looked him over and over again. After a while, he looked at Lin Xian's face and exclaimed in a dialectal voice:
"Oh my god, what the hell! The commander told me to find your body no matter what. I didn't expect that a god like you would still be alive?!"
"We were surprised, too." Raymond looked at Lin Xian with emotion and said, "He looks like nothing happened."
Lin Xian reached out and shook hands with Shi Weidong, then said, "I woke up from the hibernation capsule yesterday. I didn't realize how long it had been outside, and how much had happened."
"Yesterday?" Shi Weidong looked at Raymond and then at Lin Xian in surprise: "The scarlet has no effect on you?"
"I found and replicated the dark energy frequency isochronous device on the Chengying ship." Lin Xian explained.
Shi Weidong was stunned for a moment, about to say something, but then he smiled helplessly and said, "Although I have done a lot of research on you, they are still right. Nothing that happens to you is strange..."
"Let's stop talking nonsense and give you a full body checkup first."
After saying that, he immediately turned sideways and called a man in a white coat next to him.
"Not for now." Lin Xian declined the offer, feeling somewhat anxious at the moment: "To be honest, I want to know what happened in the past three months. I still have many questions..."
He said, looking at KIKI: "For example, the Sky Dome, Director Ding, Teacher Chen, and the others."
"I understand how you feel, but the life mutations caused by the scarlet are already very serious. This isn't just a degeneration, it's also a loss of vitality and consciousness." Shi Weidong said solemnly to Lin Xian, "You said you used the dark energy frequency device yesterday, but the problem is that you've been lying in a completely unprotected hibernation chamber on the coast of Jaco for over a month. This is simply a miracle. For your safety, it's best if we examine you."
"Also, if you want to know anything, I and the people here, including your companion, can tell you at any time."
Lin Xian realized the seriousness of the situation upon hearing this. He had actually considered this issue before. He had been lying in that yellow sand for so long. Logically, if that giant crimson wall had swept through him once a day, he should have long since become a dried-up corpse, drained of blood...
In a special room, Lin Xian took off his coat and was inspecting a sophisticated device. Outside the isolation window, four or five experts were nervously staring at the data generated by the instrument.
Shi Weidong and KIKI were also standing at the back. Shi Weidong looked at this scene with surprise and said
"It's incredible. He's still alive and well in the Jaco Coast, an area most frequently hit by the Sky Giant Lace sweeps..."
"I said, he will not die." KIKI looked at Lin Xian inside with a bit of pride in her eyes.
Shi Weidong looked at KIKI with surprise in his eyes: "It's a miracle that you survived. You were unconscious for so long, and after recovering a little, you went in and out of Jaco more than ten times in a row. You really don't want to die!"
KIKI didn't say anything, her eyes were fixed on Lin Xian inside.
At this time, several experts in front suddenly started to make a commotion, shouting in surprise, which immediately attracted Shi Weidong's attention.
"OH MY GOD, he...what's wrong with him? His mental power fluctuates sometimes, sometimes not, and it's completely impossible to detect accurately!"
"Yes, his Soul Dangling value is also very strange. The initial detection showed less than 15,000, but according to the data records, he once reached a Soul Dangling value of 18,000 when he was in Dawn City..."
"And how could his body react to cosmic radiation?"
"What's wrong?" Shi Weidong stepped forward and asked everyone, "Is there a problem?"
"Judging from his physical signs, Lin is very healthy. One could even say he's in top form!" a bespectacled expert stammered, "But in other respects..."
Shi Weidong heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this: "It's okay, he's a swordsman and a mechanical mutant. As long as he's healthy, there's nothing else to worry about."
Soon, after completing the inspection, Lin Xian followed Shi Weidong to a small conference room. KIKI also accompanied him. The rescue team's captain Raymond and scout Song Wei also changed into their power armor and came here. As soon as Lin Xian sat down, Shi Weidong turned on the holographic image, the light curtain unfolded, and a blueprint of the planet shrouded in scarlet appeared in front of Lin Xian.
On the hologram, the nine continents and four oceans, including Asia-Pacific, Oceania, North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Arctic, East Continent, Republic Continent, the Pacific Ocean, the Black Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and the Atlantic Ocean, were almost all covered in scarlet. The blue planet had almost turned into a 'red star', with only the polar ice cap area and a small area of Ushuaia on the South American Storm Coast still blue.
Lin Xian's eyes immediately froze. From his perspective, the world seemed to have been devoured by crimson. That huge mouth had completely surrounded the polar region. Because of the polar day, this place had become the last pure land before the end of humanity...
"In the commander's words..." Shi Weidong's hoarse voice sounded at this time. He looked at Lin Xian and said slowly
"The survival of human civilization has reached its darkest hour!"
(End of this chapter)
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