Chapter 501 Rebooting Infinite!
“Of course,” Shi Weidong replied, “The Foundation hasn’t released too many civilization rehearsal spheres.”
Lin Xian waved his hand: "No, you just said that many researchers from the Phoenix Society have studied this game, but not through direct simulation. Am I right?"
Shi Weidong's eyes sharpened; he understood the implication in Lin Xian's words, and he immediately revealed a piece of data.
"The Nightwalkers did indeed conduct a secret investigation in this regard. At least 95% of the high-ranking defectors had come into contact with this civilization rehearsal sphere. After studying the rehearsal content inside, we discovered that experiencing the civilization rehearsal firsthand would bring a more comprehensive psychological impact, perhaps..."
"95%?" Lin Xian looked at Shi Weidong with a puzzled expression, placed the Civilization Prediction Sphere on the table, and asked in return, "Aren't you worried that after I simulated this Civilization Prediction game in front of you, I'll also defect?"
Upon hearing this, the atmosphere in the room suddenly froze.
Song Wei and the others had somewhat complicated expressions, while Shi Weidong shrugged casually and said directly to Lin Xian, "The commander's order is to support all actions and positions of the Swordholder."
“Strictly speaking…” Raymond flicked his cigarette ash and looked at Lin Xian: “You decide what happens here at Outpost 374.”
Hearing that Ye Lan and the Phoenix Society trusted him so much, Lin Xian was stunned for a few seconds, then his brows relaxed. He took a deep breath and gave a general account of what he had just seen.
Detailed information about the civilization of Tower No. 39081 had already spread within the Phoenix Society and among many survivors, but what Shi Weidong and the others did not know was that Lin Xian had actually met Chu Yan!
"How could this be? How could she be in there?" KIKI frowned, unable to understand for a moment.
Lin Xian shook his head, paused for a moment, and then said, "Perhaps it's related to her psychic abilities. I was able to establish some kind of connection with her consciousness..."
“However…” Suddenly, he changed the subject again: “This civilization rehearsal game must have something special about it. Chu Yan told me that some of her consciousness was devoured, just like the angels of the Tower civilization devoured and merged. So I’m wondering if those who have played this game have all encountered the same situation, which is why their personalities have changed 180 degrees.”
Upon hearing this, Song Wei's eyes widened in shock, and she exclaimed, "You mean, they've all been forcibly brainwashed?!"
Lin Xian opened his mouth, trying to find a better adjective: "It should be about the same, but not quite that direct."
"Holy crap, so this thing is a mind controller!" Raymond looked at the Civilization Preview Sphere on the table and clicked his tongue in amazement. "Aliens have so many tricks up their sleeves. I thought this kind of thing only existed in games."
KIKI then realized: "So Chu Yan's consciousness was devoured, but because she has psychic abilities, she used that part of her consciousness to protect you, preventing you from being devoured, while also allowing you to understand the entire history of the Tower Civilization?"
Shi Weidong pointed his finger in agreement: "A very reasonable deduction. Chu Yan is an ace of the North American United Front and someone Commander Ye trusts. So, Chu Yan did not defect..."
Lin Xian suddenly stood up: "Team Leader Shi, there's no time to lose, I have to leave right now!"
Ushuaia?
"No." Lin Xian's eyes were burning: "North, to the Grand Canyon, I need to find a way to get the convoy out!"
"What?!" Song Wei exclaimed in shock, "Captain Lin... the North-South railway line is broken. Dawn Center, in conjunction with Phoenix City and Noah's Third Intercontinental Force, had already dispatched a large air fleet to rescue them, but all their efforts failed..."
"The Nightcrawlers have already lost countless men from Unit 1 and Unit 3," Raymond said. "Crimson is not like the Polar Night; the danger is completely unpredictable!"
Shi Weidong also said, "That's right, I understand how you feel. I know your team members are in danger there, but the North American continent has been completely swallowed by the crimson, and the Colorado Canyon has even had its terrain reshaped by that world-class disaster. It's impossible to save anyone in such a place!"
Lin Xian shook his head and looked at Raymond and the others seriously, saying, "Of course I know how dangerous it is. From the day of the apocalypse until now, I have never been as foolish and emotional as I am now, but I definitely have to go. Firstly, the railcar convoy is carrying a lot of resources. Without these resources, Polar Kunlun City may not be able to hold out until we can escape the Heavenly Curtain. Moreover, there are several powerful mechanized units that have been trapped inside."
"Secondly, they are all my people, no other reason is needed."
"But……"
"Furthermore," Lin Xian interrupted Shi Weidong, his gaze calm as he said, "Didn't you just say that I am the will and role model among the survivors? As the leader of the train regiment, you abandoned all your teammates and went to Kunlun alone. So what will and what role model do I represent?"
Shi Weidong's expression froze, and he fell silent.
"Well said! I knew it! That's why I'm all ready!" KIKI's eyes sparkled as she stood up with a smile, looking at Lin Xian. "Let's go! Let's go and explore together!"
"I'll send all my action teams to be with you!" Shi Weidong looked at Lin Xian and said solemnly, "You can mobilize all the armed forces at the outpost."
"No need. I need you to evacuate as soon as possible. The information about the civilization rehearsal and Chu Yan needs to be sent back to headquarters immediately to avoid further complications," Lin Xian replied.
Shi Weidong was taken aback: "So how are you planning to get there?"
Lin Xian's gaze swept across KIKI's face, then turned to Shi Weidong and the others.
"I forgot to tell you, I have a heavy armed train in my possession."
Shi Weidong: ?
...
Empty!
At the abandoned railway station in the town of Parita, a raging cloud of smoke billowed and swirled. Lister, acting as a cover sniper, calmly positioned his Gauss sniper rifle high above, keeping watch on the threat lurking in the crimson light. But the next moment, on the previously empty tracks, accompanied by a metallic clang, a black and red heavy mechanical train emerged eerily from the crimson weapon, its imposing silhouette causing even the seasoned sniper's jaw to drop in astonishment.
"Wang Defa?? What is that?? Where did he pull it out from?!"
Song Wei, who was crouching nearby with binoculars in hand, couldn't help but gasp when she saw this: "Now we know why the people of Holy City didn't even dare to leave his corpse alone..."
"Hiss..."
Shi Weidong personally led the defense team out. He was hiding in a building and using his power armor's communicator to contact Lin Xian on the train.
"I have sent you all the information you requested about Crimson gathered by the Nightwalkers. However, you should be careful. We have discovered that Blood Essence may have an attraction to creatures within Crimson. This cannot be shielded by the energy field, so please be very careful."
"Thank you so much!"
Lin Xian was sitting in the armed driver's cab of the Infinite Eternal-class 'Tianxing 5C' nuclear-powered carriage. KIKI was sitting next to him with a mobile computer, connecting to the original sentry monitoring system on the train and restarting the optoelectronic observation and laser radar system.
He thought for a moment, then pressed the earpiece and said to Shi Weidong, "I suggest you split the convoy into batches. The people from Holy City are probably watching you. If you head south, they might think you have a mission to escort me."
"Don't worry about that." Shi Weidong immediately replied, "According to the scheduled time, we should begin our evacuation in 33 days, and the main force of the interstellar army in Ushuaia will not exceed 40 days, because by then, the entire South American continent and the world's oceans will be covered, and the polar day will begin to turn dark. So if you really succeed, don't exceed this evacuation time."
"Okay, I understand." Lin Xian frowned immediately upon hearing this, and some plans began to form in his mind.
Without saying anything more, he glanced at KIKI, their eyes met, and he immediately made up his mind. The Mechanical Heart activated instantly, and the long-dormant Infinite Power Core hummed and vibrated. The engines of the Mighty Dragon-class traction locomotive and the Giant Whale 03E heavy gas turbine locomotive roared. The magnetic levitation wheels meshed with the ordinary old-fashioned rails and began to slowly rotate. The thousands of tons of armed train was now poised to head north into the crimson fog!
Inside the abandoned building, Shi Weidong watched the train disappear into the crimson light and the communication signal vanish quickly, and sighed heavily.
Raymond, holding a heavy weapon, stood behind him and spoke.
"Old Shi, you're not going to be able to explain this to the commander..."
Shi Weidong took a deep breath and said helplessly, "The commander-in-chief told us to follow his orders and didn't let us forcibly bring him back to the Arctic. This means that she also guessed this situation. What can I do?"
"This kid is clearly going to his death," Raymond said. "He barely escaped with his life."
“You know what,” Shi Weidong said with a complicated expression, “If you had experienced the Battle of Dawn City like me, you might have a different opinion. But this guy is actually quite likely to find the Orbital Force.”
After saying that, he turned around and said, "Notify everyone to retreat to the bunker immediately."
"yes!"
...
Lin Xian's mind was in turmoil. Outpost 347 had provided him with a lot of supplies, including blood essence, which would allow him to light up the newly manufactured dark energy frequency field generator on the train, preventing the supplies inside the Infinite from decaying and also isolating him and KIKI from the danger of being corrupted by the Crimson.
Even so, he dared not be careless. The Heterogeneous Cube was not on the Infinity, nor did he have life-saving treasures like the Hellish Black Chrysanthemum or the Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes. It was just him and KIKI. The roaring train could attract the attention of the Crimson Eerie Entity at any time.
Inside the cockpit, Lin Xian gulped down more than half a bottle of water. The purified water was filled with a strong smell of disinfectant and sulfur, making him feel dizzy.
As Lin Xian looked ahead, his mind was filled with the images he had seen in the Black Star Forge and in the Civilization Preview Sphere.
He couldn't understand why he was seeing planetary heads.
What does this have to do with lattice evolution?
"What are you thinking about?" KIKI couldn't help but ask when she saw that Lin Xian's expression was somewhat complicated.
"I've been thinking, what if we hadn't gone through lattice evolution back then..."
KIKI laughed: "Don't be silly. If you don't perform lattice evolution, will the Crimson not erupt? Will the Dawn Center not be attacked? Or will we not go to save Dragon Mountain No. 1, Silver Star, and our companions on Infinite? Liang Lei, Li Yi, Lao Mo, Xiao Bai, Luo Luo, Xiao Min, Brother Shi, Jian Xuwei, so many people, would you give up?"
Lin Xian remained silent. KIKI looked ahead and said angrily, "Blame those guys from the Descent Sect. They did nothing but harm. So many people have been killed by them."
Upon hearing this, Lin Xian said seriously, "It seems that one of the Phoenix Society's previous guesses was correct."
"What?"
Lin Xian began, “The Dark… no, the Tower civilization truly doesn’t understand humanity, which is why they need organizations like the Foundation to act as ‘insiders’ for the Tower people within the human camp. But both biological experiments and useful intelligence point to one thing… the Tower civilization doesn’t have absolute confidence in defeating humanity!”
KIKI nodded in agreement: "There's another reason, they're very weak."
"Even so, when gods fight, mortals suffer. Now, Star Abyss and Crimson are world-class disasters that humanity simply cannot defeat. Even if we know that the Tower Civilization is just a civilization that has been destroyed and wants to rebuild on our Blue Star, what can we do..." Lin Xian sighed with his eyes closed, thinking that those who defected probably understood this long ago.
After saying that, his eyes flickered: "Do you know what I saw during the crystal lattice evolution?"
KIKI looked at him, and then Lin Xian, while cautiously monitoring the situation outside the train with a drone, recounted in detail to KIKI what he had seen after he lost consciousness.
KIKI listened with a thoughtful expression, the girl frowning as she pondered.
"A giant that devoured a planet was destroyed by a beam of light? Doesn't that sound a bit like the story of the Tower Civilization's Yuniga, who escaped and was then destroyed by that mysterious advanced civilization?"
“I have thought about that,” Lin Xian said, frowning. “But why is there that metal die in that beam of light?”
He voiced his thoughts: "Could it be that higher-dimensional humans destroyed Yuniga?"
KIKI's eyes lit up upon hearing this: "You know what, it's actually possible."
“But that doesn’t make sense either…” Lin Xian sighed. “If higher-dimensional humans possess such power, why don’t they just deal with the Tower People who are parasitizing Blue Star? And wouldn’t it be foolish for the Tower People to be destroyed by higher-dimensional humans and then come to Blue Star’s human civilization as a safe haven?”
“That means they can’t directly confront you, so they’re guiding you to solve the problem, right?” KIKI thought whimsically, “You possess a mechanical celestial body, making you a true threat to the Tower People. That explains why they’re targeting you, and why Hua Xiaoling approached you, doesn’t it?”
"According to you, isn't killing me the best option?" Lin Xian retorted.
"That's not necessarily true~" KIKI said seriously, "As the saying goes, in war, one should not kill envoys. Perhaps they are worried that killing you would anger that advanced civilization, which is why they are being so polite to you."
Lin Xian: "..."
Seeing Lin Xian speechless, KIKI couldn't help but chuckle.
"Great, we're back on our Infinity! Let's charge forward and take down any monsters we can!" She said for a while, then turned to Lin Xian: "Oh right, I almost forgot, didn't you just say that the metal die kept rolling 64?"
"Do you have any ideas?" Lin Xian asked.
KIKI shrugged: "6 and 4, not time, not coordinates, not a countdown, then what could they be? 6 + 4 equals 10, 10? 1 and 0, hey, binary is also 1 and 0, Morse code would also work, want to give it a try?"
Lin Xian was surprised by her idea: "This works?"
KIKI chuckled softly, gazing at the crimson mist ahead, a smile playing on her lips as she murmured, "Whatever, sometimes action leads to answers faster than guessing..."
"Isn't that so?"
(End of this chapter)
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