Chapter 406 425. [Gods Heavy Industry]
Xu Zhi arrived a little late at the headquarters of Gods Heavy Industry, and when she arrived, it was already in chaos.
The headquarters of Gods Heavy Industry is not a certain building, but a place that can be called an "industrial zone". Dense buildings and a large number of machines stand on the plain. Just by getting close to here, the air becomes scorching hot, as if countless furnaces are burning.
When Xu Zhiyi stepped in here, she immediately felt that she was "locked in". It didn't seem like a human sight or a target. She guessed that it was some kind of machine that locked her in.
The extraordinary abilities of the spirit body do not include the ability to turn itself into nothingness like [Nightmare]. Feeling the breath locked on him, Xu Zhi inexplicably had a "not so good" feeling, but it was only not so good, not terrible or dangerous, and still acceptable.
So she deliberately avoided the presence of her two colleagues, lowered her presence, and entered the center of this industrial area from the side, which was also a "monster building" that looked like a medieval spire made of steel.
There is only one reason why it is called a monster building. This spire is really huge. It is pure black with a faint red light flashing on it like a burning flame. It becomes narrower and narrower as it goes up. When it reaches a point beyond the reach of mortal eyes, the tower body has become very slender. It looks like no one can enter. I don’t know if it serves a decorative purpose or if there are some facilities inside that slender spire.
When Xu Zhi looked directly at this huge "tower", she found that the tower seemed to be built with "building blocks" and was slowly changing.
For a moment she couldn't tell where the "entrance" was.
Every time this happened, Xu Zhi would start to miss her original [Eye of Insight]. If she had it, why would she need to search for the entrance step by step?
But after Xu Zhi visited most places, she confirmed one thing.
There is no entrance here.
Perhaps at the moment the "invasion" came, this magnificent black tower had already closed all entry channels.
Should we say it is worthy of being the headquarters of [Gods Heavy Industry]?
Even as an archbishop, she could not see any flaws with her naked eyes, as if the entire tower was cast from a single piece of black steel without any processing. But how could that be possible?
“It’s truly an exquisite craft.”
In this case, she could not sneak in as originally planned.
Unable to tell anything from the outside, Xu Zhi randomly chose a location according to his intuition, and then tried to use his extraordinary abilities against the iron wall in front of him.
Then, a magical scene appeared. The black wall of unknown metal material in front of Xu Zhi, which was originally extremely hard, suddenly became extremely fragile. She just stretched out her hand and slapped it lightly, and it shattered into powder and scattered on the ground.
This didn't even trigger the alarm, because the alarm device in this area was also affected by [Laziness], and the reaction time was at least a hundred times slower than usual.
Xu Zhi walked through the originally solid metal wall with ease and entered the headquarters of [Gods Heavy Industry]. Then, the moment she entered, she felt the feeling of being "spied on".
She looked around and found that she was in a corridor. The sense of being peeped came from the camera at the front of the corridor.
It was an extremely obvious camera, with its red "eyes" looking straight at Xu Zhi.
Obviously, someone was watching her through this camera, or rather, being wary of her.
Xu Zhi controlled her spirit body and waved towards the camera with a smile, looking "friendly", but her actions seemed to have angered the person behind the camera. She noticed that the surroundings seemed to be changing.
Not only the outer walls, but even the interior of this black tower can be changed at will.
Xu Zhi guessed that the goal of the person who was controlling the changes in the black tower was to trap himself in the periphery, which was a less important place.
Until now, she has not met anyone. It should be that those people were dispatched before she met anyone. After all, now, except for the agent of [Casting], it would be futile for anyone else to come. It would be better to try to stop her with this building that seems to have condensed a lot of efforts of [Heavy Industry of the Gods].
"What a pity."
If it were any other brainless guy, perhaps this would cause them some trouble, but it happened to be Xu Zhi, who happened to be [lazy].
Xu Zhi didn't give the person behind the camera time to react, and instantly maximized the range of her extraordinary ability. Within the range of [Laziness], all mechanical operations became extremely slow, and the equipment originally used to trap her could no longer play its original role. Xu Zhi's speed was extremely fast, and the person controlling the black tower had no time to predict her direction of movement and change the layout in advance.
This is the convenience of [laziness]. In fact, what surprised Xu Zhi was that, according to her extraordinary ability, all machines should have stopped working, but the facilities in the black tower were not completely shut down. This means that the construction materials of this entire huge black tower contain a certain degree of [extraordinary resistance].
The word "rich and powerful" is no longer enough to describe [Gods Heavy Industry].
If it is just an ordinary extraordinary person, even if it is a named one, he would probably have to think twice before coming here. After all, no matter how you look at it, the people from [Gods Heavy Industry] can kill those extraordinary people with just this black tower.
Xu Zhi couldn't help but wonder if there was something in it that could be used against the Archbishop, but even if there was such a thing, she wouldn't be the one to be dealt with first.
Compared with her two colleagues, she is much more low-key.
Xu Zhi kept shuttling back and forth inside this huge black tower. Because it was too vast, towering into the clouds and had many floors, plus there were obstacles, Xu Zhi did not find what she was looking for at the first time. Fortunately, she soon noticed something.
The temperature in this tower is layered, the higher you go, the hotter it gets.
And the higher she went, the stronger the aura of the extraordinary people with the [Casting] attribute she saw became.
During this period, Xu Zhi also passed by a place similar to a storage room for extraordinary items, but she was not very interested in these material possessions, so she had no interest in robbing. The most common things in the black tower were various furnaces and forging tables.
There were often extraordinary items that had not yet been forged placed on them. Perhaps knowing that she was coming in this direction, the forgers had to drop the tasks in their hands and hide.
After she climbed dozens of floors of the tower, Xu Zhi finally saw the shadow of something like a laboratory.
She was too fast, and the things in the laboratory could not be cleaned up in a hurry. Even though the black tower was a running machine and could have changed the location of the laboratory to conceal it, it took time for the machine to operate. Before she could conceal anything, Xu Zhi had already arrived.
Unfortunately, even though the altitude is already very high, the experiments here are still not related to circuits.
Rather, it is said that [Heavy Industry of the Gods] is involved in too many experimental studies, and they are divided into different floors according to different levels of importance. I think these should be the experimental contents that are "not so important in the headquarters."
As Xu Zhi moved up level by level, she also noticed that the influence of [laziness] was gradually decreasing. It was not very obvious, but it was there. This made her feel a sense of urgency. According to her perception, her colleagues seemed to have encountered some difficulties and their positions were getting farther and farther away from her. They were probably staying at the bottom.
And she was probably able to "stroll" so leisurely thanks to her colleagues.
But soon, this situation was reversed.
When she climbed up to an unknown floor again, Xu Zhi suddenly felt a chill on her back. She immediately stopped moving forward and even subconsciously took a step back. Then, almost at the moment of retreat, a cold light flashed in front of her.
--clang!
There was a sound of something being nailed into the ground. Xu Zhi looked closely and saw that what was stuck into the ground was a piece of white bone forged into the shape of an arrow.
The bones were densely engraved with fine circuits. Although he didn't know what their rhythm was, Xu Zhi subconsciously didn't want it to get close to him, let alone be nailed into his body.
She frowned and was about to pick up the bone, but she saw the space in front of the bone distorted for a moment, and then the bone that was originally nailed into the ground disappeared, leaving only a pit in its place to prove that it had indeed been here.
【Leave here immediately! 】
Suddenly, a voice sounded in the corridor, obviously directed at Xu Zhi.
Xu Zhi realized that [Gods Heavy Industry] did not want her to go any further.
This also means that if you go further up, you will touch upon certain secrets.
But unfortunately, what Xu Zhi wanted to know was the secret, so she ignored the warning and went straight upwards.
The expected white bones did not attack immediately, so Xu Zhi guessed that the thing probably used CDs, but she was not sure if there was only one.
Although she didn't know what the bones were made of, the bones gave her a bad feeling.
If there were other bone nails, they would probably have been used on her colleagues.
Taking advantage of this gap, Xu Zhi successfully reached the upper floor again. As soon as she arrived here, she suddenly realized that her extraordinary influence on the building was rapidly declining.
In addition, something is suppressing the "supernatural energy" here. It's not just the supernatural energy in the air, but even she is being suppressed.
Fortunately, the archbishop had a strong resistance. Apart from some slight discomfort at the beginning, she thought she would be free from any restrictions after a while.
But it was at this moment, the moment she realized that she was being suppressed, Xu Zhi was suddenly startled. It was like her spider sense was amplified to the limit. She sensed the smell of "danger" in advance and then quickly dodged.
Sure enough, the next second, the familiar white bones brushed past her. The speed of the bone nails was extremely fast. Before Xu Zhi had fully adapted to the pressure of this layer, the bone nails scratched one of her arms, causing a wound about half a centimeter.
In the eyes of the Archbishop, this wound was the kind that would have healed completely if it had been delayed a second.
But...an unexpected event occurred.
Xu Zhi was shocked to find that this wound, which should have been painless to her, had not healed at all!
Blood slowly flowed down the small wound. What made Xu Zhi even more puzzled was that she could feel that there was no problem with her healing ability!
There was no supernatural power in the wound that prevented her from healing.
This is so weird. What on earth is that bone nail?
Fortunately, no matter how much this small wound bleeds, it is not a problem for the Archbishop. She can ignore the wound on her arm, but Xu Zhi also realized that she can't let the bone nail hurt her too much.
Little by little, it adds up to a lot. Even such minor wounds to her will pose a threat to her when they accumulate to a large enough amount. She doesn't want this spiritual body to die for the time being.
The good news is that even though she has invaded this place, there is still only one bone nail targeting her. I don’t know if it is because of her good colleagues or if there is really only one bone nail.
This entire floor is filled with laboratories, and Xu Zhi immediately understood what the experiments were at a glance.
Talent circuit.
This is what she was looking for.
However, the area of this floor is not small, and there are many laboratories. The contents of each laboratory seem to be different. But after Xu Zhi took a quick look at the talent circuits in these laboratories that had not yet been removed under the threat of the bone nails, he found a quiet place and began to observe.
Her powerful memory allowed her to engrave in her mind even a quick glance, and a large number of fragmented circuit fragments were constantly pieced together and stacked in her mind, trying to restore the content of the experiment.
When the spirit body had almost toured the entire floor and had more than a dozen wounds on its body from the bone nails, the main body finally had a general idea of summarizing these fragmented circuits.
First of all, these talent circuits come from eight different attributes. Yes, although I don’t know where they got them from before, it is obvious that these circuits even include the [Cup].
Secondly, [Gods Heavy Industry] is trying to combine talent circuits of different attributes into one!
They even have some experimental results!
In the laboratory on this floor, there are several subjects whose innate circuits in their bodies are no longer of the same attributes. However, most of them do not look very mentally healthy.
It seems that this experiment has not yet received a relatively good feedback.
Although Xu Zhi was a little surprised, he was not shocked. It would be strange if [Gods Heavy Industry] had never thought of trying to let a person have different attributes.
In addition, in the laboratory of our headquarters, there are already samples of successful combination of extraordinary creatures and human talent circuits!
He was a little boy who looked less than ten years old, and there was no animal form on his body. However, from the experimental data that was not taken away in a hasty evacuation, it was clear that the circuits in the boy's body had already merged with part of the circuits of a mouse caught from the Lost Land.
As for why it was a mouse, Xu Zhi was not quite sure.
But what shocked Xu Zhi even more was that when she observed these fragmentary innate circuit experiments, she vaguely realized that in addition to these biological experiments, the other party was probably doing some circuit experiments that could be called outrageous.
Even these human experiments pale into insignificance compared to this.
(End of this chapter)
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