Chapter 367 Unit Zero, Black Pupa's Reconnaissance Time (Two-in-one monthly ticket request)
"This damn place is really cold. I should have brought more diapers... Well, luckily my restraints are warming. It's not too bad."
It was midnight on August 19th, local time. A slender figure wearing a dark red mask and a black windbreaker was suspended in the snow.
A restraint belt extended from the back of the windbreaker, encircling the magnificent glacier above the head, and the remaining restraints wrapped the body like a chrysalis.
At this moment, the giant black pupa hung upside down in the vast white world, motionless, as if about to emerge as a butterfly. A cold wind blew over from the high glacier peak.
Hofsjokull glacier, Iceland.
Looking around, this vast frozen land is not just white. There are black volcanic rocks, lakes sealed under the ice, and melting ice and snow making rustling sounds. There are no human traces at all. If you stay on the ice field for too long, you might feel so lonely that you want to shout out loud.
Hofsjokull is the third largest glacier in Iceland and is also the largest active volcanic area in Iceland.
It is located in the center of the highlands and is very difficult to reach. Only a few polar adventurers will visit here specifically, but it is the source of many of Iceland's rivers.
But these are all bullshit to Hei Pupa. Even if this place is a hell on earth where one will be shattered into pieces once stepping in, he has to come.
The reason is simple. The Savior's base is hidden here, and he must find that location.
The biggest turning point is just around the corner.
Once he finds the other party's base, the Salvation Society will become a real organization in his eyes, rather than something intangible and incomprehensible. At that time, the organization will shed its mysterious veil.
If something exists in reality, there must be a way to destroy it.
Icelandic time is several hours slower than Chinese time, so it is already sunrise in Lijing, while it is just getting dark at Hofsglacier.
At this moment, a lonely crescent moon is reflected on the clear glacier. The crescent moon on the horizon and its reflection on the lake form a complete circle.
At this moment, Gu Wenyu was hiding in the cocoon, flipping through a book with his eyes downcast, while controlling his restraint belt incarnation, swinging the restraint belt around on the glacier.
The restraint belt incarnation grabbed the restraint belt, like a seeker grabbing a spider's thread in the dark, and leaped over the falling ice and snow and the rows of volcanic rocks.
But what was reflected in his empty pupils was still the vast expanse of Baichuan. The cold wind blowing in his face was creepy, as if this endless frozen land would extend to the end of the world.
But the restraint incarnation did not stop. Instead, he raised his hand and peeled off a piece of restraint trap, hanging it on the top of the glacier.
Over the next few days, Black Pupa controlled his avatar and headed non-stop towards the center of the Hofs Glacier, leaving a field of restraint traps to the east and west. The restraints' senses were fully activated, observing any movement near the traps.
The incarnation continued to move towards the north of Hofs Glacier and stationed there, while the black pupa itself hung upside down in the south, leaving no corner untouched.
If the members of the Salvation Society were traveling here, they would most likely pass through the four lines of defense set up by Black Pupa. But unfortunately, at least for this entire day, Black Pupa was unable to detect any strange movement on this vast frozen land.
"So where exactly is that place?" Hei Pu scratched his chin, wondering, "Urushihara Ruri said it's beneath the glacier, so is it actually at the base of an active volcano? Are the people from the Savior Society really not worried about a volcanic eruption someday? Or are they just planning to use this place as a short-term base?"
He sighed, "Could it be that after Urushihara Ruri's death, they had already sensed something was wrong, and transferred my body in advance?"
Soon the black pupa shook his head and withdrew his messy thoughts.
If the Salvation Society were to relocate its base, Ji Minghuan's body would definitely be able to sense it. After all, he hadn't had any experience of being anesthetized during this period.
And to be honest, building a base that looks exactly the same is a huge project. At least Ji Minghuan didn't find any difference in his environment.
"Let's look for it slowly. There's still plenty of time. Fortunately, this body is a mutant, so it won't be a problem if it doesn't eat for a month or two. I just don't believe that those guys from the Savior Society can hide for a lifetime?" Thinking of this, Hei Pupa called up the gear panel in the lower right corner of his field of vision and found the last page of [Character Splitting Progress].
[The split progress has not been completed yet, and a new game character cannot be created. ]
[Hint: The number of split points required to create the next new game character is: 999 (Once you have a total of 999 split points, you can create the next "game character" in the real world. The next game body will be identified as: Body 0)]
"Nine hundred and ninety-nine split points. Basically, I can say that I won't be able to complete them in this lifetime... Of course, if the inhibitor applied to the main body is removed, that's another matter."
Black Pupa scratched his chin, thinking, "So what exactly is this Unit Zero? Does it symbolize the true strength of restricted-level superpowers?"
While imagining himself rubbing the black hole with his hands on Unit 0, he raised his fingers wrapped in restraints, closed the split panel, and then used the restraints' senses to look at the surrounding scene.
Ice and snow whistled in, yet they brushed past the edge of the transparent chrysalis perfectly, not even touching it. Clear moonlight streamed down from overhead, but it couldn't even make out the outline of the giant chrysalis.
In order not to reveal his tracks, he had to keep the restraints in their changed color form. Now the black pupa had been cultivated to its final form, and its ability to conceal its breath had been further improved.
Even if it was a legendary strongman from the Salvation Society, he was confident that he could hide it from the other party. This was also the reason why he came to the other party's base alone.
Even if we take a step back, even if we sacrifice a body in exchange for finding the location of the enemy base, it is definitely not a losing deal.
"Then the question becomes, once we find the exact location, we should gather our forces. I'm confident I can lure the Lake Hunters and the demon army to Iceland. The White Crow Brigade is also under our control, and the Third Prince's help is a foregone conclusion. The only remaining undecided matters are... Hong Yi, and what about Dad, Big Brother, and the others?"
When his thoughts came to this, Hei Pupa sighed softly, tilted his head and moved his stiff neck.
"I don't know if my sister's Ghost Train Group will come and get involved, although I don't really want to see Ke Qirui. But her train demon might be able to work wonders, just like that time when we killed the Queen Bee on the uninhabited island."
He lowered his head and flipped through the comic book "Looking Back" while thinking, "How can I appear in front of my elder brother and the others next time?" Thinking of this, Hei Pu touched his chin and began to imagine the scene at that time, but his mind was in a mess.
In fact, if possible, he no longer wants to see those family members. If this continues, he will not be able to tell whether they are "fake family members" or "real family members". After all, he is an abandoned orphan and does not understand how to get along with his family.
It was just that at that funeral, when he hid in César's pocket with Unit 03 and looked at Su Zimai's red eyes from crying and Su Wei with a haggard face and white hair, he suddenly felt as if something in his heart was touched.
He originally thought that after rescuing the original body, he could put all these troublesome relationships behind him and run away with Kong Youling.
Just like before, they were two at the beginning and they were still two at the end.
But can he really tell the difference?
The black pupa lowered its eyes, raised its fingers, and quietly turned the pages of the comic book. The restraints rubbed against the paper, making a rustling sound inside the pupa.
"Should I go directly to Haifan City to find them, or send them a text message using a private channel known only to us, telling them I'm in Iceland and asking them to come find me here... If all else fails, I'd better go meet them in person, otherwise my credibility will be very low."
"How am I supposed to escape their family fight then...will the diaper demon just burst into tears?"
"But then I should have told them the truth, saying, 'Gu Wenyu is just a fake person, and your family doesn't exist at all.' Well... they definitely wouldn't listen, and would just think I was being inexplicable."
"Forget it, if it doesn't work out, I'll just take over the personality, but then I'll become a real psychopath."
Under the moonlight, above the clear glacier, a transparent insect pupa hung upside down alone. The boy inside the pupa put the comic book back into his windbreaker pocket and slowly closed his eyes.
At the same time, inside the Salvation Society base, in the children's playground on the F2 floor.
Two small figures in hospital gowns were sitting on the swing, shoulder to shoulder. Shang Xiaochi looked down at a palm-sized English vocabulary book, while Ji Minghuan was swinging casually.
A melancholy blue light was cast overhead, and the swing was swaying up and down. Ji Minghuan's eyes were empty, and his soul seemed to have flown away to who knows where.
From time to time, he would look up and see Sun Changkong and Kong Youling chatting on the Somersault Cloud, and then look at Firion and Mario playing a two-player game on Switch not far away.
At this moment, Ji Minghuan's mind was full of two things that had just happened in the prison cell.
One was that the instructor played them a combat video of "Wu Qingjie," the name of the kid who held the Zeus fragment.
According to the mentor, just a few hours ago, he single-handedly killed the Indian queen bee and the three newly born queen bees.
Although the video was incomplete, Ji Minghuan could tell from those few short shots how powerful the mythical fragment "Zeus" was. Maybe this guy was even stronger than Sun Changkong.
So, he was racking his brains to think about what kind of combat power would be needed to delay Zeus as long as possible.
In fact, from the very beginning, Ji Minghuan did not expect that the people he summoned from various forces could kill the mythical enemy. This was an extremely difficult task.
Take the queen bee "Joe" as an example. Even if it is a mythical level bee with "partial" ability, in front of it, the so-called disaster-level bee is nothing more than a group of lambs to be slaughtered.
But Ji Minghuan's purpose was to use the time these people delayed to distract the attention of the Salvation Society and take the opportunity to rescue his own body.
Once the black pupa enters the base of the Savior Society, this body will be able to find the main body's location as if it were in an empty space. The restraint belt's senses are not fake, Ji Minghuan is confident of this.
But if we can't hold Zeus back and confine him to the Hofs Glacier, there's no need to even think about entering the Salvation Society to rescue the original body.
He was certain that even a complete black pupa would be pulled out by Zeus in an instant, and his plan would be ruined.
"So annoying..." Ji Minghuan shrugged, his thoughts racing. "If I let Dad come, will he have a chance of holding Zeus back? No matter how fast Zeus is, he can't outrun the pause time."
He thought for a moment and said, "Forget it. Let's not think about Zeus for now. What should the prophet do?"
"Prophet", these three words constitute the second of Ji Minghuan's worries.
Just a few minutes ago, it seemed that the existence called "Prophet" came to the prison room. At that time, time suddenly stopped in all directions. In the empty world, only Ji Minghuan and the human-shaped afterimage created by the other party were left to move.
"I will come to see you in two days. Wait for me. I will never repeat the same mistake this time." These were the words left by the prophet at that time.
Ji Minghuan recalled the afterimage of the man in the white cloak in his mind and couldn't help but click his tongue.
Since he was able to conceal the information from the Savior Society and pass it on to him so openly, the strength of this prophet must not be too bad. He is at least a functional disaster-level, and this is a conservative estimate.
Although Ji Minghuan knew he was not in danger of death, otherwise the members of the Salvation Society would have taken action against him long ago, he was still under great pressure to face such an unknown figure with his limited abilities, fearing that something unexpected would happen.
He sighed softly, lowered his eyes, and silently looked at the soft sand under his feet, thinking to himself, "Two days later, that is, the night of August 21st?"
"It's still uncertain whether the prophet is a friend or foe. If he's a bad guy, should I report what just happened to my mentor and tell him that the prophet will be here in two days?"
"But if the prophet came to save me, then why did he let the people from the Salvation Society lock me up in the first place? What's the point of this? It's impossible no matter how I think about it." Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan's thoughts were interrupted by the voice beside him.
"Traitor, how do you pronounce this word?" Shang Xiaochi suddenly turned his head and asked softly.
"word?"
Ji Minghuan raised his eyebrows and turned his head to meet her gaze. Under the cold light, their eyes met.
"Um."
Shang Xiaochi turned the word book in his hand towards Ji Minghuan and pointed at the English word "Abandon" on it.
"I don't know. I'm an illiterate person from an orphanage. You're asking the wrong person." Ji Minghuan looked at the word. "If it's Japanese, I can teach you. After all, I watch a lot of cartoons and I've learned it without any teacher."
"Forget it then." Shang Xiaochi frowned.
"Why did you start learning English recently?" Ji Minghuan looked up at him.
"It was too boring, so I learned it..." Shang Xiaochi whispered, "If you want to go abroad in the future, I can be your translator. I've learned pinyin in the past few days, but I haven't learned it all yet. Also, I'm not very good at communicating with people, so don't laugh at me then."
"I don't think you need to learn. Back then, we would have let our instructor be our translator," Ji Minghuan said calmly. "He's a handsome man, and you can tell he's fluent in multiple languages."
"If the tutor is going too, then I won't go," said Shang Xiaochi.
"I'm kidding."
"What a bad joke."
"How much do you hate the instructor?"
"I don't dislike you guys being the only ones here. You're still in the observation period." Shang Xiaochi whispered.
"Haha, the observation period has come. I'll try my best not to be someone you dislike." Ji Minghuan said nonchalantly, "Although it's difficult."
"Why is it difficult?"
"Because I'm annoying."
Shang Xiaochi was silent for a moment. "The big sister said...she just watched Zeus's video with you."
"Then what?"
"Did the instructor show you...my video?" Shang Xiaochi thought for a moment and then asked.
"Uh...what do you mean?" Ji Minghuan asked in confusion.
"Didn't the instructor tell you?" Shang Xiaochi said intermittently, "I lost control once before. At that time, I turned into a huge tree, and many people were swept into it. They were either pierced by thorns or crushed by the roots. Many people died. They were all the experimenters here..."
She paused. "He didn't show you the video from that time? I thought you had already seen it."
"When did that happen?"
"It was not long ago, before I even knew you."
"So, you turned into the World Tree and killed many people?"
"Um."
"Big Sister also lost control once, she also... Never mind, it's not good to use this to comfort you." Having said that, Ji Minghuan turned his head and glanced at Somersault Cloud.
The two girls sat cross-legged on the cloud. Kong Youling put the penguin doll on her head and shook her head seriously. Sun Changkong was amused by her and laughed so hard that he held his stomach.
"You don't have to comfort me. Actually, I don't take that matter to heart." Shang Xiaochi said.
"real?"
"Yes, because I hate those experimenters."
"But no matter how much you hate them... after knowing you've killed someone, you're bound to be more or less afraid."
"I'm not afraid."
"Who are you kidding?"
Shang Xiaochi lowered her head, her eyes suddenly reddening. She frowned as she stared at her vocabulary book. "Actually, at the time, I kept thinking, 'I'd just die,' but my instructor wouldn't let me. No one else would. I feel like every day here is empty. It's so scary to look up and see the same ceiling. I feel like a puppet being manipulated..."
Ji Minghuan remained silent.
"Luckily, I met you guys later," Shang Xiaochi said. "It's great to meet you guys. I suddenly have the motivation to live... I want to see the outside world with you. Maybe if I hold on a little longer, things will get better."
After a long while, Ji Minghuan spoke up, "Can you please stop saying things like 'live'? What do you know? The world outside is so big and you haven't seen anything at all."
"You... aren't you also an elementary school student?"
"I'm a sage elementary school student. I'm not on the same level as a low-level blackened elementary school student like you."
"Mingming, you said before that you were a blackened elementary school student." Shang Xiaochi sobbed, with some grievance and annoyance in her voice.
"I've evolved. It's impossible for a person to be a blackened elementary school student all his life, right?" Ji Minghuan said unhappily.
Hearing the sobbing sound, Firion also came over and said, "Don't cry, Xiaochi, look at my magic ear-moving skill." After saying that, his pair of wolf ears suddenly stood up and then drooped down.
"Restricted, how come you made someone cry again while chatting? Do you have any hidden attributes?" Mario came over with a game console and asked curiously.
Ji Minghuan gave them a speechless look and didn't even bother to explain anything.
"It's not the traitor's fault." Shang Xiaochi said.
"Did you hear that?" Ji Minghuan asked.
As soon as he finished speaking, Shang Xiaochi changed the subject and stammered, "Forget it, it's the traitor's fault..." At this point, she suddenly burst into tears.
"Restricted, you're amazing." said Mario.
"Ji Minghuan, a bad guy." said Firio.
Sun Changkong also flew over on his somersault cloud, exclaimed, and pointed at Ji Minghuan with his fangs bared. "Why did you make little sister Xiaochi cry again?"
Kong Youling also puffed up her cheeks slightly. She could obviously speak, but she seemed not to want to blame him verbally, so she subconsciously wrote on the notebook, and the rustling sound of the pencil scratching against the paper pages came from the notebook.
Ji Minghuan sighed softly and stopped talking. He just lowered his head and swung quietly on the swing, staring blankly at the soft sofa on the ground with empty eyes.
When he thought that in a few days these kids would become the final boss he had to defeat, each one more ferocious than the other, and they could kill the people he attracted like bugs with just a small skill.
Maybe with a "pop", Ayase Origami, Gu Qiye and the others would turn into a cloud of blood and die on the glacier. Maybe many people would die, many, many people, all people he knew, people he had tricked into coming here, people who knew nothing...
But now, he has to try his best to take care of the feelings of these children and treat them as friends.
Sometimes, he didn't even know what he was acting for. He was acting all the time, acting with his own body and acting with other people's bodies. Thinking of this, Ji Minghuan felt a little tired.
He wanted to get out of here quickly and not see their faces again.
"You all might as well die..." At this moment, his lips moved and he suddenly said.
"What did you just say?" Mario was stunned. "We're all going to die?"
Ji Minghuan was slightly stunned.
He slowly raised his eyes and looked at Mario and Firion who were looking at him in surprise, then turned his head and looked at Sun Changkong and Kong Youling who were stunned.
At this moment, the lights in the park suddenly went out, and everything was shrouded in pitch-black darkness. The instructor's voice came from the monitor, "Time to rest, kids."
After a long silence, Ji Minghuan said, "Nothing... Maybe I haven't slept enough these past two days. I'm almost dead tired and have started talking nonsense."
He yawned and stood up from the swing. "Good night, everyone...see you in two days." After that, he walked out of the children's playground first and followed the experimenter into the elevator.
With a "ding" sound, the elevator door gradually closed and went up.
Ji Minghuan looked at the experimenter who was operating the elevator panel, then raised his eyes from under his forehead and silently looked at the figures that disappeared through the crack in the door.
The elevator car hummed downwards. The young man in the hospital gown let out a long sigh, leaned his back against the elevator wall, and slowly closed his eyes, as if he had fallen asleep.
At the same time, at 8:00 am on August 19th, Lijing time, inside the underground bar "Grey Crow".
[Hint: The perspective of Unit 2, "Chess Player," has been loaded.]
"Boom, boom, boom..."
There was a knock on the door, and Xia Pingzhou immediately opened his eyes, only to be greeted by an unfamiliar ceiling. He was silent for a moment, then stood up from the bed in the private room, glancing down at the black gloves on the pillow, then at the crow tattoo on the back of his right hand.
At this time, the Ripper's voice came from outside the door, "Let's go, Sleepyhead, it's time to go to Haifan City."
"Here I come."
As Xia Pingzhou spoke, he slowly put on gloves to cover the crow pattern on the back of his hand, and then raised his head.
(End of this chapter)
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