Chapter 110 Base Us and You
"So you have experienced a disaster area called 'Blood Moon's Lair' and met a domain lord called 'Blood Queen'?" Karina asked.
"That's right." Li Ming nodded.
"I have no idea." Karina frowned after hearing this: "Maybe you're not famous enough for me, who's in another state, to know about it. As for why you showed up in Antarctica..."
"I think you may have encountered a realm where time flows abnormally slowly."
"Ah?" Li Ming blinked.
How did Karina convince herself? Although this was also beneficial to him, Li Ming pretended to agree and said, "Maybe your guess is correct."
"Take some sleep, Li Ming." Karina said suddenly.
She looked out the window at the increasingly intense snowstorm and said calmly, "Tomorrow there may be a tough battle. I have a mechanical body and I don't need to rest, but you are different."
"We need to be at the research base by sunset tomorrow. I am worried about the Black Emperor."
Li Ming was silent after hearing this: "..."
He wanted to say that he could do it, but he didn't know what state he was in. Finally, Li Ming responded softly:
"Okay, but I can't guarantee I'll be able to sleep."
"Yeah." Karina nodded.
So Li Ming obediently opened the sleeping bag that Karina dragged over and crawled in. He cautiously poked his head out and said, "I hope that even if I fall asleep, if the glass shatters, please tell me to run away."
"Don't do something like carrying your sleeping bag to another safe house."
"..." Karina was speechless after hearing this, "It seems that you have overestimated my conscience. The most I can do is just leave you here and run away alone."
"That's fine too."
After hearing this, Li Ming did not worry about his life at all. He continued to dig deeper into his sleeping bag with a peaceful expression, ready to try his luck to see if he could fall asleep.
Karina was silent after reading it:
...She now has no idea what Li Ming is thinking.
But Karina did not ask. She just sighed and looked out the window again. The storm outside was still fierce. The slight cracking sound of the glass and the whistling sound of the wind complemented each other, which was extremely terrifying.
However, amidst these terrifying noises, the sound of someone's steady breathing was heard.
Already asleep?
Karina looked at the sleeping bag beside her and laughed: This is not like Oswestry. Oswestry is a stubborn boy who sticks to his own bed.
She first looked calmly at Li Ming's half-protruding head, and then looked at the cracked glass window.
*
Li Ming woke up.
There will be no comics forum this time.
He looked up at his open palm with clear textures, and suddenly thought: It turned out that he no longer needed the forum. He had obtained almost all the information that could be obtained from the forum.
And now, Li Ming is experiencing a new cycle that the forum has never known before.
It's time to say goodbye to my readers.
Although Li Ming did not realize that it was the last time they met, he was still racking his brains on how to convince Xu Wanyi, but he did not expect Li Yixi to handle it so smoothly...
Li Yixi.
Li Ming called out the name softly between his teeth.
His Li Yixi has grown up, and his sister can already stand on her own. Maybe she no longer needs him, or maybe...
Li Ming recalled their journey together with a somewhat nostalgic look. He thought:
Maybe it's because we've grown up.
But the so-called separation is always unexpected. Although he felt a little regretful, Li Ming decided to accept it. His path was his alone.
However, there was something strange about Li Ming:
The corpse was clearly his derivative, so how come it was now rumored to be Jiang Huai's derivative? You should know that Jiang Huai had never been degraded, he died in the form of a human.
Because of this, the 'Mirror City' cannot reflect his catastrophic reflection.
"Important events in the past and in the future..."
Li Ming repeated in a low voice the information told by the Apocalypse Knight, but he soon realized something was wrong: the future described by the Apocalypse Knight was most likely the future after the time period in which He was.
And He is already a silhouette millions of years ago. He will naturally encounter future events that He has never experienced.
That is to say——
The tide of memory cannot record the events that follow Li Ming.
Is it really impossible to record?
Li Ming asked himself half-doubtfully, but the answer he finally decided on was still: No. If this disaster field was really so magical, then its owner would not have died under the attack of the Apocalypse Knights.
How can a mere Lost One restricted by the abyss do something that even the abyss cannot do?
Li Ming secretly guessed:
This new episode is most likely the week before last week.
Without the readers or the protagonist knowing, the world has already experienced a time rewind. It's just that the current rewind is more thorough than the previous one, so no one knows.
No, that's not right...
Li Ming thought of Jiang Huai's actions last week: Jiang Huai might have gotten the inspiration from the 'Memory Tide'... After all, he himself had been back to Shencheng and could indeed detect the problem...
But even so, what Li Ming still couldn't figure out was:
Why can his derivatives be rumored to be Jiang Huai's derivatives? The Apocalypse Knights are clearly not allowed to interfere with the process of civilization destruction. Is there something wrong with his understanding, or is there something special going on?
"Li Ming, let's go."
Karina glanced at the silent snowy field outside the window and shouted to Li Ming.
Li Ming quickly responded: "Okay."
He put on his goggles, snow boots, and ran out the door. While running, Li Ming couldn't help but glance at the glass window that they were both worried about last night.
There were many cracks on the three-layer thick bulletproof glass.
The outermost layer of glass had long been shattered by the hail, even broken. The deepest crack in the glass went through the two layers of glass like a bullet, and stopped at a position less than half a thumb's length away from the room.
They were nearly forced to flee.
I really don’t know what Karina’s psychological journey was last night... Li Ming sighed when he saw this, but he soon realized keenly that he only felt emotion for other people’s experiences, but lacked emotion for his own experiences.
The experience in the previous memory fragment finally affected him.
Li Ming and Karina met at the door smoothly.
The two began to search for a route to the research base in the vast snowfield. The snow covered layer after layer, and the road signs on the ground were no longer clear.
There were many times when Li Ming mistakenly thought he was going to suffer from snow blindness.
But Karina's presence eased his anxiety. In this dead and silent white wilderness, only each other was the most real and clear signpost.
"Oh my God," Carina muttered in dissatisfaction, "If the support staff hadn't marked the coordinates for me long ago, I would be lost now. Why did they build the research base so remote?"
"Do you know who built this base?"
Li Ming asked curiously as he followed Karina step by step.
"I don't know." Karina didn't look back.
She said hesitantly, "My country definitely participated, but I don't know how many other countries participated."
"Honestly..." Karina said confidently, "The proposal to choose Antarctica as the location could never have been proposed by the United States."
Is this going to get angry out of shame?
Li Ming didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing this: "...Then who told you about this research base?"
"It's a long story."
Karina looked up at the sky with melancholy: "In the middle of the catastrophe, the United States encountered a Lost One who used mental pollution as a means of attack. His pollution was mainly spread through text. We had no way to deal with it without any defense. In addition, he specifically targeted government officials, which forced the high-level government officials at the time to rotate."
"In addition to the large-scale selection at the beginning of the disaster, the top leadership of the government was replaced twice in four years. Many key documents were lost during this period."
Karina shrugged regretfully and said:
"If the current government had not insisted on restoring the documents, I would not be here at all."
"..." Li Ming was silent.
It sounds like a tough time. Li Ming clearly recognized an indisputable fact: when his country was undergoing catastrophic changes, other countries were also experiencing the same hardships.
In the face of disaster, all beings are equal.
Before the sun set, the two finally reached the legendary research base. After more than 10 years of storage, the base was almost buried in snow and frozen by frost.
They followed the navigation system and circled around three times before they finally discovered that the frozen soil beneath their feet was the base.
"It seems there is no way to get in through the main entrance."
Li Ming, wearing a winter jacket, squatted down and wiped the ice at his feet with his reddened fingers. The outline of a majestic and tall base vaguely emerged under the ice.
He looked up at Karina.
Karina was covering her ears with one hand and frowning at the air in front of her. She was probably looking at the 3D holographic model of the base and thinking about how to enter.
Now that we are here, we can’t go back empty-handed, right?
"One good news, one bad news."
Karina decisively turned off the holographic projection in her mind and said to Li Ming regretfully: "Li Ming, do you want to hear the good news first, or the bad news first?"
"Uh..." Li Ming raised his eyebrows, "Why don't you just say it directly."
"The good news is that I found a route to get in. The bad news is that the interior of the base is no longer suitable for humans to enter," Karina said. "According to the AI assistant's analysis, there is an 87% chance that the glacier covering the base was formed in the past three years."
"It's not old enough to cover the entire base."
"The only explanation is that the frozen soil that was originally used as the foundation of the base has sunk or drifted. Considering the current geographical features of the area, it is speculated that it is possible to break through the ice and enter."
"Is this good news?" Li Ming wondered.
"The problem is that the foundation has sunk." Kalina emphasized seriously, "According to the 3D structure diagram of the base, the research base has a total of 14 floors, and the last four floors have sunk into the Southern Ocean."
"The oxygen supply layer and power generation layer are in these last four layers."
"Hiss..." Li Ming instantly realized the seriousness of the situation.
In other words, the base is currently lacking both oxygen and electricity. Normal humans cannot survive in an oxygen-deficient environment, nor can they see in the dark.
"There is a more realistic problem."
Karina said in a heavy tone, "Because it is a research base for disasters, I don't know whether the base has ever contained disasters. But judging from the three-dimensional structure diagram of the base, they did contain certain beings."
“…That’s it.”
Li Ming couldn't help but recall the reflections of the disasters he encountered in Lingcheng. As far as he had seen, most of the disasters could survive in an oxygen-deficient environment and could also see in the dark.
Only humans can’t… Only he can’t…
Li Ming wilted instantly.
"But there should still be a small amount of oxygen in the first few layers." Kalina fell into thought, "Because the base itself is not completely enclosed, it must still be supplied with oxygen for human breathing."
"I can only say that the further down you go, the more dangerous it is."
After hearing this, Li Ming patted his chest and said in a relaxed tone, "That's not bad."
He was determined to go in and take a look.
Now that he's here, it can't be that he's the only one that can't go in, right?
"There is one more thing to consider." Kalina shook her head seriously after hearing this, "My original plan was to come to the research base to recharge, but I can't do that now that I'm submerged in the power supply layer. In other words-"
"Now I have to calculate the power consumption."
"Yeah." Li Ming nodded seriously.
Although he didn't understand why Karina emphasized this point, it didn't stop him from pretending to understand it. However, when the words reached Li Ming's heart, he was suddenly stunned.
Karina must go to the bottom floor of the base.
As a robot, she didn't have to worry about lack of oxygen or light, but Li Ming couldn't. Karina just said that if Li Ming encountered a disaster while she was exploring the bottom of the base, she would not be able to provide support.
Because she had to return to the United States.
Only when she returns to the United States will this trip be meaningful. Moreover, the United States is her homeland.
Karina's eyes reflected Li Ming's figure quietly. She asked calmly:
"Now, are you still going to go?"
"Go." Li Ming said bluntly: "If I retreat here, I will look down on myself."
"All right……"
After hearing this, Karina shrugged and said, "Then let's go. I've already told you about the dangers. If you encounter a disaster, don't blame me."
"How could that be?" Li Ming laughed, "I have to thank you for taking me along. Thank you for telling me this important information."
"Oh, it's nothing."
Karina smiled in relief after hearing this. She murmured with some regret: "Because I have different ideas from the Black Emperor and the others. I think we are the same as you..."
"Hmm?" Li Ming tilted his head.
Seeing this, Karina smiled and gave a rare philosophical answer: "It is because the world will be destroyed tomorrow that we should shake hands and make peace."
"Because there is no need to fight anymore."
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