Chapter 111: The Truth: Pray that your compatriots can do the same as you...
Is Karina still a pessimist?
Li Ming was stunned after hearing this.
But when Li Ming thought deeply, he found that Karina's idea might be the mainstream at present. In the current round, humans are no longer able to change the final outcome of the world's destruction. They can only passively accept it...
Accept passively, accept gladly.
Since you are all accepting it, why not choose the side that makes you feel better?
Li Ming sighed quietly to himself.
He neither denied it nor agreed with Karina's idea. He just...
He was just wandering.
Li Ming quietly followed Karina to an area suitable for ice cutting. Karina moved quickly. Her hands and feet assembled into a simple ice cutting machine at the speed of light in the form of ions.
But when she was halfway through chiseling the ice, she let out a somewhat annoyed sound.
"Stand back, Li Ming!" Kalina ordered.
Li Ming took a step back thoughtfully, then took several dozen steps back.
He watched Kalina soar into the air, her mechanical legs transformed into flying aids that emitted a dazzling white light in mid-air, and then Kalina put her hands together and directly bombarded the ground with a single shot.
“Boom—”
Ice debris and frozen soil flew everywhere in an instant. Li Ming was almost knocked to the ground by the huge shock wave, but then the second, third, and fourth shots came...
Li Ming, who was almost blown away: "..."
After the cannon fire stopped, Li Ming groped his way towards Karina with difficulty. Karina was crouching in the huge crater caused by the cannon fire, using high-temperature rays to dissolve the door handle.
With a click, Karina pushed the door open.
She jumped in swiftly.
Melted water drops dripped down. Karina stood in the darkness, calmly scanning the surroundings with her alloy scanning eyes.
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye, and no one knew what was going on inside the base.
But Karina suddenly felt relieved.
She looked back at Li Ming and waved to indicate that it was safe. So Li Ming jumped down.
"I have to go to the bottom floor first."
Karina's mechanical eyes flashed a faint red arc in the dim light. It was obvious that she had turned on the night vision mode. She calmly instructed:
"Li Ming, you can search here first."
Li Ming nodded seriously after hearing this.
Although Karina herself did not say what she was going to do, Li Ming also knew that this was a mission assigned to her by the US government. She must have some major investigation target.
“Shua——”
The floor was filled with the sound of metal rollers sliding.
Karina disappeared swiftly in the dark corridor in front of Li Ming.
Li Ming watched Karina leave, then quietly took out his flashlight from his backpack. Although Karina despised the safe house's reserve power, a flashlight could still be fully charged.
He quietly explored the neighborhood.
Because of the long-term burial in the ice layer, the air inside the base was not circulating. As expected, Li Ming felt the difficulty in breathing, but this was only the first floor underground.
It would be nice if there was an oxygen mask, Li Ming thought.
The first floor of the research base was obviously not a working area. Li Ming saw many paper boxes of supplies scattered in various corners along the way.
He searched through it curiously.
Li Ming found several interesting points:
1. The official language of the research base is English.
2. The first floor of the research base should be a cold-proof layer or a transfer layer for foreign materials. There are some traces of security patrols, but not many.
3. Many areas on the first floor are used by staff to store daily necessities.
4. The instructions or outer packaging of the staff's daily necessities are in a variety of languages, such as English, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, etc.
Li Ming looked thoughtfully at the letter written in Chinese in his hand.
This was a letter from a mother to her son. In the letter, she complained that her son had not returned home for three consecutive years and that it was time for him to get married and start a family.
"Most Chinese parents are like this." Li Ming said helplessly.
But the situation is now clear.
This research base was definitely built by a multinational team for the purpose of fighting the monster called "Disaster". But somehow, the traces of the research base almost disappeared after the disaster.
“But it’s normal.”
Li Ming rolled his eyes and thought: "The officials who knew about it are all relatively old. After the big screening, there shouldn't be many left. In addition, in the chaos at the beginning of the disaster, it is impossible for them to think about the Antarctic base."
Communications were even disconnected at that time.
Human beings all over the world are in dire straits, and the situation of the Antarctic base is unknown. Instead of looking forward to an illusory hope, it is better to take more practical measures.
Li Ming walked down the stairs.
The air on the second floor was still stuffy, but there were traces of the staff's life and some living facilities. There was nothing special about this floor.
The third and fourth layers are the same as the second layer.
Li Ming walked on the dim stairs and looked down.
The corridor was bottomless and silent.
"This is truly a long and dark road," Li Ming couldn't help but comment.
Although Li Ming had never set foot in the depths of the research base, he also knew the basic situation of the base from the guide route on the first four walls:
Floors 1-4 are living areas, floors 5-7 are storage areas, floors 8-10 are research areas, floor 11 is the oxygen supply and power generation layer, and floors 12-14 are the containment areas.
The lower the floor, the higher the security level.
For the staff of this base, the deeper the level, the more terrifying the things they encounter.
Li Ming stopped at the 5th floor.
He took a deep breath with a strange look on his face, but still did not feel the lack of oxygen as he had imagined. He only felt the difficulty in breathing caused by the stuffy air.
Could it be that Karina's judgment was wrong?
Or is it his problem?
Li Ming began his exploration on the fifth floor with a vague understanding.
On the fifth floor, there are many exhibits covered by tempered glass and monitored by infrared sensor lights. Li Ming found that the purpose of these security measures is not so much to worry about theft as to worry about the exhibits attacking people.
Li Ming didn't understand the reason at first until he saw the bird-beak mask.
Plague doctor's beak mask.
A part of the disaster that was recorded in world history and became the beginning of the awakening of the Apocalypse suddenly appeared in front of Li Ming.
At this time, when Li Ming looked back at the incomprehensible exhibits he had seen before, their origins suddenly became clear.
Li Ming suddenly lost the desire to explore.
The following layers were nothing more than two things: disasters, or existences related to disasters. He now inexplicably wanted to see the sky, to see the clear sky.
Maybe this is a common problem among the inhabitants of the abyss?
Li Ming could not help but walk upwards, his steps becoming more and more rapid. The steel, dark corridor echoed with his footsteps, as if countless people had tried to escape from this place through this staircase in the past.
It's a cold polar region outside and a monster is chasing behind.
On that foggy day of judgment, the people at the research base were the first to be abandoned. Perhaps no one could walk out of this icy plain, but even so...
At least die in the light.
Light?
Li Ming suddenly stopped.
The sunlight refracted from the hole that Kalina had bombarded. Li Ming once again looked at the dark and silent corridor behind him, and thought: Maybe it wasn't just humans who were eager to walk into the light that day...
Derivatives of the Apocalypse Horsemen appeared in northern China.
Li Ming suddenly recalled: there must be a special situation there, which forced the Apocalypse Knight to leave. But what is going on here?
Why does 'Memory Tide' think that the events that took place here would be important events that 'determine the past and even the future'?
Li Ming didn't want to think about the former, but was repeatedly troubled by the latter.
He has always been a lazy person who would not take action if he could avoid it. Just as he and Li Yixi explained, if the other party is destined to die, why should he take revenge with his own hands?
War, plague, famine, death.
Li Ming silently recited the symbols of the four horsemen of the apocalypse in the Book of Revelation. He thought: Maybe the answer has already been in front of him, but he just didn't think about it, or was too lazy to think about it.
“Shua——”
The familiar sound of metal rollers rolled across the floor.
Li Ming stood quietly at the entrance of the cave, looking up at the clear sky that belonged to Antarctica. He said calmly: "Have you always known that I am not a human?"
The approaching person suddenly stopped.
Karina replied calmly: "I have always believed that we can communicate peacefully with you."
Li Ming did not refute after hearing this.
After a long silence, he closed his eyes and sighed, "I know this road, but not because I have walked it, but because I once stood here and looked up at the sky."
In the episode last week, in the first episode of Earth civilization—
He stood in this land because of destruction.
Li Ming looked back at Karina calmly and said coldly, "Tell me, Karina. What do you think of me? Am I the 'disaster that looks like a human' that you mentioned?"
For Li Ming, it was not difficult to notice this.
He could sense the oddity many times when communicating with Karina, who initially treated him as a human, but then suddenly classified him as "not quite human".
The "Li Ming" in her words are two vague and separate existences.
Even though Karina was covering it up, the words that were spoken could not be taken back.
It is also because of this that Li Ming can clearly realize that there was indeed a being who had traveled with Karina on this journey to Antarctica at the end of the world.
In the previous clip, Li Ming replaced Shen Kuo's identity; in this clip, Li Ming replaced the identity of that existence.
But Li Ming didn't notice it, and the reason was simple.
Because the being who was replaced was none other than the Horseman of the Apocalypse disguised as a human.
"White hair and white eyes."
Karina answered silently: "At first I thought you were a human like me, and you wanted to mislead me about this, but humans are different from you after all. But even if our identities are different, we can still communicate peacefully."
"The end of the world is at hand, why do we still fight?"
Li Ming frowned: "You always knew that you couldn't go back to the United States?"
"I thought I could go back at first," Karina said sadly, "but this trip to Antarctica took longer than I expected. After I found out that the power supply layer was submerged, everything was meaningless."
"Alas..." Li Ming sighed.
He covered his eyes in pain and repeated his previous words: "I've had enough of all this. I don't want to be a bystander all the time."
As a Knight of the Apocalypse, he is powerless to stop the spread of disaster.
Millions of years, tens of millions of years, hundreds of millions of years... His time is fleeting, and only death continues to accumulate in His hands. He is a silent mythical creature that does not understand human nature, but even mythical creatures will get bored one day.
He wanted to change that, so He got a sister.
The power of death was thus cut off.
But even death could not prevent his sister's death. He possessed death again, but this time he possessed his own soul, or in other words, his humanity.
However, "death" is not His symbol; His symbol has always been "plague."
But the overflowing, helpless death was ultimately more prominent than the lazy, indifferent plague. He already understood why this fragment of memory could be the key.
Plague Knight raised his eyes and said, "I will go back to the day when I knew about this civilization. On that day, the Plague Doctor will still visit."
"But this is not my pity, this is just an attempt."
"For millions of years, my humanity has never been effectively accumulated. The abyss refuses to exile me. I am His oldest knight and His most loyal knight."
He said lightly:
“But I don’t want to go on.”
"Karina, go and pray that your compatriots can make the same choice as you."
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