Chapter 205 The gatekeeper is provoking me
The two sentries were stunned.
“But the guide on night duty has already gone in,” one of the sentries realized.
Yun Zhao remained expressionless. "That's my colleague."
The little bluebird perched on her head, raising its noble head.
Wisps of bluish-green fluorescence flashed and rushed into the bodies of the two sentries at an extremely fast speed.
Yun Zhao's voice was seductive, "May I come in?"
The two sentries, looking dazed, stepped aside.
The little bluebird laughed at this.
【Ugh, what a waste!】
A fire phoenix appeared out of nowhere, flapping its wings in agreement: "The Azure Phoenix is right, you're useless!"
Xie Tu paused, a complex emotion flashing in his eyes.
It seems that not only him, but also the team members can no longer use foul language, otherwise two phoenixes will be led astray.
Yun Zhao was used to her little bluebird cursing people all the time, so she didn't react at all.
The spiritual threads began to spread, heading towards the other sentries at the entrance, and quickly subdued all of them.
Her mental strength has not fully recovered.
Spiritual union does have a restorative effect, but this restoration only temporarily alleviates the crisis of her spiritual depletion, like sprinkling a few drops of sweet rain on parched land, far from enough to restore the land to life.
She had long forgotten what the man had said: 'Don't use your abilities carelessly.'
The mental threads were influencing the Sentinel mutants' thinking, turning them into puppets as they opened the door and let the two of them in.
As Yun Zhao passed by them, he saw the sentinels who looked like normal people and suddenly asked, "The mutated sentinels and guides have lost their spiritual bodies. Do you think they still remember their spiritual bodies?"
She remembered the gatekeeper of contaminated zone number 88.
It was a guide who, having lost its spiritual body, developed a powerful obsession.
For guides and sentinels, the spiritual entity is like the other half of their soul, a vessel for their emotions and will.
Each spiritual entity is unique and has countless connections with its original body, like intertwined branches that depend on each other and are inseparable.
Without their spiritual entities, the world of the Sentinels and Guides has lost its color.
The power was no longer complete, and the inner balance was completely shattered.
Xie Tu was silent for two seconds before replying, "I should remember."
They have been mutated into monsters, yet they still subconsciously avoid harming the spiritual body.
This is a rather heavy topic.
Yun Zhao nodded, said nothing more, and let him lead her into the first floor of the mall.
A faint smell of disinfectant filled the air, mixed with the barely perceptible sound of machinery.
The interior of the shopping mall has clearly been renovated.
All those specialty stores have disappeared, replaced by houses partitioned off by wooden planks.
Various cold metal structures and complex wiring, with two huge pipes overhead.
Ahead, there is a corridor running through the space, but its destination is unknown.
The space was brightly lit, yet completely empty, with tiny dark particles floating in the air, creating an eerie atmosphere.
Xie Tu released his senses: "The laboratory is underground."
The base has renovated the shopping mall. According to the abandoned elevators that were passed by, there were originally three underground floors, which should have been the mall's parking lot. It is very likely that they were converted into laboratories.
Xie Tu led Yun Zhao along the passage.
They had only walked for five minutes when they encountered their first 'person'.
A middle-aged man wearing a white lab coat and metal-framed glasses came out of the room carrying documents and bumped into them.
Upon seeing the two men, the man in the white coat was visibly surprised. "Who are you?"
Neither Xie Tu nor Yun Zhao spoke.
Because the two of them saw the mutant standing behind the man at the same time.
It was a mutant creature emanating black energy and wearing metal-framed glasses. Its black slime was dripping, producing a piercing corrosive sound.
The man in the white coat didn't react at all, still looking at them with surprise.
Isn't the nighttime part of the normal world?
What's going on here?
The monster seemed to realize that the two could see it, and stretched out its disgusting mouthparts, wriggling in the air. Its gaping mouth seemed to be laughing at Yun Zhao and Xie Tu.
The scene was truly terrifying.
"It's waving at me."
Yun Zhao said softly, "The gatekeeper knows we're here and is using it to provoke me."
This is its spiritual realm, where it can know everyone's every move.
How arrogant!
What should I do? I really want to kill it.
What are you saying?
The man in the white coat clearly didn't understand and said, "Who are you? Which department are you from? Don't you know you can't just walk in here like that..."
After the monster finished its greeting and felt it had had enough, it suddenly opened its sharp jaws and bit the man in the white coat's neck, silencing him.
Blood splattered, splashing onto the walls on all four sides.
Xie Tu stepped in front of Yun Zhao and pulled her back quickly.
The two phoenixes tilted their heads and stared at the mutant corresponding to the man in the white coat with the same gesture.
The man in the white coat didn't utter a sound. His whole body leaned back limply, making a dull thud, and he fell to the smooth ground with his eyes wide open.
Blood trickled down his body, and a large pool of blood gushed out on the clean tiled floor beneath him.
The surrounding space fluctuated, and the mutant quickly disappeared into the air.
Xie Tu stared at this bizarre scene without saying a word.
"Does destroying the database really work?"
Yun Zhao asked in confusion, "Otherwise, why would it provoke us at this time?"
This is a gatekeeper with a narcissistic personality.
After seeing them doing stupid things, it sent out its lackeys to make a mocking gesture, as if to say, "You won't find me this way."
Xie Tu's expression was cold. "Perhaps it did this on purpose to mislead us."
The current situation demonstrates that this is indeed a research and development laboratory for the digital life world.
Since we've come this far, we should give it a try no matter what.
Yun Zhao glanced at him, but ultimately said nothing.
What if the two worlds merge after the database is destroyed?
Another dimension has arrived.
At that point, everyone will have no way out; only by finding the gatekeeper can they escape alive.
This is, after all, a contaminated area, not the sixty-eighth year of the Dark Ages; we cannot view the eerie with normal thinking.
Xie Tu is very clever; perhaps he already had other guesses in his mind.
As team captains, he and Jiang Mu's every word and action influences their teammates.
He must remain calm and rational, firmly believing that he can resolve the current predicament and lead everyone forward.
Until the key is found, or the gatekeeper is located.
Destroying the database and destroying the digital world is their only clue at the moment, and they have to try it no matter what to find out the answer.
The two men bypassed the corpses on the ground and continued walking along the passage, where they encountered two more researchers.
Behind them stood two other mutants, their bodies radiating black energy.
They look exactly the same.
Another version of yourself.
The 'I' of self-awareness, and the 'I' of a copy.
This time, Xie Tu didn't hesitate at all. His eyes flashed with murderous intent as he drew his Tang sword and charged forward.
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