Chapter 55 Chapter 55 The Fourth Wish
At the same time, the robot dog's screen lit up. It turned its head towards System 05 and said, "I'm glad you woke me up again. This carrier is better than before."
It actually activated. System 05 immediately showed it the map: "Where is the energy station?"
The map sent by Jin Zhuan appeared above the robot dog's screen, with a red dot specially marked.
"This is where the miniature energy station is stored, the Water City. A hundred years ago, it was built on the seabed and can only be accessed through a special passage."
As it spoke, a dark blue cylinder appeared on the screen, with constantly changing blue ripples inside.
"This is the miniature energy station. One person can carry it. However, the security outside the miniature energy station is very tight. I don't know what kind of lock the energy team left behind."
Before it finished speaking, a strange sound emanated from its body. Based on their previous experience, System 05 and Chen Mu knew this was a sign that the robot dog's body was about to collapse. The robot dog itself knew this too, and it spoke faster, saying, "The spaceship is in Yuncheng. Once you get the energy station, please immediately..."
With a bang, a burning smell came out of the robot dog's body, and its body tilted and fell down.
This time it persisted only a little longer than last time, but in just a few sentences, the spacecraft chip revealed very dense and useful information.
First, they determined the location of the energy station and informed them that the water city was on the seabed, which meant they had to prepare to launch it. System 05 immediately prepared to head for the water city. This was something he could only do personally; he wouldn't trust anyone else with it.
"I'll go with you." Chen Mu said.
System 05: "What about the base?" The current base is different from before, and many things need the leader to take the helm.
"Leave it to the Internal Affairs Department. The base will operate on its own without any problems." Chen Mu pondered for a moment and said, "It's a good opportunity to see how those three ministers perform."
This is also a test of the internal stability of the base. If any problems are exposed, they can be solved quickly and decisively.
After confirming that the two would go to Water City together, Chen Mu was responsible for preparing supplies, while System 05 went back to say hello to Bai Xiaochun.
"I'm going to be away for a while."
Bai Xiaochun showed a surprised expression, and then System 05 said, "You continue to go to school. I will send someone to watch you."
Bai Xiaochun screamed and shouted, "You were spying on me before, don't think I don't know! Can you please just leave me alone?"
"I need to ensure your safety," System 05 said. "Your life is the most important thing to me."
Bai Xiaochun turned his head away: "You are so hypocritical. You don't care about me at all."
System 05 didn't say anything else. After all, he really didn't care about Bai Xiaochun. It was Bai Daqiu who cared about Bai Xiaochun, but he was half-dead, almost dead.
After Chen Mu was ready, System 05 gave some more instructions. The Internal Affairs Department could not make final decisions on everything, and they needed to cooperate with the three departments.
Water City was far away from them, and it would take about seven days to drive there. The two men put on isolation suits, left the elevator, passed through the three doors, and headed to Water City according to the information they had collected before.
The journey was long, and the road, long unmaintained, made the ride extremely bumpy, with many cracks in the road overgrown with weeds. Fortunately, System 05's driving skills were excellent, and they were the only ones who found themselves in the wilderness.
Several lines of data appeared before System 05's eyes:
[Average STDE-C-2 concentration outside the base: 93%]
Average antibody level: 27%
Average threshold: 96
How much time do they have left?
Chen Mu sat in the passenger seat, dressed like he was when System 05 first saw him, wearing purple goggles. He hummed a song while propping up his head to look out, the tune being blown into a long tail note.
At the end of the road, they saw several zombies. Chen Mu stood up, took out his weapon, and after a brief aim, opened fire, blowing the zombies into pieces. The burning flames covered the wriggling pieces of flesh.
“?~?~”
System 05 thought it sounded familiar and asked, "What are you humming?"
"I don't know either." Chen Mu closed his eyes and hummed a few more lines, hoping to fully express the melody in his mind. He originally thought he was just humming it casually, but System 05 listened for a while and said, "'Liu Chun Ling'."
After he mentioned the name, Chen Mu quickly remembered it. In his original world, although he was a loner, he would occasionally meet temporary companions, but these companions could not be considered friends. He once met a music cultivator in a secret realm. Music cultivators are very rare in the world of cultivation. They use music as a weapon, and different musical sounds have different effects. "Liu Chun Ling" is very special. It has no effect at all. However, the music cultivator loves to play this song in his spare time. After listening to it for a long time, Chen Mu has even learned to hum it himself.
Chen Mu's heart moved, and he asked, "How long will you stay in this world?"
"Put Bai Xiaochun on the spaceship and leave here." Of course, there must be more than just her on the spaceship. System 05's plan is to allow at least everyone in the 59th base to enter the spaceship.
"Do you think we can succeed?"
System 05 was silent for a moment, his gaze still fixed on the front. Lush vegetation blocked out the sunlight, and a lone vehicle sped along the bumpy road, its goal clear and without hesitation.
"This mission is SS-level difficult." After a long while, System 05 said, "Failure is normal, but I...we are very lucky."
"Um?"
"We found the chip in the mountain city." System 05's hair flew in the air as they quickly passed a sign on the side of the road. It said the speed limit was 80, but the car was going 160. "Think about it, if we hadn't gone to the mountain city, hadn't found the chip, and hadn't known about the spaceship, what would have happened to us?"
Chen Mu said: "We still have hope in drug development."
"At a time like this, following the rules is the same as waiting to die." System 05 stepped on the accelerator, and the car roared, leaping over the tree roots that spread across the road. "This is a revelation, or perhaps destiny. Since we discovered the chip, it means we should take this path... Chen Mu, do you believe in fate?"
Chen Mu shook his head as a matter of course.
System 05 smiled and said, "I believe it."
Chen Mu was a little surprised. He felt that System 05 was not the type of person who would believe in fate. How did the saying go, he was very proactive.
"Everything that has happened is fate. I accept all the choices I made in the past." System 05 murmured, "What will happen in the future..."
The following words were diffused in the air and Chen Mu could not hear them clearly.
After three days of driving, the surrounding landscape gradually changed. Mountains stretched out on either side, crisscrossing before their eyes. The mountains gradually receded, leaving vast plains. However, the cultivated land had long since been abandoned, and the plains had become forests. The lush vegetation spread like a green, plush blanket across the landscape. At night, the two slept in the car, which had been modified to accommodate two people lying side by side in the back. They shared a blanket, the silence outside the windows silent, the night chill seeping in through the cracks. Their only source of warmth was their surroundings. System 05 slept remarkably well, its sleep pattern essentially hibernating, and if there was an emergency, it would immediately reset.
"You drive." System 05 was finally tired, or perhaps he was annoyed by Chen Mu's idleness. While he was driving, if there were zombies, Chen Mu would be responsible for killing them. Otherwise, he would handle the information sent from the base. However, the farther away from the base, the more likely it was that the signal would be lost, and the communicator would no longer receive any information.
Chen Mu was quite happy to do so. He climbed to the driver's seat and waited for System 05 to sit down. Then he stepped on the accelerator and the car speed slowly increased to 160, and then continued to rise until it reached 220. The speed was still increasing, but the pointer on the dashboard had stopped moving.
System 05 gripped the handlebars tightly and said in a cold, flat voice, "I regret this."
"This is not even as fast as flying on a sword, and there is no one else on the road." Chen Mu said, "Don't worry."
But they soon met other people. There were seven or eight people gathered on the side of the road. They were all wearing isolation suits and fully armed. They surrounded two cars and seemed to be discussing something. System 05 was surprised, but they were driving too fast, so they flew a hundred meters away in an instant. System 05 looked back and saw several people over there staring at him in surprise.
"It looks like an adventure team from another base." System 05 said.
"Will they go to Watertown too?"
"The largest abandoned city here is Water City." System 05 opened the map and found that there were three bases nearby, namely "Base No. 17" and "Base No. 21".
The terrain here is relatively good. The rock layer is suitable for digging underground bases and will not collapse easily. There are also some resources on the ground, and there are bases gathered together like this.
After that, the closer they got to Water City, the more adventure teams they encountered. Once, when Chen Mu stopped to rest, the two of them were sitting in the car eating. Two hundred meters away, there were three adventurers. When they were almost finished eating, one of them came over and knocked on the car window.
Chen Mu didn't open the car window and asked directly: "What's the matter?"
"Do you have any extra medicine here? We can exchange it with you for fuel." said the man wrapped in isolation suit.
"No."
The man continued, "Are you going to Water City? Perhaps we can go together and look out for each other. We are from Base 17."
"No." Chen Mu shook his head and refused, stepping on the accelerator. The man was surprised that he refused so bluntly and quickly stepped away.
System 05 said, leaning on his arm to watch the figure receding in the rearview mirror. "Base 17 is very close to here. They can't possibly run out of medicine that quickly."
This was their first time coming into contact with people from other bases. Instead of having any sense of security of mutual assistance among their own kind, they became more cautious.
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