Chapter 313: Rare Treasure (Part II)
As the huge stainless steel gate fell, the fighting outside came to an abrupt end. The sudden silence of the range makes it difficult to get used to it all at once.
Cao Cao took off his helmet and threw it aside, wiped the blood and sweat from his forehead, and walked towards the high platform in the center of the hall. On a ten-meter-high silver platform, a blue cube was suspended in the air and slowly rotated.
"Garland. You have to stop it before you can take it away," Cao Cao pulled out his Qingyu sword and inserted it into the cube, "If Miaocai's situation goes well, he can be ninety percent sure." Heh~ I can only gamble now. ”
The gems of the cube began to disintegrate, shattering into countless crystalline powders.
"Boom!" A loud bang erupted from the main entrance of the inner sanctum, and the pursuers outside were already breaking down.
Cao Cao didn't squint, staring at the treasure in front of him. Garan possesses a mysterious spatial power, and as long as he can control his power, it is easy to escape his pursuers.
At this moment, Cao Cao's body suddenly shook violently, and a blood-red short sword pierced his breastplate and heart, and the tip of the knife dripping with blood stirred in his chest cavity before being pulled out, and Cao Cao could even feel his flesh gushing out from behind.
"By the order of the Holy Lord, send the king on the road." Without the slightest delay or hesitation, the bewitching female assassin pulled out her dagger and pressed her right hand against Cao Cao's broad shoulder, cutting the blade of her left hand along her throat.
The tall and burly body immediately fell to the edge of the altar, and blood gushed out like a spring.
Do you want to make up for it? Ah Ke thought about it and leaned down.
At the moment when she lowered her head, a brilliant light swept over, freezing her stunned expression in a white light.
……
Two dazed consciousnesses descended on one world.
It took a while for them to gradually recall who they were and what they remembered.
Cao Cao's consciousness tried to move his hands and feet, and found himself floating in mid-air like a ghost, moving as he pleased, even penetrating metal, dirt, and creatures.
Ah Ke panicked when he saw Cao Cao's consciousness appear nearby, but soon realized that both of them were now in a state of disembodied nothingness, and felt a wave of loneliness and despair.
"Am I still dead?" Although she had prepared for this day, the female assassin still felt extremely frustrated and unwilling in her heart.
"Follow me." Cao Cao, who had adapted to the way of moving, suddenly spoke, "Since you are here, let's accompany this king to see it." ”
Dead are dead, what else do you see...... Ke rolled his eyes.
But soon she notices something special about this world.
The sky was filled with crimson clouds, and thunder and lightning rolled in them. The ground and mid-air were full of wind and dust, and even the air was full of poison. If you are an unprotected human, you won't survive much here.
Ke found himself in a very interesting state right now.
She can move freely without being constrained by height or substance, and can even pass through the surface of human and animal bodies to see their muscles, blood vessels, and bones, all completely open to them. There are no walls or locks to confiner her.
It's an assassin's dream! Ah Ke thought that he might be able to burrow into the depths of the earth's crust, and the magma couldn't help himself in a state of nothingness. She even felt that she was the only one who could wish and spend a little effort to parse the profile of bacteria and particles in the air.
Interesting, this state is really interesting!
"Come with me, we have limited time." Cao Cao suddenly urged again.
"Limited on time? What are you kidding, I've broken through the shackles of the dimension now, does it matter what time is! Ah Ke muttered in her heart, but there were still many strange things in the current state, so she followed the last person on her assassination list first.
There are many wonderful places in this world. When the two of them descended into the ground, they discovered a magnificent metal city, with miraculous tall buildings stretching from the depths of the earth to the towering dome.
These buildings have many branches that extend like trees, and there are huge platforms like leaves. Countless humans haunt it.
There are many iron dragons passing between the buildings. The dragon devours a living person in one place, then moves to another tree and spits it out. Humans move in and out of the dragon's mouth as they are accustomed to.
Cao Cao quickly approached an iron dragon, levitating in mid-air and staring at a man staring out the window. The man was dressed in a military uniform with four generals on his epaulettes.
"Okay, I'll be there in a minute. Let the guard squad wait for me at the station. The general turned off the telephone with an impatient look and leaned back in the carriage to look out the window.
The intercity train stopped at the terminal station, and a lieutenant who had been waiting at the station for a long time stepped forward, "Comrade National Defense Commissioner, please come with us." ”
The general nodded, and his beard was already gray and he slipped into a luxurious hovercar. An omnidirectional energy shield immediately rose around the body.
Cao Cao and Ah Ke floated out of the carriage after him, easily passing through an energy shield and staying beside the general.
"You're really big-hearted!" A holographic projection rose in front of the general who had just sat down, and a resolute and handsome man figure appeared in front of him.
The lieutenant in the front row playfully raised the compartment, and the rear compartment created a private space for only the general.
If you don't consider Cao Cao and Ah Ke's strange state of nothingness.
"At this time, is there any difference between taking the city railway and a fully protected vehicle?" The general said angrily to the man in the video.
"That, I'm sorry about Ling Lang." The man in the projection bowed his head.
"No regrets. From the moment we set foot on the battlefield, we should be aware. The general's face twitched, "He, as a warrior, died honorably on the battlefield." ”
"Yes." The man in the projection dodged the general's gaze.
"It's just that that kind of death is not very glorious." The general laughed miserably, "He and the entire fleet were beaten all the way, and they were wiped out without even a chance to die, like a swarm of ants charging at elephants." ”
The man in the projection opened his mouth to comfort him, but he didn't know where to start.
"We were so happy when we were young~" The general wiped his eyes lightly with his fingers, "I still remember that on that bright red hill, I said that I was very thirsty, and then you pulled out an apple like a trick." ”
"Hahahaha! This turned into a meme. The man on the other side also laughed, "And then we were surrounded by a tide of enemies, you and me, and the two of them, what a pleasant 6 minutes!" ”
"Yes, it was only 6 minutes, but it was the most glorious and satisfying moment in my body."
"Especially since we survived, we went back to our hometown to get married!" The corners of the man's mouth in the projection are curled.
The general did not talk. There was an embarrassing silence in the carriage.
Ke felt the anger brewing in the air.
"Yes~ All wishes come true......" The general's face became gloomy, "I stepped into their trap with all my wishes." Idiot, you idiot. We're all stupid! You, me, both of them. I'm a stupid general, you fool governs, oh yes, you fool later became the dictator of that little broken country! ”
"It's Dixtedo~ the kind that only has a six-month term...... There is ambiguity in the dictator's translation," the ruling in the projection whispered in defense, "I will leave office and return to China when the time comes." ”
"Four self-righteous fools!" The general roared.
Ah Ke was startled by this roar, and turned his head to look at Cao Cao nearby, and found the two men who were listening seriously to the conversation.
"They have paid with their lives." The general gasped and calmed down, "Now it's our turn." As punishment for our stupidity, we are to watch the world perish within 24 hours. There's a ghost difference between me taking the subway and a bulletproof car!! ”
"The person who was on the train with me just now didn't know that he was going to die in 24 hours!!"
The admiral's roar echoed through the car, and the heavy car seemed to tremble.
"Comrade National Defense Commissioner." A colonel opened the door for the admiral and led him into the elevator that led deep underground.
"Hide underground like a rat." The general pouted. The elevator didn't know how many kilometers it had descended, and when it opened again, he was presented with a grand command hall.
In halls the size of more than 10 football fields, countless men and women are busy. On the display in the center of the hall, several giant ships are swimming in the sea of stars.
"The Counterattack and the Mozi have retreated to the outer ring of Saturn to join the Nagato, and the old reinforcement plan will begin immediately after receiving personnel and material supplies."
"The Cape Town sank during the voyage, and the crew has returned aboard the Fountain of Youth."
The general's face turned pale, and despite his best efforts to avoid his gaze, he still saw the shocking data on the right side of the screen.
"Fleet loss rate: 99.5%."
Or not...... It doesn't make a difference how much you run back anyway.
After the initial panic and riots caused by the destruction of the fleet were suppressed, the whole world fell into despair and illusion before death.
The vast majority of people repeat the days of the past as if the terrible enemy was just last night's nightmare. Maybe tomorrow everything will be back to normal.
"General." The Archon who had just contacted him walked out of the laboratory inside. Although he is officially a member of the National Defense Commission, everyone is still accustomed to calling him the prestigious title of the past, reminiscing about the glorious golden age of the past.
"Did you call me here so that we could die together?" When the general saw the closed door blocking the office outside, he turned to his old friend and said, "Well, we're both alone anyway." ”
"Where's Madame?"
"Ignore me since the collapse of the Enterprise formation." The general touched his nose, "It's okay, I haven't told her about my youngest son yet, so I saved a beating." ”
"Come with me." Xiao Zhengzheng pointed to the room inside. The general followed and walked in, glancing at the glass container in the center.
"Ahh Ah Ke screamed, but her voice would not be heard by the two National Defense Commissioners.
Mengqi? The creature curled up in the flask was Mengqi. At least the same species.
"What is this?" The general took a look, "Synths? This thing was useless decades ago, and it was useless to reproduce some resource-wasting androids. The psionic research based on it is also misguided, and even if it is formed ten years earlier, it will not change anything, it is just a stronger individual unit. Those beings are dimensionally different from us, we have the weapons of science, and they ...... The power of the rules is in your hands. ”
"I don't value their individual combat effectiveness." "The significance of these creatures is to fundamentally change the form of our existence, digitize it, and make it possible for us to get closer to the origin of those existences. ”
Seeing that the general did not react, the consul continued: "Natural Selection and Argos have escaped from the strike range. The future is in their hands. In their cabins, they carried several of these creatures with them. ”
"What else?" The general looked in the direction of the ruling rule, "You've done a lot of strange research during my absence. ”
In the angular stance generator, a strange and evil creature is flickering. It has layers of fangs and an exaggerated mouth, and its entire body is covered in a blue-green fluid that flows slowly.
"This creature will be repeatedly tested as a temporal shifting subject, and can appear anywhere and at any time as long as the stance generator can form an angle. Theoretically, yes. ”
The general walked past one strange and strange creature after another, and stopped in front of a large mass of moving things, "What is this?" How does it look like a bad black Daifuku? Slime? ”
"It's our masterpiece and shouldn't have been classified as a living thing." "But for the time being, I can't find a more suitable classification." ”
The creatures in the experimental cabin looked like clumps of tentacles rubbing together, but each one was wriggling, and from a distance it looked like a nest of hibernating snakes. When the general walked into the observation window, hundreds of eyes suddenly opened on the tentacles, staring at the observation window without blinking.
"Can it feel me?" The general chuckled in his heart, "What are you doing?" Why is there such a disgusting thing. ”
"It's a shame that it looks like it's going to be a bit more polished, but there's no time left." The ruling smiled, "Aside from his disgusting form, and his nightmarish myriad eyes, well, and the thousands of mouths you haven't seen." This is actually a biological processor that we have high hopes for. ”
"The tentacles you see are neuronal wires, which have the ability to interact with data by orders of magnitude more than two orders of magnitude with the current shipboard processor. Each of its eyes has independent information processing capabilities, and can make logical judgments and analyze things, which is a breakthrough technology that traditional electronic processors do not have. There seemed to be a little pride in the tone of the ruling government, "As long as it has time, it can even develop and evolve on its own." ”
"It's a pity we don't have time." The general shook his head, "Are you going to load them on the battleship as a command and navigation terminal?" ”
"Yes, they can adapt to the magnitude of data analysis for astronautics, making long journeys faster and safer. Moreover, we have secretly deployed some test subjects. The ships that survived this defeat were equipped with such biological processors. ”
"Is there anything other than the Natural Selection and Argos, and the ones just mentioned?"
"Yes, there were also some warships that narrowly escaped, and because the information was too confusing, we could not get in touch with them and verify it. But the ships that escaped were not the only ones you knew. ”
"It's okay, more human fire." The general nodded in despair, "How do you name these things?" Is it called a biological processor? ”
"yes, there's no time to care about the minutiae now." The ruling party smiled miserably, "How simple and easy to understand the name." ”
"Bio-processors."
"Oh, interesting." After seeing the strange test subjects, the general's mood was a little better, and he shrugged as if he was amused by the clown, "You are really persistent...... We don't have any starships anymore, how are you going to get these supplies over? ”
"A new fleet is being built, the long-range and storage functions have been strengthened, most of the armament has been removed, and it is useless anyway." "I know it's probably too late for a new fleet to be built, but the existing ships are secretly carrying our early versions, and with the defeat and escape, I've unlocked the crew's access to them, so they can develop them on their own during the long voyage." ”
"Well, I hope a few more ships escape," the general nodded, "If they can grasp the mysteries of time travel and carry out the old reinforcement plan, then I will still have some comfort in hell." ”
The two fell into a wordless silence.
"Comrade National Defense Commissioner." A colonel appeared on the communicator's screen, his face as pale as ever.
"What's the matter?" By the time he said this, the consuls and generals already knew the answer.
"Our reconnaissance unit lost contact in the outer ring of the solar system. The blow has come. ”
"What type?"
"Can't confirm."
The staff who were busy in the hall should begin to evacuate immediately, as there is no point in continuing to work. But no one left, everyone stuck to their posts.
"Counterattack, Mozi, Nagato, Fountain of Youth, advance 4, give up attitude adjustment, and manually skip the pre-procedure."
In fact, even evacuation has lost its meaning.
"Sooner than we expected." The consul turned on the communicator, "Thank you, Colonel, goodbye." ”
"Farewell, governed, it is a great honor to serve you." The Colonel paused, "I admired you when I was a child. Farewell! ”
Half a minute later, the bases in Jupiter's orbit lost contact.
"Would you like a drink?" The Admiral was unusually agile and took out a bottle of wine from the cupboard, unscrewed the cap, and quickly filled himself, "Sooner than expected, I hope they will have time to escape." ”
"Don't drink it, and it's too late." The ruling looked at the soda in the cupboard.
Contacts with the lunar base have been disrupted.
"Hahaha!" The Admiral laughed and handed the glass over, "See, the difference between those who have died once and those who have not. What's the point of quitting alcohol at this time? ”
"I just don't like to drink." The archon hesitated, but finally reached for the glass.
His hand didn't catch anything.
The Admiral and the wine glass in his hand shattered into an ethereal mist in front of the Archon.
"Oh! Here it comes! What kind of blow type is this? Is it formatted? ”
With a final lightning-fast thought, the ruling was broken down in an instant into particles that could not be observed or recorded.
……
Cao Cao and Ah Ke witnessed the last moments of the consuls and generals, and then were ostracized from this world into a black void.
"Holographic recording ends."
The Garan Diamond stopped radiating and returned to Cao Cao's hands.
"By the time you see this image, our world has been destroyed. Your time is running out to watch the video. Before the final blow strikes, you must take on the mission of perpetuating human civilization. ”
"The presence of bioprocessors and reactors in close proximity has been detected."
"The old reinforcement plan has been launched."
(End of chapter)