At the same time, the Chukotsia Peninsula.

A stealth helicopter hovering at a low altitude of twenty meters slowly revealed its figure, the cabin door sprayed with the emblem of the organization guard unit slid open to one side, and dozens of heavily armed elite soldiers quickly slid down the rope to the ground, forming an arc-shaped defensive formation.

Then an officer and a soldier with a strange instrument on his back slid out of the helicopter.

"This is where the trail of the target was recently found, and it is scanned." The officer said to the soldier who was carrying the instrument.

"Yes." The soldier immediately removed the instrument from his back, put it on the ground, and then inserted a dozen electrodes into the ground, and then operated it on the terminal screen......

"Report sir, energy residual reaction detected, something should have passed by here ten minutes ago!" No sooner had the detection device beeped than the soldier reported to the officer.

"Are you sure it's the target?"

"More than 80 percent likely!"

"Excellent! Perform energy trail analysis now and track the whereabouts of your target! ”

"Yes!"

The soldier's ten fingers tapped quickly on the touchscreen...... However, just as he struck the last key, his expression froze suddenly-

"Sir! Here they are! It's around here—"

As soon as the soldier shouted, a black shadow broke through the ground not far away at a speed that was difficult to detect with the naked eye, and directly pounced on the helicopter hovering above them!

A pair of exaggerated bone sickles pierced the bulletproof glass of the helicopter cockpit without hindrance, and the two helicopter pilots were completely unconscious before they even realized what was happening...... And the initiator who killed them also destroyed the helicopter's console, and the stealth helicopter that lost its balance smashed into the ground—

"Boom!!"

Several soldiers who didn't have time to dodge were crushed below by the falling helicopter, and a guy who ran a little slower was cut off on the spot by the paddles that were still spinning at high speed, and half of the corpse was thrown out more than ten meters under the action of inertia!

The tail rotor of the helicopter struck the hard rock on the ground, broke off and shot out like a throwing knife, cutting off most of the soldier's head as he was standing next to the instrument, and the flying red and white objects immediately stained the officer's body.

"Gather the formation! Gather the formation! The officer drew his pistol and shouted loudly.

"Sir! What the hell is that?! "The soldiers, centered on the officer, quickly retreated and gathered, but none of them pulled the trigger during the whole process, as if there were no bullets in the dozens of guns in their hands......

"Shoot! Shoot! Kill him! "The officer raised his pistol and began to shoot in the direction of the helicopter.

"Sir...... I—We don't have permission to shoot...... We are asked to capture the target alive...... We can't be sure if that's the target yet......"

"Fart! Our mission is only to capture the captured prisoners alive, as for the others, life or death! Do you think the guy who shot down the helicopter is the prisoner who was taken away?! ”

After waiting for the officer's order, the soldiers finally began to shoot wildly at the helicopter, and at that moment, the black shadow jumped from the wreckage of the helicopter and in the blink of an eye, it was already in the hard frozen ground.

"You actually have the ability to drill into the ground?!" The officer who saw this scene was stunned for a moment, although the black shadow had come out of the ground when he launched the attack before, but in his thoughts, the pit used for the ambush should have been dug a long time ago...... Knowing that it was frozen soil, the hardness and density of the soil was comparable to that of rock, and it took the dark shadow less than a second to dig a hole in the ground large enough to fit him in...... How is this possible?!

"That's not right...... All of them...... Watch your step! ”

However, he was still too late to shout this sentence, the black shadow had already broken through the ground in the center of the defensive circle surrounded by soldiers, and the sharp bone sickle mixed with the debris in the sky drew an arc of nearly three hundred and sixty degrees, and the hot blood spilled all over the ground, and more than a dozen soldiers had been cut into pieces in just a moment!

"Monsters?!"

It was only at this time that the officer really saw the original appearance of the dark shadow clearly......

It was a human-like monster, with a human-like torso and arms, but the skin was covered with a layer of metallic scales, the arms ended in a pair of huge bone sickles with exaggerated shapes, the knee joints of the legs were bent backwards like insects, and three pairs of transparent wing membranes extended from the monster's back - as for the monster's head, it was wrapped in a full-coverage metal helmet, and only a trace of crimson glimmered through the gap in the front of the helmet.

"Damn it...... Not the target......" The officer involuntarily took a step back, and his soldiers immediately turned their guns around and began to shoot fiercely at the monster that suddenly appeared!

Useless...... The bullet was completely useless, whether it was a regular-caliber bullet or a large-caliber full-power bullet specially designed to deal with monsters, there was no way to penetrate the layer of scales on this monster's body, and even the kinetic energy attached to the bullet could not stop its movement......

"Support...... We need support...... Area 47 appears—"

Before the officer could finish speaking, the walkie-talkie had already fallen to the ground, and along with it, an arm that had been severed from the shoulder.

And at the last moment of the officer's life, he vaguely saw the monster's shoulder, which seemed to be branded with a string of numbers......

“F0905……”

……

……

Anchorage, Federal Reserve Bank Building.

Qi Lin carefully inspected the entire bank hall, and found nothing, except for cleaning out all the living dead who might have existed here, the mastermind did not leave any clues for Qi Lin in the hall.

Bypassing the counter and passing through the archives, a staircase extending underground appeared in front of Qi Lin, which led to the underground vault of the bank, which in the past must have been a place of strict guarding, but now, not only the guards were gone, but even the door that was supposed to be locked was left open.

"Could it be that the stronghold is the bank's vault?"

The Federal Reserve Bank is the most influential banking institution in the United States before the war, and the person in charge behind the scenes is actually the famous Morgan consortium, and with the ability of the Morgan consortium, coupled with the importance of the Federal Reserve Bank, the underground vaults of each branch are actually built according to the standards of the highest nuclear shelters, and neither shock waves nor nuclear radiation can penetrate the layers of obstacles to enter the underground vaults...... So, if you look at it this way, it seems that the transformation of the bank's underground vault into a safe place is a very feasible option......

However, just after Qi Lin walked down the stairs into the basement of the bank, this idea was directly rejected by him......

On the entire basement floor of the bank, there was a serious phenomenon of water accumulation, and dirty water with excessive radiation contamination poured in from above, and the depth of the water was enough to overflow Qi Lin's knees.

Not only the underground vaults, but the entire city's drainage system has been paralyzed, and the irradiant sewage from the melting of the snow and ice flows into the underground part of the city along various crevices, and accumulates inside.

“…… Why is this happening? ”

An underground vault full of radioactive sewage naturally could not be a safe base chosen by the mastermind, the radiation intensity in it was even much higher than above the surface, except for Qi Lin, the rest of the team had no way to survive in this environment.

"Am I in the wrong place?"

Although he thought so, Qi Lin still walked forward with water without giving up...... The depth of the snow, and the absence of the living dead roaming the banking halls, were the only two clues he had found in Anchorage, if the safe spot wasn't here...... Where can it be?

"Huh?" Walking dozens of meters inside the knee-deep sewage, Qi Lin's attention was suddenly drawn to a closed circular gate, which abounded in the underground vaults, behind which were compartments for storing banknotes, gold, or other valuables, and the main body of the gate was usually made of high-strength alloy...... Generally does not rust...... Of course, this means that under normal circumstances, under the multiple erosions of radiation and wastewater, these gates have already become rusty, and the rust on the round valve in front of Qi Lin has serious traces of wear.

Radioactive wastewater was poured in after the nuclear explosion, and there were no living people in Anchorage at that time, and the gate began to corrode after that, and it was impossible for a dead person to turn the valve on the gate......

"I've finally found it......"

Qi Lin held the valve with both hands, and turned it hard, and the creepy metal friction sound came from the mechanical components inside the door, the gate was not locked, and Qi Lin turned the valve a few times to open it.

Since the gate was nearly half a meter above the ground, the water did not spill into the compartment, and although it was a little damp inside, at least the ground was dry.

A wooden box more than one person tall was placed in the middle of two rows of safes, and unlike the dusty, rusty safes, this one was brand new, apparently having been put in not long ago.

"...... this?"

Qi Lin walked around the wooden box twice, in this compartment, there was nothing else except this wooden box, and there was no trace of those safes being opened.

With a hint of curiosity, Qi Lin pried open the wooden box.

Inside the wooden box is a glass tank filled with physiological maintenance solution...... It's just that the volume of this glass jar is too small, and it is estimated that it can only fit a newborn baby.

And together with this ultra-small glass tank, there is also a complete set of life-sustaining equipment.

"Is this for Qin? But...... Such a small survival pod...... There's no way to put Qin in......"

Qi Lin tinkered with the set of life-sustaining equipment, and finally found a document under a pile of electrode patches, and according to the content of the document...... This so-called "life-sustaining equipment" was indeed not prepared for Qin......

To be precise, it was prepared for Qin's "brain".

The mastermind already knew that there was an accident in the rescue operation, and due to the restrictions of the first mastermind, it was currently unable to provide any help to Qi Lin and the team...... The planned security stronghold did not actually exist...... And considering Qin's physical condition, the only way to let him survive is to send him back to the life support cabin.

However, the size of the life-support cabin and a complete set of supporting equipment was too large, and under the strict monitoring of the first mastermind, the second mastermind had no way to send it to Anchorage, so he could only settle for the second best thing and save Qin's brain as much as possible.

Qi Lin and the others had to find a way to take Qin's brain out of his skull and put it into this "life support tank", otherwise, Qin's brain would probably die along with his body, and at that time, there would really be no way to save it.

And with Qin's special ability, he has already changed his body once, and if he has the first time, he will have a second time, and he will look for him when the time comes...... Or simply clone a body, and you can have a chance to free him from the state of "brain in a vat".

In this document, a detailed surgical procedure and operation method were also attached to ensure that Qi Lin could smoothly transfer Qin's brain from his body to this glass tank......

It's just that...... I don't know why, Qi Lin suddenly felt ...... This whole thing seems to be extraordinarily strange......

"Strange...... It's really weird......"

Before the rescue operation began, the mastermind had already made it clear to Qi Lin that when he couldn't do anything, he had to completely destroy Qin's brain to prevent it from being used by the mastermind and the organization...... And now, he has to find a way to preserve Qin's brain......

Although they had now rescued Qin from the undersea prison, Qi Lin knew the mastermind's unique way of thinking, since he had said before that he could kill Qin, then in the mastermind's plan, Qin's ending was dispensable for it, and Qin's death or life would not affect the mastermind's next move, or the impact was very small.

Judging from the current situation, if Qin really became a burden, the second mastermind would definitely mercilessly suggest that Qi Lin find a way to get out of the predicament after killing him and destroying his brain.

But why...... After Qi Lin and the others crossed the Bering Strait, crossed the Alaska Mountains, and entered Anchorage, what they saw was a set of equipment prepared for "Qin's brain"?

It doesn't make sense!

If you really put Qin's brain into this life support tank...... Isn't that really a "brain in a jar"? And the definition of a brain in a vat...... Isn't that very close to what the utopian project is trying to achieve?

I want to separate my mind from my body...... The first step in the physical operation is to get the brain out of the body and connect directly with the computer......

Isn't this process what the mastermind and the organization originally intended to do to Qin?

Thinking of this, Qi Lin suddenly felt that his body was already wet with cold sweat...... Their current situation is probably ......