Under the contact with Lin Ling, the system gradually felt that it had changed a lot.

I don't know if this counts as growth.

But it did learn to be cautious, to be on guard.

Before facing the choice of a strange "person" and Lin Ling, it did not hesitate to choose Lin Ling, not a stranger.

Even if that group of "people" was full of care and friendliness to it, it also chose Linling.

Not for anything else, just because she's her own host.

So now we have to pass through here to get to the Rift? 】

Walking into the building, the system looked up.

The building that spans the middle of the passage looks brand new from the outside, but the interior is clearly marked by age.

The dimly lit space had lost its light due to the breakage of the overhead lights, and the floor was covered with glass residues as a store of black-brown liquid.

As the system progressed, pieces of glass were smashed to the ground by it, making a crisp sound.

[Yes, according to the analysis, this spatial dislocation has shortened part of the distance.] As long as it is safe to pass through here, you can quickly reach the rift valley. ]

[Based on the premise that there is no spatial dislocation? (●—●)】

[According to the analysis, it is so.] ]

The system listens to the AI and walks after it, looking at its surroundings through the camera of its own sphere shell.

Many of the glass jars on the counters around them had cracked, some of them were covered in ash, while others were still dripping with liquid as if they were brand new, and the contents stored in them were gone.

The system noticed that the footsteps of what appeared to be some kind of animal were spreading from the ground where they were located into the depths.

That's exactly where it and the diamond-shaped metal body are heading.

It was a little curious about what had happened here, but before it could speak, the AI spoke.

[There was a lot of danger in this area during the Calamity Era, and it is possible that many test subjects escaped and multiplied here, although there is no danger, it is recommended to be careful when walking.] ]

As soon as the AI's voice fell, a soft touch came from under the soles of the feet, and the system looked down a little sluggishly, and saw a crystal clear creature like a slug writhing under its feet.

A large pile of slime was squeezing out from under its feet.

The system probably knows why the AI is alerting itself......

【Lying ......】

When the swear words were about to blurt out, the system remembered that there was a highly intelligent AI in front of it, and covered its mouth and forcibly choked the back half back into its mouth.

It still keeps in mind its current personality: the same kind of sheet metal AI.

Expletives burst out of the mouth of an intelligent AI...... It's not quite right.

So the system chose to remain silent.

Fortunately, the AI in front of us didn't notice this detail.

The AI controls the rhombus to stop in front of a gate.

Piece by piece, the microrobot detached from its body, but it did not fall off, and in the gaps it unfolded were rows of translucent spheres that resembled crystals.

When the red garbled code appeared on it, there was a slight movement in the door.

With a heavy metal grinding sound, a large area of cold air from the low temperature sloped out of the door.

The system that controls the movement of the body also feels a chill.

Freezer?

It looked ahead with such thoughts.

However, under the shroud of fog, even a system with night vision cannot see the contents clearly.

[Next is the core area of the incubation room.] ]

The micro-machine re-aggregated and reverted back to a diamond-shaped AI to the system.

I don't know if it's an illusion of the system, but this AI seems to have glanced at the corridor behind him, intentionally or unintentionally, when he said this.

The system followed its line of sight, but found nothing unusual.

[Strange...... Σ(っ°Д°; Wait a minute! 】

It muttered and turned around, only to see that an AI had already floated out and distanced itself from it.

And after it left, three furry heads quietly poked their heads out.

"I'll just say, there's a problem."

Hu Qiu glanced at his mouth and said to Luo Luo beside him.

When the system exits the safe zone through the secret passage, the five "people" including Luo Luo, Hu Qiu, Hei Xiao and Hei Xiao's friends notice something unusual.

With a bold impulse, they chose to follow the system through the secret passage.

However, the black widow stayed in the safe area because of the inconvenience of her legs and feet, and her friends also stayed by her side to take care of her.

So the original 4 "people" became 2 "people".

However, due to the slight delay and distance, they only heard the two talking intermittently, and did not see the system installing jammers in the channel.

For example, words such as "looking for someone", "cultivation room", and "spatial dislocation", but unfortunately, they do not deduce the general situation from the information of these fragments alone.

One can only guess the question in between.

"So now Ah Ling is controlled by the AI of this ruin?"

Luo Luo thought as he tapped his mouthparts.

As early as the beginning of entering the ruins, they were suspicious of the system disguised as "Ah Ling".

Although they have only been with the real Lin Ling for a few days, they have basically figured out the cold-hearted nature of a certain inhuman face.

It's completely different from the current system, which always writes emotions on the face.

"Quite possibly."

The two looked at each other, nodded, and said "maybe", in fact, they had taken this as the real answer.

With their normal thinking, I am afraid that they would never have imagined that there was already a "core" in that shell.

"What are we going to do now?"

Looking at the dark room, Luo Luo hesitated and didn't know whether to keep up.

His gaze for help fell on Hu Qiu.

"What else can I do?"

Hu Qiu looked at Luo Luo and rolled his eyes.

He has never been afraid of big things, and he is not afraid of the unknown at all.

"Keep up, it's all here, it's impossible to retreat, right?"

"Okay."

As a result, as soon as the front feet of the system and the rhomboid stepped through the door, the two non-human hind feet followed.

But they didn't know that such a seemingly hidden move was actually not hidden at all in the eyes of the AI with the authority of the ruin.

Even the secret passage is deliberately opened by the AI to allow the two to pass through.

[These...... What is it? 】

Upon entering the door, the system sees a laboratory strewn with pipes, and glass jars of cloudy liquids are densely packed inside.

It is said to be a laboratory, but it seems to be the size of the hall, and it looks like there is more than one floor when you look up.

Each floor appears to have glass jars about two meters high and one meter wide like this one.

The system instinctively became a little curious about these things.

It leaned over to one of the glass jars, wiped the frost off it with its hands, and observed its contents.

In the cloudy liquid, it was as if something resembling animal limbs was floating.

Kind of like ......

The orcs of this world......

[They're all experiments.] ]

[He is also the ancestor of the world's only remaining intelligent species.] ]

[This is the place of origin - the Human Hybrid Gene Reconstruction Laboratory, also known as: the Humanoid Life Formation Cultivation Laboratory.] ]

The diamond-shaped figure that floated to the center of the experiment looked up at the countless floors above its head, and said so.

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Sogou