He turned his gaze in other directions, tapping the hilt of his sword along the road, listening to the reality behind the wall.

In vain, in the end he returned to the fresco.

His empty left hand lightly touched it, and suddenly a few inexplicable syllables imprinted into his mind like the spiritual rain of the empty mountain, and he unconsciously read it along.

Suddenly, the mural rippled like water waves, and came to life.

Xia Chan pressed half of his hand in, and between advancing and retreating, he remembered the purpose of his coming here, maybe this is where the opportunity is?

He crashed into the mural, and the next, after a brief dizziness, he found himself standing next to a dry fountain in the center of a dungeon, surrounded by buildings and deep wells with a faint green glow that appeared to be some kind of luminescent fungus.

In the last timeline, he knew that the organization he worked for had a secret research underground base in Oak Town, which was later attacked and destroyed by the undead, and tens of thousands of people in the entire town were killed.

This dungeon must be the underground base, the strange thing is that after so many years, not to mention whether the war was destroyed or not, but it still seems that at least the ventilation system is still intact, and there is no stuffiness here.

The building appears to be structurally intact and not badly damaged.

Leaving the small square of the deep well space, Xia Chan stepped into the narrow passage, he didn't see it, the dry fountain behind him after he left suddenly gushed out green water that emitted a faint fluorescence, gushing like a living thing and constantly changing its form.

Xia Chan entered an area that was obviously a living area, and after checking more than ten rooms one by one, he gave up, for two reasons, the room had traces of being searched, and some violently damaged closets and cabinets were obviously new works from the broken wood, and the other was that there were really no valuable items, except for the decaying living items, and no text files could be found.

None of the elevators to the next floor could be activated, and the emergency passage to the lower floor was sealed by thick alloy gates.

After turning about a few kilometers, he found nothing, and had to return to the small square where he had first arrived.

When the matter came, he was not in a hurry, since the three of them had not left the underground, there must be other passages.

His stomach was already rumbling in protest, and Xia Chan had been waking up by a wolf howl in the morning for two hours now, and he hadn't eaten a drop of water.

He sat down cross-legged, disposed of a can of meat, filled half a bottle of water, and was about to continue his search, when he suddenly saw the dark floor tiles suddenly glow with fluorescence.

Those fluorescent dots soon formed into several isolated figures, no, words!

Hello, my name is Xiaohai.

These words like glowing moss stunned Xia Chan, and for a long time, he suppressed the fluctuations in his heart, and replied after careful consideration: "My name is Xia Chan, who are you?"

The words on the floor tiles quickly dimmed and disappeared, and in an instant, a line of text was condensed again: I am not human.

Xia Chan glanced around, although it was dark, his spiritual sense told him that there was no one else nearby, and he replied: "Then who are you?"

Soon the ground lit up with a new line of text: "This is me you see."

Xia Chan quickly asked, "I don't understand, don't you have a physical body?"

Ground Screen: You can take it literally.

Xia Chan shook his head and asked in a different direction, "You live here?"

"I was born here, and my elders and mother created me. ”

Xia Chan asked, "Elder, who is your mother?"

The ground fell into darkness, as if thinking, and it took a while before continuing to light the words: The elder is the elder, and the mother is Zhuo Siqing.

Xia Chan was like being devoured by thunder, and after a while, he couldn't help but ask excitedly: "Where is Zhuo Siqing now?"

This time the ground reply was quick: I don't know.

Xia Chan immediately asked, "Is she still alive?"

The ground was still quick to reply: "I don't know." ”

Xia Chan was furious: "Then what do you know?"

The ground waited for a moment before replying: "When I broke away from the mother seal, everyone here was gone, only a memory left by my mother. ”

Xia Chan was afraid of being disappointed, so he asked tentatively, "What did the memory tell you?"

Ground Yingwen: "Let me wait for Xia Chan, wait for you." ”

Xia Chan was silent and said, "Xia Chan can have many. ”

Ground Yingwen: "There is a birthmark imprint left by the phagophage on the outside of your left arm, and you will know it as soon as you come to Xiaohai." ”

Xia Chan naturally knew that he had a cyan curved birthmark on his left arm with a strange shape, like words and runes, and he continued to ask, "So you guided me through that mural?"

Ground Glow: There's a simple trick through the mural, spells are another, and if you can't find a base, I'll take the initiative to see you.

"What can you do when you wait until I do?"

The ground answer was still fast: "Go with you." ”

Xia Chan stood up and looked around: "Where is your body, how can you follow me?"

This time, a larger line appeared in a farther place: "My body, according to human parlance, is composed of countless phages, which can parasitize, divide, or replicate." ”

Xia Chan had never heard of such a strange tiny life form with a complete will, and he tentatively said, "So, Xiaohai, how do I get out of here, is there anything valuable or precious in this base?"

As Xia Chan walked, Xiao Hai appeared on a stone wall: "According to human values, this place is just a ruin, but twenty days ago, someone sneaked back here and put a box, according to the memory bank knowledge that my mother gave me, it should be artificially extracted soul source energy, also known as the acquired Dao species or artificial bloodline root." ”

Xia Chan suddenly became excited, this was the purpose of his trip: "Take me quickly, I want to get it!"

Xiao Hai appeared on the road ahead: "It's late, eleven hours ago, three people entered the laboratory safe on the second basement floor through the ventilation duct and took the box. ”

Xia Chan stopped, unspeakably disappointed: "Where are those three people?"

Suddenly three fluorescent villains like shadow puppets appeared on the wall of the passage, all holding weapons, and suddenly two of the three attacked one of them, but they were shrunk by the third person who seemed to be on guard, and they turned around with two knives to cut off the soles of one person's feet, and after a wave of tragic fighting, the third person finally killed the attacker at the cost of minor injuries.

The 'shadow puppet' vanished, and the text reappeared: "The survivor got the box and injected a living source on the spot to be lucky enough to pass the rejection, he had a map in his hand and went out through the abandoned geothermal drainage, just an hour ago." ”

Knowing that he had missed the opportunity, Xia Chan didn't know what his mood was, so he asked a very strange question: "Who was the person who lurked back to the base twenty days ago to place the box?"

Just when Xia Chan thought that he would not get an answer, a sentence appeared on the wall on the other side of the corridor: "That person said something to himself when he came here, and Xiao Hai judged that he was a member of the Tianping Council, that is, the organization behind the destruction of this base. ”

Xia Chan naturally knew something about the opposition of this alliance, and there was rumor in the last timeline that they seemed to have created something that mortals could also practice, and now it seems that it is the so-called 'artificial bloodline root'.

At that time, the 'chance' mentioned in the autobiography was not a chance, but a kind of artificial arrangement or test, no wonder he said in his autobiography that his qualifications were not outstanding, and later he was able to break the shackles and embark on the road to immortality.

"I want to go to the lower level. Xia Chan made a request.

Xiaohai appears an arrow on the wall in response.

Ten minutes later, Xia Chan stood in front of the emergency gate leading to the lower level, the thick alloy gate was parting little by little, and dozens of tentacle-like vines were clinging to it.

When enough of a person had passed, the vine stopped.

As if knowing Xia Chan's question, Xiao Hai appeared on the door: "After I broke away from my mother's seal, I learned some human knowledge left by my mother, and I could only partially repair the rune system of geothermal energy and restore the operation of the ventilation system, and then I became interested in the outside world." ”

Xia Chan understood the meaning of Xiao Hai's words, it was not interested in the rest of the base, but was bound by the oath to stay here.

The second floor is the laboratory and the research room, and there are many large rooms that resemble factories, and there are many tubular and sink-like objects in them, but they have long been almost destroyed, and they cannot be seen in their original appearance.

This shattered his hopes for the place where his mother had worked, and just as he offered to return to the surface, Xiaohai suddenly pointed him in a direction.

He originally thought it was related to his parents, but instead he went deep into a garbage disposal site with a deep pit after a secret passage turned into a secret passageway.

Then he saw a terrifying scene through the light of a flashlight, countless corpses were piled up in the pit seven or eight meters deep, and the most astonishing thing was that the corpses were only a few feet long.

"Why?" Although the temperature here was wet and cold, Xia Chan felt a cold sweat.

Xiao Hai didn't answer him, but there was a heavy footstep movement behind him, and when he looked back, two people with a missing foot and a low foot, and a person with a crooked head with half of his neck left behind were walking crookedly.

Qiang ~ Xia Chan draws his sword out of the sheath!

The two monsters suddenly froze, turned in unison and jumped into the bone pit.

Xia Chan looked down with the light of the flashlight, and the two of them were motionless and lay under the corpse.

At this time, the ground lit up with Yingwen: This is what was killed before, and those embryonic bones, my mother used to oppose such cruel experiments, she was excluded, so she independently engaged in a biological research on unpopular algae clusters, and with the secret help of the elders of the Jumang clan, Xiaohai was born.

Xia Chan returned to the ground with nothing, and this time the operation for chance failed, and it was only half a day since he entered the underground base.

Nor can it be said that he found nothing, Xiaohai parasitized into him in a way that he could not understand, and left the base with him.

With Xiaohai's guidance, Xia Chan successfully found his second destination in Oak Town.

In the ruins of the north of the town, there is a monument to an obelisk several meters high, the wind and snow are blowing, cold and cold, and the place where tens of thousands of ghosts are buried is extremely bleak.

Xia Chan stood silently in front of the monument, and there was a bunch of wild lilies at his feet.

There are about a hundred names with identities engraved on the monument, and Xia Chan finally found Xia Zhiqiu and Zhuo Siqing in the first few rows from bottom to top, two names that are neither unfamiliar nor familiar.

He has never stood here for any reason, and now he faces his life experience with regret and determination.

I originally thought that it would not happen, but why did I feel like there was a suffocation in my heart that was separated by thousands of mountains and rivers and could not be eliminated for thousands of years?