"Respect to you, the Masters of 052!"

The voice was not as mechanical and cold as the No. 1 guard, but rather gentle, giving the impression of a real person speaking in his ear, but he couldn't tell the difference between man and woman.

"Who are you?"

Ryan looked around, but didn't see where the sound was coming from.

"I'm made by the Ness family, Research Institute 52 controls the core, Number: Zero Fifty-Two, Clearance: Class A. You can call me the number or the sequence name - the master. ”

It was as if the voice was coming from all directions, eventually converging in his ears.

Ryan frowned when he heard this, he still couldn't be sure if the so-called 052 was self-conscious, it said that its authority was only A-class, and he was S-class, and it looked as if he was higher?

Moreover, it says that the Ness family, where it seems to have heard of this name......

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and memories of the past began to come back to him, when he was still in the funeral room, and the name was mentioned in the photo beads left by his grandfather.

The Ness family, also from the Wasteland, made a photo bead that resembles a projector.

He looked up at the ring on his hand, which his grandfather had left him, and he suddenly seemed to understand something.

"What does this have to do with the Wastelands? What does it have to do with the abyss? He shouted around.

"I don't have enough authority to answer your question."

"Well, what is this research here, you should know this, right?"

"The future of civilization is studied here, the future of the world, and a group of pioneers who have dedicated everything to the path of exploration, who have been waiting for the arrival of their successors to restart their research."

Ryan doesn't know how to interpret this sentence and study the future of the world? It's too arrogant, even a legendary or even a legendary demigod-level powerhouse seems insignificant in front of the world's might.

"They? The researchers, where they went, it didn't look like it had been attacked. ”

"Researcher 301 died naturally after the closure of the research institute."

Ryan was silent, which meant that the institute was closed from the inside, and the researchers inside should have all died if nothing else, and they died of natural causes.

"Where are their remains?"

"Uniformly placed in Warehouse No. 8, with their research and relics, resting in ......"

When the controller said this, there was a hint of ...... in his tone Lose?

But Ryan, who was bent on searching for Warehouse Eight, didn't notice this subtle change, he did find a few metal doors at the front of the laboratory, and when he came to the number "Eight", a small ball poked out of the door and scanned it up and down.

A mechanical and cold voice came:

"Permissions: S-level

ID: None

Clearance is sufficient, entry is allowed, and Guard Three salutes you. ”

The door slowly opened, and it was pitch black inside, even with Ryan's eyesight, he couldn't penetrate the layers of darkness, and stepped in, the door closed, making a dull sound.

This empty and lonely space, eerily quiet, without a trace of light, is completely different from before, and Ryan also secretly raised his vigilance.

"Controller, are you there?" He let out a tentative cry.

"We're here to help." A gentle neutral sound sounds, and it really does come out of nowhere.

"Lighting?"

"Buzz"

As soon as Ryan's words fell, rows of light spots appeared above his head, illuminating the No. 8 warehouse, revealing the true face of Lushan under the darkness.

"Damn, or voice-controlled?"

He complained casually, and looked at the space in front of him, his eyes suddenly widened, and as far as he could see, there were rows of semicircular seats in front of him, and a circular open space in the middle. There is a sense of an open-air stadium.

To his astonishment, there sat skeletons in neat rows of seats, their bones crystal white, like porcelain, not like human bones at all, but like artificially made works of art.

Their empty eyes brushed together to "look" at Ryan, he only felt a cool air from the head to the tail vertebrae, a little creepy, this scene is too terrifying, too challenging people's nerves.

Taking a deep breath, Ryan comforted himself and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I should have thought of it a long time ago, it's normal to have skeletons in such a distant ruin, and it's terrifying to have a living one." ”

Fortunately, Ryan also rolled in the pile of dead people, if he had just crossed over, he would have been frightened and incontinent on the spot when he saw this scene.

He walked to the center and looked around at the skeletons, about two or three hundred, which should be all the researchers here, but the controller clearly said that there were their research and relics here, why was there nothing but skeletons?

Just as he was wondering, a beam of light above his head suddenly shone in front of him, and various colors were surging in it, and a figure slowly emerged.

He is about two meters tall, with an elderly human face and gray hair, and wears a peculiar robe with two numbers on the left chest, with "Zero Five Two" at the top and a huge "Zero One" at the bottom.

"Holographic projection?"

Ryan secretly said to himself, this is much more technical than the photo bead he had seen before, just thinking about what he had seen and heard along the way, he suddenly felt that this didn't seem to be a big deal.

"Hello, latecomer.

My name is Wildler, I'm from the Ness family, the top head of the Zero 52 Institute, number: Zero One, S-class clearance.

It's an honor and a blessing to see you over an unknown period of time. It proves that our efforts have not been in vain and that there is hope for the world.

It's a pity that I don't know how long I've been dead at this time, and it's a pity that I can't communicate with you face-to-face. Next, we will show you the results of our research one by one, hoping to help you, of course, maybe you don't need it at all......"

"It's the Ness family again, it seems that they have quite high attainments in magic technology, but such a powerful magic technology has never been recorded, how many things have been hidden in the long history of this world?"

This is an exchange that spans an unknown number of years, maybe thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, not necessarily, like a long river of time flowing backwards, which is shocking.

Wildler paused for a moment and said in a reminiscing tone: "Let's start from the beginning, on the first day of the fire, we thought it was just an ordinary meteorite, and we didn't pay attention to it, and we were full of confidence, thinking that the city was enough to defend against the attack of these small meteorites.

But...... We were wrong, it was not meteorites that were wrapped in scorching flames, but pieces of metal that easily destroyed our defenses, and the entire continent of civilization suffered heavy losses.

However, the most desperate and devastating thing about civilization is the devils, who seem to have descended from beyond the territory with the heavenly fire, and did not pose much of a threat to us at first, so they did not do much during the encirclement, resulting in many escaped fish.

In those years, we were all licking the wounds caused by the heavenly fire, and just when everything was calming down, a gray cloud enveloped the city, and our war with the demon seed began......"

……

By the time Wildler was telling this history, the ruins had already become a pot of porridge, and several fifth-level demonic beasts had engaged in fierce confrontations, with the woods toppling and rocks scattered. The roar continued like thunder.

Not only is it a hegemon like a fifth-level demonic beast, but there are also powerhouses of the Great Knight rank among the Terran mercenaries, and there is even a mysterious high-level magician with amazing strength.

The monsters and the adventurers strangled together, and the blood continued to sway to the earth, because of that earth-shattering bang, which led to this chaotic battle.

The monsters felt that their territory and majesty had been violated, while the mercenaries and adventurers had collided by accident for a rare opportunity.

A group of lizards managed to defeat a mercenary group with a numerical superiority and became the first to break out, and they began to find their targets in their own unique way, and soon they began to converge on the ruins.

Xiyue and the others waited boredly, Ryan had been in for more than half an hour, and there was no movement at all. In a claustrophobic space such as a passage, it is often easier for people to be irritable.

Alan sat cross-legged on the ground, quietly wiping his horizontal knife, he was always ready.

"Ah......h

Suddenly, two terrible screams came, which immediately made everyone feel like they were facing a great enemy. A cold glint suddenly flashed in Allen's eyes, it came from the entrance, and it seemed that the guards he had arranged at the entrance had finished.

Xiyue's pointed ears stood up, a pair of green eyes looked back, and black shadows were rushing towards her and others along the smooth walls.

"Enemy attack! Array. ”

Although he had not yet seen the enemy's approach, Alan still reacted correctly at the first time, and they formed a circle with large shield soldiers, spears and knives poking out of the gaps, like iron hedgehogs.

"Puff puff"

Several dark green four-legged lizards slammed into the shield, and were soon stabbed into hedgehogs by sharp spears, and the dark green blood splattered in all directions, emitting an unpleasant stench.

"We're in trouble, it's a one-horned monitor lizard, this is a common group of demonic beasts that live in groups, and the number is often hundreds to thousands, it must have been attracted by the big movement before."

Xi Yue's longbow in her hand was fired again and again, nailing the lizards to the metal floor, but her face became more and more solemn, there were only a few dozen of them, and it was definitely a disaster to meet such a group of demonic beasts.

Perhaps the only thing that can be fortunate now is that no trace of a large lizard has been found, they are all first-level magical beasts, and they can be easily solved.

"Resist, fight to the death!"

"Yes!"

The soldiers let out a shout, each clenched his weapon, and began the most endurance-testing protracted battle, and they would not take a step back until Ryan came out!

……

Ryan, who was in the barn, didn't know what was going on outside, and he was listening to Wildler tell about that history he had never heard of.

According to him, in the past, humans occupied a very vast land, and they were born like elves and transcendents, forming independent cities, independent of each other but coexisting peacefully.

And the heavenly fire, which brought terrifying demons of great strength, created or emitted a gray mist that obscured the sky and the sun, and all the land eroded by the fog became unsuitable for survival.

And along with the mist, there are monsters called demon seeds.

Cities were breached, and the human body became a breeding ground for monsters, and their numbers grew rapidly, soon engulfing nearly half of humanity.

Finally, the human cities united under the call of the five supreme powers, and ended their separate battles. They led their people and countless followers to begin a long war against the demons.

The war lasted for hundreds of years, and with the blessing of powerful magical technology, the demon seeds were finally defeated, and their masters, the demons, were banished to a barren land.

It is said to be the land of ancient gods, where life is almost extinct, and the devil has built a nest there, creating a steady stream of gray mist and demon seeds.

There, the coalition of humans fought a decisive battle with the devil, and the battle was earth-shattering, and lives were lost like mustard...... The decisive battle lasted for several years.

Just when humanity thought it was victorious, the exit of the abyss was opened by the devils, and they seemed to come from the abyss, and a steady stream of demons poured out of the abyss, and the war was finally extended indefinitely.

In the end, for the safety of the continent, the five strongest men sealed off the entire barren land with the help of artifacts, and they and their followers also took root in it.

The five glorious surnames are: Black, Ness, Gabriel, Glinton, and Donald.

……

The narrative in the middle is very long, and it is only at the end that Wildler talks about the 052 Institute itself, which was not cut off from the outside world at the beginning, and that they were able to have limited contact.

Because of the ravages of the gray fog, large areas of land are no longer suitable for normal life, and they are spreading. If it is allowed to continue, the entire continent will be killed by then!

In view of this situation, the Ness family, which has the highest level of magical technology, and the Greenton family, who are well-versed in flora and fauna, have set up laboratories in various places to study demon seeds and demons, as well as the "Skyfire" fragments.

The main purpose is to find a way to completely destroy the devil and restore the eroded land.

Research Institute 052 is one of the several research institutes in the Demon Beast Mountain Range, and its main direction is the research of demon seeds and "Heavenly Fire" fragments.

After several generations of unremitting efforts, they finally had a breakthrough, but the bad news also followed, a major accident occurred at a research institute that studied demon seeds, and the living specimens studied escaped from the research institute and escaped pursuit.

As a result, the Demon Seed once again started a war, but this time there were no heroes to stand up, and the Wasteland was completely closed. Eventually, all of humanity's territory fell.

Some of the surviving humans fled overseas for refuge.

As the head of the 052 Research Institute at that time, Wildler decisively activated the emergency plan and completely sealed down the institute in order to prevent research leakage.

He led the remaining researchers to continue his research inside until the end of his life.

As Researcher 301 came to the end of his life, the institute finally fell silent, quietly waiting for the arrival of his successor......

(End of chapter)