Werther Castle.
A heavily armed young man pushed open the door to the basement, but what was inside the door behind him was not the first floor of the castle, but a white corridor that did not belong to the real world.
The theory is that there should be two professionally trained members of the Investigation Department standing not far behind him, and that various surveillance equipment was also installed under the stairs and in the basement during this time, but they no longer have any effect. .
Because it was Ren Shizhi who was responsible for building these things.
Eddie walked down with heavy steps, reached the basement without any obstruction, and saw the wooden door that Marn told him. He didn't know where it would take him.
But Eddie had no choice.
The intricate patterns carved on the door frame look like some kind of magic incantation from the Western Federation.
After he stood in front of the door, Ma En suddenly sent a message:
"open the door."
Eddie put his hand on the handle.
This was no different from opening any door, but it was very similar to the scene he experienced when he came. There were no traces of artificial construction in front of him, and a dark and crowded cave appeared behind the door.
"Close the door and move on."
Eddie walked over.
He turned around and looked at the rectangular portal behind him, stretched out his hand to tighten the wooden door, and then the legend of this place connected to Werther Castle disappeared with his actions.
"Did you close the door?" he asked Maan through the employee panel.
"We have other ways to recover members, don't worry." He replied, "Continue to act."
In the Abnormal Control Bureau, Marn was sitting on a chair looking at the floating screen in front of him - it showed the world in Eddie's eyes, and there was a teleport button on the right side of it, but he did not tell Eddie He could feel that the time required for teleportation had increased by about seven seconds.
Ma En looked at the floating screen. Eddie inside activated the lighting system on his body, and the dark cave became brighter.
The road in front of him could only allow three to five people to move forward side by side, and it was unclear how far they would have to go to leave. However, the wizards in the past should have walked here, so it shouldn't be particularly far.
Moreover, he also asked Eddie to bring enough food, and the level 0 employee would still be hungry for a while.
Eddie followed Marne's orders and began to move forward.
This process was quite boring and much longer than they originally imagined. Eddie made three corrections as he moved forward, and it took a total of nearly four hours to get close to the exit, but this was also because of his average physical fitness. .
But when the bright light appeared vaguely in the distance, Eddie unconsciously quickened his pace.
The moment he walked out of the cave, soft white light filled his entire body, and white cloud-like objects floated where the sky should have been. They were the light source that illuminated the world.
Looking at these luminous clouds, Eddie felt as if he was in a giant room. The light source in the sky had the same effect as the light bulbs in the room. They should be some kind of man-made product.
The ground was an empty wasteland, and there was nothing unusual about it. There were scattered weeds growing tenaciously on the ground in the distance, reminding them that this was not a deserted place.
There are two noteworthy things in his field of vision. One is a tall tower reaching into the sky in front of him on the left. From this distance, it looks like a slender black needle. The other is two towers in front of him. A hundred meters away leads to a road in the distance.
The position that finally came out behind him was the towering stone wall, which continued to extend as far as he could see with the naked eye. The road finally disappeared in front of the stone wall, but it didn't look like it stopped here, as if it It had already been built when the stone wall appeared.
"What do I do now?" Eddie asked.
Ma En said:
"First check if there are any traces of human passing."
Eddie searched the spot and then replied:
"I can't see anything."
He also has no expertise in this area.
"Follow the road," Marne said.
Although the tower was within his field of vision, based on its height and width, it was probably not easily accessible on foot, and the existence of roads meant that it was likely to lead to other man-made structures.
After receiving the order, Eddie headed towards the road at Marne's request.
'There is also a way to teleport. '
When Eddie saw the weeds, Eddie actually thought that there might be food supplies needed for survival here, which gave him the idea of escape. However, the information provided by Marn when entering also made him hesitate.
Ma En claimed that he could still take himself out of here, but this might also be a lie to appease himself.
However, these thoughts did not stay in Eddie's mind for long, because he soon remembered that he was an ordinary person, and without any abnormal abilities, he had no way to survive in the wild for a long time.
Rather than taking the opportunity to escape and betting that Ma En can't do anything to him, Eddie felt that it was a better choice to pretend to cooperate and wait for the opportunity to look for opportunities in such an exploratory mission.
Now that they gave him a chance, he would definitely make these guys regret not killing him in time.
As he moved forward in silence, both Ed and Marn noticed that the environment around him was slowly changing. There were gradually more vegetation, but they had not seen any animals yet.
The continued increase in vegetation distribution seemed to vaguely prove that he was heading in the right direction.
Eddie repaired several times on the road, and there was no change in the progress for the next five hours. Moreover, the surrounding plants began to become more and more dense, and he could occasionally see a few trees standing by the road. Not far away.
And Ma En noticed that the time required for Eddie's teleportation had also been extended to thirty-seven seconds.
Suddenly, when Eddie walked to a certain distance, the number of trees around him began to increase exponentially.
In less than two hundred meters, his surroundings changed from plains to forest.
"I feel that the surroundings are a little too quiet." Eddie said uneasily, "I have been to the forest, and it gave me a completely different feeling. Do you want me to do some repairs here."
He was obviously a little scared.
Ma En’s answer is also very direct:
"go ahead."
Eddie stood there:
“No, I think something is wrong.
"You need me to do this kind of work, then give me better treatment. At least give me a few mortals to explore the road ahead, otherwise I will go on strike."
This is a trial.
Eddie wondered if Marne could restrain himself remotely.
But before he could wait for Ma En's answer, he heard the rustling "wind sound".
The silence was broken.
Eddie looked around in horror but saw nothing.
"Take me back!" He shouted quickly, "Take me back."
"You made a mistake." Ma En replied leisurely, "You are not an indispensable and important member, you are the lowest level consumable we use to explore the road. Do you want to go on strike?
"Okay, then you can face the world by yourself, and we will record everything you see and hear. You will become our official member's information to avoid risks when exploring underground. We will remember how you did it. dead.
"That's all your duty."
The wind blew through the branches and tore off a few fallen leaves.
Then the world in Eddie's eyes began to turn upside down, and the scene in front of Ma En fell into a brief darkness. He was thrown to the ground by something, and was slapped wantonly like a hair ball, as if some wild beast was playing with it. own prey.
When he stopped, he could feel the cold metal pressing against his back, and a slight heat coming from the back of his neck.
The attacker rolled him over, and Eddie saw what was across from him.
A strong black cat, but not any creature they knew, not a tiger, not a leopard, not a lion. It was stronger and more flexible than any of these creatures. The most important thing was that it had 30% of its body. The left and right are made of machinery.
This includes its limbs.
A cold mechanical sound came from the mechanical structure in the chest of this unknown beast:
"Detecting the concentration of gods in the individual's body: low.
"Testing individual human purity: High."
Marn had heard these two sentences before from the sleeping spider, but after a pause of a few seconds, it spoke a completely new sentence.
"It has been determined to be a human being and has not been infected by the gods. It does not need to be disinfected and will be killed according to standard procedures."
As he said these words, the big cat's hole suddenly glowed with a faint red light, and then several sounds of the operation of the mechanical structure were heard, and the scene in front of Ed slowly fell into darkness.
The Anomaly Control Bureau's staff list is permanently missing a member.
The last mechanical sound from the big black cat made Ma En think of a possibility.
The first two sentences are exactly the same, which proves that it is actually a Titan creation. It has the same technology as the spider, but its next actions were beyond Ma En's expectations.
After it detected that Eddie was a human who had not been infected by the gods, it chose to kill him?
There is a possibility that there is something here that humans cannot approach. Even if the visitor is not affected by the gods, he must be killed, and if he is affected, other treatments will be carried out.
But Ma En vaguely noticed something was wrong.
The spider speaks out these tests when it gets close to it, so that it can understand what it wants to do and better accept its help.
But the mission of the big black cats is to hunt humans. There is absolutely no need to say this dialogue related to humans, unless the designer who created them feels that this dialogue is necessary to inform the attacked humans of certain information.
This is completely inconsistent with the current situation.
But what if there is an error?
The spiders they created were quite complexly encrypted. Even if they used something as magical as the Abnormality Control Bureau, they would not be able to obtain its power. There was certainly a reason why humans did this in the past.
They worry about someone stealing their technology, and since they have such worries...
That worry may become reality.
Maybe the big black cat said these two sentences exactly like the spider, probably because it once had the same function as it-searching for humans and providing assistance against the gods. This can also explain its strange pause just now. .
Its function seems to have been changed. Whether it is Taita or a god, in short, something has obtained this weapon and changed its original function to kill the humans it sees. This is what makes them abnormal. The best explanation.
Although this is just a conjecture, Ma Enneng is sure that even if the truth is different from his inference, the matter is definitely not that simple.
The purpose of the big black cat and the spider are completely opposite, and they have the same detection function and voice, and there was an abnormal pause just now. There must be some problem here.
In Spider's recording, he heard the woman calling herself the seventh-generation Titan.
Moreover, there had been at least thirteen generations of Titans in ancient times. This was even when no new Titans appeared after she finished recording. And Ma En didn’t know what exactly these many generations of Titans were. Did any of them exist? There may be conflicts below, but that's not necessarily the case.
There is also a second possibility. Their defeat was actually far more tragic than they originally imagined. The gods not only destroyed the survivors, but also transformed the weapons originally used against them into killing weapons. But in this case, there are still A doubt:
Before killing Ed, the big black cat once mentioned that "it is not infected by the gods and does not require disinfection procedures." This is inconsistent with the second possible speculation, although this can also be used. They did not have it due to encryption reasons. The method can perfectly realize the transformation explanation, but the possibility is not high.
Therefore, Marn felt that it was not the gods who caused these machine killings. It was even possible that the Titans changed their minds at the end and made a second transformation of these weapons.
But no matter what, he had to seize the time to build a second team for exploration.
The strength of the big black cat has definitely not reached level IV, but it is difficult to tell whether it is level III or lower. Although they now have three level IV ability users available for exploration, allowing their own side to do this may lead to death. action is not a wise choice.
He had to contact Shen Zhihe to establish a second suicide squad with combat capability. Moreover, if he did not want them to try to escape when they entered the basement, their strength must be given through characteristics.
He must quickly find weapons that can deal with the gods - he needs these things now.
On his desk, what was suspended in front of Ma En was not one screen, but a total of four screens.
Except for Eddie, who has been hacked, the other three screens are playing the effects of the other three official members of the Secret Alliance of Salvation. Among them, Shen Zhihe is in the position closest to Ma En, and there are several lines of red letters next to it. and several Zoom videos of “unusual behavior.”
Write a book
As Ma En told Shen Zhihe, he would have done similar things in Shen Zhihe's position, so he could understand the other party's caution and forgive Shen Zhihe's violation of his privacy.
Because he went above and beyond.
