by Chen Ran
This level of research was clearly not something that Dr. Willost could support. Whether it was the research budget or the various resources needed for the experiments, without the support of the country, neither individuals nor chaeurs could support such research projects. For those in power in the country, the new life forms were more likely to be used for the battlefield, just like nuclear weapons were for the country.
But from now on, the pioneer's plan would be to run aground. Perhaps the precursor was still sleeping somewhere in the dark.
But one day, it would awaken!
Suddenly, a thought appeared in Zero's mind.
Zero shook his head and threw those words out of his mind. From the looks of the current situation, the reason the vanguard team Callio led entered the Cossack base back then was most likely for the information of the pioneers. If the Asgard were to obtain such a biological weapon, even if there was only basic data, with the technology of the Asgard, he might be able to cultivate a complete version of a pioneer so that he could shake the Dark Council and even become the ruler of the continent.
On the surface, the mission this time was to acquire the experimental diary, but in essence, it was still directed towards the pioneer. When Zero thought of this possibility, his face immediately turned cold. An era of chaos was an era where the strong preyed on the weak. It was not shameful for the weak to use the strong to their advantage, but Zero did not wish for Asgard to have the relevant information regarding the pioneer. He could imagine that when the pioneers were able to mass produce, it would be a disaster for all living beings.
So he found all the information in the metal cabinets and stacked them together, and finally took out a time delay bomb from the portable apparatus. After setting the bomb at zero speed for five seconds, the speed of the explosion of the fifth step caused Zero to leave afterimages. Within two seconds, it had already reached the exit. Without pausing for a moment, he dashed towards the exit. However, the moment he stepped out of the door, the broken strands of hair on his helmet suddenly floated up!
An incomparable sense of danger fiercely struck Zero's chest like a sledgehammer, causing its heart to heavily beat. Without thinking, he crossed his arms in front of his head and chest. Just as he made this defensive motion, a violent impact immediately struck his arms. The huge force pushed both of his hands backwards, pressing heavily on his chest. He groaned and spat out a cloud of blood mist. His entire body flew backward in an instant.
Just as Zero was sent flying, the bomb in Archives detonated instantly. A huge muffled sound came out from the Archives as a ring shaped shockwave that could be seen with the naked eye shot out from the door. Then the orange flame burst out of the door, illuminating a whisker as thick as a bucket. On the surface of the whiskers, countless granules were bulging, each of them the size of a fist. There was a faint light blue halo coming out from the inside of the grain. Each meatball was a bioenergy reservoir and also a point of exertion. It was just a single whisker, but it was already filled with hundreds, if not thousands of these particles. In other words, it had just withstood a huge impact from thousands of nodes.
He flew out, fell, and fell into the cold sewage. The terrifying impact caused his helmet to shatter from the impact, and fine cracks started to appear on the bones of his arms. Furthermore, the cracks were still expanding. The huge force of almost ten tons caused Zero to directly faint. He slowly sank into the water, closing his eyes tightly.
Just as he was about to touch the ground, Zero suddenly opened his eyes. His right eye spewed out a strong golden flame, and even the water surface glowed brightly with the golden light of his right eye. A very faint, yet already possessed some kind of majestic aura appearing on Zero's body. At the same time, Zero, who had instantly entered berserk mode, bounced up from the water. With a simple stride, he crossed a distance of nearly ten meters. He landed on the left wall and used both his hands and feet to run away like a primordial beast. He ran on the vertical wall at a godlike speed, disappearing into the distance in the blink of an eye.
The light from the explosion in Archives had gradually faded, and all the records relating to the pioneers had been destroyed, except for the diary that he had placed in the portable apparatus. In the diary, the data about the pioneer was also torn apart. All that was left was just a few sentimental words from Dr. Willost. These things were insignificant.
However, after the light from the Archives was extinguished, an invisible wave swiftly swept across every corner from the depths of the base. The Whole Base was shaking with a frequency that was hard to see with the naked eye. The originally calm water was shaking slightly and the strange fish swimming around had stopped all their movements. After the shock wave disappeared, the strange fish scrambled to escape. They entered all sorts of hidden places and lost their fierce auras. They could only tremble in the darkness.
The strange fishes were scared, because from the undulations, they could clearly read the fury of their mother!
After passing through a 90 degree bend, his agility had increased to the seventh stage, causing ripples to appear as he ran. The cone shaped energy waves pierced through the air, reducing friction and resistance to zero and causing zero's speed to break through the speed of sound. Each time he passed a place, there was a burst of sound. Then, the air currents hit the water in the wall and caused some air vibrations. Only after a long time did it calm down.
If nothing unexpected happened, those thick tentacles should belong to the Crypt Lord. Eva had mentioned before that this huge monster resided in the underground Six layer base. Now that the five-tier base had become the playground for the descendants of Crypt Lord, it was obvious that the five-tier base had been transformed by the Lord. It was also because of this tyrannical existence reproducing in the five-tier base that the Man-Faced Moths could not leave its nest to fight against the Vengeance for territory.
Now, for some reason, the Crypt Lord had angered him, causing it to suddenly attack him.
In just a few short seconds, Zero had already distanced itself from Archives. But then there were explosions coming from behind him, and as he busied himself, he turned his head around, only to see a few meat whiskers coming out from the passage behind him, the nearby testing room, and the ventilation ducts on the ceiling. Every single one of the meat tendons had over a thousand points of exertion, and they formed the special muscle structures of the Crypt Lord. Using this instant burst of strength, they formed over ten tons of muscles instantly, ripping any obstacle in front of these meat tendrils apart.
All the bones in Zero's body felt like they were splitting. Just now, when he blocked the attack of one of the tentacles, he almost broke his arm bones and ribs. If it wasn't for his body being strengthened by a level 2 defense, an ordinary person's body would have already been shaken to death. Now, however, the strength of the tendrils had increased from one to three, and the impact had tripled. With a strength of at least 30 tons and the addition of the momentum from his sprint, his strength would inevitably only be higher than normal.
An impact of more than 30 tons of force was not something that Zero's body could handle. Zero quickly calculated in his mind. If he were to be hit by this, all his bones and organs would definitely shatter and die!
With a grunt, he sped up his sprint along the vertical wall. However, at this moment, a loud explosion occurred in front of them. A thick line smashed out from the left wall and swept towards the wall that was running at zero speed. It then swept towards the direction of zero. Along the way, countless wiring boards and cables burst out and were swept with a thousand average speed!
Chapter 262 - One Thousand Average
The flesh of the Crypt Lord attacked from all directions, wanting to block off all of Su Yun's advance and retreat. Seeing that she had nowhere to go, the golden flames of Zero's right eye burned even more vigorously. His feet did not stop moving, and he ferociously took a step forward.
After being boosted by [Rampage] to the fourth step, hi
s strength exploded. With a zero stomp, the metallic wall cracked like paper. The power seeped into the deeper parts of the wall, instantly breaking countless cables and circuits inside the wall. Using the gap left by his foot, Zero fell towards a testing room behind the wall. He, who had suddenly disappeared, caused the oncoming attack of the meat whiskers to miss.
A huge muffled sound of impact could be heard from outside the room. It seemed that the four of them had clashed into one of the walls. When the entire testing room shook slightly, zero coincidentally dropped onto the ground, causing him to roll on the ground. Just as he was about to bounce up from the ground, the imposing aura from his body suddenly disappeared, and the golden flames in his right eye also quickly dimmed. As the silver vertical pupil in his right eye disappeared, Zero retreated from the Enraged state.
This sudden withdrawal from berserk mode caused Zero to fall from the sky. The signals of pain that had been suppressed by [Rampage] mode exploded forth, turning into streams of water that rushed into the brain of zero. Zero almost fainted from the pain in his body. His face turned pale and his hands subconsciously grabbed the ground. He actually scratched a finger mark on the alloy floor.
Zero's chest was heaving and he was gasping for breath. Inhaling the air in his lungs was like a burning flame, causing him to break out in a cold sweat from the pain. He struggled to get up from the ground, but this simple action had consumed all of his remaining physical strength. Zero only felt that the air around him was like a swamp, causing every movement of his to be exceptionally strenuous.
After using [Rampage], all of the energy in his body was drained. The current him couldn't even move a single finger. But just as he was about to die, two meat whiskers suddenly drilled through the gap in the testing room's wall. The tentacles spread out in two directions, and when they stood up, a hole was forcibly torn open in the wall. The remaining two whiskers took the opportunity to enter as well. They stood high up in the air, creating a fierce wind that blew towards nothing.
Zero gritted his teeth. He wanted to move his body away from the area where the meat was swatting at, but he couldn't use up all his strength. Just as he was about to die, he saw a little light.
The milky white light was like a sharp sword as it pierced through the wall to the right of Su Hao. Then, a second, a third … In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred beams of white light poured in. As they shrunk and closed, a hole immediately appeared in the wall. In the gap where the white light was spewing out flames, a war lance shot straight in. It was not fast, but it was good to pierce them before the whiskers hit zero.
The war lance flew like a shuttle, piercing into the two meat whiskers along with a dazzling white light, dragging them along as if it were burning something, nailing them towards a wall on the other side.
The testing room trembled again. Compared to its fine beard, the war lance could only be described as slim, but it firmly nailed them inside. No matter how crazily the tentacles struggled, they were unable to escape from the control of the war lance. In his mind, the image of Valkyrie's beautiful face, which was as cold as a thousand year old ice, suddenly surfaced in his mind.
When the war lance nailed the two meat whiskers, Zero's finger lightly flicked up. The vibrations came from the ground. As he sat on the ground, he could clearly feel the rhythmic vibrations coming from the ground. The tremors slowly spread out until it reached the end, when the entire testing room shook unsteadily, as if there was a giant rushing over. At this time, the wall that the war lance had broken through suddenly split into pieces, and a low built figure broke out from the wall. On his body, there was the endless flow of energy ripple s. Ripples formed in front of him, expanded, flowed to the end of his back. One ripple after another rippled out, without beginning or end.
Su Ming's eyes narrowed slightly as she recognized the old face of Callio under the energy ripple. If one looked carefully, it was not difficult to see that the layers of ripples surrounding Callio's body, were able to shake, disintegrate, and throw aside all the things that were in her way. Thus, they were unable to obstruct Callio in the slightest. Looking at the wall that Callio smashed into and seeing the broken wall underneath, he actually charged straight out from behind the wall after smashing her way through!
Instantly, Callio pounced towards the other two tentacles. Chief Instructor stretched out a pair of hands that had muscles popping out of its chest, as he grabbed onto a whisker each. Callio held them under his arms. The meat whiskers that had a thousandth of his strength were squashed and deformed by Callio like ordinary software animals. Callio roared again and pulled back fiercely. The muscle fiber s were torn apart by a huge force, revealing the severed section of the muscle fiber's flesh which was covered with pink tendons, as well as the dark yellow fluid that was splattering all over the wall of tube's body.
In the next moment, a wail that was mixed with pain and anger rang out from underground. The voice came from below the five-tier base, causing it to tremble non-stop.
The two whiskers made by the war lance shone with eerie blue light. When the thousands of light spots merged into one, the two tentacles seemed to be wrapped in blue flame. They struggled with all their might and directly shattered the metal wall on the other side. Fragments of metal flew everywhere, and the war lance was bounced up by its meat whiskers. It flew through the air and finally landed in a pair of jade-like, sparkling hands.
Each strand of hair seemed to be on fire, sparkling with milky white flames as it floated in the air. Valkyrie caught the war lance and walked towards Zero. In Zero's eyes, the war lance in war goddess's hand suddenly thrusted at him!
Before Zero could analyze the situation, the war lance had already pointed five times at him. With every tap, a thick stream of energy would be channeled into his body. The energy flow quickly dispersed and was absorbed by the cells in his body, restoring the energy that Zero had temporarily depleted by 1%. There were a total of 5 energy flow, recovering about 0.5% of the energy flow. This level of energy was insufficient for him to fight, but at least he could move his arms and legs, so Zero stood up from the ground.
Valkyrie was slightly surprised. She had originally planned to use her own energy to activate around 10% of her energy, but she didn't expect that the degree of recovery to be half of what she had expected. This meant that the potential of zero was twice as great as she had estimated, or even more. And according to Asgard's evaluation of zero, his potential should at least reach the eighth stage!
Of course, this was only a prediction, but the fact that Zero Real's potential could break through to the Tenth Order was a fact that was as hard as iron. Because of this, Valkyrie was slightly happy in his heart. It had to be known that a powerhouse of the ninth step and above was already hard to come by, but with the potential of zero to reach the tenth step. Moreover, the goal of zero was not necessarily the Tenth Order. Thinking of this, Valkyrie couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
She remembered that her father had once said that the new humans could not be categorized with the existing knowledge. They were a generation with unlimited possibilities!
Now, this sentence was reflected on Ling Chen's body. Perhaps right now, Zero was just an insignificant flame, but who could be sure that Zero would not turn into a prairie fire?
The agitated thoughts were captured by Valkyrie. On the reality level, the flow of time only passed a second. A second was a blink of an eye, but it was enough time for Adepts to do a lot of things.
The ice mountain that Valkyrie would never melt. Opening her full red lips, she used a voice that was like the howling of ice wind to say to Zero: "This is none of your business. Quickly bring your teammates away from here!"
Without any more hesitation, Zero turned around and left, leaving the "passage" that Callio had opened up far behind in the blink of an eye. However,'s ears still reverberated with the soft words of zero.
Thank you!
It was dull but sincere, causing the ice and snow on Valkyrie's
face to melt slightly.
Callio deeply agreed with Su Ling's straightforward approach. And at this time, in the Chief Instructor's senses, a huge and tyrannical amount of biological energy suddenly surged from under the base. The biological energy that was dark blue in the perception world, if it had been a calm sea before, then this sea had already boiled over!
It wasn't just the bioenergy that was boiling, but also the boundless rage he felt after being provoked. Anger came from the giant creature on the sixth floor of the base, the Crypt Lord!
If someone were to go down the underground base at the sixth floor now, they would discover that the layer base and the remaining base no longer existed. The base had been reduced to fragments, and more of the dark space had been filled with water from the depths of the earth, turning the place into a vast ocean. In this part of the ocean, a large area of blue fire appeared in the deep water.
The water, which had been relatively calm, was now rippling in waves from the center, slapping against the walls of the cave. The waves rose higher and higher until they finally hit a rock wall that was almost ten meters high! Within the blue water, a gigantic shadow that looked like a submarine gradually appeared. Finally, the object broke through the surface, revealing a terrifyingly large giant.
Without a doubt, this was a giant fish with the size of a blue whale. It looked like a normal catfish, but from the forehead onwards, it was covered with pieces of hexagonal biological armor, which extended into the body of the water. On the hexagonal plate of the giant fish, there were spiral patterns. There was a faint blue glow flowing within the circles. From afar, it looked like the body of a giant fish dotted with blue flames.
This giant fish was the Crypt Lord, and right now, the water on the Crypt Lord's body was bursting with water. In every column of water, thick, fleshy whiskers would appear. There were hundreds of water pillars bursting out of the water. The pillars of water rose and fell, carrying a vast amount of power with them. In the end, they exploded into droplets of water that fell like rain.
