LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 576 Darkness
The soul core was delivered by hand, and finally sent to the top of the rocket through the leader and handed over to Chen Ze.
The newly born soul core has not yet been completely formed, like a shy little kitten, curling up and purring when touched by a hand.
Chen Ze integrated it into the polymer.
The leader told him all his conjectures, and finally took out the blue book and asked,
"9527."
"Do you know what this means?"
The leader pointed to the unknown line of text he had recorded.
Chen Ze took a closer look.
Viluole. Niliye?
"I don't know." After thinking about it silently, Chen Ze gave a negative answer.
The leader put away the blue book and said no more, but was determined to confirm the whereabouts of those compatriots who had not returned.
"They probably won't be able to come back." Chen Ze told the truth,
"Unknown dangers lurk in the darkness."
"The power I draw is only enough to guide you alone."
The leader was a little stunned. He thought those people were guided back by Chen Ze.
But the fact is that those lucky team members all received guidance from the same robot - a robot that carried a fetus and came and went freely in the dark.
"4396?" The leader put forward his absurd but only reasonable guess.
Chen Ze was noncommittal and just reminded the leader that it was time to set off.
The light snow underground has reached this layer.
But the exploration team members lingering at the bottom of the rocket were reluctant to return.
Until the leader turned the heavy track between them.
"Leader." Someone asked blankly,
"Will we succeed?"
“All these years”
"We will definitely succeed!" The leader forced himself into his usual passionate posture.
"The sacrifices of our compatriots will not be in vain."
"We will see the outside world clearly on their behalf!"
After recovering, everyone finally returned to the rocket cockpit.
However, the leader at the rear seemed particularly disappointed.
At the cabin door, it looked back for the last time at the darkness that was so thick that it could hardly be dissolved.
"Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey."
There seemed to be a sinister laughter coming in, but it was still unclear.
When it wants to distinguish it carefully.
"Get ready to take off!" A grand command sounded.
The leader then withdrew his light and stepped into the rocket again.
Thirteenth floor.
There was no supply, so Chen Ze ordered to stay put until Guangxue was submerged, then draw more and continue to lift off.
Fourteenth floor.
As soon as the rocket stopped, there were countless popping noises all around, as if countless mosquitoes and moths were desperately trying to hit the window glass.
The monster in the darkness revealed its true form, and it turned out to be a ball of solidified light snow.
The extremely bright light and snow are hidden in the contradictory darkness, like a colony of ants trying to climb up.
"This is the light snow that has mutated after absorbing radiation." Chen Ze stood on the top of the rocket, looking at the sad and crying faces across the sky.
Light snow is the only material that can withstand strong radiation.
Therefore, the builders of each generation of bases also retained massive amounts of light snow in place when they sank, allowing them to act as an isolation layer.
Because of this, the pure light snow pumped out from the earth's core altar is also decreasing from generation to generation. If things go on like this, it is tantamount to chronic suicide.
"I think," the leader said in an erratic tone, pointing outside.
"They look like a lot of skeletons and strange corpses."
Before Chen Ze could be surprised, 2222 next to him interrupted and said,
"I can see clearly!"
"Those... are obviously deformed human remains, and they are still howling!"
After Chen Ze's observation, 2222 has an independent character while inheriting the memories of the previous generation.
But it was somewhat beyond Chen Ze's expectation that it could directly see through the essence of the light snow.
"Do you want to go out?" Chen Ze asked thoughtfully.
"Of course I have!" 2222 had the attitude of a newborn calf not afraid of tigers.
"What are you doing out there?" the leader asked in confusion.
"There should be no supplies on this level."
"Do you still remember the bead on the second floor?" Chen Ze asked back.
"There." The leader will naturally not forget the place where he was tricked.
"The bead that spits out light snow?"
"Yes." Chen Ze stared into the darkness, as if he could penetrate the light to infinity,
"I don't think it was man-made."
Chen Ze then added,
"The base may be, but light and snow hubs like that should be on every floor."
"Putting something like that on a rocket would allow me to control more light snow."
He needed to verify his suspicions.
"Do we have to go?" The leader did not cherish his life, but could not bear to see his compatriots die in vain.
"The invasion of darkness is intensifying." Chen Ze said meaningfully.
Speaking of this, the leader naturally took the initiative to ask for help, but strongly opposed 2222 to go out with him.
"Why!" 2222 shouted loudly.
"Let it go. Just stay next to you." Chen Ze took off a soul core and handed it to 2222,
"Maybe it can surprise you."
In the end, 2222 couldn't be defeated, so the leader had no choice but to take it and a group of team members out to explore.
After the last lesson, all robots are closely connected to each other with tentacle arms.
The iron ropes are connected in a chain, and they all sink.
Everyone came to the edge of the protective shield.
The boundless darkness outside actually took the initiative to retreat, making way for a narrow path with ulterior motives, without any hint of malice.
The leader ignored him, changed direction, and led the team into the darkness.
Wherever the sheltered fluorescence reaches, the darkness recedes.
But when the last robot left the base camp, the darkness that had been surrounding it for a long time swarmed in, impatiently blocking the escape route, and transformed into countless humanoid figures of light to follow closely.
Just like hunters in groups, struggling in vain to watch the prey in their traps.
"Just be careful." The leader reassured the team members, and at the same time pulled back 2222 who stretched out his hand curiously.
"Don't move! Follow me."
The team moved forward.
The leader takes an arc-shaped deflection route in order to explore the unknown area to the greatest extent with limited vision.
In progress.
Suddenly, a large number of shadow outlines stood out in front of them, breaking the gloomy atmosphere among everyone.
"Leader! Isn't that right?"
"Don't worry." The leader raised the muzzle of the cannon and interrupted.
"Approach slowly."
So the robot phalanx slowly approached the obstacle, only to find that it was not supplies, but a pile of collapsed crystal wall ruins.
It looked like there had been some grand building here, but no one had bothered to look into it.
Anyway, it definitely has nothing to do with the supplies I'm looking for.
Seeing this scene, the countless humanoid figures who were watching burst into gloating laughter.
A robot that couldn't bear the anger was about to charge up its energy, but was stopped by the leader's stern warning.
"Don't be angered by them." The leader pointed to Guangxue, who was protecting the team,
"Our attack will also wear away the snow."
"No firing without orders!"
Everyone responded in unison,
"yes!".
However, the leader had no intention of leaving. Instead, he kept groping among the ruins, ignoring the calls of his team members.
"leader?".
The robots were a little at a loss. Only 2222's bright light flashed. Then, as if they had figured out something, they clapped their tentacle arms, turned their tracks, and rushed forward.
The blocked leader was about to scold him when his attention was attracted by a faint light in front of him.
"You are looking for this!" 2222 opened the half-buried hole next to him like a treasure.
"How did you find out?" The leader wanted to pat his shoulder, but when he saw the other party's stern look, he couldn't help but become stern.
"Next time you find something, you must report it to me first!"
"Yes." 2222 weakly shook his contact arm, then slowly moved away and explained,
"I could feel something inside calling me."
"Like a soul core."
The leader's light flashed and he didn't say much. He just started to clean up the collapse. Other team members were also very discerning and came to help.
Soon.
A hole in the wall that is neither wide nor narrow is exposed.
Judging from the distribution of ruins, this should be the core of the entire building complex.
Gulu, Gulu.
The surrounding darkness seemed to be boiling, and dense pustules kept popping up, and then burst out from them and surrounded them with massive light groups, each one sticking to the outside of the protective circle like human skin.
"leader?"
"They seem to be attacking us!".
Cluck cluck
The exploration team suddenly became nervous, and the bright muzzles of the cannons were all pointed outward, like hedgehogs with exploded fur.
But they were all stopped by the leaders.
"Looks like we've found the right place."
The leader sneered and ignored the countless light beings with their teeth and claws waving, and projected the bright light to the entrance of the wall.
"I'll go in first, you guys follow and stay in formation!"
"yes!".
Everyone responded with excitement.
So the exploration team still maintained the tentacle arm connection, but sent a group of people from it to form a long snake formation, like a "tentacle" poking into the hole.
The leader naturally takes the lead.
Although the surrounding crystal walls are still dark, they always flash a little fluorescent light from time to time.
This caused 2222, who was following the leader, to scream in surprise.
"They are calling me!" Faced with the leader's question, 2222 replied,
"I feel so familiar with them. I mean, these crystal stones seem to be my blood compatriots!"
Although he was nagging, it was still able to dilute the gloomy and depressing atmosphere in the cave, so the leader just let it go.
There are twists and turns in the crystal wall, just like those hidden passages on the first and second floors.
But in the leader's opinion, this place is mostly formed naturally.
The further you go to the outer layer, the older and more primitive and desolate it seems.
The "tentacles" continued to extend deeper and deeper, and the group of people walked around in it. Finally, thanks to 2222's intuitive finger, the leader discovered the hidden space around him.
But it can't break through the crystal wall here.
Even the Soul Controller can't do it.
"Can you let me try?" 2222 rubbed his mechanical arm and pointed at the leader's composite soul core.
"The soul core is unique and exclusive." The leader directly handed over the soul core in order to shut him up.
"You can't help it."
"?"
The leader suddenly shut up.
Because it saw that its soul core was being moved freely in 2222's hands, it felt a vague sense of excitement.
I don't know why, but the leader always feels uncomfortable somewhere, and even the operation of his body is a lot sluggish.
This weird feeling continued until the originally weak soul core actually showed great power in 2222's hands, breaking through the crystal wall in front of him with a crack.
The leader finally couldn't stand it any longer, so he stretched out his hand and snatched the soul core back.
As a result, this goddamn thing actually floated towards 2222 on its own before it was finished, causing the leader to jump with electric arcs.
"What is this!" The exclamation pulled the leader back.
"This is." The leader took the hard-earned pile of dark residue from 2222.
The leader could barely connect it with the big round bead on the second floor.
Despite its unattractive appearance, the robots stared intently at this piece of scum, and even they themselves couldn't explain why.
Until a faint light came on above.
Then a vague light group that was beginning to take shape squeezed out bit by bit.
"These are...those monsters!" Someone recognized them.
Aren't these the monsters in the dark!
This is actually the lair of monsters? !
The team members suddenly became nervous, and the weapons they whipped out in a hurry knocked each other around.
"Calm down!" The leader pointed at the light group and said dissatisfiedly.
"See it clearly!"
The team members who had already retreated and leaned against the wall boldly stepped forward to take a closer look.
I saw that although the appearance of this light ball humanoid was the same as that of the monster in the darkness, it did not show any aggression. After emerging from the residue, it gradually dispersed into pieces of pure light snow.
The protective light shields on everyone's bodies were replenished and immediately solidified a lot.
"What's going on?" The team members were puzzled.
Only the extremely intelligent 2222 suddenly understood and explained for the leader,
"It is purifying the contaminated and mutated light snow."
"The monsters in the dark are afraid of it." The leader added,
"So they're buried here."
After picking up the wreckage, everyone returned the same way.
But when they came to the entrance of the cave, the remaining team members who were supposed to come in to respond were nowhere to be seen.
"Where are the people!" The leader shouted dissatisfied, subconsciously wanting to ask the leader for instructions.
When you go in, the leader ranks first, and when you come out, the order is naturally reversed.
After all, there is no extra space to turn around in the cave.
It should be fine, right?
As the vanguard thought, he was still connected to the tentacles extended by his teammates from outside!
It subconsciously pulled twice, but there was no resistance at all.
"Hey!" It was dissatisfied and accelerated out of the hole.
"I told you not to connect privately! What do you think you are doing now?"
The complaints stopped abruptly.
Because it saw that the other end of the tentacle attached to its body was not its companion.
The other end of the tentacle arm was lying alone on the ground, and a few arcs of electricity occasionally exploded from the jagged fractures, crackling like the screams of the owner's tragic death still echoing here.
Other than that, it was deserted.
crackling
crackling
boom!
Teammates who noticed something unusual behind them squeezed out roughly, and in the blink of an eye, they deployed long guns and short cannons to intimidate all parties.
The leader drove out slowly amid the crowd.
It first glanced around with uncontrollable anger.
There seemed to be something in the depths of the darkness. It bubbled and gurgled as it rolled, and spit out a few tiny parts like a hiccup, before falling in front of everyone.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
The team members watched as the remains of their comrades rolled on the ground in circles.
"Hey hey hey hey hey hey hey." The evil laughter in the darkness also forced its way in.
The bright light on the cannon ring began to accumulate.
"Don't take action." The leader ordered the team members as calmly as possible to prevent the few remaining protective Guangxue from being weakened by accidental injuries.
Then it tremblingly picked up the severed arm from the ground.
"careful!"
2222 suddenly pounced forward. (End of chapter)