When he returned home, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon.
The sun was shining brightly, and the temperature was extremely hot.
Fortunately, he spent the entire journey in the air-conditioned car. After getting out of the car, he immediately entered the house.
The bookstore was warm in winter and cool in summer all year round. No matter what the weather outside was, the temperature in the bookstore was always around 20 degrees Celsius.
Therefore, Ling Ping'an didn't even sweat.
However...
He felt a little thirsty, so he picked up the teacup and made himself a cup of tea.
Meow!
The kitten, Bastet, meowed softly.
Ling Ping'an smiled and gave half to his pet.
The man and the cat sat at the counter on this hot summer day, drinking fragrant tea. They felt that the world was extremely peaceful.
After drinking the tea, Ling Ping'an felt a little hungry.
Therefore, he took out his phone and ordered a beef rice.
… …
Walking in the violent sand and dust.
Ran Bing expressionlessly crossed a desolate canyon.
In the sand and dust in front of her, there seemed to be a group of buildings on the surface of the ground.
This made her frown involuntarily.
Because she saw that there were faint lights in those buildings!
And as everyone knew, ever since the collapse of the Old World, the surface of the ground was no longer suitable for life!
"Could it be..." she thought, "Is it a protective umbrella?"
Therefore, she immediately became excited.
The rifle in her hand let out a low roar.
That was the bullet dancing!
Ran Bing comforted it and then switched it from the rifle form to the revolver form.
She opened the magazine and the eight bullets cheered as they changed their forms.
From a high-explosive armor-piercing bullet specially used to kill scarlet beasts, it had become a non-lethal stun grenade.
This was the latest ability that her Spear Spirit had cultivated.
She could switch the form of the bullet!
According to different needs, she could switch between high-explosive armor-piercing bullets, stun grenades, and grenades at any time.
Of course, the consumption of different bullets was different.
For example, for high-explosive armor-piercing bullets, she could only prepare eight bullets at a time at most.
As for stun grenades, she could only prepare twelve bullets at a time!
As for grenades, she could only prepare one!
If she wanted to increase it, she would have to use her own flesh and soul to refine bullets!
Fortunately, she could use battle to nurture battle. There were plenty of scarlet beasts in this world!
Therefore, she did not have to worry about the problem of consumption.
Holding the revolver in her hand, Ran Bing carefully approached the building in front of her.
When she got close, Ran Bing realized that this building complex was different from the Old World ruins she had seen before.
It was built in the middle of a dry lake.
All the buildings were relatively flat and short.
Amidst the dust, a searchlight shone on everything around it.
He could vaguely see the silhouettes of people swaying on the tower.
Ran Bing crept forward in the sandstorm and carefully approached it.
There were high walls surrounding the building complex. If one were to look carefully, one could see heavy machine guns on the high walls.
The man in the exoskeleton armor moved on the wall.
Ran Bing lay in the dust on the ground and looked up at their equipment.
The silver streamlined body shape was filled with the art and beauty of technology.
Without a doubt, it was something that only the Old World could create!
Seeing this, Ran Bing clenched her fists.
She gently moved closer to the high wall.
At this moment, a murmur suddenly sounded in his ears, "There are relics of the Kunyang people here …"
"Hmm?"
He murmured softly, "Yes, this is the ruins of the Kunyang people!"
Ran Bing raised her head and looked at the top of the high wall.
She understood that she was close to the truth.
But …
How should she get in?
She looked at the heavily guarded place surrounded by high walls, electric fences, heavy machine guns, and even turrets.
Ran Bing was at a loss.
"Fifty meters forward, turn right..." the murmur in her ears suddenly said.
Ran Bing did as she was told.
She crawled forward slowly in the sandstorm, carefully avoiding the searchlight.
A few minutes later, she moved to a corner under the high wall.
There was a blind spot here, and the searchlight could not reach it.
"Dig the soil..." he murmured.
Ran Bing thought for a moment and did as she was told.
She carefully used her hands to dig the soil under her body bit by bit.
She dug the soil very quickly. Not long after, she dug a pit that was dozens of centimeters deep.
At this moment, she saw a metallic color at the bottom of the pit.
It was the color of bronze.
"This is?" Ran Bing reached out to touch it. She touched the surface of the metal, and there was a strange evil eye.
"Twist it!" He murmured, "Turn left three times, turn right three times, repeat this process ten times!"
Ran Bing did as she was told.
She gently twisted the protruding evil eye.
As expected, it could be turned. Three times to the left, three times to the right. After repeating this for ten times.
With a click, it seemed that a certain mechanism had been opened.
Thud!
The entire ground was collapsing!
Ran Bing fell down as well!
It was at this moment that the guards above her finally realized what was going on.
One after another, people wearing streamlined exoskeletons like metal men fell from the high wall.
"Oh no!" They looked at the place that had collapsed. "Intruder!"
"Hurry up and inform Dr. Kaman!"
… …
Ran Bing followed the collapsed soil and metal and landed.
After falling for at least a few hundred meters, she finally saw light.
It was a dark blue light!
Bang!
Soil, rocks, and metal fell together in this vast underground world, making a dull, loud noise.
Ran Bing had already jumped into the karst cave on the other side.
At this moment, she realized that the dark blue light in this underground world was emitted by the moss that lived underground.
Moss could glow?
And it could even become a light source?
That in itself was surprising enough.
"Forward!" The murmurs in her ears whispered.
Ran Bing picked up her revolver and looked at the front of the cave. At the end of the cave, there seemed to be a man-made pipe.
Ran Bing walked over to the pipe. With the light emitted by the moss in the cave, she could clearly see the inscription on the pipe: Umbrella!
It was the umbrella!
The Old World organization that had disappeared!
Ran Bing tried to crawl into the pipe, but unfortunately, she failed because the pipe was too narrow!
However, she discovered a new karst cave beside the pipe.
Thus, she walked in and walked along the karst cave. After walking for about a few hundred meters, a thick man-made metal door appeared in front of her.
To her surprise, the door was unlatched.
She pulled it open with a light pull.
It was pitch black inside the door, but when she walked in and sensed someone entering, lights began to light up.
What greeted her was a huge underground warehouse!
One after another, huge crystal jars filled the space.
Pipes connected these crystal jars, and the jars were filled with humanoid creatures.
They seemed to have been dead for a long time.
However, their bodies, which were soaked in these crystal jars, were still intact.
As if sensing humans, the creatures in the crystal jars suddenly regained their vitality.
Pairs of eyes opened one after another.
Ruthless, indifferent, crazy …
They collectively looked at Ran Bing, causing her scalp to go numb.
"Ants enslaved by the Stairway of the Sun!" The murmurs in her ears laughed.
"Stairway of the Sun?" Ran Bing didn\'t quite understand.
"The Stairway of the Sun is the tobacco of the Kunyang people!" The murmurs said softly, "The Kunyang people grow these little things for fun and entertainment..."
A hazy scene flashed in front of Ran Bing\'s eyes.
Pyramids were built underground one after another.
One after another, ferocious and terrifying plants were planted in the shadows of the pyramids by some creatures.
When they needed it, they would descend on these pyramids and casually pull out the bloody plants. They would grind these things into powder and inhale them into their nostrils.
They would numb themselves while inhaling and exhaling.
This scene flashed by. Other than having an impression of the so-called Stairway of the Sun, everything else was blurry.
"To the Kunyang people, the Stairway of the Sun is tobacco..."
"But to most low-level creatures, the Stairway of the Sun is a highly poisonous thing that can enslave and change their minds..."
"These test subjects are the pitiful fellows who have become deformed after being injected with the original liquid of the Stairway of the Sun!"
"They have become slaves of the Stairway of the Sun!"
"They are hopeless!"
Ran Bing\'s scalp went numb when she heard this.
Because she finally realized that the Umbrella Corporation was using humans for live experiments!
The monsters in these crystal jars were created by them!
"There\'s a way..." Ran Bing looked at the monsters in the crystal jars and thought that they might be the same kind. She couldn\'t help but ask, "Can you free them?"
"Simple..."
"Find the source of their enslavement!"
"Destroy it!"
"When the Stairway of the Sun is destroyed, all the creatures enslaved and controlled by it will decay at the same time!"
"Otherwise, they will never be free!"
"Then..." Ran Bing asked, "Where is the Stairway of the Sun?"
"In the pyramid!" The murmurs whispered.
Ran Bing immediately took the revolver in her hand, turned around, and walked out of the room.
She wanted to find the pyramid and destroy the so-called Stairway of the Sun!
Just as she walked out, a person wearing a white exoskeleton armor appeared from the cave in front of her.
"Intruder!" He raised the weapon in his hand coldly.
However, Ran Bing was faster than him. The revolver in her hand shot out a stun grenade!
Boom!
A strong light covered his entire vision, causing him to fall into a state of blindness. At the same time, a loud sonic boom came, paralyzing all the nerves in his body!
Even though he had been modified.
However, he was still completely paralyzed in this inexplicable explosion!
The moment Ran Bing pulled the trigger, she moved forward against the light.
The stun grenade fired by her gun spirit was ineffective against her.
She quickly ran to the person who had already collapsed to the ground and easily picked up the exoskeleton armor he was wearing.
Under the instructions of the murmurs in her ears, she easily untied his exoskeleton armor.
She dragged a thin and weak man out of it.
Ran Bing glanced at him, and her pupils suddenly dilated!
This person …
It was not a human!
To be precise, the guy in her hand was a hybrid between a human and some unknown creature!
"As a low-level creature, it can actually fuse with the genes of a high-level race!" Even the murmurs in Ran Bing\'s ears were surprised. "Although the fusion is not very successful, this is already a miracle!"
At this moment, sounds came from all directions.
Obviously, the sonic boom just now had alarmed all the guards here.
Ran Bing did not have time to think too much. She lifted the\ 'person\' in her hand and quickly moved forward.
Under the guidance of the murmurs in her ears, she was like a fish in water in this underground world. She quickly disappeared into the layers of cave mazes.
… …
In a daze, Charles woke up.
He opened his eyes and found himself in an unfamiliar cave.
Before he could figure out what was going on, he suddenly felt a chill run down his spine.
He felt a tremor and coldness from his soul.
A gun barrel was pressed against his chin.
The cold gun barrel seemed to have a life of its own. Some kind of monster that was like a natural enemy was muttering crazily, wanting to devour his flesh and soul.
He raised his head and saw the person in front of him in the dark blue light of the cave.
An eighteen or nineteen-year-old girl was looking at him coldly.
The cold gun barrel was in the girl\'s hand.
"Charles!" The girl sneered and said to him, "I advise you not to act rashly!"
"Otherwise, my spear spirit will eat you!"
"The Kunyang A-type gene that you fused and modified is a great supplement for my spear spirit!"
The gun barrel in her hand let out a greedy hiss.
Charles looked at the girl in a daze. A mortal that had not been modified at all!
However, such a mortal was able to threaten him!
The great genetic modifier, the immortal immortal!
Charles looked at the mortal and took a deep breath. He opened his completely deformed mouth. The mouth that was like an insect\'s mouth opened and closed like a flower bud. "What do you want? Mortal! "
"Are you here to seek immortality?"
In his opinion, this mortal must have heard some kind of legend.
How dare he invade the great Immortal Base!
He was simply courting death!
The young girl sneered, "Your so-called eternal life, rather than saying it's eternal life, it's better to say it's a shell!"
"It\'s all just a shell!"
"It\'s just a shell!"
Charles listened and swallowed his saliva. His snake-like pupils suddenly dilated. "How do you know?"
This was the biggest secret of the immortals!
They stole the immortal genes of the immortals!
But because of this, they became the shells of the immortals!
When the immortals returned, they would no longer exist!
It was this crazy truth that forced them to explore, discover, and study everything left behind by the immortals!
They hoped to find a way to get rid of the fate of their shells!
But..
Now, this secret was exposed by a mortal girl who had not undergone genetic modification at all!
This immediately made Charles panic.
"How I know is not important!" The gun barrel in the girl\'s hand was pressed against his throat, and a dense chill pressed straight into his soul. "Let me ask you, did you do the collapse of the Old World?"
Charles did not answer.
However, the girl\'s expression suddenly became ferocious.
Anger shot out of her eyes, and the trigger in her hand was pulled.
Bang!
Charles\'s head was smashed into pieces.
The gun barrel greedily sucked the soul and flesh of the modified human.
Soon, Charles\'s body turned into a petrified statue.
The girl kicked lightly, and the petrified statue immediately shattered into powder.
The girl released a nameplate in her right hand. It was the identity nameplate of the modified human called Charles. All his information was on it!
"Protection Umbrella!" The girl raised her head. "I swear, I will destroy you!"
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