The panic brought about by the earthquake caused the animals in the forest to scurry away from the epicenter. Some obediently climbed over the cliff and didn't linger on it for too long, but the curious and bloodthirsty wild beasts noticed the abnormality on the other side of the cliff when they climbed over the cliff and moved closer to Neo's safe zone. This kind of wild beast would undoubtedly be hunted down by Gu Xin and the others who were guarding the perimeter.
The chaotic environment also covered up Gu Xin and the others' tracks. Some of the beasts didn't attract too much attention even after they were killed. Perhaps the earthquake was the biggest threat to them right now, not the assassins hiding in the shadows.
The modified gun could use improved explosives to kill the white mice, a different kind of bullet to kill the beasts, and poison bullets to kill the bio-soldiers. There were also other modes that could be switched between. It was a simple multi-purpose gun. Although it couldn't compare to the guns they had used before, it was still impressive that they could modify a gun to this extent with the limited resources they had. This was why Gu Xin and the others admired Silin.
In the eyes of Gu Xin and the others, Cillin was an enigma. He seemed to be able to talk to anyone, and he was even able to delve deeper into the topic of anatomy with Hua Li.
Could he be someone from the RAS?
That was what everyone suspected. After all, other than Black Viper, everyone would think of the Royal Academy of Sciences as soon as they could find someone who was more accomplished in various academic fields.
Erty had asked Silin about this before, but Silin didn't give him a direct answer. He didn't say yes or no.
Since they had made sufficient preparations before the earthquake, they were able to face the white mice and other Direbeasts calmly. When they were tired, they would go back to the safe zone to rest and take a breather, and then someone else would take over.
The frightened beasts were more violent than usual, and the place was a mess. Gu Xin and the others were much stronger than the people outside because they were able to save ammo and hit their vitals in one shot.
There were also some climbing and flying beasts roaming around the cliff walls from below, especially the climbing beasts and insects. They had escaped from the forest and attacked fiercely, but there weren't many of them. Mercury was guarding the cliff wall and cleaning up the insects that had climbed up. Ah Shou and Hua Li would clear out some of the more troublesome beasts through the windows on the cliff.
Mercury's large claws were nailed to the cliff wall, and its wings were flapping furiously as it swatted away a large number of small bugs. Sometimes, the hidden bugs were more of a threat to the Safety Zone than the big Vicious Beasts. When it flapped its wings, Mercury would also use its sharp beak to peck at those that were not swatted down.
Bang –
Mercury was startled by the movement beside him. He turned his head to look, and all the hair on his body stood on end.
"Ga?!"
On the cliff not far from Mercury, Orville changed his form. The sharp claws on the soles of his feet were nailed to the cliff like Mercury. The wings on its back trembled, and feathers shot out like bullets towards the larger insect beasts.
It was a given that Mercury didn't have a good impression of Orville. After all, their first meeting hadn't been a good one, but they were working together right now, and Hua Li had told Mercury about it before. That was why Mercury had to endure it no matter how uncomfortable it felt. There was no way it would admit that it was jealous that Orville's feathers could be used as bullets.
Hei Dou and Neo were constantly paying attention to the feedback from the defense network around the Safety Zone. They would contact the others to take out the "invaders" if anything went wrong.
Where was Silin?
Silin didn't go with them. He didn't shoot the wild beasts, nor did he pay attention to the defense network with Hei Dou and the others. Instead, he went underground with Huimao.
He had to admit that Huimao's tunneling skills had improved a lot. Practice made perfect, and the more holes he dug, the better he became.
Somewhere on the planet, close to the place Guan Feng had brought them to when they first arrived, there was a building that wasn't very tall. Most of the people inside the building were robots, and to be more precise, they were equipped with advanced robots that looked no different from humans outside of the planet.
The few humans in the building were all people who had a say in Black Viper, including Guan Feng and Gu Changan who had come with Qiu Xu.
They were all gathered in a spacious, round meeting room on the third floor. There was a light screen at the center of the room, and it was displaying the image of a spinning planet. It was the planet they were currently on. There were a lot of red and blue dots on the planet, and each dot represented a person. The red dots represented people like Cillin, who were not Black Viper people, and the blue dots represented natives of the Black Viper race.
On the first day, the red and blue light dots spread out and spread out. Then, they gradually gathered in groups of twos and threes, mixed with red and blue, and then huddled together. There were also some light dots that changed in between. For example, the red light dots that represented the two people killed by Cillin and Tu Ba would turn black after their deaths.
The leader of the group sighed when he saw the dots slowly gathering on the screen. "It's only been half the time, and this is already happening."
There were three spots on the spinning planet where most of the dots were gathered. One of them was where Silin was. The other two spots were spread out in different parts of the planet. They were quite far from each other, and they all had different geographical environments and climates. Silin's spot was mostly made up of rocks and forests, while the other two spots were mostly made up of desert and plains.
Every spot had a different way of fighting, and the reason people gathered here was different as well. In comparison, Silin's spot was the mildest way of gathering people, and it was also Guan Feng's favorite. Guan Feng was very satisfied with Silin's performance, and he was thinking that he could just exempt Silin from AF1's exam and let him pass the exam internally.
"Someone who could make Neo give up his spot for you definitely has the ability to take over your position." The man looked at Guan Feng meaningfully.
"Of course. Who taught him that? That said, the people you recommended aren't bad either, Ah Lang." Guan Feng crossed his legs and swung back and forth on his chair. It looked like the two people he recommended had succeeded.
The man Guan Feng called Ah Lang was one of the three leaders of Black Viper, Christian Lang.
Gu Changan let out a low chuckle. "There may be a lot of people who can compete for the other two, but not everyone can replace Silin. That guy's brain is like a robot's, and his computing power is unparalleled. "
"Xi Kai, maybe Silin can help you complete your 'Origin' plan," Christian Lang said.
The man who was leaning on the table at the outer row heard Christian Lang's words and slowly raised his head to look at the spinning ball and the dots of light at the center of the meeting room. He asked suspiciously, "Is that so?"
"Maybe." Guan Feng suddenly thought of something and turned to look at Xi Kai. "Kid, do you think all the robots you put underground will be wiped out?"
Xi Kai frowned. "Is that possible? They're all advanced robots, the latest upgrades. They may not have an Origin AI, but their attack power can't be underestimated. "
"Let's watch." Christian Lang touched the screen with his finger and displayed another image filled with dots of light.
Xi Kai stared at the image on the screen. "Actually, I'm more curious about why he went underground. Is it just because he knows that there's something underground that can cause earthquakes? Is it because he wants to stop the earthquakes? "
No one knew the answer to this question, and they were all curious.
It was exactly because there were so many things they didn't understand that they paid a lot more attention to Silin than the other two places.
On the other side, Silin followed Huimao underground.
The deeper they went, the more Silin could sense the mechanical activity.
The thing that caused the earthquakes was deeper, but Silin had arrived at an underground tunnel several hundred meters below the surface. Not even Neo or Hei Dou's scanning devices could detect this place.
Although it felt like they were in the wild when they were on the surface, the deeper they went, the more he could sense the presence of machinery. There were traces of machinery in many places, both in the tunnel and elsewhere.
Silin and Huimao entered a tunnel. Huimao scanned the tunnel and obtained an underground structure that looked like a spiderweb.
After memorizing Huimao's scan results, Silin and Cat walked toward the center of the "spiderweb".
The spider web always stayed there quietly, like a silent hunter waiting for the arrival of its prey.
Silin didn't think of himself as prey, but there were many things waiting for him inside the spiderweb. For example, the robots near the center.
These robots had completely surrounded the core area. Therefore, if Cillin wished to approach the core area, he would have to break through this layer of robot 'wall'.
"Go!"
Silin unsheathed his longsword and charged toward the robot.
A green light flashed in Huimao's eyes before he also charged excitedly.
These robots had automatically activated their attack mode the moment Silin and Huimao appeared. They were very fast, and their movements weren't stiff at all. The robots' arms and legs were equipped with sawtooth blades, but they didn't use any explosive weapons. Perhaps out of consideration for this underground network, explosive weapons were more destructive to this place, so the creator didn't equip them with such weapons.
Even if they didn't have any weapons or high-energy laser guns, their combat power was still very high.
Silin's figure flashed through the air. Every slash of his blade cut a robot in half. The headless robots could still move. Even after their heads were destroyed, their bodies could still react with a delay.
These robots weren't the ones Silin was looking for. Moreover, Silin knew that these robots weren't "autonomous" at all. Compared to the robots he had encountered earlier, these robots were pretty good weapons, but they were no different from swords and guns. They were all "dead" weapons.
He kicked a robot's head into the wall of the tunnel, directly turning the robot's entire head into a "round pancake". The knife in his hand was not idle either. After the tip of the knife stabbed the robot, a vibration frequency that was difficult for the human eye to capture actually created a dent in the place where the tip of the knife touched.
Huimao also killed a robot with a single swipe of his claw. He had no qualms dealing with these kinds of robots at all. Moreover, the blades on the robot's arms wouldn't hurt him at all. At most, they would leave a mark that would disappear very quickly.
Three hundred or so robots attacked one after another. Silin and Huimao were grinding these "meat" into pieces like a meat grinder.
The people in the meeting room outside watched the rapidly decreasing signal on the screen. Guan Feng glanced at the tensed Xi Kai and smiled without saying a word.
Anyone who knew Guan Feng knew that the more pleased the old fox was, the more he liked to smile without saying a word. It was infuriating just to look at him.
Three hundred robots. In less than half an hour, all the signal dots had disappeared. If they were human, then this meant that they were all dead.
Guan Feng shook his feet and tapped his fingers rhythmically on the armrest of his chair. The rhythm of his fingers looked like the beat of a song. He would've started humming a little tune a long time ago if he wasn't restricted by the situation. In this place, Guan Feng didn't have the scholarly and gentlemanly air of a senior scholar at all.
Underground. After Silin and Huimao had taken care of the robots guarding the place, they continued to walk toward the core of the "spider web". They didn't run into any other robots along the way, but there was a robot at the very center of the place. This robot looked the same as the robots Silin had taken care of earlier, but its facial expression was completely different. It even had eyes.
A person's inner thoughts could be reflected through their glasses. This was a kind of emotional expression, and this robot had the ability to think independently, just like the robots Silin had encountered before.
If one took a closer look, they would notice that this robot was a bit more "conscious" than the robots Silin had encountered before. Every look it gave off the illusion that it was "alive". This feeling was very familiar to both Silin and Huimao. It was so familiar that it made them excited.
This robot was the main reason why Silin and Huimao had gone to such great lengths to find it. As for the cause of the earthquake, that was just a side effect.
Neither Silin nor Huimao attacked the robot, and the robot didn't attack Silin either. Instead, it stared calmly at Silin and Huimao without anger or surprise. It looked like an old man who had gone through all the vicissitudes of life, and the only emotion left in him was indifference.
Silin slowly walked toward it. There was a round table next to the robot, and this round table was the cause of the earthquake. There were some buttons on it that could adjust the epicenter and amplitude of the earthquake.
The robot didn't react to Silin's approach. It seemed to know what Silin was going to do, so it moved out of the way and allowed Silin to touch the round table.
After looking at the settings on the round table, Cillin pressed a few buttons.
After Cillin pressed the buttons, the tremors gradually subsided. The animals who were panicking and running away from the tremors on the ground also gradually came to a stop.
"Has it stopped?" Erty asked Gu Xin.
"I think so. Let's wait and see."
"Alright."
The cessation of the earthquake greatly reduced the pressure on Gu Xin and the others. Even if they were good at fighting, they wouldn't have an easy time against so many animals and insects. If it weren't for Silin's modified guns and ammunition, the white mice alone would have been enough to force them to retreat.
Underground. After the earthquake had stopped, Silin looked at the robot that was standing quietly not far away from him.
Still, that wasn't right. This robot didn't have the "intelligence" of Sigma. Even if it had more "consciousness" than the robots he had seen before, it was still inferior to Sigma. Even if this robot had a human-like appearance, even if it had facial expressions and eyes, it still couldn't compare to the "intelligence" of Sigma, who had the appearance of a primordial being.
Why did it only change this much after a thousand years?
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