Huimao walked around the robot and flicked his ears. "That's not right."
"It is."
Silin agreed with Huimao's opinion, but Silin also realized one thing: Sigma's master was definitely connected to Black Viper. Otherwise, this was the first robot Silin had encountered since he came to the Mist Bodhisattva Empire.
He thought that the robots here would be more like Sigma's, but the reality was far different. Even though the robots he encountered earlier and this one were closer to human consciousness than the Robert Family's robots in the League of Stars, they were still far from what he had imagined.
"Who's your master?" Silin asked the robot.
The robot seemed to have sunk into its memories when it heard Silin's question. "My master has many."
Many?
Huimao jumped onto Silin's shoulder and stared at the robot. "Do you know Sigma?"
Sigma?! The robot's eyes flashed with an indescribable light when it heard the name. However, it was soon replaced by confusion. The name sounded very familiar, but it couldn't remember anything about it. How strange. Logically speaking, a robot's memory should be pretty good. It should be able to record everything it saw and heard, and when it was needed, all it had to do was look for it in its memory. But now, no matter how hard it tried, the robot couldn't find any memories of Sigma.
It should've been familiar, but it couldn't remember anything about it.
"Sigma … I think I know the name, but I can't remember anything about it. Strange, strange …" the robot muttered to itself.
Silin looked at Huimao. Huimao shook his beard. This robot must be suffering from dementia!
Huimao scanned the robot carefully again before saying to Silin, "Let's go. We won't get anything out of it. When we get out of here, we'll find the robot maker of Black Viper. Maybe we'll get some answers from him. "
"That's the only way." Seeing that the robot in front of him was still in a state of deep thought, Silin checked the surroundings and left the underground network with Huimao.
Since Silin had turned off the Earthquake Generator, the ground had gradually returned to normal. The mess that was left behind was slowly being repaired. When Silin returned to the safe zone, Gu Xin, Tu Ba, Orville, and the others were cleaning up the carcasses of the dead animals on the ground. Those that needed to be burned were burned, and those that could be made into meat were kept. After all, they still had to stay here for more than ten days. They couldn't go without food.
The wild beasts that were shot with poison bullets couldn't be used as food. Every time they were hauled away, a detector would be used to inspect the wild beasts. It was a detector Neo had made on the spot, and it was set according to Neo's own standards. If the limit was exceeded, the meat would have to be discarded, no matter how delicious it was.
On the other side, Hei Dou, Hua Li, and Mond were chatting with a couple of strangers. Neo's unhappy face was displayed on the screen Hei Dou was holding.
Needless to say, someone must've come to seek cooperation.
There were two Black Viper members there, and they probably didn't come here together. There were also a couple of strangers with them, and they all looked pretty strong. One of them was a muscular man with a lot of wild beast blood on his body, but he himself wasn't injured at all.
It all started during the earthquake. At that time, everyone was busy fighting the vicious beasts, shooting the white mice, and cleaning up the area. Hei Dou, who was in the safe zone, was keeping an eye on the defense system. It was at that time that Hei Dou received a call request on her metal chain.
The person who requested the call was also someone who knew the ropes. From the moment Hei Dou agreed to the call, the person knew that Hei Dou's location was relatively safe. The feedback from Hei Dou provided him with a lot of evidence. Therefore, the person led a couple of other people who had been tossed here just like Silin and the others.
Hei Dou didn't know what to do. This was Neo's territory after all. Before she could clarify things with the person, her metal chain lit up again. Another person had requested a call. Hei Dou had a good personality, and her professional knowledge was great. That was why everyone in Black Viper's territory was willing to contact her instead of spitting on Neo and Mond.
Black Viper's thoughts were unimaginable. Sometimes, they were twisted to the point where they looked like they lacked a brain. People like them would start a war of words whenever they ran into each other. For example, Neo was currently spouting nonsense to the people outside through Black Dou's communicator. It was rare that Mond was on Neo's side this time.
Therefore, one crazy person and another crazy person were basically idiots. Anyone would've wanted to slap them with their shoes if they heard the words coming out of their mouths. The faces of the people who weren't Black Viper were twitching a little. On the other hand, Black Viper's two local specialties were able to calmly find grammatical errors in Neo and Mond's sentences.
Not far away, Erty and another person who came with Orville were happily exchanging insults with each other. Normally, they were the ones who would vomit blood in anger, but when they saw these two crazy people "fighting" against the outside world, they felt like their stomachs were cramping up from laughing.
When Hei Dou saw Silin's figure, she ran towards him like her savior.
"Hei Dou, please don't move your bracelet when I'm talking. You're putting me in a difficult position …"
Neo started complaining again because Hei Dou had moved her bracelet away while he was in the middle of a molecular argument. Now, the screen was moving so that Neo couldn't see her face from the other side. Instead, he was looking at Silin.
Hei Dou couldn't care less about comforting Neo right now. She cut off the communication link and explained the situation to Cillin.
Both parties were surprised and curious by Hei Dou's behavior. Then, they looked at Mond and Hua Li, the two native Black Viper clansmen. They completely agreed with Hei Dou's actions. Why was a person who wasn't Black Viper able to make these Black Viper clansmen with different personalities agree and obey their orders?
For example, although Monde had accepted Orwe and the others into his safe zone, it was only because Orwe and the others had saved his life once. From the bottom of his heart, Monde did not fully acknowledge Orwe and the others. He classified it as a special relationship. If Orwe and the others ordered or restricted Monde to do what he should or should not do, Monde would not be happy and would resist. It was exactly because they knew that Mond was such a person that Orville and the others decided to borrow Orville's hands and connections to find a way to survive in this unfamiliar environment. Orville and the others didn't object even if Mond wanted to be a team leader on a whim.
Survival was their number one priority, so they might as well let the kid be the team leader.
But Silin and Neo were different. Moreover, Mond was more inclined to trust Silin after he learned about Silin's capabilities and Silin's capabilities. What Mond didn't tell the others was that he trusted Huimao more than Silin. The reason Mond could see the right path from Huimao's choice was related to his abilities. Huimao chose to trust Silin, and Mond chose to trust Silin as well.
After listening to Hei Dou's explanation, Silin thinks for a moment and said, "Tell them to wait outside. I'll go in and talk to Neo."
"Alright. Thank you, Silin." Hei Dou immediately let out a sigh of relief when she heard that someone was willing to take on this difficult task.
Silin and Hei Dou walked back to the exit at the same time, but it was at this moment almost a dozen white mice suddenly rushed up from the ground behind them. Every single one of them was in a berserk state. Their bodies were covered in spikes, their claws were covered in thick scales, and their tails were covered in ring-shaped spikes that looked like thorny whips.
There's a problem with the defense system!!
Someone tampered with their defense system! Who could it be?
Everyone in this area had a scanning device installed. It was part of the defense system's surveillance circle. But now, so many white mice had appeared out of nowhere. Moreover, they were all agitated and in a very troublesome biochemical state.
Because of the newcomers, Hei Dou wasn't keeping an eye on them inside the safe zone. She was in automatic defense mode, and Neo was busy spitting saliva at the other two. No one noticed that the defense system was acting strangely. Although they didn't see or hear any alarms, it didn't mean that the defense system wasn't acting strangely at all.
This turn of events was so sudden that no one noticed it. Gu Xin and Tu Ba were still processing the vicious beast meat in their hands, while Erty and the others were chatting with the newcomers.
Silin and Hei Dou were the closest to the white mice. Silin could definitely escape on his own, but Hei Dou couldn't. Escape with Hei Dou? Their speed would be slowed down.
A dozen or so white shadows appeared in a flash. In the blink of an eye, they were only twenty meters away from Hei Dou and Hei Dou.
Hei Dou was dumbfounded. When she saw the white mice, she had already calculated how long it would take for them to catch up to her.
Less than two seconds. Even if she tried to escape now, she would be bitten to death in less than two seconds if she was chased by the white mice whose speed had almost doubled in this state.
Bang!
A few of the white mice that had leaped into the air and were about to tear her apart with their claws. Twelve berserk white mice had all fallen to the ground.
Every white mouse's head had exploded, and the wound was in the shape of a hexagon. It was a very standard hexagon.
Bang bang bang bang —
All the white mice that had exploded their heads stopped one step away from Silin and Hei Dou due to inertia.
The smell of blood unique to the white mice made Hei Dou's stomach churn. It wasn't just a symptom of being overly frightened, it was also the smell. Hei Dou couldn't help but vomit.
Gu Xin and the others were still holding their guns. They didn't have time to shoot, or they didn't hit their targets after firing. The berserk white mice were too fast, and their defense was too good. As long as they didn't hit their target, they would be completely ineffective. Looking at the dead white mice on the ground and the wounds on their heads, they knew that none of this had been done by them.
The group looked at Silin as if they were looking at a ghost.
Mond's jaw almost dropped to the ground. He's a monster, absolutely a monster!
They didn't even see what happened. All they heard was a bang, and then the heads of the twelve white mice bloomed. It was a hexagonal flower no less.
Silin stood in the dead silence with a white gun in his hand. The gun was very strange. It wasn't big, but its proportions were different from a normal gun's. It was hard to imagine that this gun was the cause of such a scene.
Those were twelve rats in a state of agitation! Even Gu Xin couldn't guarantee that he could kill them in one shot even if he was fully prepared, let alone twelve of them at the same time.
Silin looked at the white gun in his hand. There was an emblem and an "S" on the gun.
It was Guan Feng's Purgatory Thunder Snake S!
As expected of Guan Feng's proudest creation, it was also the gun with the greatest damage in the Purgatory Thunder Snake series. Silin sighed in his heart.
A great man's temper was the same for a gun. The stronger a gun was, the harder it was to control. If one were to describe this gun in human terms, it would be a freak among humans. Not everyone could tolerate its temper.
Silin looked at the blood slowly dripping down his hand. The shot was shockingly powerful, but Silin himself had suffered a negative impact as well. His hand holding the gun was cracked in many places. If Silin's constitution wasn't strong to begin with, his entire hand would've exploded from the negative impact.
The Purgatory Thunder Snake S was very different from the K. As expected, different Purgatory Thunder Snake series guns had different temperaments.
What Silin didn't know was that the three heads of Black Viper were watching the scene on the screen in the distant building. This wasn't something they could've done, but they had been paying close attention to Silin all this time, and the underground network incident had piqued their curiosity about Silin. That was why they were able to see this shocking scene through the multi-angle surveillance cameras of the satellites in space.
Everyone, including Guan Feng, felt like they had been sucked in a cold breath when they saw the twelve white mice. However, the tables had turned in less than two seconds.
The meeting room was deathly silent when they saw the twelve white mice's heads explode almost at the same time.
Finally, Christian let out a sigh. "Guan Feng, that's your proudest creation, isn't it? I didn't think that you'd let that kid use it. "
It hadn't been long since Guan Feng created the Purgatory Thunder Snake S. It could be said that no one other than Guan Feng had the chance to touch it. After all, every time Guan Feng designed a new Purgatory Thunder Snake, he would go through a long period of observation. Only those who received Guan Feng's approval were qualified to own a Purgatory Thunder Snake. Every direct disciple of Guan Feng who wanted to use a Purgatory Thunder Snake had to go through many tests, many trials, countless strengthening and adaptation training, and all kinds of observation tests before they could get their hands on a gun marked with the Purgatory Thunder Snake's emblem.
The higher the rank of a Purgatory Thunder Snake gun, the longer the test and observation period. Why else would there be so few people who could use a Purgatory Thunder Snake K until now?
It wasn't that Guan Feng had set the bar too high or that his requirements were too strict. It was because the Purgatory Thunder Snake gun's characteristics determined that it had high standards for its user. The Purgatory Thunder Snake was very destructive, but at the same time, it was no different from suicide for those who didn't have the ability to use it.
It was exactly because they understood this that they were impressed by Guan Feng's unusual treatment of Silin and his boldness. If a student like Silin didn't have the ability to use a Purgatory Thunder Snake S, wouldn't he have no place to cry if he was accidentally shot by a bullet?
Everyone looked at Guan Feng with such thoughts in mind, but they didn't realize that Guan Feng himself was shocked.
Guan Feng rubbed his forehead with a smile when he saw everyone looking at him. His fingers were still a little cold. He was probably scared by that little bastard Silin.
Although he had told Cillin to keep the gun, Guan Feng really didn't think that Cillin would actually use it. It was because the gun hadn't been perfected at all. At the time, Guan Feng had clearly told Silin not to use the gun. The gun wasn't finished yet, and it could easily cause a suicidal effect. How could Silin not know this when he was using the Purgatory Thunder Snake K? Of course he knew!
If it wasn't for the fact that Cillin had taken out twelve white mice in the blink of an eye, Guan Feng would've used his personal means to contact Cillin and organize the little bastard who didn't know how big the universe was to use S on him.
At the time, Guan Feng had placed three booby traps on the blueprint. He had intentionally left them there so that anyone who tried to use an S without his permission would suffer the consequences of their own actions. That way, the shooter would be the one to suffer the consequences of his own actions.
No one knew how scared Guan Feng was. Even his fingers were cold right now. However, if Silin was able to successfully take out the twelve agitated white mice with the Purgatory Thunder Snake S, then he must've perfected the gun. Silin did have the talent to understand the parts that needed to be perfected after looking at the flawed blueprint.
Of course, perfecting a gun was one thing, and succeeding in it was another.
One of the high standards of a Purgatory Thunder Snake user was that the user had to be calm and capable of calculation. Every time a new model of the Purgatory Thunder Snake was born, the user's calculation ability would increase to a higher level. The S series was especially demanding.
Was the guy's brain really that big to be able to complete such a huge calculation in an instant? That was twelve white mice we're talking about! Every additional target doubles the amount of calculation required. What kind of brain does one need to have to do that?
Shooting at more than ten targets at the same time was completely theoretical. Guan Feng was conceited, but he couldn't hit twelve targets in one shot even if he was the one doing it himself. The Purgatory Thunder Snake Model K was fine, but Guan Feng could only prove that the Model S was reasonable in theory. Truth be told, Guan Feng didn't think that someone would be able to do it so soon after the Purgatory Thunder Snake Model S was born.
Guan Feng didn't even have time to sigh when he saw Silin take out a knife and start skinning the white mice. Guan Feng nearly choked on his breath.
Due to the huge amount of calculations required, the instantaneous high energy consumption of the brain would cause the shooter to become dispirited or unconscious due to insufficient energy supply to the brain, and there might even be life-threatening situations. But look, that little bastard was still alive and kicking, skinning the white mouse biochemical beast!
Cillin had no idea how many times he had scared Guan Feng with his actions. All he knew was that the white mice's skin was incredibly tough, and he thought that they could be used to make special protective gear for everyone. They could also be used to make some tools and tools. After all, the tools and materials available in this area were limited, and it was a rare opportunity to run into something good. Of course he had to make the best use of it.
Cillin neatly skinned one of them before twisting the skinned white mouse up and flinging it into the ground not too far away. There was a loud boom as the ground cracked and dust spread like mist. It could be seen just how heavy an intensified white mouse biochemical beast was.
The explosion woke everyone up from their shock. Hua Li was the first to act. Her desire to dissect things suddenly skyrocketed when she saw Silin skinning it. She took out a custom-made scalpel and walked next to the white mice that Silin had just finished skinning and tossed to the side.
Gu Xin and the others were still holding their guns. Their eyes twitched when they saw Silin and Hua Li's actions.
There were freaks every year, but there were especially many this year.
After learning Silin's goal, Gu Xin and the others joined in and started skinning the white mice. Their attention shifted from their shock to the white mice as they continued to skin them.
"You don't say, these white mice are really strong after they've been activated." Erty glanced at the skin that looked like a hedgehog and touched its spikes. He clicked his tongue in praise.
"If they were stuck in a crowd, they'd be skewered right away." Monde was ready, but he couldn't catch mice with his hands. He could only watch from the side with Hei Dou and comment from time to time.
"What did you see?" Tu Ba teased when he saw Monde staring at a white mouse.
Monde said thoughtfully, "Their final expression told me that they died in happiness."
"Which means that they were killed before they could have any other thoughts." Gu Xin pulled at the hexagonal hole in the white mouse's head and pulled at a few of its whiskers that looked as hard as spikes. He then revealed the white mouse's teeth.
"Hey, take this and I'll use a tooth as a dagger," Gu Xin said to Tu Ba.
Tu Ba didn't give it to him, but he managed to cut off a few of the teeth himself.
"Tsk, so hard!"
"Of course. Otherwise, why would I want to use this rat tooth as a dagger?" Gu Xin held a large rat tooth in his hand and gestured with it, nodding in satisfaction.
Tu Ba passed one of the treated teeth to Hei Dou. "For you to protect yourself."
Hei Dou hurriedly caught it. "Thank … thank you."
Tu Ba waved his hand and continued cutting the tooth.
Neo finally couldn't hold back any longer. He came out to witness the spectacle and collect some samples for research.
The twelve white mice's protective skin was soon peeled off, leaving behind only their smooth flesh. However, this flesh was inedible. After being activated, the white mice's toxins multiplied and became even more toxic. More unknown toxic proteins were produced, and these randomly synthesized proteins were exactly what Neo needed.
The white mice's flesh gradually changed from a faint reddish brown to a deep reddish brown, then brown, and finally black. The change was quick and obvious, just like the flesh of an apple exposed to the air.
He sprayed some chemical on the white mice so that the dust wouldn't carry active toxins and spread to the surroundings. Then, he took out a thousand degree incendiary bomb and burned the white mice to ashes.
The reason Silin was able to deal with the white mice without fear was because he knew that there was no longer any threat in the vicinity. The signal Huimao had detected had already escaped. However, Huimao remembered the signal. Since the other party was playing dirty, he would definitely pay them back double!
After dealing with the white mice, Silin had Gu Xin and the others move the items back. He had a chat with Neo and the newcomers.
In reality, the newcomers had only come to test the waters, but after they saw Cillin instantly kill the twelve white mice, they had already made a clear decision. Working with an expert would definitely increase their chances of survival. Although there were a few lunatics here, they had to admit that this was the best place to work at this stage of the game.
Now, they were speaking to Silin in a different tone. They were less aggressive and showed their sincerity.
Silin thought for a moment. Neo's safety zone couldn't hold any more people. Although it still had space, it was easy to get into trouble if there were too many people. Moreover, judging from the two idiots' bickering just now, they would probably fight every day if they worked together.
In the end, Silin made a suggestion. He told them to move to the perimeter of the safety zone. Since they were working together, they could help each other out if there was any danger. The other party had some technology that could strengthen Neo's safety zone's defense network once more. This way, there wouldn't be another incident like the one just now. Thankfully, it was Silin. If it was anyone else, they probably would've been torn to shreds by the white mice's biochemical beasts.
The two newcomers had a portion of their safety zones that could be moved. If they moved together, they would be able to build a new safety zone with a little more expansion. It would be closer to Silin's group, and they wouldn't have to deal with Mond and Neo as reinforcements either. Why wouldn't they do it?
Even Silin had sent people to help build the new safety zone. It wasn't like Gu Xin and the others could just sit around and do nothing. Gu Xin even knew two of the newcomers, so they communicated with each other for a while. Just like everyone else, everyone knew nothing about this place. They had all learned this information from the Black Viper Tribe.
Silin used the materials the newcomers provided and discussed the problem of the defense system with Hei Dou. They incorporated the technology provided by the newcomers and built some physical defenses both underground and above ground. The surveillance range was expanded a lot, and the concealment methods were improved as well.
On the twentieth day, the three people gathered at the meeting room's light screen were quite eye-catching.
"If there are no surprises, it should be those three," Gu Changan said.
"No matter who the other two candidates are, Silin is the only one who can take over Guan Feng's position!" Christie Lang's eyes flashed as he stared at the screen.
Xi Kai hadn't said a word this entire time. He had been especially quiet ever since he received the information from the underground network's robots.
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