Silin, Ci Jincheng, and Feng Haicao went back the way they came. Before the operation, they had planned a few escape routes. If they were discovered or for some other reason, they would have an escape route so they would not panic.
However, it had been more than ten minutes since Glyer returned to his office. There was no reaction from him. He did not sound the alarm or send more people to check. It seemed like Glyer did not notice anything out of the ordinary. Or maybe he did not notice anything in time. Or was there some other reason?
It was not that Silin was being paranoid. He had a weird feeling in his heart. There was no sense of success in completing the mission. There was nothing to be happy about.
This was strange …
No matter what, there was no alarm in this research base. Ci Jincheng seized the time to inform the others to retreat. He was afraid that the alarm would go off in the next moment. That would be troublesome.
The device that Knight and the rest had on them would automatically copy all the information that they could steal from the area they were in. As long as they were not discovered, all Knight and the rest had to do was to walk around. They did not have to crack the password of those databases on purpose. They would not bother with some of the highly confidential ones. The main mission this time was to see if the Nightmare Tapir experiment was going on and find out some related information. The rest was just a side mission. Once Silin, Ci Jincheng, and the others were discovered, the others would create chaos everywhere to attract attention and share the pressure on Silin's side.
From the looks of it, things were going well.
After Knight received Ci Jincheng's order to retreat, he led the other two people in his team and retreated according to the planned route. He saw a lot of research progress related to the Sixth Army during this trip. It did not seem like there was anything particularly outstanding or advanced. Knight was very disappointed. However, the news from Silin diluted his disappointment.
Any information about the Nightmare Tapir was exciting. They could only count what they got now. There was just too little information about this thing. It was obvious that Si Fang was really ruthless back then.
After meeting at the planned location, the few of them left the way they came. They waited for the cargo ships or carriers to come and go, found a suitable place to sneak in and left.
Somewhere outside the border of the Sixth Division's territory, Kang Man was piloting a spaceship and waiting with a few others. After the Sixth Division's cargo spaceship left, Kang Man's spaceship was revealed. Not far away in space, a cat was dragging a few people over.
"That cat …" The person beside Kang Man wanted to say something but stopped. His expression was very conflicted.
He didn't expect cats to be so useful.
Kang Man shook his head and pressed the button to open the hatch to let the people outside in.
"How is it?" Before Silin and the others could steady themselves, Kang Man and the others ran over and asked.
Ci Jincheng made a 'smooth sailing' gesture and Kang Man's face lit up with joy as well. He ran back into the cockpit and began to return at full speed. He could not wait to find out more information about those things.
Although this trip did not seem spectacular, the information that they found was enough to excite them. With this information, the research on the Nightmare Tapir would speed up. Perhaps they could resolve the disaster that they predicted soon.
Knight and the others had already started resting. Their nerves had been stretched taut during the operation, and even when they were being dragged by the gray cat, they were still on high alert for anything that might suddenly appear around them. Now that they were finally back, they had to recover their strength as soon as possible.
Ci Jincheng did not rest. He looked at the information in his hand. Since they were on the operation earlier, he did not have much time to look at the information, especially the core information about the Nightmare Tapir that Silin had gotten his hands on. It made Ci Jincheng very excited, so he quickly flipped through the research information.
Ghost Claw had already found a place to hide and sleep. It was not far from Ci Jincheng. If that cat came to bully it again, it could get Ci Jincheng's help as soon as possible to avoid getting its fur plucked again.
Actually, Huimao did not have the mood to care about Ghost Claw. To it, Ghost Claw was not qualified enough. If it wanted to fight, it should look for that stinky rat. If it wanted to play with a pet, it should be a big guy like Blue Skin that could stand up. If it wanted to play games, of course it should look for Czedow, Sigma, and Moon. Therefore, no matter what Huimao thought, Ghost Claw was not in its consideration. When there was nothing to play with and nothing to eat, Huimao could only sleep.
Huimao, who was curled up on Silin's lap, did not sleep well either. It could feel Silin's mood. Such an aura was not suitable for sleeping.
"What's wrong?" Huimao scratched Silin's pants with its paw.
Silin, who was deep in thought, looked down at the curious Huimao and scratched its chin, "It's nothing. I'm just thinking about something. There are some things that I haven't figured out yet."
"You humans just like to think blindly. It's easy to turn you into an idiot if you think too much," Huimao said seriously.
Silin smiled and did not answer.
It was not easy to be thoughtless.
Silin had a strange feeling. It was a very strange feeling. In short, it was not a good feeling. Although Cillin had learned that Glaier's research base hadn't shown any unusual reactions up until now, he still couldn't shake the feeling that something was off. The moment he closed his eyes, he would think of Glyer's office. Then, his brain would replay the process of his previous actions one by one.
Until now, every detail of this operation would be replayed in Silin's mind.
What's wrong?
Where …
Silin closed his eyes and the scenes replayed in his mind. Glyer's chair appeared in his mind for a long time. Then, he went down the tunnel and arrived at the underground laboratory. He went invisible, passed by the busy laboratory, went to the tunnel, and arrived at the guard insects. Silin could clearly feel the antennae on the noses of the guard insects.
Guard insects …
Silin suddenly opened his eyes.
There was something wrong with those guard insects!
Every person who passed through the tunnel, whether they were familiar or unfamiliar, would cause the guard insects to react. It was just that familiar people would not cause the guard insects to give off a warning. And the guard insects that Silin saw … were too comfortable. They were comfortable as if they had not been stimulated by a smell for a long time.
Wasn't that the core laboratory? Shouldn't Glyer go there every day to take a look? Even if it was Glyer, a familiar smell should have stimulated the guard insects to react. However, the situation of the guard insects was not like this at all! It was as if they had not been stimulated by a foreign smell for at least five days.
Silin was thinking too deeply that he did not notice that the finger that was scratching Huimao's chin was tugging at Huimao's beard. Huimao looked at Silin who was deep in thought and flicked his ear. Never mind, I'll let him tug at my chin for a while. I'll extort a bunch of compensation money when I come back to my senses!
When Silin and the others left the Sixth Army's area and returned to Ci Jincheng's place, Glyer sent a message from Glyer's office in the third experimental area of the base: This place has finally been discovered.
After turning off the communicator, Glyer looked at his chair with a strange smile on his face. Right now, the chair had already been disassembled. There were some scratches at the bottom of the chair. Every time the chair descended, an almost undetectable scratch would appear at the bottom of the chair. Glyer's daily habit was to count these scratches.
It was hard to imagine that in a place filled with all kinds of advanced equipment and equipment, where even the dead skin that naturally fell off from a human body could be detected, Glyer would actually use such a primitive and simple physical method to check if anyone had entered the underground laboratory. But it had to be said that sometimes, the most primitive method was the most overlooked.
In reality, the place that Glyer paid the most attention to in the entire research base was not the underground experimental area or the core laboratory, but the journey that the chair took from the surface to the underground. During this process, the extra undetectable scratch at the bottom of the chair was what Glyer waited for every day. Every time Glyer went out and returned, Glyer would habitually count these scratch marks.
"It's finally here, hehe." Glyer lay on the table and laughed so hard that his entire body was shaking. He looked like an abnormal patient.
… …
After Silin and the others returned to Ci Jincheng's place, Silin borrowed Ci Jincheng's equipment and contacted Nata. Nata was one of the Fog's assassination targets some time ago, but he was lucky enough to only be injured. He had mostly recovered by now. Silin had visited Nata after the two-team battle, and he was not in mortal danger.
Although Nata's strength was not at the top of the Vanguard's upper echelon, his vigilance and self-protection ability were definitely at the top. Otherwise, in that assassination attempt, the two upper echelon members who were stronger than Nata had unfortunately died, while Nata only suffered a minor injury. In Nata's own words, Sector S's prison wasn't for nothing.
Silin and Nata would contact each other occasionally. Silin didn't know a lot of Vanguard's higher-ups, and Songba Leruo, Bart and Nata were the ones he was more familiar with. The trio had helped Silin a lot, so Silin would contact them when he was free. It was just that most of the time, no one had much free time.
"Yo, why did you think of contacting me?" On the screen, Nata looked pretty spirited.
"I'm here to see how you're recovering, and to verify some things." Silin said.
"Oh?" Nata raised his slightly white eyebrows, "Tell me. I won't hide anything if I can answer you."
"It's about Senior Chamounidin." Silin looked at Nata, "I want to confirm if you've given me all of Senior Chamounidin's records regarding the parasite just like you said before."
Nata wasn't surprised by Silin's question. Right now, the League of Stars was feeling a little uneasy, and they had heard some rumors about it. As a higher-up of Vanguard, Ji Feng would tell them some top secret information.
After a moment of silence, Nata stared at Cillin once more before sighing, "I promised him that I wouldn't take it out easily. Even if the commander asked me to, I wouldn't take it out just like that. Chamounidin once said that that thing would become a great killing weapon in the hands of some people. "
Nata was observing Silin's facial expression while saying this, trying to guess Silin's current thoughts. However, to Nata's surprise, Silin was very calm. He was so calm that it was as if he had already guessed what he was going to say next.
"What do you know?" Nata asked.
Silin shook his head, "I know a little about what you guys know. When the time comes, once the disaster breaks out, it doesn't matter if the team is prepared to stay away from populated areas or give up the original base. No matter what, I'm prepared to stay. Therefore, I need some of Senior Chamounidin's records. "
"That's good too. If you can find a solution, we won't have to look for more difficult areas to avoid," Nata said.
Although Nata said this, in fact, Ji Feng had already chosen the difficult areas to avoid. They were all remote planets, and there were even some planets with C-grade habitability. Even if the living environment was harsh, it was better than suffering in the central area. It wasn't just Vanguard. The other Hunter regiments had probably already chosen their escape routes. And the purge of the Hunter World that they were preparing to carry out gradually calmed down, no one knew what the various parties had received.
It was only calm on the surface. Not long ago, when Ji Feng held a meeting with the higher-ups, they had already begun to make their move. They were going to snatch a batch of resources before the disaster broke out. Vanguard and Lan Hudie would make their move against Heaven's Birth soon. None of this was known to outsiders. What outsiders knew was that the Hunter regiments had received the news and were preparing to escape.
Nata left for a while, and when he reappeared, he was holding a notebook in his hand.
"This is another notebook outside of the Parasitic Code. Originally, Chamounidin wanted to record all of these in the Parasitic Code, but in the end, he chose to record them separately." As Nata spoke, he flipped open the notebook and showed Silin one page at a time. In fact, the notebook wasn't thick, and it didn't take long for him to flip through the pages.
"What do you think?" Nata smiled and looked at Silin, wanting to see some annoyance on Silin's face. However, when he found that Silin still had the same calm expression that made people want to slap him a few more times, Nata's words of ridicule stopped abruptly.
There were two reasons why Natakin took out the notebook that Chamonidine had specifically instructed him to. One, he hoped that Cillin could find a way to help the Vanguard avoid this disaster. If Cillin succeeded, then it would absolutely be a great thing for the Vanguard, and one could well imagine how much influence they would have in the hunter world.
As for the second reason, it was because of the record book itself. Nata had read this notebook many times, but he still couldn't find anything. He couldn't understand it.
Yes, he couldn't understand it. Nata also knew a little about parasites because of Chamounidin. He could understand some of Chamounidin's previous notebook, but he couldn't understand anything in this notebook! Because it was all code!
Chamounidin said that this was his record of the Life Code. Whoever could understand his "Parasitic Code" should also be able to understand it.
Therefore, Nata often thought, Did I not understand "Parasitic Code"? It was estimated that in the entire Vanguard, besides Silin, Nata himself was the most familiar with "Parasitic Code". Who would have thought that Nata couldn't understand the other notebook left by Chamounidin?
"That's it?" Silin asked.
"That's it. There are also some specimens. You know, although you didn't take them all, you have seen them all. Now, I'll tell you everything." Nata closed the notebook in his hand. He would not give this notebook away. He could let others see it, but he couldn't let it leak out, at least not now. If it was lost or used by some people in the wrong way, he would be too sorry for Chamounidin. He didn't give it to Ji Feng even when he asked for it. He just glanced at Ji Feng. The result of Ji Feng's glance was that his face was full of regret and twisted. It was the same expression Nata had when he first saw this notebook.
No matter how important it was, it was useless if he couldn't understand it.
"Then that's it. Rest well and let's cut the nonsense. We'll talk next time." Silin didn't wait for Nata to flip out and ended the communication.
Nata's face twitched at the communicator that had lost its signal. Was he going to throw it away after using it?
He really wanted to grab that bastard Silin and kick him hard. Also, Nata's heart felt like it was being scratched by a cat. Looking at Silin's expression, he should have understood it, right? Right? He should have. But why didn't he say anything!
Nata hesitated while he was in a dilemma. In the end, he didn't tell Ji Feng. He didn't want to rejoice for nothing.
On the other side, Silin entered Ci Jincheng's laboratory area after he had imprinted the information recorded in the notebook that Nata had kept in secret into his mind. Over there, Ci Jincheng had arranged a laboratory for Silin.
Huimao crouched on the table next to him and watched as Silin inputted a long string of unknown characters into the notebook. Then, he cut out some of the characters, pieced them together, and converted them …
This process was repeated many times. Huimao was about to fall asleep watching, but Silin's hands showed no signs of slowing down. After a yawn, Huimao went to a counter next to the door of this laboratory and lay down. He closed his eyes to rest. With it here, no one could come in and disturb him at this time.
Silin's hands moved quickly. Although he was repeating similar tasks, the sequence he put together every time was different. There were already more than a hundred sequences on an instrument next to him. They were all put together by Silin, and the number was still increasing.
When Silin saw the characters on the notebook, he didn't understand them at first. But when he recalled some of Chamounidin's annotations and key points in the Parasite Code he had read before, he could see some hints from the characters. They were just hints, Silin had to confirm the rest.
After putting together a few sequences, Silin confirmed his thoughts.
Every sequence he decoded was a certain gene sequence from a certain parasite. Decoding was only the first step. After the assembly was complete, Cillin needed to filter and intercept the sequences once more. This was a huge calculation and analysis process, and it wasn't something a computer could do alone. It was because he had to incorporate some things from the Parasitic Code.
According to Silin's prediction, the final result would be the Nightmare Tapir's initial form after decoding all of them. It was the genetic information before it was modified at all!
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