In the dimly lit alloy corridor, a lopsided battle had just ended.
The air was still filled with the smell of gunpowder left behind by gunfire. Bullet casings and bullet holes could be seen everywhere on the ground. More than a dozen soldiers in regular army uniforms were lying on the ground. Most of them had completely lost consciousness, and the rest were writhing in pain.
Hao Ren grabbed a soldier who looked like a squad leader. "Hey, can you hear me? What are you doing? "
The soldier opened his eyes slightly. When he saw Hao Ren's face, he was reminded of the supernatural scene just now. He suddenly had the urge to pass out. Hao Ren quickly shook the soldier's collar and said, "Wait a minute! Answer my question first! "
"We are the Second Marines …" the soldier said in a trembling voice, as if he was afraid that Hao Ren would turn into an alien and swallow him on the spot.
"The Second Marines?" Hao Ren was stunned. He had never heard of this name. "What are you doing here?"
The soldier's teeth were chattering. "We … we were ordered to clean up the space radicals here …"
"Clean up space radicals?" Hao Ren was getting more and more confused. "No … I mean, isn't this the control center of the Nanomachine Swarm? And it has been abandoned for more than 60 years … Wait a minute, what is this place? "
The soldier looked at Hao Ren, puzzled. He felt like he had encountered a psychopath, but he still replied cautiously, "It's the launch site of the Cadic Mountains."
The launch site of the Cadic Mountains …
Hao Ren knocked the soldier out and stood up in confusion. He looked around the place that had completely changed, and even mutated to the point of being strange.
He found a corner, hid himself, and then began to check his mental state. Soon, he ruled out the possibility of being under mind control or hallucinating. There was no doubt that he was in the real world, but the real world had undergone earth-shaking changes.
"It seems that the world has changed," the MDT said. It looked at the outside world through Hao Ren's eyes. "Not only has the surrounding environment changed, but it seems that even the worldview has changed. There was no aerospace technology in this world. It was discontinued more than 60 years ago."
Hao Ren recalled Ulyanov's disappearance and the unusual situation before his disappearance. "I'm afraid it's more than that. There should be someone else following the change. Ulyanov's memory went haywire before his death, and he disappeared directly after his death. But these soldiers appeared out of thin air, and they even had the strange identity of the Second Marine Corps … Wait a minute! MDT, your body! "
A lightning-fast idea popped up in his mind. He immediately threw the MDT out of his Dimensional Pocket. A blonde girl fell from the spatial rift and landed on the ground. She glared at Hao Ren and said, "What the hell are you doing? I don't have a sense of balance to begin with, okay!? "
"Why do you still look like this?" Hao Ren looked at the blonde girl in front of him. "Hasn't this body disappeared?"
The MDT did not know what he meant. "What do you mean?"
"I suspect that the world is resetting, and everyone and everything is being set up with a new identity and position." Hao Ren stepped forward and held the blonde girl's arm as if to make sure that she was not fading away. "Your body is taken over. It stands to reason that she should be resetting … But why is there no change?"
"It's simple. You guessed it wrong." The MDT shook its head. "Or I'm so powerful that I have completely taken over this body, and the latter can't be 'reset'."
Hao Ren looked up and down at the blonde girl, who was standing crookedly and swaying. "You have suffered from cerebral thrombosis for 20 years, and you have the nerve to say that you have complete control of this body?"
"Oh, then you must have guessed it wrong."
Hao Ren sighed. "Anyway, we need to find Nolan and the others, or someone else who we can talk to. At least we need to figure out the situation here."
"Oh, then let's go in that direction." The MDT raised its hand and pointed to a fork in the corridor. "I seem to have heard something there."
To be honest, Hao Ren did not quite trust the MDT's navigation ability. But he did not know where to go, so he might as well trust the MDT's sixth sense. He turned his head and looked at the MDT. "Can you walk on your own now?"
"Don't worry, I can keep up," the blonde girl patted her chest. "Of course, if you like, I still want to squat on your shoulder …"
Hao Ren strode forward. "Keep up!"
To be honest, he was quite happy to carry the girl on his back under normal circumstances. Even if she was a brick in nature, at least the shell was pleasing to the eye. But the situation in front of him did not allow him to be so relaxed. He did not know how many enemies had suddenly appeared in this building. Under such circumstances, he had to carry a living person on his shoulder … Carrying a dead person on his shoulder was not a good idea no matter how he looked at it.
Although the MDT's body looked like it was suffering from cerebral thrombosis, 'she' was not slow at all. Although 'she' was swaying, she was still able to keep up with Hao Ren's pace.
After running along the corridor for a while, Hao Ren suddenly heard a faint sound of footsteps coming from the corner in front of him. He immediately let the MDT hide in the shadow of a metal cabinet next to him, and then carefully went over to see what was going on.
A familiar figure appeared in front of him. The extremely burly body, the big square face, and the distinct facial features — it was Carl, the big guy from the Grey Fox mercenary corps. But when he saw the familiar face, Hao Ren did not rush forward because he saw that Carl was not wearing the black Grey Fox mercenary uniform, but a desert camouflage special combat uniform.
He remembered that Carl ran out with Ulyanov, but when Ulyanov died, Carl had disappeared. Now when he saw Carl again, the big guy had changed into an unfamiliar uniform. If his guess was right, Carl had probably undergone some kind of 'change'.
Hao Ren thought for a moment. After raising his guard, he came out from the corner and greeted the big guy calmly. "Yo, Carl."
Carl was surprised when he saw Hao Ren, and then raised his rifle without hesitation. "Stop! Don't move! Raise your hand and turn around. Who are you?! Regular soldiers or people from the base?! "
"Sure enough," Hao Ren sighed in his heart. It seemed that it was impossible to find Carl to understand the situation. Now it seemed that the only advantage this guy had over the other marines was that he did not shoot directly. "Don't be nervous, I'm not the enemy. Let me confirm, are you Carl?"
Carl frowned. His expression changed a little, but he quickly hid it. "Don't try to stall for time. Raise your hand and turn around, or I'll shoot!"
After a while, the MDT heard that the fight was over and limped out. "Hey, buddy, it's done? This … huh? An acquaintance. "
"It's Carl. But as I guessed, humans and the world have been reset. He doesn't remember me." Hao Ren looked at the big guy who had fainted on the ground. "This guy is stubborn. He refused to cooperate, so I had to knock him out first. Now I can confirm that his name is still Carl, but his identity has changed. Now he seems to be the guard of this base. "
"What should we do next?" The MDT was a little puzzled. She had not learned anything else, but the emoji pack was installed pretty quickly.
"Let's find Nolan."
"You think Nolan is the key?"
"There are too many suspicious things about her. Even if she's not the key, she's still a clue." Hao Ren nodded. "Since the world has been reset … I'm afraid I know what's going on with Nolan."
As he said, he looked down at Carl. "But before we leave, let's put this big guy in a safer place. After all, we used to be partners."
Finally, he found a place that looked like a storeroom, which seemed to have been searched by the marines once. He threw Carl under a pile of waste cardboard boxes in the storeroom.
After cleaning up everything, Hao Ren and the MDT continued to explore the building again.
Since Carl was still here, he suspected that Nolan would also "refresh" in this place. At least in the absence of more clues, it was the only thing they could do to look around.
The two of them explored around the strange facility, almost running into more soldiers and guards. An hour ago, the Northern Ring Tower was deserted and silent for 65 years. But now, it was bustling. It seemed that at least three groups of people were fighting here, including regular soldiers and combatants from the base. There were also some guys dressed in miscellaneous equipment, who looked like mercenaries or freelance militants, causing trouble in the lower level of the building. From time to time, gunshots and explosions could be heard coming from an unknown corner. It sounded like the fight had been going on for a long time. But only Hao Ren and the MDT knew that in fact, the whole scene had just started a few minutes ago.
At this moment, a silhouette of long gray hair suddenly flashed before his eyes.
"Oh, oh, oh, please! Monthly votes! I can try to get into the top ten this month! Everyone, check if there are monthly votes in your hands. After all, the voting system is unpredictable. What if there are still votes? "
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