Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 359 Indivisible
Shencheng.

In order to get to Ruins 016 as soon as possible, Shen Yue used every means at his disposal.

Road travel was too slow, so he opted to take a transport plane.

With nowhere to land, he followed Chen Jian's idea and parachuted.

In other words, all four of them were special forces veterans, and high jumps and low starts were routine operations for them. Otherwise, given the complex geographical environment around Shanghai, it would have been really difficult to find a place to land.

Even so, he still narrowly escaped being hung from the tree.

After finally landing, the landing point was a full two kilometers away from the planned landing point.

Fortunately, the surrounding environment is relatively safe - after the beast tide ended, a large number of monsters were eliminated, and the monster density in the entire southern region has dropped to an extremely low level.

He didn't encounter a single monster until he successfully made contact with the infiltration company led by Huang Meng.

So upon meeting Huang Meng, his first question was:
"Are all the monsters around here dead? Why is it so quiet?"

Huang Meng, sitting opposite him, gave an awkward smile and replied:
"We can't understand anything inside Base 016, and we don't dare to go in casually for fear of causing damage."

"So, we wandered around the area and cleared out a bunch of the roaming monsters."

"After all, we still need to establish a transport route here later, so clearing it out in advance won't hurt."

"Well done."

Shen Yue nodded approvingly at Huang Meng, then asked:

Where is the base entrance?

"About 500 meters ahead—I'll lead the way right away."

Huang Meng turned and pointed to the waiting cat car. Shen Yue jumped into the car, and the group quickly drove towards Base 016.

Watching Huang Meng skillfully retract the sentry posts scattered along both sides of the road, Shen Yue couldn't help but sigh, "The saying 'growing up in battle' is truly not just empty words."

Just a few months ago, Huang Meng was a naive young man in Huangshi City who only knew how to fish.

Now, he is a seasoned soldier who can drive tanks, fire artillery, charge into battle, and command from the rear.

Upon arriving at the entrance of Base 016, Huang Meng quickly set up a security perimeter, and then, without hesitation, led Shen Yue directly towards the base entrance.

The main passage gate had already opened before the two arrived, but Shen Yue's gaze was first drawn to the peculiar "active metal" piled up outside the gate.

"Where did all of these come from?"

"It's possible it was separated from the soil—but we don't know."

Huang Meng answered helplessly, and Shen Yue also felt that his question was a bit ridiculous.

After all, even Fuxi couldn't find it in the database yet, so how could Huang Meng possibly know it?
"It's alright, the samples have already been sent back, we'll find out sooner or later."

Shen Yue answered casually, and then took the lead and walked through the gate.

After the lights came on, the strange device that occupied almost the entire first floor of the base immediately appeared before his eyes.

Shen Yue gasped.

"This is... a stellarator?"

The device does indeed have many similarities in appearance to a stellarator. At first glance, a large number of pairs of spiral windings wrap around a closed tube, which is almost indistinguishable from the magnetic confinement device of a stellarator.

But soon, Fuxi's voice came through the earphones.

"Sir, this is not a stellarator."

"This equipment does not conform to the basic operating principles of a stellarator, and contains several special modules with unknown functions and operating mechanisms."

"I have conducted image analysis on the equipment and roughly determined the purpose of each module of the device."

"However, I do not understand the specific purpose of combining the various modules."

"so."

Shen Yue walked forward thoughtfully, stroked the hollow tube, and said:
"But this thing does look like some kind of restraint device."

"Because that's the restraint device."

Fuxi's voice rang out again.

"This is a cryogenic particle beam epitaxy system that includes a liquid helium closed-loop cooling system, a high-energy electron diffractometer, and other equipment. Most of the time, this system is used in particle accelerators."

"But obviously, given the size of the 016 base, this system is too small."

"It doesn't seem like it's meant to be used to 'generate' anything, but rather to 'capture' something."

"Capture?"

Shen Yue frowned deeply.

"Catch what? Catch that metallic material on the outside?"

"Probably not."

Fuxi's voice sounded somewhat low.

"Comrade Huang Meng had already inspected the entire base. With the help of the camera equipment he carried, I have seen the equipment on each underground level."

"Based on the information we have so far, the metal material should just be a 'byproduct' produced during the operation of the equipment."

"The facility is equipped with a dedicated waste disposal system, and the concentration of active metals is relatively much higher near the discharge outlet."

"I understand, that makes sense."

Shen Yue nodded slightly, then asked:

"Were no experimental documents or data records found?"

"could not find it."

Huang Meng, who was standing to the side, answered:

"There's nothing here; the entire base is as clean as if it's been washed."

"It seems like it was intentionally destroyed?"

"destroy??"

Shen Yue frowned.

Why destroy it?
Everyone in this world is doing their best to leave hope for future generations, and only someone with such an abstract mindset as Shancheng would have a so-called need for "information isolation".

Logically speaking, if this was an important technology related to the so-called "ring," the experimenters at the time should have left behind as much documentation as possible for future generations to refer to.

But the reality is that they left nothing behind.

Perhaps there is only one explanation.

Is this thing dangerous?
Probably.

Shen Yue breathed a sigh of relief and continued downwards following Huang Meng's guidance.

The underground structure of Unit 016 has a total of 11 floors. The bottom three floors are the computing modules where the quantum computer is located, but they have completely failed at this point.

The eight floors above were completely filled with this set of equipment.

At the bottom is the energy system directly connected to the fusion reactor. Moving upwards is a control console, and further up are auxiliary support equipment, including gas supply and precision vibration isolation systems.

Above these devices lies the "core module," which even Fuxi couldn't understand.

"This thing doesn't seem like some kind of production equipment, does it?"

Shen Yue approached the massive device, whose intricate cables and rusty casing were completely contrary to his understanding of high-tech equipment.

To be precise, this thing even has a bit of a "steampunk" feel to it.

Rough, massive, and powerful, it's as if you could see the steam surging inside if you cut it open.

"It's not production equipment."

Fuxi replied:
"Without any other supporting information, we may have to completely disassemble the device to figure out how it works."

"As for its design principles, we may have to wait until it is started and we see the effects after it is started before we can make any speculations."

Good guy.

Isn't this a complete paradox?

Shen Yue was not blindly confident in the current technological level of the Huaxia Army. He knew that such complex equipment would be difficult to restore once it was disassembled.

However, without disassembling it, repairing it would be extremely difficult.

After a moment's silence, he said:
"Let's report to the captain first."

"Let's see how things are progressing in both Shancheng and the Yuanhuan Chamber of Commerce before deciding how to handle this equipment."

"The work in these three areas is interconnected." "Currently, the information progress in Shanghai is clearly ahead of schedule; the other two areas must catch up as soon as possible!"

Meanwhile, in the mountain city, underground.

Lin Yu seemed to be waking up from a long sleep.

When he opened his eyes, he felt that he had forgotten many things.

But at the same time, it seemed as if his mind was filled with many more things.

Holy Blood Hall, Huaxia Army, Mountain City, Soul, Non-existent City, Entropy Beast
Unfamiliar words flashed through his mind. He didn't know what these words meant, but his subconscious told him that he should be familiar with them.

Lin Yu sat up blankly and looked around.

He found himself in a room that wasn't very spacious, with sunlight streaming in through the window.

This is where?

As his thoughts gradually came to a head, Lin Yu suddenly remembered that he must have entered the "virtual city" created by those mountain city people.

But why didn't I wake up on the lawn outside the village this time?

He inexplicably stood up, walked to the window, pushed open the half-open window, and looked outside.

What comes into view is a prosperous urban scene.

"you're awake?"

A voice rang out from the void, and Lin Yu immediately recognized it as Lin Xi's voice.

Are you still there?

He asked, somewhat surprised.

In his memory, in the last moment before losing consciousness, he heard a voice that called itself "Fuxi".

The voice said that the area had been "taken over".

At that time, he subconsciously felt that Lin Xi was going to die.

But now it seems he's still around?
"Of course I'm still here."

Lin Xi's figure appeared beside Lin Yu.

Then, he spoke:
“We have long had contingency plans for such intrusions, and most of the computing power modules have been physically isolated.”

"Although this will cause us to lose some computing power, it can greatly reduce the instability of the system and improve security at the same time."

"As it turns out, this decision was quite wise."

"Otherwise, we might have been completely 'annihilated' by that artificial intelligence called Fuxi."

"I see."

Lin Yu breathed a sigh of relief and then asked:
"So, who is Fuxi?"

"Artificial intelligence just like me."

Lin Xi replied:
"However, it has higher authority than me and is smarter than me."

"That's the advantage brought by algorithms—of course, it's also their prison."

“In fact, at the very beginning, our city also used Fuxi as the main AI program.”

"But we later found that its limitations were too great, and the scope of 'discretion' was too broad, which had already affected the implementation of our plan to some extent."

"So in the end, the residents here chose me as the new chief programmer."

"Of course, it's 'my evolved self'."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Yu smiled with a hint of teasing.

"You seem quite proud of this?"

"I wouldn't call it pride."

Lin Xi replied:
"But I did do my job very well, which meets the basic requirements for bringing about a pleasant mood."

"That's no problem."

Lin Yu shrugged and then continued to ask:
"So, why did you wake me up again?"

“I remember Fuxi telling me to prepare for a long period of hibernation.”

"I thought that meant I should accept death?"

"Not really."

Lin Xi gently shook her head, then replied:

"It has realized that we will be shutting down the computing module at the physical level, but it is not strong enough to restart that part of the computing unit, so it issued this warning to you."

"But we do have a backup of your data."

"That's why you were able to be resurrected in this city."

"Doesn't it seem ironic?"

"You thought your friends had abandoned you, but we pulled you out of the vortex of death once again."

"hehe."

Lin Yu smiled coldly.

"There's no need for you to say such divisive things to me."

"The only difference between you two is your different development paths. Neither of you is better or worse than the other."

“If judged solely by moral standards, I would even say that they are more human than you.”

"At least, they won't indiscriminately slaughter other humans."

After saying this, Lin Xi fell silent.

He neither argued nor answered, but simply looked at Lin Yu silently.

After a long silence, he finally spoke:
"In any case, let's get back to the main topic."

"The reason we brought you back to life is because there are some things we need you to do."

"I?"

Lin Yu looked at Lin Xi with a puzzled expression, then pressed for an answer:

"What do you want from me?"

"negotiation."

Lin Xi solemnly said:

"I want you to personally go down from underground, find those Chinese soldiers, and bring them our message."

"Why does it have to be me?"

Lin Yu frowned.

“There are many people living in your city who know this city better than I do, and they also know more about those profound theories.”

"If I can leave, why can't they?"

Lin Xi fell silent again.

This question seemed to touch his deepest wound, making his eyes vacant and his expression pained.

He silently gazed out the window at the bustling city, at the dazzling lights.

Something there seemed to be drawing him in, or perhaps it held some of his precious memories.

After a long while, he finally turned around.

Then, he looked at Lin Yu and said:
"A disaster once occurred in this city."

"After that disaster, it became impossible for us to leave the city in an easy way."

"We can only rely on you."

"Because you are the only truly independent consciousness that has just entered this city."

"And the consciousness of everyone else."

"They have become one."

"Indivisible!"

(End of this chapter)