In Night City, I was picked up by a female V

Until she saw the corridor behind her, and the same laser net was approaching rapidly.

Damn, you’re not giving me a way to survive, are you?

Bai Rui thought angrily.

"Psychic barrier!"

The laser came at them so fast that there was no way to avoid it. Bai Rui immediately put up a barrier, and a sphere wrapped in blue ripples enveloped the two of them.

The laser net collided with the barrier, and the dazzling light that burst out made it impossible to open one's eyes. The ears were filled with the crackling sound of electric current, and the powerful force made Bai Rui feel that his physical strength was rapidly draining away.

"Hurry up, V, use your invincible Network Surveillance Type-5 to think of a solution!"

Bai Rui gritted her teeth and said that all her energy was used to support the barrier. She couldn't do anything else and could only pin her hopes on V.

"Hold on, I'm trying!"

V gritted his teeth, his blue eyes shining continuously. What he saw was not the real world, but the rapid movement through the base network.

She tried to contact the base's AI again and again, but all failed. She could only find a way on her own and use the authority in her hands to stop the triggered defense system.

"Shet!"

But after some exploration, V just burst out with swear words.

"Bai Rui, we triggered the base's dead hand system, there's no way to stop it."

"I can only try to see if I can forcibly stop the energy supply to the defense system for a period of time!"

"How long is the period of time you mentioned?"

Bai Rui tried hard to supply energy to the barrier, grinning, and the words were almost squeezed out from between his teeth.

"Estimated... less than one second."

V said with a bitter face.

"Fuck, just one second, hurry up, I can't hold on for much longer."

Bai Rui gritted her teeth and said that it was impossible for her to compete with a base in terms of energy.

"Okay, count down, three, two..."

"One! Run!"

V almost broke his voice.

As he said, the thick laser beams focused on the barrier flashed for a while and then disappeared into the corridor. Bai Rui felt his body suddenly relax.

But the next moment, she used her upper arms to drive her lower arms, and ran as fast as she could, and rushed straight towards the locked door in front with V.

V charged the electromagnetic cannon on her shoulder, and the blue particle beam drew a charred straight line from top to bottom in the middle of the door.

"Break it for me!"

With a blue light flashing in his eyes, Bai Rui swung his arm, and the blue shock wave penetrated through the charred gap, blasting open a gap large enough for two people to pass through.

The two had just stumbled out of the gap when a huge electric current exploded behind them, and the electric light drowned out everything.

Shit, it’s really a bit risky.

Looking at the movement behind him, Bai Rui felt a chill in his heart.

Then, this fear turned into anger.

"What the hell is that broken AI pointing to!"

"That guy won't betray me, will he?"

“Will AI also rebel?”

V took two breaths and wondered aloud.

"Of course not. Don't you know that there was a notorious 'Iron Man Rebellion' in human history? Between the loyalist AI and the extinction AI... Never mind. You won't understand even if I tell you. You just need to know that the AI ​​in this base has rebelled."

"is it?"

V was skeptical.

Is there such a period in human history?

How come she doesn't know.

However, out of trust in Bai Rui, she believed Bai Rui's conclusion that his "father" could not be trusted.

"We can't follow the route given by the AI. We're already on the 49th floor. Let's just go to the freight elevator and jump down to the bottom floor."

Bai Rui said as he deleted the roadmap given by the AI.

She had a vague guess in her mind.

The base has become like this, which is closely related to the AI ​​named "Father".

Maybe it really is an AI rebellion as she said.

This is not the first or second time that humans have failed in this regard.

Ignoring the route given by the AI, Bai Rui and the others quickly arrived at the location of the central freight elevator, which was on the same floor but had a similar layout. From a distance, the large hole in the center came into view.

But another situation made the two of them stop in their tracks instantly, and their hands and feet became numb.

White spots.

Dense white spots.

The white dots representing the Shadow Walker signal are in front, and they are everywhere under the pit.

One white dot represents one, and the densely packed white dots on the radar indicate that, just below the pit not far in front of them, at the end of the freight elevator on the 50th floor, there are no less than a hundred Shadow Walkers gathering there.

Now, they know where the missing "Shadow Walkers" have gone.

"Could this be a trap?"

V spoke first, his tone full of disbelief and confusion.

Could this be a signal disguised by the suspected rebellious AI "father" to lure them into a trap, just like the laser tunnel just now?

Their distrust of "father" made them doubt the data transmitted from "father".

"Whether it's true or not, we'll know when we go over and take a look."

Bai Rui swallowed his saliva, and the two looked at each other, giving each other a little confidence.

Restarting the silent mode, the two of them lay down and crawled to the edge of the pit. They were extremely careful, after all, there were suspected to be nearly a hundred elusive "Shadow Walkers" underneath.

The moment he climbed to the edge and looked down, Bai Rui knew that the results of his "father's" detection were not deceptive.

And she finally discovered another secret.

The whereabouts of the bodies of all deceased base personnel.

At the bottom of the pit dozens of meters below, there was a circular metal open space, and countless corpses in various clothes were piled up into a small hill around the central freight elevator. Even though the mixed stench of hundreds of corpses was filtered by the helmets, some of it still reached the two men's nasal cavities.

This can only be described as a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

Looking at the five or six meter tall mountain of corpses, the two men held their mouths and noses tightly, opened their eyes as wide as possible, and could not utter a word.

If the mountain of corpses was just an excitement at first sight, then what they saw happening on the top of the mountain made them feel cold all over.

On the pile of corpses, a huge "Shadow Walker" that was three meters tall when sitting was no longer invisible. It was constantly using its thin arms like dry branches to scoop up a piece of corpse and put it into the basin-sized hole in the head, making a disgusting chewing sound.

It was as if the meal was completed. The big "Shadow Walker"'s big belly with bulging blue veins, which was inconsistent with his thin limbs, kept squirming. The pain made the "Shadow Walker" tilt his head back and scream silently. Then the big belly squirmed rapidly, and a "fetus" wrapped in amniotic fluid was discharged from the body with blood and fell to the ground.

This seemed like some kind of signal. In the open space hidden in the shadows around the mountain of corpses, "Shadow Walkers" appeared one after another, forming a circle around the mother "Shadow Walker" on the mountain of corpses and kneeling on the ground. Their pale and thin arms stretched towards the sky, and the deep black hole in their heads squirmed, as if giving some kind of rhythmic call.

The huge body of "Shadow Walker" gave birth to a new "Shadow Walker".

Chapter 346: Rewards for catching up, punishments for not catching up

Once life is created, it will not die easily.

This is not a threat that can be compared with a few invisible monsters.

Therefore, when seeing the birth process of the "Shadow Walker" mother, the first thought that came to Bai Rui's mind was.

Things are getting serious.

The monster is giving birth.

In other words, "Shadow Walker" is no longer a biological weapon, but a new race, a new life.

A new species created by humans, but that feeds on humans.

Damn it, Bai Rui couldn’t believe what would happen to humans if such a group of monsters came to the ground.

These guys have extremely smart hunting skills, and there is no equipment on the ground that can detect them.

Humanity’s political leaders and military commanders will be killed first, followed by an indiscriminate massacre of terrified citizens and confused soldiers.

The "Shadow Walkers" with the ability to reproduce are no longer some kind of living weapons. They are another kind of creature that can compete with humans for hegemony over the material world.

This will be a catastrophe.

An unparalleled catastrophe.

Damn biotechnology, it created such a monster, and now it's completely out of control.

And I have to clean up their mess for them.

Such biological populations cannot survive in this world, and Bai Rui is the first one who will not allow it.

The world is a pure white painting that she is about to paint, and she will not allow another accident to disturb it.

"V, we retreat..."

Jumping down from here would obviously lead to a dead end, so they had to find another way.

"I agree..."

V swallowed and agreed to Bai Rui's plan without hesitation.

Looking at the group of "Shadow Walkers" below who were gathered in a circle as if they were holding some kind of primitive religious ritual, V was unsure.

......

Bai Rui and the other person went back to the original route, which was the route that AI had pointed out to them from the fire escape to the ground floor.

The two men walked forward nervously, stopping to observe any movement.

But surprisingly, nothing unexpected happened this time.

The two successfully reached the 50th floor.

Did I blame AI wrongly?

Bai Rui was obviously a little surprised that he didn't encounter any danger.

Logically speaking, if it was an AI rebellion, it should have activated the base's self-destruction program and shouldn't have tried every means to stop me. Why did it allow me to reach the 50th floor?

With such doubts in mind, the two walked in the dimly lit corridor. There was silence along the way, with only the sound of their light footsteps.

In this deserted place deep underground, with only cold metal walls around, the atmosphere was already depressing and gloomy, not to mention that there were more than a hundred "Shadow Walkers" on the same level with them, feeding on the pile of corpses.

To be honest, if V hadn't been around, Bai Rui would have been cold all over even if he didn't run away with the bucket.

Saving the world seems to be a lot harder than you think.

However, there were no accidents along the way, and the two successfully reached the AI ​​central hall of the base.

In the empty room, the cold light illuminates the AI ​​data center in the middle that stands like a pillar to the ceiling. Countless signals flash behind the transparent glass, and dense cables penetrate into the ceiling like willow branches.

The core of the entire base is here.

"Finally, we're here."

V looked at the manual control console under the AI ​​column and breathed a visibly relieved sigh.

To be honest, when she first arrived, she didn't imagine the mission would be so difficult.

"V, I leave it to you. I'll cover you."

Staring at the AI ​​pillar vigilantly, Bai Rui clenched the gun in his hand.

She still doesn't quite trust this AI.

"The artificial operating system is activated."