Honkai, why do you only play high-end games?

Because in the final analysis, Anna always felt that it was because of her own mistake that Lin Wei fell into danger again.

In other words, she was even somewhat grateful for Lin Wei's reservation, because it allowed him to hold on until she arrived to support him.

Otherwise, she would really regret it for the rest of her life!

"Yeah, yeah, I'm a big liar, the kind that is unforgivable..."

Lin Wei responded helplessly to Anna's repeated "liar", then looked at her crying and laughing, and comforted her with some pity and guilt,

"Okay, okay, I'm fine, right?"

"Wow...you damn liar...tell me, how much else are you hiding from me?"

Anna felt that her question seemed a little too ambiguous, but she didn't want to care about that now. She just wanted to be willful.

It is normal for Miss Shaniyat, who grew up in an ivory tower, to have a willful side to her character.

"Let me think... there are so many..."

Lin Wei knew that Anna was throwing a tantrum at him because she didn't want to make their relationship awkward, and he didn't want to offend Anna, so he pretended to be silent and said,

"Let me think about where to start..."

"You! ...If you want to say something, just say it. If you don't want to say it, I won't bother to pay attention to you!"

Seeing Lin Wei's shameless look, Anna was furious. She glared at him and took the initiative to change the subject.

"This is not the place to talk, let's go!"

After saying this, he walked away from Lin Wei, hesitated for a while, and then whispered,

"I know we've only known each other for a short time, and you don't trust me... That's normal, I understand... You don't have to explain anything to me..."

The voice was a little melancholy and slightly aggrieved.

"Anna is so beautiful, kind, and dedicated. She has tried her best to protect me so many times. If you still say I don't trust you after all this, then you are really underestimating me, Lin Wei!"

Lin Wei walked to the pile of rotten meat, picked up the blade that Anna had just discarded, wiped it clean without any disgust, then walked back to Anna, stuffed it back into her hand, and explained seriously.

Anna felt a little happy when she heard this.

"Now is not the right time. When there is a suitable opportunity in the future, I will give you a detailed introduction to everything you want to know, okay?"

Lin Wei was also helpless. Anna was really too enthusiastic. As he had just said, if he didn't respond to this, would he still be worthy of being called a human being?

"Then I want to know one thing first, and you must answer it seriously."

Anna turned around, looked into Lin Wei's eyes, and pointed at the hiking stick he was holding.

"What the hell is it?"

She had long felt that something was amiss with the cane. How could a hacker's technology possibly harm her? And the assassin over there, whose weapon had been nearly cut in half, was silent evidence.

"She?"

Lin Wei thought about it and said sincerely,

"She is the foundation of my life. It is only with her help that I can live peacefully until now..."

What kind of answer is this?

Anna looked at Lin Wei with dissatisfaction, thinking that he was being perfunctory; but his expression did not seem fake, and if she continued to question him, it would seem that she was being a little too much.

"This is a story that can't be told in a day or a night. It starts from the first time I escaped from the Collapse. It's not just a 'thing'."

Thinking of that slap and that hug, Lin Wei felt that the simple words "Twelfth Key of God" were not enough to summarize his Pandora.

Anna looked at Lin Wei's sighing and nostalgic expression and stopped forcing him, thinking that he might really have something to hide.

"Let's go! We've been delayed for a long time."

This floor had been explored and even vandalized throughout; the only thing left that hadn't been explored was the large room in the middle that seemed to be the control center.

And that is the direction the life detector has been pointing.

Anna held the weapon in both hands, ready for battle.

Chapter 57: The Bound Girl

Walking out of the room, Lin Wei saw more than ten dead bodies lying in a mess in this narrow corridor. They were the type with hands turned into sharp blades and extremely agile movements. In such a narrow corridor with no room to move, they had the home advantage.

Lin Wei glanced at Anna who was walking in front, and thought that the battle just now must have been extremely fierce.

Anna also felt the gaze from behind, and felt a little uncomfortable. With a slightly red cheek, she turned back and gave him a warning look.

What are you peeking at!

"A brilliant double kill trap. We'll use a door to separate you and me, and then use the terrain to surround and kill you despite your exceptional combat power."

Lin Wei didn't want to embarrass Anna anymore, so he skipped the part related to himself. Then he used his cane to turn over the bodies of several assassins and briefly inspected them.

"I just don't know if he underestimated our strength, or if he himself was not strong enough, so he could only use this much power in the end?"

"I underestimated you for sure!"

Lin Wei's focus was not on her, which made Anna feel a little disappointed, and she then complained silently in her heart.

This guy was sick the whole way and never took any action. It's normal to misjudge him!

In fact, after calming down, Anna was actually very accepting of the fact that Lin Wei could defeat a high-level assassin head-on.

After all, those who have a high resistance to Honkai energy and can walk freely in a high concentration of Honkai energy are a very small number of lucky ones. They all have some unique features to a certain extent - for Anna, who is an elite and direct descendant of destiny, this can even be regarded as common sense.

However, the survivors she had seen and rescued at the collapse site before all looked like frightened birds, and few of them could even maintain the most basic calmness; over time, she had become accustomed to not having any expectations of ordinary people living in the ordinary world.

Lin Wei was the first person who surprised her, and these surprises kept coming one after another.

Her intuition told her that Lin Wei was hiding other secrets, which made her want to find out more; if this guy didn't want to say it, there was nothing she could do.

The closer they got to the closed door, the more alert Anna became.

He gestured to Lin Wei to step back, then took a deep breath and pushed the door open silently. With a slight vibration - nothing happened.

Anna had already made various plans for assassins, mechas, and even Honkai beasts hiding behind the door, but the strange silence inside the door caught her off guard as she was always ready for a big battle.

The lights inside the door were bright, and on both sides of the wall there was a row of culture tanks neatly arranged and extending forward, with more than ten of each.

The inside seemed to have suffered severe damage, with all the tanks shattered, not a single one left; reinforced glass fragments were scattered everywhere; the walls and the ground were splashed and covered with green translucent liquid, even flowing all the way to the door, making Anna raise her foot to move away in disgust.

This place is not big, and you can see at a glance that the broken culture tanks are all empty. There is no object that should be in them. Only the green liquid still remains at the bottom, proclaiming that it has been used.

This unexpected scene surprised Anna so much that she couldn't help but check the life detection device again. The direction it pointed to was here. After hesitating for a while, she stepped into the mess, and Lin Wei followed closely behind.

There is an operating table in front of each tank. At this moment, all the operating tables have been paralyzed. They have been caught in the disaster and are covered with glass fragments. From time to time, they burst out with sparks of fire, accompanied by light smoke with a burnt smell.

"What happened here? Why is it so badly damaged?"

Anna moved forward cautiously, feeling very confused.

"Could it be that something has broken out here as well?"

If this is true, she doesn't know whether she should be sad or happy.

"Those assassins you just eliminated must have crawled out of these jars. It's not surprising when facing a powerful enemy."

Lin Wei was not surprised by this. He pointed inside and then outside the door.

He had just clearly seen several red lines on the bodies of those dead soldiers - they were incomplete stigmata, mixed with the dense purple lines on their bodies, and looked inconspicuous. But if you look carefully, you can still distinguish them easily.

The loser, or rather, the victim, of the Stigmata Project. So tragic.

What's even more tragic is that the vast majority of people don't even qualify to be victims...

Is that girl one of them?

Shaking off the thoughts in his head, Lin Wei continued,

"This base is only this big. How many people can it hold? Now that we've effectively wiped out hundreds of its soldiers, how many troops are left? I'm afraid not many. After all, this isn't a true ant nest; it can't be truly endless."

Anna felt sad when she heard this.

At the end of the room was a set of stairs, which, contrary to the norm, did not extend deeper into the ground, but instead extended upwards.

Anna and Lin Wei looked at each other. Is there something else going on?

When I got closer and took a look, I saw that the stairs were very short and went straight up, without the twists and turns I had imagined. I could see the end at a glance.

Lin Wei gave Anna a slight signal, and she climbed the stairs without hesitation, rushing forward at top speed, ready to break through any possible obstacles. Unfortunately, nothing happened.

"This is?"

Lin Wei, who was following far behind, heard Anna's incredible scream from above, and no other sound.

What happened?

Suspicious in his heart, Lin Wei quickened his pace and climbed up quickly. The scene in front of him first startled him, and then horrified him.

This is a somewhat dim and cramped room. All the light comes from the densely packed and flashing signal lights all around. Countless unknown lines connect these red and green signal lights, densely and crisscrossed, spreading and stretching like a spider web, extending from every corner of the room to the very center, weaving into a huge cocoon, tightly binding a "girl" there, seemingly lying down, unable to sit or lie down.

"What the hell is this?"

Anna got goosebumps, and then she couldn't help but draw her knife and chop at the "spider web" beside her. Several thick lines broke with a sound, and the signal lights connected in series on them also went out. They fell to the ground and dragged towards the roots on both sides. The elasticity was unexpectedly good.

Lin Wei saw the girl who was originally "tied up" quietly, and suddenly began to twitch silently in pain.

Anna also saw this and did not dare to act rashly. The direction pointed by the life detector was exactly the direction of the "cocoon".

She is alive!

"Neural networks..."

Anna was not stupid and did not plan to rush to rescue people.

She had already figured out what this strange spider web was from the feel of the blade cutting it and the reaction of the "girl" - Lin Wei had told her many times that this base was controlled by a biomass neural network, so it was not difficult to determine.

Therefore, that "girl" can only be an enemy!

But why does she look so pitiful? It's completely different from what I imagined!

"Aren't queen bees and queen ants all like that? They sound nice, but they're just egg-laying machines deep in the nest, unable to move. Without the protection of their 'soldier ants' and 'worker ants', they're at the mercy of any enemy who gets close enough."

Lin Wei seemed to have guessed her thoughts, and her tone was a little emotional.

"The one who's been against us all this time is this guy who's completely powerless to fight back... So, are you disappointed?"

Chapter 58: The "Invader" and the Mechanical Girl

Disappointed? Maybe...

The scene before her was completely different from anything Anna had ever imagined. She had thought it would be an adventure story, like the many adventure stories she had read since childhood - the hero and his companions overcame all kinds of difficulties and dangers, reached the depths of the den of evil, and defeated the culprit who orchestrated everything;

Then I can step on it hard and ask him why he does this, why he desecrates life and destroys humanity?

But now, all the stories are almost exactly the same as expected. They have overcome many difficulties and made new friends. However, when they reach the end, what appears before them is just a "tool" who is also helpless.

There is no answer she wants here...

Lin Wei patted Anna's back comfortingly, then walked past her again and walked in front. He raised his cane to push aside the dense "spider silk" in front of him, and cleared a path for himself like cutting through the waves, and slowly walked towards the "cocoon" in the center.

Anna came to her senses and hurried to follow. She had to get closer and see it with her own eyes before she would give up.

The journey was uneventful, and those "spider silks" hadn't turned into any strangulation traps. Lin Wei had anticipated this and wasn't worried at all, because they didn't have that ability.

They are just exposed biomass nerves, with the sole function of transmitting bioelectricity and neurotransmitters.

Lin Wei walked and looked, with even some admiration in his eyes. This was really a wonderful design full of imagination.

Countless neural tissues are woven into a network here. The tens of thousands of red, green and yellow signal lights flashing in series on the lines are like signal encoders, converting complex and subtle bioelectric signals into simple binary codes, which are then input into the "central processing unit" for analysis and decision-making, thus forming an extremely complex, biomass, large-scale computer.

"If you imagine this entire base as a complete human body, this is the brain."

Lin Wei was talking to himself, and Anna's scalp was tingling when she heard it behind him. The creepy picture of "I am walking in the body of some terrible monster" immediately appeared in her mind. She couldn't help but shiver and moved closer to Lin Wei.

Lin Wei has basically understood the operating principles here. This huge biological computer monitors and controls everything in this base, including the constructs and death squads.

"But doing so would obviously be much more expensive, and not necessarily more efficient. So why would they bother?"

Lin Wei narrowed his eyes and looked at the loosely woven "cocoon" not far away.

Unless its design purpose is to be used as a key to protect itself from erosion from the beginning.

This is not difficult to understand. Since it has made its existence clear, it is only natural that people would make targeted arrangements for it.

However, even if 99% of the information network is replaced by the biomass network, the core "central processing unit" cannot be replaced by the human brain in any way due to the huge amount of computing power it can handle. The core part must still be a computer with excellent performance.