Number of Words: 3129 Update Time: 2012-12-09 20: 17: 00
Zero advanced on the cold water, the sewage had reached his waist, creating a huge resistance to his advance. If it weren"t for Günabel"s words, a physically fit Zero could use the speed provided by a Rank 5 Agility to run at the point of impact using the vertical wall. But now, regardless of whether it was strength or strength, all he could do was to act like a normal person and swim across the water. Moreover, he needed to consume a certain amount of energy to maintain his body temperature in order to avoid the cold sewage from numbing his limbs.
Of course, this consumption was negligible to anyone of the fifth step. However, Zero had always been cautious. He knew that even if he were to use up less than a third of his strength, it would still be a waste. They would grow like s...o...b..a.l.l.s, perhaps turning into a straw that would overwhelm you at a moment you didn"t expect.
As he walked, Zero suddenly stopped and followed him silently to the nearby wall before climbing up like a gecko. Zero didn"t have a sucker, but his hands and feet were exerting a tremendous amount of force. Although he had only grasped the power of a rank 2 Magus, it was enough for Zero to dig holes in the metal wall for him to grab onto tightly. Using this method, it didn"t take long for Zero to reach a distance close to ten meters from the surface of the water.
At this time, the sound of water splas.h.i.+ng could be heard from the direction of the pa.s.sage. Not long after, a strange fish slowly swam over. Clearly, this strange fish didn"t set any traps for Feng Monarch and the others. Instead, it floated up from the surface of the water, exposing its shark-like fins. The body of the monster fish was a beautiful streamlined shape, allowing it to move quickly through the water.
The dense white teeth that came out of his mouth were very sharp. If one was bitten by it, even metal would be bitten off. Other creatures" bodies were nothing to it. Even so, the descendants of the Nerubian Lord were just one of a myriad of ferocious mutated fish. In the polluted Endless Sea, there were countless creatures that were even scarier than strange fish.
Zero gathered his thoughts and returned to the dark base. Right now, the strange fish"s head was looking around, but it was obviously useless. It then sunk back into the water like a submarine. As the water surface started to rise, a small white bubble appeared, marking the movement of the fish. After that, Zero gently climbed down from the wall. Concealment and related actions had consumed another 1.5 percent of his energy.
It wasn"t that he couldn"t kill the strange fish, but that would only attract more enemies. Zero could not remember that the a.s.sessment mission involved the extermination of a school of fish, so he focused on the recovery of the experimental diary. Moreover, the number of strange fish was not something a single person could handle. At least, not now.
Zero continued forward, floating in the tunnel like a ghost. When he encountered a shoal of fish, sometimes he would climb the wall, sometimes he would hide in the ventilation ducts of nearby buildings, and sometimes he would even lie flat on his stomach underwater, not more than 10 centimeters away from the monster fis.h.!.+ Just like this, after more than two hours of groping, Zero finally arrived at the mission location.
Looking at the sign at the door with the words "Archive Office" on it, Zero"s heart felt heavier and heavier. The task had already reached the end stage, but Zero believed that this was just the beginning. He took the experimental diary, left the five layers of the base, and walked out of the Cossack Academy. There was a huge distance between them, so far that any accident could happen. As for the new era, the thing that they lacked the least was accidents!
He gently pushed the door with his hands. The door only opened up a crack, but it stopped there. The door was locked, but there was no problem. He fumbled with the door with both hands for the best point of action. A moment later, Zero made its decision. He gave the door a light shake, and the second power pa.s.sed through the door and into the lock behind it.
It wasn"t too powerful, just enough to break the lock. With a gentle push, the lock fell into the water with a splash. After a moment of silence, he quietly pushed open the door. Inside the helmet, he could see the full view of the archive through the infrared mode. This was a huge archive with an area of five hundred square meters. There were many computers in the archive, and most of the base"s information was stored in them.
However, on the west wall of the archives, there was a whole row of metal cabinets that served as storage areas for paper-based files. The paper was made of waterproof paper, and it was resistant to high temperatures. Plant fibers were added into the paper, making it tougher and harder to tear. It could allow the files recorded on it to exist for hundreds of years without fear of being damaged by unintentional external forces. Each of the metal cabinets had a different pa.s.sword lock, which was powered by a pocket-sized battery. Other than the correct pa.s.sword and the fingerprints of a few people, there was no other way to open it. If the lock was unlocked violently, a miniature bomb in the lock would be triggered.
Although the bomb was not powerful, it was powerful enough to kill anyone close to the metal cabinet and destroy all the files inside.
The archives on the fifth floor held the most confidential items of the Cossack Academy!
According to the instructions on the data, the required experimental diaries were stored in filing cabinet five. Perhaps in the old days, such a combination would have been difficult for many people. However, in the new era it was difficult for them to represent the Adepts that were evolving in the direction of the h.o.m.o Evolutis. The setting of the pa.s.sword was indeed very troublesome, but in general, as long as it was an electronic device, it would be affected by the energy. No matter how complicated and precise the electronic equipment was, it was not an exception. Otherwise, when the radiation clouds enveloped the sky, no organization would be willing to build an aircraft despite the fact that they were in the process of manufacturing the technology. The reason is that the energy activity in the radioactive cloud interferes with the operation of the instrument, and now, all Zero has to do is release its biological energy to make the lock appear to be virtual.
However, when Zero found the fifth filing cabinet, he suddenly thought of a problem. If the pa.s.sword had never been unlocked, how would the publisher of this task know that the experimental diary was in this numbered filing cabinet?
This question was like a domino effect, causing Zero to have a series of questions. At the same time, Zero could faintly feel that the quest itself had a strange flavor.
The sudden sound of water outside the archive interrupted Zero"s thoughts. He took a deep breath and then still pressed his hand to the electronic lock. No matter how many doubts he had, now was not the time and place to think about it. The only thing Zero could do was to retrieve the experimental diary as soon as possible and bring the team back to the surface.
Wisps of heat seeped from the tips of his fingers into the electronic lock, and the heat was as much biological energy as anything else. In the training of the new barracks, even though he was born in the wilderness, he was still able to freely control his own energy. As soon as the energy entered the lock, it interfered with the electronic circuit of the lock. The fluorescent light that was constantly emitting out of the lock started to throb. After flas.h.i.+ng for a few seconds, a soft "pa" sound came from the inside of the lock. However, the electronic circuit was burned down.
He reached out his hand to press down on the lock, then pulled down hard, ripping the matchbox sized electronic lock off the metal box. Once the combination was off, it was easy to open the filing cabinet and find the thin experimental diary on the file number displayed. The diary was an ordinary notepad, only about twenty pages long. On the lower right side of the black leather cover was a label.
On the label was a line of English, with the words "Willost" written on it. This was a personal name. It should be the director of an experiment project in the underground base. Otherwise, his experimental diary wouldn"t have been so meticulously stored in an encrypted file cabinet.
A notepad, representing the important history of a certain period of time in the old era. Regardless of whether it was out of curiosity or some other reason, when Zero came back to his senses, he found that he had already opened the cover of the diary. When Zero"s gaze fell on the t.i.tle page under the cover, his gaze could no longer leave it.
Astonis.h.i.+ngly, on the white t.i.tle page, there was a short line: HALSON, MY FRIEND. I will definitely surpa.s.s you!
Such a simple line of encouragement had a great meaning to zero. What was meaningful was not the sentence, but the name of a person within it.
Halson!
This was the name that appeared on the hibernation warehouse where Zerg was. After almost three years, it appeared very far away from Z7 and was reflected in Zergs eyes.
Unknowingly, Zero"s breathing had become slightly heavier. He didn"t have time to think about it too carefully and immediately opened the diary. The notes in the diary were simple, with only one or two scattered sentences. But at the end of the diary, there was more and more content, and more and more content.
He quickly captured the contents of the diary in his eyes and stored them in his mind so that he could rephrase them later. But now, he could only look on helplessly. When he turned to the last page of the diary, the speed of Zero"s reading slowed down, almost reading out the contents one word at a time.
"March 19, this is a day I will never forget. The effort that I put in for nearly twenty years has finally paid off. So that"s what Halson and the others call their plan to become the G.o.d. " Pausing for a moment, he clearly felt that this so-called plan to build a G.o.d had something to do with him. "The so-called G.o.d is just a biological weapon created by the very substance of the nucleus on the opposite side. The G.o.d"s only role is to fight against the sin that destroyed the Atlantean civilization. It was hard to imagine that Halson and his group actually found the Divine Weapon and tried to create a new Divine Weapon. But Halson, my dear friend, don"t be proud. I have created it, too, and it is no less than your artificial G.o.d. In addition, artificial G.o.ds were limited to their true forms, and their potential for growth was limited. But it"s different, at least so far, and I don"t know where the end of its evolution lies. It will surpa.s.s Atlantis" G.o.ds, and even surpa.s.s the original sin, becoming the life at the very top of this planet! "
This was the end of the journal. The contents of this page were even more important than any previous records. Thus, Zero could probably understand the purpose of the previous experiments that involved biological modification, genetic evolution, and so on.
The military base of the Cossack was a tool to conceal the ident.i.ty of the enemy. In this underground base, what they were working on was the creation of a weapon that could rival or even surpa.s.s the life of a G.o.d!