Number of words: 3053Update time: 2012-12-10 09: 37: 56
After he finished reading the diary, he quickly went through the other doc.u.ments in the cabinet. He even ripped the locks on the other filing cabinets nearby. In a moment, seven or eight metal cabinets had exposed the Cossack"s secrets to Zero. The military base happened to be on the day of the catastrophe. The meteor shower came very suddenly, and the people in the base were completely unprepared, so they didn"t move these cla.s.sified doc.u.ments. Otherwise, they wouldn"t have gotten lucky now.
However, Zero was very strange. Even they could break in here. Why did they not take these important doc.u.ments with them that day? Now, however, he had no time to bother with them. He mobilized all of his computing power, memorizing and storing all the files in his mind at an inhuman speed.
There were no more fragments of Dr. Halson in the material, not even a mention of the plan. Even the file records that Willowström had been working on were full of references to it. From the records, it can be seen that Willost named it a pioneer, representing a new form of life. In the arcane jargon, it is not hard to see that the pioneer is not at all like the natural life of the earth, but more like a biological machine. With an almost perfect setup, if all of the ideas that Willost had mentioned were realized, the pioneer did indeed have the power to rival a G.o.d.
All the research projects in the underground base of the Cossack Empire were related to the construction of pioneers. As mentioned in the journal of one of the bases found by Zero, the pioneers had already proliferated into their basic form before the catastrophe. As long as it matures and implants a variety of power plug-ins, it would be able to meet the most basic requirements for awakening. When the pioneer completed the construction of the base, it was secretly transported out of the Cossack military base. Originally, the base was going to be invested in another project. However, the arrival of the great catastrophe forever froze the base in the middle of a day that happened fifty years ago.
Where the pioneer went was not mentioned in the records. It could be imagined that there should be more than one base for this kind of secret research. Additionally, according to the records, the power of the pioneers had to be upgraded, maintained, and so on. The conditions were not something that could be found in a base like the Cossacks. Therefore, a larger and better base should exist elsewhere, and it is not known whether it has been damaged or not.
After reading through this information, Zero can roughly understand what kind of existence a pioneer is. Rather than calling it a new life, it would be more appropriate to call it a biological weapon created specifically for combat. Judging from the information regarding the weapon collocation, power plug-ins, and other random elements, a pioneer was not created for the benefit of humanity in any case. It was more like a creation for destruction, and the reason why Willost called it a new life was no doubt that the doctor had placed his own work in an unrealistic fantasy.
This level of research was clearly not something that Dr. Willost could support. Whether it was the research budget or the various resources needed for the experiments, without the support of the country, neither individuals nor chaeurs could support such research projects. For those in power in the country, the new life forms were more likely to be used for the battlefield, just like nuclear weapons were for the country.
But from now on, the pioneer"s plan would be to run aground. Perhaps the precursor was still sleeping somewhere in the dark.
But one day, it would awaken!
Suddenly, a thought appeared in Zero"s mind.
Zero shook his head and threw those words out of his mind. It was not his place to worry about such things. From the current situation, it was likely that the vanguard team that Carío had led into the Cossacks" base all those years ago had come for the information of the pioneers. If such a biological weapon was given to Asgard, even if it only contained basic data, their technology might be enough to nurture a complete version of the pioneer to shake up the Dark Council and even gain the position of the continent"s overlord.
On the surface, this task was to obtain the experimental diary, but in essence, it was still directed towards the pioneers. When Zero thought of this possibility, his face immediately turned cold. The turbulent times were an era where the strong preyed on the weak. It was not shameful for the weak to use the strong to their advantage, but Zero did not wish for Asgard to obtain the information of the pioneers. He could imagine that when the pioneers were able to ma.s.s produce, it would be a disaster for all living beings.
He found all the information in the metal cabinets and stacked them together. Finally, he took out a time-lapse bomb from his portable device. After setting the bomb at zero speed for five seconds, the speed of the explosion of the fifth step caused Zero to leave afterimages. Within two seconds, it had already reached the exit. Without pausing for a moment, he dashed towards the exit. However, the moment he stepped out of the door, the broken strands of hair on his helmet suddenly floated up!
An incomparable sense of danger fiercely struck Zero"s chest like a sledgehammer, causing its heart to heavily beat. Without thinking, he crossed his arms in front of his head and chest. Just as he made this defensive motion, a violent impact immediately struck his arms. The huge force pushed both of his hands backwards, pressing heavily on his chest. He groaned and spat out a cloud of blood mist. His entire body flew backward in an instant.
Zero was sent flying and the bomb in the archive instantly detonated. A loud m.u.f.fled sound could be heard from inside the archive. A circular shockwave that could be seen with the naked eye burst out from the door, and the walls of the archive began to bulge outwards. Then the orange flame burst out of the door, illuminating a whisker as thick as a bucket. On the surface of the whiskers, countless granules were bulging, each of them the size of a fist. There was a faint light blue halo coming out from the inside of the grain. Each meatball was a bioenergy reservoir and also a point of exertion. It was just a single whisker, but it was already filled with hundreds, if not thousands of these particles. In other words, it had just withstood a huge impact from thousands of nodes.
He flew out, fell, and fell into the cold sewage. The terrifying impact caused his helmet to shatter from the impact, and fine cracks started to appear on the bones of his arms. Furthermore, the cracks were still expanding. The huge force of almost ten tons caused Zero to directly faint. He slowly sank into the water, closing his eyes tightly.
Just as he was about to touch the ground, Zero suddenly opened his eyes. His right eye spewed out a strong golden flame, and even the water surface glowed brightly with the golden light of his right eye. A very faint, yet already possessed some kind of majestic aura appearing on Zero"s body. At the same time, Zero, who had instantly entered berserk mode, bounced up from the water. With a simple stride, he crossed a distance of nearly ten meters. He landed on the left wall and used both his hands and feet to run away like a primordial beast. He ran on the vertical wall at a G.o.dlike speed, disappearing into the distance in the blink of an eye.
The light of the explosion in the archives was fading, and the records of the pioneers had been wiped out, except for a diary he"d put in his travel gear. In the diary, the data about the pioneer was also torn apart. All that was left was just a few sentimental words from Dr. Willost. These things were insignificant.
However, after the fire in the archive was extinguished, an invisible wave swiftly swept through every corner of the base. The entire base was shaking at a frequency that was difficult for the naked eye to detect. Weak waves were stirred in the otherwise calm water while the strange fish that were swimming around stopped all their movements. After the shock wave disappeared, the strange fish scrambled to escape. They entered all sorts of hidden places and lost their fierce auras. They could only tremble in the darkness.
The strange fishes were scared, because from the undulations, they could clearly read the fury of their mother!
After pa.s.sing through a 90 degree bend, his agility had increased to the seventh stage, causing ripples to appear as he ran. The cone shaped energy waves pierced through the air, reducing friction and resistance to zero and causing zero"s speed to break through the speed of sound. Each time he pa.s.sed a place, there was a burst of sound. Then, the air currents. .h.i.t the water in the wall and caused some air vibrations. Only after a long time did it calm down.
If nothing unexpected happened, those thick tentacles should belong to the Nerubian Lord. Eva had said that this enormous creature resided in a six-storey underground base. And right now, the 5th level base has become a playground for the descendants of the Nerubian Lords. Clearly, the 5th level base has been remodeled by the Lords, and it is precisely because of this tyrannical existence that the Human-Faced Moths can"t leave their nest to change their faces and fight with the G.o.ddess of vengeance for territory.
Now, for some reason, it had angered the Nerubian Lord, causing it to suddenly attack nothing.
In just a few seconds, Zero was already far away from the archive. But then there was a series of explosions behind him, and as he looked back, he saw a few fleshy whiskers poking out of the pa.s.sage behind him, the nearby testing room, and the ventilation ducts on the ceiling. There were over a thousand points of exertion on each of the tendrils, and they formed the special tissue of the Lord of the Nerubian"s muscles. With this instantaneous burst of strength, he used dozens of tons of force to tear any obstacle in front of these tendrils.
All the bones in Zero"s body felt like they were splitting. Just now, when he blocked the attack of one of the tentacles, he almost broke his arm bones and ribs. If it wasn"t for his body being strengthened by a level 2 defense, an ordinary person"s body would have already been shaken to death. Now, however, the strength of the tendrils had increased from one to three, and the impact had tripled. With a strength of at least 30 tons and the addition of the momentum from his sprint, his strength would inevitably only be higher than normal.
An impact of more than 30 tons of force was not something that Zero"s body could handle. Zero quickly calculated in his mind. If he were to be hit by this, all his bones and organs would definitely shatter and die!
With a grunt, he sped up his sprint along the vertical wall. However, at this moment, a loud explosion occurred in front of them. A thick line smashed out from the left wall and swept towards the wall that was running at zero speed. It then swept towards the direction of zero. Along the way, countless wiring boards and cables burst out and were swept with a thousand average speed!