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Chapter 366 The Knife Didn't Deceive Me
Blade had arrived outside the dome at some point. He stood at the edge of the hole, his gaze sweeping over the sleeping cryo-chambers. He remained silent for a long time before speaking.
Xu Si turned to look at him.
"One of the top-secret projects launched by the government after the fall of the Americas," he continued.
He spoke very slowly, as if recalling a past event he didn't want to remember.
"The military is the main participant in this project. The selection criteria are: 18 to 25 years old, in good health, and no history of hereditary diseases. Voluntary application is required. After seven rounds of screening, the final selected candidates sign a confidentiality agreement and enter 'seed banks' established in various locations for cryopreservation and hibernation."
Tashan scratched his head: "Isn't this just hibernation?"
"Yes and no." Blade finally shifted his gaze to the neatly arranged hulls deep within the dome.
"Hibernation is for waiting, waiting for the end of the world. But the time-sealing plan is different—it's to prevent the extinction of the human system."
He paused, a hint of bitterness in his voice.
"If the apocalypse is truly irreversible, if they are indeed the last of humanity... then their mission is to be awakened at the right time and rebuild civilization."
A long silence and awe filled the dome; it turned out that science fiction was indeed real.
Jiang Li leaned against the edge of the hole, her gaze falling on the face of the girl in the nearest cryogenic chamber—early twenties, short hair, youthful eyes and brows, like a freshman in college.
She suddenly remembered herself before the apocalypse.
"So here..." Su Su began, her voice still cold, but with a slight, almost imperceptible tremor.
"It should be one of the seed banks," Blade replied.
"I don't know exactly how many there were; the selection process was highly confidential at the time."
"Each seed bank is equipped with an independent life support system, energy system, and material reserves. In theory, it can operate automatically for a hundred years even without maintenance."
a hundred years.
Thirty thousand lives.
Xu Si frowned slightly.
Xu Si withdrew his gaze and took a step back from the cryogenic chamber.
Thirty thousand sleeping lives—this number is too heavy, so heavy that even he had to remain silent in the face of it.
"Let's go," he said briefly.
"They...they just left like that? These people..." Tashan was stunned for a moment.
"You can't take it with you." Blade's voice was calm, almost indifferent.
"Let alone 30,000, we can't take even 300 with us," he continued.
"But if we destroy this place, won't those monsters come attracted by the smell?" Tashan continued.
Xu Si stopped in his tracks. Although he did not want to disturb this place, he also did not want the strange thing to disturb it.
"Then you fix it! I'll think of something!"
"But my repairs are only temporary; they can't be made permanent!" Tashan said, somewhat frustrated.
If they leave, this place will inevitably suffer strange destruction.
Perhaps it's not just this one dome that will suffer, nor just these three hundred people.
What Tashan wants to do now is to restore the dome to its original state.
Restoring things to their original state is quite simple with Tashan's abilities.
However, he couldn't guarantee how long the 'petrification' would last.
Secondly, it remains to be seen whether the restored dome can still conceal human presence.
……
"Brother Dao, Captain Fu sent me to warn you! The danger is escalating!"
Suddenly, Xiao Luo's shared spiritual senses echoed in Xu Si's mind.
It must be that the presence of these three hundred people gave them away.
Are these strange things so sensitive?
The dome has only been open for a short time, and these eerie things have already sensed it.
Xu Si immediately opened the star screen.
"System, purify the human presence in this area!"
Purification Points: -1000, Remaining Purification Points: 142670
[Time Limit: 30 minutes]
Now, we have no choice but to repair this dome.
They have to take full responsibility for the things they do.
"What's wrong?" Having fought alongside Xu Si for so long, Ta Shan and Su Su immediately realized that something was amiss.
Jiang Li also prepared for battle.
"Something's strange!" Xu Si said briefly, while the Star Vein had already extended beyond the valley, searching for any possible anomalies.
Blade reacted a beat slower, mainly because its attention was drawn to the star screen released by Xu Si.
Misu and the others also went on high alert almost simultaneously, but they kept a little distance from Xu Si, which was an instinctive reaction.
……
"Here it comes," Xu Si said briefly, his eyes looking into the void.
This guy actually flew here.
[Level 5 Weird Detection: Venomous Jellyfish]
【Characteristics: Spatial folds, physical contamination, tentacles strangulation, phase travel】
The moment Xu Si finished speaking, everyone felt an invisible pressure descend from the sky.
Tashan looked up, his pupils suddenly contracting.
In mid-air, a colossal creature was slowly descending. Its body was almost transparent, reflecting tiny rainbows under the blood-red sun, like a giant jellyfish floating in the air.
Countless transparent tentacles hung down from below its body, each as thick as a bucket, with a faint blue light shimmering at the end.
This scene was all too familiar to Tashan; this guy was exactly the same as the [Viphan] he had encountered in the desert.
"Level 5?" Tashan asked Xu Si with some uncertainty.
"Do you still want to advance to Sequence 4? Go and get him!" Xu Si urged.
"Me?" Tashan asked.
Blade, however, doubted that he had misheard.
You want a Sequence 3 to fight against a Sequence 5?
You might as well let me do it.
"Then I'll go!" Tashan's voice was full of excitement and eagerness, without a trace of fear. His eyes lit up instantly.
When something happens, he'll really step up.
Without the slightest hesitation.
Then he laughed.
That smile was unlike any other smile Blade had ever seen—it wasn't resolute, insane, or fearless; it was a pure, almost greedy excitement.
That was an extreme desire for Sequence 4.
"Get out of the way, don't fight here!"
Since Xu Si did this, he naturally couldn't disregard Ta Shan's life or death. With Xing Huan and Yi Yi around, it would be difficult for Ta Shan to get into trouble.
"I know!" Tashan's figure suddenly swelled up.
It wasn't the previous height of ten meters or so, but rather it broke through twenty meters, thirty meters, and forty meters in one go—
Until he could reach out and touch the transparent tentacles hanging down from the Void Jellyfish.
Six thick tentacles stretched out from his back, each one more ferocious than the last, covered with a layer of grayish-white stone patterns.
That's the "Miracle Power" bestowed by [Stone Town] taking effect.
"Get out of here!"
Tashan roared to the sky, and before the Void Jellyfish could react, it grabbed countless tentacles and dragged them toward the gate.
Almost instantly, he felt a searing pain on his skin, as if it were being branded with a hot iron.
Touching the strange tentacles felt like having layers of flesh torn away.
Instead of letting go, he burst into laughter.
Because he sensed the progress of the sequence.
The knife has proven me right.