CH 247

The base is old and small.

Everywhere there are fallen fragments, hanging spider webs, unidentified organic matter, and damaged cameras hanging in the corners, already rusted and yellowed.

A strange and indescribable musty smell blew through the depths of the base, making people uncomfortable.

Lin Wen slowed down, although the base looked long abandoned, there was a pervasive sense of unease.

"No colorful phoenix" is a rare source that does not report danger.

Lin Wen continued to walk forward and quickly discovered that this was a biochemical base, with broken culture dishes everywhere, and the nutrient solution on the ground had dried up into a black, viscous substance. Some indistinguishable creatures lay within, giving the feeling that they could jump up at any moment.

"Observing people's aura" is useless here. As the name suggests, "observing people's aura" is for "observing people," and if it's not a person, there's no need to observe.

Lin Wen turned off the spell and continued to walk forward. The deeper he went into the base, the stranger the surrounding creatures became, but they all tended to develop into long, thin thread-like forms.

After a moment, a steel door blocked the way, with a very conspicuous green writing on it.

Liberate mitochondria!

- Great mentor Lili.

After opening the door, Lin Wen entered a relatively clean environment. The steel here still maintained its cold and stern texture, without all the messy things.

After a moment, Lin Wen encountered another door, on which was written:

Change protein!

- Great mentor Al.

After smashing it open, Lin Wen found himself in a spacious laboratory.

It was over 300 square meters, narrow at the bottom and wide at the top, with invisible natural light coming in, and the lighting was coordinated. The laboratory was spotless, with no bottles or jars.

All around were those metal computer consoles, curtains hung on the walls, and a pile of goods covered with white canvas in the center.

The sense of danger suddenly became clear, coming from under the white cloth.

Lin Wen took a step back and found a metal rod in the laboratory, and suddenly lifted the white cloth.

But only a metal cylinder was revealed, about five meters in diameter and three meters high, with a very smooth surface, and a line of words engraved at the top.

Fusion is the essence of life.

- The soon-to-be-great Kendra.

The middle part of the cylinder had two operating windows, one labeled "inhibitor" and the other labeled "growth agent."

Lin Wen walked around the cylinder and found a dead person on the other side, the body was dried up, lying on the cylinder, with a large hole in the lower body.

Just as Lin Wen was about to approach, a slight vibration came from under his feet, and the body collapsed, turning into a mass of dried black decay.

It can be hard to make great work when its stolen from "pawread dot com".

The location where he lay revealed an operating window, with the word "destroy" written in bright red above it.

Lin Wen concentrated his mental senses and did not detect any fatal threats.

He took a step forward and saw a notebook in the black decay.

Picking it up, he saw that the notebook was signed by Dr. Ken.

Turning to the first page, he saw the words:

Bugs, bugs are everything!

Lines, lines have an incomparable beauty!

Parasite!

The entire second page was filled with the words: "I am right."

The third page was full of complaints, complaining that no one agreed with his views, and no one could feel his greatness. It was the world's fault, and he decided to prove himself with facts.

The rest of the notebook was filled with professional terms and experimental processes that Lin Wen couldn't understand, until the last page, where the entire notebook ended with the words:

I know I know I was wrong.

But I'm not wrong.

The world is wrong, and the translation of the text has undergone uncontrollable changes. Even I, who stands at the pinnacle of biology, cannot explain this phenomenon. I thought about it all night and dismissed everyone in the base.

Perhaps it's time to end it.

I love you, Lin.

But you don't love me, or my nematode.

Lin Wen closed the notebook and stuffed it into his pocket.

Confirmed, this is a lunatic.

He didn't care about the lunatic's research, he just wanted to know how to obtain the strange opportunity here.

Another huge vibration came, and the entire base trembled, and a corner of the curtain covering the wall fell down.

Lin Wen looked up and realized that the so-called wall was actually glass.

Behind the glass was a deep green solution, and the laboratory seemed to be underwater.

Lin Wen curiously tore down all the curtains, and then he regretted it.

The entire laboratory seemed to be immersed in a huge culture dish, as if he had come to an underwater sightseeing cable car, but there was no bizarre underwater world here, only a huge worm.

It was like a tangle of black lines, only magnified thousands of times. It floated in the culture dish, and several whip-like worm threads extended from the tangle, swimming freely in the culture dish.

When it began to strike the glass or the bottom of the laboratory, a huge vibration occurred.

Upon closer inspection, there were countless tiny black lines swimming in the culture dish.

Lin Wen instantly knew what the opportunity was.

He took a step forward and pressed the button in the destruction window directly.

But the machine did not respond, and Lin Wen pressed it again, but the button was stuck and wouldn't pop back out.

Lin Wen then noticed that the bottom of the cylinder had been completely corroded, with some areas already corroded through, and even the semi-transparent filter membrane at the bottom was visible.

Suddenly, "No colorful phoenix" started to sound the alarm, and Lin Wen turned to see a thick iron wire at least half a meter thick piercing straight up from below, then retracting at an even faster speed.

Lin Wen glanced over and saw that it had retracted into the mother body, but the filter membrane remained intact, blocking the solution.It seemed to be made of some special material.

Lin Wen peered into the damaged area, scanning around, and noticed that the filter membrane was mounted beneath a steel rebar net, with signs prohibiting open flames plastered all over it.

Lin Wen immediately realized a possibility. Just as he was about to test it with a 【Fiery Spell】, 【No Colorful Phoenix in Body】 warned him with an intense sense of danger that this was suicidal.

To try was to perish.

But where could he find a timed bomb?

After some thought, Lin Wen went back to the base and found a wooden box, which he disassembled and crudely reassembled into a wooden puppet.

He gripped a cylindrical piece of wood on the puppet's body and, with superhuman strength and agility, furiously rubbed it ten thousand times in an instant, and sure enough, the wood ignited.

Like a Maoshan Taoist, Lin Wen pulled a paper figure from his sleeve and affixed it to the puppet.

Then he used 【Paper Puppet】, activating the paper figure.

The paper figure had 13 hours left.

The wooden puppet came to life, holding its burning hand as it bowed to Lin Wen.

Lin Wen said, "Wait for my command, and then jump down through that hole."

The wooden puppet nodded.

Lin Wen quickly left, knowing that the wood would not last long when burning; if the paper figure attached to it caught fire, the spell would fail.

When Lin Wen had run 200 meters away from the underground base, 【No Colorful Phoenix in Body】 signaled danger.

At 500 meters, 【No Colorful Phoenix in Body】 still indicated it wasn't safe enough.

Lin Wen simply ran a kilometer away before 【No Colorful Phoenix in Body】 ceased its warnings.

He then used 【Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission】 to issue a command in the puppet's ear.

【Paper Puppet】 was a Qi Refining Stage spell, too low-level, lacking even the psychic connection between master and puppet.

Moments later, a heavy boom came from underground, and the ground surged like waves. A mountain peak rose before Lin Wen, and as it collapsed, a cloud of dust and ash obscured half the sky.

Although this laboratory was small, its explosive power even surpassed that of the previous one.

Disaster averted, merit points +1898.

Indeed.

This thing was the calamity of future humanity.

However, perhaps for some reason, the merit points were not as plentiful.

But like the last base, it clearly had other useful effects.

Lin Wen's inspiration was stirred.

He immediately sat down to meditate on the spot. It had been just over two days since his last meditation, not yet three.

Usually, no threads of fate would be visible at this time.

Yet, as soon as he entered meditation, he saw the same massive, long, and thick thread of fate as before.

Effortlessly, he touched it and collided with it.

Another green star of fate.

A great urge welled up in Lin Wen's heart, making him eager to enter the Divine Abilities interface.

Upon seeing the still verdant 【No Colorful Phoenix in Body】, he willed it, and the green star traced a long trajectory, crashing into the Divine Ability.

In that instant, green light flooded the world, the universe seemed frozen in glass, and the tangible green light solidified between heaven and earth. The four characters "No Colorful Phoenix in Body" seemed to span the cosmos.

When all the phenomena dissipated, his first Divine Ability had transformed into a cluster of soft, verdant light, within which a colorful phoenix could faintly be seen soaring.

Lin Wen opened his eyes, filled with excitement, and the first thing he saw made him freeze.

——

Although he didn't know why, Wang Bo'an keenly sensed that his opponent seemed uneasy, his defense weak and hesitant, his support and harassment at their lowest.

He decided to take a big gamble.

For the sake of secrecy, he only gathered his five closest confidants to discuss strategic issues.

In the midst of their discussion, a commotion suddenly arose outside. Wang Bo'an called for the guards and asked, "What's happening outside?"

A guard replied, "Someone claiming to be Sheriff Lin insists on seeing you!"

"Sheriff Lin?"

Wang Bo'an was momentarily stunned.

"Let him come over."

Before long, a group of guards escorted a young man covered in dust and ash.

Wang Bo'an recognized him at a glance; wasn't this the young friend from Changshan County? What was he doing here?

He waved the guards to lower their guns, and before he could speak, he heard the young Lin shout, "He's a traitor!"

He stretched out his hand, pointing straight at one of his confidants behind him.