Chapter 303 Shocking change!

Tang Yun’s words surprised Lin Xian and KIKI. They naturally understood the meaning of her words. This also indirectly explained why Tang Yun and the others appeared here. In essence, they were part of the Crimson World project and must have paid a considerable price for it.

“How much do you know about this crimson world?” Lin Xian asked at this time.

“I… don’t know much. My husband brought me here. This organization is very mysterious. The highest-ranking person here I have ever seen is a white man named Julius Litt, who looks to be in his 40s. He told us about the characteristics of the mycelium network here and took us to experience the hallucination spores. As for the rest…”

Tang Yun is not a person with a strong opinion. She listens to her husband, KIKI’s second uncle Wen Dong, in everything. So what is puzzling is why Tang Yun’s husband sent his wife and children here and then ran away?

“Wen Qi, it’s great that you’re alive…” Tang Yun looked up at KIKI and said dejectedly, “Although your aunt has taken away your and your father’s assets, the underground city quota your father gave you in exchange cannot be replaced. Regardless of whether she becomes a councillor of Dawn City or not, you are the heir of Linglong Group and a senior member of the Dawn Project. You can go to Dawn City, which should be the safest place besides the headquarters of the Phoenix Order. You can survive there…”

KIKI turned around and looked at Lin Xian: “That’s right, I heard that Shuguang City is now overcrowded and the entrance fee is getting higher and higher. My identity is useful.”

Lin Xian said, “But your aunt and the Wen family members probably won’t like you.”

“What does it have to do with me whether they like me or not? Do I need them to like me?” KIKI flew up on the spot, crossed her arms across her chest, with a proud look on her face.

Lin Xian smiled and thought to himself, that’s right, this girl can now crush a truck with her bare hands. This super rare telekinetic ability is much more valuable than wealth and status in the doomsday.

“Ok.”

Lin Xian looked at Tang Yun: “Put on your clothes, get in my car, and I will take you away from here.”

Unexpectedly, Tang Yun did not show any emotion when she heard this. Instead, she kept silent. It seemed like a long time had passed before she said

“I don’t want to leave.”

KIKI frowned when he heard it: “Hey, if you don’t want to leave, what else do you want to do? You’ve seen it all, so many people have died, do you want to die?”

“No!”

Tang Yun looked sad, her eyes red as she shook her head and said, “No, they are not dead, my son is not dead, he is in that world, we are together every day, it is not fake!”

Lin Xian glanced at her, unsure whether she was unable to accept her son’s death or had completely lost her mind in the mycelium illusion, so he could only say
“After we leave, this place will be completely without electricity, there will be no more robots to maintain it, the survival capsule will no longer work, and your bodies will completely die and begin to rot. Are you sure?”

Hearing Lin Xian’s words, Tang Yun’s eyes flashed with fear, but it was quickly replaced by obsession. Her chest rose and fell rapidly, and she said, “No, no, after I enter that world, I will live in that world.”

After that, she suddenly knelt down towards KIKI and said in a begging tone, “Wenqi, I appreciate your kindness, but I feel that I am no longer alive in this world. Please let me go back.”

KIKI looked at this scene, and a rare anger appeared on her face. She shouted, “I told you it was all fake! It’s fake! You managed to escape with great difficulty. If you just follow us, you can survive. Isn’t it good to be alive!!!”

KIKI’s words made Tang Yun’s face darken. She was silent for a moment, lowered her head, her messy hair covering a little of her well-maintained face, and said sadly
“My son is over there. He will be sad if I am not here. He is still looking for his father over there. I want to be with him. There are so many strangers around. He will definitely be lonely and sad…”

“Wen Qi, please help me this time because I’m your aunt…”

Tang Yun knelt on the ground and begged. She seemed to have lost all life. She was neither happy nor sad. It seemed that this world was a nightmare to her. As long as she entered the survival capsule again, she would wake up again in that happy and free world.

KIKI was a little angry. After hearing Tang Yun’s words, she felt inexplicably irritated. Although she was just a relative she had not met for a long time, she did not want to see Tang Yun choose to die like this.

Just when she wanted to continue speaking, Lin Xian suddenly grabbed her.

He noticed that the blood-red in Tang Yun’s eyes gradually began to show some black streaks, which was a sign that she was about to mutate due to the invasion of darkness.

“Forget it. She has already lost the courage to live. In this situation, even if she stays, she will soon be invaded by the darkness and turned into a zombie. It is better to fulfill her wish.”

Her psychological defenses have completely collapsed, her body is weak, and her mental state is extremely unstable. In this polar night, it won’t be long before she turns into a zombie, unless she is forcibly tied back to the Infinity and protected by the Heterogeneous Rubik’s Cube. But Lin Xian doesn’t want to do that. Tang Yun’s worldview has completely collapsed. Even if Lin Xian and KIKI are kind enough to take her in, it will be of no avail. She will only live in misery all day long and bring negative emotions to the team.

In this case, it would be better to let her enter that illusion and die in the joy of reuniting with her son.

Lin Xian thought about it and thought that maybe he could leave a small robot and array battery alone for Tang Yun’s survival capsule as a reward for her providing him with this information.

When KIKI heard Lin Xian’s words, a hint of helplessness flashed in her eyes.

When Tang Yun saw that Lin Xian and KIKI stopped talking, she slowly stood up and tried to stand shakily. She raised her head and looked gently at Lin Xian and KIKI’s faces. She wanted to say something but gave up. She just looked at the two of them with gratitude, then turned around tremblingly, tore off her hibernation suit, walked towards the open survival capsule in the most primitive posture, then climbed in, lay down, and closed her eyes.

Dalou and Shuqin, who had been silent on the side, were also watching this scene with complicated expressions.

For some reason, Tang Yun’s choice made people feel more complicated than just seeing the survivors die.

(Buzz – low-frequency startup sound)

“Identity verification passed, Tang Yun, Zero Element Number: 0403, survival capsule activated, current body temperature: 36°C, heart rate index 62, life support system ready.”

The survival capsule’s warning sound rang out, and the hatch slowly closed, isolating her completely.

The survival capsule then entered the transport channel, descended into the interior of the hive, was grabbed by the huge robotic arm, and placed into an empty hexagonal mycelium access area on the lower level.

On the upper floor, Lin Xian, KIKI and others looked at this scene and sighed slightly.

“Do you think her consciousness has really been uploaded to the mycelium network?” KIKI asked at this time.

“Maybe.”

Lin Xian said: “But the problem is that the only way for humans is to defeat darkness. Either humans perish, or we destroy these dark creatures. So to us, they are all dead.”

Clap clap, clap clap.

Lin Xian turned around and saw Ding Junyi operating the mobile terminal seriously. At the same time, the surveillance screen showed the scene inside Tang Yun’s survival capsule.

“I added an extra EEG theta frequency neural connection electrode in it. If mycelium connection really occurs, perhaps we can capture some changes in brain wave interference phenomena.” Ding Junyi heard Lin Xian’s footsteps and explained to him without raising her head.

Lin Xian was about to speak when he heard her say

“I didn’t find this item in the previous monitoring content. Normally, such a research institute would not fail to monitor this frequency band. I think there is a problem, so I want to pay more attention to it.”

Lin Xian was about to ask something when Ding Junyi stopped him. He scratched his head and could only say, “Okay, then you’re busy.”

This is Ding Junyi’s personality in the laboratory. She speaks briefly, speaks directly to the point, and never wastes time.

This point is fully reflected in every aspect…

In the entire hall, Lin Xian had basically devoured all the equipment that could be devoured. His decomposition center was now completely full of materials. Originally, he was going to use them to lay 22 kilometers of track, but now he could save trouble and use them directly to manufacture munitions.

Looking at the time, more than ten hours had passed since the mycelium was active. Lin Xian asked Dalou and Shuqin to stay here to look after Ding Junyi, while he and KIKI returned to the train first to prepare to deal with Grace.

In carriage No. 12, [Grace] stood quietly in the middle. Because the camera was not turned on, Lin Xian had to use a support frame to keep her standing.

At this time, Shasha, Lu Chang, Miao Lu and others were surrounding Lin Xian, all looking at this beautiful humanoid robot curiously.

“Oh my God, this robot is so beautifully designed, just like a perfect ballerina.” Miao Lu said in amazement.

Lu Chang exclaimed in amazement: “Her mask is obviously very beautiful, but I don’t know why I always feel that it is a bit creepy…”

“Me too~” Sasha reached out and touched Grace’s leg. The cold touch made her shiver all over. She couldn’t help but frowned: “It feels like a bad robot that breaks down and kills people in a horror robot movie.”

“Go away, you are so brave, don’t you like mechas? Why do you get scared by a robot?” KIKI came over and pinched Sasha’s face: “This robot uses holographic projection, and there is no facial system designed for it. You will know after turning it on. She is actually quite beautiful.”

Lin Xian heard this and said, “Only household service robots in the past needed facial systems, and they were all for communicating with people. But this thing was built to manage the Zero Element Center, and it also has good combat performance, so there is definitely no need to design those useless functions.”

Although the scan was not completed, but in the process of scanning Grace’s torso, Lin Xian discovered that Grace’s motion components were very powerful and were equipped with a plasma beam pulse gun. Combined with her almost indestructible body material, her combat power was estimated to be at least comparable to that of a violent-level mutant!
“KIKI, is it troublesome for this thing to overwrite the system?” Lin Xian asked.

KIKI nodded: “It’s quite troublesome.”

She looked at Lin Xian with a look of embarrassment, and said, “You know, this thing is not accessible to ordinary people. Traditional hard disk overwriting can erase data by multiple overwriting, but the superposition of quantum states may cause information to remain in the environment through quantum teleportation, and I can’t just delete all her movements and intelligent logic. If that happens, she will become a piece of iron and can’t even stand up. Unless I rewrite it, I can’t do it. Even if I can do it, I still need to do a lot of logic training…”

“Alright, alright.” Lin Xian glared at her and said unhappily, “Don’t fool me. Ordinary people can’t get in touch with this. Are you an ordinary person? Tell me what you want.”

KIKI’s cheeks suddenly puffed up when she heard that, her eyes curved into crescents, and she grinned at him slyly: “I can’t fool you, of course I can do it, but you have to replace the voice pack with mine~”

“Ah, sister KIKI, don’t you find it scary?” Sasha turned to look at her in horror: “A robot with your own voice is talking to you…”

“You know nothing~” KIKI immediately gave her a slap on the head.

Lin Xian didn’t think it was anything else, and said directly: “It’s up to you. I only need her computing and service functions. I don’t mind even if you change her voice to Sasha’s and project her face into a holographic building.”

“ah!!???”

When these words were spoken, everyone was shocked. Sasha became even more terrified when she heard Lin Xian’s words. When she thought of that scene, she felt goosebumps.

“Don’t do that, Brother Lin!”

KIKI put her hands on her hips and said to Lin Xian provocatively: “Okay, that’s what you said.”

Hearing this, Lin Xian immediately cleared his throat and coughed, then said, “Well… I was just talking, let’s not do this, this… really makes me a little sleepless.”

After saying that, he walked towards Carriage No. 5, preparing to deploy a new set of G3-rail electromagnetic cannons there.

KIKI, who had made Lin Xian speechless, smiled triumphantly. Seeing that Lin Xian was about to leave, she suddenly followed him and whispered in Lin Xian’s ear: “Hey, I heard that the previous service robots had very complete functions and also had companion functions. Do you want to add some additional [kits] for you?”

This girl was getting more and more aggressive and just wanted to see Lin Xian get humiliated, but when Lin Xian heard this, he stopped, turned around with a smile and stretched out his hand to her.

“Kit? You know I need a blueprint scan for my mechanical manufacturing. Show it to me.”

KIKI’s smile froze when she heard this. She immediately realized that what she said was definitely not the same as what Lin Xian said. Her face immediately turned red and she immediately exploded.

“Lin Xian!!”

“Let’s have a chance to watch it later. I have something urgent to attend to, so I have to go first.” Seeing the girl getting angry, Lin Xian ran away quickly.

After running all the way to carriage No. 5, Lin Xian immediately began to clear the space and prepare to make electromagnetic guns. He planned to build two 1130 and electromagnetic rail guns on Infinity, which would double the firepower. Coupled with the YJ-3 anti-aircraft artillery, the 16-car train of Infinity would be much more powerful.

“Once the Sun is connected, the carriages may need to be readjusted.”

Lin Xian found an open space and sat down. He raised his hand and began to make the high-energy capacitor for the electromagnetic railgun. When he was in Xilan City before, the integrated circuit system of the entire vehicle had been upgraded, so now he only needed to install and connect the high-energy capacitor, and there would be no problem.

“Now I have two nuclear-powered locomotives, one Gemini 11R 290 MW, one Linglong industrial-grade 200 MW, three electric locomotives, two Weilong-class locomotives, one Huanxing 3A, and my Jujing 10E gas turbine locomotive…”

“There are six solar-powered locomotives…”

Electromagnetic rail guns, 1130, YJ-03, electric blade armor, arc pulse string vibrator, scientific research carriages, mecha carriages, hundreds of power armor charging, plus the ultra-high temperature plasma beam cutting array that Lin Xian is going to load later, fully automatic bullet punching machine, and a drive system that requires more power…

They are all big electricity consumers. There is no problem with the power generation of two nuclear-powered energy cars, but multiple electric cars are indeed needed to store electricity to maintain voltage balance.

Fortunately, Lin Xian basically no longer needs to drive the train through the Mechanical Heart, so he doesn’t have to worry about the need to fully control these 27 carriages.

“Then put that Huanxing 10A at the front end and put it behind the gas turbine like before, and the traction will be enough.”

However, what gives Lin Xian the most headache are the two nuclear-powered locomotives. The problem is that the front ends of these two locomotives cannot be connected, so they can only be placed at the end of the train. But Lin Xian wants to separate the two to reduce the risk of damage to the energy car.

After much thought, there seems to be only one option left: two nuclear-powered locomotives, one at the head and one at the tail, equipped with the Weilong class and the Huanxing 10A respectively for coordinated energy storage traction.

In that case, Lin Xian would have to give up his original Giant Whale 03E gas turbine locomotive…

“Oh, I’m really reluctant to do that.”

This motorcycle was repaired bit by bit using the most basic materials when his Mechanical Heart in Jiang City was only at level 1. It helped him break through the heavy tide of zombies, climb up the No. 9 underground tunnel, rush onto the climbing elevator, and roll through the storm snowfield. Although the power output of this motorcycle has been much smaller after Lin Xian stopped using the Mechanical Heart, Lin Xian is a mechanical mutant after all, and he was somewhat reluctant to let him devour this old friend with outstanding merits.

After thinking about it, he decided to wait until he got out of the polar night. At that time, he could just stay at the back and serve as a backup power locomotive. Anyway, he didn’t lack those mechanical sources now.

Lin Xian was thinking while manufacturing non-stop, because now his mechanical manufacturing level has reached level 5, the manufacturing speed has increased a lot compared to when he was in Hengshan Pass, and after just over two hours, most of the extreme energy capacitor unit had been assembled, and it took another hour and a half, a new G3-electromagnetic railgun began to slowly rise on the roof of carriage No. 5. Just when Lin Xian finished manufacturing the main gun of the electromagnetic railgun and was about to perform a system self-check, he suddenly realized that he seemed to be the only one in the entire carriage No. 5.

Where is Brother Huo?

Lin Xian felt a little strange. He stood up and walked to Lu Xingchen’s room, only to find that it was empty. The room was clean and tidy. On Lu Xingchen’s private tea table, there was an old-fashioned answering machine.

He immediately sensed something wrong and raised his hand, activating his mechanical ability remotely. The answering machine then turned on, and there was a rustling sound of electricity inside. Soon, Lu Xingchen’s message rang out.

“Brother Lin, Brother Lou, all my friends and partners, please forgive me for leaving without saying goodbye…”

“I am poisoned by mycelium. I know that I cannot harm my companions. I also know that I cannot continue this journey to the East. So I leave alone and stay outside the passage to protect the peace for you. I will do my best to help you…”

Hearing the words on the answering machine, Lin Xian’s face suddenly darkened.

Lu Xingchen was infected by mycelium?
How is this possible? There was no sign of anything along the way, and KIKI’s telekinesis shield protected the entire journey. Besides that, Lin Xian thought about it and it seemed that only when the joint train entered the tunnel did Brother Huo, who was in charge of disinfection, act alone…

“Oh shit!”

The sudden situation immediately made Lin Xian feel confused and angry, and he was about to use the communicator to contact Brother Huo, but at this time, Ding Junyi’s voice suddenly came from the communicator.

“Lin Xian, there’s something going on here!”

In the Zero Element Center, Ding Junyi looked at Tang Yun, whose head was covered by mycelium. The data of the theta frequency band of brain waves kept sending out a very strange peak line graph. Ding Junyi’s eyes condensed slightly. She didn’t expect that her cautious move seemed to allow her to detect the real secret of the mycelium network!

“Speak!” Lin Xian on the other end of the communicator was very anxious at this time and shouted immediately.

“Tang Yun’s brainwaves in the theta frequency band are interfering with the connected hyphae at the same frequency. This shows that being connected by hyphae is fundamentally different from our previous encounter with the hallucination spores. Although the brain is constantly generating hallucinations of self-awareness, the hyphae are interfering with all brain neurons at the same frequency…”

“Tell the important point!”

Ding Junyi raised her glasses, stared at the center of the huge beehive, and said
“This mycelium network seems to be able to access everyone’s consciousness, but the problem is that everyone’s brain neurons are being mobilized in a regular pattern, and this pattern does not match the changes in individual consciousness. It is very likely that this mycelium network is using these human brains as computing power processors!”

“That is to say, the entire mycelium network is very likely to be able to recognize human thoughts, including Tang Yun’s consciousness!”

Rumble!
As soon as Ding Junyi finished speaking, the underground tunnel suddenly began to tremble slightly, and smoke and dust billowed.

The tremor instantly awakened all the people who were resting and sleeping on the united train. Many of the awakened people immediately picked up their weapons, and the internal communication bands began to become noisy.

“what happened?”

“What happened?!”

“earthquake?”

On the other side, Chen Sixuan, who was still resting, was also awakened at this time. Out of caution, she immediately put on the Black Hawk armor and began to contact Lin Xian.

“Lin Xian, what’s wrong?”

“I don’t know.” Lin Xian had already rushed down from the Infinity and was heading towards the Zero Element Center with KIKI. At the same time, he said to Chen Sixuan, “Teacher Chen, notify all the teams and be ready to evacuate at any time!”

“it is good!”

“Brother Shi, Sister Ning, please quickly check the situation of the subway line passage. We may have to withdraw soon!” Lin Xian contacted Longshan No. 1 at the same time.

At once, Shi Diyuan and Ning Jing from Longshan No. 1, Qian Dele and Xiao Meng from the Joker team, Monica from the Queen Mo, Luo Yang and Li Yi, as well as the leaders of more than a dozen other train teams all received the urgent news, and everyone entered emergency preparedness status at the first opportunity.

Figures began to run busily in the corridors of each carriage, the electric motor engines of the electric airport began to hum, and the sound of countless limit switches being released on the 15-kilometer-long combined train was quietly heard.

“Quick, prepare for action.”

“Remove the limit!”

“The reactor is heating up, prepare to increase power!”

“Weapons station, the machine gunner is getting in position.”

At the side of the subway tunnel, Lin Xian and KIKI were rushing towards the Zero Element Center.

“Sister Ding means that the mycelium uses the human brain as a processor for calculations and can also spy on human consciousness?” KIKI was pulled away by Lin Xian before she finished overwriting Grace. After hearing what Lin Xian said, she subconsciously understood: “So the mycelium may have known about our hiding underground through Tang Yun?”

Lin Xian’s face was solemn. He picked up his mobile terminal and looked at the surveillance cameras he had set up in the vault of Yijin Bank and on the street. It was still very quiet at this time, so he said, “We can’t be completely sure, but since it is Director Ding’s judgment, we must prepare for the worst. The vibration just now is also very unusual.”

“Then where are we going now?”

Lin Xian was so angry that he gritted his teeth and said, “Go find Brother Huo!”

……

At this moment, on the top floor of Yijin Bank, Lu Xingchen leaned against the edge of the building, his eyes sweeping across the streets around him in the dark night, his ears filled with all kinds of strange whispers, as if many indescribable existences were hidden in those street corners and dark alleys, and strange tentacles appeared and disappeared in the dark clouds in the sky. The black sticky fog in the city had dissipated for the most part, and Lu Xingchen could see the huge Tiangu Tower and the Sky-Covering Crown in the sky as soon as he raised his eyes, with a bit of coldness in his eyes.

“There are evil spirits everywhere, and filth abounds.”

He lowered his head and pulled down his collar, then lit a fire with his fingers. He saw large areas of green mycelium spreading on his chest and neck, and he couldn’t help but sigh.

Lu Xingchen picked up a communicator, and after confirming that the signal was connected, he continued to use the flame on his fingertips to burn a gold bracelet he picked up from the vault. The bracelet was covered in mud, which he wiped clean and burned with fire for fun out of boredom.

After talking to the building, Lu Xingchen was afraid that the mycelium spores on his body would affect other people in the car. In addition, he was a violent-level mutant, so he was worried that his mutation would bring unimaginable trouble to the Infinity team members. So he quietly left Infinity and came to the roof of the bank above the Zero Element Center alone, ready to help Infinity keep watch while waiting peacefully for himself to be swallowed by the mycelium.

Cluster~Cluster~
On the dark rooftop, a tiny flame flickered continuously.

“They say that real gold is not afraid of fire. I have been burning this thing for such a long time and it still won’t melt. It seems that my cultivation is about to be wiped out.”

Lu Xingchen looked at the gold bracelet in his hand that wouldn’t melt no matter how hard he tried, and murmured in a rather self-deprecating tone.

Suddenly, he felt a slight vibration in the air and immediately sat up, looking towards the huge black shadow of the Sky Mushroom Tower not far away. At this moment, it seemed that billions of energy beams were climbing up along the complex root system of the mushroom tower, like blood vessels, causing the mushroom cap with a diameter of two kilometers in the sky to shake violently.

Lu Xingchen stood up, his eyes cold, and said softly
“Interesting, I actually feel like I’m being stared at by a mushroom…”

(End of this chapter)