The Death List Novel - Chapter 256

Chapter 256 Sneak In

The floating continent did not have a substantial sun or moon. Day and night shifts were completely manifested by the layer of orange-yellow Laws on the surface of the floating continent.

During the day, the orange-yellow shield would emit warm sunlight similar to sunlight, but at night, it would be pitch-black. Other than the specks of starlight reflected by the other floating continents in the starry sky, there was no moonlight.

The Holy City of Atlantis had been destroyed, and there was no longer any energy in the city for lighting. In the dark night, the branch of Wheel of Heaven was like a giant monster crawling in the darkness. The surroundings were deathly silent. In this area destroyed by the flames of war, even wild creatures were unwilling to build nests and stay here.

Qin Lun quietly sneaked back to his original hiding place. When he used his Heavenly Spirit Eye to observe the surroundings again, he couldn’t help but be secretly shocked. The number of apostles hiding in the surroundings almost doubled during the two hours he was away searching for food. Although it was impossible to know the exact number, it was still at least twenty or more people.

“We can’t wait any longer!”

The sense of urgency in Qin Lun’s heart rapidly increased. More than twenty apostles had already surpassed one tenth of the total number of apostles in this region. By tomorrow, this number would probably break through to 50. At that time, there would definitely be a fight. Whether Qin Lun participated or not, it would affect his plans.

He checked his equipment, stood up from the darkness, took a gale step, and flew towards the military fortress in the darkness like lightning.

His hiding place was less than two hundred meters away from the Wheel of Heaven. Although there were countless broken walls between them, he used the wind drift effect of the Gale Steps to arrive in front of the military fortress in only six or seven seconds. Without hesitation, he dodged into one of the holes.

‘”Fuck!” Countless low-pitched curses rang out from the ruins of the military fortress, causing a faint commotion in the darkness. However, the commotion caused by Qin Lun quickly subsided, and a strange calm appeared in the surroundings.

After Qin Lun dodged into the hole in the military fortress, he did not immediately go deep into it. Instead, he leaned against the wall and stared at the outside of the hole with burning eyes. After a few minutes, he realized that the commotion had truly subsided and no other apostles had followed him in. He took a deep breath and turned around to walk towards the interior of a dark fortress.

He had already considered the night scouting operation of the “Wheel of Heaven” branch. Although there were more than twenty apostles hiding around the military fortress, few dared to move in the dark.

First, it was unknown whether they had gained anything from entering the military fortress at night. However, searching such a large military fortress in the darkness wouldn’t be enough in a few hours. By the time they came out, it was already dawn, and they would definitely be surrounded by the crowd.

Secondly, the branch of Wheel of Heaven was originally an important apostle base, so it was hard to say whether there were any traps inside. If he was injured inside and was surrounded by other apostles after coming out, the probability of his death would be more than 90%.

The only thing Qin Lun was worried about was that there were particularly powerful assassins and thieves amongst the twenty-odd apostles around him. If such an apostle saw him move ahead and could not restrain himself from following him, it might really trigger all the hidden apostles and cause his next plan to go bankrupt.

Fortunately, he made the right bet! There were no such assassins or thieves among the twenty-odd apostles, or perhaps they had already quietly entered. A few assassins and thieves wouldn’t affect his plans, much less the assassins and thieves didn’t detect the halo or the Heavenly Spirit Eye. In the darkness, they were no different from ordinary apostles.

Qin Lun took out a flatted jug of walnut wine and poured it into his mouth. The detection halo was a passive ability, but the Heavenly Spirit Eye needed to consume energy. He had to maintain the Heavenly Spirit Eye throughout the next investigation.

Three glowing needles slowly jumped in his clockwork pupils, making Qin Lun look a little strange. The surrounding scenery showed the effect of a black-and-white film in his eyes.

The hole in the fortress he broke into seemed to be a checkpoint, and in the corner was a long table made of steel, with a tattered radio station and pager scattered all over it. There were a few loose long-barreled guns on the floor of the room. They should be some kind of heavy machine gun or something.

Qin Lun squatted on the ground and scratched the ground with his fingers. A strange expression appeared on his face. Although the table was covered in dust, there wasn’t much dust on the ground.

“Could it be that there are still natives hiding in this fortress?” Qin Lun’s eyes flickered.

He did not believe that the other apostles had entered the fortress before him, so that there would not be much dust on the ground, but obvious footprints. Only by entering this room frequently would there be little dust on the ground. This place was originally a checkpoint. Perhaps someone was observing the situation outside through this opening.

The destruction of the Holy City of Atlantis had only lasted for two to three years. Originally, this city had a population of over a million, but it was not surprising that there were still people hiding here. In the shattered starry sky, once the entire civilization of any intelligent race was destroyed, what awaited them would be an incomparably miserable fate.

During these two to three years, the intelligent races that attacked Atlantis controlled all the small and medium-sized towns on the continent, and the Holy City was the last remaining feast. With the exception of a few who fled through the portal to other floating continents, the Atlanteans would become slaves to the warring races.

The luckiest result would be to be able to work in mines and workshops. If they were divided into intelligent races like the Abyss Devils, it wouldn’t be strange for these intelligent races of the Chaos Evil Alliance to become bloodthirsty foods.

As for those Atlanteans who had fled their homes, they would probably become scavengers like the Lulu Race, and they would become the lowest level of the intelligent races in the Shattered Universe.

Qin Lun stepped over the rubbish on the ground and walked out of the room. Outside the checkpoint was a long corridor with a slight arc, surrounded by rooms numbered on the doors. Some of these rooms were closed, some were half-open, and should have been the residences of some of the soldiers on duty.

After Qin Lun hurriedly checked one or two of them, he stopped paying attention. He quickened his pace and walked along the corridor towards the interior of the fortress. Turning the end of the corridor, another curved corridor appeared in front of Qin Lun.

After walking through several corridors, Qin Lun stopped and frowned. He could tell that not only was the military fortress a circular structure, it was also a ring-shaped structure. It did not lose its reputation as the Wheel of Heaven. The entire fortress was a labyrinth-shaped wheel.

This kind of building layout was the most complex. Without a single person searching for more than half a day, there was simply no key area to be found. If it had been all right in the past, everyone would have known that the center of the roulette wheel was the main control room. But now, the main control room must have been destroyed, not to mention that the thing Qin Lun was looking for was not there.

“Whatever you’re afraid of, you can come. It seems like you won’t be able to save anything at all!” Qin Lun sighed, took out the walnut wine again and drank several mouthfuls of it.

Qin Lun closed his eyes and when he opened them again, the veins around his eyes became erect like small snakes.

At this moment, in his eyes, the lines of time and space formed from perception spread out like cobwebs. Reinforced concrete walls slowly faded away. In Qin Lun’s eyes, they became a building frame made up of simple lines. Even the things behind the walls were clear.

Qin Lun didn’t hesitate any longer, and his figure brought afterimages along the dark corridor as he sprinted along the passageway. When they encountered a closed dead end, they immediately changed directions, hoping to pass through the most places at the fastest speed possible. Even though some rooms looked important, he didn’t stop at all.

As he sprinted, Qin Lun would occasionally use his claw chains to pass through a few checkpoints without touching his feet. There are a few shadows on the walls of these places, which should be some high-tech traps. Although he didn’t know if these high-tech mechanisms were still useful, he wasn’t willing to take risks. Using the Gale Steps and Claw Chains to avoid them was the best choice.

“Huh?” After sprinting through the passageway for more than 20 minutes, he suddenly stopped. This place was probably close to the core of the military fortress.

As soon as he stopped, Qin Lun staggered and sat on the ground, panting heavily. Two lines of blood flowed out of his tightly closed eyes. With a sigh of relief, he stood up and opened his eyes again. He looked like a blind man.

“Using the Lines of Space and Time for a long time will actually temporarily affect your vision!” Qin Lun was slightly surprised. This was the first time he had discovered this flaw in the Eye of the Clock.

“Fortunately, the combination of the Heavenly Spirit Eye and the detection halo will not affect the battle!” Qin Lun rubbed his eyes and looked in a certain direction with a somewhat exhausted expression. He muttered to himself, “I’ve finally found it!”

In the direction he was looking at, two orange-red balls of light appeared on the projection of the retina. This was the manifestation of the body temperature of a creature in the eyes of the Heavenly Spirit.

…

In a large hangar, there were two huge black shadows circling around a heavy instrument. Apart from this heavy instrument, there were two rows of giant humanoid mecha on each side of the hangar. It looked like there were at least forty of them in total.

However, the surface of these humanoid mechs was mostly potholed. The damaged holes on their bodies revealed cables and components of various colors. They should have long since become useless.

“Meimei, have you recovered?” A gigantic black figure turned to his companion and asked. It was holding a faintly lit explosion-proof lamp in its hand to illuminate. Upon closer inspection, it discovered that this was an exoskeletal mecha.

Generally used for engineering and simple military purposes, the mecha is a one-man crew capable of using powerful robotic arms to operate cumbersome engineering equipment and a few heavy artillery shells.

“Don’t rush me, don’t rush me. The power in the main control room will be restored soon. Those two fellows won’t be able to leave the main control room in less than two hours!” A clear female voice came from another exoskeletal mecha.

At this moment, the two of them who were repairing the generator did not notice that a black figure was quietly climbing down a chain above the hangar, hanging above them like a giant spider.