The Death List Novel - Chapter 581
Chapter 581 Underground Palace Core
Just as Qin Lun and the others were exploring the core tunnel of the ruins, Chaos and Holy Light’s joint team entered the depths of the ruins and began to fight with Bahrain, Alex, and the others. Meanwhile, the Heathmeier Guardian led by Holy Maiden Ruxin was also engaged in a battle with the arachnids who had stayed behind at the entrance of the passageway.
In fact, Bahrain, Huo Biao, and Bowie were very unlucky. They happened to meet the group led by Ganluo. They were quickly separated and lost contact with each other. Several of them became Chaos’s prisoners.
Alex and the other group of Flying Officer Keith were extremely cunning. They didn’t fight each other at all. They used the small explosive bombs and passive mines that came with their armor to set traps everywhere, bringing the other two groups of people from Primordial Chaos around the ruins.
Ganluo couldn’t do anything about it. Apart from his group, the other two groups were mostly members of the Holy Light Team. Although they didn’t violate the agreement, they couldn’t avoid slacking off.
However, no matter how hard Alex and the others tried, under the encirclement of the other party, their manpower and range of activities began to shrink drastically. Without sufficient strength to break out of the encirclement, they would be blocked sooner or later.
Even so, the Keith pilots were still fighting endlessly, and the remaining two teams were constantly trying to survive. In order not to reveal the secrets of the non-descending apostles, the lone Flying Officer Keith often used the most extreme self-destructive method to conceal it. They were using their lives to buy time for Qin Lun and the others.
However, Ganluo, Black, and the others were elite apostles who had plenty of experience in adventure. One time, two times, three times … After Pilot Officer Keith had self-detonated several times, they had already vaguely sensed that something was amiss with each other.
However, the problem was that Qin Lun had brought more than twenty Keith pilots with him. Before the number of pilots decreased to a certain extent, they were unable to confirm whether the fleeing batch of military mechs had any apostles.
The apostles who had been captured by them would not answer their question, not even the insider, because the others had not replied on the guild channel. He could confirm that he hadn’t revealed any flaws before. Before entering the ruins, he hadn’t contacted the Chaos Branch.
As time passed, Ganluo’s body suddenly trembled at a certain moment, and he finally lost his calm expression.
“My lord, the bugs we left behind at the entrance of the corridor have all been exterminated. The other party has already entered.” Black looked at the prompt in the Soul Seal and his expression was exceptionally ugly.
After the Heathmeier entered the ruins passageway, Apostle of the four guilds received a notification at the same time.
This message reminded Apostle to try his best to explore the ruins here, but the starry sky would not release any other mission routes, and it was impossible to predict what would happen next. Even if there was a trap here that could destroy all Apostle guilds, the starry sky couldn’t give any further hints.
“Damn it, we’ll be able to surround them in a while.” Gan Luo couldn’t help but curse, “If it weren’t for Holy Light and the others holding him back, how would he have used up so much time?”
“Your Excellency, with all due respect, there are less than ten people in that batch of mecha. I’m afraid that the remaining Apostle of the Lost Division will not be among them.” Black said with a serious expression, “We should concentrate now. We should defeat the team that just entered first, and then continue to investigate.”
Gan Luo fell silent, but the aura on his body became more and more terrifying, pressing down on the people beside him like a mountain. Fierce light shot out from his insect eyes as he stared at the two captives behind the group.
Beads of sweat appeared on the foreheads of the two prisoners. Of course, they sensed Gan Luo’s killing intent. However, the two of them were able to walk to this point, but they were not afraid of death. Instead, they straightened their bodies and looked at Gan Luo with ridicule on their faces.
“Sir!” Black gritted his teeth and thrust himself between the captives and Gan Luo, cutting off Skinny Bear’s line of sight. “My lord, even if we fail this time, you can’t do this. Otherwise, there’s no way you can dig into the front lines in the future.”
“Tsk! These two fellows aren’t our main targets. Can’t we just dig some information out of their mouths?” Gan Luo Gao Chi let out a violent aura and muttered in a low voice. However, he knew that Black was right, so he could only suppress his anger and turn around.
The two prisoners heaved a sigh of relief and exchanged glances. To this extent, how could they not know that their group had become the bait and abandoned child of the guild? However, they still didn’t know that there were spies in the team, and why the team would do this.
After all, judging from their strength, their group was all Second Grade. With their guild having several Elementary Grades, it seemed too wasteful for them to be abandoned.
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“Miss Junko, those natives have all gone in. Are you trying to persuade Lord Mei that if we don’t go in, we won’t even have a mouthful of soup!” A Apostle licked the corner of his mouth and stared at the entrance of the passageway.
Although they had not entered the ruins, they had also received notifications from the starry sky. After entering Palanto, Apostle’s exploration reward had tripled. For ordinary Apostle, who were not elites, this opportunity could not be missed.
Junko looked at them calmly and lowered his head to communicate with Qin Mei. A trace of surprise appeared on his face.
‘”Lord Mei said that she doesn’t have any new plans. You can choose whether you can enter or not. How many rewards you can get depends on yourself. There is no need to give her any commission this time. However, she hopes you understand that there are three teams fighting in the ruins. If you are in danger, she will not care about you.”
“Lord Mei agreed?” Apostle was similarly surprised. To be honest, he had only complained twice before and did not expect Qin Mei to let go. After all, the charm of evil spirits was fickle and unpredictable. Normally, no one would object to it.
Qin Mei unexpectedly loosened the restriction and instead let them talk about it carefully.
However, the quality of these people was mediocre, and the situation in front of them was almost clear. The reward was tempting. Finally, seven Apostle entered the ruins together. Only Junko and the bald man who had followed them for the longest time were left by Qin Mei’s side.
“Big … Sir, they won’t be in danger, will they?” Seeing that his seven companions had flashed into the ruins, Junko hesitated for a moment and couldn’t help but ask.
“Haha, Junko, you are still so childish and cute. You only know one or two people from the same world. Do you need to be so concerned?” Qin Mei smiled sweetly and said with a sweet smile, “Their fate is now in their hands. Whatever choices they make, they have to bear the consequences. Perhaps they will die inside, or perhaps they will obtain a huge harvest. Who knows?”
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The Ancient Era’s Angels had reached a very high level of evolution and technology. Unfortunately, they had finally taken the wrong path and abandoned their bodies. Although they had achieved the goal of half immortality, they had lost their motivation to survive and disappeared into the universe.
If they hadn’t lost their desire to survive, when Janamer attacked, with their technology and capabilities, they could have abandoned the Gee galaxy and started a new life in another galaxy. Instead of trying to leave behind an inheritance and seal Jannamer deep within the galaxy’s core.
Although the few inheritances left behind by the Angels ten thousand years ago were enough to develop the three great intelligent races of Giese, Heathmeier, and Gigus, the inheritance ruins they left behind in Palanto were unexpectedly primitive.
Bobby increased the power of the particle melting furnace to a certain extent. Soft flames emitted from the body of the soldier-machine armor, and occasionally the scattered light dots illuminated the space below the tunnel.
Unlike what everyone had imagined, there were no high-tech installations beneath this giant tunnel. Instead, it was like a huge but ordinary storage warehouse.
Rows of stone piers stood in the “warehouse”. It looked like a library with countless neat bookshelves. The most obvious purpose was a building that looked like a stone pavilion in the center of the “warehouse”. There was a huge crystal ball floating inside. Under the illumination of the mecha flames, the ball made of countless tiny crystal surfaces was slowly lit up.
Qin Lun released the Saint Thorn that bound his body and jumped onto a nearby stone pier to observe carefully. He reached out and touched it. This stone pier did not look like an ice-cold stone. Instead, it was somewhat like a plastic material. Its surface was spotless, reflecting a metallic luster.
The center of the stone pier slightly bulged upwards, and a thin “book” was half-embedded on the surface of the stone pier. Qin Lun dug with his finger and discovered that the bottom of the Book was not connected to the surface of the stone pier. He could even turn the page, but it was actually a book.
He didn’t know what kind of material this book was, but he was sure that it wasn’t animal fur or ordinary paper. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to preserve it for such a long time.
Flipping through the cover of the book, there was no written form on the page. At the very least, it was not what Qin Lun remembered. The dense and tidy conductor wires on the book looked like some kind of primitive computer silicon chip.
Qin Lun checked several stone pillars in succession and finally confirmed that the books stored here were all like this.
“These are all books about chips. They can’t be deciphered without a decoder.” Robin frowned and said helplessly, “Qin Lun, we don’t have any mecha. I’m afraid Bobby alone won’t be able to bring much with us!”
“Guild Leaders, is the crystal ball here the main brain or the control device? Perhaps we can use it to input the books into Bobby’s mecha brain.” Robben suggested alertly.
When everyone heard this, they looked at the crystal ball floating in the space. They saw that it had now completely “awakened”. It emitted a gentle radiance, illuminating the entire underground palace. It looked like an artificial full moon.
“Bobby, increase the APB force field to its maximum power. All of you, come over and stand behind the mecha.” Qin Lun thought for a moment and instructed in a deep voice. When everyone gathered together, he raised his arms and stretched out countless branches, forming two sturdy vines that slowly extended towards the crystal ball.
The dark green Saint Thorn Vine carefully wrapped itself around the crystal ball, but nothing happened.
“My lord, how … are you feeling?” Everyone nervously watched Qin Lun’s movements.
“Nothing much, it’s like wrapping around a rock.” Qin Lun frowned and sighed, “Looks like our efforts have failed. If we don’t defeat the team outside, I’m afraid we won’t be able to take these books away.”
Just as Qin Lun was about to let go, the crystal ball wrapped around the vine suddenly burst into flames. The chip on its surface underwent a strange change. Layers after layers of collapse, a counter-clockwise vortex appeared. At the same time, a huge female face projection appeared above the crystal ball.