Chapter 810 - 349: Right Here!

The sight made Qian Suxun and Shi Zhi quite curious.

"Shinji, you never expected to find a living person here, did you? Heh, it seems like Lin’s ’old friend’..."

"I wouldn’t call him an old friend..."

Lin Xian wasted no time. He looked at Zhou Lei and said in a cold voice,

"I’ll give you two minutes. If your information is useless, I’ll make sure you die thoroughly."

"I’ll talk, I’ll talk!"

Zhou Lei was startled and frightened. Seeing it was Lin Xian, he was instantly in turmoil, wondering how he always seemed to run into this guy no matter where he went. If it were someone else, he might have tried to negotiate. But this person before him had witnessed his betrayals several times, knew his tricks, and any hope he had was quashed. He gulped hard and said,

"Captain Lin, I’ll tell you everything I know. Can you spare my life?!"

"1 minute and 58 seconds." Lin Xian looked at the time, his voice icy. He had no intention of bargaining with this guy.

Zhou Lei’s face changed dramatically, and he hurriedly said,

"Deep Red World and Dawn City’s senior officials are colluding. They’ve created something that is expanding Star Abyss No.5!"

After speaking, he saw Lin Xian’s expression remain unchanged, beads of cold sweat forming as he continued,

"They’re researching the evolution and cloning of superpower users here, but this approach is wrong. Superpower users cannot be cloned. However, they’ve developed something that can implant control in zombies and Human Gu. They’re even trying to use it on Abnormal Bodies, B-level, A-level, giant forms..."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xian immediately raised his finger, aiming the mechanical energy cannon at Zhou Lei’s forehead, ready to charge.

Woo~

A cold electric current sound rang out.

Lin Xian’s action made Zhou Lei’s pupils expand in fear as he hurriedly shouted,

"Wait, there’s more..." He struggled to break free from KIKI’s telekinesis, realizing he couldn’t move, he could only gesture with his eyes to a blue-glowing device at the center of the main control room not far away, with dry lips he shouted, "There’s a summary of the latest data from this research facility, a complete backup of the latest progress from all 930 laboratories here."

"Wow~"

Qian Suxun said dismissively, "You’re saying Deep Red World left all the research results here under your protection, right?"

"No, no, no!!"

Zhou Lei hurriedly explained, "These summary data are verified and recorded with the outside every 12 hours, otherwise they’re automatically destroyed... Be... Because the researchers they bring in here don’t know the latest research progress, they need to update from here. First, to prevent leaks, and only certain ’people’ can leave each time. They need to conduct internal and external information audits, and I’m mainly here to oversee all the clone batches and external verification..."

Lin Xian frowned at his words: "How do you know this, and why are you here?"

"Yeah, most people brought in don’t survive. This place runs automatically, how have you survived here so long?" KIKI questioned directly.

"I...I said earlier, the ones they bring in, they don’t know the research progress... All the circumstances inside, including location, experiment content, all must be unknown. After coming in, they survive, undergo psychological assessment, and then connect to the latest research progress to begin working. I’m here because they need someone to oversee and isolate the clones, also to ensure... the system isn’t hacked."

Zhou Lei spoke breathlessly, and Lin Xian’s team realized that Zhou Lei was Deep Red World’s "double insurance" here, also serving as the ’loop learning’ target for the AI system of the base. Ensuring that if the system was hacked from the outside or disrupted by some superpower, there would be a living person to forcibly disconnect this important main control center to secure the data. Even if he died, 12 hours later, the recorded data would be automatically destroyed, leaving Deep Red World without concerns.

Additionally, he had a crucial task of monitoring the clones. Even though their brains were controlled by memory modules and mycelium, Deep Red World’s technology wasn’t mature enough. The original consciousness often interfered, or the researchers’ consciousness would spontaneously show resistance, rebellion, cowardice, deceit, etc. But these awakened-conscious clones didn’t know there was a living person monitoring them!

After Zhou Lei finished speaking, he looked at Lin Xian’s team with a struggling expression and said,

"I know you won’t believe it. Not only do you not believe me, but Deep Red World can’t trust someone like me either. But the reason they chose me is because... I’m from Sanctuary Revelation."

"You joined Sanctuary Revelation?" Lin Xian asked.

"I didn’t intend to join!" Zhou Lei said with a miserable look, "After encountering you in Yu Bei City, I turned around and encountered a huge Sky Jellyfish, almost lost my life. Then the jellyfish was burnt to death and I escaped with my life, driving out of the city, hiding in a warehouse in a suburban grocery store. Later, Yu Bei City had a night-long battle, an explosion occurred, and the warehouse collapsed, then, then I found a candle..."

"And then inexplicably, a group of people from Sanctuary Revelation found me. This group is a bit sinister. They discovered that the candle was a Taboo Item. As long as I lit it, I could hide in the shadows without being detected, even Abnormal Bodies couldn’t see me. But once the candle burned out, I would die... Later, they asked if I wanted to live. I said yes... and then I was sent here..."