Chapter 224: Target Cannot Be Monitored

In the teaching building, as soon as Lin Xian entered, the smell of building dust hit him. It was pitch black all around. Lin Xian turned on his flashlight and looked around. The light he had seen was on the second floor, so he had to find the stairs to go up.

“Over here.”

Soon, he found the stairs leading up. Without another word, he prepared to run up.

But after running a few steps, he felt that something was not right.

“KIKI?”

Lin Xian turned around and suddenly found that KIKI was gone!

“Where is she?!”

Lin Xian ran back and rushed out of the teaching building’s main entrance again. He found that it was pitch black outside. The playground, the square, the corridor, and the two motorcycles they had ridden were all gone!

His heart sank. He quickly turned his head back. Inside the teaching building’s main entrance, it was as dark as ink.

“Damn it, this again!”

Lin Xian was immediately reminded of the strange radio station 1542. At that time, he had also suddenly disappeared and appeared in a special frequency space.

He directly pressed the communicator. *Click, click~*

“Lin Xian, Lin Xian,” KIKI’s voice came through. “Where are you?”

“I’m right at the entrance of the teaching building.”

“I can’t see you. The wall in front of me seemed to have changed just now.”

Lin Xian frowned upon hearing this. “It must be this proving ground’s doing. Wait for me.”

He looked up at the dark dome, his heart tightening. Since this place was controlled by a mechanical structure, it would definitely not be a problem for him.

*Hoo~ Hoo~*

At this moment, Lin Xian could only hear his own heartbeat and breathing. He shone his flashlight into the dark doorway. The white light pierced the darkness, bringing a sense of lonely terror.

Tightening his grip on the electric knife, Lin Xian activated the power armor’s collision volume perception system to enhance his protection.

[Collision Volume Perception System Activated]

It was pitch black outside. Lin Xian felt a chill down his back. He shone his flashlight into the distance but couldn’t see the edge. In the darkness, there seemed to be many unknown beings slowly approaching the teaching building.

Lin Xian directly reached out and touched the ground, but it was a concrete floor, and his Mechanical Heart couldn’t extend. His face darkened. He could only retreat into this only building to find clues. There were buildings all around, and he had only seen a light on the upper floor just now. He should be able to find the circuit control terminal there.

The electric light shone, and the corridors on both sides were extremely deep, with no end in sight. The doors of the nearby classrooms were almost all open, with desks overturned and scattered. Every environment seemed to be exactly the same. The only difference was that there were no corpses and no zombies.

*Thump, thump, thump*, Lin Xian went directly up the stairs to the second floor and walked towards the classroom that had been lit up just now.

When he arrived at the second-floor corridor, he found that the lit room was the first one next to the stairs. The dim light shone through the window, giving the illusion that the scene had turned black and white.

The door to the room was ajar. Lin Xian shone his electric light and found that it was a storage room, not a classroom. Looking inside, the floor was clean and tidy, completely different from the chaotic feeling of the other classrooms.

His heart tightened. He carefully walked in, and the flashlight beam swept across the room. In an instant, Lin Xian’s hair stood on end.

Because in the middle of this storage room, there was a pile of white-clothed mannequins. At first glance, he almost thought there was a group of people standing there.

And in this room, an old-fashioned incandescent lamp was still glowing faintly. It was the one Lin Xian had seen from downstairs.

This was completely different from what Lin Xian had thought. He had thought it would be the light of some kind of monitoring room or a safe exit.

But this light was in such a strange storage room, which was baffling. Lin Xian looked at the pile of mannequins and felt a strange feeling.

Lin Xian walked straight in, his eyes constantly observing the surroundings.

Since there was light, there must be a circuit…

Lin Xian knew that this was a huge proving ground, so there must be professional experimental equipment control. So his idea was simple: he could use his mechanical Esper ability to find some clues and then break it open by force.

Lin Xian walked to the wall and began to use the scanning of his Mechanical Heart to explore, looking for a mechanical structure.

At this moment, the light in the room suddenly flickered, and then, it went out!

The entire storage room was instantly plunged into darkness, with only the beam of Lin Xian’s flashlight.

This sudden situation made him nervous. *Click, click~*

At this moment, a faint sound came from the darkness. It sounded like some kind of dislocated joint.

Lin Xian immediately shone his light on the pile of mannequins, but the white beam showed nothing unusual. So he widened the aperture and looked at the corner of the storage room.

At this moment, Lin Xian found that the door he had just walked in through was closed. He immediately sensed that something was wrong. He walked over and twisted it a few times, finding that the door was locked.

“Playing this game?”

*Click!*

The Mechanical Heart activated directly, and he forced the lock open!

The moment the door opened, a white child mannequin suddenly appeared at the doorway. Lin Xian’s eyes immediately sharpened, and he held the electric knife horizontally in front of him.

The white mannequin was motionless. Other than its strange appearance, this mannequin was no different from the mannequins in an ordinary store.

*Click, click~*

The small joint sound sounded again. Lin Xian turned his head sharply, and the flashlight beam shone over. The next moment, Lin Xian felt a chill down his spine, and his scalp tingled.

The mannequins that were originally placed in the middle of the storage room,

at this moment,

were all standing behind him!

At this moment, the air seemed to freeze.

Lin Xian’s flashlight shone on these white mannequins, and a strange aura rose infinitely. His eyes sharpened, and he directly aimed a wind lance at the nearest white mannequin.

*Bang!*

The mannequin’s plastic head immediately exploded, its face disfigured, revealing the metal frame inside. But the mannequin was still motionless.

“What is this thing? A zombie? A human-aberration??”

Lin Xian’s gaze swept over the group of mannequins. He knew that there was definitely something wrong with these things, but he didn’t know what the problem was.

So he directly shot out several wind lances. *Swish! Swish! Swish!*

He blasted the mannequins in front of him to pieces, turning them into a pile of fragments.

*Clatter~*

In an instant, the storage room was filled with a loud noise. These motionless, smiling white mannequins were blasted in the head by Lin Xian one by one, or their necks were broken, or their faces were disfigured. A large number of fragments fell to the ground, and the sound echoed in the room and corridor.

Just as Lin Xian was dealing with these white mannequins, in the darkness that his electric light did not illuminate, a short child mannequin suddenly climbed up with twisted joints.

[Moving target approaching]

As soon as the power armor’s reminder sounded, Lin Xian suddenly saw a pale face appear in the shadow on the side. The mannequin’s mouth suddenly opened, revealing a huge mouth full of sharp teeth!

*Swish!*

Lin Xian only felt a jolt in his nerves. The black spear in his other hand reflexively stabbed forward. The mannequin’s chest was blocked by the tip of the spear, which prevented it from biting off his neck. It pushed him back a few steps.

“What the hell is this!?”

Lin Xian reacted, pressed the end of the spear to the ground to stop the mannequin’s charge, and then a flash of electric light appeared in his right palm.

*Zzz~*

An electric arc flashed and directly bombarded the mannequin’s mouth. With a crackling sound of sparks, a burnt smell rushed out. Then, this mannequin that had attacked him suddenly stopped moving and fell to the ground.

Lin Xian frowned at this scene, calmed himself down, and quickly picked up his flashlight to shine into the mannequin’s mouth. He was shocked to find that the mannequin’s mouth was actually some kind of mechanical structure!

“A robot?”

Lin Xian had a question mark on his face. He immediately reached out and pressed on it, and a mechanical scan passed over. Sure enough, he found that this was a magnetically controlled passive robot. It did not have any power source but was a mechanical mannequin controlled in series.

“Using robots to deal with me, you’ve really got something…”

*Click, clack*

At this moment, a faint sound of footsteps suddenly came from the corridor outside.

Intermittent, gradually approaching in the darkness.

“A ghost knocking on the door, is it?”

Lin Xian directly created a high-power lighting lamp. After turning it on, it illuminated the gloomy and strange room as brightly as a sunlit room.

Then he got up directly, walked over, and grabbed the door frame. The power armor outputted torque. *Clang!* He directly dismantled the entire door.

Then he raised his hands, and a light flashed in his hands.

*Swish, swish, swish*, a large amount of tank armor forged metal flew out. In a breath, a huge metal door as thick as a bank vault, 40cm thick, was created, completely sealing the entire room.

And this door, Lin Xian did not design a lock or handle.

At the same time, he also created a high-voltage discharger and connected it to it, applying high-voltage electricity.

“Alright, this door is specially for treating ghost knocking. Welcome to test it.”

After doing all this, Lin Xian began to focus on the room, preparing to scan the building’s electrical structure along the light circuit from before, and then find the mechanism.

…

At this moment, in the research institute’s monitoring hall, the staff member in charge of releasing the test subjects in Zone F looked at the screen in front of him, his hands leaving the keyboard, his eyes widening.

“Hey!” a colleague next to him reminded him in a low voice. “Test subject No. 072 is about to make its appearance. Quick, don’t waste time.”

“There’s… there’s a problem.”

“What’s wrong? It didn’t knock on the door?”

This staff member pointed at the screen with a terrified expression. A ferocious monster was frantically scratching at the door, but the steel door that had appeared out of nowhere didn’t move at all. It didn’t even have a doorknob.

“It… it can’t knock on this!”

“What’s going on? Why hasn’t the test footage of the Weeping Classroom started yet?”

Security Director Feng Chun looked at the time on his watch, pressed his earpiece, and asked with a displeased expression.

“Director, the test Aberration failed to enter the area…” a researcher quickly replied.

“What?!”

Feng Chun walked straight over and said sternly to the large monitoring screen, “Bring up the monitoring footage of the storage classroom for me!”

“That…” At this moment, another researcher in charge of the footage had an ugly expression. He turned his head and stammered, “Report, all the indoor monitoring has been taken over.”

Feng Chun frowned, his face becoming serious. “What did you say?”

“I said, we’ve lost internal monitoring,” the researcher said with a strange expression.

For a moment, the atmosphere in the research monitoring hall became strange.

“Then switch to the corridor!” Realizing that things were getting serious, Feng Chun quickly said, “We have been ordered to obtain useful data and characteristic investigations on the mechanical Esper ability, and to pay close attention to the target’s safety. There must not be any problems!”

“Yes!”

“The monitoring footage in the corridor is normal. No life forms have been detected entering at present.”

“Then the test target should still be in the storage classroom…”

…

In the bright room, Lin Xian, to ensure that there were no future troubles, devoured all the broken magnetic-controlled robots into materials, leaving only a floor of broken plastic.

The entire room was extremely transparent. At this moment, Lin Xian was standing on the ladder he had made, releasing his Mechanical Heart to connect to the passage, and began to scan the mechanical frame structure outside the room along the circuit.

“Little girl, how are you doing?”

*Click, click…*

At this moment, the signal in the communicator began to become intermittent.

“Lin Xian, I can’t find you. Where are you?”

“I’m in that teaching building, on the 2nd floor.”

“I… I don’t have a teaching building here,” KIKI’s slightly panicked voice came through.

Soon, the signal in the communicator disappeared. Lin Xian frowned, his heart suddenly becoming anxious. He estimated that the distance between the two of them should not be far. Lin Xian looked at the knocking sound coming from outside the steel door and thought that it should be the signal shielding effect produced by the dark energy of some kind of Aberration.

“This research institute has really brought in some incredible monsters.”

Lin Xian’s thoughts changed. At this moment, his gaze sharpened. His Mechanical Heart had finally found something.

He then got down from the ladder, walked to the side wall of the room, reached out, and his Mechanical Heart directly took over the power system of a hidden door behind it, and then forced it open!

*Hiss.*

At this moment, the outline of a door frame slowly appeared on the wall, then retracted into the wall, revealing a dark passage behind it.

…

“Confirmed, the target has appeared in the passage.”

“Collect target’s vital signs. Vital signs are normal, no injuries, heart rate is normal.”

In the research institute’s monitoring hall, the researchers finally saw Lin Xian’s figure on the monitoring screen.

Feng Chun looked at the figure, let out a sigh of relief, and pressed his earpiece.

“Close the passage, release the berserk zombie tide, and collect combat data.”

“Confirmed, releasing the berserk zombie tide into the passage.”

The dark passage suddenly lit up with bright lights. Lin Xian shielded his eyes slightly and looked up. He saw that he was now in a very long white passage, with no end in sight.

*Ugh, ah!!!*

Before he had taken a few steps, Lin Xian felt the floor vibrating slightly. At the same time, a small hissing sound came from a distance.

Lin Xian immediately looked behind him. The door he had just forced open was closed again, and there was no way back.

So he looked up and saw several hidden cameras above his head.

…

“Attention, control the zombie density. Don’t give too much pressure at once. We must ensure the survival of the target.”

“Okay, the density is currently at level 1.”

Feng Chun arranged the test intensity and looked at the monitoring screen. He suddenly found that the person in the monitor was also looking up at the direction of the monitor, as if he were looking at him.

“This guy, how does he seem to be able to see us?”

Feng Chun frowned and immediately instructed, “Attention, if the monitor is destroyed, be sure to confirm the target’s actions and vital signs.”

But before he could finish his words, the light on the monitoring screen suddenly dimmed, and the entire monitor turned pitch black.

“What’s going on?!” Feng Chun shouted immediately.

“Checking and confirming. The circuit system is all normal,” a researcher operated the computer with a sweaty head.

*Rat-tat-tat!*

At this moment, a series of gunshots came from the monitor’s sound, and the sound became more and more dense.

“The target has engaged the enemy! Quick, fix the lighting!”

*Clang.*

Before he could finish, the light in the monitor lit up again. Everyone looked over and saw that the passage was now a bloody mess, with the shredded corpses and blood of more than a dozen zombies splattered everywhere. On the other side, in front of Lin Xian, a Roarer Gatling electric rotary machine gun mounted on a cart had appeared out of nowhere, its hot muzzle still steaming.

“Where did he get that from?”

“Why is there a cart???”

“It’s impossible to take such a big thing out of the body, right? Could it be related to some kind of special space?”

“Confirm the target’s ability activation mode and actions. Is it created out of thin air, taken out, or transformed?” Feng Chun’s forehead was sweating at this moment, and he said angrily, “Keep your eyes peeled! Even if he pulls it out of his crotch, you have to see clearly whether he used his left hand or his right hand!!!”

“Continue to prepare the berserk zombie tide.”

“Director, what level should we set this time?”

“Maximum level!”

*Ugh, ah!!!!*

In the distance of the passage, the dark doors on both sides opened in unison, and countless zombies poured out crazily. These zombies seemed to have undergone some kind of modification and mutation, and they ran madly towards the entrance where Lin Xian was.

*Vroom, vroom!!!!!*

The Gatling gun roared wildly. Lin Xian, while firing and strafing, pushed the gun mount cart over the corpse fragments and advanced through the passage. The dense crowd of zombies in front was pierced by his rain-like metal stream. Ordinary human bodies could not withstand it at all, and they were in a closed passage.

The bullets were like a hot knife cutting through chives, without any pressure, directly crushing them.

Lin Xian didn’t waste any time. He pushed the gun mount, holding the electric knife in his hand, and advanced quickly. He soon reached the end of the passage.

*Clang*, Lin Xian opened an iron door. Further ahead was a black passage like a circular pipe, completely different from the bright passage just now.

Lin Xian reached out and touched it. His Mechanical Heart unfolded. He then frowned and immediately stepped in and walked forward quickly.

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