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Published at 24th of June 2024 10:06:54 AM


Chapter 490.2

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Bai Lixin no longer paid attention to the two screaming systems in his mind, and only focused on the model in front of him.


This time, the model was no longer split in two, and the human part had become even smaller, accounting for only two-fifths of the body.

The two legs of the model had all turned into a mechanical body.

The light moved again, and there was another pair of wide-open eyes.

Escape system: [Ahhhh!]

On the third model, the human part had been reduced further.

Apart from half being mechanical, the model’s lower part from the abdomen down had all become mechanical.

Seeing these models, Bai Lixin guessed the research direction of this laboratory.

The so-called new humans have their human body parts that naturally age replaced by metal, turning into more powerful half-mechanical humans.

He walked back again, and unsurprisingly, a fourth model appeared in front of him.

The escape system: “…”

‘I’m so numb, I can’t even scream.’

S419M: “…”

Forget it, it doesn’t matter anymore, I’m so numb, it’s just a model and it can’t move, so just do whatever you want.’

This time, the human proportion in the model was even lower.

The human structure was only from the neck up, while from the neck below was all turned into metal.

Bai Lixin spent an unusually long time looking at this model. He narrowed his eyes to observe, then took two steps back and suddenly raised the lighting device in his hand, shining the glaring light straight into the model’s eyes.

In that moment, the model, which should have been still, suddenly blinked its eyes.

There was no warning, just like a fake corpse.

The escape system: [Ahhhh!]

S419M: [Ahhh!]

Bai Lixin snorted lightly from his nostrils and took several steps back again.

In a blink if an eye, an eerie sound suddenly reached his ears.

“Click!”

“Click!”

“Click!”

The sharp sounds echoed loudly in the quiet room, like rusted heavy machinery struggling to work, metal rubbing against metal.

The light quickly swept through the air.

The models, which had been standing quietly just now, all moved.

But their movements were strange; the human part remained stiff and only the mechanical part moved.

The mechanical body dragged the human torso, closing in on Bai Lixin.

Among these half-mechanical beings, the first model had the poorest mobility. The subsequent models all had their legs replaced with machinery, at least making walking unhindered.

The first model’s human part hung stiffly on its body, and the model could only hop forward with its one mechanical leg.

There happened to be some scattered scrap iron at Bai Lixin’s feet. He kicked the scrap iron towards the first model, and as the mechanical foot landed in the air, it stepped on the uneven scrap iron, and immediately toppled to the ground.

With a dull “bang”, dust flew up from the ground.

In the blurry surroundings due to raised dust, Bai Lixin saw the first model still trying to get up. The human part had hit the ground first, and under the weight of the heavy mechanical part, the human part, which had already lost its elasticity and extensibility, instantly became a bloody mess.

The eyeball was squeezed out of its socket and drooped outward, with a strand of faded black flesh pulling at it to prevent it from falling.

The arm was dislocated from the pressure, a pale bone broke through the skin and protruded from the collarbone, and the crushed leg lay on the ground, bent in a most unnatural fold.

The model struggled and clumsily stood up, continuing to slowly approach Bai Lixin.

As it moved, the broken arm and leg swung back and forth, looking eerie and terrifying.

It hopped over, and because of the large amplitude of its jumps, the black strand of flesh on the human eyeball couldn’t bear the weight anymore, and the eyeball slowly slid out of the eye socket, rolling onto the ground.

The one-legged model stepped directly on the ground and the eyeball.

With a “snap”, the eyeball exploded and a pool of blood formed on the floor.

As if sensing that the dangling human limb was impeding its movement, the mechanical arm raised its hand and quickly and forcefully pulled the broken arm and leg.

The skin was forcibly torn open, revealing the dark red muscles, tendons, and bones inside, followed by the sound of bones and tendons being pulled. After a few “clicks”, the mechanical arm pulled the arm off expressionlessly and threw it on the ground.

Then, using the same motion, it quickly pulled off the leg.

When the obstructing human limbs were removed, the first model continued to hop forward quickly, soon catching up with the other models and joining the pursuit of Bai Lixin.

Bai Lixin made a brief observation and found that although these models were a combination of human and machine, the human parts had long been completely dead, and only the mechanical parts were still functioning.

In other words, what was chasing him were not new humans, but robots!

It was as if the robots had gone through an adaptation period. Their mechanical joints became more and more flexible, and their speed in chasing Bai Lixin became faster and faster.

Only then did Bai Lixin retract his gaze and seriously started playing a parkour game of cat and mouse with these four models in the laboratory corridor.

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In the live broadcast room.

[Ah ah ah, ambulance, ambulance.]

[Beep, beep, beep, the ambulance is here, get on quickly.]

[And me.]

[Add me too.]

[I want to get on, wuuuu.]

[This copy has deeply hurt me. I’ve been watching the live broadcast for ten days, and there haven’t been any scary scenes at all. I thought this copy was definitely an intelligence type. I wasn’t prepared at all. I need to pee.]

[I’m already peeing.]

[Beep, pee card.]

[These robots are too scary. The human parts are just pulled off like that. Although I know that God Xin is in a virtual world now, I’m still scared. It’s too realistic.]

[Brother, if you’re finished in the virtual world, you’re finished in the real world. Have you forgotten the previous scene where the old man was taken away for causing trouble? Then things really got bad in the real world?]

[Fuck, right, I had forgotten about that. So if you are finished in the virtual world, will you be finished in the real world too? Then isn’t God Xin really unlucky? In the real world, he has heavy punches and cheats, but in this virtual world, he’s no different from other ordinary people, and even his strength has become ordinary.]

[God Xin, danger!]

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Bai Lixin had cheats.

He had the entire map of this laboratory, he knew where the dead ends were, where the lab was and where to go, everything was clear to him.

He also had another cheat.

That’s the Trojan virus.

With this thing, he could open all electronic doors.

The light from the lighting device swayed as he ran. He ran through the maze-like laboratory, followed closely by four different-looking robots.

Ahead was a fork in the road.

Bai Lixin didn’t hesitate for a moment and turned directly to the right.

The four robots behind him quickly followed suit.

Bai Lixin and the robots behind him maintained a relatively safe distance. He ran through the laboratory corridor, looking confused yet very calm.

Soon, Bai Lixin encountered a tightly closed iron door.

He stopped, and his eyes swept over the four robots with an expressionless face.

As the distance between the robots and him narrowed, Bai Lixin suddenly reached out for the wall.

It was unknown what mechanism he touched, the bodies of the four robots abruptly became shorted, then all fell downward in unison, disappearing completely from Bai Lixin’s sight.

“Bang.”

“Bang.”

“Bang.”

Bai Lixin could still hear the sound of the metal impact as he stood in the corridor.

He held up the lighting device, moved forward cautiously, and suddenly discovered a square hole on the originally flat corridor floor. The four robots that had been pursuing him relentlessly were trapped in a pit several-meter-deep pit, entangled with each other and looking quite awkward.

Bai Lixin decisively pressed the switch again, and the pit in the corridor slowly closed, securely trapping the four robots inside.

Even after closing the pit, he could still hear the sounds of metal grinding and scratching against each other under the floor. He didn’t know when these robots would come out, but for the time being, they wouldn’t be able to harass him again.

This mechanism was something he discovered on the map. He ran back and forth in the corridor to lure these robots here.

And this place was almost the central area of the laboratory. The corridors on both sides were laboratories, and the large iron door behind him seemed to lead to one of them.

Unlike the laboratories with normal silver metal doors around, the laboratory door behind him was exceptionally heavy.

According to common sense, special decorations meant special experimental subjects.

The more valuable the research material, the more ritualistic it needed to be.

Bai Lixin quickly looked around the laboratory and directly chose the large iron door behind him.

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

“Bang!”

The ground sounded like it was being pounded, as the four robots tried to come out from below.

Bai Lixin glanced at the ground, where there were already dents.

He just glanced at it and then focused his gaze on the large iron door in front of him.

It turned out that the heavy iron door was not password locked. There was a deadbolt on the iron door, and a huge metal lock hung on it, firmly locking the iron door.

S419M exclaimed in surprise: [A lock! Lord Host, hurry, try using that key. That key might be able to open this lock!]

Bai Lixin silently took out the key from his pocket and inserted it in the lock.

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In the live broadcast room, the audience held their breath, nervously watching the keyhole and the key.

Behind the young man in the center of the screen, the dents in the ground had become more pronounced, with some areas even showing cracks.

The audience’s hearts raced, nervously watching the scene unfold before them.

[Hurry, God Xin, hurry up! Those four robots are about to break out!]

[Fuck, this is even more nerve-wracking than when I am clearing copies myself. My heart feels like it’s about to jump out of my chest.]

The audience stared wide-eyed on the lock in the middle of the screen.

The key was firmly inserted into the deepest part of the lock.

When Bai Lixin turned it, there was a “click”, and the lock, which was about half the thickness of his wrist, opened.

The heavy lock fell to the ground with a resounding “clang,” creating a small crater.

The corridor behind had already cracked open, and three eerie robotic arms stretched out from inside.

Once again, the audience’s hearts jumped to their throats.

On the screen, Bai Lixin opened the iron door just before the four robots climbed out, then rushed into the room and slammed the iron door shut.

Seeing the four robots trapped outside the iron door, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief simultaneously, releasing the tension that had been gripping their throats.

[Too thrilling! My heart is pounding like a pendulum.]

[But…the speed of a pendulum isn’t fast.]

[I knew 99.99% of the time that God Xin would safely get through, but I still couldn’t help feeling nervous. Ah.]

As the audience in the barrage discussed, the scene in front of them suddenly changed.

The deep corridor and the four terrifying robots disappeared from the screen, replaced by a somewhat dark enclosed space.

In the scene, a calm young man stood by the wall with an lighting device, slowly surveying the surroundings as the light moved.

Halfway through illuminating, the lighting device suddenly flickered rapidly, as if it had a malfunction.

Amidst the light and shadow, there seemed to be some movement in the room.

The young man seemed to have heard the movement too, and his expression was slightly serious as the light moved towards that direction.

But before the light reached there, the lighting device in his hand made a crackling sound, and the screen plunged into darkness completely.

In the pitch-black screen, the audience could only hear the discordant sound and Bai Lixin’s faint breathing.

Once again, everyone’s hearts leaped to their throats.

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Bai Lixin pressed his back tightly against the wall.

This was a defensive posture in dangerous situations; the back was the most vulnerable part, so he only needed to be wary of the front.

The Lighting device in his hand was already broken. Bai Lixin held his breath and listened intently.

“Tap.”

“Tap.”

“Tap.”

It was the rhythmic sound of shoes hitting the ground, like something was moving on the ground.

In other copies, he might think it was a person, but in this copy, he couldn’t be sure. Besides being human, it could also be a robot.

But in the pitch-black darkness, Bai Lixin couldn’t see what it was.

The footsteps gradually approached, getting closer to Bai Lixin.

As the sound became clearer, Bai Lixin tried to throw the lighting device in his hand toward the thing and the lighting device hit something hard.

“Bang!”

The lighting device fell to the ground and completely shattered into several pieces.

The indistinct thing continued to move towards him without any hesitation.

The footsteps finally stopped just a stone’s throw away.

In the darkness, something swished through the air and was thrown out

The thing hit the solid wall with a muffled “thud.”

At the same time, another sound pierced through the air, and appeared behind the thing at lightning speed.

In the pitch-black darkness, the only sounds that could be heard were the sounds of a scuffle, collisions, and the rubbing of clothes.

However, this sound lasted only a short time. After the loud noises, Bai Lixin’s soft cry of pain was heard in the darkness.

“Huh?” Another man’s voice suddenly rang out. It was low and hoarse, with a certain electric texture, “Who are you?”





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