From the end of the world

Chapter 178 Visiting the Girl Lu Chan
The corridor is now empty.

There are no guards, no Chen dragons, no passing researchers, etc. It's a good opportunity to get out and move.

I moved to the corridor in stealth mode, and walked forward quietly while recalling the route to the "special cell where the girl Lu Chan was imprisoned" that the senior researcher had told me before.

Next, you must avoid fighting with the guards as much as possible.

The real problem is not the guards, but Chen Long who is very likely to come after hearing the news. Maybe the mana fluctuations I emitted when fighting with the guards just now have made Chen Long realize that "the intruder is Zhuang Cheng", so I can't expect him to treat me carelessly as an ordinary demon hunter who accidentally escaped from the cell. He will definitely rush to the scene at supersonic speed as soon as possible.

It seems a bit strange when I think about it. Although his movement speed is fast, there should be a more efficient means of movement, that is shadow teleportation. If he used that trick just now, I would not have time to hide in the Iron Maiden and would be caught on the spot.

Is it because this independent reality space is difficult to enter and exit, so it is inconvenient for him to use the space transfer method with the shadow world as a relay station? But I didn't feel any similar obstacles when I was teleported here.

Also, since this base is heavily guarded, there must be surveillance cameras or props with similar functions in the corridors and cells, but I can't see anything like that now. So how will it develop? Will the guards be unable to capture me through the surveillance cameras because there are no surveillance cameras in my subjective world? Or can they monitor my activities normally?

While moving, I used the Outer Path Impermanence Sword as a "staff" and summoned several "fireflies".

One part was responsible for exploring the route, while the other part was responsible for searching Chang'an.

Sometimes I would see patrolling guards ahead. The guards were extremely tense, and the base seemed to be under martial law. Whenever I was about to meet them, I would hide in an empty room nearby and continue forward. Gradually, I developed a sense of déjà vu about the route I was taking.

Probably because this independent reality space was cut out from the space where the old base of the Humanitarian Department was located in the past, although the "decoration" is very different, the overall route is exactly the same as the old base of the Humanitarian Department. I have carefully explored the old base of the Humanitarian Department before, and I will not make a wrong judgment in this regard. And in my memory, I have seen a room with a sign of "Supervisor's Office" on the top floor of the old base of the Humanitarian Department. It is probably the office of the person in charge of managing the facilities.

In other words, does that correspond to the room where Doctor Silver Mask is located in this secret base?
Maybe there are important clues related to the doomsday in the supervisor's office, but it is not convenient for me to fight with Dr. Silver Mask now. As Ying Lingyun's "possible clone", Dr. Silver Mask may also have a high-level combat power. If he has rich combat experience, then if we are at the same level, I will lose; even if he is a rookie like me, I will not be able to finish the battle in a short time and I will be defeated by Chen Long who will rush to the scene later.

Even if I am destroyed here, I will not really die. I will just wake up through the body left in the Luoshan Office. But that ending is really too ugly.

In addition, although this is just speculation, the fragment of the divine seal that I sensed at the old base of the Humanitarian Department, the location of which could not be locked no matter what, was most likely the one on Doctor Silver Mask.

After all, the old base of the Humanitarian Department and this independent reality space are essentially the same place, but the latter was cut out by Ying Lingyun with miraculous means. I don't quite understand the relationship between this independent reality space and the main reality world now, but if there is still some kind of mysterious relationship between the two, it is not unreasonable that I can sense the fragments of the divine seal here in the old base of the Humanitarian Department in the main reality world.

The fragment of the divine seal should be very important to Ying Lingyun himself, and he actually left it inside this secret base, which shows that this secret base has extraordinary significance.

From the moment the senior researcher mentioned "restart", I had already made an association. Although there are clear restrictions, no matter what, this secret base really has the power of "resurrection from the dead".

It is very likely that helping the Humanitarian Department hide the secret base is only Ying Lingyun's secondary purpose. What is really important in his mind is probably the in-depth exploration of the theme of "Resurrection of Silver Moon".

With only this stronghold, he could trace back a maximum of eight months, and the body and soul of the deceased must be left behind to achieve the "restart" of resurrection. Of course, it was impossible to resurrect Yin Yue who died more than ten years ago. However, he might be able to gain some inspiration and experience from it.

After bypassing countless guards and researchers, I finally arrived at the door of the special cell where the girl Lu Chan was imprisoned.

This cell is obviously different from the place where I and the ordinary experimental subjects are imprisoned.

The difference can be seen from the door panels. The cell where we were imprisoned only had an ordinary iron door, while the special cell where the girl Lu Chan was imprisoned had an ultra-thick metal hatch that reminded people of a bank vault. However, the material was still black iron, and it was covered with rust, as if it had been soaked in sea water for who knows how many years. The door handle also looked like the rudder of a sailboat.

There is also a keyhole on it. According to common sense, the key that matches this large-sized hatch cannot be the same as the key for those iron doors. However, thinking about the various abnormalities that happened to me, I still took out my extremely shabby iron key and poked it into the keyhole of this luxurious hatch.

Then he really pushed it in.

Could it really be opened? I tried to turn the iron key. It was a rusty key and a rusty keyhole, but it didn't feel awkward and stuck. It turned very smoothly. And I could hear the sound of the lock cylinder moving from the inside.

The extremely heavy hatch swung slightly open to the outside, as if inviting me to enter.

Looking around, the two "fireflies" who were previously responsible for exploring the way ahead have now changed their jobs to sentinels, guarding the corners of the corridors at both ends. No one is approaching here for the time being.

I pulled the hatch outwards with force. It felt more like pulling a fully loaded cart than opening a door, with a strong sense of heavy inertia. I only opened it a little bit, and then I slipped sideways into the open gap. Just like the cell I was in before, there was no lighting in the special cell. Thinking carefully, it was not normal to not turn on the lights in the laboratory. Sure enough, this was also a problem of my cognition. Fortunately, with the help of the fiery red light that was faintly visible through the wire mesh floor, I was able to see the specific appearance of this place clearly.

There were no dazzling array of torture instruments, no blood plasma or rancid smells, and it seemed empty. Apart from the old rust and dust that could be seen everywhere in this secret base, this special cell could be said to be quite tidy.

There was a lonely cross in the middle of the cell - the people here seemed to regard it as some kind of advanced "restraint device", and on the cross was a beautiful girl about fourteen or fifteen years old, wearing a white restraint suit.

Her long black hair, delicate face, and fair skin as if she had grown up in a greenhouse reminded people of a female student in an aristocratic school.

She was awake now, and since she was in this lonely space, she certainly wouldn't miss the obvious movement coming from the gate. Her eyes were focused on me, as if she was calmly observing who was coming.

Even though I was the one who took the initiative to visit, I don't know how to take the next step.

To be honest, the visiting girl Lu Chan has almost nothing to do with my main target. She doesn't seem to know any clues about the doomsday, and she probably doesn't know where Chang'an is. There is no sign of her telling me how to help Lu Youxun and Luo Shan attack this secret stronghold from the outside.

She is just a strange creature with a familiar name, like the noise of this horror stage, and may be potentially dangerous. Perhaps it is better to avoid her with caution.

I walked here almost without thinking about anything.

No, that's why I had to come here -

I couldn't bear to miss out on such a mysterious person.

It was not me who spoke first, but she.

"Zhuang Cheng...right?" This mysterious girl actually read out my name.

Did she know me? Or did she know my "identity" here? I couldn't figure out her intentions, so I just asked her directly: "Which Zhuang Cheng are you talking about?"

"Superpower Zhuang Cheng, outsider Wu Chang Zhuang Cheng, great Wu Chang qualified Zhuang Cheng..." She said faintly, "I know you are not an innocent twelve-year-old child who accidentally witnessed the battle scene of the Humanitarian Department while walking at night. I also know that your purpose of invading this secret base is to save your friends and destroy this place. I have learned all this through my outside self.

"I actually didn't react at first. It wasn't until you returned to the outside world midway and communicated with the other me about your activities here that I finally unraveled the cognitive distortion and grasped the truth."

"You in the outside world?" I felt like she had revealed something incredible. "Are you Lu Youxun's 'possible clone'?"

"'Possible clone'..."

She seemed to be feeling nostalgic, then shook her head: "Not really. If I must say, I am his relic."

"Lu Youxun is not dead yet." I said, "Since you are not his 'possible clone', how can you understand things through him in the outside world? Who are you?"

She showed some sadness.

"I am the past that he has abandoned, forgotten, and tabooed. I am his passion, his faith, his innocence, and his weakness. I am the thing he loves the most and hates the most."

"Sorry, I don't understand. Please compress it to less than ten words."

I just felt like she was singing a hymn, and it was particularly obscure and difficult to understand.

Hearing this, she thought for a moment, and then concluded: "Simply put, I am Lu Chan."

(End of this chapter)