Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 113 46. Hey, Phantom Thief Zhou Ke! Do you like my "Mimetic Time Maze"?

"I hate the architecture of this place. It would be great if it could be blown down. It's such an eyesore!"

In a quiet forest, Zhou Ke, carrying an armed backpack, looked back at the Torii Shrine built on the hill behind him. He really couldn't understand why there was such an unlucky place in another world.

"What are you crazy about? This shrine is a place that everyone loves!"

Moni, who was wearing tights to facilitate movement, complained:
"The witches inside are very exciting. When I was a kid, I loved coming here to watch them dance. Of course, when I grew up and knew what the witches would do with the drunken guests after dancing, I knew that this place was the 'man's paradise' in the Parnis Ecological Park.

If you blow this up, most of the middle and upper class men in the city-state will hate you to death."

"Heh, this is a filthy place. It really fits my stereotype."

Zhou Ke commented with disdain, then looked around. D-4 had opened a hidden ventilation structure not far away and was releasing a drone for diving reconnaissance. Moni was already fully armed and appropriately wearing a full-face mask used by thieves.

Weng Meiyu was also beside him, taking out a sophisticated mechanical key from a box she was carrying.

"You can only use this once."

She handed the key to Zhou Ke and emphasized:

"I used my high-level connections in the Panis Group to reproduce the key. It can forcibly open all the access areas of the underground structure. It will automatically destroy itself thirty minutes after being activated. In other words, you only have thirty minutes to escape after finding the Time Beast."

"If, as you said, the underground area is just an area for raising ornamental animals in the ecological park and providing 'non-GMO meat' for the dignitaries in the city-state, then thirty minutes is definitely enough."

Zhou Ke put away the key and said:

"This place certainly doesn't look like a dangerous place like Creedburg."

He talked to Moni for a few words, and when he turned around, he saw that Weng Meiyu had no intention of leaving, and said in surprise:

"Why are you still here? Want to come down with us?"

"No, I just... uh, I know you both hate surprises, but what can I say? A capricious employer suddenly adds requirements."

Weng Meiyu turned sideways somewhat helplessly, allowing Zhou Ke to see the woman who emerged from "invisibility" behind her. Moni immediately drew his gun and aimed, and Zhou Ke's armed backpack also entered the pre-activation mode as the mechanical arm extended.

"This is Afu."

Weng Meiyu introduced:

"A psionicist who is in charge of the employer's security. She will go down with you."

"Oh, it's her."

Zhou Ke narrowed his eyes.

Although Weng Meiyu's words were vague, her meaning was actually very clear. This woman was the mysterious fellow she had mentioned before.

"Our employer is really good at doing things. He is very picky. He insisted on sending a 'supervisor' here, which clearly shows that he does not trust our ability to do the job."

Moni said sarcastically:

"But now that they're here, it's hard to chase them away, right?"

"Believe me, sir, I didn't want to come either. Who wouldn't want to be around a group of handsome men and beautiful women and enjoy their hypocritical yet wonderful performances? If possible, I don't want to be a rat tonight."

Psychic Master Afu said rudely:
“But that’s the job, so I suggest we all stop complaining and just make the most of the time, okay?
I heard that a chef will cook some delicacies from the old civilization tonight. As a bumpkin from the Badlands, I don’t want to miss the rare opportunity to feast on a delicious meal.”

"Hey, we're all from the Bad Land, so don't be so shy, let's go."

Zhou Ke saw D-4 making an "everything is safe" gesture to him, and without saying anything more, he winked at Weng Meiyu and told her to hurry back to the venue, then took Moni and Afu into the ventilation equipment.

It is worth mentioning that when Afu was close to D-4, he took the opportunity of climbing the stairs to reach out and try to take advantage of her, but his fingers were almost crushed by D-4.

"It is not a good tactical choice for a psionicist to provoke a killing machine at close range, ma'am."

D-4 warned them in a voice that only the two of them could hear:
"Even if an Ascended person's spine is shattered, he will die. For your own safety, I suggest you control your overexcited hormones."

“I can’t control these hands.”

Afu whispered:
"Your master is truly a genius in the world of sexiness. He designed your skin to be extremely 'seductive'. The best part is, he also made your 'soul' quite alluring."

"I'll take that as a compliment, but again, keep your hands to yourself!"

D-4 replied, then quickly climbed down the maintenance ladder and used the three-dimensional structure diagram given by Wu Neng in his mind to guide the three people to quickly pass through the temperature control equipment in front.

The underground structure of the Panis Ecological Park is quite complex. It is responsible for raising ornamental animals and is part of a meat slaughterhouse. Therefore, it is divided into six different areas to meet the survival needs of different animals.

In other words, the Panis Group has retained a considerable portion of the old civilization's biotechnology, otherwise other consortium directors would not be able to do this job.

There is another reason why this area is so well designed.

"Every month, the best of the animals here are picked and sent to the Garden of Eden."

Moni explained in a low voice:
"The same goes for the fruits and vegetables produced in the ecological park. The best quality ones will not be left for the surface world to enjoy. My grandfather was determined to spend all his family wealth to build this place just to please those 'people in heaven'.

Of course, now he is also one of the heavenly people.

The Garden of Eden has a huge demand for fresh fruits, vegetables and meat, and the Panis Ecological Park shoulders this important responsibility.

This is also the confidence of the Panis Group when facing Little Acholi.

Even the surface governor cannot take such a big risk to anger his fellow villagers. In short, although the Panis Group is just a marginal director, it has a lot of good things in its hands.

The Maca Group wants the biological weapons department, the Ledis Group is eyeing the eco-park industry, and the Weng Group is even more eager to take over the medical industry.

But everyone knows that only by serving the masters in heaven well can our good days on the earth continue.

Oh, how sad it is."

"but why?"

Zhou Ke followed D-4 into the elevator and went underground, while asking:
"I have always been curious about what kind of power does the Garden of Eden possess that can make millions of people on the surface world so obedient?"

"I do not know."

Moni rolled his eyes and said:
"But they must have some kind of leverage."

"The Garden of Eden has methods to curb the attacks of monsters. In fact, over the past thirty years, the area of the Bad Land has not been further reduced by the occupied areas surrounded on all sides. It is not because the border guards stationed on the border are so powerful.

In addition to being lucky enough not to encounter the fertility month, a large part of the reason is that the Garden of Eden has been exerting some unknown influence on the surface of the earth. "

Afu suddenly said:

"We don't know what kind of influence they exert yet, but we can be sure that the Evil Land Era can last for thirty-eight years because of the existence of the Garden of Eden. The powerful people in the surface world must obey, because the button of 'destruction' has always been in the hands of the people in heaven."

"Ok?"

The three people in the elevator turned their heads in unison to look at Afu, and even D-4 showed a rather surprised expression.

This reaction was obviously within Afu's calculations. She smiled mysteriously under the mask and said frivolously:

"What? You think it's surprising that I know all this? Oh, of course we have our own information channels. There's no need to guess my identity, Zhou Ke. I know exactly what you did in Niujiao Gorge and the marginal black market!
Yes, I am from Jiubang.

Want to know more about the heavenly beings?
I can tell you, without reservation, that some of the truth is beyond your imagination.”

"Then what do I have to pay?"

Zhou Ke asked, and Afu pointed to D-4 and said:

"I want her!"

"Not for sale, no bargaining. And if you mention it again, I'll put this lovely bullet into your mouth."

Zhou Ke suddenly lost interest in asking further questions.

This reaction made Afu's eyes glow even more mysteriously, as if a fire was burning.

She really "likes" D-4, this unique robot girl, and now after seeing Zhou Ke's special feelings for D-4, this liking seems to be accompanied by a twisted desire to "steal other people's treasures."

He is indeed a psychic with serious mental problems.

Moni, who was standing beside him, was silent for a few seconds. He went down the elevator and passed by the fully automated slaughterhouse. Amid the cries of the pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered outside, he asked:
"So, what is the relationship between Little Acholi and Eagle State? Even in Eagle State, where psionicists gather, there are very few Ascendants like you. The fact that you were sent to protect Little Acholi shows that the close cooperation between you two is beyond the imagination of others."

"If you really want to get to the bottom of it"

Ah Fu shrugged and said:

"I can only tell you that little Acholi is, in a sense, also an 'extra member' of the Eagle State."

"What?"

Moni exclaimed:
"He's a psionicist too?"

"No, he's just an idiot with a brain full of white mud and an overdeveloped corpus cavernosum in his lower body."

Afu said disdainfully:

"If he wasn't from a lower-class family, I wouldn't even bother to look at him. Can you imagine? After I clearly told him my sexual orientation, that guy still didn't give up on luring me into his bed, and the reason was just to taste the taste of a 'witch'.

Just as foolish, unruly, and stubborn as he was when he was a child."

"Are you also a celestial being?" Zhou Ke suddenly asked:

"Otherwise it cannot explain why you have seen little Acholi when he was a child. Let's speculate further. You and little Acholi grew up together? Childhood sweethearts? If you are a celestial being, then the origin of Jiubang is worth pondering.

So, before young Acholi arrived on the surface and became Archon, he had already established his own power in the Badlands?

The Eagle State is his handle to go deep into the bad land to find something, and you who grew up with him are his spokesperson in the Eagle State? After all, the tone you used when discussing little Acholi really doesn't seem like the attitude a servant should have towards his master.

The tone of voice that makes you sound annoyed whenever you mention it, it seems like you have been friends for many years, maybe something happened between you when you were still normal?"

Afu immediately shut up.

She realized that she had just leaked a piece of information that was enough to get her severely punished by the eldest lady, and then glared at Zhou Ke, as if scolding him not to be so sensitive.
Dry!
Can you infer this from just a few details?

Why don't you become a famous detective? It's really unfair for you to come here and be a thief!

"Ha, it seems that I guessed right, at least part of it."

Zhou Ke glanced at Afu with a playful look and said:
"Do you still want my D-4 now? If you apologize obediently, I will forget all my previous inferences. You are a psionicist. Although you are an ascender, you don't look very smart."

"Don't bully her, Zhou Ke."

Moni was happy. He waved his hands and said:

"Just focus on your work. Don't make him angry. Be careful or he might cast a psychic spell and bury us all."

"Coming."

D-4 spoke:

"Seventy meters underground, the 'precious animal samples' of the Panis Group are stored. According to the information provided by little Acholi, the time beast is in this area. It is said that it needs a special environment to grow healthily.

Actually, I don’t really understand. If this thing is really so important, why would the Flash Organization place it in the ecological park of the Panis Group to raise it?
Shouldn't such an important thing be in our own hands?"

"Because the base used by the Flash Organization to breed Time Beasts was gone. That was an unexpected incident."

Afu, who had just been confronted, said in a cold tone:

“They suffered an indescribable blow in that incident, which severely damaged their power on the surface. Otherwise, even the reckless Little Acholi would not have acted rashly given their size in their heyday.

Right now is the time when the Flash Organization is at its weakest on the surface, but they have begun to rebuild. If little Acholi fails to seize this opportunity, his ambition to destroy the Flash Organization will be in vain.

You obviously know something.

But unfortunately, your understanding of the facts is just a glimpse of the leopard through the tube, just like a blind man touching an elephant, you can only piece together some fragmented information and then make associations. In fact, in recent times, the pattern of the surface world has changed more dramatically than you imagined.

If you want to know the important information.”

She glanced at Zhou Ke, shook her head and said:
"Don't be afraid. I have seen your sharp wisdom. I will not ask you to give me the precious D-4. This is an invitation, Zhou Ke! When you decide to leave the city-state area, Jiubang will open its arms to you.

We welcome you to visit our territory, and even welcome you to join us. After all, you also have some residual psychic energy in you, and you are one of us.

Ms. Vulture is going to do something dangerous, and someone like you would be very useful."

“Cool, another offer!”

Zhou Ke complained:
"I've done nothing in the Badlands, I've been accepting offers all day. If this thing could really bring wealth, I would have been a billionaire in the City-State long ago."

"arrive."

D-4 called out a warning, and the hatch opened as the elevator dropped into the ground.

The staff who were doing routine patrol in the corridor outside turned back in surprise, and were greeted by anesthetic guns in the hands of Zhou Ke and Moni.

With the sound of "pu pu pu", the five staff members instantly fell to the ground. Afu stepped forward, took out a medicine bottle, took out the pills and stuffed them into the mouths of these unfortunate guys. She said:

"This drug will cause them to suffer short-term amnesia. Well, there is a small chance that it will cause some bad sequelae, but that's not what we need to worry about.

Let's go. "

She raised her finger, waved her hand in front of Zhou Ke, and threw out a ball of pink smoke-like spiritual energy, allowing it to spread and dissipate along the aisle.

It should be some kind of detection and control spell.

Zhou Ke took out two filter masks from his armed backpack and threw one to Moni. Fortunately, Wuneng had this thing in his regular equipment, otherwise Zhou Ke would not dare to walk into the spell of a psychic with a perverse personality.

They walked into the strictly temperature and humidity controlled corridor in front of them. In the glass enclosures on both sides were various "precious creatures", which were actually ornamental animals specially provided to the powerful. In addition to a large number of ornamental fish, there were also some animals that were rarely seen in the Badlands but were quite common in Zhou Ke's memory.

White foxes, purple minks, broad-eared foxes, cheetah cubs, and more.

A group of furry little animals lay cutely in their own breeding boxes, staring with big eyes curiously at the four guys in front of them who were different from the "poop shovelers" they saw in daily life.

But the further you go inside, the more outrageous the creatures stored here become.

D-4 saw an Asian elephant drinking water with its trunk in a huge biological cabinet. This was the first time she saw a living elephant. Even Afu, whose origins were mysterious, stood in front of a biological cabinet of a female hyena, reaching out to touch the constant temperature glass with a subtle look in her eyes.

“It’s like an oversized zoo.”

Zhou Ke looked at the numerous breeding cabinets around him. He glanced at the tortoise lying in the glass cabinet at his feet and a white lion baring its teeth at him, and couldn't help but say:
"This number has far exceeded the standard for breeding. It's more like a 'biological storage bank'. Did your grandfather really build this place just to lick the heavenly beings? Why do I feel like the old man has other ideas?"

"Don't ask me, this is my first time here too."

Moni was also shocked by the huge breeding area in front of him. He said softly:
"As far as I can remember, my grandfather was indeed a man with great humanistic concerns. When he was young, he was a zoologist. It is said that when the old civilization collapsed, he did his best to rescue those endangered creatures.

I boil!

Is my understanding of grandpa wrong?

Besides being lustful and having countless lovers throughout his life, did the old man really want to preserve some of the spark of the old civilization in the Badlands era?
Is he the good guy in the legend?
Shit, a good person can come from the Panis family? This is a fact that has shocked me for a thousand years. "

"The older generation always tries to preserve some good memories. It's their instinct."

Zhou Ke shook his head and said:
"Maybe it's out of selfishness, maybe there are other purposes, but no matter what, today's trip is really worth it. Look how fat this quail is. It must be very delicious to roast it."

"No! These are the last two in the Badlands. Uh, are they called 'Quail'?"

Moni looked at Zhou Ke with strange eyes and said:

"There's no biological information on it. How do you know it?"

"Just think of me as someone who is particularly gifted in this area."

Zhou Ke briefly skipped over this question that would expose his identity, and finally took a look at the breeding cabinet behind him. He strode forward and patted Afu on the shoulder, saying:

“Don’t try to let the hyena out! Although its big eyes are full of desire for the outside world, believe me, your actions will not bring it freedom! They can’t adapt to the current bad land environment at all. You are murdering them if you take them away.

Let them stay here.

This is the last 'Garden of Eden' left for them in the apocalyptic era."

"Ow."

This time, Afu didn't refute, she just responded.

She looked at the disappointed female hyena in the cabinet, waved to it, and then walked to the deepest part of the breeding area with Zhou Ke.

There was a strange circular space there, and through the glass everyone could see a very special creature squatting on the cat climbing frame.

Like a cross between a koala and a capybara, this little creature looks quite pretty, with black eyes like gemstones. It squats there, slowly stuffing leaves into its mouth, and there is always a special ochre-colored ripple of light flickering next to this creature.

"Time Beast! The juvenile, that's it!"

Afu moved her fingers and said:

“It can move freely in a time-chaotic environment and can act as a guide after simple training. If we can’t master the time power, this little thing can lead us in and out of the time maze smoothly!
That’s the instinct for how it was written.”

"You want it to enter the Time Maze?"

Zhou Ke raised his eyebrows and said:
"Time Labyrinth No. 11? Is Ms. Evil Eagle going to explore there? Little Acholi gave us this job request for her. Hmm, the relationship between them seems to be unusual."

"Concentrate your overactive mind, Zhou Ke! Now is not the time for you to ask questions."

Afu scolded:
"Wait here. I'll go collect the Time Beast. It's a psychic creature and needs special methods to be taken away. Don't come over here, or you won't alarm it."

After saying that, she carefully pushed open the cabinet and walked in.

A few seconds later, just when Afu was about to touch the silly time beast, Zhou Ke suddenly rubbed his eyes. Perhaps because of the residual clairvoyance, he discovered that there was a special "bump" under Afu's feet that emitted fluorescence and did not seem to exist in the material world.

"Stop!"

he shouted.

Afu looked back in surprise, but her left foot had already touched the bulge.

Then, a yellowish-brown light circle burst out in front of everyone's eyes. Zhou Ke had just enough time to grab D-4 with his left hand and hold Moni with his right hand, but he was completely swallowed up by the light circle in the next moment.

A few seconds later, the time beast that didn't look very smart was still leisurely stuffing leaves into its mouth.

But there was no one around it.

(End of this chapter)