Abnormal Doomsday Records

Chapter 178 28. We dug up the truth and found a corpse

"First, pick this up, then rotate it 75 degrees, and finally put that in and tighten the screws. Do you understand?"

“It doesn’t sound that difficult.”

During the conversation between Wuneng and Zhou Ke, Zhou Ke assembled together various weapon components pulled from the "corpses" of the two executed mechanical sages. Wuneng also manipulated the mechanical arm of the armed backpack to assist in some precision processing.

The two brothers are working together to upgrade Zhou Ke’s weapon backpack for the third time.

This won't take long.

Especially now that Wuneng has unlocked the "super brain", for it, using local materials to make an offensive auxiliary weapon that meets the requirements is no more difficult than instructing a kindergarten child to complete addition and subtraction within ten.

But everyone except Zhou Ke stood further out. Everyone stared at Zhou Ke, who was muttering to himself, with suspicion.

Especially Qiao Ya, this girl is very nervous at this moment.

She stared at the various weapon components that were constantly being assembled in Zhou Ke's hands, fearing that in a few minutes Zhou Ke would take out a "world-destroying gun" that could fire black holes and declare that he was going to give everyone a cruel death.

But Qiao Ya's exaggerated association is not groundless.

She is one of the few people who knows the relationship between Zhou Ke and D-4 best. She knows that although Zhou Ke has always claimed that he is an emotionless destruction machine, his soul also needs a harbor, and D-4 is currently his best harbor.

A big part of the reason why Zhou Ke's unstable mental state could miraculously hold up until now was because D-4 was carrying the heavy load. But now D-4 is gone, and exploded in the most tragic way right in front of Zhou Ke.

This kind of mental shock is enough to drive a normal person crazy, let alone a guy like Zhou Ke.

"Therefore, we need to conduct an in-depth examination of Mr. Zhou Ke's mental state."

The evil vulture also felt the difficulty of the problem.

As the leader of the Eagle Nation, she knew very well that the outward manifestations of many people's mental breakdown were not uncontrolled shouting and screaming. In fact, the calmer those who were always active were after suffering a blow, the more serious the problem was.

Especially after she heard from Qiao Ya about the shocking plan Zhou Ke made when he was on the verge of a mental breakdown last time, she felt that it was really necessary for her to shoulder the responsibilities of a collaborator at this time.

"You guys hold him down!"

The vulture flexed his fingers and said:

"I will check his mental state. If Zhou Ke's mental state is indeed in danger or his personality has collapsed, then we will immediately abandon this exploration and send him back to the city-state as quickly as possible.

Miss D-4 is gone, but that little brat Weng Meiyu might be able to make a cameo appearance until we get an effective treatment."

"Are you guys that worried?"

Amanda leaned against her motorcycle with a look of pain on her face. She said:

"No matter how I look at him, I feel that Zhou Ke is very normal now. He usually looks like this, and he doesn't seem to be sad at all, right? He even seems a little indifferent."

"This is even scarier, okay?"

Qiao Ya complained:
“You clearly knew about his relationship with D-4. If you had seen Ms. D-4 being blown up with your own eyes, would you have been as calm as he was?

This is 100% insane.
Other people can be defeated with just one punch, but Zhou Ke, hiss, that is not something that can be done with just a fist. "

"Hiss, now that you put it that way, it seems to be true!"

Amanda thought about it and suddenly realized that the problem seemed to be very serious.

So she immediately rolled up her sleeves and stepped forward. Before Zhou Ke could react, she suddenly turned into a ball of wind and sand and wrapped him up. The others rushed forward and pinned Zhou Ke down.

As the latter struggled unexpectedly, the evil vulture flashed over and pressed his eyelids.

"Don't be nervous, I'm just checking if you're mentally stable. Relax!"

She used some kind of psychic power with a hypnotic effect, trying to let her mind penetrate into Zhou Ke's mind to check his mental state.

Zhou Ke was not affected by hypnosis at all, but seeing how everyone was making such a fuss, he probably understood what they were worried about.

But rather than spend time explaining what "Plan B" is, Rhine should examine his mental state, which is not at risk at this time.

Well, let's speak with facts.

So, Zhou Ke relaxed his mental resistance and let the evil vulture's consciousness enter his mind, but the next second, the evil vulture screamed as if it had a sudden illness, and fell to the ground while vomiting blood, and lay on the ground twitching constantly.

Even rolled his eyes.

This scene frightened Afu so much that she screamed and hurried forward to support the young lady.

The latter took several seconds to catch her breath, then looked at Zhou Ke in shock. She wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and said tremblingly:
"What the hell is that thing in your spiritual world?"

"Well, didn't I tell you? It's a symbol of both the end and chaos."

Zhou Ke sighed helplessly and said:

"I've already told you I'm fine. If you don't believe me, you can only use your own methods to confirm it. Okay, let me go. D-4 is not dead! She just changed her method and waited outside for me to wake her up."

"Really? Are you sure?"

Qiao Ya said nervously:

"Don't scare me, Zhou Ke. I treat you as my family. So if you are really going to destroy the world in a way that I can't imagine but you are sure you can do, remember to leave me time to write a suicide note, okay?"

"Shut up! It's you who's spreading fear everywhere."

Zhou Ke rolled his eyes, and after the others loosened their restraints, he reached out and knocked Qiao Ya on the forehead, then went back to where he had been, cursing, and continued to assemble his new backpack.

Amid Wu Neng's frivolous laughter, Zhou Ke was speechless about the group of funny people around him.

But there is good news. After the "spiritual smuggling" suffered a heavy blow, the evil eagle Rhine finally no longer doubted the unique state that Zhou Ke usually described himself.

She is still in a trance now.

The confrontation between the black sun and the light corona that she had just seen with her own eyes had left her with some kind of indelible "mental imprint" that made it difficult for her to recover for a long time.

And she also has "good news".

After seeing the "dirty stuff" on Zhou Ke's body with his own eyes just now, his magic eyes, which had always been not very well behaved, became as quiet as a chicken at this moment.

It seemed frightened too.

"Work together!"

A few minutes later, Zhou Ke stood up, holding a strange-looking robotic arm in his hand.

This thing uses the unique mechanical arm of Mechanical Sage 07 as the main body, and adds some intelligent modules of Sage 09 and the previously picked up melta cannon and electromagnetic cannon.

Zhou Ke replaced the two arms, one long and one short, on his armed backpack. After Wuneng programmed the driver on the spot, the two rusty mechanical arms twisted and folded like mechanical snakes under the control of the universal joint. They were hidden in Zhou Ke's mechanical backpack and then completed the entire process of locking, aiming and rapid firing in a few microseconds.

A beam of scorching heat flew out and smashed the mechanical wreckage not far away. After Zhou Ke turned into lightning and landed on the ground, a hot melt knife popped out and stabbed three times in a row.

The accuracy and combat strength made Zhou Ke nodded with satisfaction.

Although this power is still unable to resist an unreasonable Ascender like Amanda, it is enough to bring Zhou Ke some insignificant sense of security.

"This is yours."

He returned to the group, picked up a small robotic arm from his hand and handed it to Qiao Ya.

This thing does not have the advanced intelligent control of Wuneng. It can only be fixed behind Qiao Ya's bulletproof vest and simply controlled by the tablet in her hand. Wuneng wrote a special automatic combat program for this downgraded version of the robotic arm.

It also adds a little insignificant fighting power to Qiao Ya, an ordinary person.

"When this machine is free, I will design you an all-in-one combat suit so that you don't need to carry a large backpack around everywhere."

Wuneng Huabing said:
"Everything about this Badlands is lame, except for this energy storage technology, which is better than what I have in my memory. It relies on a small high-energy battery pack, which is enough to make a great all-in-one combat suit.

For now, you just have to make do with it.

Let's go!

While Tiger King and Snake Man are entangled with the Time Lord, we will enter the inner ring core area of Time Maze No. 11 from another route, which is where the reference device of Institute No. is stored.

Zhou Ke is looking for his "mother" there, and what Jiu Bang wants to find is probably also there.

By the way, at this time, can't you share your goals here?"

Hearing Wu Neng's question, the evil eagle, who had already sat on Qiao Ya's hoverbike, hesitated for a moment and said softly:
"I came here to confirm some things, and the others are here to look for the remains and blueprints of the reference instrument. If Shunguang can use it to manipulate time, it means that Jiubang can do the same after getting the real thing."

"If we can crack the mystery of time psychic energy, then the mental problems that plague psychics can be effectively solved, or at least slowed down."

Master Leather Pants Pente explains:

"In the past ten years, there have been many mental problems caused by psychic powers in Jiubang. If we can manipulate time, even if we can only affect it, we can help many talented companions avoid death or even a more terrible fate.

Of course, I don't hide the fact that I have my own selfish motives.
I am also pursuing ascension but I don't have the talent and luck like Ms. Evil Eagle. It is extremely difficult for me to obtain a subspace essence and step into a higher realm. My talent limits me. If I want to seek a breakthrough in power again, I have to take risky measures.

Rather than risk going crazy at any time searching for a chance at the edge of the subspace, it is better to try your luck here in a flash.

In fact, when I saw the Time Lord with my own eyes, I knew I was on the right track!"

At this moment, Leather Pants did not hide his desire at all, and he said with shining eyes:

"do you know?

If he were to encounter the backlash of time under the right circumstances, Takahashi Santai would not be able to maintain himself in such a crazy and powerful form. The Time Lord is already a true 'transformed being' and has reached the next stage of the Ascender.

This means that Flash does have the methods and techniques that can allow the psionicist to complete the transformation.

Perhaps it lies in the mystery of the benchmark."

"But your mental state is already in danger." Zhou Ke curled his lips and commented:

"Don't think that you can hide your hidden things from me. If it weren't for the Evil Vulture helping you, you would have turned into a creature of the Warp long ago. Your current clarity is just an illusion. Once something happens to the Evil Vulture that maintains your last bit of sanity, you will be captured by the will of the Warp in an instant."

"It's because I have already stepped half a foot into hell!"

Leather Pants Pente gnashed his teeth and said:
"Because I have nowhere to go, I am not afraid of losing anything. I am just going to give it a try. I will either go back with hope or be buried here. Isn't this the fate of the people in the Badlands?

You have to keep fighting against fate, and you have to do your best to ensure that you don't slip. As long as you slack off a little, the bitch of fate will eat you up.

I'm not afraid of death!

But I have come this far, and I am unwilling to give up."

"Humph, so many people died because of this 'reluctance'. With your current strength, you can walk sideways in the entire evil land. If you lower your head and be cruel enough to be a dog for the little Acholi, you can even live as comfortably as in the old civilization.

You can choose wealth, power and a partner, but you just won't give in and have forced yourself into this desperate situation.

You keep saying that you know your limits, that you are not as talented or lucky as the Evil Vulture, so you should be content!

greedy
Oh, this thing that makes you will also eventually destroy you."

Zhou Ke rolled his eyes and ignored the leather pants. Instead, he looked at the evil eagle and said:
"Does what you want to confirm have anything to do with the secret in your heart?"

"Ah."

Rhine did not hide it any more. She looked at the time fault getting closer and closer and said:
"You came here to find your origins, Zhou Ke. Actually, so did I. That's all I have to say. We can discuss this again after we each find what we want. Can you confirm the direction?"

"Are you questioning the power of this machine's already completed extra-dimensional radar?"

Wu Neng retorted rather unhappily, but the evil eagle did not reply, but simply shrugged.

Facts have proved that Wu Neng's ability after becoming awesome is indeed amazing. Under its series of instructions, the convoy crossed four time faults in succession without encountering any risks.

Ten minutes later, Zhou Ke stopped. He looked at the two time flow faults in the two directions in front of him, glanced at Wu Neng's detection results, and said to the others:

"The one on the left leads to the battle zone between Tiger King and Snake Man. They are fighting the Time Lords there. Leatherpants can take this road. The essence of the subspace you have been thinking about is there. If you can find the right opportunity to get a share of the battle, you may be able to snatch a symbol of the Time Lord's power from those two big guys.

I don't know much about the concept of "transformation", but I think what you need is not the amount of power, but the quality.

The rest of you follow me to the right.

Go to the inner core of the No. 11 Time Maze, which is also the deepest center of the maze and the place where the No. Research Institute first collapsed. "

He glanced behind him and saw that the man in leather pants was indeed a bachelor.

He jumped off the motorcycle carrying his bag filled with various spellcasting items, said goodbye to Ms. Evil Vulture, and strode towards the time flow fault on the left, and soon disappeared in the illusion of constantly drifting wind and sand.

"Master Pent was one of the first psykers who chose to follow Lady Vulture after we came to the Bad Lands."

Afu sighed and explained:

"He was already a very powerful illegal psychic at the time. After being hired by the young lady with some knowledge, he has been following us ever since. He is actually a mentor to the young lady and me. We were able to get started thanks to his careful teaching.

Unfortunately, Master Pent is indeed a very greedy guy.

This is no bad thing for psykers, only those greedy enough would dare to risk looking for those dangerous scraps on the edge of the Astral Plane and the Warp.

He is actually quite lucky. In the past ten years, he and Master Gris are the only psykers left alive from the founding of the Eagle State with us. But now, I think this may be the last time we see him."

"So, bless him. This is the only thing we can do. He chose his own path, just as we have chosen the place where we will die."

The evil eagle made a somewhat cold comment, then patted Qiao Ya on the shoulder and motioned for her to follow Zhou Ke.

The remaining people walked into the time fault on the right. This time, what came into view was no longer a chaotic and distorted scene, but a research institute hall that miraculously maintained its original appearance.

This is actually normal, just like no matter how crazy the storm is, the eye of the storm is also a quiet place. In a chaotic place like Time Maze No. 11, the part that begins to collapse first can actually maintain the original scene.

"The time flow ratio is 1:1!"

Wu Neng screamed:
“The time flow here is completely consistent with that of the outside world. There is no outrageous time distortion, but there are time lords guarding the outer layer, so that this place basically maintains its original appearance on the night when the No. 1 Research Institute collapsed.

We've arrived, everybody.

Go find whatever you want, Joker. Follow the instructions of this machine. What you are looking for is in front.
Oh, by the way, those researchers from the Flash Organization who escaped during the chaos are also here.

They are in another direction, Ms. Vulture, if you encounter them later, please say 'hello' to them on behalf of me and Joker."

"Okay, I'll greet them warmly."

The evil eagle gave a decent smile and took Afu to the other side.

She obviously knew the terrain here and didn't even need the guidance of Wu Neng to know where what she was looking for was. The others were all involved in this matter by accident, including Amanda and Sasha. They had no interest in the mystery of Time Maze No. 11, but since they were here, they couldn't make a wasted trip.

"The remains of the benchmark may still be here."

Amanda said to Zhou Ke:
"I know that many people in the Bad Land are interested in that thing. I'll go look for it. If I can find it, many people will be willing to pay a high price to buy it. If not, I'll hand it over to little Acholi. That idiot who thinks with his lower body will definitely reward us generously."

As a captive, Sasha sat there expressionlessly. She did not intend to get up but was kicked by Amanda in anger.

Only then did he follow his terrible sister with a stern face.

Qiao Ya originally wanted to follow her aunt, but she hesitated for a moment and finally followed Zhou Ke and Wuneng.

"I'm going to find out my origins, why are you following me?"

Zhou Ke looked back at her and threatened her with a malicious look:

"Don't think that just because I'm your guardian I will allow you to peek into my biggest secrets. If you find out things you shouldn't know, there will be a new grave in this time maze."

"Tsk, just to scare ghosts."

Qiao Ya, who was carrying a shotgun, rolled her eyes, made a face, and said:

"I am the only one left in the whole Slag Town, besides Qiao Shan and Old Taff, aren't you and I the only ones left? Even if you are not my guardian, I will face this kind of thing with you, Zhou Ke.

Of course, it makes me very happy to know that you are not a monster that popped out of a crack in the stone.

Also, I just heard Wu Neng say your 'mother' is here?"

"Not the mother you understand."

Zhou Ke lit a cigarette and walked along the silent but complete passage towards the direction of the Wuneng mark while explaining:

"Although I don't know the details yet, I guess I might really be a monster that popped out from a crack in the stone. You've seen the clone guards under little Acholi. What I want to say is that I might have come into the world in the same way.

The so-called 'mother'.
You should actually understand it more appropriately as a keeper or breeder, just like a keeper in a zoo, they must perform that job to keep wild animals from coming out to bite people. "

"Don't describe yourself like that, Zhou Ke, you are a normal person, just a little abnormal occasionally,"

Qiao Ya shook her head and said:
"I even think you're more normal than most people in the Badlands. They're truly crazy and depraved, but you're just a little extreme."

"Well, that's the most heartwarming thing I've heard this month, Xiaoya."

Zhou Ke said meanly:
"I hope you can still maintain this idea when you see the truth. Open this door, Wu Neng. Are you going to let me unlock it with my bare hands?"

"It's not like you can't do it!"

Wuneng retorted, then connected to the only signal that could be connected in the entire area. A moment later, he activated the mechanism of the security door in front of him. With the sound of gears, this ancient explosion-proof door was slowly pushed open in front of Zhou Ke and Qiao Ya. Xiao Ya grabbed the shotgun vigilantly, but she was soon disappointed.

What was before him was just a closed shelter. Everything was visible to the naked eye. There were no monsters, no crazy machines, and even no signs of normal people living there.

The only thing that could be related to a human being was the corpse lying in the corner.

The body of a woman.

The flow of time here is in a 1:1 ratio with that in the outside world. Therefore, after more than a year has passed in the outside world, the corpse left here has naturally dried into a skeleton.

But you can tell from the hair that this is a lady.

"That's your 'mother', Joker, or as you say, your last 'keeper'."

Wu Neng introduced it in a tone without any sadness or joy:
"The last person in charge of the 'Eternal Singularity' project, Dr. Qin Ge. This may be the first time you have heard of her name, but you have definitely come into contact with her."

“That voice!”

Zhou Ke blew out a smoke ring and said:
"When I almost had brain death when I looked directly at the fetal movement moon for the first time, the voice that called my will back was hers, right? No wonder my consciousness and body are so obedient to that voice. I can feel safe just by hearing it.

Are you sure she's dead?
Is she still alive in my spirit world?"

"This machine cannot confirm it, but in any case, Dr. Qin Ge is already dead in a physiological sense. The voice in your head is more like some kind of preset 'mental protection mechanism'."

Wu Neng guessed:
"Do you remember the ID you told your second host when this machine was first turned on?"

"Of course, then who could forget Tang's ID?"

Zhou Ke walked forward while complaining, half squatting in front of the corpse in front of him. He reached out and took a dusty tablet from the other party, and said softly:
"Little Pigeon Can't Fly. Tsk tsk, it really sounds like a name a brainless girl in love would give herself. But to be the person in charge of a project that sounds impressive, she must be at least several dozen years old, right?"

"43 years old, not as old as you think."

Wu Neng responded:
"When she inherited the machine and the 'Eternal Singularity' project from her mentor, she was indeed just a young and talented girl. In fact, your 'mother's' life story is much more difficult than you think.

Take a look at this data diary.

Everything you want to know, your and my life stories, are all in it."

(End of this chapter)