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The dark gray alloy door of the main control room stands at the end of the corridor.

The door panel is made of military-grade reinforced alloy, strong enough to withstand high-intensity explosions and the claws of strange beasts, and is half a meter thick.

However, at this moment, this door, which symbolizes safety and defense, is covered with grooves and dents of varying depths. The deepest crack almost pierced through the entire door panel, and the alloy surface has peeled off in many places, revealing the cold-looking metal substrate inside.

And in front of the alloy door.

The defensive firepower devices were completely destroyed, reduced to piles of twisted metal debris.

On the ground, the corpses of many strange beasts were scattered haphazardly.

Although Chen Feng, Xu Ri Dong Cuo, and Wu Ying Guang had escaped from the encirclement of the alien beasts, even though all three were high-level combatants, they still felt physically and mentally exhausted after killing two hundred alien beasts.

Even the Star Beast Xiao Ning slept peacefully in Chen Feng's tactical backpack, and all was quiet.

"It seems a fierce battle has taken place here," said Xu Ri Dong Cuo.

Wu Yingguang directly plugged the decoder into the encrypted communication terminal in the main control room, and the video footage of the TN13 base reappeared in his smart brain.

However, to Chen Feng and the others' surprise...

The video feed in the control room was completely dark, with none of the intermittent video feeds from the previous communications.

"TN13 Commander, are you still there?" Wu Yingguang asked in a deep voice.

However, the screen in the main control room was completely silent.

The three waited there for 10 minutes, but the video footage remained unchanged, as if there were no living creatures there at all.

"There must be someone in the guard who has been infected with [Darkness]. When they are out of control, their various physical attributes will rapidly mutate. This is not a difficult task for them to eliminate a group of technical personnel who have no combat ability."

"If the people in the control room have been eliminated, how do we get down?" Wu Yingguang looked at Xuri Dongcuo.

Xu Ri Dong Cuo immediately took out the AI ​​and began searching the internal map of TN13.

"The main control room of TN13 base cannot only have this one main entrance. There must be emergency evacuation or maintenance passages for base personnel to evacuate or equipment to maintain in extreme situations," Xu Ri Dong Cuo said confidently.

"Then let's split up and look for them," Wu Yingguang said.

Soon, Chen Feng found the exit of a secret passage in a broken warehouse.

The passageway was very narrow, less than 80 centimeters wide and only one meter high, with two bends in the middle, making it look like some kind of maintenance passageway.

Xu Ri Dong Cuo peered inside and found that he needed to turn slightly to avoid getting stuck in the passage.

A look of relief appeared on Wu Yingguang's face: "I'll go ahead and scout the way."

......

A slight clanging sound.

Wu Yingguang carefully walked out of the maintenance passage, and Chen Feng and Xuri Dongcuo also finally entered the main control room one after another.

Sure enough, the entire control room was a mess. The once neatly arranged console screens were shattered into a spiderweb pattern, flickering with faint sparks and occasionally emitting a "buzzing" sound of electricity.

The metal casings of all the control panels bore deep scratches from sharp claws, exposing the wiring. Some were still dripping dark red blood, which pooled into tiny blood puddles on the cold ground.

On the ground lay the bodies of more than a dozen technicians, none of them intact.

Some bodies were torn in half at the waist, with internal organs scattered all over the ground.

Some arms were torn off, their fingertips still gripping the control panel, as if trying to send out a distress signal at the last moment.

In the corner, several corpses in guard uniforms infected with [Darkness] lay on the gate in extremely bizarre poses. Their skin had turned an abnormal bluish-black, their bodies were covered with twisted blue veins, and their fingernails had become sharp and long, gleaming with an eerie cold light. Clearly, they had died after being mutated.

Just then, Chen Feng smelled a bloody stench mixed with a strange, putrid smell.

That was the unique scent of the [Dark Fel] infected.

It was so thick it was almost suffocating, yet it was also cold and sticky, like countless tiny insects crawling into his lungs through his nasal cavity, causing the battle-hardened Chen Feng to frown.

"As expected, it is [Anjue]." Wu Yingguang frowned.

Xu Ri Dongcuo wasted no time and immediately went to the control panel in the main control room, trying to find a way to activate the base's defense system.

However, he soon discovered that the core equipment in the main control room had been completely destroyed.

The console's outer shell was ripped open, and the core components inside were torn to shreds. Huge bite marks and scratches remained on it, clearly indicating that the [Dark Fel] infected had deliberately sabotaged it.

At this moment, the Star Beast Xiao Ning had woken up from Chen Feng's tactical backpack at some point. It poked its little head out, making a low whimpering sound in its throat, and its big black eyes were full of vigilance.

They clearly sensed the danger here.

"Give me thirty minutes, and I can restart TN13. Then we can rendezvous with the others."

"Can."

Xu Ri Dong Cuo immediately unzipped his tactical backpack.

The backpack contained no extra supplies or miscellaneous items, but rather a neatly arranged set of military-grade precision repair tools: a set of micron-level screwdrivers with titanium alloy anti-slip handles, a superconducting connector, a low-temperature nano-welding gun, and a universal core motherboard replacement module.

There's even a portable fault diagnostic tool the size of a palm.

Each piece is wrapped in an anti-static cushioning fleece cover, gleaming with a cool, professional metallic sheen.

Watching the Rising Sun Winter Lake begin its work, Chen Feng, carrying a kinetic energy rifle, went to the main control room to check on the situation.

The dim red light of the emergency lights flickered in the control room, casting long, ghostly shadows of the broken control console and the twisted corpses.

Chen Feng surveyed the control room, trying to find other clues.

Just as Chen Feng walked around a server rack whose casing had exploded, he stopped in his tracks.

In the narrow corner formed by the server rack and the wall, lay the body of a technician.

However, unlike the other incomplete and gruesomely deceased technicians in the control room, this body was wearing a white anti-static suit, which was exclusive to researchers, but was mostly soaked in blood.

He was hunched over, his entire body forming an impenetrable barrier.

Amidst the countless torn, gnawed, and mutilated corpses scattered everywhere, this body, desperately trying to protect something, seems to hold a special significance.

Chen Feng immediately tapped the corpse's shoulder lightly with the muzzle of his gun.

After confirming there was no danger, Chen Feng knelt down on one knee and exerted a little force, finally straightening his tightly hunched back.

At that very moment, what the corpse had been guarding until its death was finally revealed.

It was a square box that was completely black.

The box was small, about 20 centimeters long and about 10 centimeters wide and high. Its simple and unadorned design was completely out of place in this control room full of high-tech military equipment.

Its surface has no keyholes, buttons, or textures, and there isn't even a single seam between the pieces. It's completely seamless, as if it were carved directly from a single piece of unknown material.

What's even stranger is its weight.

Chen Feng reached out and took it from the corpse's arms, frowning the moment he touched it.

It is not any known engineering plastic or stone. It has no stickiness to the touch, but rather an extremely delicate and warm feel. However, it is surprisingly heavy. The palm-sized box is much heavier than pure lead of the same volume.

Just then, Xiao Ning popped out of Chen Feng's tactical backpack.

The star beast, which had been exhausted and fallen asleep earlier, now stared intently at the black box in Chen Feng's hand with its round black eyes, its little nose twitching as if it had discovered something interesting.