Star Hunter.

Chapter 282 Integration

Chapter 282 Integration

Chapter 282 Integration

Four-Eyes kept his eyes open until his death, filled with astonishment and resentment. He never expected that the one who ruthlessly delivered the fatal blow was someone he had identified as an accomplice. Even though he had wanted to kill this accomplice for a long time, he never imagined that the other party harbored the same intention.

The slash was too fast, without any unnecessary movements, without any hesitation, and without even a hint of killing intent. Then it directly pierced the trachea, severed the cervical vertebrae, and pinned Four Eyes to the wall.

If the building materials here are similar to those on Neo's side, it would be difficult to leave marks on the surrounding walls. However, this big man's knife pierced through Four-Eyes' neck and made a hole in the wall, which shows that the knife is special.

The knife wasn't particularly large; its grayish-brown blade didn't reflect light, and it looked quite ordinary from a distance. Xilin had just seen the burly man handle this knife. He flipped it skillfully in his hands, suggesting he'd been using it for many years.

Some people, after killing too many, become increasingly restrained in their killing intent, like an old hunter standing in the darkness, silently delivering a fatal blow to their prey. From this perspective, Xilin knew that this fierce-looking man had far more than a thousand lives on his hands, unless it was simply his nature.

It took less than five seconds to take down both of them. In a battle between experts, death is swift.

After Si Yan completely stopped breathing, the big man walked over and pulled out the knife. Blood dripped down the tip of the knife, and after it stopped dripping, there was no trace of blood left on the knife.

  

Xilin watched the big man warily. Although he didn't point his gun at him, he was ready to fire if the big man made any sudden moves.

Upon seeing Xilin's reaction, the burly man folded his knife and put it away, raising both hands to indicate that he meant no harm.

"Are you the helper this child called over?" the burly man asked.

Xilin didn't answer, but instead called out to the room behind the big man, "Black Bean, come out and contact Neo."

Hei Dou had initially shrank back into the corner after hearing the noise outside, but his eyes lit up when he heard Xi Lin's words. He stood up and walked outside. The burly man standing at the door moved aside to let Hei Dou pass. Hei Dou cautiously glanced at the man, then at Xi Lin, and walked step by step toward Xi Lin.

Xilin tossed a list to Black Bean, who was walking over; it was a list of things Neo had made. "What Neo is looking for."

Seeing the familiar words on the list, Black Bean felt relieved. He moved the metal chain on his wrist to send a message to Neo before going into the laboratory to prepare the medicine.

Only Xilin, the big man, and the two corpses remained outside.

The gray cat jumped onto the two corpses and began scavenging for tools. After searching for a long time, it found nothing useful, just two modified guns and a knife it had picked up from somewhere.

"These two guns belong to the little girl, not to them," the burly man said.

"And yours?" Xilin looked at the big man but didn't notice that he was carrying a gun.

"No." The burly man made a helpless gesture. "Those two guys didn't believe me. They wouldn't let me touch a gun. We're not in cahoots. I met them in the woods, helped them deal with some ferocious beasts, and they said they'd find a safe place to call me along, so we came here. Oh, and by the way, if I hadn't stopped them, that little girl would be dead already."

The burly man then sat down on the ground, completely disregarding Xilin's wariness. The knife remained folded.

Xilin looked quietly at the burly man and asked, "Who are you?"

Upon hearing Xilin's question, the burly man smiled mockingly. "Just a prisoner."

"How did you end up here?"

"I don't know either. I woke up in this strange place. If I hadn't had a knife in my hand, I would have been eaten by the ferocious beasts in the forest and turned into a pile of shit."

The burly man sat there cross-legged, one hand on his lap and the other supporting his chin. He looked somewhat颓废 (颓废 is a difficult word to translate directly, but it implies a sense of listlessness, decadence, or dejection).

Inside the lab, Black Bean finished contacting Neo. Knowing that the young man who saved him was named Xilin, his mood improved considerably.

"Xilin, I'll go with you guys later! Everything you asked for is ready, and there are some other spares in the lab. Take them with you when you leave," Black Bean said happily.

"You're coming too?" Xilin hesitated. Was the giant eagle strong enough to carry them? Two people, a cat, and all those supplies—it was going to be difficult.

"Yes, I'll bring the lab with me!" Black Bean said as he packed his things.

"laboratory?"

"Yes, my laboratory is quite special; it can actually be considered a standalone entity and is capable of flight."

Xilin was now surprised. The previous scan of the gray cat did not reveal anything special about the laboratory. He had not expected there to be a hidden secret.

"Can I come with you?" The big man looked at Xilin and then at Heidou. "You promised me that this place wouldn't be safe after your lab left."

Black Bean's laboratory is the core of this safe zone. Once the laboratory leaves, the defense of this safe zone will definitely decrease sharply.

Black Bean nodded, then suddenly remembered something and looked at Xilin: "Can we take him with us?"

Xilin did not agree immediately. They needed help now, and this person did not seem to be a heinous criminal. However, there were too many things to consider under these special circumstances, and they would collapse if internal problems arose.

Xilin pulled Heidou aside and said a few words to him. Heidou nodded, ran back to the lab, and came out again a moment later, saying something to Xilin. Xilin glanced curiously at the big man, then gestured for Heidou to go about her own business, and to leave immediately after she was done.

Xilin walked up to the big man, who waited for his reply.

"Tuba?" Xilin asked.

The burly man narrowed his eyes, then looked indifferent again. "I didn't expect anyone would recognize me."

"A friend knows you and wants us to take you there. It would be a pleasure doing business with you."

The burly man paused, then chuckled and said, "It's a pleasure doing business with you."

Black Bean's area is half the size of Neo's safe zone. Xilin asked Black Bean why this was, and Black Bean said that Neo had too many demands. When allocating areas, that guy just took over the place and gave a bunch of reasons and completely nonsensical data analysis.

Come to think of it, given Neo's personality, that guy has always been self-centered, and words like humility and tact have never even appeared in Neo's dictionary.

Black Bean has guns here, but they're not the kind Four Eyes and the others got before. Many of Black Bean's guns are locked in secret storage cabinets in the lab. What Black Bean showed Four Eyes and the others before were just some initial prototypes.

Black Bean also gave Tu Ba a hand, and Xilin had no objection, since Gu Xin trusted this person. (Most stable, powerful literature website) That means this person is also related to the military. Although it is unknown what exactly happened, in general, he is suddenly considered a trustworthy person and an invaluable asset.

Xilin always felt that the greatest danger in this place wasn't the bio-beasts or ferocious beasts, but the people. When people formed small groups, the invasion would begin. No one knew what would happen in twenty days. Xilin's goal was to gather the surrounding forces before those small groups matured.

After tidying up, Heidou put the security department's internal system into hibernation mode, completely closing all access control windows and creating a fully enclosed environment.

After emerging, Xilin whistled. Before the mercury appeared, two bio-soldiers hiding in a nearby cave heard the sound and ran towards them. Xilin raised his hand and fired two shots.

The gun Xilin used was the kind that contained poison. The poison from the tricolor beans was useless against the white rat bio-beasts, but it was very effective against the bio-soldiers.

As the two bio-soldiers fell, Tuba looked at Xilin with a probing gaze.

Mercury arrived quickly. The poor fellow was covered in snow and ice shards, probably because he couldn't find a suitable place to hide and was almost turned into an ice sculpture by the cold wind. As soon as he heard Xilin's whistle, Mercury immediately flew over.

This time, Xilin didn't ride the giant eagle. Instead, he stayed in the flight laboratory with Tuba, Heidou, and the others. After leaving the safe zone, the laboratory transformed into a separate flying vessel. Inside, they didn't have to endure the cold winds and snowstorms.

However, the gray cat still chose to sit on the eagle's back; sitting on something with wings would be much more artistic!

During the flight back to Neo's safe zone, Xilin looked at the scan map in Black Bean's flight laboratory. The white dots on the map represented the white rat bio-beasts, the blue dots represented the ferocious beasts, and the brown dots represented the bio-soldiers.

Currently, the blue and brown dots are mainly concentrated in a few areas, which should be areas that can provide shelter from the wind and snow, but the white dots are more scattered.

They continued this activity until they flew back to Neo's safe zone. The scan map showed seventeen white rat bio-beasts, more than Xilin had seen when he went to Black Bean's area. It seems the modification of their weapons is urgently needed.

Black Bean's laboratory merged with Neo's safe zone from the cliff edge, and then the external facilities were readjusted.

Neo was very unhappy about the partial rectification of his area. He kept rambling on and on, from internal stability to harmonious development, from local factors to macro-control, one argument after another. However, no one paid any attention to him. Except for Tuba, who was meeting Neo for the first time and was quite surprised to find such an oddball, everyone else was numb and ignored Neo's protests.

After Black Bean arrived, he was busy merging and renovating the laboratory and the safe zone. He had obtained the materials that Xilin needed and began to synthesize a new explosive bomb.

Erti knew that the four-eyed man had been killed, and he was very unwilling. He felt that revenge would only be meaningful if he took it personally, otherwise it would be difficult to maintain his balance.

Gu Xin was the most delighted by Tuba's arrival. Tuba was a soldier and had once been a high-ranking officer, but some events occurred that led to his imprisonment in the Imperial Prison, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

"Three years, just three years, is enough to completely destroy a person, erase all their achievements, and take them from being respected to being despised in just three years," Tuba sighed after talking with Gu Xin.

"That's not your fault. The empire is too big, and it's inevitable that there will be corrupt parts," Gu Xin comforted him.

"While I was there, I doubted whether my faith was wrong, whether the vows that everyone upheld were wrong, but gradually I stopped thinking about it."

Why?

"Because there's no time to think about those things in prison, and you could lose your life in the blink of an eye." Tuba pointed to his chest, where he had almost been pierced several times while in prison.

"How could the Imperial Prison be like that?!" Gu Xin exclaimed in surprise.

"Imperial prison? Heh," Tuba rubbed his temples. "There are many kinds of Imperial prisons."

Seeing that Tuba didn't want to explain, Gu Xin stopped asking, patted Tuba on the shoulder, and felt much more at ease finding someone with a similar military background.

"By the way, Gu Xin, I have a question for you," Tu Ba said.

"What? Let me make it clear, I know absolutely nothing about this place, just like you. I woke up here."

"No, that's not it. What I wanted to ask is, who's this guy named Xilin?"

"Him?" Gu Xin shrugged. "I don't know either."

"With that kind of ability, there's no record of him in the military?"

"I haven't seen any files about him in the areas I've been in contact with."

The gray cat rolled around on the table, and when it saw Gu Xin's little braids, its paws started itching again, so it raised its paws and started scratching at them playfully.

Tuba found it amusing. He poked the gray cat with his finger, only to be scratched several times by the cat's claws.

"Wow, you reacted pretty quickly!" Tuba wasn't angry at all; on the contrary, he became even more interested.

Gu Xin nudged Tu Ba with his elbow. "Don't mess with it. This little guy is tough."

Tuba didn't give up. He poked Tuba's face several times until he got scratches on it before he stopped.

The materials provided by the black beans were excellent, perfectly meeting Xilin's expectations. Although only a limited number of explosive bombs could be made, it was sufficient to deal with the white rats.

Xilin created three types of explosive bullets, each with different explosive power and penetrating power, suitable for sniping the white rat bio-beast from different angles.

Black Bean and Neo collaborated to reset the defenses and created a fleet of miniature surveillance cameras, distributing them throughout the woods near the safe zone. Scanners were also set up at a distance, adding to the stealth of the surveillance and scanning capabilities. The beasts wouldn't detect these devices unless they got too close.

"There's a white rat out 1,500 meters away. Are you going to take care of it?" Black Bean shouted to the people in the living room.

Xilin had just finished harvesting a batch of explosives and distributed them among the group.

"Let's get rid of that rat, otherwise it will be detrimental to the safe zone if it gets close." Hua Li picked up the gun and bullets that Xi Lin had placed on the middle table.

"I'll handle this one." Erti grabbed his gun and headed out. He had recovered and wanted to vent the frustration that had been building up inside him.

"Ertie, Guxin, and Tuba are fine to go. Huali, you haven't fully recovered, so don't go. The three of them are enough," Xilin said.

Hua Li frowned. Just as she was about to say something, Neo said coldly, "Going there before you've fully recovered would just be a waste of bullets."

Ignoring the sarcastic banter between Hua Li and Neo, Er Ti went out first, followed by Gu Xin with a reassuring gesture and Tu Ba. They took the elevator up.

Xilin grabbed Neo by the back of his collar, who was arguing with Huali, and dragged him to the laboratory.

"Go check the power of the new bullets and get the latest data."

When it came to data, Neo ignored Hua Li and turned on the equipment, with Hei Dou also coming over to watch. Ashou and Hua Li stayed in the living room, observing the outside situation through the light screen there.

On the screen, the three Erti had quickly found a gathering point. The three were distributed in three directions, which was a good point of cooperation. They trapped the White Rat there. No matter which way the White Rat went or who it chased, the other two could quickly carry out follow-up sniping.

A bullet grazed the white mouse's eye socket, penetrated the skin, and exploded there. The force of the explosion destroyed the mouse's entire eye.

Before the white rat could even get angry, bullets fired from two directions struck the point where the first bullet exploded.

After two loud bangs, the white rat's head was blown off. In fact, the second shot could have blown its head off directly; the third shot was just a safety precaution.

"Judging from the data, the first bullet was quite destructive. The rat's brain nerves were damaged, and its movements paused for a moment, which made it easier for subsequent bullets to hit the target," Black Bean said excitedly.

"However, if my guess is correct, Ercho's first shot was actually aimed at the white rat's eye, but it missed," Neo reprimanded mercilessly.

"That's because the white rat reacted too quickly, shifting its position in that instant. If it were the previous bullet, it definitely wouldn't have been able to blow off its entire eye." Xilin noted down several data points processed by the instrument for future reference in improving the bullet.

Ashou, who was sitting in the living room drinking juice, blinked and said, "The sky is going to clear up."

Just then, Erti returned and overheard Ashou's words, asking, "How long until it clears up?"

"Two days."

"As soon as the sky clears, those things will come out again." Erti twirled the gun in his hand. This time, he was no longer afraid of those things. With weapons and helpers, what was there to be afraid of?

After hearing the news, Xilin told everyone to rest well for the next two days, because there might not be much time to rest later.

What will happen after the weather clears up? A-Shou says the temperature will rise, and rise rapidly. The melting of the thick snow after the heavy snowfall will inevitably turn some areas into puddles and swamps. Will more strange things appear then?

Xilin had a persistent feeling of unease, as if something bad was about to happen.

In any case, we must be fully prepared. Whether it's white rats, ferocious bio-soldiers, or the alien that Hua Li has seen, or other people who haven't shown themselves yet, there will always be conflicts that need to be resolved in a drastic way.

The new defense system developed by Black Bean and Neo is more than half complete. Xilin has not been idle these past few days, and sometimes he goes out to make cover settings for the surveillance cameras deployed outside.

The Erti and his companions were not idle people. While ensuring they got enough sleep, they would often wear protective suits and brave the cold wind to hunt some ferocious beasts in the forest area to practice their skills.

After the last snowflake landed, the sky gradually cleared.

The hailstorm and blizzard came quickly and went quickly, with the melting snow from the warmer weather flooding some low-lying areas. In those places, flat, round heads emerged from the water and ran towards higher ground.

When you're stressed, relax; when you're troubled, comfort yourself; when you're happy, don't forget to wish yourself well!

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