dognovel Chapter 265 Okay, I'll sleep for another four and a half hours.
Chapter 265 Okay, I'll sleep for another four and a half hours.
The bodies of fanatics lay scattered on the rubble.
The black robe was soaked in blood, mixed with the mud below, making it impossible to distinguish between cloth and flesh.
The detonator rolled to the side of an overturned stone slab.
A red wire extended from the bottom of the detonator and into the basement entrance.
Lu Yan squatted down.
His gaze fell on the glowing holy crystal on the back of the leader's head.
The crystal is embedded in the skull, and its root-like tendrils penetrate deep into the brain tissue.
Even though the host is completely dead, the data pulses inside the crystal continue to beat.
Lu Yan pulled a data cable out of his tactical belt.
The interface uses a standard spiral pattern, the universal protocol of the Kunlun Underground Palace.
He aligned the end of the data cable with the recessed slot on the crystal surface and pressed it down hard.
Click.
Snap-fit.
The screen of the tactical terminal lit up.
A string of encrypted code surged in.
The Void Disc begins to work.
"What are you doing?" Zhao Leiguang walked over carrying his shield, glanced at the corpse on the ground, and wrinkled his nose.
"Take his brain apart." Lu Yan said without looking up.
"...Could you put it another way?"
"Read data".
"Okay, that's about the same thing."
Zhao Leiguang squatted down and watched for a few seconds, but couldn't understand what was on the screen at all, and lost interest.
He stood up, dusted off his knees, and walked away.
The data extraction took forty seconds.
The pulses inside the crystal stopped beating, and it completely turned into a dead stone.
Lu Yan unplugged the data cable and stood up straight.
A new encrypted folder appeared on the terminal screen.
The file is small in size, but it has as many as seventeen encryption layers.
Instead of cracking it on the spot, he threw the file into the background queue of the Void Disk.
"withdraw."
He glanced back at the entrance to the still bubbling pool of holy blood.
"Ling Shuang, send the demolition team to seal off that thing down there."
"Received," Ling Shuang replied in the channel.
The first team boarded the helicopter.
The propellers are spinning at full speed, and the fuselage is off the ground.
The airflow swirled up dust and debris from the ruins.
The helicopter ascended to an altitude of 300 meters and docked with the "Kunpeng" flagship waiting above.
The six people filed into the main cabin of the transport plane.
The hatch closed.
The airtight lock is engaged.
The roar of the engine turned into a deep hum that traveled up through the soles of my feet.
Ten "Kunpeng" aircraft turned their noses around.
Heading: East.
Zhao Leiguang removed the Taotie double shields and leaned them against the bulkhead, then lay down in the fixed seat.
Three seconds later, the snoring sound started.
Wen Yue took out a cotton swab, dipped it in some machine oil, and cleaned the groove of the crossbow string of the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow little by little.
Slow movements, steady hands.
Lin Chuxue lay on the ammunition box next to her, her legs dangling outside the box and swinging back and forth.
She had already chewed the lollipop in her mouth and was rummaging through her pocket for a second one.
"Do you have a grape flavor?"
"Don't you still have two in your pocket?" Xiao Qianyu sat opposite her, wiping the blood off the halberd.
"That's strawberry, I don't want to eat it."
"Give it to me."
Lin Chuxue pulled out a strawberry-flavored lollipop and tossed it across the aisle.
Xiao Qianyu caught it with one hand, tore open the packaging, and stuffed it into her mouth, while continuing to wipe the halberd with her other hand without stopping.
Su Yunqing sat next to Shen Xinglin.
The tip of the Yao Guang's Gift Staff rested on the shoulder joint of Shen Xinglin's mobile armor.
The silvery-white healing light stream seeped into the cracks in the armor, repairing the inner auxiliary skeleton.
"Turn your left shoulder."
Shen Xinglin turned his shoulder.
A slight clicking sound was heard from the joint.
"Does it still hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt anymore."
Su Yunqing put away her staff and checked the repair progress on the panel.
"Who are you kidding? Your joint pads are all worn through."
Shen Xinglin didn't say anything more.
Su Yunqing didn't argue with him, reattached her staff, and continued to heal.
At the other end of the cabin, Lu Yan sat in front of the control panel.
He pulled up two sets of data.
The left screen displays the encrypted file that was just extracted from the Zealot Leader's crystal.
The right screen contains the core database of "Europa Incubation Pool" that I downloaded from the Kunlun Underground Palace.
The Void Disk processes two lines simultaneously.
Seventeen layers of encryption couldn't withstand the deconstruction principle for more than three minutes.
The document was peeled away layer by layer.
It contains a complete organizational communication record.
The communication records were formatted in a very formal way, using the standard protocols of the Western Vatican.
But the content is entirely in Chinese.
The sending node is not in Europe.
Lu Yan swiped the screen and cross-referenced the communication records with the database.
The Void Disk took twelve seconds to calculate.
The code surged across the screen.
A green match result pops up.
The "incubation pool activation protocol" recorded in the database and the instruction format in the communication records have a 97% overlap.
Some people are using the same system.
Lu Yan scrolled down.
The last message in the communication log contained a set of GPS coordinates.
He clicked on the coordinates.
The map page loads.
The red marker jumped twice and then stuck on the map.
Not in France.
Not in Germany.
Not in the Apennines.
Southwest China.
Jincheng.
Lu Yan's finger stopped on the screen.
He zoomed in on the map.
The location is within a commercial complex seven kilometers south of the main urban area of Jincheng.
A 32-story office building.
Registration information shows that this building belongs to an Awakened Guild called "Morning Star".
The guild was registered three months ago.
The legal representative's ID number, after comparison, belongs to a registered Class B Awakened.
Two months ago, this person was "normally deregistered" from the National Awakened Persons Database.
The remarks section reads "retired due to injury".
Lu Yan retrieved this person's historical activity trajectory.
A week before the account was cancelled, this person applied to go to a C-level secret realm to carry out a gathering mission.
Three names were on the list of personnel accompanying that mission, and all of them later "retired due to injury".
Lu Yan turned off the list.
His gaze returned to that set of coordinates.
The Holy Light Crystal communication protocol, recovered from the European battlefield, shares the same activation system with a guild in the heart of China.
This is no coincidence.
Mars Lee is dead.
But his network is still alive.
There is a node in Jincheng that is currently in operation.
What they are doing is unclear at the moment.
However, based on the matching results of the "Incubation Pool Activation Protocol", there is only one possible answer.
They are trying to replicate the European Advent ceremony.
Lu Yan closed the terminal.
He leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes.
The vibrations from the engine traveled from the chair to my back.
Zhao Leiguang's snoring came from the stern of the cabin, stopped briefly, then he turned over and started snoring again.
I won't be able to rest when I get back.
Lu Yan opened his eyes.
He pressed the communication button on the team's internal channel.
"Listen up, everyone."
The snoring stopped.
Zhao Leiguang's voice came through: "Not asleep, not asleep, I'm listening."
Wen Yue put down the cotton swab in her hand.
Lin Chuxue pulled the lollipop out of her mouth.
Xiao Qianyu stopped wiping.
Su Yunqing and Shen Xinglin looked up at the same time.
"Don't go back to base after landing." Lu Yan's voice came through the channel.
"Direct flight to Chengdu."
A brief silence.
Zhao Leiguang was the first to speak: "Another job?"
"Domestic." Lu Yan synchronized the coordinates and analysis results to the team channel.
A briefing pops up on each person's terminal simultaneously.
Wen Yue glanced at it twice and put down the terminal.
"They're causing trouble in our house."
Lin Chuxue put the lollipop back in her mouth, biting the stick between her teeth, and mumbled, "To fight or not?"
"beat."
Xiao Qianyu stood up and slammed the Dragon King Halberd on the ground.
"Then why ask?"
Zhao Leiguang was already re-tying the securing straps on the Taotie Double Shields.
"Captain, how long until we arrive?"
Lu Yan glanced at the flight path panel.
Five hours.
"Okay, I'll sleep for another four and a half hours."
Zhao Lei hugged the shield to his chest and leaned back in his chair.
Three seconds later, the snoring started again.