Chapter 1032 Loophole

"'Sword Master', or the higher-level word spirit, the power of the king of the earth and the mountain."

"Do you think the person who attacked you is the Dragon King? The one at the South Railway Station?" Angers eyes dropped slightly.

"I'm not sure, he didn't show much power," Schneider said in a low voice. "The firepower system combined with my bullets could only delay him for a short while. I knew this was not an enemy I could face, so I prepared to escape. It would be foolish to continue stalling for time and escape to the elevator or go back the same way, so I chose to escape down."

"Yuanxu." Ange nodded, "The alchemy matrix in Yuanxu after the pyramid has been enlarged can have the effect of 'suppressing' the spirit. All extraordinary phenomena and fields will be affected by that alchemy matrix. That is what hybrid species can currently do." The most extreme alchemy technology can naturally have a curbing effect on those who are chasing you."

"I hid in Yuanxu, turned off all the light sources and hid. He chased me down as I expected, and was successfully affected by the alchemy matrix. Otherwise, the field that can control the magnetic field would have found me in an instant." Schneider said, "I had to keep my heartbeat and breathing rate as low as possible without being discovered, but my situation at that time limited my ability to control myself, so I chose to wake up the 'hibernation system.'"

"Forcibly entering the 'winter' state is the only thing you can do. The firepower system in Yuanxu requires the highest authority to wake up. Your authority is not enough." Ange nodded, "Then tell me, my Friend, what are you waiting for?"

Just like what Angers said, even if Schneider was angry and fell into the enemy's provocation, he would never crawl into a cage full of thorns like those young people regardless. When he jumped into the enemy's trap, he was bound to jump down with a nuclear bomb in his arms. The word "death together" was engraved in this man's creed. Self-destruction was not his style.

"I'm waiting for backup." Schneider replied to Angers. "The person who assassinated me invited me. I predicted that something bad would happen to me, so when I set off, I edited a text message notification with my private number. Got my backup."

"I guess this text message bypassed Norma's monitoring." Angers lowered his eyes.

Schneider looked at Angers and nodded silently, "I don't know what happens next. The activation of the 'hibernation system' will take away my remaining consciousness. In the state of suspended animation, I can only maintain the most basic life characteristics."

"Obviously the fact that you can survive until now means that your backup has arrived in time." Angers reached out and patted Schneider's arm gently, "Very reliable. Although he is always late, at least he is never absent or unlucky. .”

Schneider nodded silently and asked after being quiet for a while, "The current situation of Yuanxu"

"Totally ruined," Angers said lightly.

"The vice-principal and I rushed to the scene as soon as the incident occurred, but found that the road leading to the botanical garden was blocked. The intensity of the fighting in Yuanxu was stronger than we imagined. According to the reappearance of the real-time situation, Yuanxu was The first impact in the ruins produced a large amount of light and heat, which was no less powerful than an implosion bomb. It instantly destroyed the nearby passage, and then the vibration and shock wave spread to the botanical garden, breaking the hoist of the aerial elevator. Rope. Since the entire garden is formed by the cavity between the mountain walls, the cracks in the mountain wall that entered the cavity also collapsed during the squeeze, completely turning it into a natural beast cage."

"It was no longer possible to enter Yuanxu through normal channels, so we didn't find a way until the next day to move the statue of the Well of Oblivion in front of the Hall of Valor, and move in the drilling rig used to dig through the underwater rock formations during the last Kuimen Project. After removing the rubble from the Well of Oblivion, we successfully entered the Botanical Garden through this straight passage all the way down."

"The garden, aquarium, and pyramid were all destroyed. A large amount of water poured into the soil of the garden. The higher areas were covered with bloody scorched earth and huge craters created by pure violence. The rock walls were burned into It turned white, and the alloy structure supporting the cavity was melted and dismantled. It was as if someone had used cloud bombs to bomb the closed cavity in turn. Cracks were everywhere on the hard mountain wall, and every crack was It was cut with a sharp weapon, and you can feel the primitive violence just by looking at it. In the words of the vice principal, it was like "two naked dragons having a wrestling match here."

Schneider lowered his eyes, as if he could imagine the disaster.

"Due to the leak of the aquarium, a large amount of seawater seeped into other areas, and the botanical garden and most of the ice cellar fell into a vast ocean. Even with Norma blocking the door of the passage, the underground area of ​​the current ice cellar has also come to a standstill. According to Norma Ma measured that most of the underground space of the ice cellar was distorted by that battle. After the big earthquake, the structure of the underground rock formations changed dramatically. Many sophisticated electronic equipment became malfunctioning after being magnetized. Departments that work underground all year round The director and tenured professors had no choice but to temporarily evacuate to the ground to join the ground work."

"Did this destructive power remind you of anything?" Angers tilted his head and asked.

"South Railway Station." Schneider lifted up the oxygen mask and took a big breath, put the mask down, and then coughed violently, "What about that thing?"

Angers patted Schneider's back gently, waited until he finished coughing, and then said, "The things are not lost, they are still put there properly."

"Is the thing still there?" Schneider looked up at Ange, who clasped his fingers slightly, "The alchemy matrix in Yuanxu has been completely destroyed, and the grooves on the ground have destroyed the 'tree' as if it had been eroded by concentrated sulfuric acid. The concept and structure. The mercury lake that maintained the entire alchemy matrix was also evaporated. The entire Yuanxu was filled with highly toxic mercury gas, and the first batch of prospectors who entered were almost poisoned by mercury."

"After confirming the situation inside, I asked the explorers to take a break, and the vice-principal and I entered wearing protective clothing. In order to prevent accidents, I brought my folding knife, and the vice-principal also brought his wine bottle This guy said he forgot his revolver in the drawer of the bell tower, but if he said that, I would take it seriously."

"Anyway, when we reached the end of the ruins of Yuanxu, we saw the basin formed by the dry mercury lake. The tree in the basin was still planted there honestly, but some people seemed to be worried that it would grow legs. After running away, I used the bronze chains excavated from the Sumerian civilization sites to wrap it around several times and tie it up.

Interestingly, there was a rusty long knife stuck in front of the tree. The vice-principal recognized that it was a test product in the 'Snattmore Sword' project, and it was also a failure. He should have Hidden beneath Gihon in the Garden of Eden. "

"In short, no matter what the enemy's purpose was, he must have returned without success last night." Schneider secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The text message he sent when he set out to throw himself into the trap seemed to be the right choice.

"I don't think so." Angers suddenly said, "Someone still succeeded last night."

Schneider was startled for a moment and looked at Ange quietly, waiting for the other person's next words.

"Schneider, why did you appear in the Garden last night?" Although Angers had already guessed the answer, he looked at Schneider again and asked in a low voice.

"I received an invitation, an anonymous email, which mentioned the 'Prince'." Schneider looked into Angers' eyes and replied, "He asked me to send a riddle. You can ask Norma to log in to my account." Checked the email, I saved it without deleting it.”

"I'm sorry, I can't call Norma now. Norma's computer room was also affected to a certain extent by last night's earthquake. Now the college secretary is conducting self-checks under the debugging of the equipment department. Currently, the Internet in the college only maintains Norma's most basic function. So if it's not too troublesome, you can repeat it again, and try to slow down your voice so that I can hear it clearly," Angers said.

Schneider nodded slowly and began to retell the riddle mentioned in the email. Ange listened quietly, and the gloomy and ominous poem echoed in the ward.

[From side to side it fills the whole door, towering over the lintel; it sucks the fire from the red urn and fills the cellar with a bone-chilling cold that is utterly death and void; it changes, turns, Whirling, it seems to be filled with a dark ancient energy vortex; it jumps, stretches, and drags its body forward into the cellar]

There was another coughing fit until Schneider's retelling ended, and Angers said, "Excerpt from "The God of the Ashram" by Clark Ashton Smith. You read a lot of different kinds of myths when you were young, and I would have thought that this It’s a good thing, but I didn’t expect that erudition would harm you in the end.”

"God of the charnel house, I can only think of the cage in the ruins. This is not a hint, it is a clear indication that the person who sent the email is inviting me and threatening me."

Angers was silent for a while and then suddenly said, "Are you sure the person who sent you the email is the same person who attacked you in the Botanical Garden?"

Schneider was stunned and looked at Angers as if he didn't understand what the other party meant. But after a moment, his brain suddenly reacted, "What do you mean?"

"You shouldn't be alive right now," Ange said softly.

After stopping his cough, the number on the dynamic heart rate monitor on Schneider's right side continued to increase and would soon reach the alarm threshold.

The room fell into dead silence, because just like Angers said, he discovered a strange point in this matter. He really shouldn't be lying here alive talking to Angers now. He should have been dead long ago. , there is no room for maneuver!

"Judging from the current degree of damage to the ice cellar, no matter what the identity of the enemy who attacks you, his destructive power will at least not be lower than that of the next generation. The eroded alchemy matrix in the Yuan Ruins also proves this. Besides, as far as I can see, It is very likely that he is the same enemy who destroyed the South Railway Station. So if he invited you, ambushed you in secret, and carried out a well-planned assassination on you, then you should not have a chance to survive. Now." Ange whispered, "That is something suspected to be at the Dragon King level."

"Things at the Dragon King level sneaked into the academy and wanted to kill me. Even if I was prepared, the moment I stepped into the botanical garden, my fate was destined to be death." Schneider said hoarsely.

"But you didn't die, you actually survived." Angers stared at Schneider, "You said at first that he sneak attacked you. Does this mean that you were lucky enough to survive a sneak attack by an enemy suspected of being a Dragon King? ?”

"This is impossible." Schneider couldn't help but shake his head, "Even if it's not a sneak attack, but a face-to-face attack, I won't have a chance to fight back."

"You won't even have the chance to take out your alchemy revolver, nor will you have the chance to call Norma to activate the fire system. You will die instantly, and you won't even be able to capture the moment of your own death. This is in line with the Dragon King's assassination process." Angers said, "The attack that scratched your carotid artery and almost killed you was not an assassination, but a test! You almost died under the other party's test, so you had the opportunity to fight back and escape!"

If it was a deliberately invited assassination, why was it a test to take action when Schneider was present?

This is completely unreasonable. As Angers said, Schneider should not have a chance to survive at all. This has nothing to do with his fate.

Schneider naturally recalled what Angers had just said.

The person who sent him the email was not the same person as the person he bumped into at the botanical garden!

ps: Let’s be honest and divide it into chapters. Yesterday I was scolded for not dividing the 8,000 words into chapters.