Chapter 298 Betrayal

Tan Xin looked at her deeply, said nothing more, and walked straight to the fourth floor. At the same time, the red-haired woman walked out of the passage and walked to the upper floor, their bodies staggered away from each other.

When Tan Xin came to the intersection on the fourth floor, he glanced at the empty right side, which was the location of Laboratory 0...

Then he turned and walked to the left.

After passing through a dark road leading to the underground, Tan Xin finally stood in front of a thick metal door. He entered a series of secret commands, opened the door and walked inside.

Behind the door is a closed underground space, with undecorated gray load-bearing columns standing in it. In this boring rough room, a figure is holding a table tennis racket and flapping it against the wall.

"Leader." Tan Xin said calmly.

"You came?"

The leader glanced at him, and during this brief distraction, the ping-pong racket missed the fallen ping-pong ball, which clattered to the ground.

"I already know what's going on outside." The leader spoke slowly while picking up the ball, "The cold disaster has caused heavy losses in Aurora City. Some souls have floated out of the body and gradually dissipated... which can be absorbed by Aurora Lord. There are fewer and fewer souls, and the 'reappearance' plan must be launched as soon as possible, otherwise the success rate will be even lower."

"I came here today to discuss this matter with you."

"oh?"

Tan Xin took a deep breath, "I don't agree with the 'reappearance' plan."

The leader's movements paused slightly, and he looked at Tan Xin in surprise, his voice still calm, "Why?"

"If you lose, you lose." Tan Xin said in a deep voice, "In the past three hundred years, the Aurora Base has achieved almost no results, and the 'reappearance' plan has no possibility of success... We have failed to do anything for mankind. Even if we find a way out, we cannot maintain the Aurora Realm. We have failed.”

"so what?"

"If you fail, you should stop the loss in time. I think there is no need to implement the 'Reappearance' plan. It is just a fig leaf for the Aurora Base to cover up its own failure."

The leader looked at him for a long time and sighed, "So, you still haven't given up on the 'Hand of Redemption' plan."

"At least, it can keep the more than three million people in Aurora City 'alive'. The Aurora Realm will not disappear completely... What we can't do, maybe other realms can do it, if they find a way to save everything. , at least Aurora City still has the possibility of reappearing... But if the 'reappearance' plan fails now, we will have nothing."

The leader did not answer. He silently walked to the wall of the room, looked at the snowy scene outside the window painted with colored chalk, and spoke slowly:

"Tan Xin, do you still remember...how I taught you back then?"

"The destiny of mankind is always above all individuals."

"Among those children back then, you had the most decisive character and the coldest determination... Everyone thinks you are the best seed, but I know very well that your heart is softer than everyone else." The leader looked back. He said, "I thought you would make some progress when you grew up and became the vice president, but now it seems... you are still the same as you were when you were a child.

You are too emotional. "

"I've never been emotional, I know what I'm doing... It's because you can't accept the failure of Aurora Base, it's because your methods are extreme."

"You should know better than me what Aurora Lord means. Only if he lives in the Aurora Realm can he have the possibility of reappearing. Only then can we continue to study him and find the hope of mankind's comeback from him... What he represents is the future of mankind. !

From a human standpoint, as long as he can survive, no matter how many people are sacrificed, it is worth it, no matter how slim the probability of success is...

But you...you want to sacrifice Lord Aurora? "

"We have spent three hundred years without getting any results from him. Even if we give him another three hundred years, three thousand years! When technology returns to the Stone Age, will we be able to gain something? No, we can't gain anything! "Tan Xin took a deep breath and spoke word by word,

"Mr. Aurora is not the future of mankind, all mankind is."

The leader looked at Tan Xin, and Tan Xin looked at him without fear, and the air suddenly fell into dead silence.

"It seems that there is a conflict between our ideas." The leader said slowly, "But you should know that I am the one who represents the Aurora Base and is in charge of the destiny of mankind... You, Tan Xin, are assigned to maintain order on the surface as a base. According to the initial terms of Aurora Base No. 001, they are not qualified to participate in the final decision-making involving the fate of mankind.”

"I know."

"Then...as the sole leader of Aurora Base, I reject the 'Hand of Redemption' plan."

Tan Xin looked at him quietly, as if he was not surprised by the result... After a hint of complexity flashed in the depths of his eyes, he slowly raised a hand from his windbreaker.

The muzzle of a pitch-black gun was aimed at the leader's brow.

"Then...I will betray the Aurora Base."

boom--!

Facing the leader who had single-handedly trained him, Tan Xin pulled the trigger without any hesitation. A beam of fire burst out, and the bullet pierced the leader's forehead in an instant!

The leader looked at him blankly, as if he did not expect that Tan Xin would betray the Aurora Base. He staggered into the wall behind him and slowly collapsed... and finally fell in front of the window painted with chalk.

Scarlet blood flowed on the gray-white ground and spread to Tan Xin's feet. Almost at the same time, a soft sound came from the light bulb!

Snapped--

The circuits of Aurora Base were paralyzed again, and the room fell into darkness and silence.

Tan Xin looked at the leader's figure lying in the dark, and closed his eyes reluctantly. After a second, he slowly opened his eyes, regained his calmness and rationality, and turned to walk upstairs.

Just half a minute after he left, a perfect and seamless door in the corner of this closed room was slowly pushed open...

In the Aurora Base, no one knew that there was a dark room hidden in the leader's room, and an old figure who had lived in it for who knows how many years.

The figure was disheveled and his hair was extremely messy. He looked at the direction where Tan Xin left with an expressionless face, and did not even look down at the body of the "leader", and turned back to the narrow dark room...

There were only three items in the dark room:

A toilet, a bed, and the oldest copper tube for sound transmission.

The figure walked to the copper tube, opened the rusty cover, and a calm voice without a trace of fluctuations sounded:

"Deputy Chief of Law Enforcement Tan Xin violated Article 001 and betrayed the Aurora Base. He is listed as the first wanted target in the domain... All members must kill him regardless of the means and cost. Retrieve the explosive detonator of the "Reappearance" plan within three hours.

Anyone who releases it privately will be guilty of the same crime."