novelhk Chapter 39 The Cancer of All Realms
Chapter 39 The Cancer of All Realms
the other side.
After rescuing several terrified researchers from a laboratory, March 7th was full of energy.
"Eighth rescue point completed, let's move on to the next location!"
Looking at the energetic girl in front of him, and then at Dan Heng beside him, who had a blank expression but a steady gait.
Lu Li, who was following behind, sighed deeply.
Why aren't these two tired at all?
He felt like he had run 800 li (approximately 400 kilometers), and his legs were almost not his own anymore.
Although his physical abilities became very strong due to the improvement in his cultivation, the mental fatigue was very real.
His salted fish soul is wailing...
"Lu Li, cheer up!" March 7th turned around again. "You're the best among us, you can't be the first to let us down!"
Lu Li: "..."
Thank you so much for thinking so highly of me.
But speaking of which...
Lu Li looked down at his hands and clenched his fist.
Himeko truly lives up to her reputation as a combat expert; she really is just as she said.
Real combat is indeed the fastest way to adapt to one's own strength.
In the previous battles, he relied entirely on his "instinct" to get through them.
But after all that fighting along the way...
Although he hasn't fully mastered the control, he can clearly feel the barrier between his consciousness and body gradually thinning.
He seems to be slowly mastering that "instinct".
"Next coordinates... um?" Dan Heng paused, looking at the receiver in his hand.
Lu Li snapped out of her thoughts and looked at Dan Heng: "Dan Heng, what's wrong?"
March 7th also curiously joined in: "What happened?"
Dan Heng glanced at the two of them and said, "Coordinates have been sent, but it wasn't sent by Station Master Aistar."
Was it not posted by Estella?
Lu Li's heart stirred slightly.
Could it be...?
March 7th thought for a moment, "Could it be that the trapped researcher sent out the coordinates for help themselves?"
Danheng glanced at the map and nodded. "That's possible. Station Master Estella probably missed something in her statistics."
"However, the coordinates are a bit far, and we might encounter more enemies along the way, so we need to be prepared."
"No problem!" March 7th patted his chest confidently. "With me and Dan Heng, plus Lu Li as our secret weapon, we're not afraid of any number of them!"
Lu Li silently looked away.
Please, please stop mentioning the words "secret weapon".
He gets a headache just hearing those words now.
But if it's really what he thinks...
Recalling what had been displayed on the sky earlier, Lu Li sighed.
According to the original storyline, they shouldn't have run into the people there.
but……
Forget it, let's not think too much about it.
I hope I'm just overthinking it.
……
Space station, core area.
"There's no one here; the evacuation was quite thorough."
Kafka surveyed the empty control center, a hint of approval in her voice, "Was this an order from the Black Tower itself?"
"Looking at the access history, that woman hasn't logged in here for over half a year," Silver Wolf's voice came from a terminal device behind her.
She was sitting at the control panel, her fingers flying across the virtual keyboard.
"The evacuation operation is being directed by the acting station chief... well, someone named Está."
"A name I've never heard of... Ah, Elio seemed to have said we wouldn't run into the Black Tower, so it seems she really isn't here."
Kafka walked to the console and looked at the rapidly scrolling data stream on the screen.
Where is the star's core?
"Elio's script didn't mention the exact location of the star core, which means..." Silver Wolf stopped what he was doing. "In the future he saw..."
Kafka said thoughtfully, "...We didn't find the star core through physical movement."
"There are so many whimsical things in this space station, it's not surprising to find such strange objects."
Silver Wolf then pulled up a surveillance video.
Kafka nodded: "Using a wonder to hide another wonder is indeed something that woman would do."
"You've been flipping through the table of contents for so long, you must have figured it out by now, right?"
"We have all the necessary clues; all that's needed next is a little trickery." Silver Wolf smiled confidently.
"Check the terminal equipment in the room for me; the strange object might be inside."
"I'd be happy to help."
Kafka walked to the other side of the room and began to examine the seemingly ordinary equipment.
"The entire space station's surveillance footage is here, but I can't see the star core," Silver Wolf said, quickly switching between surveillance perspectives.
"Even if there were, they'd be traps. The Black Tower's collection would never be publicly displayed." Kafka opened the case of a terminal and found it empty. "Hey, the storage device for this terminal is gone."
"This is the monitoring room. It's a one-stop shop for deleting databases and running away. It's an old tradition now," Silver Wolf complained.
"Forget it, you should come over. This kind of investigation is inefficient."
"So, what brilliant plan do you have? I'm all ears." Kafka walked to her side and watched her work with great interest.
"Just hack the surveillance system."
"Ah, I see." Kafka instantly understood her meaning. "The Black Tower's collection must be independent of the system, so it is unaffected."
"So the one that wasn't hacked is the target."
"The method is simple and crude, but it works." Silver Wolf's fingers typed the last command on the keyboard, and all the screens in the entire control center went black instantly.
Only one inconspicuous surveillance camera in the corner of the room remained lit.
Silver Wolf smiled. "Look, I found it."
The two walked to the screen that was still lit up.
The image shows an empty corner of a room.
"What is this?"
"Anomaly ID 211, [Blind Spot]." Silver Wolf pulled up the anomaly's data. "A simple deflecting light field can make things in the area less noticeable."
"But it's exposed as soon as nothing else becomes conspicuous."
Kafka was somewhat surprised: "The Black Tower used such a simple little gadget to hide her treasure?"
"The simplest methods are the least likely to be detected; isn't that our motto?"
Silver Wolf pressed the confirm button on the keyboard in front of him.
The next moment, the wall next to them began to blur and flicker.
Silver Wolf frowned slightly. "Another strange thing."
After observing it closely for a moment, Silver Wolf said, "According to the data, it's just an ordinary holographic image, but it seems to have an added outer shell."
"Let's go through and take a look." Kafka walked towards the wall without hesitation. "It's okay, we won't die here."
She reached out and passed through the holographic image that appeared to be a solid wall.
next moment.
With a flash of light, the two arrived at a pure white secret room.
In the center of the secret room.
An irregularly shaped object, emitting an ominous glow and with a undulating surface, is silently suspended in mid-air.
The cancer of all realms—the star core!