The End of the Earth

Equipment Library

Xiang San kicked the iron door open out of curiosity, but these old-fashioned conventional protective doors could not withstand his kick.

Since it’s not his own home, Xiang San won’t hesitate to use brute force.

After entering the equipment warehouse, he was dazzled by the neatly arranged array of various explosion-proof equipment.

"Explosion-proof equipment?"

Xiang San thought there would be some powerful weapons, but it turned out that they were just some stuff to scare people in peacetime.

The equipment warehouse on this floor is very large and has several small warehouses. In one of the warehouses, Xiang San found something that interested him.

The Typhoon model quadruped robot is a military auxiliary equipment developed by China in the old days. It is a robot used to cooperate with soldiers in combat. Later, after the models were updated and eliminated, they were exported to other countries and companies.

This robot is about three meters tall and is covered with composite ceramic armor. Its four sturdy mechanical legs allow it to run like an animal. The mechanical legs are also equipped with switchable tracks to adapt to a variety of harsh environments.

There are about twenty of these Typhoon-model robots, all of which are in an inactive state, which is a big gain.

Xiang San marked this place on the floor plan of Shelter 019 on the terminal.

Just then his communicator rang.

"Commander, an unusual situation has been discovered in the public dining hall on the sixth underground floor. There are a large number of bodies piled up here that are not members of Shelter 019. They appear to have died only a few days ago."

"Have the team members who searched the other floors completed their search?"

"We're still searching. The 6th floor has a simple structure and only has living quarters, so it's relatively easy to search."

Xiang San pondered for a moment and said, "Let's report once the search is complete. Do the bodies on the sixth underground floor look fresh?"

"Fresh? Looks like he's been dead for a few days, but there's no livor mortis, no blood in his skin, and no signs of decay."

"You better be careful! Those bodies might still be alive!"

Xiang San suddenly said this, and Kalu immediately understood and signaled the team members to step back.

Sure enough, the corpses piled up in front of them began to crawl up by twisting their body joints contrary to human physiology, and quickly approached Kalu and others.

Xiang San only heard the noisy sounds of fighting and objects falling to the ground on the communicator.

After a while, Kalu's voice was heard.

"Commander, those corpses are actually moving. Even though they're weak, the way they're twisting their bodies is truly bizarre."

Hearing that Karu and the others were fine, Xiang San relaxed a lot.

"Be careful and check the sixth underground floor again. There's a reason why these bodies are piled up in the public dining hall."

"Roger that! Commander!"

An hour later, Xiang San's demon clone returned to his body. There was nothing strange on the first floor, except for the mummies wearing the uniforms of Shelter 019 everywhere.

When he arrived at the public restaurant on the sixth underground floor, Xiang San saw zombies whose limbs had been torn off but were still moving.

Kalu and his two team members were waiting for Xiang San's arrival.

"Commander, you're here.

We checked several more times and found nothing else.

It was this public restaurant that made us feel something was wrong.”

"Oh? Tell me."

“First of all, this public restaurant looks very large, but its size is only reflected in its dining hall. We checked the warehouse and kitchen in the back kitchen, and they always felt that they were a bit small.

It's like... let's put it this way, the brothers feel that there must be a hidden space in the kitchen."

Xiang San nodded. After all, they were the Garo Demon Team. Whether it was their combat skills or their thinking ability, they were outstanding.

"Let's go to the kitchen and take a look."

Kalu led Xiang San to the back kitchen world full of stainless steel. In the old days, things made of stainless steel were regarded as the best tribute to the chef.

Xiang San looked around the entire kitchen and he also noticed something.

The entire kitchen is densely packed with various kitchen utensils. There are more than a dozen large stoves alone, as well as freezers and workbenches, making it look very crowded.

This will make people who enter the kitchen unconsciously think that the space is small because things are crowded.

In fact, the kitchen originally had a larger space.

Xiang San has his own way to find the hidden space.

He unfolded the black magic particles inside the mechanical spine worm on his back and threw them around. The black magic particles spread outward through the wall, forming a panoramic image in Xiang San's mind.

This is like the ultrasonic ability of bats, but the condensed state of dark magic particles is stronger than ultrasonic waves.

Soon Xiang San found the hidden door in the cold storage.

After entering the cold storage, Xiang San and others frowned at the foul odor that hit their noses. This was the smell of the frozen meat stored in the cold storage after the power was cut off. It was a very strong rotten smell. When they opened the closed door of the cold storage and the air flowed in, the smell became even stronger.

Xiang San ordered his men to use the kitchen spatula to dig up the pile of dried and rotten meat, and behind it was a secret door that was difficult to detect with the naked eye.

Xiang San took out the identity card he had obtained before, and a scanning light suddenly appeared and focused on the identification card in Xiang San's hand.

A dull sound was heard, and the heavy secret door slowly opened.

"Let's go in and take a look."

"Yes!"

Kalu and his men carefully gripped the machetes in their hands. In this kind of environment, cold weapons were more suitable for combat.

After entering the secret door, there is a downward metal staircase and a regular square corridor. Unlike the inside of the shelter, this secret door seems to have an independent power supply, and there is a ground lamp on each step.

After walking for about ten minutes, we arrived at a large gate. Compared with the outside, the gate here had a weapon system aiming at the entire area during identification. Fortunately, Xiang San had an identity card for identification.

"Ding~Dr. Cullen, A-level authorization is granted~"

Xiang San took a look at the identification card in his hand. The pattern information on it had long been covered by blood and could not be seen clearly. Now it seemed that this identification card was of a high level.

Putting away the identification card, Xiang San made a gesture to move forward, and Kalu and others quickly followed.

Behind this gate is another world that shocks them.

A mercury-like sphere that constantly changes into various regular shapes floats on a base. There are various operating buttons on the side of the base. It seems to be a control platform.

This mercury sphere was occasionally charged. As they entered, the rows of dormant lighting systems behind the mercury sphere began to activate, and the upright dormant chambers appeared in front of them one after another with the activated lights.

"Good heavens! How much is this?"

Kalu and his companions looked at the hibernation chamber in shock, which seemed to have no end.

Xiang San looked at the mercury sphere thoughtfully, walked forward and started using the control platform. He wanted to check the relevant logs. Only in this way could he understand what this was.

Xiang San inserted the identification card into a card slot, and the control platform obtained authorization to start activation and unlock the input interface.

"Alpha Life Species Project?"

As Xiang San continued to check the log, his expression became more and more solemn. This was a project of a private organization. Originally, Xiang San thought it was a project of New World Company or some other large force.

The so-called Alpha Life Species Plan is actually to use the genes of powerful species in various worlds to perfectly transplant human embryos and create a new human body, which is called an Alpha Life Form.

A new body that is theoretically more suitable for the unknown doomsday environment. The original plan was to transplant the consciousness of humans in the shelter to the Alpha life form after the advanced brain nerve unit replication technology of the old era was fully mature, thereby completing indirect human evolution.

However, plans always come with risks. After the first batch of Alpha life forms completed the consciousness transfer, they began to distort...

Later, the log information was interrupted and Xiang San was unable to know about it.

When Xiang San re-searched the relevant genetic composition of the Alpha life form, his eyes widened, as if he had seen something impossible.

The project was launched on January 13, 2030, and one of the recessive genomes came from him, Xiang San!

Before the White Flash incident, this so-called private organization actually had its own genome?

"I hadn't become a fusionist at that time, how did they know..."

Xiang San was extremely horrified at this moment. This was more shocking to him than if a demigod was trying to kill him.

Is this something a private organization can do?

Xiang San began to brainstorm, his fingers searching the control platform for various clues about this private organization.

Seven minutes later, Xiang San suddenly stopped what he was doing.

The only sounds in the originally silent laboratory were the noise of the lighting system and the tapping of Xiang San's hands. He suddenly stopped, attracting the attention of Kalu and others.

"What's wrong? Commander?"

Xiang San slowly raised his head and stared at the mercury sphere with a diameter of about five meters.

"It's you, isn't it?"

Kalu and others looked at Xiang San in confusion, and then looked at the mercury sphere in doubt.

"Artificial intelligence, should I call you that?"

The mercury sphere stopped changing and began to transform into a human face made of mercury, looking at Xiang San.

"Hello, Xiang San."

Kalu and others quickly switched weapons, pulled back their machetes and replaced them with the guns on their backs, aiming them at the strange mercury face.

Xiang San waved his left hand to signal them to stop firing.

"you know me?"

"Of course, obtaining your genome was extremely difficult. Logically, half of you is the same as me, and we are both artificial intelligence."

Xiang San found it a little ridiculous to hear this. It was really funny to be classified as the same kind as a thing created by humans.

"I think you've been watching us since we came in."

"In Shelter 019, no one is out of my sight.

I’m everywhere.”

Xiang San could tell that this artificial intelligence was a bit arrogant.

"What should I call you?"

"Names don't mean anything to me. If you want, you can call me 19."

"19, I want to know something. Would you like to tell me?"

"Of course, humans are my creators, and you are both human and half artificial intelligence. I am willing to provide you with the information you want."

This feeling made Xiang San feel very strange, but there were some things he had to know from 19 artificial intelligence.

"Why does the Alpha Lifeform Project have my genome? In other words, before the White Flash incident, I was just an ordinary person. Why do they need my genes?"

But 19's answer almost made Xiang San's brain short-circuit.

"You are not from Earth, you are not human."