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When Xiao Ce said this, Da Lei and Xiao Yue, who were standing to the side, both nodded in agreement.

Odin then looked at the director and said, "Are you trying to harm us by doing this? Did you deliberately deceive Mr. Xiao Ce because you saw that you had no chance to ask for help?"

Upon hearing Odin's words, the director quickly waved his hand in denial.

"No...no...you've misunderstood. We don't have that many thoughts, nor could we be so cunning...To be honest, I still think you might be part of their base, you just don't know it yet...You can trust me...If Mr. Xiao Ce weren't a member of the base, you would absolutely have no way of knowing how to get in..."

After hearing the director's words, Xiao Ce laughed and said, "What, you people are from the so-called base? Don't you even know it yourselves?"

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, the director smiled and said, "Mr. Xiao Ce, you're right... I think so..."

Da Lei, standing next to Xiao Ce, didn't quite believe what they were saying.

Da Lei said to the director, "Alright, stop bragging. You yourself know nothing about the base... and now you're talking about it... Don't try to fool our Prince..."

Upon hearing Da Lei's words, the director quickly waved his hand awkwardly, then said to Xiao Ce, "Mr. Xiao Ce, I'm not forcing you to post it. If you don't want to post it, you don't have to."

After hearing what the director said, Xiao Ce did not reply.

Instead, he changed the subject and said, "So, in such a small space, you can't even sleep?"

The director nodded and then said, "That's right, we don't need to sleep. But if we really wanted to, we could... however, none of us need to..."

Upon hearing the director say, "So there's no danger here... You don't need to rest, but we do need to go and rest..."

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, the director smiled and nodded, then said to Xiao Ce, "Mr. Xiao Ce, you can go and rest... As long as there are no malfunctions, there won't be any problems... However, if there are malfunctions, then it's hard to say..."

The director, being quite sensible, didn't let Xiao Ce continue using the computer to send messages.

Xiao Ce nodded, then said to the director, "By the way, is this all the quietness here something you guys are doing?"

The director nodded first, then shook his head.

Xiao Ce was completely baffled by the director's action...

"What do you mean? Did you do this, or did you not?"

The director said to Xiao Ce, "Yes and no..."

Before Xiao Ce could ask any further questions, the director spoke up to explain.

"That's just how the environment is here; it's designed to be very quiet... but we can turn it back to normal sound... this is called ambient sound, we can turn it on..."

As the director spoke, he pressed a button.

The previously quiet environment now seemed to be filled with some unusual noises...

The sound of the wind, and the sound of the wind blowing through the cave.

As I reached the doorway, I could still faintly hear the sound of the waves outside...

Yin Pan'er witnessed this scene and exclaimed that it was amazing...

The director said to Xiao Ce, "Mr. Xiao Ce, so, do you need to go and rest now?"

Xiao Ce said to the director, "That's right, anyway, I know where you are now... I came to this island to look around... I also want to see that humanoid statue you mentioned in the center of the island..."

Upon hearing Xiao Ce's words, the director's face immediately stiffened.

Xiao Ce said to the director, "What's wrong? Is it not allowed?"

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, the director shook his head repeatedly: "Of course it's not impossible... However, Mr. Xiao Ce, didn't you hear what I just said? There's a protective barrier there, and that barrier isn't activated by us... it's automatically triggered... If you try to get close then, you'll die..."

As he spoke, the director looked at Odin standing next to Xiao Ce.

"Sir, you've been to that area before, so you can see the environment there, right?"

After hearing the director's words, Odin nodded: "However, avoiding contact should be fine... I know a safe location..."

Then Xiao Ce said to the director, "So, will you stop me?"

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, the director shook his head: "Of course not..."

After hearing the director's words, Xiao Ce nodded and then said, "If you received the order, would you stop me?"

The director nodded, then said to Xiao Ce, "Of course..."

Then, the director said to Xiao Ce, "However, if I were kidnapped by you... even if I wanted to hurt you, I wouldn't be able to..."

"Furthermore, if I were kidnapped by you... and I'm not here, I wouldn't be able to see their messages, right...?"

After hearing the director's words, Xiao Ce smiled and said, "What you said makes sense..."

Then, Xiao Ce said to the director, "Director, so you're going to come out with us?"

The director nodded, then said to Xiao Ce, "Mr. Xiao Ce is right. Although we now have strong bodies, and we're practically immortals, as you can see... we're like walking corpses... We don't have our own souls... To be precise, life is meaningless..."

When the director said this, everyone else nodded in agreement.

After hearing their words, Da Lei remained silent...

"You all talk like you have no desires or wants, but it's as if you're not afraid of death... I think you're more afraid of death than anyone else..."

After hearing Da Lei's words, the director smiled and said, "Being afraid of death and feeling that life is meaningless aren't mutually exclusive, are they? We just want a different way of living. We just feel that life is meaningless, but if there's an opportunity to change our way of living, we'll naturally seize it..."

"We've suffered so much, endured so much guilt, all just to survive, haven't we? Now that we have the chance to live, naturally we won't die easily..."

"These don't conflict, do they..."

Xiao Ce smiled and said to the director, "Not bad! Okay, so you'll all be following me, right?"

The director nodded.

Others nodded.

Xiao Ce pointed to the machines over there and then said, "Do you need to keep an eye on them?"

The director said to Xiao Ce, "We've all been taken hostage by you, so it doesn't matter whether we keep an eye on them or not... These things are only useful when we need to take the initiative to defend ourselves... Under normal circumstances, they're unnecessary... Besides, I think you must be a very extraordinary person, sir... So, I was thinking about whether we could find another possibility..."

After hearing the director's words, Xiao Ce nodded: "I know... I know what you mean... Okay, then you guys come with me..."

Upon hearing Xiao Ce's words, the director looked at him excitedly and asked, "Mr. Xiao Ce, is it really possible?"

After hearing the director's words, Xiao Ce smiled and then said, "Of course...you all come along...of course, if there are people on your side who don't want to leave, I won't force you..."

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, the director nodded, indicating that he was willing.

The other technicians all nodded in agreement.

Xiao Ce then led them directly outside...

Then he looked at the open door and asked, "Should this door be closed?"

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, the group shook their heads and said, "No need, there's absolutely no need to close it..."

Xiao Ce simply nodded and said nothing more.

Then, Xiao Ce led these people directly up.

Xiao Ce said to Yin Pan'er, "Why do you look so worried..."

Yin Pan'er nodded to Xiao Ce, then said, "That's right, these people are too honest...too honest to be real..."

After Yin Pan'er finished speaking, she said to Xiao Ce, "However, Your Highness, no matter what, I believe in you..."

After hearing Yin Pan'er's words, Xiao Ce smiled and said, "These people are just like what that director said. I don't think they have many ulterior motives. They just use this body to experience more things."

"Moreover, looking at these individuals, they genuinely seem to know nothing else..."

Yin Pan'er nodded.

Before they left, they thoughtfully turned on the lights in the passageway.

Besides the lingering smell of engine oil, the sounds coming from under their feet gave them a sense of security.

Upon reaching the entrance, the adventurers all wore wary expressions.

They saw Xiao Ce and his group come out, and not only them, but also more than ten people following behind them.

They looked surprised.

The eerie scenes they had entered before seemed less strange now, thanks to the added ambient sounds.

Everything here seems to have returned to normal.

Yin Pan'er said to Xiao Ce, "Your Highness, all those strange things just now actually came from the unknown... and the disappearing sounds..."

"Although the environment is still a bit strange, the sounds of insects and birds make it much more pleasant..."

After hearing Yin Pan'er's words, Xiao Ce smiled and said, "That's right, that's indeed the case..."

At this point, the group found a more open area and lit a campfire...

When the director and his team of technicians came out, their faces were all filled with excitement...

They were very curious about everything here...

After they lit the campfire, the other adventure teams came over one after another.

Xiao Ce and Yin Pan'er found a place to rest.

After all, the series of tense emotions here had kept them on edge.

Xiao Ce then told Da Lei that he needed to rest for a while...

Da Lei naturally nodded.

The two leaned against a tree, and every now and then someone would come and find the group.

When Xiao Ce woke up the next day, the entire group of one hundred people they had just joined had arrived...

At this moment, the dozen or so people in those secret control rooms seemed somewhat nervous.

After all, only Xiao Ce, Da Lei, Yin Pan'er, and Xiao Yue are from the Xiao Kingdom.

Everyone else had foreign faces.

After noticing that the director and his colleagues seemed somewhat nervous, Xiao Ce asked them, "Gentlemen, are you all alright...?"

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, the director smiled and said, "It's nothing...it's nothing...we're just a little unaccustomed to it..."

Xiao Ce suddenly remembered that the director and the others were all from the Xiao Kingdom, so he couldn't help but ask, "By the way, when were you all born?"

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, the director and the others fell into deep thought, then shook their heads: "We don't remember very clearly... However, we do remember that the emperor at that time was Xiao Qinian..."

Xiao Ce nodded after hearing what the director said.

Xiao Qinian was the father of Emperor Xiao Dingbang, and thus his grandfather.

Everyone else's opinions were pretty much the same...

As for the reign titles, these personal memories are mostly fragmented and disjointed...

After hearing what the director said, they should all be in their eighties or nineties...

However, at this moment, the director looked to be only in his thirties.

Some of the other technicians seemed to be even younger.

However, it wouldn't be surprising if they were turned into robots.

Xiao Ce said to the director, "After you leave that place, will the people in those bases you mentioned no longer be able to order you around?"

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, the director nodded and then said to Xiao Ce, "Reporting to Mr. Xiao Ce, that's right... Of course, they might come looking for us..."

Xiao Ce continued to try asking, "Is it possible that they can transmit commands to you over long distances?"

After hearing Xiao Ce's words, the director shook his head: "That has never happened before..."

As the director spoke, he looked at the technicians standing to the side.

The technicians all shook their heads.

It was already broad daylight when Xiao Ce and the director were talking.

Xiao Ce saw that Odin had already walked over.

Xiao Ce glanced at Odin, then asked, "Odin, what's wrong? Is something the matter?"

Odin waved his hand at Xiao Ce and said, "Mr. Ce, it's alright... You two can get down to business first..."

Xiao Ce glanced at the director and his group, then said, "We weren't really talking about anything important, just chatting idly..."