Chapter 284: 284
When the earthquake struck, Hordes of animals escaped the source of the epicenter in panic . Some didn’t bother to linger and ran to the other side of the hills . Some moved closer towards Neo’s base when they noticed that something wasn’t right with the cliff . The price of their curiosity and bloodthirst was a lifetaking bullet by Gu Xin and the others .
The chaotic environment covered up the fighters’ tracks pretty well, and the sniped beasts didn’t attract too many attention . Right now, the greatest threat in their minds were the earthquake, not the hidden snipers .
The fighters used different bullets to kill different creatures . For example, the white mice were treated with the improved explosive bullets, the wild animals with a different kind of bullet, and the bio-soldiers with the toxin bullets . The modified rifles also had multiple modes that could be switched into, resembling a simplistic version of multifunction gun . Although it was inferior to the guns they had used in the past, it was impressive how much improvement was made with the limited amount of resources in hand . This was why everyone was impressed with Cillin .
In their eyes, Cillin was a walking puzzle . He seemed capable of holding a conversation with anyone, and he even had in-depth discussion regarding dissections with Hua Li .
Could he be a member of the RAS?
The thought had passed everyone’s minds . They were the only ones besides Black Viper who had delved deep into all academic fields .
Erty had tried asking Cillin about this, but the latter neither agreed nor denied his guess .
Since the group had made sufficient preparation before the earthquake hit, they were able to deal with the white mice, animals or bio-soldier with varying degrees of calm . If someone grew tired, someone would take their place while they returned to the base to catch a breather .
The panicking animals were more violent than usual, and their escape path was complete chaos . The fact that Gu Xin and the other were able to hit their weak spots consistently and conserve ammo despite all the disruptive elements proved that they were much stronger than your average fighter .
Sometimes, climbers or flyers would show up around or below the cliff . Those animals and bugs that could climb especially often burst out of the forest area and attacked them with a ferocity that was unmatched by other creatures . However, their numbers were few, and the bird Mercury made sure to take out any bugs that attempted to climb their way into the base from the cliff walls . Ah Shou and Hua Li also helped by shooting at larger animals that Mercury couldn’t take out easily from the windows .
Right now, Mercury was clinging to the wall and flapping its wings at a large group of little bugs, throwing them back down to the ground . Sometimes, these bugs could be more threatening to the base than the bigger animals . Mercury used its sharp beak to take out any bugs that didn’t fall off after its flap .
Bang—
A sudden noise cause Mercury by surprise, and when it turned around to look every feather on its body had puffed up in reaction .
“Ga?!”
Orville in his transformed state was clinging to the wall not far away from Mercury . He was clinging to the wall with his sharp talons like Mercury, but unlike Mercury he was able to fire the feathers behind his wings like bullets at the larger bugs .
Of course, Mercury didn’t like Orville one bit . Their first meeting had gone pretty badly after all . But they were now cooperating with each other, and Hua Li had talked to it about this already . it would controlled itself no matter how much it disliked him, and it definitely wasn’t because it was jealous of Orville’s ability to fire his feathers like bullets .
Hei Dou and Neo were responsible for watching the base’s defense network . Their job was to inform the others about any anomalies so that the “invaders” were taken out as soon as possible .
But what about Cillin?
Cillin wasn’t shooting the animals or watching the defense network . He wasn’t even with the group right now . Instead, he had gone underground with Wheeze .
He had to admit that Wheeze’s digging skills had improved by a lot . Practice makes perfect, and Wheeze had had a lot of practice .
Somewhere on a planet not far away from the location Guan Feng had led Cillin to, there was a low building mostly filled with robots . Specifically, it was filled with advanced robots who looked no different from humans on the outside .
The few humans in this building all had great authority in Black Viper . Guan Feng was there, and Gu Changan had shown up with Qiu Xu as well .
Right now, they were gathered in a wide, circular meeting room on the third floor . There was a light screen in the middle of the meeting room displaying a rotating planet . There were a lot of red and blue dots on this planet, and all of them represented a person . The red dots represented outsiders who were brought to the planet for a test like Cillin . The blue dots represented the Black Viper locals .
On the first day, the red dots and blue dots were scattered all across the planet . Over time, the dots started to interact, mix, and finally ally with each other . Of course, some of the dots underwent different changes . For example, the two red dots representing the people Cillin and Tu Ba had killed had turned black in color .
The leader of the group sighed as he stared at the conglomerating regions and said, “I wasn’t expecting to reach this stage in just half time . ”
There were three spots on the rotating planet with the highest amount of dots gathered . One of them was Cillin’s location . All three spots were quite far apart from each other, each having to face different geographical and weather challenges . Cillin’s spot was set in mountains and forests, whereas the other two spots were set in a desert and a plain .
Neither spots shared similar ways of conflict, or even reasons to group up as one . But if a comparison were to be made, then the way the people had come together at Cillin’s spot was the most peaceful of them all, also the way Guan Feng liked the most . This meant that Guan Feng was very satisfied with Cillin’s performance . He wondered if he should just obtain internal acknowledgement for Cillin and allow him to bypass his exams at AF1 directly .
“A guy who can make Neo give up his place willingly does deserve to take over your seat,” the leader said again while looking at Guan Feng meaningfully .
“But of course! Did you forget who his teacher is? That being said, the person you recommended isn’t bad either, Ah Lang,” Guan Feng said while shaking his legs on a chair . It looked like both his recommendation were a success .
The man Guan Feng called “Ah Lang” was one of the three person-in-charge of Black Viper, Kristi . Lang .
Gu Changan let out a chuckle and said, “There are a lot of people who can compete the other two candidates, but this Cillin can’t be replaced nearly as easily . His brain’s computational ability is comparable to that of a robot’s . ”
“Xi Kai, this Cillin may be able to help you complete that ‘Original’ vision of yours,” Kristi . Lang said .
A man sitting on a row of tables near the exit slowly looked up and stared at the light dots and rotating planet on the light screen . He asked in a doubtful tone, “Really?”
“Perhaps he’s right . ” Guan Feng suddenly thought of something and turned around to look Xi Kai . “Hey, do you think that the robots you stored underground would all be annihilated?”
Xi Kai frowned a little before replying, “Is that possible? They’re the latest advanced robots we have . It’s true they weren’t installed with a pseudo-Original artificial brain, but their offensive power is still nothing to be scoffed at . ”
“We’ll see . ” Kristi . Lang tapped at the light screen once and brought up a dot-filled map .
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