Embers Ad Infinitum

Alert Church, basement level.

After arriving in a strange environment for the first time, Ge Miao woke up from a somewhat uneasy sleep.

"What's wrong?" her sister Gelin next to her asked in a daze.

Ge Miao thought for a while and said:

"Go, go to the bathroom."

She originally wanted to use the word "pee", but she thought that Deacon Locke said that after entering the ark, one must speak and act politely, otherwise Mr. Dimarco would be angry, so she forcibly changed her statement.

For a wilderness wanderer from a small settlement, this was a very awkward thing.

Three meals a day, a safe and stable environment, a warm and soft bed, and a future without being separated from her sister urged her to change herself.

Even though learning the Honghe dialect is such a headache, Ge Miao doesn't find it that unbearable.

This even made her happy, as if every word contained a little hope, and if she accumulated enough, she could cash it out.

"I'll go too." Ge Lin thought that her sister was only fifteen years old. Although the settlement was breached and her parents were lost, and she had become a lot more mature, she still felt uneasy.

The two sisters used the light of the street lamp shining through the crack in the door to fumble out of the room and walked to the toilet in their memory.

On the way, they encountered guards sent by the "Underground Ark" to patrol, but after explaining their purpose, they were not embarrassed.

Amid the clattering sound, Ge Miao looked at the toilet with a dazed expression.

"Sister, this thing is so convenient." She couldn't help but sigh again.

She remembered that none of the most powerful elders in the neighborhood had such items before.

Ge Lin said "hmm" and a smile appeared on her face unconsciously:

"The good times are really coming."

For the first time, she looked forward to the future so much.

She remembered Deacon Locke saying that Mr. Di Marco not only did not prohibit servants from pairing up, but also encouraged everyone to get married and have children.

The two sisters washed their hands with water reluctantly, walked out of the bathroom, and walked back the way they came.

When they were only a few steps away from the six-person room where they lived, two guards from the "Underground Ark" patrolled by.

One of the gray natives with black hair and brown eyes nodded to them in a friendly manner.

Ge Lin's heart moved and she smiled timidly:

"Good evening."

"Don't run around." The Grayman guard warned.

"Yes, sir." Ge Lin said with a flattering smile, "Thank you for your hard work."

Although the two sisters were not very good-looking, their appearance was considered upright among this group of slaves. The two patrolling "Underground Ark" guards did not reject them, but smiled and said:

"You don't have to be like this. When you enter the ark, you will all be colleagues."

Ge Lin seized this opportunity and sincerely asked for advice:

"Two sirs, I heard Deacon Locke say that if you can pass the training, you can declare your wishes and choose the job you want to do. Is this true?"

"Yes, but this can only be chosen within a limited range, and cannot exceed the upper limit of the number of people..." the Gray Earth guard simply explained.

Ge Lin held her sister's hand and looked at the two of them eagerly:

"What's the better choice?"

The Gray Earth guard was silent for a moment, looked at his fellow Red River people next to him, then looked at the surveillance camera overhead that belonged to the Vigilance Church rather than the "Underground Ark", and said after consideration:

"Try not to go around Mr. Di Marco. He has a bad temper and gets angry easily. When he gets angry..."

He didn't speak too clearly. A certain kind of fear was like a rock, weighing heavily on his heart.

Upon seeing this, the Honghe guard also reminded Ge Lin and Ge Miao:

"Servants like you, we often replenish, and the 'ark' is so big..."

They didn't say anything more, walked forward, and continued their patrol mission.

Ge Miao was confused and didn't understand what was being said at all. Ge Lin's expression changed a few times, and she could probably understand the hidden meaning of the other party:

All those servants in the front were kicked out because of Mr. Di Marco's bad temper?

No, Deacon Locke mentioned that after entering the Ark, no one can leave unless they are sent to do things. People who are born in the Ark will also be the ghosts of the Ark in death...

Could it be that all those servants in front were dead?

Ge Lin thought of the pitiful eyes and solemn expressions of the two guards just now, and felt more and more that her guess was correct.

All dead, all dead...

Ge Lin's steps became frivolous, as if she had just jumped out of a pit of fire and fallen into the tiger's mouth again in despair.

Although she also knew that wilderness wanderers like herself and her sister could die from various accidents at any time. If they couldn't get into the ark this time, they might be sold somewhere, become prostitutes, and be tortured to death. But no one wants to live and live well.

After returning to the room and getting into bed quietly, Ge Lin looked at her sister who had fallen asleep again, feeling uncontrollably sad.

She buried her face in the quilt, her body trembling slightly.

In the corridor outside, the two Ark guards just looked at each other during patrol and sighed softly:

"Why……"

…………

"Why……"

On the second underground floor, next to a vent, Yu Tian let out a silent sigh.

After he and Bode returned to the Ark, although they were extremely excited and wanted to mobilize everyone they knew to cooperate with the vigilance sect and overthrow Di Marco's brutal rule, they ultimately failed to take action.

This is because they don't have much confidence yet, have not been under pressure from Di Marco recently, and lack the fuse to ignite the powder keg.

Thinking of the other party saying that they only had to do a few things and did not need to take any risks, Yu Tian and Bode decided to cooperate to a limited extent and wait and see the progress.

If all goes well, they will join without reservation.

Yu Tian sighed because he didn't know whether this could be successful, but he and a maid looked at each other, and it was the time when they were having sex with each other.

His father, a veteran guard, was firmly opposed to this matter because the maid had immediate family members who were also working as servants.

In the "Underground Ark", the guards have a relatively special status. They are rarely killed due to Di Marco's brutality. The same is true for their family members.

This makes them the number one target for mate selection among servant groups, hoping to obtain a gold medal for immunity from death.

The guards were not too happy.

Because after a servant marries a guard, although they will indeed get a certain degree of tolerance from Di Marco, they still have immediate relatives. If their immediate relatives make mistakes or offend Di Marco, they will be killed. According to Di Marco's habit, it is likely to involve the corresponding guard family and eliminate hidden dangers.

Therefore, guarding against intermarriage within the group is a better option.

This also gives many guards a sense of superiority.

But feelings are unreasonable.

Yu Tian was worried about this matter, and the actions of the vigilant sect gave him hope.

As his thoughts flashed, he turned his head while holding the submachine gun, glanced at his companion Bode, and found that he was also a little nervous and uneasy.

Yu Tian shook his head invisibly, signaling Bode not to mess up his position.

Maybe the Vigilance Sect has given up on its original plan?

As usual, he glanced at the vents separated by the metal fence, the three surveillance cameras arranged in this area without leaving any blind spots, and the remaining guards guarding the other two cameras.

There were four of them in total, and they were divided into two groups, three from the Red River and one from the Gray Country. They were all wearing olive green uniforms and carrying the latest submachine guns.

From the perspective of Yu Tian and Bode, this kind of defense is not said to be impregnable, but there is absolutely nothing that can be exploited. The intruders can only go head-on and face waves of reinforcements called from the control room.

At this moment, their eyes suddenly lit up with silvery electric light and sparks inspired by it.

Line failure?

This was the first thought that flashed through Yu Tian and Bode's minds.

At the same time, in the control room located on the sixth floor underground, the two guards who were in charge also saw a screen showing sparks of electricity at first, then losing the image and turning dark.

"Guards in area B3, check whether the B12 camera is malfunctioning." One of the men responsible for monitoring immediately started giving instructions with the help of electronic products purchased from "Mechanical Paradise".

His voice immediately echoed in the ears of Yu Tian and others through the speakers in the corresponding area.

Yu Tian raised his head and looked at the B12 camera, and found that there were traces of scorch on its interface.

Suddenly, he saw a hand waving to him from outside the metal grille of the vent.

Yu Tian's pupils suddenly dilated.

He followed his instinct and slowly withdrew his gaze.

The next second, arcs and sparks flashed again, twice in a row.

In the monitoring room, the man who just spoke through the loudspeaker saw that the images corresponding to the B10 and B11 cameras also disappeared.

Before he could give further instructions, Yu Tian came to his senses and said with the help of the electronic product clamped on his collar:

"Yes, all three cameras here are malfunctioning. It should be a circuit problem."

At this moment, he found that he was calmer than ever before.

After all, he doesn't need to do anything dangerous, just report according to the most likely situation.

"Check it again and I'll send someone over for repairs right away." The man in the monitoring room followed the procedure.

Yu Tian, ​​Bo De and the other two groups of guards obeyed and separated to confirm again.

During this process, Yu Tian and Bode deliberately occupied the bottom of the vent, so that the others could only face their backs.

The metal grille on the vent moved silently.

Shang Jianyao, who was wearing a monkey mask with a furry face and a pointed mouth, and Jiang Baimian, who was wearing a delicate monk mask, jumped down one after another.

They couldn't completely eliminate the sound of landing, but they had internal responses and made various normal sounds in time to cover up the corresponding movements.

Without any hesitation, Shang Jianyao rushed down the mountain like a tiger and pounced on the two guards who were checking the camera with their backs turned.

boom! boom!

He opened his bow left and right, hitting different targets under the ears.

The two guards passed out without even making a sound.

Shang Jianyao's hands slid down, caught their bodies, and slowly placed them on the ground.

On the other side, Jiang Baimian also easily stunned the last two guards and made them "sit" against the wall without making any sound of falling to the ground.

After doing all this, Jiang Baimian gestured towards the vent.

The silver-black robot Gnawa wearing a shirt with blue eyes jumped down, and the movement on the ground was quite small.

He climbed up, opened a metal finger, and inserted it into the interface corresponding to the B12 camera.

Behind him, Long Yuehong and Bai Chen, who were wearing military exoskeleton devices, also entered the "underground ark" one after another.

Yu Tian and Bode were nervous and relieved at the same time.