Embers Ad Infinitum

The male awakened person immediately looked for the target's companion, but the elevator hall was crowded with people, and it was impossible to tell who was who.

The most important thing is that he is not familiar with the two targets at all. He only has some temporary photos and information and knows some characteristics.

Compared to the mechanical arm, an iconic thing that is still eye-catching even if it is covered by sleeves, being shorter is nothing among the crowd. Among the older generations who have not popularized genetic improvement, this is common. Under the current circumstances, On the contrary, it is easy to be blocked by others.

Seeing that the target was about to leave the elevator hall and find another way, the male awakened person did not dare to neglect and immediately used his ability.

Long Yuehong's head sank, his eyelids heavy, he fell asleep and fell to the side.

"Forced sleep"!

Seeing this, Bai Chen not only did not reach out to support her husband and try to wake him up, but instead moved his eyebrows and moved towards the crowded place to distance himself.

With a plop, Long Yuehong fell to the ground.

No one around him came to check on him, and the only thought in his mind was to escape from the underground building quickly.

They were able to bypass Long Yuehong without stepping on his body, which was considered to be of outstanding quality.

Seeing a large number of employees rushing towards the elevator, the two awakened people struggled to squeeze out.

This is also the reason why male awakened people have to forcibly control the target, otherwise by the time they walk out of the elevator hall, the target will be far away.

Arriving next to Long Yuehong, the two of them looked around vigilantly, looking for the target female companion. However, even though there were an elevator of employees gone, the place was still crowded. Since they were not very familiar with each other, the two of them had to take a look. I found that Bai Chen was almost dreaming.

Withdrawing their gaze, the two awakened people looked at each other and both shook their heads, indicating that they had gained nothing.

"Pull the target to a more open area." The tall male awakened person said.

The area around the elevator hall is too chaotic, with people coming and going, and the two of them will be attacked if they are not careful!

According to the data, the target's female companion has a biological prosthetic transplant.

The female awakened person had a puzzled expression on her face and raised her hand to point to her ear.

She was wearing earplugs and couldn't hear clearly what her companions were saying.

The tall male awakened person came back to his senses and squatted down without repeating himself, intending to hold Long Yuehong up and tell his companions what to do through actions.

At this moment, he felt dizzy and felt an obvious pressure in his chest.

As his heart tightened, he vomited, his limbs became numb, and his vision became blurry.

In his sight, the female companions also behaved similarly.

"Oops, I was attacked!" The tall male awakened person staggered and tried to stand up, looking for the attacker, but he couldn't succeed.

According to his judgment, the sneak attack on the two of them probably didn't happen just now. It had been going on secretly for a while, but it didn't break out until now.

In his desperation, the tall male awakened man ignored the fact that he was surrounded by company employees and planned to force everyone nearby to sleep without distinction.

However, it was already too late. He and the female awakened person's vision went dark and they fainted.

Only then did Bai Chen squeeze out of the crowd and rush to Long Yuehong's side.

"Infrasound attack"!

She had deliberately distanced herself from Long Yuehong just now, in order to hide herself and use the "infrasonic attack" of the "mermaid" biological prosthetic limb to quietly deal with the enemy!

As for whether this would affect other employees, she didn't care.

Under the external stimulation given by Bai Chen, Long Yuehong woke up.

"There is an awakened person!" he shouted subconsciously.

"We've knocked them out." Bai Chen responded concisely, "Let's go to another elevator hall, the more remote the better. Take advantage of the time to get up there before there are not many people escaping."

Otherwise, employees who want to take the elevator will be broadcast more and more as time goes by, and most people will have to wait one round after another, fearing that something will change.

This kind of "blockage" is undoubtedly more terrifying than the daily rush hour of "Pangu Biology". Even if the underground building has multiple elevator halls, which can meet daily use without any problem, there will definitely be situations of grabbing, squeezing, and waiting.

"Okay!" Long Yuehong thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to the 495th floor first."

That's where his parents' home is.

Although Shang Jianyao promised to focus on the places where Long Dayong, Gu Hong, Long Zhigu, and Long Aihong worked and went to school in the second round of broadcasts, they would also include the neighbors on the 495th floor, Long Yuehong’s grandparents and other relatives. "Care list", but Long Yuehong is still not at ease. She is afraid that her parents will be affected. She wants to escape from the underground building, but in reality she is reluctant to part with the bottles and cans at home and has to go back to pack some belongings. If he left, it might delay the opportunity, and he and Bai Chen would need to protect him to escape safely.

…………

Swirl-shaped building, core research area.

Jiang Baimian is looking at the indicator light of the experimental cabin intently. Once the success prompt appears, she will immediately open the transparent cover, lift Shang Jianyao and carry it behind her back.

At this moment, her head suddenly felt a little dizzy.

This is like a precursor to "unintentional illness", but not that strong.

Jiang Baimian looked around vigilantly and found that the flashing lights on the surrounding machines had solidified, and the strong wind blowing in the hall became stronger and stronger.

…………

In the room full of machines at "Zhuangsheng".

The extremely angry voice of "Distorted Shadow" sounded in Du Heng's ears:

"Why did you lie to us?

"We support you so much, but you actually want to drag us to death!"

This is not only his question, but also that of "The Searing Gate" and "The Last Man".

Hearing this, Du Heng sighed and said:

"Garland, we actually died decades ago, and the only ones alive now are the demons that exist through our consciousness.

“I don’t want to fall completely and lose even the remaining part of me that can be called a human being.

"I have been wrong for a long time, many times, and I cannot continue to be wrong. We, the people who should have died long ago, rest in peace together."

No one listened to him because everyone had their hearing blocked.

As the "Twisted Shadow", "The Last Man" and "The Searing Gate" retreated or turned against each other, all the rooms leading to the core area of ​​the "New World" were opened.

Dozens of Du Heng and his group used their authority to turn different rooms into mazes to slow down the executioners' progress.

"Si Ming" Zhao Danlin, wearing a crown and a robe studded with flowers and leaves, seemed to have transformed into the legendary goddess from the Chu region, quickly passing through different intersections along the ground and walls, heading straight for her destination.

Suddenly, a dim light lit up in front of her.

Green colors quickly filled the area, and a golden Buddha appeared in "Si Ming's" eyes.

"Si Ming" raised his eyebrows and said:

"Li Hui, are you jumping sideways repeatedly?"

The Buddha pronounced the Buddha's name:

"Amitabha, I am helping you just to gather you all here and weaken your ability to influence the outside world, so that you can no longer take advantage of the chaos to escape."

This voice directly rang in "Si Ming's" heart.

Reverse use of "other minds"!

"You want to die too?" "Si Ming" asked in a deep voice.

The Buddha sighed and said:

"The more I read Buddhist scriptures, the more I regret my original joy and my last few years. In order to prevent the newly awakened ones from affecting the dust anymore, I let the believers choose the path of giving up the physical body and tied them to me. .

“If I don’t go to hell, who will?

"Donor, peace is the joy!"

Seeing that he could no longer be convinced, "Si Ming" immediately used "Conscious Arrest" upgraded from "Cardiac Arrest".

Almost at the same time, a solemn voice echoed around "Bodhi" Li Hui:

"Conscious deprivation"!

The two officers lost consciousness at the same time, but quickly woke up.

"Si Ming" did not hesitate, and immediately used his position in "Pangu Creatures" and "Sumo City" to extract part of human consciousness to supplement himself.

She doesn't absorb all of it because the capacity of her pool is limited. If she absorbs too much, it will be wasted. And there will be a hard battle ahead, so she has to use it sparingly to keep her condition at its peak.

…………

Pangea, on the 6th floor of the underground building, inside the radio station.

When Hou Yi woke up completely, there was no one here, only the recording was playing back.

"The big boss is the 'Commander' of Sui. He established the 'Pangu Creature' just to trap us and feed on our consciousness?" Hou Yi listened to the broadcast for a while and gradually "believed" this matter.

But just halfway through the recording, before Shang Jianyao could finish telling them to escape from the underground building quickly, the broadcast stopped abruptly.

The supercomputer "Omega" finally got the order and blocked the broadcast line.

When Hou Yi saw the sound stopped, he quickly left the recording studio and rushed to the exit of the radio station.

Suddenly, she saw several "careless people" with cloudy eyes and stooped bodies biting human flesh.

Hou Yi took a silent breath and quietly retreated into the radio station.

495 floors.

As soon as Long Yuehong and Bai Chen returned here, they went straight to No. 11, Area C.

Kick-kick, the two of them ran very fast, going against the people heading to the elevator hall, and returned to the door.

"What's going on?" Gu Hong stood there, looking confused.

Seeing her son and daughter-in-law arriving, her panic calmed down a lot.

At this time, broadcasting has stopped.

Long Yuehong blurted out:

"You didn't go to work?"

Gu Hong shook her head and replied blankly:

"I felt a little uncomfortable in the morning, so I asked for leave and didn't go.

"I just got back from the hospital."

She shook the medicine bag in her hand.

Just returned from the hospital... Long Yuehong was extremely glad that she and Bai Chen were cautious and went home to confirm the situation.

Before the broadcast was cut off, Shang Jianyao's recording was played for five rounds, affecting perhaps a hundred thousand employees. However, in their plan, only a small number of people were implanted with thoughts in the hospital area to encourage others to escape. , not for all.

So Gu Hong became a fish that slipped through the net.

Long Yuehong made a decision immediately, without any hesitation, and said directly to Gu Hong:

"Mom, let's escape to the surface quickly!"

"W-will you be punished?" Gu Hong was very worried.

Bai Chen pointed at several employees running past and said:

"Everyone is on the run, and the law will not hold everyone accountable!"

The flustered Gu Hong was immediately convinced. Just as she was about to follow her son and daughter-in-law to the nearest elevator hall, she caught sight of a familiar figure from the corner of her eye.

Long Dayong!

Long Yuehong's father was rushing home.

"Dad, you didn't run away?" Long Yuehong asked in shock.

When Long Dayong saw Gu Hong, he breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"I was planning to escape with them, but didn't I think your mother might still be at home?"

Gu Hong's heart suddenly felt warm and her eyes were moist. Long Yuehong waved her hand and said:

"Walk!"

Long Yuehong and Bai Chen led their parents to the nearest elevator hall in Area C.

Because it was working time, there was basically no one in the family area except for children, students, teachers and retired employees. There had been a few more runs just now, but now everything was quiet and empty, as if it was outside the activity center during the year-end report performance.

When passing by the activity center, Bai Chen glanced at the order supervision room next to him, turned his head to Long Yuehong and said:

"Go in and see if there are any weapons."

Except for their mechanical arms and biological prostheses, the two of them did not have a gun or a bullet on their body.

——With the mechanical arm unable to be removed, "Pangu Creature" asked Long Yuehong to hand over bullets, poisons, sleeping gas combination suits and other items to minimize the power of his mechanical arm.

Of course, since high-performance batteries are involved in the normal operation of the robotic arm, Long Yuehong can currently also use condensed energy to emit lasers and other functions.

"Okay." Considering that we still don't know what we will encounter next, a slight delay should not have much impact. Long Yuehong responded to Bai Chen's proposal without hesitation.

They took Long Dayong and Gu Hong into the order supervision room on this floor.

The order supervisor here has fled, and the spare weapons are left in the room.

A locked cabinet was torn open by Long Yuehong. There were several "Ice Moss" pistols and multiple boxes of 9mm bullets inside.

Bai Chen and Long Yuehong each took a handful, and gave one to Long Dayong and Gu Hong respectively.

"We don't know how to use it..." Gu Hong was very embarrassed.

They learned how to shoot live ammunition when they were in school, but how many years have passed since then.

"At least it can scare people." Bai Chen replied as he stuffed the bullet into his pocket.

Long Dayong also comforted Gu Hong:

"I still have some impressions of how to use them."

The family of four were equipped with weapons and ran quickly to the nearest elevator hall without further delay.

At this time, several employees were waiting there, looking anxious.

Long Yuehong looked around and found that there were no children or students, so she breathed a sigh of relief.

In their plan, students from various schools and children who are still cared for by their elders at home are the people to be cared for in the second and third rounds of broadcasts, second only to the family members, relatives and friends of Long Yuehong and Jiang Baimian. and the few remaining relatives of Shang Jianyao's parents.

Of course, Shang Jianyao couldn't tell who was younger and who was still studying through air sensing, so he could only cover the corresponding area with everyone.

In this way, minors can still receive care from teachers and elders during their escape.

Judging from the current situation, the plan of the "Old Adjustment Group" has gone smoothly to this point.

The elevator hall was extremely quiet, no one spoke, and the elevators went up quickly and then passed without stopping.

This is a special design of "Pangu Biology" to deal with the morning and evening rush hours - when the elevator is full, it will no longer open in the middle.

Gulu... I don't know who swallowed his saliva, showing tension and anxiety.

"Why isn't there an elevator yet?" A male employee from the material supply market on this floor roared uncontrollably.

He was not substantially affected by those five rounds of broadcasts, but he heard clearly what Shang Jianyao said. Now that the students, the order supervisor, and the old man holding the child had all run away, he finally couldn't restrain his inner suspicion and anger. Fearful, I rushed to the nearest elevator hall with several colleagues.

But the elevators passed one after another, all full, and they didn't stop at all.

With this low roar, the silence here was broken. Some people clamored to go to other elevator halls to try their luck. Others, relying on their youth, planned to take the safe passage and go up to ten or twenty floors to see the situation.

At this time, a female employee at the material supply market said with a trembling voice:

“How about we press the down button?

"There shouldn't be anyone going up or down the elevator at this time."

She discovered from the jump of floor numbers that when the elevator went up, it often stopped in the "Factory Area" and "Inner Ecological Area", while going down directly reached the "Research Area" and other places. After all, almost everyone was thinking about it at this moment. It's an escape from the underground.

The others were stunned for a moment, then thought about it for a few seconds and found that this method was really feasible.

For them, the delay is the time it takes to take the elevator to the "research area", "factory area" and the time it takes for them to be full on the way up. This is most likely better than waiting here.

One is hoping that he doesn’t know when it will come, waiting in agony, and the other can intuitively see when he can escape to the ground level, and there is no need to think too much about who to choose.

But at this moment, an elevator stopped at the 495th floor.

Everyone present showed expressions of surprise and rushed over.

With a slight clang, the compartment door opened, and the four passengers inside were revealed to the eyes of Long Yuehong and others.

Their bodies are slightly stooped, their eyes are cloudy and often bloodshot, and they are all "unintentional".

As soon as they see normal humans, these "careless people" immediately attack.

Several employees from the material supply market couldn't react and froze there.

boom! boom! boom! boom!

The gunshots were fired four times in a row, hitting each "unintentional person" accurately in the head, causing their brains to burst out.

The one who threw the hardest fell on the female employee who had just spoken, causing her to scream.

Fortunately, no real damage was done.

The ones who shot just now were Long Yuehong and Bai Chen, and they each fired two shots.

Based on the scenes they had seen, this "careless person" was just childish.

Without saying a word, Long Yuehong passed the employees, came to the elevator door, and dragged out the body of the "unintentional person".

They were all still wearing work clothes.

After looking at the corpses, Long Yuehong pressed against the compartment door and said to Bai Chen and his parents:

"quick!"

The few employees at the supply market came to their senses and did not dare to compete with the four members of the Long family for seats, and allowed them to enter the elevator.

"You guys come in too." After arranging her parents, Long Yuehong said to these employees.

Several employees from the supply market remained silent, lowered their heads slightly, entered the elevator, and stood against the wall.

Bai Chen immediately pressed the button leading to the 649th floor.

——The 650th floor requires an authorized electronic card to swipe. Currently, you can only go to the 649th floor first and then go up through the safe channel.

Although there must be roadblocks and guards on the safe passage, the latter should have escaped long ago, and the former was probably overturned or destroyed by the previous batches of people who fled to the ground.

The door closed quickly and the elevator began to move upward. It only stopped at the fifth floor before it was full.

…………

The spiritual world of "Zhuang Sheng".

"Yougu", "Mingxiao", "Mandala" and others are rushing towards the core area full of machines.

But they walked for a long time, passing room after room, but never saw their destination, as if they were spinning in circles.

"Yougu", who always kept herself in the darkness with her looming figure, was wary and shouted sharply:

"'Broken Mirror', is that you?"

A voice with a touch of sadness responded to them:

"it's me."

"You also want to kill yourself?" Mingxiao's voice was as vague as a dream.

In their induction, the consciousness of "Broken Mirror" alternated between left and right, sometimes disappeared and sometimes divided into multiple parts, which was obviously not real.

"Broken Mirror" sighed lowly:

“I’ve long wanted to kill myself.

“When I was a kid, I would be sad for a long time if a rabbit I raised died, let alone killing people one after another with my own hands.

“I can only paralyze myself with the thought, ‘It’s all fantasy, why take it seriously’.

“I have never tried to end my life because the dean told me that we must atone for the mistakes we made before and end this disaster completely.

"Now, I finally have this opportunity."

The sound of "broken mirror" came from all directions, making it unclear where she was hiding.

…………

"Pangu Creatures", at the bottom of the underground building, in the room where the supercomputer "Omega" is placed.

An electronic synthesis sounded:

"Director Ji, nearly one-third of the employees have fled the company. Please make up your mind as soon as possible."

While Ji Ze is still alive, as an artificial intelligence, "Omega" has no authority over certain things. But if Ji Ze dies and there is no designated operator, it can handle it on its own according to the situation.

Ji Ze, the top-ranked vice president of “Pangu Bio”, pushed up the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose and was silent for a few seconds before saying:

"I give the order to stop the elevator..."

Because the broadcast had stopped at this time, he did not block his ears anymore.

As soon as Ji Ze finished speaking, his brows suddenly wrinkled.

He felt the severe pain in his heart!

With a plop, Ji Ze fell to the ground, and his gradually blurred vision saw a familiar figure walking in.

That was Su Yu, director of the board of directors and in charge of the security department.

"For..." Ji Ze, who was dying, could only spit out this word.

Then he lost his life.

Su Yu, who was wearing gray camouflage, looked down at his colleague and said with a sarcastic smile:

"Are you asking why?"

His expression gradually became heavy and serious:

"Later I blocked my ears and had some doubts about what was said on the radio, so I sneaked here to find out what happened. Who would have known that it was really like this? You and the big boss really treated everyone like livestock."

He then turned his attention to the door on the side of the room and said with a self-deprecating smile:

"I know that there is no way I can survive in front of Zhi Sui, but when I joined the Security Department on the first day, my old team leader told me that the mission of our Security Department is to protect everyone, who told me to step by step Promoted from the Security Department!"

As Su Yu said this, he took out a high-performance grenade he got from somewhere, pulled out the ring, and threw it towards the supercomputer "Omega".

His first goal is to destroy this artificial intelligence that can interrupt the operation of the elevator!

"Omega" itself had no weapon system, and it was too late to summon guards elsewhere, so it could only "watch" the grenade fly towards it.

It had no emotional fluctuations, and just reminded Su Yu:

"If I am destroyed..."

Boom!

The violent explosion destroyed the supercomputer, and the remaining voice of "Omega" echoed through the loudspeakers in the area:

"The self-destruction program of the entire underground building will be activated, and within ten minutes, this place will become a closed tomb."

Su Yu, who was rolling to avoid the waves of the explosion, was stunned for a moment and didn't speak for a long time.

When the voice of "Omega" subsided, he looked down at the parts scattered everywhere and chuckled:

“That’s fine, just do your best and obey fate.

"At least that's an extra ten minutes for everyone."

Su Yu did not waste the time to escape. Instead, he walked to the door of the side room and sat down cross-legged, with his back facing in and his face facing out.

His posture was like protecting the big boss inside.

PS: Two chapters in one