Apocalypse Forecast

Chapter 1194: Chapter 910: Greenhouse_3

The swollen man opened his mouth and rasped, ”Welcome... to your... arrival...”

Ai Qing reached out, shook him slightly, then let go.

The thing that once belonged to the security supervisor turned around and writhed ahead to lead the way, ”Lunchtime... has... come... Need to first...”

”After inspecting the sealed items,” Ai Qing said.

”No... no problem...”

The ’security supervisor’ replied vaguely, leading her through the gates and corridors, into a hall that hung with countless enormous rotting organs.

All the way down.

In the shadows of those mutated creatures, countless viscous bubbles rose, as if something amorphous was crawling within them. Yet when Ai Qing’s shadow swept over, fleeting flames faintly appeared, and a vague, fierce wail echoed in the void.

At her feet, the outline of an angry Incendiary Bull cast a menacing shadow.

”... Hmm?” The writhing ’security supervisor’ paused, ”What... sound... strange... so strange... for the past few days... it’s been... so... strange...”

”Nothing to be strange about.”

Ai Qing calmly followed behind, stepping over the floor covered with mold and eyeballs, telling him, ”Everything is normal.”

”Normal... normal...”

Soon, a bit of confusion dissipated in his mind that had gradually become chaotic after mutation, with only the final duty remaining.

One-fold verification, two-fold verification, triple-fold verification.

The key from the suspended floors progressed unimpeded in the underground facility, passing through the utterly transformed Demon Realm, all the way deep into the core.

Until finally, the security supervisor stopped outside the slowly rising gate.

”I’ll... wait... here...”

He mumbled, ”Duty-bound... please... bear... with me...”

”Alright.”

Ai Qing raised her hand, adjusting the spectacle lenses before her eyes, and walked past the swollen substance into the darkness too deep for the lights to penetrate.

Endless phantoms emerged from the dark, with a call too faint to be heard clearly.

Even the hallucinations that the glasses from the technical department failed to shield gradually seeped into her soul, invading her brain.

Yet Ai Qing counted her steps silently, comparing them against the map in her memory, advancing step by step.

Passing Huai Shi’s smile, her own corpse, countless more phantoms, brushing past her own mother.

The overheating caused by the overloaded glasses maintained her last thread of sanity.

Finally, she saw the outline behind the illusions.

The huge cage that pulsed slowly like a heart, with each tentacle lashing out in anger, trying to reach into her spine to rip out her soul.

But it couldn’t stop her advance, as more defenses emerged from her body and soul, difficult to breach or corrode in a short time.

She could only follow procedures, opening her vulnerabilities.

Just like a surgery.

Coldly extracting the core from within.

Eventually, the ancient Bronze Box was placed precisely into the inner side of the briefcase. When the briefcase closed, the triple-fold clasps engraved with complex matrices clicked shut.

Inside and out, isolated once again!

In a dazed state, it seemed like a wailing sound rang out.

But upon careful listening, it was no longer heard.

Up until this moment, Ai Qing remained unmoved, only lowering her head to gaze at her watch, counting time silently. After five minutes, confirming her consciousness was clear again through probes and test strips, she finally breathed a long sigh of relief, drenched in sweat.

She didn’t even have the strength to pick up the briefcase.

”Sealed items have been re-contained—”

Almost against the edge of the scheduled detonation countdown, a message was sent out.

”Received, prepare to evacuate.”

The response from the commander remained succinct, ”Something seems off, you need to be careful.”

Once the support from that lie is lost, all the hidden pain beneath the illusions will face a collapse.

But, will she have enough time to evacuate before the collapse?

The commander picked up the walkie-talkie, ordering softly, ”B3, prepare to breach and rescue at any moment—”

In the distance, amidst the blizzard, the fortress remained silent.

So tranquil.