That sculpture had a bizarre shape. At first glance, it looked like a cluster of blazing black flames.
The flames stretched upwards, enveloping into an oval shape.
And in the middle of the oval, there seemed to be something else.
When they looked closer, they realized it wasn't a burning flame at all, but rather like thousands of black seaweed strands intertwined together! Forming an oval seaweed ball.
Each stem and leaf was carved vividly, as if swaying in the sea.
In the center of the tangled seaweed ball, there was a head, resembling a black goat's head, with two sharp horns jutting out from the chaotic seaweed.
The moonlight moved forward with their footsteps, quickly illuminating the seaweed sculpture, projecting directly onto the goat's head's eyes.
Its eyes were also black, like unfathomable black holes, so that all the moonlight was absorbed.
A gust of wind blew, and the moonlight swayed, casting mottled light and shadows on the seaweed, making the tangled seaweed seem to have life, swaying vaguely.
But when Xia Chujian looked closer, the seaweed was still standing still. The illusion of the seaweed having life was actually a visual illusion caused by light and shadow.
The moonlight became more and more erratic, and unknown whispers began to flow in the air.
The black goat's head hidden in the center of the seaweed sphere seemed to be an ancient divine messenger, listening to the prayers of its believers.
Quan Yuxun suddenly felt a sense of inexplicable fear and unease, as if all of this had touched some area that humans had never set foot in.
He turned his head to look at Xia Chujian, but saw her eyes full of interest, staring at the sculpture in a daze.
Quan Yuxun said in a low voice, "...Did you hear that? It sounds like someone is talking?"
Xia Chujian raised her eyebrows: "I didn't hear it, but you heard it, which means there is something strange here. Don't be afraid, I specialize in breaking evil spirits."
With that, she raised her hand and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
*Boom!* A burst of explosive force broke through the silence as heavy as mountains.
The black goat's head in the seaweed sphere shattered into pieces with a crash, turning into dust.
And the seaweed sculpture also collapsed with a thud.
The whispers lingering in Quan Yuxun's ears stopped abruptly.
He laughed and said, "Well done! How could I not have thought of that?!"
As expected, the Six Roots of Purity Sniper Bullet specializes in breaking evil spirits and saving all living beings.
The two had just relaxed for a while when suddenly, the open space covered with weeds in front of them began to shake after the sculpture collapsed.
Xia Chujian pulled Quan Yuxun back.
Just as they retreated out of the grass, the ground of this weedy area seemed to suddenly lose its support.
With a muffled sound, part of the land collapsed, revealing a huge pipe entrance underneath.
The pipe was dark, and even with large LCD lighting equipment, they could only see a section of the pipe body, not the end of the pipe.
And the diameter of the pipe was surprisingly wide.
Xia Chujian was 1.75 meters tall, but the diameter of the pipe was not only taller than her, but also taller than Quan Yuxun, who was more than 1.8 meters tall, estimated to be at least two meters.
Xia Chujian immediately said to Quan Yuxun, "Use the Submachine Gun and fire a burst inside."
Quan Yuxun was not a professional gunman after all, and the speed of loading ammunition was too slow.
Xia Chujian couldn't stand it and reached out, "Give it to me."
Quan Yuxun directly took off the Submachine Gun and put it in her hand, along with a string of shoulder-mounted bullet bags.
Xia Chujian quickly hung up the bullets, and then *rat-tat-tat!* She fired a full magazine of Submachine Gun bullets into the pipe, at least two hundred rounds.
But in the pipe, only the sound of bullets falling could be heard, without any other sound.
Xia Chujian breathed a sigh of relief: "There are no living organisms inside."
Quan Yuxun: "..."
"Okay, do you want to go in and take a look?" Xia Chujian returned the Submachine Gun to Quan Yuxun.
Quan Yuxun waved his hand, "I only need a pistol. A Submachine Gun is just for show with me."
Xia Chujian didn't stand on ceremony, directly hanging the Submachine Gun in front of her chest, while still holding the Destroyer 1 Large Sniper Rifle with a barrel at least one meter long, and asked, "Do you want to go in first?"
Quan Yuxun pursed his lips: "You should go in first, you have two guns."
Xia Chujian unhesitatingly stuffed the Submachine Gun back into Quan Yuxun's hands, and said, "Now we each have a gun, shall we go in together?"
She held the Destroyer 1 Large Sniper Rifle in her hand, her finger firmly on the trigger.
Quan Yuxun's mouth twitched, but he still picked up the Submachine Gun, but still refused to be the first to go in.
Xia Chujian clicked her tongue, did not continue to haggle with Quan Yuxun, and went in first.
This pipe seemed to have been buried underground for a long time. The air inside was not fresh, and there was a faint smell of decay, coming from the other end of the pipe.
Fortunately, Xia Chujian had just fired a magazine of Submachine Gun bullets. Now the air was filled with the strong smell of gunpowder released by the bullets, diluting the disgusting and suffocating stench and musty smell.
She walked in this huge pipe, although she had lightened her steps, she could still hear her own footsteps, echoing in the pipe.
Xia Chujian walked for a while, then suddenly stopped, because she only heard her own footsteps.
Quan Yuxun should be following her, didn't he keep up?
But in this environment, Xia Chujian didn't dare to look back.
She just raised her voice and said, "...Qilin?"
Quan Yuxun's voice sounded not far behind her: "I'm here."
Xia Chujian wondered: "Are your footsteps so light?"
Quan Yuxun said unhurriedly: "I have practiced physical skills, although I am not a Gene Evolver, I still have some skills."
Xia Chujian coughed lightly: "Still make some noise, otherwise how can we contact each other?"
Quan Yuxun thought it made sense, so his footsteps were a little heavier when he walked.
Two footsteps began to echo in the pipe.
The two stopped talking and went all the way forward along the winding pipe.
Because it was a particularly tall pipe, they didn't even remember how many turns they had made, and they couldn't even tell the directions.
Fortunately, there was nothing blocking the way, and they didn't see any obviously abnormal small animals here.
After walking for about twenty minutes, they finally saw the light at the end.
The light was not bright, just a faint fluorescence.
When they went around the last turn, their eyes suddenly opened up.
What appeared in front of them was a huge underground architectural ruin.
Like the buildings on the ground, this place seemed to have been hit by a fire, but it had also become ruins.
This seemed to be a very spacious hall, and it was unknown what it was originally used for, but now it was a mess.
Black liquid flowed on the ground, and there were a lot of traces and wreckage, making it difficult to find a place to set foot.
Xia Chujian held the super-powered LCD flashlight, and after turning it on, the light was like a bright blade, cutting through the darkness and decay here.
She observed carefully for a while, and said to Quan Yuxun, "...These seem to be the bones of Humanoids?"
Because those remains had common characteristics of animals and humans.
For example, a skeleton was lying on the ground with wing bones on its back, indicating that it once had wings.
But his body and limbs were in the state of human bones.
Quan Yuxun pondered and said, "The remains in this state should be Humanoid Slaves. Because only when Humanoid Slaves die, they cannot return to a completely human body."
"When Humanoid Lowly People are dying, their bodies will reorganize cells and switch back to a complete human form."
Xia Chujian had seen the situation when Humanoid Lowly People died. She had personally killed three Humanoid Lowly People, that was when Fan Chengcai wanted to **** their Team's Flying Vehicle.
She nodded and said, "I didn't expect you to know these situations."
Quan Yuxun thought, he had also participated in some criminal case investigations related to Humanoids, and had seen many tragic forensic scenes.
But even though he wasn't completely ignorant of such scenes, he was still shocked by what he saw.
As Xia Chujian moved the high-powered flashlight in her hand, they saw more and more of the situation.
They didn't know what this place was for, but it looked like purgatory, or a death altar.
There were many broken platforms and tables and chairs around, with broken glass everywhere.
But whether on the platforms or on the ground, there were piles of remains, not only humanoid slave remains, but also human remains.
Some of the remains were particularly small, even looking like fetuses, not even infants.
Further inside, they could see a long corridor, with small rooms on both sides.
These small rooms were not large, each about four square meters, square in shape, but in the center of each room was a large iron cage.
The iron cages should have been burned at high temperatures, but they were not deformed, only more rusty and heavier.
There was nothing in the iron cages, only a layer of ash a foot high.
How many corpses and remains would it take to burn so much ash...
Xia Chujian gripped the Large Sniper Rifle in her hand even tighter.
She and Quan Yuxun went through the rooms one by one, and after passing through countless rooms, they finally saw a larger room at the end of the corridor.
This room was at least twenty square meters. Perhaps because it was at the innermost part of the corridor, although the fire had licked over, it only blackened many of the equipment and furnishings, but the shape was still relatively intact.
Here, Xia Chujian saw one high-end experimental platform after another, as well as various high-end experimental equipment that she didn't recognize.
Curiously, she walked over and shone the high-powered LCD flashlight around, looking at the labels on the instruments.
[Ultra-Miniature Controllable Nuclear Fusion Generator]: Professional power supply system for all experimental equipment, with a service life of 30,000 years.
[Structural Zoology and High-Precision Microscopic Imaging Platform]: Used to observe, analyze, and study the ultrastructure, subcellular structures, cells, tissues, and organs of animal bodies.
[Ultra-High Resolution Electron Scanning Microscope]: Magnification: 100-8000000.000, used for electron microscope observation and research of dehydrated and dried fresh animal samples.
[High-Energy Laser Ultra-Micro Cutting System]: Samples can be captured, cut, and separated using ultra-micro lasers under bright field, phase contrast, and fluorescence microscopy.
...
Xia Chujian looked all the way, in a state where she could understand every word, but didn't know what it meant when they were put together.
She stopped in front of the last instrument placed against the wall, which also occupied the largest area.
[Fully Automatic Intelligent Magnetic Bead Extraction Evolution System]: Uses a fully automatic intelligent magnetic bead system to transfer and purify DNA, RNA, proteins, and cells.
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