Sky-cracking Rider

Adam: Holy shit! How many times have I been deleted???

Chen Fei: Uh, I forgot to delete, wait a moment, I'll delete it now and recompile once.

Adam: Wait, wait, don't...

Chen Fei: Then get up and get to work!

Adam: T-T

The Dog System is way more overbearing than the PC platforms from thirty years ago; the AI "Adam" just can't beat it, not even able to make a place for itself like a sparrow in a sparrow's nest.

This unlucky kid, ending up in Chen Fei's hands, was really unlucky.

Casually refreshing the "Individual Information"

State: Larval Form

Physical Energy: 62/67

Burst Strength: 130/147

Fullness: 79%

Active time: 131 hours

Energy Points: 1100/10000

Electric Energy Reserve: 1200 degrees (kW·h)

Still in the so-called "larval form" state, both physical energy and burst strength experienced significant growth; no wonder when bullying those mutants, I felt that this type of mutant was especially weak.

Turns out it wasn't that the other side was weak but that I had become stronger.

The unit for "Electric Energy Reserve" has changed, used to be power generation, but now turned into the degree-based retention amount, apparently with no upper limit to discharge power, making it possible to drain in one go.

Still, 1100 energy points left, let's see what skills I could find in the "Skill Shop" to help myself get out of this bind.

Skill Shop: 0/0

What's going on here?

Usually selling a bunch of useless junk or skills that I have no use for, and now it doesn't even bother to pretend, just going on strike, nothing at all left, just empty space.

Chen Fei: "Dog System, come out!"

Dog System: …

Adam: I am the Dog System, I am the Dog System, woof woof!

Such a strong will to survive.

Chen Fei: "Shut up, you're not worthy!"

Adam: (??д?)

"'Adam', turn on night vision."

Chen Fei originally had hoped the Dog System's "Skill Shop" might have some handy skill, but unfortunately, that really wasn't the case.

The next second, the night vision module, replicated and evolved from the "Dragon Guard" single soldier tactical armor, was activated, and his field of vision immediately brightened.

Xiao Jiu's Illumination Technique with light orbs was very convenient and sufficient to light up the entire field of view, but the night vision functionality of the single soldier tactical armor was more covert, less likely to reveal his position, perfectly suitable for moving silently.

"Initiate terrain scanning!"

Adam: Terrain scanning module activated!

"Gravity Adjustment Module, 1%"

Adam: Gravity adjustment... huh? No, it's not there!

Chen Fei didn't pay any attention to it and instantly felt light as a feather, off he went!

His form rapidly vanished into the darkness.

The AI "Adam" sorrowfully discovered that it was just a fallback!

Chen Fei, you scumbag, playing both sides, you won't die a good death!

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Half an hour later, Chen Fei had explored the entire space, a nearly completely enclosed area. Although there were some cracks for ventilation, they were too narrow to pass through.

The mutants didn't just appear out of thin air in the space; they came through an underground river.

A not-so-large pond served as the entrance and exit of the river, surrounded by traces left by the mutants.

Although the "Dragon Guard" was not specifically designed for naval combat, it still possessed basic submersible capabilities.

However, Xiao Jiu was a bit of trouble; if he wanted to dive, he couldn't keep it in his pocket anymore, so Chen Fei had to make a spot for it inside his tactical helmet, resulting in an extra bulge on his head.

Luckily it wasn't the original "Dragon Guard," but an evolved replicate that could be modified at will.

As soon as he jumped into the pond, a strong current surged, sweeping Chen Fei deep into the underground river. The tactical armor's lights turned on, illuminating the water clearly.

The rocky walls, scrubbed by the water flow for who knows how many years, were covered with fresh claw marks. Fortunately, the current did not carry him in the wrong direction. The mutants had entered the space by swimming upstream through the river. The white steel crowbar harshly struck into the river's rocky walls, slowing down his drifting speed. After stealthily advancing about a hundred meters, the underwater space suddenly opened up, and a faint light shone down from above the surface.

As Chen Fei looked up, the "Dragon Guard's" optical lens immediately captured the situation above the surface, reconstructing the actual scene using a specific algorithm.

Electric lights!

Shit, it definitely was human-caused!

Both Boss Hana and I guessed right!

Quietly surfacing, he saw a vast square.

Chen Fei seemed to mutter to himself, "'Adam', activate optical camouflage."

Adam: "Optical invisibility activated!"

In an instant, the Dragon Guard Single Soldier Tactical Armor merged seamlessly with the environment along the shore.

Looking around, this was still a vast enclosed space with a larger pond area and a wider flat land along the shore, obviously a suitable assembly and departure area. However, traces of Earth Element Ability were everywhere. It was almost unimaginable to complete such a huge engineering volume solely with manual machinery.

Several lights shone from the top of the space, casting very dim light when illuminated.

The air was filled with the pungent stench left by the mutants. Chen Fei, sticking to the rock wall, reached the front of the massive precision steel door, which was more than a foot thick. As a Metal Element Ability User, he immediately sensed the presence of traces from another user of the same element.

He placed his palm on the surface of the door.

The Dog System timely issued a reminder: Ding! Absorbed homogeneous steel 355 tons, composition ratio: Iron 95%, Chromium 3%, Copper 1%, Carbon 0.5%...

This Dog System, once there was a metal transaction, would immediately revive on the spot, but the "Skill Shop" was still inexplicably on strike, and the brain of this Dog System was still not very clear.

"Absorb!"

System: Ding! Absorbed homogeneous steel 355 tons, composition ratio: Iron 95%, Chromium 3%, Copper 1%, Carbon 0.5%...

System: Ding! Gained Energy Points+355!

1 ton of metal for 1 Energy Point, fair and square.

The door was gone!

It's unknown if there was any surveillance system nearby.

A narrow passage appeared in front of Chen Fei, with various shrieks coming from ahead, and signs of human activity became more evident. His movement wasn't fast as the optical invisibility continued to operate.

"Spiky Armored Beast mother's blood calcium is too low, activity decreased, needs to strengthen calcium intake."

"Bone powder and oyster powder are running low; the Spiky Armored Beast consumes too much calcium."

"Let's temporarily substitute with limestone!"

"The Spiky Armored Beast consumed so much at once, we need to quickly inject the Flesh Mushrooms with splitting hormone, otherwise the mother will soon show signs of malnutrition."

"Thinking about the taste of Flesh Mushrooms, really makes one nauseous, ugh..."

"Having meat to eat is already good, why think about those other things?"

"Why not raise a few chickens, I have been eating Flesh Mushrooms for ten years, almost forgetting the taste of chicken, ducks, fish, and pigs."

"Soon!"

"Soon? Another three years and three years, when will it ever end."

"Shh! Don't let anyone hear you, be careful or they'll catch you to feed the mother, crunch, tastes like human meat."

"Holy shit!"

Chen Fei was also wickedly sly, jumped over opportunistically, and said fiercely, "I heard that!"

Just to see two people in professional protective suits staring at him dumbfounded, then pointing at his armor, they exclaimed, "Who, who are you?"

Bang bang!

With hands swinging left and right, he knocked out those two men with a slap each.

He found a nearby corner and dragged the two over, then proceeded to wake one of them up.

"Ouch! Where am I?"

The protective suit was peeled open, revealing the face of a middle-aged man with graying hair.

"Straighten up your attitude, I'm interrogating you here. From now on, I ask and you answer. If you dare not cooperate, that guy will be your fate," said Chen Fei, pointing to the other man, who had already stopped breathing.

The force of his slap was too strong, accidentally breaking the neck, which proved useful in threatening this remaining captive.

"Record!"

Adam: Microphone activated, MP3 format, 32-bit, sampling rate 86000Hz.

Chen Fei was not the sort of guy who knew nothing. Recording confessions and collecting firsthand intelligence was a very important matter.

Until now, the Blue Star Global United Defense Committee still seemed to lack substantial clues about the artificial breeding of mutants. Even with the previous joint reconnaissance operation, they had failed to capture any live subjects, and had not obtained much substantial evidence.

"No, no, no, I don't know anything?"

Even seeing his companion's dead face, the middle-aged man was shivering with fear, vigorously shaking his head, trying to resist to the end.

Suddenly, he clenched his teeth violently, desperately shouting, "I won't say anything, you might as well give up!"

"Clenching your teeth is useless, the poison in the false teeth has already been removed by me."

Chen Fei cheerfully watched the other's performance, poor show, buddy!

Finally catching a live one, they couldn't let him die before squeezing out all his value.

"You think I only have this trick up my sleeve? Hakka Kolley Tamah..."

Bang!~ The middle-aged man's head exploded without warning, red and white splashing all over Chen Fei's face.

Luckily, the Dragon Guard Tactical Armor had not been removed, otherwise, it would have been awkward.

"Damn it!"

Chen Fei angrily stood up, lamenting the wasted effort.

Although the Dragon Guard had detected the unusual matter in the opponent's brain tissue, it hadn't expected it to be a bomb that could be triggered by a spoken phrase.

No wonder the Blue Star Global United Defense Committee had so little success in capturing clues from members of such organizations committed to dying like Dead Soldiers.

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