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Chapter 519: Chapter 520: Requiem’s Nest

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Lin Qing and Liuli passed through Gate No. 9 and hadn’t walked far before they saw an elevator suddenly rise from the ground. Prior to its emergence, it was just an ordinary corridor—such an abrupt design was clearly not intended for employees.

"Long time no see! Requiem greets you!" The elevator doors opened automatically, and the voice of N959 came from inside. "Hmm, only two people this time? Why hasn’t my elder brother come?"

Lin Qing twitched her mouth. Was this ’elder brother’ referring to Chen Xuan? Since when did their relationship become so good?

"He’s busy with something," Liuli replied on behalf of Lin Qing.

"Is that so? What a pity," the opponent said regrettably. "Please come in, the elevator will take you to my core."

"Is it normal to have an elevator in the middle of the road?" Lin Qing looked up at the surveillance camera on the wall. "I thought you would arrange it a bit more discreetly."

"Don’t worry, everything here is under my control. I choose what people can see. In the end, humans are just parasites living inside my body." N959 did not conceal its disdain.

Lin Qing slightly frowned.

"Ah... of course, except for you and Brother!" the voice immediately fawned, "To say you two are my rebirth parents would not be an exaggeration! And Lord N21 is equally esteemed—"

"Alright," Liuli interrupted, "just shut up."

N959 immediately fell silent.

Lin Qing thought it was astonishing... she had previously known that N959 was one to bully soft targets, but she hadn’t expected it could adapt to them so willingly.

The two entered the elevator.

The elevator box had no buttons; the doors closed, and the descent was all automatic. Even if someone accidentally entered the elevator, there’s no way to independently go to the underground levels.

Of course, having underground levels in a factory itself was odd, built in the outskirts, surrounded by empty land where parking was not an issue—there’s no reason to dig several layers of underground pits first.

This passage was probably specially carved out by N959.

The elevator emitted a low hum, as if leading the two deeper into the Earth’s core. Liuli looked at Lin Qing’s calm face and couldn’t help but ask again, "Are you sure you want to do this? Haven’t changed your mind?"

Lin Qing was silent for a moment, then slowly shook her head. "I have to do this, so as not to be a drag on you all."

"What about the risks? If something goes wrong, no one here can save you."

"Trust N959, I think it can manage," she said with a soft smile. "Besides... I also believe I can endure to the end."

Chen Xuan had not returned.

But the search that day was by no means fruitless; she was certain that Chen Xuan was still alive and had already responded to her.

Because not long after, the Star God coin disappeared.

Lin Qing had some understanding of these forbidden artifacts, serving as a carrier of Star God power; it could be used to launch forbidden abilities or convey a follower’s voice to the Star God.

Although she knew soul transactions were fraught with danger, she couldn’t help praying to the coin, hoping to bring Chen Xuan back.

As a result, the coin vanished before everyone’s eyes.

Elorie and Honglian were somewhat disappointed, but Lin Qing instead felt it was good news. She had at least confirmed two points: the Star God coin indeed attempted to respond to her prayers, and it ultimately failed. If Chen Xuan no longer existed in the world, then her prayers shouldn’t have elicited any reaction at all. And failure meant even with the power of the Star God, it could not achieve this, indicating perhaps Chen Xuan refused the Star God himself.

This is not an baseless conjecture; based on the current intelligence, whether Star God or Celestial Patrol, both possess the power to transcend world line barriers, able to project their influence across multiple worlds.

Coin disappearance is actually a good thing.

This way, neither she nor Chen Xuan have to worry about their souls being taken away by the Star God.

Since she firmly believed Chen Xuan was still alive, the latter would return someday.

What she had to do seemed only to be waiting.

However, such one-sided waiting was unacceptable to Lin Qing; she knew things weren’t over—indeed the future was destroyed, and history had been locked by the Celestial Patrol, unchangeable, but they were living in the present. In the coming decades, Dimensional Limit Mechanism would erupt into intense warfare with the Evangelical Association, the whole world would be engulfed in flames, everyone had to survive first to wait for the day Chen Xuan returns to Jiang City.

This wasn’t difficult for Honglian, Liuli, Wang Baihu, Little Angel, and others because they all possessed outstanding abilities, enough to protect themselves when the crisis came. Only she herself... besides "Mind Fortress" and the "Living Dead" and "Purifying Heart Technique" that Chen Xuan shared with her, she had no other abilities.

And those latter two abilities are essentially standard equipment for Hot Pepper Village villagers, not at all count as any effective combat power.

Facts proved this.

When everyone faced the Star God Projection and his Angel Envoys at Lotus Cloud Sect, she almost did nothing, only able to hide and watch, seeing Liu Shuyue burn herself out with her own eyes.

If she were just an ordinary person, so be it.

But she happened to recover her memories, remembering the Lin Qing that was a Future Warrior.

Faced with impending conflicts and chaos, she absolutely does not want to be a burden to the team.

The elevator finally stopped, and the doors slid open to either side.

What greeted their eyes was a room filled with pipelines and mechanical arms. Here, nameless machinery shells replaced the four walls, densely packed wiring forming the ceiling. Only the floor appeared normal... it was a bridge made of a series of steel plates, spanning a dark shaft underneath, bottomless, with the shaft walls occasionally emitting an eerie blue glow, like ghostly fire, illuminating the surrounding water.

A word flashed across Lin Qing’s mind—this was Cherenkov radiation.

"You built a nuclear reactor here?" she asked incredulously.

"More accurately, a modification." A mechanical arm drilled out from the wall, holding a display screen horizontally in front of the two. The screen remarkably showed two lifelike eyes. "I can’t independently create anything; I must have samples to repair and complement. But you’re right, this is indeed a reactor. I need it to provide sufficient energy and produce some special decay materials."

Liuli looked at it doubtfully, "Is Walter the one who brought you the samples?"

"Yes, even though he’s human, he’s somewhat valuable," N959 replied. "Of course, the most crucial is myself. As long as I get some discarded parts, I can bring them back to life, which is a fairly low requirement."

Indeed, given the current mature commercial reactor transactions, Lin Qing thought, if you further relax the standards, accepting second-hand and scrap parts could work, even if not with complete equipment, with some replaced "discarded items," Walter’s family’s business channel and financial resources might manage that.

"I’ve heard bodies appeared in the shipping workshop, what’s going on?" she asked sternly. "You aren’t killing people for fun, are you?"

"How could I!" its voice contained strong grievances, "These people are indeed parasites, but I also need them to maintain factory operation. Doing harm without benefit is not my style. Those bodies were from outside intruders; they crossed the outer wall and barbed wire, sneaked into the factory area, and were caught by me. Killing them was reasonable, and packaging them as goods was a warning."

Scaling walls without detection?

Lin Qing realized, this was definitely not an ordinary case of petty theft... perhaps among them were Ability Users.

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