Chapter 354: Not An Easy Return

POSTED ON MARCH 31, 2023 BY KEN

So Nimbus began to work on the 3 main underground rivers that supplied the water volume of this underground lake.

The main body of Pumesh was actually a small transport spacecraft, and the rest of the suitable mechanical parts were dismantled in the junkyard and expanded on itself.

Of course, the so-called “small” for the spaceship was at least a behemoth with a length of more than 80 meters and a weight of more than 200 tons!

Before entering the atmosphere at that time, it used its unique gravity to absorb many satellites and space stations in Earth orbit, then it used them as temporary armor to protect itself and successfully landed.

The NASA space station and Russian space station visited by Fang Linyan and Goat, as well as the internal space of Pumesh, were actually less than a quarter of its entire body.

Nimbus used the core of the crawler robot that Pumesh dismantled from the junkyard, 2 satellites and a space station to assemble another artificial intelligence robot called Desny.

It had been pre-loaded with a series of engineering software. It was equivalent to the younger brother of Nimbus. It shouldered the mission of cutting off or diverting the 3 underground rivers.

The ghost train that Fang Linyan and Goat took just now was specially modified by Desny.

The body of Desny was the giant machine that was excavating the riverbed —– a mixture of mixer, pulverizer, and excavator.

Desini’s work was very fruitful. 2 of the 3 underground rivers had been diverted to other places, and the water level of the underground lake had also dropped by more than 10 meters.

It was expected that after the 3 main underground rivers were cut off, within 10 years, this magnificent underground lake would completely dry up.

The sand, mud and rocks that Desny excavated were dumped in underground fissures.

Over time, after these underground cracks were filled, a path leading to the outside world was unintentionally formed. Even the Scarlet Umbrella Organization, which presided over the construction of this place, didn’t know about it.

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3 hours later, they successfully left the dark underground and came to the ground.

It was night at this time. After staying in the depressive underground for too long, looking up at the starry night sky, feeling the strong wind blowing across the desert, and feeling of boundless emptiness and desolation in the surrounding area, they felt so relieved that they almost wanted to cry.

They suffered a lot when climbing all the way up,

Especially when Goat lost one of his arms, if both of them were not contractors who had digitalized bodies that far surpassed that of ordinary people, they would take twice as long.

Even so, they were wounded and bloodstained.

It was not suitable to walk in this kind of wilderness at night, and they were exhausted, so they simply found a shelter and set up a military tent.

The tent was painted with camouflage protection color, which was very safe to use. They opened several boxes of self-heating ration for soldiers and 2 bottles of vodka. While eating and drinking, they also stayed inside the sleeping bag and chatted.

Of course, the elite mechanical warrant officer kept the watch.

After the rations were heated, they ate a mouthful of beef jerky, a mouthful of rice, and a mouthful of wine. Soon, they fell into a deep sleep.

They slept until the next afternoon before getting up. After waking up and stretching, they only felt that their bones and joints were creaking and their muscles were extremely sore. Fortunately, their mental tiredness had recovered.

After eating something casually, Fang Linyan said to Goat,

“We’re going to split up now.”

Goat let out an “ah“, and he said with a sense of loss,

“Why? So early?”

Fang Linyan pointed to the top of his head and said,

“Don’t forget. The 3 major biochemical companies are paying close attention to the situation around here. They have private satellites, and we have to go back to our respective headquarters to receive the rewards…”

“Although the probability is very small, if we act together, it is still possible to be captured by satellites. We must minimize the variables.”

Goat shrugged,

“Well, if there is anything you need from me….”

Then he made a phone call gesture,

“Call me.”

Fang Linyan smiled and said,

“Of course.”

They parted ways soon, but Fang Linyan did not choose to go to the nearest Town Sandor, because he knew very well that although there was a possibility of encountering friendly troops there, it was more likely to encounter enemies.

After all, so far, Duckland Company was still the strongest, making the other two companies fear the most.

After he checked the map, he chose another more difficult road. He just had to leave the area of the strong pulse caused by the hibernating Pumesh.

Once he was there, he would turn on the controller of the biochemical weapons that Delto gave him. This gadget had the function of sending encrypted signals, and the people of the Duckland Company would naturally come to him.

In about half a day, Fang Linyan left the pulse zone on foot.

3 hours later, he was taken by an off-road vehicle to a gathering point called Zaragi that 220km away. It was a new town that had become prosperous because of the newly discovered oil fields.

Here he had a phone call with someone from Duckland Company, but the person who answered the phone was not Delto, but a guy named Kit who was mocked by Fang Linyan before.

This made Fang Linyan feel vague anxiety for no reason.

8 hours later, he was sent directly to Duckland Company’s headquarters in San Francisco by a “Gulfstream” business plane.

At this time, Fang Linyan already knew where his anxiety came from, because on the business plane, there were as many as 16 people in black suits with expressionless faces following him.

This group of people searched him first, then they followed him in the name of protection. In fact, it was just for monitoring.

And among this group of people, there were at least 10 experimental subjects, which showed that Duckland Company attached great importance to Fang Linyan.

After entering the headquarters of the Duckland Company, Fang Linyan found that he was first sent to a place similar to an interrogation room. The people who came in were 3 men with blue and white armbands on their arms. They were members of the Internal Affairs Department.

And the man on the right seemed to have been threatened by Delto because of the Modok incident.

As soon as they met, the man sitting in the center directly shone Fang Linyan’s eyes with a spotlight very impolitely, then he showed his ID and said,

“Wynch, I’m Hawley, Deputy Minister of the Internal Affairs Department, and you’re in serious trouble this time.”

Fang Linyan said faintly,

“Get lost, I don’t want to talk to you.”

Then no matter what the man said, Fang Linyan repeated the same sentence over and over again.

Anyone had a temper, not to mention this man came with a mission! After being bullied by Fang Linyan several times in a row, this man was also angry. He was also a high level person, so he naturally burst into anger and said,

“Very well, Mr. Wynch, it seems that you will definitely not cooperate?”

Fang Linyan said indifferently,

“Get lost, I don’t want to talk to you.”

Hawley’s eyes became gloomy, but he smiled slightly,

“Very well, Wynch, it seems you don’t know me very well. I was hoping for a peaceful resolution of this matter, but it doesn’t look like you’re going to give me that chance, so I feel the need to let you know Why people call me executioner!”

When he said this, he waved his hand to the back and said,

“Turn off the camera.”

Then, Hawley punched Fang Linyan in the stomach!

This guy was obviously very proficient in torture. The spots he hit were painful, but the wound couldn’t be detected.

After beating Fang Linyan for about 2 minutes, Hawley loosened his tie, gasped and sneered, and stopped,

“Now do you have something to say to me?”

Fang Linyan raised his head. His hair drooped down, and his eyes looked at Holly through the hair. After spitting out a mouthful of bloody saliva, he suddenly said,

“You just seemed to have someone turn off the camera?”

Hawley sneered,

“Of course, this is my place!”

Fang Linyan smiled slightly and said:

“That means, if the matter of you beating me leaks out, you should be in a lot of trouble, right!”

Hawley said sarcastically,

“Yeah, but do you think this matter will leak out?”

At this time, Hawley felt a sense of “success” in his heart, because he knew that when such diehards were generally willing to communicate with the interrogator, their mental defenses had collapsed. The next plan was to ask for a good price only.

However, Fang Linyan slowly raised his handcuffed hands with a mysterious smile, and he said slowly,8

“I, think… will!”

While Fang Linyan was speaking, he had already grasped the little finger of his left hand with his right hand, bent it toward the back with a crack sound, and directly broke it to an angle close to the back of his hand!!

Not only that, Fang Linyan was even mercilessly breaking off his ring finger, middle finger, and index finger of his left hand one after another. He didn’t stop until the whole left hand was in a strange state.

Looking at his appearance, it seemed that it wasn’t his own finger that was broken at all!!

The cold sweat on Fang Linyan’s forehead showed that he was not easy at this time.

However, his face when he looked at Holly remained the same. The sarcastic smile remained as if it was engraved on his face.

“Shit!!!…”

Seeing the injury on Fang Linyan’s palm, the cold sweat on the backs of the 3 of them burst out little by little, because it was actually a violation of the rules for them to meet Fang Linyan this time!