238: Chapter 238 This is Adam's hand reaching into Jiangcheng

Su Xiaonuan immediately pulled up the old archives.

"An abandoned hospital, a branch of a Grade A tertiary hospital from before the apocalypse."

"Two underground levels, backup power, emergency passages, and an isolation ward."

"It was retrofitted for the infectious disease department back in the day, so the shielding is thicker than in ordinary buildings."

She said this and looked up at Lin Yuan.

"It's suitable for hiding large equipment."

Lin Yuan stared at that red zone.

"They aren't hiding."

"They are setting the stage."

Qin Yumo took a step forward, her eyes flashing with a desire for battle.

"Master, let me go."

Lin Yuan stood up.

"Together."

Su Xiaonuan held the tablet.

"Accompanying personnel?"

"Wang Ya, Qin Yumo, Grandmaster Ling Suzhen, and Shadow."

After the mission was issued, Shadow began organizing his equipment.

Heavy footsteps came from the doorway.

Iron Arm King stood straight, holding a thickened riot shield.

"Brother Shadow, I'm going too."

Shadow didn't speak.

Iron Arm King lowered his voice.

"I can block bullets."

Tang Qiqi's voice drilled out from the broadcast.

"Are you blocking bullets, or are you blocking Brother Shadow?"

Iron Arm King's ears turned red.

Shadow turned and left.

Iron Arm King's teary-eyed expression almost made Tank, who was standing nearby, vomit.

"Follow me," Shadow said helplessly.

Tiangong No. 1 began the handover.

Su Muxue stood outside the B3 Sealed Chamber, where frost formed a white line along the door gap.

Jiang Yun sat in the electric chair, her green combat suit cinched tight by restraint buckles.

She raised her eyes.

"Does Lin Yuan not dare to see me?"

Su Muxue pushed up her glasses.

"You aren't worth his time."

In front of the desk on the second floor.

Xia Qingqiu spread out a copy of "Summer Vacation Life."

Lin Motong held her ragged teddy bear and turned to look at the motorcade outside the window.

"I'll be fifteen next month."

Xia Qingqiu shoved a pen into her hand.

"You still have to do problems even at fifteen."

Lin Motong looked down at the first page.

Chickens and rabbits in the same cage.

She looked up.

"I can make both the chickens and the rabbits kneel."

Xia Qingqiu pushed up her glasses with her middle finger.

"Write down the process."

Lin Motong was silent for two seconds.

"Bad teacher."

The motorcade left Cloud Top Palace.

The zombies on the road went silent because of Wang Ya's presence.

Half an hour later, the abandoned hospital appeared in the snow and fog.

The emergency room canopy had collapsed halfway, and several corpses hung from the steel frame.

The outpatient hall was covered in broken glass, and the wind blew through the hall, carrying the smell of medicine and rotting flesh.

Wang Ya got out of the car.

The tip of her shoe landed in a puddle.

The water surface stopped rippling.

Liu Qing marked them remotely.

"Three people in the inpatient building."

"Five people in the underground power distribution room."

"Two people in the rear building corridor."

Qin Yumo was about to move.

A dozen red dots suddenly lit up around the perimeter of the hospital.

The number of heat sources skyrocketed.

Signs of activity appeared at the inpatient building, pharmacy, infusion hall, and next to the rooftop water Tank.

The accompanying scouts immediately lowered their gun barrels.

The puddle at Wang Ya's feet spread outward by half an inch.

Liu Qing's voice turned cold.

"Capital City must be going ALL IN this time."

"They've used up all their pawns in Jiangcheng."

Qin Yumo looked at Lin Yuan.

"Master, let me go."

Lin Yuan raised his hand.

"Shadow, don't alert the enemy."

"See what they are up to."

Shadow took a step forward, his body pressing into the shadows of the ruined building.

Iron Arm King followed, holding his shield.

"Brother Shadow, I'll protect you."

Lin Yuan rubbed his temples.

"Who let him come?"

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen tilted her head.

"Your mother-in-law has been reading Boys' Love lately; she's quite obsessed."

In the communication channel, Tang Qiqi immediately bristled.

"Correction: Boys' Love is about two handsome guys, not this style!"

Iron Arm King's grip on his shield tightened.

"I can try to be a bit more handsome."

Shadow said coldly, "Shut up."

"Take the observation equipment and keep up."

Iron Arm King immediately shut his mouth.

The two entered the emergency building.

Shadow stuck to the wall shadows and passed through the ruined pharmacy.

Two laser tripwires lay horizontally between the medicine cabinets; he slid through the shadows, his fingertips flicking away a wall-mounted mine.

Iron Arm King followed behind with his shoulders hunched.

The door frame caught his shoulder armor.

Click.

Shadow turned back.

Iron Arm King pinched the door frame with two fingers and slowly squeezed himself out without making a second sound.

At the entrance to the underground passage, disposable military talismans were stuck to the wall.

The edges of the talismans were engraved with dense numbers.

Shadow photographed the scene.

Liu Qing received it and immediately zoomed in.

"Not standard numbering."

Su Xiaonuan pulled up the database.

"These arrangements look like directional characters used in sacrifices in ancient texts."

The channel went quiet.

Sacrifice?

What does the Capital City want to do?

What exactly is Eve?

Shadow continued to descend.

The underground isolation ward had been cleared out.

The hospital beds were dismantled into iron frames and piled against the wall.

Circular wires were laid on the floor, and in the center stood a half-person-tall silver-white device with a shell like a spine, surrounded by crystal core slots.

Several Capital City technicians were installing Grade A blue crystal cores.

This operation by the Capital City was a huge investment.

Nearby were several drained zombies.

"Coordinates stable."

"Bloodline samples sufficient."

"Waiting for orders."

Shadow transmitted the image back.

Su Xiaonuan spoke in a low voice.

"They never expected Zhang Yi to find the right person from the start."

Lin Yuan looked at the silver-white device.

"Jiang Yun's team was just to distract us."

"This team at the abandoned hospital is the main force."

A Capital City Esper looked up.

"The wind sounds wrong."

Detection waves swept toward the passage.

Iron Arm King stepped in front of Shadow.

Hum!

The impact slammed into his heavy-armored body.

His shoulder smashed into the wall, and broken bricks fell, but his mouth remained tightly shut.

Shadow flicked a short blade from his side.

The blade cut the detector cable.

The underground lights flickered twice.

A technician cursed.

"The wiring in this crappy hospital is terrible."

The Esper stared at the passage for a few seconds.

He didn't say anything else.

Shadow retracted the short blade.

Iron Arm King asked in a low voice, "It didn't hit you, did it?"

Shadow didn't even look at him.

On the perimeter.

Liu Qing overlaid the data onto the hospital's structural diagram.

The circular wires were not releasing attack energy outward.

All fluctuations were collapsing toward the center.

It was like it was locking onto a coordinate.

Wang Ya stared at the screen, pale gold water patterns rotating at the edge of her gray-white iris.

"The water underground is moving around that thing."

"It's not a bomb."

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen stared at the arrangement of the crystal core slots, a coldness appearing in her eyes for the first time.

"This isn't official equipment."

"It's more like an external extension of some system ability."

Su Xiaonuan immediately asked, "Does the Capital City have this kind of technology?"

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen shook her head.

"I never saw it when I was in the emergency response team."

"Adam is hiding deeper than I thought."

Qin Yumo's hand pressed against her sword hilt.

"Master, shouldn't we kill them now?"

Lin Yuan looked at the device on the screen.

"Killing them will only get us a few corpses."

"Let them finish, and then we'll know what kind of door Adam is trying to open."

No one in the channel objected.

Because everyone understood.

This device is not the end point.

It is just a finger that Adam has reached into Jiangcheng.

Lin Yuan gave the order.

"All personnel, silence."

Wang Ya raised her hand.

The water surrounding the hospital spread along the base of the walls, flowing into the drainage ditches and circling every exit.

Qin Yumo stood at the side door of the emergency building.

Grandmaster Ling Suzhen sat on a broken wall, holding a short blade in her hand.

Beneath the abandoned hospital, the lights of the silver-white device lit up bit by bit.

The blue crystal core slots activated one by one.

The first circle.

The second circle.

The third circle.

The snow above the hospital suddenly stopped for a moment.

It wasn't the wind that stopped.

It was something invisible, lifting its head from underground.

Liu Qing's voice came through.

"Unknown signal detected."

Wang Ya frowned: "The water is afraid."