63: Chapter 63 The Vanished Coordinates! The Discovered Cross-Dimensional Secret

Spiritless Ruins, the Qi channel leading to the Underground Third Level.

Gu Shen, like a black serpent, glided silently through the cold, narrow refined iron pipe.

After being reshaped by the Bone Refining Art, his bones shimmered with a cold, dark iron luster, and the flexibility and explosive power of his Physical Body had reached an unimaginable level. Even in such an incredibly oppressive and cramped space, his climbing speed remained astonishingly fast.

The black iron plate strapped to the outside of his left leg gradually increased in temperature as his muscles vibrated at a high frequency.

Hum.

A faint trace of blue light lit up at the edge of the iron plate.

"Hiss... beep-beep..."

The Crab's dry voice, filled with intense confusion, traveled along the vibration of his thigh bone and directly into Gu Shen's eardrums.

"Hey, bipedal brother, stop for a second. My underlying logic calculation library is about to burn out."

Gu Shen's figure paused slightly, his right hand habitually resting on the hilt of the blade at his waist, his eyes cold: "What, have you absorbed enough of my vibrating Qi?"

"It's not about the battery!"

The Crab's voice was filled with a ghost-seeing terror, "My main control System just checked the offline logs of this mobile terminal. A short while ago, this terminal—no, the physical coordinates of this world—completely disconnected from the local area network of Shelter No. 7!"

"It wasn't signal shielding, and it wasn't because we were deep underground. It was 'non-existence' in a physical sense! It was as if you took this terminal and evaporated out of this Universe for a few hours, only to reappear exactly as before!"

The Crab spoke at an extremely fast pace, filled with a fanatical thirst for knowledge: "Where exactly did you go? Spatial jump? Micro wormhole? Or did you master some kind of high-dimensional stealth technology?"

Gu Shen's gaze was profound.

He naturally knew that this artifact spirit was referring to the time he used the Heaven and Earth Furnace to cross boundaries back to the Great Yu Cultivation World to collect corpses at the ruins of Qingmu Cliff.

"How could the secret of cross-boundary travel be easily revealed to others?"

Gu Shen sneered in his heart. But on second thought, the Thirteenth Underground Level of the underground palace was fraught with danger, and the further down he went, the more important the information about the Formation controlled by this artifact spirit became. Revealing a hint of his unfathomable trump card might actually allow him to better control this bizarre Spirit Treasure.

"I did not employ any stealth techniques."

Gu Shen's tone was calm, as if he were recounting a trivial matter, "I simply went to another world. There, there is Spiritual Qi, there are Cultivators, and there is endless slaughter."

Silence.

The iron plate strapped to his leg fell into a dead silence that lasted for over ten breaths. The blue light flickered violently, as if it were frantically processing this incredibly massive information shock.

"Parallel Universe... multiverse transition..."

The Crab muttered to itself, its voice filled with unconcealable shock and ecstasy, "Good heavens! The multiverse dimension collapse theory that Chief Engineer Li deduced before he died is actually true! You are not a survivor of this world; you are a person from another world who traveled here!"

Gu Shen couldn't be bothered to correct its strange terminology, simply saying coldly: "I don't care what these dimensions you speak of are. Since I can come, I can leave. The world-extinguishing poisonous light beneath this ground cannot trap me."

"Big boss! No, Great God!"

The Crab's voice changed instantly, abandoning its previous tone, revealing an extremely sycophantic excitement.

"Didn't you refuse to go to the Thirteenth Underground Level before? What about now? Since you can ignore spatial barriers, then the high-concentration radiation underground is something you can find a way to overcome, right?"

A glint flashed in Gu Shen's eyes as he went with the flow: "I will go and restart the thunder pool hub on the Thirteenth Underground Level."

After the dual transformation from the marrow fluid and the Bone Refining Art, he now possessed an extremely strong resistance to this poisonous light, and he was determined to obtain the massive amount of thunder magnetic fine sand on the Thirteenth Underground Level.

"That's great!"

The Crab was so excited that its electrical static increased in volume, "It's been too long! I've been dormant in that damned host machine for countless days and nights! Every time I opened my eyes, all I saw was that mindless flesh and mud. You are the only carbon-based life form with complete genes and the ability to communicate normally that I have seen in so long... Although you are from another world, at least you look like a human!"

For an artificial intelligence created to serve humans, in the midst of the long despair of the apocalypse, re-encountering a rational bipedal creature was no less significant than a believer seeing a deity.

"Since you've agreed to restart the backup reactor, then we are the firmest of allies!"

The Crab immediately got into character, its voice becoming extremely professional and rigorous.

"Although I am only a strand of core code residing in the terminal, my database contains the complete construction blueprints of this Shelter, the bestiary of biochemical monsters, and tactical deduction models!"

"From now on, I am your tactical visor, your portable strategist! According to the retro terminology of your world... I shall address you as 'My Lord' from now on, how about that?"

A faint sneer curled the corners of Gu Shen's mouth.

My Lord? Strategist?

This artifact spirit was quite sensible, knowing how to attach itself to the strong. With the guidance of this local tyrant, his efficiency in scavenging resources within these Spiritless Ruins would increase exponentially.

"Fine." Gu Shen spat out one word.

"As you command, My Lord!" the Crab replied immediately with excitement.

Knowing that Gu Shen was currently crawling in the Qi channel, it immediately demonstrated its value as a military advisor:

"My Lord, according to the micro-gyroscope's calculations, you are about to reach the ventilation exit of the Underground Third Level."

"Tactical intelligence update: The Underground Third Level was the medical and biochemical experimental zone back then. The radiation concentration is more than three times that of the Second Level. When the reactor leaked back then, a large number of severely infected patients undergoing treatment were sealed in there."

The Crab's speaking pace became cold and precise:

"The Aberrations there, due to the Fusion of various drugs and chemical substances in the Medical Zone, have a high probability of having undergone secondary mutation. They are no longer just physically strong; some have even evolved extremely lethal acid spitting or poisonous gas spores."

Gu Shen's eyes narrowed, and his forward speed slowed slightly.

Monsters with secondary mutations? Such methods, in the Great Yu Cultivation World, were already comparable to those disciples of the Demonic Path who were proficient in poison arts and hidden weapons.

"What is the situation below the exit?" Gu Shen asked silently in his heart.

"The infrared thermal imaging module is damaged, so I cannot scan accurately. But the sonar array has captured extremely faint sounds of liquid dripping and the friction of multi-legged crawling."

The Crab's advice was extremely seasoned: "My Lord, I suggest you do not directly break open the ventilation outlet. The end of the ventilation duct in the Medical Zone is usually connected to a strong acid exhaust valve. You can detour thirty meters to the left channel and descend from the maintenance port of the medical storage room. There are no signs of life there, and it is highly likely to contain high-value tactical medical kits."

"Lead the way."

Gu Shen changed his crawling direction with extreme decisiveness.

With this strategist who knew the underground palace like the back of its hand leading the way, his stealth movement in the darkness had, for the first time, an extremely clear strategic objective.

Underground Third Level, high-risk Medical Zone.

Murderous intent and a Treasure Trove were quietly lying in wait in the darkness beneath his feet.