End of the World Cycle

The car followed the robot in front and drove along the edge of the sphere for about three hundred meters. The wall next to it instantly turned into a piece of transparent square glass like a small window.

Xie Qin and Xu Nuo got out of the car and walked to the window. The robot that brought them here took a few steps to the side, but still stood facing them, in a defensive posture.

Sitting inside was a woman in uniform wearing headphones and a headset.

"Hello, how can I help you?"

"I'm looking for someone."

"Please show me the relevant documents."

Then Xie Qin took out the family certificate that Guo Dongkang gave him from his pocket. The woman saw the certificate in Xie Qin's hand and spoke.

"Turn to page three and aim at the camera above."

Xie Qin observed for a moment and saw a small camera on the wall above him. Xie Qin opened his ID card and aimed it at the scanner. After a while, Xie Qin could clearly feel the mood of the woman inside change.

"Excuse me, who are you?" The tone suddenly became gentle, and the address also changed.

"Guo Qinling."

The woman's slender fingers quickly tapped on the keyboard, and soon Xie Qin's personal information was retrieved. After completing the facial recognition, the woman inside picked up the phone next to the workstation and made a call.

About ten minutes later, about three meters from the window, there was a sound of a hatch opening. Then a door two meters wide and two meters high appeared.

"Ms. Guo, this way please." The robot still led the way, but the tone of voice had obviously changed.

Xie Qin looked at the door that couldn't be passed by the car, raised his hand and put the SUV into the space. Inside was a very bright corridor, about ten meters long, and at the end of the corridor was a titanium alloy door.

Xie Qin followed, and just after taking a few steps, smoke began to spew out from the top of the wall. Xie Qin quickly covered his mouth and nose and took a few steps back.

"Don't be afraid, Miss Guo. This is a disinfectant spray to prevent unknown viruses from being brought in from outside."

"Ah."

The robot stood at the facial recognition area, opened the password cover, and after entering the password, the door opened.

Everything in front of me suddenly became clear. As far as the eye can see is a densely populated city, where the houses are all less than three stories high, but they are densely distributed. Although there is no traffic, it is very lively, like a prosperous town, with people coming and going, and there is no fear of the end of the world on their faces.

The people I met outside are from completely different worlds.

Looking up again, ten meters up, there is a platform extending from the wall of the sphere. The platform looks very solid, and there are three-story houses on it. However, the houses on it are obviously much better than those on the ground. Not only do they look solid, but they are also very beautiful in appearance, not too crowded, and each one has a separate fence and yard.

It looked like a small square villa. It was daytime now, and Xie Qin could observe that all the superstructures within sight were exposed to sunlight.

As for the houses below, only the center of the sphere can get sunlight. It looks peaceful, but there are also obvious class differences.

When Xie Qin looked up, he saw the high and blue sky, and where he was standing seemed like a small man-made world.

Xie Qin was standing slightly higher than the ground, about two meters high. In front of him was a fence, which he could see clearly from a distance. It circled around the edge of the sphere. After entering, he could find that there was an exit about five meters away that was the same as the one he had come in through.

Every fifty meters there is a large slope connecting this height to a larger exit on the ground, which can be seen as a driveway.

"Ms. Guo, this way please." Xie Qin stood there and looked at the scene inside for two or three minutes. The robot next to him couldn't help but speak.

Xie Qin nodded and continued to follow.

Xie Qin was taken to the fourth floor underground. He was in the elevator the whole time, so he couldn't see what was outside. Xiaobao could only scan and describe the underground of the base bit by bit.

Before the scan was finished, the elevator door opened. Xie Qin was stunned by what he saw. It was an empty space filled with soldiers in training, just like the troops before.

It was just that the height was limited, but a height of more than ten meters was more than enough for them to train. All I could hear was the sound of soldiers training in unison, the sound seemed to hit the wall, splashing and echoing, and the sound was deafening.

The eyes can see very far away, and every area that is divided is filled with troops. The number is so large that it makes your scalp tingle.

At this moment, Xie Qin finally understood the difference between the government and the individual. In this life, the government had been prepared. It seemed that the country could better support the hope of human survival than himself.

Xie Qin laughed at herself, she seemed to overestimate herself. In the face of absolute strength, even if she had extraordinary abilities and all ten of her fingers were golden fingers, she could not compare with the official.

[Beep beep beep~ Scan of the fifth underground floor is complete——Master, the first underground floor is a planting base, the second underground floor is a research base, and from the third underground floor to the fifth underground floor that has been scanned, they are all military bases.]

"All of them...how many people are there?" Xie Qin had never seen the world, and he originally wanted to ask Xiao Bao this question, but he didn't notice that he muttered it out loud.

"I'm not sure about the details, Miss Guo, but the commander is waiting for you." After the robot spoke, Xie Qin noticed that he had spoken out loud.

"Ok."

[Beep beep beep~ Scan completed~ Master, according to estimates, the current density of the army is about 100,000 soldiers on the first floor. However, the area will gradually decrease as you go down, and the number should also be less. ]

[So many?] Xie Qin didn’t dare to think any further. For such a large place, if it was built all the way down at this height, there would be at least ten floors underground.

As Xie Qin followed, he calculated in his mind the image scanned by Xiaobao. Suddenly, he was startled.

[No! This number is not large! Isn't it said that each of the four major bases has 40 million people? According to this size, this place has only about 500,000 people at most.]

[I don’t know about this.] Xiaobao said frustratedly that everything that happened in this world now was out of the Skynet system and there was no trace to be found.

There is a huge difference between 40 million and 500,000. Where did those people go? As Xie Qin was thinking, he was taken into a three-story building with an empty hall. It looked like an office building.

Xie Qin went up to an office on the third floor. From a distance, Xie Qin saw an old man standing at the door with a cane in his hand.

It was Guo Dingtao. Although he was already 78 years old, he stood straight, with bright eyes and looked very sharp. He was wearing a military uniform and must be over 1.8 meters tall. He looked a bit like Guo Dongkang. With Xie Qin's gentle appearance, people around him would definitely not associate the two of them as a family.

With both hands on the crutches, he looked straight in the direction Xie Qin was coming from. When he saw the little girl behind him through the robot, their eyes met, and they softened instantly.

Because there was no change on Guo Dingtao's face, Xie Qin couldn't tell whether he liked her or not, and for a moment she didn't know how to talk to Guo Dingtao.

In addition, he was shocked by the strength of the army just now, and in front of him was the leader of the army, so he was inexplicably nervous. Putting aside his identity as the commander of the military region, this 78-year-old man was actually a third-level metal-type mutant.

Like Guo Dongkang, both of them were mutated from the power type to the metal type. Xie Qin hesitated for a moment, and he had to say that his own special ability was the power type. They didn't look like a family to begin with, and now according to the progress of national research, it is probably known that the type of special ability may be related to genetics.

"Qinqin?" Guo Dingtao asked as he looked at the soft and tender little girl standing in front of him.

"Yes. Hello, I'm Guo Qinling."

"She looks cute and well behaved, what is this?"

"My neighbor's brother came with me. He wanted to visit his parents."

"Just you two?"

"Correct."

"Does your father trust you to come?"

"I... I ran away secretly." Xie Qin lowered her head pretending to be guilty, not daring to look at Guo Dingtao. Guo Dingtao spoke very slowly, as if every word was spoken after careful consideration.

He would also listen to others very carefully, so Xie Qin knew that there must not be any loopholes in his words. His expression even became a little unnatural. He could only pretend to be guilty and lower his head, for fear that Guo Dingtao would notice any flaws.

"Take this kid to rest first, Qinqin, come in with me." Guo Dingtao said to the robot behind him.

Xie Qin nodded to Xu Nuo, and Xu Nuo followed her. Then she followed Guo Dingtao into the office.

The office was simple, with a desk, a reception table, a sofa, two large rows of filing cabinets, and a large row of densely packed books behind them. Guo Dingtao took Xie Qin to sit on the sofa, and looked at Xie Qin carefully.

"You should look like your mother."

"Ah."

"Where's your mom?"

"Abroad."

"Which country?"

"Swiss." Fortunately, Xie Qin had asked a few more questions before, otherwise Xie Qin really didn't know where Guo Dongkang went to study abroad.

"You drove here by yourself, such a long way?"

"Ah."

"Thirteen years old, driving?" Guo Dingtao stood up and asked as he walked towards the place where tea was being made.

"I was trapped in the base for the past two years with nothing to do, so my dad taught me." Xie Qin still didn't look up, and answered with her little face half lowered.

"Your ability should be pretty good, right? I couldn't tell what your ability was just now."

"Third-order power system and third-order space system."

"A person with dual abilities??!" Upon hearing this, Guo Dongkang, who was making tea, suddenly turned around and looked at the little girl on the sofa.

"Ah."

"No wonder you dared to run out alone. I have never seen a few dual-system psychics. And you are at the third level. Amazing, you are amazing, worthy of being my great-grandson, Guo Dingtao. Sit for a while, I will call your father."

"it is good."

Seeing Guo Dingtao holding a cup of tea and walking to his desk, Xie Qin breathed a sigh of relief after his attention was no longer on her. She listened attentively to Guo Dingtao's phone call, fortunately it was just some simple instructions.

Guo Dongkang on the other side acted similarly, and was relieved to hear that Xie Qin was at his grandfather's place. He asked his grandfather to take good care of his daughter, and said nothing more. Guo Dingtao still asked Guo Dongkang when he would come to see him, but Xie Qin could tell that it was just a greeting, and he didn't expect Guo Dongkang to come.

When Guo Dingtao sat opposite him again, he put a box of milk in front of him.

"I still have a while before I get off work. I'll stay in the office for a while, and then go home with Grandma."

"Okay, Auntie, go and do your work and don't worry about me."

When Guo Dingtao walked out of the door, Xie Qin felt relieved. It was too tiring to talk to such a person. It was very uncomfortable to not understand or guess anything. In addition, she was a fake, and she felt even more scared because she felt guilty.

Fortunately, there was Guo Dongkang's phone call, otherwise if we dig deeper, there would definitely be flaws.

As soon as Guo Dingtao left, Xu Nuo was brought in. This time, a middle-aged man came with Xu Nuo. The man was wearing a military uniform. Xie Qin didn't know what rank he was, but judging from his clothes, he should not be an ordinary soldier.

"Miss Guo, the commander has asked me to take care of you. If you need anything, you can tell me directly. My name is Chen Chen."

"Hello, Uncle Chen. My younger brother wants to know if his parents are in this base. Is there any way to find them?" The man in front of him was obviously much easier to deal with than Guo Dingtao. Seeing how polite he was to him, he must have respected his status.

For such people, as long as you are well-behaved and approachable, there won't be any big problems.

So when talking to Chen Chen, his little face was smiling, and he blinked his big eyes, looking very well behaved.

"We have to go to the office on the first floor. The military doesn't have a division of labor system." Chen Chen's face was calm, but his eyes were kinder.

"If it's not here, can the information from other places be found here?"

"The official information systems are all the same. As long as you have the permission, you can check it. It's not a big problem."

"Thank you, Uncle Chen. Can you take us there now?"

Chen Chen looked at the time on his watch. There was still an hour left until lunch break. It was enough time to go up.

"Okay, I'll take you there."

Going up to the first floor, Xie Qin followed Chen Chen to the office. There were many people in the service hall, doing all kinds of things. They did not go to the window, but went around the corridor and entered an office building behind the office. There were armed soldiers standing guard downstairs.

Following Master Chen Chen, we smoothly reached the third floor. Inside was still an office, and the layout was similar to Guo Dingtao's office, just a little smaller. I guess the office buildings here should all be built and decorated in the same way.

Sitting in front of the desk was a woman in her forties. She wasn't very pretty, but she was a third-level wind-type mutant. The woman glanced at Chen Chen and smiled.

"Hey, what brings Captain Chen here?"

"Chief Rong, this is Commander Guo's daughter. She is looking for two people. Please help her find them."

"The commander's family! Hello, Miss Guo, I'm Rong Yin."

"Hello, Auntie. Sorry to bother you." Xie Qin still greeted her obediently, then took out his parents' personal information written by Xu Nuo from his pocket and handed it to Rong Yin.