Get teased by AI in escape game [Unlimited]

Chapter 74 The Zenith Collapses

The accident started from the moment the cup fell to the ground.

No one knows what happened at that moment. When the incident started, there was no room for redemption.

"hiss--"

It hurts!

Xu Chaomu squatted down, trying to pick up the scattered glass shards on the ground, but accidentally cut his fingers.

He raised his right hand, stared blankly at the tip of his index finger with a sudden cut, and frowned.

The wound did not ooze blood, because the moment the blood flowed out, it coagulated.

At the same time, a faint crackling sound came from the zenith.

Xu Chaomu's body was shocked, and he raised his head suddenly, staring at a certain place on the zenith, his pupils constricted suddenly, and his face turned pale.

"F-what happened?" Someone asked in confusion and panic.

"Cracked! The zenith is cracked!"

"My God! What shall we do?"

"Go underground! Go underground! Quick—" someone yelled heart-piercingly.

A chaotic sound erupted from the doomsday base.The researchers in dark blue down jackets fled towards the twelve elevators like running water.

Xu Chaomu touched the earphone with his right hand and asked eagerly:

"Z, what's going on? Why did the zenith suddenly crack?"

Z's voice was low and fast: "The weight problem. The analysis of the external pressure-bearing structure shows that in the 10 seconds just now, the amount of snowfall has reached the amount of the previous 10 days. The top has collapsed."

Xu Chaomu was stunned for a moment.

The zenith... just like that... was crushed and collapsed?

How thick is the snow outside?

"It's too late, Brother Xu, let's get out of here quickly!" Lin Xu hurriedly urged, took Xu Chaomu's arm and ran out.

The zenith is heavy, and if it collapses like this, the consequences will be disastrous.

Then, without the protection of the zenith, within a few minutes, the temperature on the surface of the base will drop to tens of degrees below zero, which can instantly freeze a person into an icicle.

They must be moved underground immediately!

Xu Chaomu closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go."

They ran out with the flow of people.

Xu Chaomu's shoes were stepped on firmly, and his toes ached.In the confusion, someone turned his head, recognized him, and apologized to him.He just shook his head subconsciously, pressed the earphone with one hand, and said loudly:

"Z, fully open the escape passage in the central square! The elevator runs at the maximum speed, regardless of the stability."

Z said: "Got it.

The escape routes have all been opened, and the elevator speed has been adjusted. "

The moment the words fell, the running speed of the twelve elevators accelerated several times.The researchers who entered the elevator first felt dizzy for a while, and the elevator door reopened.Then, they were pushed and pushed directly to the ground.

Many places in the central square have sunk—a long-hidden escape channel has been opened.

The surface of the entire base became a leaking sieve, and people moved downward in a panic, quickly and orderly.

Xu Chaomu and Lin Xu were also among the crowd and ran down the escape route.

In a short moment, he quickly made a decision:

"Z, inform everyone, evacuate separately from the elevator and the escape route, and all go to the B2 floor, where the people in the Ice and Snow Ark are copying their consciousness, let them change it to a full upload, and move quickly! Everyone don't run around, only Go to the B2 floor. There is no time. Now, I announce that I am abandoning the Ice Ark, and everyone must enter 'Homeland'."

"Are the people from Ice and Snow Ark staying?" Lin Xu said hesitantly, "So many people...how to...place them? The main world has long been saturated!"

"Just arrange it like this. The main world is saturated, so we put it in the sub-world. All the details are handed over to Z. We don't have time. Those who fail to load..." Xu Zhaomu closed his eyes and whispered, "It will become... Our martyrs."

The crack in the zenith suddenly widened.Xu Chaomu heard that something had collapsed outside the passage.

The earth shook violently.

Then, the air was silent for a moment.

Xu Zhaomu took a deep breath and asked, "How many people are there...?"

Z said: "1425 people, all vital signs have disappeared. The surface of the base has been completely buried by heavy snow. Now, do we need to close all the underground entrances?"

1425.

It's not just a bunch of cold, heartless numbers.

But 1425 fresh lives.

Xu Chaomu clenched his hands into fists, his voice trembling slightly: "Shut up."

They must preserve the temperature of the B1 layer as much as possible to buy more time for the people underground.

"Please don't be sad." Z heard the anxiety in his voice that was close to collapse, and said softly: "No one can predict the collapse of the zenith. Your decision is completely different from the best decision I deduced 30 seconds ago Unanimously, the current situation is already the best situation."

"I... don't want to be comforted right now." Xu Chaomu gritted his teeth, almost shattering his teeth: "Where are Anli and Jarvis?"

Lin Xu said: "They have been working on the B2 floor and have never left."

"Indeed," said Z.

Xu Zhaomu breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then," he lowered his voice a bit, revealing a trace of solemnity, a trace of helplessness:

"The black box ark has officially set sail."

In the haste, there were no rituals that should be expected in the end of the day, and there was no holographic image of the great leader projected in the center of the high platform that Xu Zhaomu originally planned to give everyone spiritual power.People fled to the ground in embarrassment, put on the adapter in a hurry, completed the transformation of body and consciousness in an instant, and entered "Homeland" like this.

The more urgent the moment, the longer it feels like time.

Xu Chaomu and Lin Xu stood in front of the transparent glass and looked inside the glass. One by one, the researchers took off their uniforms and put on adapters, their heart rate soared to 600.

Then, their bodies declared death, and their consciousness entered "Homeland", with another unknown life.

"No body can survive the heavy snow of the doomsday, but the soul can." Lin Xu said.

"...I hope so." Xu Chaomu lowered his eyelashes, his expression unpredictable.

Gradually, there are fewer and fewer living people on the B1 floor.With the infiltration of heavy snow on the surface, the temperature is getting lower and lower.

In the middle of the night, Lin Xu, Jarvis, and An Li also put on their adapters one after another, saying goodbye to Xu Chaomu.

"Boss, I'm leaving too. I hope you can let yourself go as soon as possible in 'homeland', smile more, and find a partner to experience the joys of life." Anli shrugged: "Of course, I always feel that I I'm thinking too much. Will there be such a day? It's unlikely."

Lin Xu smiled and said: "This kind of stupid words that can only be said when we say goodbye, it is too early to appear? After boarding the black box ark, we will gather at the control center and have to work together for a long time. Until Stabilization inside 'homeland'."

Jarvis suddenly raised his muscular arm, pushed his thin-rimmed glasses with his index finger, and said in a tone with a slight foreign accent: "It's not certain whether we can meet smoothly. According to the probability, some of us will carry Failed to enter, stopped outside 'Homeland', and died of extreme cold caused by neural reflexes in the brain. Just like those who fail to enter in experiments."

When he spoke, he was not used to avoiding death.

For those who died during the process of consciousness entry, for some reason, the brain would feel extremely cold, and finally the body would also appear blue-purple due to freezing and death.

Xu Chaomu pursed his lips and smiled faintly: "Then, I hope we can meet again."

An Li patted Xu Chaomu's shoulder, showing a strange smile.

——So, in the end, their bodies also fell down.

Xu Chaomu adjusted the parameters of the main brain, turned off the power that should be turned off, and stood alone in the center of the B1 floor of the empty doomsday base.

He looked at the layers of bodies of his former companions around him, and sighed softly.

"Why are you sighing again?" Z whispered in his ear, as if bewitching: "Isn't it good to enter my mastermind, escape this doomsday snow, and live forever?"

Xu Chaomu hooked his lips, moved the other person's body with some difficulty, pushed him to the ground, lay down on the metal bed, put on the adapter, and quietly folded his hands in front of him:

"I always hope that I can feel spring again."

He closed his eyes and said softly, "It's time to start, Z."

"Then," Z whispered softly, "Xu Chaomu, I wish you a sweet dream."

Xu Chaomu smiled, and said in a low voice: "You are indeed... a very charming product, even though everyone opposed it from the very beginning, and they prohibited me from consuming too much resources to promote this project. However, I never regret it , let you be born into this world."

Z fell into a long silence.

Xu Zhaomu reminded it again: "Let's start, Z."

"..."

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"Cold...so cold..."

When the process started, for some reason, Xu Zhaomu started to tremble.

A vision of color appeared before his eyes.

The cold and precise metal instruments turned into heavy and dense molten iron, enveloping him bit by bit, sealing off his breathing, his senses, suffocating and drowning him.

"Why is it so cold? Others...are they in such pain?"

Panting, he asked Z helplessly in a low voice.

Others, of course, will not have such pain.

He shouldn't have asked.

Xu Chaomu vaguely remembered that the last person who was in great pain when uploading his consciousness died because of a failed upload, leaving only a bruised corpse.

Z was silent.

It will not tell him that the remaining power is just right.

And it was occupied by a large number of meaningless processes that were suddenly involved, and the energy consumption was even greater.

Not surprisingly, he will die here.

"Before entering 'homeland', will I die here?" Xu Zhaomu seemed to have noticed something long ago, and murmured, "Who...did it? Or...it's just me...unlucky..." He didn't think anyone would deliberately do this.

The pitch-black pupils gradually lost focus.His eyes were blurred and he couldn't see anything clearly.

"Honey, close your eyes and don't think about anything." Z's voice was very deep, but he still whispered softly, "Leave it to me."

"But, I'm so cold." Xu Chaomu trembled all over, his lips turned white.

He felt that he was stuffed into an ice cellar, and the extremely cold ice stuck to him, piercing through his nails into his flesh and bone marrow, bit by bit occupying his bones and depriving his body of heat.

"Hey, leave it to me..." Z said softly.

"I..." Xu Chaomu's lips trembled, and he was gradually speechless.

He felt that death was clinging to him.

Starting from the fingertips, to the palms, arms, shoulders... His body became numb little by little. Before his consciousness dissipated, the extreme cold turned into a strange scorching heat. Enter the high-temperature furnace, boil in it, vaporize, and float in mid-air.

"Honey, leave it to me." Z repeated, his voice slightly tainted with a smile.

Laughing... what...

The moment before Xu Chaomu's pupils slackened, all nerve endings suddenly quieted down.

Finally, he felt the cold again.

Then, something approached, wrapping and entwining him gently.

It felt like he fell into a warm embrace from the cold snow bottom.

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【Loading complete. 】

【—Dear, welcome to Homeland. 】

【——Remember, from now on, it will belong to you forever. 】

【——You also belong to it forever. 】

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