Underworld Retrograde

The figure disappeared in a flash, but Li Yelai became alert. That is definitely not an illusion!

"Did you see it?" Li Yelai asked quickly.

"Keep your voice down, what did you see?" Jing Lin, still wary of the flesh and blood aberrations that had just fallen asleep, turned around and asked.

"There is someone up there! It should be said that there was a humanoid object looking down at us from the bridge just now. It disappeared in the blink of an eye." Li Yelai said.

"I didn't notice it. Are you sure you didn't see it wrong?" Jing Lin asked.

"No. Even if you see it wrong, the object will not disappear directly." Li Yelai responded: "There must be something movable there. And it's humanoid."

"It is difficult for humans to survive in this environment. Could it be a returnee or other parasite?" Jing Lin looked up at the bridge above: "But it saw us, but it didn't attack."

"It can be speculated that it is not the same group as the flesh and blood aberration." Li Yelai analyzed: "It does not want the flesh and blood aberration to discover it."

"That's good, then at least it won't take the initiative to attack." Jing Lin whispered.

The two set off again.

Jing Lin walked in front, his left eye flashed, and his 'Extreme Subtlety' ability started to activate. If there were any changes, flying dust or sliding screws would be noticed by him immediately.

Li Yelai walked half a step behind him. Once Jinglin launched an attack, Li Yelai could immediately support him.

However, as the two climbed higher, they saw signs of a fierce battle.

In a ship that was completely overturned and pieced together with other ships, the two saw a large number of scattered bullet casings and the decomposed corpses of more than a dozen flesh aberrations.

Those flesh and blood aberrations were obviously dismembered. Their corpses had turned into bones, and the flesh and blood on them had completely disappeared.

He must have been dead for many years.

But Li Yelai and Jing Lin's expressions changed, because there were obvious signs of burning, biting and tearing on the bones.

Jing Lin squatted on the ground, looking at a thigh bone, and couldn't help but feel a chill.

This deformed and twisted thigh bone has obvious knife marks and tooth marks!

"Old Li, these are human teeth marks." Jing Lin said in a low voice.

"It seems that they are indeed survivors." Li Yelai responded with a grin.

In this dangerous place where the sun never shines, the survivors have no logistics and reinforcements, and naturally no food sources.

If you don't want to do anything to your companions, you can only eat the deformed flesh and blood mutants, even if they were once humans or other creatures. In order to survive, you have to work hard to swallow this meat.

"Can you guess the time?" Li Yelai asked in a low voice.

Jing Lin was silent for a few seconds and then responded: "The vibration just shook the dust here. I'm not sure whether my judgment is correct, thirty years!"

The Border Fleet lost contact forty-three years ago, and the previous mines and footprints were also around forty years ago. Now there are traces from thirty years ago.

The survivors persisted in this hellish place for ten years?

How did they persevere?

Are they still insisting?

Thinking of this, both of them were silent for a while, and then immediately approached Daqi.

Although the hope is very slim, they still hope to find the Border Fleet soldiers from back then.

However, when the two passed through a crew room, they were stunned.

In the crew room, two skeletal bodies lay.

They were wearing Border City combat uniforms, holding obviously modified firearms in their hands, and were leaning against each other in the corner of the room.

And their heads were chopped off by themselves and fell on their bodies,

They were soldiers of the Border Fleet. They were far away from home and eventually died here.

Li Yelai looked at the two bodies and remained silent.

Jing Lin checked it and whispered: "It's the incision of the chain sword. Judging from the posture, one of them put the chain sword on the necks of the two people, and then activated the chain sword. If their heads are cut off or their heads are missing, they will not turn into flesh-and-blood aberrations. This is their last resistance."

"They don't want to become monsters until they die! They are worthy of being soldiers of your Border City!"

"It's embarrassing for them. If someone can bury them, it won't be so hard." Li Yelai sighed, feeling very uncomfortable.

He suddenly thought of the illusion he saw during his fifth awakening.

Why can the creatures in the restricted area come back again and again!

But humans have to pay the lives of countless heroes!

This is not fair! So unfair!

Human beings also want to gain immortality and eternal life!

All things are corrupt, but all living beings are immortal!

‘Oh, all living beings are immortal. ’ Li Yelai thought silently in his heart.

Later, the two walked through the cabin and saw more corpses of flesh and blood aberrations.

Instead of seeing human corpses, we saw steel footprints.

Those should be the footprints of the Border Guards.

"There are traces of dragging on the ground, and the bodies of human soldiers were dragged away." Jing Lin glanced at the battlefield and responded: "There were at least twenty human soldiers here."

The battle here was fierce, with hundreds of flesh-and-blood aberrations besieging the Iron Guards and human soldiers.

The human soldiers relied on firepower to suppress the monsters, but eventually ran out of ammunition.

The soldiers picked up engineer shovels or held knives and sabers. Engaged in hand-to-hand combat with flesh-and-blood aberrations!

But after losing the suppression of thermal weapons, the flesh-and-blood aberrations with psychic barriers clearly gained the upper hand.

The human warriors spent a lot of money to eliminate this group of aberrations.

"Perhaps the bodies of the human soldiers were taken away to avoid being turned into flesh and blood aberrations." Jing Lin said, "Perhaps the Iron Guards took them away."

"How long can Tiewei live?" Li Yelai asked.

Before becoming a psyker, Li Yelai knew that the Border Guard was definitely a powerful existence in legend!

They are powerful and long-lived. Before the psykers were exposed, they were invincible existences in the minds of the people of the giant city.

When the giant city was built, it protected humans from danger and fought with warlords in the wilderness.

It wasn't until all dangers were eliminated that it faded out of the public's sight. A true legend.

In fact, the Border Guards are non-psyker soldiers who have undergone various biological modifications.

After transformation, they cannot become psykers, but their physical bodies are more powerful and can perfectly adapt to heavy power armor.

That was technology from a civilization in a restricted area. After the human ancestors conquered the disaster fog that failed to become a restricted area, they passed this technology to other giant human cities. This greatly enhances the combat power of the giant city.

In fact, the iron guards in each giant city circle have their own differences and names.

In Border City, they are called Border Guards, and their power armor is thicker.

In Yaoqing Giant City, they are called snow riders, and their power armor is equipped with heat insulation equipment.

"Your Border Guards and our Snow Cavalry have undergone the same transformation, so theoretically they should have a lifespan of two hundred years." Jing Lin responded: "Do you speculate that some of the Iron Guards are still alive? It's difficult, even if the Iron Guards Guards also need regular care and maintenance. It’s difficult to survive in this environment.”

"At least that's an expectation." Li Yelai responded: "We didn't see the bodies of the Iron Guards, which means anything is possible."

Immediately, the two continued to move forward.

Finally, they got close to Daqi, but the structure of Daqi was relatively intact, and the two could not find the entrance to it.

Not wanting to destroy the hull of the battleship, the two climbed onto the deck and climbed into it from the unclosed missile silo on the deck.

After the two entered the missile silo, they did not find flesh-and-blood aberrations. Instead, they saw a dozen huge missiles. They are displayed in groups of four in the missile silo.

"Is this the one with a maximum speed of Mach 10?" Li Yelai asked.

"It should be." Jing Lin sighed with emotion: "If it weren't for the technological gap, the troops in the restricted area would have been bombed when they went out! That's ten times the speed of sound. Of course, I have also heard of cases where missiles were interfered with by the restricted area and turned around to hit giant cities. "

"Don't worry, the three restricted areas in Border City are all barbarians, and they don't have the ability." Li Yelai spoke and mocked the three restricted areas in Border City.

The civilization and technology of some restricted areas exceed the standard. The prosthetics, iron guard transformation surgeries, and power armor of the giant city all come from certain restricted areas or disaster fogs.

But there are also many forbidden civilizations that take the psionic route. The level of technology is far inferior to that of humans.

There is not much to say about the Doomsday Forest. Extraordinary creatures are mass-produced, and apart from the core area, there is no civilization at all.

And Black Source City and Heaven Realm are not following the technological route.

Although it has unique technology, it will not crush humans.

Afterwards, the two people walked out of the missile silo, and after forcefully opening a solid metal protective door, they entered the interior of the ship.

But they felt a chill, and both of them exhaled a clear white mist. It was obvious that the temperature in the cabin was extremely low, and even with the psychic barrier, Li Yelai felt a chill.

At the same time, the instruments carried by the two men also sounded a low alarm.

'Warning, lack of oxygen...'

The two immediately turned off the warning to avoid attracting nearby flesh and blood aberrations. He immediately took off or pulled up his face shield and put on an oxygen mask.

"How could this happen?" Li Yelai and Jing Lin frowned.

There is actually an ultra-low temperature environment in a battleship that has been completely silent? Moreover, the oxygen content in the air is frighteningly low.

Without oxygen masks, ordinary people would die quickly in this kind of space.

Of course, psykers don't feel well either. At least at the current level of the two of them, although they can be obtained in an oxygen-free state for a long time, they still need to breathe.

"Is the battleship still operating?" Li Yelai said.

"How many years has it been? This big ship is not nuclear powered." Jing Lin shook his head.

The two were a little confused, but continued on.

However, the two of them turned on their handheld searchlights and took a few steps. There was a dull sound behind him.

The protective door that was pulled open by the two of them was actually closed?

"Fuck you." Jing Lin cursed and prepared to step forward and open the protective door again.

Li Yelai stopped him: "Okay, some people don't want us to destroy this low temperature and oxygen-free environment."

As he spoke, Li Yelai's searchlight swept into a room on the side.

Jing Lin took a closer look and his expression changed.

In the room, there were more than a dozen corpses of human soldiers lying upside down. They all had horrific fatal injuries on their bodies.

At this moment, he fell peacefully in the room. Fell into endless eternal sleep.

The low temperature and oxygen-free environment prevented their bodies from decaying. At least not yet

Someone wants to protect the bodies of these warriors from being desecrated by any force!

"Oh my God." Jing Lin picked up a portable searchlight and looked through various rooms on the ship.

There are sleeping battleship soldiers holding weapons, border guards wearing broken power armor, and border city handlers wearing black windbreakers.

There are a large number of corpses in almost every room. The low temperature and oxygen-free environment make them sleep on their battleships.

They once roared and raged against the enemies of mankind on their battleships, and now, they guard their battleships as always.

as always

"Someone. Is someone still alive?" Jing Lin looked at Li Yelai with disbelief in his eyes.

It had been more than forty years, but someone had arranged everything and preserved the bodies of the soldiers.

And, those who did all this are still alive!

"I don't know if everything can be revealed until the bridge!" Li Yelai responded.

The two men immediately walked through the fallen corridor and passed through the rooms where the dead were stationed.

There are frozen blood vessels in the corridor, and there are eternally sleeping warriors, but there is not a single flesh-and-blood aberration.

This allowed the two of them to quickly walk through the corridor and arrive in front of the huge metal door.

The two of them worked together to push open the door and arrived at the bridge.

The bridge had obviously been modified. Thick steel plates sealed the windows of the bridge, and the only well-preserved window was where Li Yelai saw the figure.

At the same time, there are also terrible traces of battle in the bridge, where melta bombs and machine guns have been fired. There are also plenty of traces of combat with psychic abilities.

But the bridge was empty, and the two didn't hear a second heartbeat or breath outside of each other's.

"There is oxygen here, and the temperature is not low." Jing Lin took off his oxygen mask and responded, "Are they hiding from us?"

"At least for now, he doesn't plan to see us."

Li Yelai walked towards the console. Almost all the consoles were destroyed by the battle.

But on one of the consoles was a saber, and a logbook was nailed to it.

Li Yelai took off his saber and picked up the logbook.

The first half of the diary was torn out, so that it was the first page Li Yelai saw.

‘June 3rd, 28th year of Jucheng Calendar. A distress signal was received at Border No. 1, and the entire fleet set off, leaving the port to pursue the signal. We cross the Treasure Island Strait, get supplies, and we will save our fellow humans! ’

‘On June 10th, we encountered extraordinary marine creatures, a great victory! ’

‘On June 15, we discovered the existence of a suspected restricted area and named it the Maelstrom. We are caught in the whirlpool and cannot escape. Psykers are also unable to gain contact. ’

‘On July 1st, in the unknown sea, we encountered the sharks, the creatures in the restricted area of ​​the whirlpool, and it was a great victory! ’

‘On July 8, fleet psychics seemed to hear the sound of battleships. How could battleships make sounds? She may have been corrupted’

‘On July 9, the supply ship behind them lost contact. Although no battle broke out, they could not be found. ’

‘On August 2, the battleship turned autonomously! The psykers carefully checked all locations and could not see any abnormalities. Maybe. It really is alive. ’

‘On September 7th, there was a riot on a battleship. Some soldiers were corrupted by Chaos, robbed the battleship, and launched an attack on us. We fought back and sunk them. No survivors found.’

‘On September 23, the warriors of three more battleships were corrupted by Chaos, and we sank them. ’

‘September 30. We saw a continent, a steel continent composed of countless ships! We even saw an aircraft carrier! We didn't get close and prepared to send a team to investigate. ’

‘On October 5th, our battleship began to retreat at full speed autonomously. It was really alive, but we couldn’t escape. Chaos believers appeared in the battleship. They took away control and crashed into the mainland! ’