Apocalypse: I Build A Doomsday Train-Chapter 997 - 391: Vanguard

"Emotion?"

"Yes! Emotion from the Star Abyss, or rather, will—there are two in total. The first is fear, the second is doubt!"

"Fear of what?" Lin Xian asked.

"There is no subject. This fear comes from human experimentation. In the Deep Red World, it’s believed that dark invasions are a form of fear power. This principle makes sense regarding human mutations after spiritual collapse, but the problem is, it’s impossible to determine whether this fear is from humans toward the darkness, or from the darkness toward humans."

Lin Xian frowned, "The darkness would fear humans?"

"Don’t interpret from a subjective viewpoint." At this moment, Chu Yan’s gaze turned toward the enormous Star Abyss on Blue Star: "From internal observation of the Star Abyss, if explained from a civilization’s perspective, humans are also an incomprehensible entity to dark creatures. They don’t understand us, and we don’t know how they exist or are born. It’s a relationship of mutual inability to communicate and prove."

Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian, "Do you know the Rosetta Stone?"

"Yes."

"Two completely unfamiliar civilizations generally have two ways of communication without translation. The first is using hieroglyphic illustrations, which doesn’t work between us and the darkness. The second is the behavioral logic chain! It was through this method that we discovered the Dark Mark, which you’re aware of."

Lin Xian nodded.

Chu Yan continued, "So if there’s only one signal, that signal has no reference meaningful implication—whether it’s from human experimentation or darkness—it’s impossible to form a logical coordinate system. But the crucial point is the second signal!"

"Doubt," Lin Xian stated.

"Correct!"

"The Deep Red World noticed this, so they determined that the signal’s origin came from the dark life form, or the Star Abyss. When we integrate this signal into the Gray Mist and the current changes in Star Abyss No.5, No.7, No.8, this behavior is highly likely to be the Star Abyss discovering the existence of Dawn City through linking consciousness. Such discovery isn’t as simple as dark coordinates!"

Lin Xian frowned, "So last night’s black tide attacks may not be just because of those marked individuals."

"Indeed! If it were merely the marks, Dawn City’s firepower could clear them out in advance. But the dark turmoil from three Star Abysses attacked for an entire night!" Chu Yan said sternly, "This indicates the Star Abyss is in doubt, probing!"

Lin Xian felt his scalp go numb, "So the expansion speed of the Star Abyss actually..."

"Can be unrestricted," Chu Yan said, her face serious, "There’s not a year, not four months; once they probe the coordinate point, it only takes one night to cover the entire Blue Star!"

Lin Xian looked shocked, "No wonder Star Abyss No.5 is moving, and the Abysses across the globe are accelerating—is this a coordinated relationship?!"

"Have you ever experienced a power outage?" Chu Yan continued, "When the room is pitch black, if you’re unfamiliar with the environment, you can only walk by probing with your hands and feet. This can be slow, but once the lights are on, or you’re familiar with the location, you’ll move quickly!"

"That’s why the monsters use the Dark Mark to locate humans. No wonder after last night’s black tide attack, large-scale S-Class and corpse chasers were found in the direction of the three Star Abysses." Lin Xian looked helpless, "It’s over now, we thought we’d have plenty of time to evacuate the city’s people. Speaking of which, tonight might face a catastrophe with corpse chasers and S-Class..."

"Julius knew this, so he wanted to use the entire Dawn City as the Apocalypse Day test field. They need to quickly research the genuine evolutionary mechanism, while transforming themselves into Abnormal Bodies and Uncanny Humans is actually the second choice. There’s another crucial piece of information—the original purpose of the Deep Red World wasn’t this."

Chu Yan told Lin Xian, "The initial goal for founding the Deep Red World was the path to Digital Life and Mechanical Ascension. The Deep Red World later began to escape control and develop in the direction of Superpower, Reproduction Armor, Divine Chosen, Angels, and went out of control. The original group forming the Deep Red World was an organization called the SIID Foundation. This was an extension of the previous globally largest Luo Fei Consortium, which controlled a large part of the Federation’s economic lifeline. You may have heard of it."

Lin Xian paused, "I haven’t just heard of it... I’ve even interacted with ’them’."

"Lin Xian, you must quickly inform Professor Ye and General Xu, or it’ll be too late!"

Lin Xian heard this and looked at himself, helplessly shrugged, "You know, it’s only when I’m completely out of energy that I can meet you. I can’t control waking up."

"What should we do, then?"

"What else can we do..." Lin Xian smiled bitterly, "I’m thinking, even if the entire city knows the news and we escape, according to this statement, once the Star Abyss successfully probes, even if we flee to the Polar, it’ll be meaningless, we might not even escape the expansion speed of the Star Abyss."

Chu Yan was slightly stunned, then looked dejectedly in place.

"Lin Xian."

"Hmm?"

"If tonight is the end of the world, are you afraid?"

"I used to be a little," Lin Xian at this moment looked up at the cosmic starry sky and smiled boldly, "Now I’m not that scared anymore. This lifetime, I’ve sort of been an astronaut once."

Chu Yan admired his optimism, sighed helplessly.

Lin Xian looked at Chu Yan’s state at this moment, simply sat down, "Since there’s no going back, I’ll chat with you."