Chapter 877 The Forest Inside the Volcano

"... I can't answer this question, but as of now, the number of frost dragons is extremely rare, and there is no obvious sociality among the same kind... No matter how powerful an individual is, the influence it can have is limited. "

"That's good... I don't want to survive and have to be ruled by a big lizard or something else."

The rule of aliens is an extremely terrifying thing for any species. If that day comes, humans will be reduced to the same status as livestock and poultry, and life, freedom and dignity will not be guaranteed at all. It can only become food or pets in captivity...

If the mastermind gets rid of the shackles set by humans in the future, then humans will also face this ending, and due to the existence of a utopian world, humans will have no ability to resist.

No matter how powerful the frost dragon is, it must be limited by the natural laws of this world. However, in that virtual world, the mastermind is the supreme and omnipotent god... What the frost dragon in the virtual program has is that it cannot be It's just the "surface skin" that's destroyed, but the mastermind's abilities are nearly unlimited.

At that time, all it took was one thought to destroy all mankind.

It is precisely for this reason that "the mastermind must die."

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According to the flight path of the frost dragon, its lair should be behind the snow peak, only a few kilometers away from Qi Lin's hiding place. After Qi Lin took a final inventory of the equipment on his body, he began to move towards that Trek forward in the direction.

"Are you really going to hunt the frost dragon? It's not too late to regret now. You only need to walk out of this mountain range to pass the level. That is much easier than facing the frost dragon." The mastermind said.

"People always have to find something challenging for themselves to do. Then life is interesting, right? What's more, the worst possible outcome is to start all over again from skydiving."

Qi Lin, who was lucky enough to survive the hyena attack, seemed to have opened up a lot. He realized that this was just a virtual world. He entered here not to clear the level, but to make himself stronger. .

This is the purpose and meaning of the training program. Even if Qi Lin repeats several levels infinitely, as long as his ability can be improved, it is no longer important whether he passes the level or not.

"Your attitude is very negative. Under the normal anthropomorphic thinking mode, I should judge your behavior as thinking that there is no hope of passing the level and seeking death."

"Negative? I don't think so... By the way, based on your data analysis results, what is the success rate that I can successfully shut down your body?"

"zero."

"That's great... Look, my success rate of shutting down the mastermind is zero, and my success rate of killing the frost dragon is also zero. These two things are essentially the same."

"It's completely different. You're trying to be sophistical." The mastermind retorted.

"Aren't you training me just to turn that zero into another number? No matter how small the number is, no matter how low the probability of success is, as long as it is not zero, it means that it has the possibility of success... If I If the frost dragon can be killed, it means that this kind of event with zero success rate is actually possible, and the same is true for shutting down the main brain."

"Your courage is commendable, but you are still sophistry, and you are changing the concept."

"Whatever you say, just think that I am cheering myself up... If I can really kill the frost dragon, then maybe I can really shut down your body."

"I can barely agree with this. Self-confidence is indeed very important to human beings."

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According to the information provided by the main brain, the frost dragon will stay in the lair for about two to three days every time it returns to its nest. Although its brain does not need to rest, its body is different, dragging such a huge and heavy body in the sky Even if you have enough physical energy to fly at medium to high speeds, your body will suffer from strain after long-term exercise, especially the muscles in the wings.

There is plenty of time for Qi Lin. He does not need to rush into the dragon's lair. He can make a decision after collecting enough information.

The frost dragon has just returned to its nest. There will definitely be no mutant creatures in this area. Qi Lin does not have to worry about being attacked and can go on his way boldly.

He returned to the battlefield where he fought the hyena before, dug out the snow rhino's body from the snowdrift, and then sawed off the two plate-like bones located at the pelvis. The two bones were triangular in shape and had a single area. Approximately thousands of square centimeters, Qi Lin tied these two plate-like bones to the soles of the shoes, and a simple pair of skis was completed.

Riding on his skis, Qi Lin's speed suddenly accelerated a lot, and before long, he had reached the back of the mountain peak.

There is a very conspicuous cave at the center of the mountain. At the entrance of the cave are a large number of skeletons and broken furs of mutated creatures. These things are frozen together by ice and look extremely eerie.

"Is this the Dragon's Nest..."

Qi Lin carefully walked around in a large circle and walked to the side of the dragon's nest. He saw an extremely obvious giant drag mark on the snow on the ground. It was obvious that the frost dragon had penetrated into the mountain through this hole not long ago. .

Qi Lin took off his Gauss sniper rifle, used the scope as a telescope, and pointed it deep into the hole.

This cave is not too deep, it ends less than a hundred meters away, but there is another vertical passage connected to the bottom of the cave, leading directly to the depths of the mountain.

Qi Lin didn't know much about geology, but the characteristics of the scene in front of him were already very obvious - this mountain peak should be an extinct volcano, and the crater has been blocked by ice and snow that has not melted for thousands of years. , and the frost dragon dug through the magma channel of the volcano from the side of the mountain, using this hollow internal extinct volcano as its own nest.

"Mastermind, how is the frost dragon's sense of smell and hearing?"

"I don't know, but it mainly relies on energy sensing to search for targets, so in this training program, its hearing and smell are set to 'degraded', and its sensitivity is at best equivalent to that of an ordinary person who has not mutated. Beast."

"That'll be easy." Qi Lin felt relieved and quickly ran toward the cave entrance with his gun in hand.

This horizontal cave should once have been a sub-crater on the side of the volcanic cone. It was once blocked by volcanic ash, and was later dug out by the frost dragon with its claws. This can be seen from the traces on the four walls of the cave. Judge it.

After the volcanic ash is weathered and broken, it will form extremely fertile soil, and this cave is located in the leeward position, and the temperature is much higher than outside. Many mutant ferns and cold-resistant moss grow on both sides of the cave. If it weren't for Qi Lin If you know that this is a dragon's lair, looking at these lush plants, you might even think of this place as a paradise in the ice and snow...

"The big lizard should be down here..." Qi Lin walked to the vertical magma channel with extremely light steps, lying on the edge of the cave entrance and looking down.

The length of the magma channel is estimated to be more than two hundred meters long. The space below is very open, just like an underground cavity dug out by humans to build a shelter. And within the belly of this extinct volcano, there is actually a Dense underground forest!

This underground forest is composed of some mutated plants that can survive without sunlight. The most conspicuous among them is a tall tree with a height ranging from ten to twenty meters. The trunks of these trees are straight and the surface is It is extremely smooth, and the branches have leaves similar to those of palm trees. However, these leaves are not green, but show a strange deep purple. The veins of the leaves exude a faint blue-purple fluorescence, which looks like It seems extremely dreamy.

Filled between these trees are some low shrubs and a large number of fungi that also emit fluorescence. Although Qi Lin did not see the frost dragon, he found a path with no plants growing in the underground forest here. The "road" should be the traces left by the frost dragon often passing through the forest.

"I didn't expect that big lizard to actually live in an underground forest..." Qi Lin couldn't help but sigh at the miraculous craftsmanship of nature. Such an underground forest located in the heart of an extinct volcano would have been so small in the old times. It is said to be one of the top natural wonders in the world.

"This underground forest does exist. I once sent a drone to explore it, but found nothing." The mastermind said at the side.

"Nothing? What's going on?"

"Have you seen those fluorescent leaves and fungi? These plants contain a lot of radiant energy. Although I don't know why this underground forest has not transformed into an aggressive black forest, these plants are very sensitive to electronic devices. It has a very strong 'psychedelic effect'."

"Hallucinogen? Do you mean interference?"

"Yes, due to the effect of radiation and the strange abilities of these plants, the electromagnetic field in the underground forest is so chaotic that drones cannot penetrate deep into it."

"So, this underground forest should also be a 'defective product' that you copied based on the calculated data?" Qi Lin instantly caught the loophole in the mastermind's words.

"I know what you are planning. I will not tell you the specific information about the underground forest. You also said that you are challenging yourself. If I tell you everything, what is the meaning of this challenge? ?”

"Alright alright……"

Qi Lin curled his lips, then took out some things from his backpack and arranged them beside the hole in the vertical passage - a miniature high-definition camera, a remote control switch, a complete set of mechanical frames, plus a head-sized snowball.

Qi Lin took out another nuclear battery with almost exhausted fuel, and connected the positive and negative electrodes of the battery together, forming a short circuit. Since the battery energy has been exhausted, it will not burn even if it is short-circuited, but However, it will release a certain amount of energy fluctuations to the outside world, and the size of the fluctuations is probably a little higher than Qi Lin's "energy-gathering vortex silence" state.

After stuffing the nuclear battery into the snowball and placing the snowball on the mechanical frame, Qi Lin quickly retreated outside the entrance of the cave.

Taking out the PDA, switching the screen to the miniature high-definition camera, Qi Lin pressed the remote control button of the switch - this switch is usually used to detonate explosives from a distance, but Qi Lin connected it to the simple mechanical frame, only Seeing that the two metal poles holding the snowball bounced away instantly, the snowball lost its support and fell straight towards the underground forest directly below.

"Snapped!"

The snowball hit the ground and shattered into pieces, and the short-circuited nuclear battery also fell out of it.

Qi Lin stared at the PDA screen closely, for fear of missing something... However, five minutes passed, the broken snowball gradually melted, but the short-circuited battery was still lying there, and nothing happened.

The giant frost dragon was not alarmed at all.

Ten minutes, twenty minutes... Qi Lin waited for half an hour, and there was no change in the picture on the camera.

Although this does not mean that it is definitely safe down there, it is at least better than Qi Lin jumping down recklessly.

(Just like when you are playing Rainbow Six and preparing to enter a point, there is nothing wrong with throwing a small car in first to have a look...)

Qi Lin fastened the safety rope around his waist, drove an air nail into the rock at the edge of the magma channel, tied the other end of the safety rope up, and then began to slowly descend towards the underground forest. …

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Real world, underground shelter, transfer station No. 1706.

An ordinary passenger train slowly entered the station, and hundreds of passengers walked out of the train carriage. This shelter is a freight transfer station with no permanent residents. People will arrive by train. The people here are either workers looking for work or consortium agents who come to handle business.

Transfer Station No. 1706 has a large area, but two-thirds of the space has been occupied by warehouses. Some of these warehouses are rented out by large consortiums, and some are open. Below, it is used to temporarily store some small batches of goods.

According to the information in the cargo interception notice, the two batches of goods that were supposed to be sent to District 6 should be temporarily stored in Warehouse No. 102 at this moment. If the Lei family does not take the initiative to collect them, they will have to wait until 15 days Once the deadline expires, the goods will be confiscated by the consortium alliance.

After Lei Yun got off the bus, she went straight to the "Logistics Processing Office" located in the core area of ​​the transfer station. The functions and status of this office are somewhat similar to the customs in the old era. If Lei Yun wanted to get back the intercepted goods, she would You must first complete the corresponding procedures here.

Of course, this series of procedures is not free. She must pay a valuable "escrow fee" before she can take away the goods. In the words of the consortium agents, this "escrow fee" It is often called "ransom".