Chapter 942 Brain in a Vat

Meanwhile, the Chukotka Peninsula.

A stealth helicopter hovering at a low altitude of 20 meters slowly revealed its figure. The cabin door spray-painted with the emblem of the Organization Guards slid open to one side, and dozens of fully armed elite soldiers quickly followed the rope. It slid to the ground and formed an arc-shaped defensive formation.

Then, an officer and a soldier carrying a strange instrument slipped out of the helicopter.

"This is the place where the target traces were recently discovered. Scan." The officer said to the soldier carrying the instrument.

"Yes." The soldier immediately took off the instrument on his back, placed it on the ground, inserted a dozen electrodes into the ground, and then started operating on the terminal screen...

"Reporting to the officer, an energy residual reaction has been detected. Something should have passed here ten minutes ago!" As soon as the detection instrument made a beeping sound, the soldier immediately reported to the officer.

"Are you sure it's the target?"

"The probability is more than 80%!"

"Very good! Conduct energy trace analysis immediately to track the target's whereabouts!"

"yes!"

The soldier's fingers were tapping rapidly on the touch screen... However, just when he pressed the last key, his expression suddenly froze——

"Sir! They're right here! Around here—"

As soon as the soldiers shouted, a black shadow burst out of the ground from a short distance away at a speed that was difficult to detect with the naked eye, and pounced directly on the helicopter hovering above their heads!

A pair of bone scythes with extremely exaggerated shapes penetrated the bulletproof glass of the helicopter cockpit without any hindrance. The two helicopter pilots didn't even realize what happened before their vision went dark and they lost consciousness forever... And The instigator who killed them also destroyed the helicopter's control console, and the invisible helicopter that lost its balance immediately hit the ground——

"boom!!"

Several soldiers who had no time to escape were immediately pinned down by the falling helicopter, while a guy who ran a little slower was cut in half by the blades that were still rotating at high speed, and half of his body was killed by the inertia. He was thrown out more than ten meters!

The tail rotor of the helicopter hit the hard rock on the ground. After breaking, it shot out like a flying knife, cutting off most of the head of the soldier who was standing next to the instrument, and the red and white blood splashed. The object immediately became tainted with the officer.

"Gather the formation! Gather the formation!" the officer drew his pistol and shouted loudly.

"Sir! What the hell is that?!" The soldiers quickly retreated and gathered around the officer, but during the whole process, none of them pulled the trigger, as if there were no guns among the dozens of guns in their hands. Like bullets...

"Shoot! Shoot! Kill him!" The officer raised his pistol and started shooting in the direction of the helicopter.

"Sir... I, we don't have permission to shoot... We are required to capture the target alive... We are not yet sure whether that is the target..."

"Fart! Our mission is only to capture the abducted prisoners alive. As for the others, it doesn't matter whether they live or die! Do you think the guy who brought down the helicopter is the abducted prisoner?!"

After waiting for the officer's order, the soldiers finally started shooting wildly at the helicopter. But at this moment, the black figure jumped down from the wreckage of the helicopter, and in the blink of an eye, it had penetrated into the hard frozen soil. middle.

"It actually has the ability to burrow into the ground?!" The officer who saw this scene was stunned. Although the black shadow had emerged from the ground when it launched the attack, in his mind, the pit used for the ambush should be It had been dug long ago... You must know that this is frozen soil. The hardness and density of the soil are comparable to rocks, and it only took less than a second for the black figure to dig out a hole on the ground that was enough to cover him completely. The big hole to fit in...how is this possible? !

"No...everyone...watch your step!"

However, it was too late for him to say this. The black shadow had already broken out of the ground in the center of the defensive circle surrounded by soldiers. The sharp bone sickle mixed with the broken soil in the sky drew an almost 360-degree arc. In an arc, hot blood spilled all over the floor, and more than a dozen soldiers were cut into pieces in just an instant!

"monster?!"

It was only then that the officer truly saw the true appearance of the black figure...

This is a monster that looks human but not human. It has a human-like torso and arms, but its skin is covered with a layer of metallic-colored scales. The ends of its arms are a pair of huge bone scythes with an exaggerated shape. Its legs are The knee joints are bent backwards like an insect, and three pairs of transparent wing membranes extend from the monster's back - as for the monster's head, it is wrapped in a fully covered metal helmet. Only a trace of red eyes flashed through the gap in the front of the helmet.

"Damn... not the target..." The officer took a step back involuntarily, and his soldiers immediately turned their guns around and started shooting violently at the monster that suddenly appeared!

It's useless... the bullets are completely useless. Whether they are regular-caliber bullets or large-caliber full-power bullets specially designed to deal with monsters, there is no way to penetrate the layer of scales on this monster's body, and even the bullets attached to the bullets are useless. Even the kinetic energy it exerted could not stop its movement. I saw the huge bone sickle swinging past, and the heads of two soldiers were separated again...

"Support... We need support... Area No. 47 appears——"

Before the officer finished speaking, the walkie-talkie fell to the ground, along with an arm that had been cut off at the shoulder.

At the last moment of this officer's life, he vaguely saw the monster's shoulder, which seemed to be imprinted with a series of numbers...

"F0905..."

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Anchorage, Federal Reserve Bank Building.

Qi Lin checked the entire bank hall carefully, but found nothing. Apart from cleaning up all the living dead that might have existed here, the mastermind did not leave anything for Qi Lin in the hall. clue.

Bypassing the counter and passing through the archives room, a stairwell extending underground appeared in front of Qi Lin, which led to the bank's underground vault. In the past, this must have been a place under strict supervision, but now, not only the guards have He was nowhere to be found, and even the door that was supposed to be locked was left open.

"Is the stronghold the bank's vault?"

As the most influential banking institution in the United States before the war, the person in charge behind the scenes of the Federal Reserve Bank was actually the famous Morgan consortium. With the ability of the Morgan consortium and the importance of the Federal Reserve Bank, the underground of each branch was In fact, the vaults are built according to the standards of the highest-level nuclear shelters. Neither shock waves nor nuclear radiation can penetrate the layers of obstacles and enter the underground vaults... Therefore, according to this idea, the bank Transforming the underground vault into a safe stronghold seems to be a very feasible option...

However, just after Qi Lin walked down the stairs into the bank underground, this idea was directly rejected by him...

There was serious water accumulation on the entire underground level of the bank. Dirty water contaminated with excessive radiation poured in from above. The water was deep enough to cover Qi Lin's knees.

Not only the underground vaults, but the drainage system of the entire city has been paralyzed. When the ice and snow melt, the radioactive sewage flows into the underground part of the city along various gaps and accumulates inside.

"…Why is this happening?"

An underground vault full of radioactive sewage cannot be the safe base chosen by the mastermind. The radiation intensity here is even much higher than above the surface. Except for Qi Lin, the rest of the team has no choice. survive in this environment.

"Did I look in the wrong place?"

Although he thought so, Qi Lin still walked forward without giving up... The depth of the snow and the bank hall where there were no living dead wandering around were the only two things he found in Anchorage. Clues, if that safe base is not here... where can it be?

"Huh?" After walking dozens of meters in knee-deep sewage, Qi Lin's attention was suddenly attracted by a tightly closed circular gate. Such gates can be found everywhere in underground vaults. These gates Behind the gate is a compartment used to store banknotes, gold or other valuables, and the body of the gate is generally made of high-strength alloy...generally it will not rust...of course, this refers to the general Under the circumstances, these gates have already become rusty due to multiple erosions by radiation and wastewater. The rust on the round valve in front of Qi Lin has serious signs of wear and tear.

The radioactive wastewater here was poured in after the nuclear explosion passed. At that time, there were no living people in Anchorage, and the gate only began to be corroded after that. It was impossible for the dead to enter. The one that turns the valve on the gate...

"I finally found it..."

Qi Lin held the valve with both hands and turned it hard. A creepy metal friction sound came from the mechanical components inside the door. The gate was not locked. Qi Lin turned the valve a few turns and then it was unlocked. opened.

Since the gate is nearly half a meter above the ground, the accumulated water did not penetrate into the compartment. Although there was some moisture inside, at least the ground was still dry.

A wooden box that is as tall as a person is placed in the middle of the two rows of safes. Unlike the dusty and rusty safes, this wooden box is very new and was obviously put here not long ago.

"This is……?"

Qi Lin walked around the wooden box twice. In this compartment, except for the wooden box, there was nothing else, and there was no sign that the safes had been opened.

With a trace of curiosity, Qi Lin pried open the wooden box.

Inside the wooden box is a glass jar filled with physiological maintenance fluid... However, the size of this glass jar is too small, and it is estimated that it can only fit a newborn baby.

And placed together with this ultra-small glass tank, there is also a complete set of life-support equipment.

"Is this prepared for Qin? But... such a small survival cabin... there is no way to put Qin in it..."

Qi Lin fiddled with the set of life-support equipment and finally found a document under a pile of electrode patches. According to the contents of the document...this so-called "life-support equipment" was indeed not for Qin. prepare……

To be precise, it was prepared for Qin's "brain".

The mastermind already knew that there was an accident in the rescue operation. Due to the restrictions of the first mastermind, it is currently unable to provide any help to Qi Lin and the team... The planned safe base does not actually exist... and considering Qin's Due to his physical condition, the only way to keep him alive was to send him back to the life-support cabin.

However, the size of the survival capsule and a complete set of supporting equipment is too large. Under the close supervision of the first mastermind, the second mastermind has no way to send it to Anchorage. It can only do the next best thing and try its best to first Save Qin's brain.

Qi Lin and the others must find a way to take Qin's brain out of his head and put it into this "life-sustaining tank". Otherwise, Qin's brain is likely to die along with his body. By then, there will really be nothing left. There is a way to save it.

With Qin's special ability, he has already changed his body once. The first time will lead to a second time. When the time comes, we can find him... or simply clone a body, and then we can have the opportunity to give him a new body. Free yourself from the "brain in a vat" state.

In this document, detailed surgical procedures and operating methods are also attached to ensure that Qi Lin and the others can successfully transfer Qin's brain from his body to this glass jar...

It's just... I don't know why, Qi Lin suddenly felt... this whole thing seemed particularly strange...

"Strange...really weird..."

Before the rescue operation began, the mastermind had already made it clear to Qi Lin that when things couldn't be done, he must completely destroy Qin's brain to prevent it from being used by the mastermind and the organization... But now, he has to think A way to preserve Qin's brain...

Although they have rescued Qin from the undersea prison, Qi Lin is well aware of the unique way of thinking of the master brain. Since he has said before that Qin can be killed, in the master brain's plan, Qin's ending will be very important. It is dispensable. Qin's life and death will not affect the master brain's next move, or it will have a very small impact.

Judging from the current situation, if Qin really becomes a burden, the second mastermind will definitely ruthlessly suggest that Qi Lin kill him, destroy his brain and find a way out of the predicament himself.

But why... after Qi Lin and the others crossed the Bering Strait, crossed the Alaska Mountains, and entered Anchorage, what they saw was a set of equipment prepared for "Qin's Brain"?

This doesn't make sense!

If Qin's brain is really put into this life-support tank... wouldn't it really become a "brain in a tank"? And the definition of brain in a vat... isn't that very close to what the utopian plan wants to achieve?

If you want to separate the consciousness from the body...the first step to operate on the physical level is to let the brain leave the body and make a direct connection with the computer...

Isn't this process what the mastermind and the organization originally planned to do to Qin?

Thinking of this, Qi Lin suddenly felt that his back was wet with cold sweat... Their current situation may have...