A Bold Move

Which way do we go now?

Su Luo boarded a train that was about to depart for the "C-1174 Sector Integrated Maintenance Center," sat in a corner, and asked Yuncang No. 29.

Yuncang No. 29's head spun around in a rather alarming manner:

"Ahem, I'm still a bit dazed from the accident... Alright! The route is planned! Our destination is -- [Yuncang Intelligence Core Data Interaction Center (Seventh Access Point)], the road is winding and requires permissions, we'll meet with relevant personnel along the way to obtain those permissions..."

How many transfers are required?

"At least thirty trips, and it's quite a long distance, but don't worry, the space train is very fast."

Su Luo glanced at the route map, said nothing, closed her eyes slightly, and immersed most of her consciousness into the "Dream Library," continuing to organize and deduce the massive amount of knowledge she had recently acquired, especially the part about energy conversion in high-energy environments.

Following the guidance of Yuncang No. 29, the body transferred to one almost empty space train after another, passing through one huge, empty hexagonal module after another, where only automated machinery occasionally glided by.

The journey was long and tedious. The scale of the "Wall of Infinity" was beyond imagination. Even with the train traveling at extremely high speed, Su Luo had only Crossing a small part of its massive structure during the two-hour journey.

He passed by an energy monitoring center, a materials synthesis plant, an ecological Cycle maintenance area, and even a recreational park simulating a natural landscape. Everywhere he looked, the level of automation was extremely high, and there were almost no living people. The entire megastructure resembled a huge machine driven by steel and code.

A huge, dark blue panel, with only one or two people on it, or even none at all, achieving a high degree of automation.

"We are approaching 'B-882 Technical Coordination Station'. Please note that an automation maintenance engineering team is waiting to transfer at the platform. They do not know you, so please ignore them," Yuncang Twenty-Nine warned in advance.

"Um."

Su Luo once again traversed a massive Dyson Cloud module, standing at the train door to wait. She didn't pay much attention, simply closing her eyes Jingjing and continuing to organize her knowledge in the Dream Library.

The distant space train rushed towards Su Luo at high speed through the transparent tube. When it approached Su Luo within a hundred kilometers, Su Luo suddenly opened her eyes.

The train quickly slowed down and glided into the cylindrical platform. The doors opened, and a group of about sixty or seventy maintenance workers, dressed in uniform dark blue overalls, wearing Abjuration helmets, and carrying various toolboxes, filed out.

They Hindered Steps hurriedly, seemingly on an urgent mission, and spoke little to each other, the only sounds being the soft clinking of their tools.

Just as they were passing by Su Luo, a dark-skinned, burly man from the repair team glanced at Su Luo and paused slightly.

He tilted his head and casually asked, "Hey bro, which area are you going in this direction...?"

"To the intelligence center." Su Luo's expression remained unchanged as she calmly got into the car.

"Intelligent Center?"

The dark-skinned man raised an eyebrow, made a slightly exaggerated expression, gave Su Luo a thumbs-up, and grinned.

"That place isn't easy to get into, but they went straight for the biggest one right away—that takes guts!"

The man who looked like Brother Ni said something abruptly, and without waiting for Su Luo's response, he patted his companion on the shoulder. The group quickened their pace and headed towards another passage, their figures quickly disappearing into the station.

Everything seemed normal, but Su Luo could clearly see—

On the man's back lay a grotesque and indescribable creature.

It seemed to be pieced together from countless wriggling tentacles flowing with thick black pus and rotting internal organs, without a fixed shape, constantly dripping black droplets that exuded an aura of spiritual Contamination.

Even more terrifying, as the man turned to leave, several of the monster's countless tentacles slowly twisted, their ends splitting open into several malevolent eyeballs that stared intently at Su Luo before finally disappearing into the end of the passage along with the man.

Moreover, within that seemingly ordinary repair team, Su Luo's subtle sensory scans revealed even more anomalies:

Some people have what appear to be artificial skin, but rather strange, bloodshot eyes that open and close constantly; others walk with an inhuman stiffness, like a puppet wearing human skin; still others emit obscure and distorted life waves, completely different from normal humans, more like some kind of monster lurking beneath the skin.

This team isn't made up of repairmen at all! They're all Survivors!

Moreover, they were Survivors whose abilities leaned towards the bizarre, Contamination, summoning, or physical mutation paths. Their disguise skills were quite sophisticated, and if Su Luo hadn't been disguised herself and kept a close eye on things, it would have been almost impossible to detect them.

"Which faction did those people belong to under their false identities?"

The car door closed, Su Luo asked Yuncang No. 29.

"Hmm? Is there a problem with them?" Yuncang No. 29 seemed a little puzzled, but it immediately executed the query command.

"Retrieving identity records of all personnel who passed through platform B-882 in the last three minutes... Their identity information is encrypted, and the level is not low. However, I need a higher level of access... Decryption complete. Identity registration belongs to: Asia-Japan United Kingdom, Space Engineering Department Seventh Maintenance Office, Third Special Operations Team, Space Engineering Department."

"The Asia-Japan United Kingdom..."

Su Luo repeated the sentence in a low voice.

This is one of the Four Great Powers of the Yuncang Civilization. It evolved from dozens of small countries on its home planet hundreds of years ago. Although its system is now similar to that of other major powers, its composition is still quite complex.

"The Four Great Powers... they really have a lot of tricks up their sleeves."

Su Luo shook her head. These forces were clearly taking advantage of the chaos of the "Final Showdown" to secretly deploy their own pawns.

"Keep monitoring this 'repair team's' movements for me, see where they ended up and what their mission was."

"Instructions received... They transferred to a train bound for the 'E-55 Sector Multifunctional Port.' Destination port records indicate that a medium-sized cargo ship, the 'Deep Blue,' belonging to the Asia-Japan United Kingdom Commercial Transport Company, will depart in one hour, bound for... the First Habitable Planet, 'Blue Cradle.'"

First Habitable Planet?

Su Luo raised an eyebrow slightly. According to the information he had obtained before, "Blue Cradle" was the earliest home planet of the Yuncang Civilization. It was densely populated and industrialized. It was also a planet that needed to be defended in the "Final Showdown". It was jointly defended by the various forces of the alliance.

It seems the Asia-Japan United Kingdom is planning something big.

After dozens of transfers and more than an hour, Su Luo finally arrived at the last stop—a station located in the central area of a giant hexagonal module.