Hello, Human

"Subspaces only undergo disordered motion!"

Before the black mist could inflict further pain, Veil's mind raced, saying, "But there's a program on the intranet that can determine the subspace landing point three minutes in advance by inputting a command. I can tell you the command password!"

Yu Xing lazily replied, "That's more like it."

He stopped paying attention to the secretary's corpse in the corridor, turned around, walked back to the boss's chair, and plopped down in it.

The computer on the table sensed someone approaching, and the pinhole camera on top flashed. After scanning the person and confirming that their face was not in the database, it was about to sound an alarm.

Yu Xing held Veil's head up to the camera, and Jing Dao stopped abruptly. The screen lit up, revealing the boot screen.

"Power-on password," Yu Xing casually reminded her.

With a look of utter despair on her face, Veil honestly recited a number. After the computer was turned on, Yu Xing skillfully logged into the intranet again. Since Veil's previous intranet login history had not expired, no identity verification was required this time.

He quickly found the section on subspaces, and in the information section, the description of subspaces was even more detailed than what the former researcher Carlos had found knew.

Subspace No. 51 actually originated from a magnetic field disorder many years ago. The related virus created an independent field that killed many living people.

At that time, a survivor who happened to be passing by and had awakened his abilities happened to possess spatial powers. He entered the area alone to carry out the rescue and actually succeeded.

That person was noticed by Base 1 and invited to conduct space research at Base 1. Before leaving, he did a good deed by integrating the cleared field into a stable subspace and giving it to the administrator of Base 51 at the time.

This space was later used to house the central control unit.

Unfortunately, the man who could have been called a hero could have used his abilities to benefit all of humanity, but he died on his way to take up his post at the Base One.

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As for the cause of death... the internal network information did not specify, only mentioning that the person probably encountered a particularly powerful vengeful spirit virus on the road that had the ability to restrain it, and was simply unlucky.

However, this excuse was too simplistic, and Yu Xing saw through it at a glance. "Oh? Obviously, it's because someone doesn't want him to go to Base One. In that case, Base One isn't as good as the survivors at the other bases think. Perhaps the most dangerous traitor to humanity is at Base One."

"Hmph, isn't that how humans are?" Veil rolled her eyes. "Always fighting amongst themselves, they're just a bunch of trash. For humans, it's more important for their enemies to be miserable than for themselves to be happy. What's the point of their existence?"

"Not all humans are like that." Yu Xing's lips curled upwards, his expression ambiguous, whether sarcastic or not. He set the head aside and brought up the subspace's command panel. "Password."

Veil's head then announced another number, a total of 21 digits.

Entering a password allows you to change the landing point of the subspace.

Yu Xing set the location of the subspace three minutes later to this office, pressed enter, and leaned back in her chair like a boneless person.

Seeing that he didn't immediately intend to eliminate her completely, Veil breathed a sigh of relief and tried to strike up a conversation, "Um... where's Lieutenant Zhao? I haven't seen you two separated since you arrived, but he's nowhere to be found today. Oh, by the way, my cleanup team is still chasing you everywhere. Should I make an announcement to lift the pursuit?"

"Forget it." Yu Xing leaned back in her chair, glancing at her. "Your cleanup team should be completely wiped out by now."

Veil: "..."

Perhaps because the expression on the human head was too shocked and suspicious, and Yu Xing had nothing else to do for the next two minutes, he mercifully explained to her, "From the moment I decided to take action against you, some of my other companions didn't want to continue playing this game."

"I forgot to tell you, even that little girl with pigtails who yelled at you in the testing room has the ability to kill you."

"And her brother—whom you deemed powerless and threw into the 'mountain' of the processing room—is enough to handle an entire base's armed forces."

"Now, they've all made their move."

"As for my adjutant Zhao... he has other things to do."

Yu Xing did not allow Zhao Yijiu to stay at the base.

With him in charge of launching the distress signal, Yu Xing didn't think there was any possibility of failure. Therefore, there was no need for Zhao Yijiu to join forces; doing so would only give certain people an opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

What if the Lingren had already found that space and tampered with it? The subspace is a closed space with only one entrance and exit. Once inside and attacked, even Zhao Yijiu's shadow power would be useless. If it were a large-scale, indiscriminate explosion, there would be no way to escape.

He himself didn't care, but Zhao Yijiu's power system didn't have any damage reduction aspect, so why gamble?

So Yu Xing sent Zhao Yijiu to find Carlos.

Ultimately, Carlos's reckless secret operations in the latter half still required supervision. Yu Xing trusted his teammates, but not to the point of letting them run wild.

After he finishes his task here, he'll also check on Carlos's situation. With the unpredictable and malicious presence of the Lingren, he can't relax until the very end.

And then... Yu Xing glanced subtly at the pool of flesh and blood that had formed from the explosion of Veil's body.

In just a short while, the flesh and blood seemed to have gathered together considerably.

If it weren't for the black mist suppressing her, Veil's body would probably have already healed completely.

This power of endless rebirth is actually somewhat similar to his... Where did the virus in this world come from? Could it be related to the Ghost Tree?

Three minutes passed while Yu Xing was deep in thought.

The space cracked bit by bit, forming a series of chaotic boundaries. These boundaries merged with each other, and soon a new space enveloped the original office.

Yu Xing looked up and saw that the table, computer, and office chair were being slowly erased as if they had been wiped away by an eraser, leaving behind a suffocating emptiness.

He picked up Veil's head and stood up.

In the empty space, a large, technologically advanced mainframe appeared.

A muffled buzzing sound was everywhere; that was the sound of the computer running.

In the center of the main unit, there is a display screen taller than a person, and on the control panel below the screen, there are hundreds of buttons.

This is the central hub—every base has one.

They are the hubs of the base, connecting all of humanity as they escape the isolated island in the apocalypse.

The faint glow of the screen flickered on and off. Under Yu Xing's scrutiny, the screen suddenly brightened, and a line of printed black text appeared on the green background display.

Hello, humans.

Yu Xing's heart suddenly raced uncontrollably.

He suddenly realized where his previous confusion about how easy the boss seemed came from.

This is the end times, the end times of the "future".

The technology is so advanced that it far surpasses reality. The floating metal rings surrounding the skyscrapers in the city, the virtual screens in the squares, and the magnificent steel forest that remains even after the city has been reduced to ruins have long proven this point.

But from the very beginning, the "base," a place meant for humanity to recuperate and thrive, was missing something that shouldn't have been there—

AI.

In an information-driven world, humanity cannot exist without AI, yet Base 51 is entirely controlled by its administrators and secretariat, with hardly any trace of high technology to be seen.

Yu Xing originally thought that this was because the apocalypse had caused humanity's technological level to regress.

But now, the central hub that humanity trusts is right in front of him, and on that large screen, "someone" is greeting him.

The central nervous system says, "Hello, humankind."