The colossal metallic roar completely drowned out Tang San's beast-like howl.
This was two thousand meters underground.
There were no flashy decorations, only a circular tunnel stretching endlessly into the distance, gleaming with a cold metallic sheen. The tunnel walls were densely lined with superconducting coils. Even in their dormant state, the free charges in the air were enough to make an ordinary person's hair stand on end.
[Nuoding City Large Hadron Collider · Startup Sequence Activated.]
[Vacuum pumps online... extracting air...]
[Superconducting magnets warming up... Current temperature: absolute zero (-273.15°C).]
Red Queen's cold mechanical voice echoed through the tunnel, only to be swiftly swallowed by an even deeper hum.
"So this is your grave, Qin Feng?"
Tang San hovered in midair.
At that moment, he looked like the bastard child of cyberpunk and Cthulhu mythology.
The enormous data eye on his back spun wildly. Every sweep left strings of green code afterimages hanging in the void. The Clear Sky Hammer in his hand had completely lost its physical form, becoming a mass of black data turbulence that constantly collapsed and expanded, wrapped in garbled characters painful to look at.
"A grave? No, no, no."
Qin Feng stood on a maglev platform five hundred meters away from Tang San, his body somehow already covered in a sleek silver-white nano battle suit.
He raised one finger and gently wagged it.
"This is where 'truth' is born."
"Back then, conditions were primitive, so I could only use you as a dry-cell battery. Now that you've evolved into this bizarre 'data lifeform,' you're perfect for helping me verify a few high-energy physics problems."
Qin Feng's voice came through the loudspeakers, carrying a trace of mockery.
"Problem one: if a 'god-level powerhouse' is accelerated to 99.999% of the speed of light, will his mass