Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 511 Empty Layer
Nothing.

At the moment the door was opened, everyone present imagined various situations in their minds. Perhaps there would be a flood of monsters, or perhaps a powerful abyss-breeding creature that would make people tremble. However, no one, including Xin Lailai, had imagined the scene before their eyes:

——When the scene ahead had clearly turned into a purgatory-like scene due to the influence of the abyss, there suddenly appeared a blank area that was clearly not a safe floor and where not even a shadow of a monster could be seen.

"I say, what did the 71st floor originally look like?"

Yamu looked up and glanced at the tall mecha in front of him and asked casually.

"At least it won't be like this now."

Xin Lailai's slightly low voice sounded from the head of the mecha with the help of the loudspeaker. He was seen sitting in the cockpit and quickly operating on the screen. The next second, a somewhat childish electronic sound sounded from the cockpit and Xin Lailai's head:
[Ding~! Xiaobai No. 1 is here to serve you. Is there anything I can help you with? ]

"Scan the area ahead for me to confirm if there are any signs of life."

[Command confirmed, scanning module started, power 100%! ]

Following Xin Lailai's order, two red lights shot out from the eyes of the dark steel mecha and spread out in a fan shape. At the same time, a picture like infrared imaging immediately appeared on the screen of the cockpit and was projected into Xin Lailai's mind with the help of the mental link device.

This dark steel mecha modified by Xiaobai himself not only has a significant improvement in the strength of the mecha, but its internal systems and various functional modules have also undergone a huge upgrade.

After all, although the technological level of the Black Bullet World is quite good, if compared with the various technological technologies in the Void and Paradise, it is at best just the level of preschool enlightenment.

Apart from anything else, just in terms of driving method, the remote neural connection technology used by this White Dark Steel Mecha is far superior to the wired connection of the original Dark Steel Mecha that must be connected to the brain through a neural device.

[Scan completed. The maximum distance of this scan is 39.64km, and the maximum depth is 1.34km. Scan result: No life or active energy response was detected.]

A childish electronic sound rang out, and the entire structure of the 71st floor appeared in Xin Lailai's mind in the form of a 3D map. On the map marked with various information, the only thing that was invisible was the red dot representing life and active energy reaction.

——A truly empty layer.

Xin Lailai looked at the smooth and flat gray-white ground that looked like it had been machined through the video data transmitted back by the Dark Steel Mech. After a moment of silence, he spoke to Yamu, Bell and others behind him:

"Let's go. It looks like this entire floor is empty now."

As he spoke, Xin Lailai took out a few spider-like mechanical products from the storage space and threw them directly outside the Dark Steel Mech. Then, with a thought, he controlled the Dark Steel Mech and punched the huge stone door beside him.

Boom——! !

I saw a big hole about three meters wide was blasted on the ancient stone gate in an instant. A large amount of rubble scattered and fell on the ground, forming a series of roars.

"Mr. Tyrant? This is..."

"Just in case this thing suddenly closes on its own after we leave."

Xin Lailai explained calmly, glancing at the stone gate which showed no abnormal signs of regeneration, and said to Yamu:

"Brother Yamu, please throw three Rock-crushing Rats here and let them dig a passable tunnel, just in case."

"learn."

Yamu made a gesture of receipt, and then threw out three Rock-Crushing Rats from the storage space as Xin Lailai said, and controlled them to dig underground.

For a moment, broken rocks flew everywhere, and soon, a tunnel that could accommodate three people walking in parallel appeared in front of everyone, leading from behind the gate all the way to a location about thirty meters outside the gate.

"This should be okay, right?"

"Ah."

Xin Lailai nodded slightly, then looked at the scene ahead and said:

"Let's go, speed up a little, but don't stop being alert to your surroundings."

After saying that, Xin Lailai controlled the dark steel mecha and walked forward step by step.

Although the Dark Steel Mech is equipped with a flying device, since there are no observable enemies at the moment, it is obviously better to choose to walk. One reason is to save energy, and the other is to effectively avoid situations such as stepping into enemy traps due to rushing to travel.

The more unclear the situation is, the less impatient you should be. This is the basic skill of every pioneer.

Rushing in hastily when encountering any unexpected situation will only result in losing your life without knowing why.

[Warning: Entered the ultra-high-risk area, the 71st floor of the dungeon! ]

Boom, boom, boom, boom...!
The dull sound of footsteps echoed in the empty gray-white underground space, without any echo.

The size of the dungeon becomes larger the deeper you go. On the first floor, not counting the depth, it is probably less than the size of two football fields. By the 1th floor, its cross-sectional area is almost as large as that of Orario. As for the 40st floor, Xiaobai's previous scan results have shown that from the entrance to the end, the distance is 71km. Even if the Dark Steel Mech is moving at full speed, it will take almost 39.64 seconds to get from the exit to the entrance.

Boom!
Half an hour later, Xin Lailai stopped the Dark Steel Mech in his control and looked at the gray-white entrance that spread downwards in front of him without saying a word.

"… I wonder if all the floors behind are now cleaner than if they were chewed by a dog?"

Yamu looked into the depths along the entrance to the 72nd floor in front of him. At the end, he saw the gray-white ground that was exactly the same as the 71st floor, and he couldn't help but complain.

"You'll find out once you go on."

Xin Lailai said this, and after throwing out a few automatic spider-shaped cameras as usual, he controlled the Dark Steel Mech to continue moving forward.

He used those cameras to monitor the places they passed by. His psychic field could only sense a range of 2 kilometers. If anything happened more than two kilometers behind them, they could only rely on these technological equipment to observe.

In other words, this itself is one of the advantages of the technological side over individual power. If an extraordinary life wants to detect the movements tens of kilometers away from itself, it must enhance its perception to an astonishing level. For the technological side, this is just a matter of conducting a wide-area scan and throwing in two more detectors and cameras.

[Warning: Entered the ultra-high-risk area, underground city 72nd floor]

After passing through a corridor about 400 meters long, the usual cold reminder sounded in Xin Lailai's mind.

In fact, in this situation, if there were no prompts from the park, just looking at the surface, it would be impossible to tell whether it was the 72nd floor or the 71st floor. This can be seen from the uncertain expressions of Finn and others behind him.

There are no monsters, no iconic buildings, no huge sense of terrain difference. All you see is a uniformly smooth and flat gray-white ground. If you stay in such a place for a long time, you may even experience symptoms of loss of direction, which is usually only caused by long-term sea voyages.

Boom, boom, boom...!
The roar of the mecha's advance continued to resound in this gray and empty underground space.

One minute... ten minutes... twenty minutes...

Half an hour later, a new entrance appeared in front of them. Xin Lailai just took a look inside and continued to repeat the previous operation.

[Warning: Entered the ultra-high-risk area, 73rd floor of the dungeon] The cold warning sound rang out again, and then gradually faded away at the edge of the sight.

On the gray earth, a group of people kept moving forward like devout seekers of truth.

The 74th floor, the 77th floor, the 80th floor, the 83rd floor, the 85th floor...

Unchanging grayish white, unchanging emptiness and silence, the entire underground city seems to be left with only this one color.

"Tell the truth, how about Black Sword, check again to see if we are under an illusion or something?"

"Unfortunately, I have checked before and the conclusion is no. Our mental fluctuations, soul reactions, what Ling Yuzi observed from my soul space, and the data I tested with technological means all prove that we are indeed moving towards the deepest part of the dungeon."

"Besides, I don't think there is any illusion that can perfectly simulate the hints of Paradise."

In the cockpit, Xin Lailai listened to the complaints in his head and replied calmly.

He had naturally considered the possibility of illusion a long time ago, but according to the results displayed by various data, the severely repetitive gray-white mazes they experienced along the way were indeed real things.

"Besides, this shouldn't be the first time you've seen this situation."

Xin Lailai glanced at Yamu who was yawning on the screen and communicated in his mind using the communication channel.

Although the situation before him was strange, if he compared it with something else, he would find that this scene was very similar to a scene he and Yamu had experienced together in the past:
Alienated town.

In the past, the special abyss erosion area with life was born in the world of Black Clover. When the other party descended on the capital of the Clover Kingdom and took the initiative to shrink the scope of influence after noticing their actions, the exposed city scenes were extremely similar to the scene before their eyes.

Just like the ebb and flow of the tide, when the power of the abyss actively spreads, all places it covers will turn into a living hell. And when it actively retracts its power, those areas affected by it will be like weathering. Humans, animals, plants, buildings... everything will return to nothingness with the ebb of the power of the abyss and completely dissipate from this world, with nothing left.

"Tsk, can't you just keep it to yourself? I'm asking this because I don't want to see that happen..."

At the foot of the mecha, Yamu heard the answer in his head, he groaned speechlessly, rubbed his brows, and sighed:
"Rather than the fact that the power that has eroded the entire thirty floors of the dungeon is actively shrinking its front line, I would rather we are just hit by an illusion that will make us spin in place."

This time, in response to Yamu's complaints, Xinlailai did not refute anything.

He knew that what Yamu said was not wrong. Although it was still unclear what the specific characteristics of the abyss anomaly that eroded the Dicuo world were, since it did not cause the collapse of the entire Dicuo world and could exist in this derivative world whose rank was suppressed to the third level, it meant that the upper limit of its "quality" could never exceed the limit of the third level.

Since the upper limit of "quality" is fixed, the difference in "quantity" is the most critical factor in determining the strength of the opponent.

The anomaly of the abyss is not the abyss itself. When it erodes this world, it has been restricted by the rules of this world. Simply put, it is not endless, but can be consumed and suppressed.

In this case, the more power the Abyss Anomaly spreads outside, the weaker its own strength will naturally become.

It is like the relationship between the royal city and the soldiers defending the city. The more soldiers sent out, the weaker the defense of the royal city will be. Conversely, the more soldiers transferred back from outside, the stronger the defense of the royal city will be. This is a truth that even a three-year-old child can understand.

But now, the other party has taken back all the abyss power scattered from the 71st to the 90th floor. From the perspective of clearing anomalies, this is definitely not good news for them.

"Tsk, after all, in this kind of ghost world, sending three of us second-level people here is too much of a compliment to us. We've become such a ghost, wouldn't it be better to send that monster Yan Yi here?"

Yanyi?

Hearing Yamu's mumbling, Xin Lailai's eyes flashed with curiosity and thought. He seemed to have heard the name the other party just said somewhere before.

"Oh? Fellow Daoist Yamu also knows Uncle-Master Yanyi?"

Suddenly, Dao Ji's voice also sounded in Xin Lailai's mind through the communication channel, which triggered Xin Lailai's memory, and she finally remembered where she had heard this name.

"Brother Daoji, the Yan Yi you are talking about, could it be that you are referring to the senior from the Three Thousand Gods Sect who went to Shuhui Star to help you protect the law?"

After Dao Ji's reminder, he finally remembered that the name Yan Yi was mentioned in the email that the White Rabbit Guild had sent him before, saying that the White Rabbit Guild was detained on the Shuhui Star by the other party at that time, and that the contract related to the Dark Aluminum Steel Industry signed with the Void Construction Company was also reviewed by the other party.

"Well, could it be that Fellow Daoist Black Sword also knows Uncle Master Yan Yi?"

"No, it's just that the president of the guild in Apocalypse Paradise, whom you know, mentioned this name in a letter to me. From what Brother Daoji just said to Brother Yamu, it seems that this senior named Yanyi is quite extraordinary?"

Xin Lailai asked with some curiosity. Originally, his impression of the name Yan Yi was just that he was an ordinary member of the Three Thousand Gods Cult who was a manager of the Void Construction Company. After all, his current network of contacts was not weak. Basically, he had heard of some of the more famous contractors from the first to the ninth level in the paradise, but there was no name of a person named Yan Yi among them.

To be more precise, because Dao Ji stayed in the Black Bullet World for a year, there are no particularly famous contractors among the three levels of the Three Thousand Gods Sect. Only a pioneer who has reached the fourth level and a newcomer who has just reached the second level are relatively famous, but these two are only super top-level contractors, not pioneers who have reached the outer level.

"Pfft, it's more than extraordinary. Let's put it this way, if that guy was in this world right now, the four of us wouldn't have to worry so much. We could just find a place to sleep comfortably and shout "Come on" behind him and that would be it."

Without waiting for Dao Ji to speak, Yamu chuckled, shrugged his shoulders, and spoke in an extremely exaggerated tone, which made Xin Lailai couldn't help but show a hint of surprise in his eyes.

Is it enough to just follow the other person and shout "Come on"?
And judging from Dao Ji's expression, the other party obviously did not deny this statement.

You should know that Dao Ji, who has broken through the barrier of real attributes by relying on his own accumulation, is now at the top level among the third-order, and has even stepped half a foot into the threshold of the outer level.

Anyone who can make Dao Ji willingly admit that he is inferior to the other person must be at least at the outer level. Such a person, no matter how well he hides, it is impossible for him to have never heard of him...

"Are you wondering why you have never heard of such an awesome person? Tsk tsk, this is normal, because that guy is not of the same generation as us, but of the same generation as 04296 and his group, and he has not fought in front of outsiders for a long time. If you can still get any news about him, it would be really weird."

The same generation as Brother Ritian?
Wait, doesn't that mean that guy has been in the park for more than 20 years?!
How is this possible?! Even if he is a worker, it is impossible for him to stay at the third level after 20 years in Paradise... Wait!
"A late bloomer?!"

Almost at the same time as the shock arose in his mind, the name of a talent popped into Xin Lailai's mind for no reason, and he blurted it out subconsciously.

"Tsk tsk, the reaction is quite quick, isn't it? That's right, that monster does have this talent. It's better to say that it's because of this talent that the people from level 8 to the strongest in the entire Paradise camp, except for the few people from your cult, will probably curse when they hear about this talent."

Yamu said with a playful expression, and at the same time glanced at the endless gray-white land in front of him, and said:

"As for the specific reasons, you can ask Daoji. He should have heard a lot about it. Of course, it's not impossible for you to ask me, but~!"

"Don't waste time, just tell me! If you want to keep those photos, then keep them!"

"Great! You are worthy of being our Captain Black. But to be honest, this matter cannot be explained in just a few words. Let me think about it and start from the starting point I know..."

Yamujian smiled and snapped his fingers, then he coughed twice and began to tell the story slowly.

For a moment, the originally silent cockpit began to echo with passionate voices, and the expression on Xin Lailai's face gradually changed.

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(End of this chapter)