Apocalypse: The Stronghold System

Chapter 174: Ambition

Fan Chen sat on the chair placed on the wall, looking at the Hydralisk that was still not inexhaustible. He was already getting tired of living here, but could do nothing but wait; as the person who initiated this operation, there was no way he would leave it.

He has to be the one in charge, that's what his mother said. So inevitably he had to stay here, and thinking about it again, there were only a few people he knew on Earth.

Fan Chen placed his chin in hand with his elbow leaning against the wall barrier, he looked at the front area filled with corpses that kept falling down one after another, and every time there were corpses that fell down, he looked at the front area that was covered with corpses that kept falling down one after another, a robotic hand that is able to reach a distant area, pick it up and carry it to the back area.

These bodies were not kept, but were destroyed in the Decomposer to add more revenue.

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Projects on Mars are already being developed, especially the large bases that cover the areas where Space Worms are killed, there are many top research equipment, he said, and all the scientists from the Imperial City took part in researching the Space Worm.

Originally, Fan Chen had wanted to take scientists from all over the world to join in order to research faster, but he felt it was too soon to take that step. After all, the outside world only knew that they were an Interstellar Organization, not Mingyue Defense.

So he waited until the Interstellar Organization infiltrated various countries, took over the high level, and had a solid foundation.

The way to infiltrate him was to take their identities, but he wasn't that cruel to kill him. He will wait, observe and find out how they live specifically, then when there is an opportunity, such as an accident out there and unknown existence including life and death, he said, he will take over his identity.

Letting Xu Chen research more deeply about the Space Worm, whether it could make a robot with an outer part resembling a real human with blood.

Although the robot now has a perfect silicone skin that resembles real human skin, it can even adjust texture and temperature, but according to him it is still not enough.

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—7 Days Later—

Fan Chen came to the Mars Laboratory alone, looking at the Space Worm placed inside the tube of the giant cultivation pod. This tube is very large, and it takes a lot of time and energy to build it to be able to store Space Worms with a length of three times Mount Everest.

This cultivation pod has a circle-shaped size with a diameter of more than 15 kilometers, in various places there are holes for incoming syringes. This syringe is about the size of a coconut tree, which continues to absorb large amounts of blood.

The blood from this Space Worm is very strong, it has been tested, and the results are very unexpected.

An ordinary beast without power, when given the blood of an Space Worm whose strength level was unknown, suddenly instantly rose to the Fifth, even Sixth level. Its strength is stronger than the same level, as well as having resistance to pressure and being able to live outside the atmosphere.

It's just that his life span is short. Fan Chen had originally thought that he might not be able to live for too long in space, but while bringing him back to Earth, it still could not be gradual. It was only five minutes before his death, and his body was bleeding from all over the place as if a leaky bucket.

At first he was very happy when he discovered that animals can live in space and want to use it for humans. But seeing this result, he pulled out his plan and put it off until he got the best result.

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"How's it?" Fan Chen looked at the incoming Song Academician, representing the Scientist Xu Chen who was still immersed in the research.

Academy Song looked at the Space Worm after stopping and stood beside Fan Chen. "This Space Worm is more powerful than the one on Earth, has a remarkable gene content and can strengthen the human body. But alas, the human body is still unable to withstand it. Even though we've used Fluid Enhanced Genes Version 2.0, the energy contained in this Space Worm can't be used."

Fan Chen nodded and went to the subject, "But is it possible that humans can live in outer space without a protective suit after fully merging with the Space Worm gene?"

"Yet ..." Academician Song turned his head to look at Fan Chen and added, "Maybe when humans reach the Eighth or even Ninth level, humans can live without air."

Fan Chen was speechless, the Eighth level was extremely high for him, he was still not even able to break through to the Fourth level until now. His level was still stuck at Level 79 and had no way of rising.

Academy Song looked at Fan Chen's troubled expression which looked filled with pressure. "Why does the Captain stress this issue? Why do you want to find a way to get humans out of the atmosphere?"

Fan Chen pondered, and asked the same question in his heart. "Maybe, ambition?" He answered doubtfully.

"I don't know ..." Fan Chen shook his head and said, "I'm thirsty for the truth, probably because knowing the content of the Space Worm is like a precious treasure and being able to live in space, I'm figuring out the truth. We already have a bit of the capabilities of Space Worms, and I wonder if we can live in space like them?"

Academy Song was stunned, opening his mouth about to speak, but he did not know what to say. His realm of knowledge was only about animals, researching genes and so on; unlike this he thought was already fighting against destiny, let alone living in space.

Fan Chen did not know what Academy Song was thinking, nor did he care. The reason he said earlier was also incomplete, the reason why he was so curious as to whether humans could live in space was because of a future threat.

Through a brief battle when the beginning arrived against the Space Worm, he knew that the threat he thought could be faced, in fact still a peak on the iceberg.

The Space Worm on Mars is not known how high the level is because the level is not listed, but Fan Chen feels there will be stronger ones out there. Perhaps the weapons developed this time around could fight against him, but he believed that the power of the humans themselves could be stronger after reaching a certain level in terms of the Awakened.

Using the physical body directly rather than the spacecraft, it is more flexible in fighting powerful enemies.

So, Fan Chen wanted to find a way to dig deeper into the mysteries of the Space Worm, and hoped to break through to the Fourth level.

“Master, the MK-888N Spacecraft that was sent to Venus is almost up and expected to arrive in 6 minutes 37 seconds.”

Suddenly Xiaochu's voice rang out in his mind.

Fan Chen pondered, then nodded and said. "Let's speed down to 5,000 km/h, I want this plane to arrive even longer."

“Recommand received, lowering the speed of the MK-888N Spacecraft to 5,000 km/h and expected to arrive within 7 hours 13 minutes 48 seconds.”

Xiaochu's voice rang out again, and Fan Chen nodded his head. He looked at the Space Worm for a while, then turned around leaving the Mars Laboratory.

Fan Chen was about to leave for Mount Olympus which was previously delayed due to the Hydralisk problem which until now had not ended.

The reason Fan Chen wanted to go to Mount Olympus at this time, sooner than he should, was because he felt that the place that the Hydralisk lair was supposed to be was actually just one of the entrances, after all, and the original nest was under Mount Olympus.

It was said that Mount Olympus was still active, and Fan Chen guessed that the master of the Hydralisk would be there to absorb the energy in order to give birth to more Hydralisk.

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