When Rico woke up in the room, she found that only Mitty was still sleeping beside her.
Nanaqi, Reg, and Lin Yi were all missing.
Could it be that Reg and the others were captured? But Li Ke also knew part of Lin Yi and Reg's combat power. Even if Orson wanted to catch the two of them, there was no way they would remain silent.
"What's wrong, Riko-chan?"
As if she heard the voice, Mitty opened her eyes drowsily and looked at Rico.
"It's okay, I'm going to use the toilet."
Rico did not tell Mitty about the disappearance of several people, but comforted Mitty before going out.
The corridors of the frontline base were eerily quiet. Although there was no distinction between day and night in the Abyss Abyss, there were still fixed rest times.
Rico glanced at the dark passage and couldn't help but clenched the endless hammer in her hand.
For safety reasons, Rico took out the Endless Hammer from her backpack.
The moment she held the Endless Hammer, Rico felt that her mother seemed to be near her, and her inner uneasiness suddenly eased a lot.
After coming out, Rico's first reaction was whether Reg or Nanachi accidentally fell into the toilet?
As for Lin Yi, Li Ke felt that he should have gone out to do errands.
In Li Ke's knowledge, Lin Yi has always been calm, and such a ridiculous thing as falling into the toilet should be unlikely to happen to him.
Rico approached the toilet and subconsciously covered her nose.
She pricked up her ears and listened. There was silence all around, and she didn't hear any calls for help. It seemed like no one else was here.
"Strange, where did they go?"
Rico turned around and glanced at the empty corridor, and couldn't help but shiver.
At this moment, Rico suddenly noticed the stairs Pluska mentioned before.
Could it be that Reg or Lin Yi went up this staircase?
Neither Lin Yi nor Reg would trigger the ascending load. Given their personalities, it was very likely that they saw something special and then went up this staircase.
The staircase looks like a very ordinary stone staircase without any gorgeous decoration.
But placed on the fifth floor [Sea of Dead Skeletons], this seemingly ordinary staircase can be said to be deadly.
Rico took a deep breath, gritted her teeth, and stepped up the stairs.
Under the protection of Reg and Lin Yi, Li Ke behaves like an ordinary child.
She will laugh innocently, show curiosity about the unknown, and seek help from Lin Yi and others when encountering difficulties.
But if Rico dares to perform the [Absolute Journey], it means that she is ready to die. The rising load cannot stop Rico.
"It's okay, take your time. Just squat down as soon as you feel something is wrong." Rico comforted herself in a low voice while walking up the stairs step by step.
After climbing about a dozen stairs, Rico suddenly felt a foreign object appear in her mouth.
The strange feeling made her frown slightly. She quickly opened her palms and spit out the foreign object in her mouth.
Taking a closer look, he found a broken tooth on the palm of his hand.
The broken teeth were stained with blood. It could be seen that Rico's mouth should be completely filled with blood now.
The strange thing is that Rico doesn't feel anything now, as if someone has blocked her perception.
"So, have I triggered the rising load?" At this moment, darkness appeared in front of Rico's eyes.
She felt something scratch her face, and Rico reached out her hand and gently touched the blood flowing from her face.
Looking at the bright red color on her palms, she didn't feel any pain on her face, as if her body and feelings had been separated from each other.
But this was just the beginning. The next second, Rico discovered a large wound on the back of her palm. The wound was left at an unknown time.
The moment Rico noticed the wound, her five senses completely disappeared, and everything around her became silent.
Without vision, hearing, smell, taste and touch, Rico seemed to be abandoned by the world, and her consciousness fell directly into darkness, surrounded by endless nothingness.
"I have to squat down, but where is the ground?" Rico's five senses have been completely lost at this moment. She can't feel anything around her, including her own touch.
Rico now felt like she was in a vacuum area, with nothing around her, only endless nothingness and silence.
She tried hard to feel her body, but found that her body seemed to be slowly decomposing.
In the outside world, Rico's body shook and then rolled down the stairs.
All the wounds that appeared on Rico's body just now were caused when she rolled down the stairs.
At the moment when Li Ke was unconscious, Lin Yi's backhand left on several people's bodies was triggered.
Lin Yi deliberately left a mark in Li Ke's body, which contained a healing technique.
Once Rico or anyone in the team is in danger, this mark will be triggered instantly.
Lin Yi in the courtyard sensed that the marks on Reg and Rico were triggered at the same time.
This means that Rico and Reg are in danger together.
"What did you do?"
Originally, Nanachi was still bargaining with Liming Qing. Although the atmosphere was tense, it was still within control.
At this time, Lin Yi grabbed Liming Qing's collar and pulled him up from the ground.
Looking at Lin Yi in front of him, Liming Qing's expression did not change at all.
In his opinion, all the praying hand troops in this frontline base are his backup bodies.
Even if this body is damaged by Lin Yi, it doesn't matter. At worst, he can just replace it with another body.
"Oh, it seems that Mr. Lin has noticed it."
"I'm really sorry. That [boy type] is a unique individual. I just can't help it and have already sent someone..."
Before Liming Qing could finish his words, Lin Yi directly exploded the head of Liming Qing in front of him with a punch.
[You killed Dawn Qing·Research Praying Hand (possessed state) and obtained 3.8% of the source of the world. Now you have obtained a total of 92.7% of the source of the world. 】
"Nanachi, let's go!"
"OK."
Nanachi jumped down from the chair, raised her head and glanced at Ming Qing's headless body on the ground.
At this time, Nanachi suddenly felt that the sense of oppression given to her by Liming Qing was finally no longer so strong.
On the other side, Pluska also discovered Rico who was in a coma.
After waking up, Rico glanced at Plushuka and weakly told her purpose.
After hearing Rico's request, Plusuka naturally would not refuse Rico's request.
Following Plusuka's call, Plusuka's pet Menia appeared in front of Rico.
"Come on, smell Menia, and you will be able to find the way up even when your senses are lost." Plushuka handed the pet Menia to Rico.
Menia is a rabbit-like pet with a very cute round body.
The ears on its head look a bit like wings, and it is a very standard abyss creature.
"May I?"
"Don't worry. Although the abyss in the fifth scene can take away human perception, it cannot take away human perception except for the five senses. Leave it to me, someone with the know-how."
Following Plushuka's instructions, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath of Menia's scent.
Following Pluska's instructions, Rico climbed up the stairs step by step.
At this time, Rico was surprised to find that although she had closed her eyes and the five senses of her body had disappeared, in Rico's perception, the stairs in front of her were clearly visible.
A group of twisted gas can also be seen faintly above the stairs. These gases are all traces left by Menia as she climbed the stairs.
Rico only needs to follow the guidance of this gas and walk up, and she will be able to pass the stairs smoothly.
Originally, Pluska thought that Rico would have to go through many attempts before she could succeed, but she did not expect that Rico would succeed in one try.
After climbing the stairs, Rico paused for a moment to calm down. At this moment, Rico's five senses that had been taken away from her body began to gradually return to her own body.
At this moment, Rico's ears seemed to hear Reg's faint scream.
At first, Li felt that she had heard wrongly. After all, in the abyss, auditory hallucinations are also a common manifestation of increased load.
When Plushuka also said that she also heard the sound, Rico instantly realized that something had really happened to Reg.
"Plusuka, leave quickly, something happened to Reg!"
Hearing Rico's words, Plusuka did not hesitate and immediately ran towards a room at the end of the corridor with Rico.
On the other side, Lin Yi punched away a large iron gate blocking the road in front of him.
It seems that in order to ensure the safety of Reg's experiment, Qing Liming specially set up several strong defenses.
Lin Yi had already broken through four such large iron gates along the way. He could already hear Reg's screams in his ears, and he was about to reach his destination.
"The laboratory is ahead. Reg should be there." Nanachi pointed to a staircase not far ahead. As long as you go up the stairs, you will find the laboratory.
"Don't worry about the rising load, just hold me tight." After hearing Lin Yi's words, Nanaqi didn't hesitate, stretched out her hands and hugged Lin Yi tightly.
After confirming that Nanaqi's arm was grasped, Lin Yi raised his feet and stepped up the stairs.
After walking about ten meters, the abyss force field around Lin Yi suddenly began to riot.
The power of the abyss was like a raging wave, surging crazily, as if it wanted to invade the bodies of Nanaqi and Lin Yi.
But at this time, Lin Yi was no longer in the mood to contend with these rioting abyssal forces. High-concentration abyssal forces surged out of Lin Yi's body, directly dissipating the abyssal force field near the two bodies.
Nanaki looked at the abyss force field being washed away around her in surprise. This was the first time she saw someone dare to fight back against the abyss force field so roughly.
The moment Lin Yi stepped onto the stairs, Reg's miserable screams clearly reached the ears of the two of them.
Lin Yi took a running start and kicked, only to hear a loud "bang" sound, and the last iron door in front of him was kicked open by Lin Yi.
After kicking away, Lin Yi found that Li Ke and Pluska had arrived at the laboratory.
In the center of the laboratory, several praying men in lab coats were busy performing operations.
They held weapons like light blades in their hands, cutting into Reg's body.
On the experimental table nearby is one of Reg's telescopic arms.
You must know that Reg's mechanical body, not even Orson can cause damage to it, this guy Li Mingqing actually took off Reg's arm.
No wonder Leger screamed like this just now. Lin Yi glanced at Leger and realized that such a badass like Liming Qing didn't even give anesthesia during surgery.
To put it simply, this guy was ready to dissect Reg alive.
"No outsiders are allowed to enter here." Each of Liming Qing's men seemed to be soulless zombies, still minding their own business and preparing to dismantle Reg.
Lin Yi went up and directly grabbed the heads of the two praying hands. He exerted force on his hands and heard a "bang" sound, and their heads exploded.
[You killed Dawn Qing·Research Prayer Hand (unpossessed state) and obtained 0.7% of the source of the world. Now you have obtained a total of 93.4% of the source of the world. 】
[You killed Dawn Qing·Research Prayer Hand (unpossessed state) and obtained 0.8% of the source of the world. Now you have obtained a total of 94.2% of the source of the world. 】
After there was an opening, Lin Yi raised his hand and slashed horizontally, directly killing the test line above Leige's head and several praying hands around him.
[You killed Dawn Qing·Research Praying Hand (unpossessed state) x 4, and obtained 2.9% of the source of the world. Now you have obtained a total of 97.1% of the source of the world. 】
Reg's body was soaked with sweat, and his mouth was full of saliva.
Lin Yi took off the blindfold on Reg's head and found that Reg was now in a coma.
However, this is normal. In such an extremely cruel situation, the nerve tissue in Reg's body forcibly shut down in order to protect Reg's consciousness.
Otherwise, Reg might really die of pain.
"Reg!"
After Lin Yi finished dealing with the praying hands around him, Li Ke and Plushka came together.
Plushuka looked at the corpses praying around him, with shock in his eyes.
She really didn't understand why these praying hands would do such cruel things to Reg. Could it be that their father ordered them to do it?
"Nanachi, connect Reg's arms."
"Okay." After Nanachi heard Lin Yi's request, she immediately picked up Reg's arm from the iron plate nearby and carefully placed it on the broken arm.
Lin Yi cast a beam of healing light directly.
The next second, a lot of granulations appeared at the connection between Reg's broken arm and his body, and the granulations were connected together.
"Riko, take Reg, let's get out of here."
"good."
But at this time, Plushuka was still standing there blankly, as if he was so shocked by everything in front of him that he lost his ability to think.
When leaving, Lin Yi also picked up Plushka.
Several people went back to the room to wake up Mitty. Mitty didn't know what happened at first, but when Nanachi said she was leaving, Mitty picked up her luggage from the bed and followed them without saying a word. Get ready to leave behind you.
At this time, Plushuka finally reacted from the shock.
She looked at everyone's busy figures, with a trace of confusion and guilt in her eyes.
Seeing a few people preparing to leave, Plushuka hurriedly said: "Follow me."
Under the leadership of Plushuka, several people came to the dock of the frontline base.
"I'm sorry for making your friend look like that. I believe this was not Dad's original intention." Plushuka was in a very low mood now. She held Menia tightly in her arms, her little His face was full of sadness.
Deep down in her heart, she still didn't want to believe that Liming Qing could be such a person.
In her memory, her father has always been a gentle and strong presence, and he always worked hard for everyone's happiness.
"Do you want to come with us?" Rico looked at Pluska and finally asked.
"Don't worry, my father is Liming Qing. The people here will not do anything to me. You should leave quickly. I will tell my father about this ship later."
Immediately, Nanachi pulled the steam engine on the ship, and the steam engine roared, waiting for several people to leave the frontline base.
Pluska waved vigorously towards a few people and said goodbye to them.
"Li Ke! I really! It really feels like I'm going on an adventure with you!" Plushuka looked at the leaving figures and yelled this sentence to them with all her strength.
For Pluska, she grew up on a forward base.
Every corner of this base is deeply imprinted in her mind. She remembers every stone brick and every passage here clearly.
In this familiar but somewhat monotonous environment, her heart was filled with yearning for the outside world.
If possible, Plushuka really wants to set off to the bottom of Naraku with Rico and others.
After Li Ke and others left, Liming Qing's hand-praying troops finally arrived.
When Plushuka saw this scene, he quickly ran to Qing Liming.
Her heart was full of tension and she didn't know how to face her father.
"Well, Rico and the others..." Pluska started to speak, but her words were interrupted.
"I know it all."
"Plusuka, you will soon be a lady who can stand alone."
Li Mingqing glanced at Plusuka in front of him. After Plusuka sent Rico and others away, the last part of the plan could finally be launched.
"Next, please use your eyes and ears to confirm. This praying hand is a trustworthy person. Next, Plushuka, you will follow him."
On the other side, Reg was lifted off the boat by Mitty and Nanaki.
Fortunately, Reg's body was a machine. Otherwise, Reg would have froze to death here sooner or later without wearing any clothes in such a cold weather.
"Riko, Nanaki."
When being lifted up by several people, Reg seemed to have been shaken and finally came to his senses. (End of chapter)