Chen Ming was awakened by a noise near his ear.
In that mont of groggy awakening, he thought he was hallucinating.
But as he beca clearer, he realized what he was hearing was real, like a heavy thud from an abyss deep underground.
And this thumping sound was accompanied by a spiritual energy fluctuation that felt dangerous yet familiar.
Chen Ming instantly snapped awake, a thought flashing through his mind.
"What’s going on?"
He hurriedly checked the ti.
He found that it was five in the morning, Earth Ti.
Since he was the only living person and Dusk, a hamster, needed rest, the living area was still in darkness at this ti.
This added an eerie atmosphere to the sound coming from deep underground.
Chen Ming was not frightened by the environnt.
As the entire research institute swayed due to the vibration caused by the thumping sound.
He calmly turned on the living area’s lights and imdiately tried to perceive the Delusion Stone located underground, which seed to be at the source of the sound.
The Delusion Stone, which had been clearly perceptible from deep underground before, now felt very blurry to Chen Ming, as if separated by sothing heavy.
Sothing was wrong.
Chen Ming grabbed the drowsy Dusk from his pillow and tucked it into his arms.
He got up and headed toward the central hall of the research institute.
After leaving the living area, he noticed that the robots usually stationed around the hall, which would normally follow him from a distance at any movent, were all inactive.
They stood motionless as if they had lost control.
It seed sothing terrible had happened at the research institute.
Chen Ming imdiately shouted, "Brilliant!"
He waited for two seconds but got no response.
"G3!"
Chen Ming called out another na, but still received no reply.
The only sound in his ears was the unbearably heavy noise and the vibration that accompanied it.
Seeing this, Chen Ming directly used his spiritual energy to contact Brilliant.
This ti the response was imdiate: "Mr. Chen, is there sothing you need at this early hour?"
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"Can’t you see the situation at the research institute?"
Brilliant sensed the emotion in Chen Ming’s words and realized sothing might be wrong on Chen Ming’s side.
It imdiately explained, "I still have daily work in other star systems. The institute isn’t connected 24/7."
"Even if I wanted to, G3 would never allow it, so I can only maintain a signal connection with the institute while you’re awake during your regular hours."
"So I’m not yet aware of what’s happening at the institute."
This explanation made sense to Chen Ming, and he didn’t dwell on it, nor did he have ti to.
"Can you check on my end? Also, ask if G3 is dead."
"Received."
However, Brilliant soon said, "I can’t access the institute’s network right now."
"G3 didn’t give you permission?"
"No, there’s no signal. The communication network is down, or it’s being interfered with. I’m still trying to connect."
Brilliant’s words confird Chen Ming’s suspicion, so he imdiately told Brilliant, "Don’t bother, there’s a strong spiritual energy fluctuation disrupting the communication signal here."
"Try to inform your superiors that sothing is definitely wrong at the research institute."
Brilliant stopped communicating with Chen Ming temporarily.
Chen Ming once again found himself alone.
The persistent dull thumping sound inside the institute made him feel tight in the chest.
And the thumping seed to gradually synchronize with Chen Ming’s heartbeat.
The sensation of the vibrations beca increasingly clear.
There must be sothing right below the institute.
From what Chen Ming knew, beneath the institute were spaces for storing giant chanical bodies and an underground cloning research institute.
He had seen the storage area for the giant chanical bodies when they burst out. It had so maintenance and repair facilities.
But obviously, these facilities could not be the source of such eerie heartbeats and spiritual energy fluctuations.
The answer was clear.
Sothing must have happened inside the cloning research institute.
Brilliant had told him just a few days ago that the cloning institute had cloned sothing with spiritual energy.
And he had watched the recorded footage stored by Brilliant.
Chen Ming had witnessed the spiritual energy-possessing tissue being extracted from the chest of its clone.
Wait, the chest?
The heart?
The twisted tissue had drawn all his attention to its warped appearance when it was extracted, making him completely overlook what it actually was.
He also hadn’t noticed its instinctive contraction, which actually resembled a heartbeat.
It was a mutated heart, not just an ordinary piece of twisted tissue.
Chen Ming ca to full realization at that mont.
The source of the loud noise and intense vibrations coming from underground was a heart.
Upon realizing this, an unexplained anxiety suddenly enveloped him.
Chen Ming felt he couldn’t stay at the research institute any longer, and he had to leave imdiately.
But just then,
Brilliant contacted him again, saying, "We’ve dispatched a spaceship close to the institute, but the signal is still not connecting, making direct contact with you impossible."
"I recomnd you leave the institute for now. As long as you don’t fly off the planet’s surface, other Dusk won’t attack you."
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