Chapter 285 Secret Base

Chapter 285 Secret Base

“Buzz…”

According to Gloria's observation, after coming out of the airport, Han Zu rode his motorcycle to the mountains and stayed for a while at a place that should be a family cemetery. Although Gloria didn't pay much attention to the words on the tombstones, judging from Han Zu's attitude towards them, this should be Han Zu's family cemetery.

Now, after a simple cleanup of the family cemetery, Han Zu rode his motorcycle to a village where almost no one lived, with only a few scattered households with a few elderly people. Before entering the village, Gloria noticed that Han Zu had changed the working mode of the motorcycle's engine, making it very quiet and making almost no sound, while also slowing down the speed.

Finally, Han Zu's motorcycle stopped in front of the gate outside an old house. Han Zu got off the car, opened the lock on the gate, pushed the motorcycle in, and leaned it against the wall of the main house.

He locked the gate, entered the main house, and walked straight to a room with furniture. Gloria thought that Han Zu was going to clean the house, but Han Zu did not do so. He just opened the closet in the house, took off all his clothes, and threw them into the closet, including his mobile phone and other small items. Gloria took advantage of this time to quickly use the nanomechanical group to simulate the function of the micro-device, so that she could see Han Zu's next move.

After doing all this, the naked Han Zu walked to the old well in the yard. The crank device used to draw water from the well seemed to have lost its function due to wear and tear, so Han Zu reached out and pulled the bucket connected to the rope up from the well.

Putting the bucket on the ground aside, Gloria was able to detect that Han Zu had a high-energy reaction for a period of time. Using the nanomechanical group to analyze the data, Gloria was able to roughly confirm that Han Zu should be using some kind of powerful perception ability, and the range was very wide, not only the area around the yard, but even the entire village was covered. In fact, Gloria thought that perhaps the range of this perception should be larger, but her body was damaged now, and the farthest range she could detect was this village.

After about three or four minutes, the huge energy reaction emitted by Han Zu disappeared. It should be that he stopped perceiving the outside world. Just when Gloria was curious about what Han Zu was going to do, she saw Han Zu holding the edge of the well with one hand and jumping directly from the well.

"Pfft!"

The water under the well seems to be deeper than the level required for digging the well. The water height seems to be about ten meters. However, the strange thing is that although it can be seen that the part exceeding five meters is manually excavated for the second time, the excavation marks are very uneven, and can even be said to be extremely rough. Gloria tested the wall at the edge of the water layer and found that the space below was actually dug out by hand.

Based on the remaining marks and the comparison with the size of Han Zu's palm, the person who excavated this place should undoubtedly be Han Zu. However, as to why Han Zu would do such a thing, Gloria is at a loss for the time being.

Han Zu continued to move underwater and soon arrived at the bottom of the well. Some water was pouring out from the cracks at the bottom. This was nothing special, just groundwater. However, on the rock wall next to it, more than two meters away from the bottom of the well, a metal gate appeared. This was not normal.

By turning the crank device on the gate, the gate was quickly opened. However, after the gate was opened, there was no phenomenon of water being attracted there. There seemed to be a layer of transparent energy field at the position where the gate was opened, isolating the water flow. As Han Zu swam into the gate and closed it again, Gloria began to observe the surroundings of the gate.

This is also a tunnel dug by hand, but it is relatively flat. Above the tunnel, you can see some mechanical devices embedded in the surrounding rock walls. Judging from their lines and energy link flow direction, these should be the position generators that block the water flow. The positions where these mechanical devices are embedded are very flat, and they should be made by a laser cutter or something similar.

The height and width of the corridor are both about two meters, allowing Han Zu to walk upright here, but that's all. If there is one more person, they can't walk side by side. The corridor is very flat all around, and it should have been polished using something like a laser cutting machine. Every few meters, there is a solid thick metal plate on the top of the corridor to support the corridor.

About a few dozen meters along the corridor, there is another metal gate. This gate has no mechanical device, but instead a CNC touch panel. Flames came out of Han Zu's hands, drying the moisture on them. After the temperature dropped, he operated on the touch panel.

"laugh..!"

The gate did not open immediately, but first sprayed out some transparent gas similar to steam. Gloria detected that the gas was highly toxic. It should be the safety device set by Han Zu. Even if the correct code was entered, the poisonous gas would hit Han Zu, but Han Zu did not have any problems. Gloria guessed that when Han Zu designed this safety device, he should have been thinking that no one would live or die except himself.

The gushing of poisonous gas lasted for three minutes, filling the entire corridor. Then, the metal gate slowly opened. Then, Han Zu did something that made Gloria feel very uncomfortable about his psychology and behavior.

"Hiss~~~!"

Han Zu cleared his throat and inhaled all the toxic gases. According to Gloria's test, after entering Han Zu's body, the toxic gases were immediately decomposed into energy and then absorbed by Han Zu.

Entering the second gate, it is relatively wide. This should be a natural underground cave that Han Zu connected to when he dug the tunnel. The area of ​​the cave is not large, but it is not small either. It is about 400 to 500 square meters and about 5 to 6 meters high. In this place, you can see some floors made of metal plates of different materials. Above these floors, there are many compact mechanical devices and equipment, many of which are still in the state of unassembled parts.

"Buzz! Ziz!"

As soon as Han Zu stepped onto the metal floor, several energy sentry turrets suddenly emerged from the shadows at several locations on the top of the cave. The scanning devices on them immediately scanned Han Zu's position, but after scanning Han Zu, these sentry turrets quickly returned to their original positions and hid themselves. From the models of these turrets, Gloria was able to confirm that these things should have been produced recently.

Walking to the center of the cave, there is a medium-sized reactor. Judging from its shape, this reactor should be disassembled and reassembled from multiple different reactors. At the same time, next to it, there are several energy furnaces that have not yet been assembled, which should be used as backup.

After checking the energy parameters of the reactor and finding everything normal, Han Zu walked to a workbench nearby. Here, he reopened his chest, took out Gloria's head, placed it on the workbench, and connected a line to Gloria's head. This line was connected to a device similar to a broadcasting system. Now, Gloria could finally communicate with Han Zu using voice.

"You...are you really from Infinite Company? Logically speaking, none of the things here should appear in a place like this."

"I am a senior executive in the company, so I have some privileges."

Gloria didn't believe a word Han Zu said. In her opinion, no matter how small the equipment was, it could not be taken away from the Unlimited Company's facilities without going through complicated procedures. However, Han Zu had basically everything, and many of them looked confidential. Gloria didn't believe that such equipment had been authorized by the company.

"Okay, I won't tease you anymore. I got all these things by myself. More than 90% of them were just spare parts when I got them. It took me a lot of effort to assemble them. After all, I'm not a mechanic or scientist. But now, maybe I can be considered half a mechanic. After all, assembling these things and making them usable is also a learning process."

Looking at Gloria who fell into silence, Han Zu laughed, stopped joking, and told Gloria the truth.

Do you remember the big purge inside the Infinite Company that Han Zu was in charge of before? If it was just to find the target person and carry out relevant processing, it would take less than a few months. During this period, the main reason why Han Zu spent a lot of time was that Han Zu intercepted a large amount of equipment and materials from the company's traitors, disassembled the equipment into parts, shipped back here in batches, and then assembled them.

Most of the traitors would be eliminated, so no one could prove that Han Zu had any connection with these "missing" or "destroyed" equipment and supplies. Han Zu, who used his connections within Infinite Company to secretly transport these supplies and equipment here, might be the company's biggest "bad guy."

After assembling these parts and making them play their due roles, Han Zu has transformed from a layman interested in high technology to a qualified and talented engineer in a few months. As long as Han Zu understands the principles and obtains the right materials, there is a 90% chance that he can make one by hand for the existing equipment of the unlimited company. Of course, compared with the appearance, Han Zu pays more attention to durability and stability, so all the equipment here is basically assembled, and the shape adheres to the principle of big, black and rough.

Looking at Han Zu who was assembling some equipment, Gloria couldn't help but wonder why such a person brought her to such a secret base that was obviously off-limits. Was he going to deal with Infinity Company? Or was he going to make a big move? These were all unknown at the moment, but soon, Han Zu seemed to guess Gloria's thoughts and told her the purpose of his actions, of course, only part of it.

"Are you wondering why I would go to so much trouble to bring you to a place like this where you shouldn't be without letting Infinite Company find you?"

"That's right. I can't think of any reason for you to do this, unless... I have something you want."

"clever."

"It's just a reasonable guess."

"Quack."

"Om~~"

The equipment assembled by Han Zu seemed to be very successful. After connecting it to the reactor, the equipment started smoothly and entered the standby state. Han Zu put down the equipment cable in his hand, walked to the side of Gloria's head, turned her head in a direction, and then walked to the opposite side facing her, sat in a comfortable boss chair, and took out a pack of cigarettes from the small locker next to him.

"Hiss... Huh... Let me be frank. Regarding the building in the manor, I am very interested in the situation on the second floor. From your performance at that time, I guess you must know what happened there. Even if you don't know all the details, you must know a lot."

"I thought you would be curious about my identity as well. But you seem to have seen a cyborg like me, or a similar model."

"Almost. Judging from the machines, the ones I encountered should be more advanced than yours. And compared to you, their emotions are weaker. In comparison, they are more like machines. So I guess your machine should be a model of the previous generation. So I have a 50% chance that you are a subordinate of the board of directors."

"You mean Richie and Qian Ying's group? I don't have much to do with them. It's better to say that I want to get rid of them."

Han Zu thought about it and realized that Richie and Qian Ying were indeed related to the board of directors, especially Qian Ying. Not long ago, he was one of the directors of the board of directors, but for some reason he was kicked out of the board and became a lower-level member.

"They are still members of the board, but not directors. If you want to get rid of them, you have a good chance of success."

However, what Han Zu said was not completely wrong. Although Gloria and the board of directors were not on the same page, there was indeed a connection between them.

"You seem to have a high position in the Infinite Company, but I have never heard of you before. Who are you?"

"It's not against the rules to answer a question with a question."

"But what good will it do me to answer your question? You should also understand why I disguised myself as a system before. I didn't trust the people from Infinite Company. My behavior at that time was helpless. Now that I have left there, it can be said that my goal has been achieved. It seems that not answering anything now is the best decision."

"You wouldn't...have you already notified your own people to come find you?"

Han Zu made a terrified expression, but his acting was very poor, and anyone could see it.

"... Poor. Do you think I'm stupid, or am I stupid? You didn't think that I couldn't guess why you made a device that allows me to observe the outside world, and deliberately placed a mobile phone that can connect to the Internet near the device? You should have deliberately let me lure my people here so that you can find out my identity faster, right?"

"It seems that I underestimated you. However, after such a long time, not even a reinforcement showed up, not even a single attempt. I guess it's not that you have no contact, but that you can't contact them at all? Oh, it's not that you can't contact anywhere at all. That database... Tsk tsk, what a pity, it should have stored a lot of information. If it can be retrieved, it may be a help. But now that database should have been completely cleared."

Gloria was not surprised that Han Zu knew that she was connected to the database. The naked, seemingly cheerful guy in front of her was much more sinister than he looked, or could be said to be scheming. But Gloria did not trust Han Zu at the moment, so the word insidious was more appropriate.

"We both want something from each other, don't we? So why not talk about it?"

"You didn't give me any chance to refuse."

"Indeed, but same here."

"If I tell you the information you want to know, what can I get in return?"

Gloria was silent for a while and asked Han Zu a question.

"That depends on what your information is worth in return."

"I need a more definite answer, not an ambiguous answer."

"Okay, do you recognize those two devices over there?"

Han Zu pointed to a device not far away, then placed Gloria's head on a base so that she could turn her head freely and look around. One of the devices was the one that Han Zu had just assembled.

"Biological synthesis device, mechanical manufacturing engineering platform. Although the models are different from the ones I know, and after your assembly, they are even more difficult to identify, but I can still distinguish them from the structure of the mechanical device. Let me see these two devices. What is their significance?"

"I can rebuild a body for you, either a physical body or a modified body, depending on which one you prefer."

Gloria was silent again. Those two devices could indeed create a usable body for her, but the previous search for Han Zu had yielded little results, leaving Gloria unsure whether she could trust the guy in front of her.

"Life needs some excitement to keep it fresh, doesn't it?"

"You sound like a demon tempting people to sell their souls..."

"Who knows, maybe you're right."