Naming Technique of the Night

Chapter 1360: Chapter 748: Bionic Body T-3019

Qing Chen said, “Which means, the true depth of this abyss is 535.26 meters.”

Da Yu was silent for two seconds: “Bad luck.”

Feeling inexplicably humiliated!

Qing Chen looked at the elder: “Is our rope long enough according to this height?”

The elder said, “We brought six coils of rope, each 120 meters long, together they’re enough. However, it’s quite dangerous down there, who will go down first?”

Zard shrank back: “I’m quite afraid of such places, pitch-black, can’t see anything.”

“I’ll go first,” Qing Chen said, “Once I confirm there’s no danger, you all come down.”

Qing Chen tied the rope into a professional climbing safety knot, and descended along it. On the way, he saw the cliff wall was full of countless holes, densely packed like holes in cheese.

It appears these were once the dwellings of the human-faced bugs, but now the human-faced bugs have been forced to leave their homes and have been eradicated by the Chen Corporation army…

The Chen Clan truly are good people.

Soon, Qing Chen reached the bottom of the abyss. He hung on the rope, silently surveying the surroundings with a flashlight.

Beneath the abyss was a swift underground river, about six meters wide.

Beside the river was a narrow bank, just wide enough for one person to pass through.

When Qing Chen saw the riverbank, he was suddenly startled, seeing it piled with a dense mass of human-faced bugs, their backs looking terrifying and hideous.

But he quickly realized that those weren’t actual human-faced bugs, but their shed shells!

Qing Chen began to shout loudly, trying to see if anything else was hiding down there, if it would be drawn out by his shouts.

His voice amplified to 120 decibels, echoed constantly here, yet nothing strange emerged.

It seems earlier Zard had displayed some rules here, indeed eliminating the danger.

“Everyone come down,” Qing Chen shouted.

Everyone gradually descended to the bottom of the abyss. Zard was the last one; as an Earth Element Awakener, he didn’t need ropes for climbing, so he was responsible for bringing the ropes down, both to carry them in case there were other cliffs to descend later and to prevent the Chen Corporation army from finding their descent point.

The group stood in a line on the riverbank. The elder asked, “Where should we go next? Upstream or downstream?”

Qing Chen shone the flashlight, silently observing the marks on the stone wall: “Go downstream.”

“Why?” Da Yu asked.

“If the Tinder Company wanted to build a base here, the most convenient way to transport large equipment after bringing it down would be by boat. If it were me, on this swift river, I would choose downstream as the foothold,” Qing Chen said, “Of course, this could also be a wrong guess, we’ll see soon enough.”

The group followed the riverbank for nearly two hours, gradually feeling the bank widening, and they saw traces of human excavation!

They found the right direction.

Qing Chen shone the flashlight over, and the next moment, everyone was stunned by what they saw.

Visible were glass vessels, each two meters high, densely embedded in the stone wall, exposed abruptly to the outside world. Pipes connected to the glass vessels ran through grooves in the stone wall.

The base of the glass vessels was an unknown device, and inside, empty, lay scattered human skeletons.

These had been silent here for who knows how long.

Qing Chen said, “A long time ago, these glass vessels should have been filled with liquid, and these skeletons should have been human, though it’s unknown why they were placed here.”

He leaned in to look, wiping away the dust on the stainless steel nameplate at the base of the vessel: Bionic Organism T-3019.

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