Chapter 1362: Chapter 749: One Less Bionic Body

The muscle tissue of these bones has already disappeared, so the Death Shroud cannot restore the lost matter, just as it cannot restore the wound on Qing Chen’s chest.

However, the airtightness of the glass vial is so good that something in the bones might be extracted for DNA.

Qing Chen’s gaze lingered on the glass vial several times, confirming that only one was broken, before continuing to walk inside. Along the way, he whispered a few words to Zard, causing Da Yu to frown.

The path was becoming increasingly open, with only the river’s rapid flow and width remaining unchanged.

As everyone looked at the dark river again, they felt a chill, fearing something might be inside.

In the next moment, the Underground Abyss suddenly opened completely. In front of them, a huge human structure appeared like a gigantic sports stadium.

The entire exterior of the building was made of metal, rusty and worn.

"Let’s go inside and take a look," Qing Chen said, but suddenly turned around to look at the sheer cliff behind him, feeling as if someone was staring at him from behind, yet without making a sound.

The beam of light in Qing Chen’s hand swept over, but he found nothing unusual.

It was as if... a creature like a gecko was quickly slipping into the darkness of the cliff’s corner.

"What’s wrong?" Da Yu asked.

"Nothing," Qing Chen shook his head.

As the group entered the building, a large amount of security equipment was at the entrance, indicating that it was extremely difficult to enter this building in the past.

As they walked inside, there were numerous scattered bones on the ground.

Qing Chen looked at the ground: "Lots of bullet casings, and there are bullet marks on the walls. It seems there was a battle here; everyone was suddenly killed."

Da Yu looked around cautiously, while Qin Yiyi kept her hand on the handle of her Black Knife at her waist, carefully guarding Qing Chen’s surroundings.

This girl seemed to be hiding beside Qing Chen out of fear, but in reality, it was to protect him at close range.

The elder came up to her and whispered, "Does he need you to protect him? The Knights are quite principled for not eating people!"

Qin Yiyi said indifferently, "He’s injured, and it hasn’t healed yet!"

The elder muttered, "Only you think he still needs protection. Wake up; he’s not the same little servant you once knew."

"It’s strange, was it an internal purge by the Tinder Company, or were they attacked?" Da Yu crouched down to examine the corpses, questioning in confusion.

"What’s strange is that there are no bullet marks on these people," Qing Chen analyzed, "If it were a large-scale battle, bullets would have left marks on the bones, but there aren’t any. I suspect... they weren’t fighting enemies with firearms but were attacked by a beast that isn’t afraid of firearms."

Everyone suddenly thought of the broken glass vial just now, immediately feeling a chill on their backs.

"Move quickly, the Chen Clan might find their way here, and we don’t have much time," Qing Chen said. "Our goal is to find the database. A thousand years ago, most data would still have paper backups. This is a sealed environment, so a lot of stuff will still be here. If you find computers, take out all the hard drives."

The group searched around and found that a quarter of the building was sealed by metal gates, not yet knowing how to access it or what was locked inside.

The database was also locked, seemingly with a complicated mechanical lock requiring a special key.

Qing Chen examined it closely and discovered what seemed to be claw marks on the door. When he saw these, he could even imagine the sound of sharp nails scraping on metal, making his teeth ache.

"How do we get in?" Da Yu asked, "The metal is very hard, we can’t blow it open."

Just after speaking, he saw Qing Chen gently turn his hand, opening the database door...

Da Yu: "Damn..."

However, to their surprise, inside the huge database, two skeletons lay on the ground. Beside them, all the paper documents had been shredded into strips, mixed together, and there was only dust in a small Incinerator.

Qing Chen said, "I just looked at the door lock; it’s locked from the inside. These two should be members of the Tinder Company, responsible for destroying all the documents and evidence in this secret base, and then they starved to death in there."

These two people used their lives to ensure the complete destruction of the documents.

Never mind the documents in the Incinerator, even those shredded into strips would take a decade or two to reassemble.

But the Death Shroud can restore all the documents here.

Qing Chen looked at the information in front of him: "Gather all the shredded documents and put them into the Death Shroud, and sweep out all the dust from the Incinerator; don’t miss a bit."

Everyone turned the Incinerator over, and the elder used a brush to slowly scrape out the ashes inside.

After closing the Death Shroud, everyone sat in the database waiting.

Qing Chen asked, "What exactly is the Tinder Company? The various consortiums seem to rarely evaluate them in their historical records?"

"It’s a very complex company," Da Yu recalled and said, "Their corporate mission is to preserve the fireseed for humanity, seeking new ways for human genetic continuation. However, their methods of protecting humanity are somewhat extreme. In Ren Xiaosu’s era, internal divisions began within the Tinder Company, with combat personnel following Ren Xiaosu to the Northwest, while research personnel stayed in the Central Plains and were destroyed together with the artificial intelligence ’Zero.’ So later, the Contraindicated courts they spawned dedicated itself to containing Taboo and Transcendents, to prevent humanity from being destroyed by the Taboo Land or Taboo items."

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