Aloy has many questions in her mind, but now is not the time to delve into them.
As the local snakes of Sunset Castle, Shadow Calgar's guards have long known that there is a ruins under the city. They will report it to High Priest Bahawa as quickly as possible and arrange for manpower to enter the ruins to eliminate the intruders.
There is not much time left for Yongzhen and Aloy to act, so they must speed up their exploration of the ruins.
Compared to Vault 53, the facilities in this underground ruins look more formal. When the two opened Focus, they could see a lot of residual information.
Aletheia was trying to sort out the messy information, and she noticed a recurring name among the fragments of information.
"Project Zero Dawn."
Aletheia said to Yongzhen seriously: "Considering that the name given to this world is Zero Dawn, there should be many core secrets buried in this ruins."
"Yongzhen, keep moving forward. I will remind you when I find important information."
Yongzhen nodded without leaving any trace, and led Aloy through the ancient cave full of stalagmites.
At the same time, Bahawa was happily thinking about how to get rid of his competitors in his residence. His good mood was interrupted by the rude shouts coming from the courtyard.
"Lord Bahawa! I have important information to report."
"Hmph~ Come in."
The herald approached Bahawa's study, beat his chest and saluted, and immediately told the story of the ruins.
"Intruder?"
Putting down the wine in his hand, Bahawa asked displeasedly: "Where did the intruders come from? Didn't I already order you to block all entrances to the ruins?"
The herald had no idea why: "Yes, the known entrances to the ruins are guarded. I suspect that the intruders entered the ruins through unconventional means."
"Tsk~"
Bahawa smacked his lips: "Why at this time..."
"never mind."
After adjusting his mentality, Bahawa calmed down again: "Send troops into the ruins to eliminate the intruders, no matter life or death."
"yes!"
…
The location of the underground ruins is directly below the Imperial Palace. Frequently mobilized soldiers come and go near the outer wall of the Imperial Palace, which naturally attracts the attention of the Imperial Palace guards.
Due to strict military orders, the guards were not allowed to leave their posts to ask passing comrades about the situation, but it was inevitable to be distracted after all.
Even the hidden sentry blocking the path forward of the beam had its attention diverted.
'Chance!'
Although I don’t know what is happening outside, now is the best time.
When the sentinels turned their attention to the outside of the palace and their positions were a little lax, Lu Xiao quickly jumped on the beam and jumped behind the masked man at the back.
In order to prevent the smell of blood from attracting the attention of other secret sentries, Lu Xiao did not use the hidden sword to assassinate him.
He grabbed the enemy's head and neck with both hands and twisted it hard. With a crisp "click" sound, Anshao fell softly with his neck bones broken.
The heavy running and stamping sounds of the soldiers leaving the palace covered up the slight movement of the broken neck bone.
Lu Xiao repeated his old trick of clearing out the secret sentry from the rear, and it was only after he eliminated the fifth person that the nearest secret sentry noticed him.
"Whoosh!"
Lu Xiao raised his hand as quickly as possible and threw out an energy flying knife, piercing the other person's neck before he could shout.
The person with a cut trachea cannot make a sound, and can only make a low "ho ho" sound.
The sound of the secret whistle falling to the ground finally alerted others, but it was obviously too late to notice the abnormality at this time.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Lu Xiao had already captured the remaining four secret sentry positions. When he jumped out from behind the pillar, four precise magic arrows were shot out from the folding bow at the same time.
"Well!"
The four secret sentries were all shot in the neck with arrows, and they covered their necks in pain.
After landing, Lu Xiao did not stop, kicked off his feet and continued to move, using his hidden sword to end their pain one after another.
"Phew~ Done."
Thanks to the sudden abnormal movement outside the palace, I finally took the opportunity to break through the defense of the hidden sentry on the roof.
Once the obstacles are cleared, the next "road" will be easy.
Entering the palace along the beam, Lu Xiao had already used eagle vision to detect the route in advance and accelerated towards the palace.
…
When Lu Xiao officially sneaked into the palace, Yongzhen and Aloy arrived at a rotunda under the guidance of Aletheia.
Aletheia activated the image files stored in this holographic theater, and the projection of an old white man in military uniform appeared in the center of the theater.
"Welcome everyone to participate in the Zero Dawn project. I am General Herres, Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff."
"I think you should have heard some rumors. Some people say that Zero Dawn is a top-secret super weapon program that can help us solve the Faroe Corporation's war machine."
"Unfortunately, these rumors are false news that I deliberately spread."
Although Herres's expression looked calm, his eyes clearly showed sadness.
"Zero Dawn is not a super weapon program. It cannot save us. No one can save mankind...I will tell you why now."
The image of Heris raised his hand to signal, and a projection of a war machine with a scorpion tail appeared beside him.
"By the time we discovered the smart protocol vulnerability in the Faro War Machine, it was already too late, and no one could stop the spread of the machine plague."
With this Degenerator as the culmination, countless new war machines spawned. Instead of decreasing with the passage of generations, their numbers have become more and more numerous.
"The war machines have captured Faroe's production lines. They will continue to reproduce themselves and absorb biological energy endlessly to maintain their own activities, until they destroy the entire earth's ecosystem."
"Our planet will definitely become a barren and barren land in the near future, and human extinction is inevitable."
General Herres sighed: "If we have a crack code, we can shut down the entire fleet at once."
"Unfortunately, the code compilation communication protocol of the Faroe fleet uses a multi-stage winding waveform. It will take at least 50 years to crack just one set of codes."
"The time limit for the Faroe fleet to destroy the ecosystem is only 16 months. Time is the resource we lack most."
"The destruction of the earth's ecosystem cannot be avoided by hiding underground or in space."
"Even if the Faro robot loses all its bioenergy and shuts down automatically, humans will have no home to return to, and the desolate earth will become no longer suitable for any life to survive."
Herres' tone was a little low: "Since we are destined to be unable to win, why should I encourage soldiers and civilians across the country and even the world to participate in the struggle and give them false hope?"
"There is only one reason, to buy time for the huge project you are about to carry out here."
"The destruction of the earth's ecosystem is doomed, and there is no way to stop it."
"The real purpose of the Zero Dawn project is to hope that there will be a chance for rebirth after the mass extinction of life, and to bring a glimmer of hope to the endless darkness."
"The next explanation will be handed over to the person in charge of the Zero Dawn Project, Dr. Elizabeth Sobek, Herres is finished."
General Herres finally stood upright, slowly raised his hands and performed a military salute, and then his holographic image disappeared from the theater.
"this……"
Aloy breathed in disbelief: "Humanity has been destroyed once? Is this true? Then how did we..."
"newborn."
Yongzhen rubbed Aloy's head, sighed softly and said: "The desperate Zero Dawn plan succeeded. It brought new life to the extinct human race, that is, you...us."