Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Chapter 570 Johor Bahru City (3)

"Optional Mission: Investigate Johor Bahru City."

"Optional mission: Annihilate the elite units in Xinshan City."

"Optional mission: Investigate information about synths."

"Optional mission: Explore the secret research institute."

"Secondary mission: Complete the exploration of Xinshan City. Current progress: 1%."

After leaving the lab, Adenauer used the contractor's equipment to scan the route map and found a nearby monitoring room. The contractor's equipment's scan of the connecting lines confirmed that this monitoring room was just one of the security nodes in Johor Bahru's vast underground complex. There were at least dozens of similar monitoring rooms.

After using a steel pipe he had found to eliminate the three sentries in the monitoring room, Adenauer, who was changing into his sentry uniform, saw the mission instructions pop up in the Infinite City mission system. This puzzled him.

Based on the content of these tasks, Adenauer came to a conclusion that this copy seemed a little unusual. In his past understanding of the Infinite City, most of these places that became copies were cut out from the original time and space by the Infinite Company using some kind of equipment, but Johor Bahru was not one of them. Johor Bahru was made into a copy because of other reasons.

Based on past understanding of the Infinite Company, some special forces, seeking to curry favor with the Infinite Company and secure its protection, proactively request that specific locations or individuals be made available to the Infinite Company as experimental projects. These instances, in other words, become a dungeon within the Infinite City. These dungeons typically offer a deeper understanding than those created through "normal" methods. Simply put, these are dungeons with highly detailed mission systems. However, if you think about all the missions in Johor Bahru, it's clear that the Infinite Company, or its collaborators, are attempting to use players for investigation and exploration. This suggests there must be something of interest, but they can't verify its safety. Sending their own forces to conduct reconnaissance would risk further losses. Therefore, they use unsuspecting players as cannon fodder to explore and search the area.

However, based on what we've learned so far, this idea seems a bit inappropriate. According to current intelligence, the secret of Xinshan City should be the synths. But even in reality, synths are just a secondary product to Infinity Corporation. For such creatures, even for Infinity Corporation's non-combat employees, the danger level is no more than low-level. But since Infinity Corporation hasn't sent its own forces to investigate, it means they have confirmed that this dungeon is a high-risk situation.

All the missions currently appearing are essentially targeting Johor Bahru. While Johor Bahru harbors a vast underground complex, Infinite's capabilities should make investigating this area a breeze. Based on the intrusion of contractor equipment into Johor Bahru's facilities, Adenauer has confirmed that nothing here poses a threat to Infinite.

"Maybe there are things here that the equipment cannot detect." Adenauer thought to himself, because at present this was the only hypothesis that could rationalize the situation here.

After changing into sentry's clothes, putting on a helmet, and checking his weapons, Adenauer began to observe all the surveillance images he could see through the monitoring equipment. However, most of them were normal. While continuing to look for places worth investigating, Adenauer began to follow the tasks given by the Infinite City Task System and continued to think about the situation of this copy.

One of the missions involved annihilating the elite units of Xinshan City. This type of mission was not new to Adenauer. In unconventionally constructed dungeons, this type of mission usually occurred when Infinite Company used players to eliminate, or attempt to eliminate, high-threat units whose strength was unknown. This was necessary because the Infinite Company's dungeon builders, while calculating the dungeon's size, discovered valuable items. These items were protected or possessed by powerful units and were often difficult to eliminate. At least the exploration team wasn't strong enough to counter them.

It's not that Unlimited Company lacks powerful combat units; rather, due to the constant undercurrent of factional strife within the company, these powerful units are often needed to protect the leaders of each faction or carry out other more important strategic deployments, making them less readily available. Han Zu's rapid rise to prominence within the chairman's ranks was due to his ability to fill this void. He possessed considerable strength and demonstrated a clear dislike for factions outside the chairman's own. While both sides knew the other had their own agenda, their interests were not in conflict at the time, allowing Han Zu to glean valuable information about Unlimited Company.

However, according to the contractor's equipment, Adenauer did not discover the existence of elite units that could be located by Unlimited Company. However, the existence of this mission indicates two possibilities. The first one is very simple, that is, there are indeed deeper secrets hidden within the scope of Johor Bahru City, and these secrets may have nothing to do with technology, so the contractor's equipment cannot detect their existence, or perhaps they are currently outside the coverage of the contractor's equipment.

The second possibility is more interesting. It's that the factional struggle within Infinite Company has intensified, leaving them with no energy or manpower to devote to dungeon exploration. Based on the information Adenauer has gathered about Infinite Company recently, this scenario is much more likely and the more likely scenario. This presents him with an opportunity.

Based on another mission, "Investigate Information on Synths," it's reasonable to speculate that the crucial intelligence Infinite has uncovered is related to synths. However, according to Adenauer's understanding, Infinite wouldn't have paid much attention to the first three generations of synths before the fourth. If his speculation is correct, then the so-called crucial secret here must be related to the fourth generation of synths.

Adenauer had seen two fourth-generation synths, but had never fought them. His understanding of them lay limited to distinguishing them from normal humans through their energy conversion abilities. All living things emit their own energy radiation, though ordinary humans and animals emit the weakest. Cyborgs are several times more powerful. Fourth-generation synths, however, emit energy radiation many times greater. Even when compared to Infinity City players with varying abilities (low-tier players and so-called casual players), it's as obvious as a giant fireball emerging from a sea of ​​fireflies. Adenauer was certain these fourth-generation synths possessed some or all of these powerful abilities. Perhaps their strength was comparable to that of the Tig's special forces and the contractor's advanced sentinels. Furthermore, they were synths, capable of mass production. Such a force was certainly enough to attract the attention of Infinity.

Judging from other missions, Infinity is not completely clueless about the situation in Johor Bahru. There's reason to suspect that this secret laboratory within the underground complex may contain fourth-generation synths. This suggests Infinity may have sent Gray Teams to explore the area, but perhaps their efforts were in vain, preventing them from finding further intelligence. Alternatively, they may have found information, but those Gray Teams were unable to successfully pass it on.

Based on current speculation, Adenauer had a bold idea: perhaps the current situation at Infinite Company was somehow related to the synths. If he could grasp the secrets of Johor Bahru, he might be able to leverage this intelligence to gain recognition for Adenauer's abilities within a certain faction within the company, thereby extending an olive branch to Adenauer and potentially gaining legitimate access to Infinite Company. He could then participate in whatever was happening and achieve his goals.

Donning his helmet, Adenner hid the sentry's body, left the monitoring room, and began his exploration of the secret laboratory. As he moved through the corridors, he recalled the woman who had deliberately glanced at him while he was still on the fixed bed in the laboratory. Her eyes seemed to hint at a recognition of him. He was certain that "Adenner" and the woman had no connection, and Han Zu had no recollection of her appearance, meaning he had never met her. This made Adenner frown, unable to connect the dots. However, he remembered that the woman seemed to have left something behind that might shed some light on his doubts. To find out, he needed to first find the man she had spoken to. He looked like someone high-ranking, and if he was still in Johor Bahru, he shouldn't be difficult to find.

But that is not the most important thing right now. Adenauer's exploration of the underground complex is less than 5% and he does not like to act rashly without any plan. The most urgent task is to complete the exploration of the secret underground research institute first.

“Buzz~~!!!!!!”

However, before they had gone far, alarms rang throughout the secret research institute, and security gates in the corridor could be seen falling. Many researchers who were originally in the corridor immediately ran into nearby rooms. At the same time, several teams of fully armed sentries quickly ran across the corridor and headed towards the laboratory where Adenauer had escaped before.

It seemed that the body of the researcher he had killed was discovered. This made Adenauer look at him with admiration. It took only a little over ten minutes from the time he killed the researcher to the time he arrived at his current location. This reaction speed was already very fast.

Their response was also quite impressive. They immediately called the sentries and began isolating various areas of the institute using security gates to prevent the killer from escaping. The researchers' reactions to the alarm also indicated that they must have practiced this regularly. Anyone else, if they hadn't reacted quickly enough, might have been trapped by these security gates. But Adenauer wouldn't be trapped by such a severe blockade.

As a frequent intruder and operator of his own secret bases, Adenauer was aware of a common security flaw in these types of complexes: the ventilation systems within these buildings often served as a crucial point of entry for the safety of his own personnel. However, these vents often proved difficult to install due to wiring issues, making it difficult to install security equipment or other protective devices. While not every faction would overlook this, some of the Unlimited Company's key facilities, including ventilation ducts and similar sewer systems, were well-protected. His own secret base was filled with deadly poison gas and a comprehensive self-destruct system. The Ferdinand family's lair or other important locations undoubtedly had similar features. The buildings of the Tigs and their contractors were even more complex.

But even the Tigris' buildings had some loopholes, let alone this secret research institute. Adenauer, who had been using contractor equipment to synchronize the terrain, had already found a way to deal with the blockade.

Pretending to search, before the gates were halfway down, Adenauer continued moving down the corridor for a distance, "checking" several rooms. He finally reached a location he had already identified: the entrance to a ventilation duct located in the incinerator chamber that processed biological waste. From there, he could access the secondary ventilation system that connected the entire underground complex. If he could enter this duct before being discovered, even if the institute was completely sealed off, Adenauer could use this secondary route to reach various areas within the institute. He could also leave the institute and travel to other areas of the underground complex. He could even reach the main route and exit the underground. That would be a minor problem, but he had no plans to leave the underground for the time being, so he ignored it for now.

"What are you guys still doing here?! Get out immediately! Head towards the lab!"

"But the training program requires us to stay close to..."

"This is an order from above!"

"Okay, let's go now."

"Hurry up and get to the designated area before the gate closes."

"We understand."

The 20 or so incinerators in the incinerator cabin are still in operation. Naturally, there are still many researchers in the cabin. Adenauer currently only has an explosion-proof electric baton that he took from the sentry. Their positions are also relatively scattered. With the strength of Adenauer's vest, he can't kill so many people in scattered positions without attracting attention. So he did not take action, but used a reasonable way to blast these researchers out.

After the last researcher left, Adenauer quickly locked the cabin door and began to dismantle the explosion-proof electric baton in his hand. He used the metal sheets inside to make a simple screwdriver, came to the bottom of the vent, stepped on the outer shell of the incinerator, came to the corresponding height, unscrewed the screws on the inspection door, and then placed the inspection door at the highest point of the incinerator.

Throwing the dismantled explosion-proof electric baton into an empty incinerator and starting the incineration, Adenauer climbed up the ventilation duct along the previous incinerator, then grabbed the inspection door that was still on the top of the incinerator, closed it again, and re-tightened the screws with a simple screwdriver. Then he left here and moved along the ventilation duct to other areas of the institute.