Star City to the north.

There was a hazy drizzle in the sky.

There are mountains in front of us, and the marching team is winding up like a long dragon.

The soil became muddy under the moisture of the rain, and the marching speed began to gradually slow down.

Walking in the air, Feng Qi looked into the distance, the hazy mist and rain enveloped the green mountains and the road ahead.

After passing through these continuous mountains, the Dawn Army will step into the plains, and are very close to the destination of this trip, Future City.

Whether years of hard work will pay off will soon be revealed.

His figure fell rapidly at this moment and came to the front of the team.

"We can reach the future city in two days at the earliest. What do you think?" At this time, Qin Shikong, wearing a tattered Taoist robe, came to him.

"If you have any opinions, that's all." Feng Qi grinned and then continued:

"Why don't you do some fortune-telling in advance to see how our trip will end?"

Qin Shikong shook his head helplessly at this moment:

"As an old man, I have done calculations several times, but I can't see through the secrets at all. You know that I need to catch the clues for fortune telling, but the clues haven't come yet. I can't predict the outcome of this trip. This kind of situation rarely happens... …I even suspect that there is something hiding the secrets in the future city.”

After listening to Qin Shikong's explanation, Feng Qi immediately thought of Xiao Hei.

If there is something in the future city that multiple timelines can never reveal, it is Xiao Hei and the mysterious man who created Xiao Hei, "Mo".

Xiao Hei is an old acquaintance.

Although they have never met each other in the sacrifice line, every time he goes to the future 1500 years later, he will always be "warmly greeted".

Among them, "Mo" is the most mysterious existence.

When he was lurking in the Science and Technology Research Institute, he knew that there was one of the most mysterious scientific researchers in the Science and Technology Research Institute, "Mo".

Psychic technology, black death plan, spiritual energy dispelling bombs, mantra machines... Mo is behind all kinds of black technology products.

If Heiying is the leader of the Science and Technology Research Institute, then Mo is the technical core of the Science and Technology Research Institute.

It was also with the help of Mo that the Science and Technology Research Institute controlled by the black shadow successfully surpassed the "Future Research Institute", which was once the number one authority in the future city.

Even behind Li Xingchen's mechanized transformation technology, there is Mo's technical support.

During his time at the Undercover Science and Technology Research Institute, he had seen two black technology products developed by "Mo".

The first one is a bomb that can dispel spiritual energy.

The lethality of this weapon is almost non-existent, but its impact is huge, and its upper limit is extremely high.

After the bomb explodes, it will dissipate the spiritual energy within a kilometer range and create a spiritual vacuum field. For a creature that controls spiritual energy to fight, it is almost like being hit three inches.

Unless there is a large amount of spiritual energy in the body, it will instantly fall into a state where it is impossible to cast spells.

Especially those battles that rely heavily on external spiritual energy for spell casting. In an environment without spiritual energy, it is impossible to exert the combat power that it should have.

At the same time, the spiritual energy vacuum area will also cause the cultivator to lose the source of spiritual energy replenishment in an instant.

In order to solve this problem, Fengqi also made preparations in advance.

He opened the warehouses of Hu Po and the Military Department, and equipped each soldier with spiritual stones to carry with him. Once he was unable to absorb spiritual energy from the outside world, he would rely on spiritual energy to temporarily help restore his spiritual energy.

The second item is the Truth Machine.

It was this machine that almost exposed him in the first place.

If it weren't for Wei Wei's help, he wouldn't have been able to survive that internal test.

However, when Wei Wei faced the test of the truth machine, she did not find a real solution to the problem. She only developed a special medicine that made him instantly enter a coma when he was eroded by spiritual energy.

At that time, he had undergone biochemical transformation and his body was extremely weak, so Heiying just thought that this was a serious sequelae left after the biochemical transformation. In addition, his physical condition was indeed on the verge of death at that time, so he barely managed to survive the early exposure.

This shows how terrifying Mo's ability is.

He has always been a mystery in Feng Qi's heart.

Some people speculated that he was a human, some speculated that he was a creature from other realms kidnapped by the shadow, and some speculated that "Mo" was the shadow himself.

But except for Heiying, no one in the Science and Technology Research Institute can have contact with Mo.

Among various speculations, Feng Qi is more inclined to think that Mo is the black shadow.

He has seen the black shadow's abilities before.

If the Lord of the Mists is a master at playing with strategies, then the Black Shadow is a master at playing with people's hearts.

He can make many warriors sacrifice their lives for him without hesitation, even betraying mankind, which shows his ability.

But the most powerful thing about Black Shadow is definitely not his method of playing with people's hearts, but his origin.

After exploring multiple timelines, Sombra's identity is now clear.

It was the psionic tribe that originally escaped with the "miracle".

Coming from a psychic race proves that Sombra is a genius.

Because every member of the Psionic Tribe is a genius, they possess the miraculous "Holy Spirit Consciousness Bank" and can continuously absorb knowledge and skills from the memories of their ancestors and tribesmen.

Black Shadow was once a member of the Psychic Clan, and having access to extremely precious miraculous items proves that he is still a core member of the Psychic Clan.

This is enough to show that Black Shadow possesses a huge amount of knowledge.

This knowledge can be a formidable weapon at any time.

With their thoughts in mind, Feng Qi, Qin Shikong and others climbed over a mountain and continued towards the future city.

…

Future city.

Science and Technology Research Institute.

Looking at the black figure standing in front of him, Li Xingchen described the process of this mission and the tragic ending of the mission with heavy losses.

After finishing his narration, Li Xingchen glanced at his subordinate whose mechanical body was severely damaged standing behind him.

There were originally twenty people when they returned, but now there were only eight people left.

More than ten other people chose to commit suicide before entering Future City.

He once told Feng Qi that he didn't need to know how he would explain it to the black shadow.

But he knew more about the horror of the black shadow.

A total of 96 people participated in this survey task.

Everyone else was dead, but not one of the twenty people who followed him was killed, which would inevitably arouse the shadow's doubts.

Precisely because he knew the black shadow, he knew that he could never simply fool him.

Before entering the future city, he asked his subordinates to draw lots.

Thirteen of them are for death and eight are for life.

Regarding his decision, the subordinate soldiers had no complaints and went to die calmly.

This is what he told the shadow to prove the brutality of this battle and the heavy losses on his side.

After listening to his story, the black shadow suspended not far away was silent for a short time and then said:

"I understand, go back."

Li Xingchen didn't answer, and immediately turned around and led his subordinates outside the Institute of Science and Technology.

Walking out of the core area, passing through the base road full of technology, he arrived outside the Science and Technology Research Institute.

What you see is an extremely bustling urban scene.

Countless maglev vehicles shuttle in the distant sky according to fixed tracks, in an orderly manner, and the city lights are bright under the night.

After instructing his subordinates to return to the Future Research Institute, Li Xingchen walked towards home.

What you see along the way is like a cyberpunk scene in a science fiction movie. There are virtual projected billboards everywhere, and there are even various projected signs on the road.

The history of Future City is the shortest among the five major cities.

In the new world after the disaster, mankind decided to slow down the development of science and technology and devote more energy to the development and improvement of cultivation.

During this period, many industries faced elimination.

Especially industries related to technology.

At that time, Star City and Victory City were the pioneer cities of cultivation studies, and a lot of land would be used for the construction of cultivation schools and cultivation research institutes.

Many tech industries are facing a situation with nowhere to go.

But at that time, humans had no intention of giving up the development and application of science and technology.

After all, technology can assist the development of spiritual cultivation and bring great convenience to human modernization.

Under the special background of the times, Future City, which was relatively backward in industry, became a new place for various technology industries.

It was against this background that the Institute for the Future and the Institute for Science and Technology were born.
To be continued...