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Chapter 292: 292

It was that familiar sensation again .

As soon as he entered the channel, Chen Chen was overcome by a sense of weightlessness . At the same time, his eyes seemed to lose their vision and his ears lost their hearing . In other words, Chen Chen lost all sense of his body, leaving nothing but an intangible consciousness, floating in the endless darkness…

Nonetheless, this feeling only lasted for a moment and the next second, Chen Chen’s eyes saw light again .

At this moment, he was already standing on a pile of rubble . Next to him, there were two other Black Knights and the small Bugatti Spaceship that had followed behind . The Black Knight who had come beforehand was standing quietly before him .

“Click, click, click…”

Chen Chen’s six scanners quickly popped out of his back and scanned the surroundings swiftly, but only detected a few wild cats and dogs in the ruins . Everything else was normal .

“Drone . ”

After that, Chen Chen said softly .

At Chen Chen’s command, the four M-1 drones upon the Bugatti Spaceship took off in silence . As they took off, their shape quickly turned blurry . By the time they had flown for dozens of meters, these four drones had completely blended into the air and vanished without a trace .

The drones were much faster than humans at searching . After a few minutes, the four drones had examined everything within one kilometer . This was all sensed by X-112, the clone of Little X, who duly reported each update .

“Sir Commander, no signs of human activities have been found within one kilometer . There’s only a large number of animals and plants…”

“Expand the range and find out what the conditions are like within ten kilometers,” Chen Chen ordered .

After the order was issued, the drones moved toward the unknown to explore further .

During the drone exploration, Chen Chen jumped off the ruins and walked toward a nearby apartment that had not collapsed . Although this apartment was already entangled in vines, it was made of conventional reinforced concrete instead of ordinary wooden boards . Therefore, the structure had not collapsed under the assault of wind and rain over many years .

The original glass doors of the apartment had been damaged long ago . It was dark and empty inside, like a gaping abyss . As Chen Chen and the three Black Knights entered, a cloud of dust was stirred up by the breeze .

Chen Chen squatted and touched the ground . A thick layer of ash had accumulated . Based on the thickness of this blanket of ash, no one had entered this place for decades .

Even after seeing this, Chen Chen still did not take the situation lightly but walked in cautiously . After that, he let a Black Knight take the lead as they looked through each room in the apartment .

This apartment had five floors, each of which had ten rooms in a row, connected by a corridor . At both ends of the corridor were stairs leading up and down . This was the simplest layout for apartment buildings .

All the doors in the apartment were anti-theft doors made of alloy, which had remained intact for so long . However, most of the anti-theft doors on the first and second floors exhibited signs of damage . It seemed that someone had forcibly broken in . Even so, those marks were very old as well .

After walking around these rooms, Chen Chen did not find anything special . There was nothing else but some rotten furniture . Chen Chen even found a wallet that had not been taken away in time, with a large amount of cash still inside .

However, all food-related items had disappeared .

“In other words, the people who broke in later took only the food, but not the money . ”

Chen Chen reflected out loud, “In that case, someone must’ve pried open these doors and broke into the apartment after the government collapsed . These people had adapted to a world of anarchy . They were searching for food all over the place, yet they wouldn’t spare a glance for money . ”

After silently imprinting this clue into his mind, Chen Chen moved past these opened doors and walked toward the highest floor of the apartment .

Those who broke in must have had plenty of options, yet they only pried open the doors on the first and second floors . Starting from the third floor, only a few doors were pried open and most of them were intact .

There were even fewer doors that were pried open on the fourth floor and by the fifth floor, none of the doors had been pried open .

After noticing this, Chen Chen no longer hesitated . He beckoned and a Black Knight immediately stepped forward and tugged violently at the first door that had rusted long ago . There was the sound of metal being twisted, then a loud bang . The door was forcibly opened by the Black Knight .

These Black Knights were like mini supermen who were perfectly fused with the T-virus in the first place . After they put on the GS Combat Suits and the PK Armor, their power was augmented to a terrifying point . Twisting open a rusty iron door was a walk in the park .

When the door was opened, the sound of splitting metal ruptured the ancient silence of this apartment . The sound rippled into the distance, echo after echo…

At this point, Chen Chen frowned because he suddenly realized that this apartment seemed a bit too quiet . It was unlike the ruins that he had just come from . There, after just a glance with his PK Armor’s infrared vision, he could detect many insects and a few wild animals .

However, in this apartment, forget about wild animals, there was not even a single insect chirp .

“Something is wrong . ”

Chen Chen took a step back abruptly and said, “Let’s withdraw!”

Without any hesitation, the Black Knight who had just opened the anti-theft door followed Chen Chen down the stairs .

Along the way, Chen Chen could not help but feel his nerves tensing up . He felt that even the air had solidified for some reason . There seemed to be something in this apartment, which was slowly awakening after the noise they made .

‘Is it just in my head? Or…’

Chen Chen felt cold sweat drenching his back . He had not seen anything but for some reason, he felt his hair standing on end . This chill crawling down his spine made him bite the bullet and quickly flee from the apartment .

Only when they had gotten out of the area of the apartment did Chen Chen slowly exhale . The heavy feeling had faded gradually after he left the apartment .

He could not tell what kind of feeling it was . The air seemed to be weighed down by something heavy . The atmosphere that was once light and relaxed became as sluggish as a swamp, turning into a more suffocating pressure .

This was something that only Chen Chen could feel .

It was just that this feeling was rather indefinite .

Chen Chen could not help but glance down at the PK Armor he was wearing . It seemed that this armor had blocked off his feeling, only…

“What kind of feeling was that?”

Chen Chen frowned . He could tell that this feeling did not arise from the five senses, so it must have been an instinctive mental reaction to a part of reality . Strictly speaking, it should fall under the category of his sixth sense .

“In other words, I’ve sensed something that I’ve never noticed before and whatever it was caused a direct response in my mind, resulting in a sense of danger?”

This feeling was not groundless . Rather, it was more subconscious . For example, when Chen Chen scanned the area just now, he had observed many animals living in the ruins . Although the surroundings were deserted, they were full of life .

However, after entering the apartment, although Chen Chen had overlooked the presence of those small animals out of habit, the difference in the surroundings still put his subconscious on guard . Thus, Chen Chen’s conscious mind would only feel that something was off, without being able to pinpoint what exactly .

It was only in the next moment that the subconscious mind realized what was wrong — the small animals around were gone . Only then did Chen Chen experience a shocking realization and he left the apartment quickly .

Thinking of this, Chen Chen turned around again and looked at the apartment behind him .

Even so, when he got a good look, his pupils shrank furiously!

At some point, all the doors in the apartment had been opened…

It was as if the apartment was waking up from a deep sleep . It had opened its dense rows of “eyes”, staring vacantly at Chen Chen who was standing before it…