Chapter 119

Chapter 119

Collisions from all directions hit the protective shield, and 40% of the protective shield just maintained the safety of the two mecha spaces. The tentacle's dragging force is extremely strong. Even though the weight of multiple mechas slows it down to a certain extent, its intention to drag down in the relatively small space has never changed.

Zhao Lejie never thought that one day he would lead a group of mechas to drill a hole like this, and the end of this hole might be the location of the lair of pollutants in the restricted area. However, he had no choice since he was dragged in. He could only stumble and fall to the ground with KID.

You Su fell behind the entire team. His sniper gun was always set up, with the energy output controlled to 20%.

The road leading to the underground is not so easy to walk on. The tentacles are reckless and can only drag downwards. The large pollutants they dragged became the tools for the first layer of bulldozers. Their bodies hit the surrounding cave walls, making the slightly narrow road wider. In addition, You Su was clearing the way with a sniper gun at the back, allowing all the mechas to pass through the narrow passage.

Ji Qingfeng was holding a searchlight to light the way from behind: "Old Zhao, hold on!"

Zhao Lejie was about to curse, "Hold on, my shield will be completely broken when I get down there!"

"I'll fix it for you." Ying Chenlin's eyes fell on the front. The dashboard was showing the distance from the ground to the present. They had already gone nearly two hundred meters deep. The searchlight had a limited range, and he could only observe changes in the rock layers further inside, and even traces of previous contaminants on the cave walls.

"The border troops said they didn't notice the existence of this thing last year, so this place should have existed for more than half a year, right?" Huo Yan looked at the surroundings, "It's impossible to dig a hole like this in a short time, right?"

"Maybe more than that." Ying Chenlin recalled that when they first entered the restricted area, Ji Qingfeng had already walked for a while with the female mantis, but the tentacles did not attack them immediately. Instead, it seemed that they found them after a buffer period, and then the restricted area was completely out of control.

But this buffer period can be ignored, and it is also possible that they did not originally enter the hunting range of the tentacles.

It was normal that the border troops failed to notice these tentacles. They did not discover them immediately when they encountered them. Those tentacles were lurking in the ditches dug on the ground, covered with fallen leaves. It was difficult to detect the ditches that were completely attached to the ground without turning over the fallen leaves.

All the puzzles seem to be buried underground. These mutations should have lasted for a long time, but the real mutations should have begun after the border troops ended their reconnaissance last year.

Ji Qingfeng: "Isn't this road too steep?"

Luxi: "We seem to have been going down for a long time. We should be at the end, right?"

At this moment, Ying Chenlin suddenly saw something and said hurriedly: "Everyone bow your heads!"

When everyone in the channel heard this, they immediately lowered their entire mecha. The pollutants in front of them directly hit the sharp edges of the earth on the top of the cave wall. The surrounding ground shook, and the broken earth cones fell down, all hitting the mecha below.

"Damn it!" Zhao Lejie: ​​"The road ahead is getting narrower."

Ying Chenlin never looked away from the front. The distance in his field of vision was shrinking rapidly, and the warning box popped up. When the collision warning message popped up, he said confidently: "We can pass!"

The space available for passage was getting smaller and smaller, the dizziness from the bumps was getting heavier, and a lot of the pollutants being dragged by the tentacles had their edge trunks knocked off. At this moment, at a depth of 547 meters from the ground, all the mechas were suddenly pulled in by the tentacles and thrown into another vast space from the narrow passage.

Ying Chenlin immediately loosened his grip on the pollutant and quickly retreated with Zhao Lejie, "Searchlight!"

Huo Yan drove forward with a searchlight, and the searchlights of several mechas illuminated the surroundings at once. However, the entire underground was too large and the distance they could see was limited.

"Oh my god..." Ji Qingfeng was stunned, "What is this thing!"

When the searchlight shone on something crawling in front of him, Ying Chenlin's expression suddenly froze.

The energy radars inside everyone's mechas were all red, and it was obvious that they were now in the entire huge energy center, which was also the location of the fusion weapon.

Ying Chenlin swept the searchlight upwards. The colors that could be captured in the darkness were limited. In the illuminated field of vision, they saw a huge monster lurking right above them. It almost covered the entire top of the space, like a giant alien plant, growing wildly in this underground space.

Countless long, strip-like things similar in shape to the original tentacles were wriggling on the top, and the largest tentacles extended outward along the large holes around them. Those tentacles were the monsters that had originally attacked them on the surface, and it turned out that they all grew on this alien monster.

"There's something down there..." Luxi's searchlight shone downwards.

There are giant strange plants entwined above, and underneath is a pool of liquid. No one knows what the liquid is made of, it is boiling and rolling. The giant plant on top has many roots extending into the liquid pool. These light green liquids are like juice discharged from its body, and have a huge energy reaction.

Zhao Lejie's scalp tingled: "Hey, hey, hey, this thing has grown all over the space!"

"Could those energy pollutants above have come from here?" Ji Qingfeng suddenly said, "There is no pollution reaction on their bodies, but they are alive..."

There were still a lot of moving pollutants in the pool. Right below them, they saw the corpses of pollutants that they had used as road scrapers. All the pollutants caught by the tentacles were piled up in the liquid pool below. There were living pollutants and the remains of dead pollutants in the pool... The disgusting and ugly pool made everyone avoid their eyes, and a strong feeling of nausea surged up.

There is no need for anyone to explain this to you. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that those strange energy-reactive pollutants outside all crawled out of this pool. There are holes leading to the outside around it, and there are pollutants climbing up from the edges of other holes, as if they are trying to crawl out from here and crawl onto the surface.

Everything confirmed Ying Chenlin's original guess that there was a large petri dish underneath.

“But isn’t it said that there are fusion weapons underneath?” Huo Yan noticed the appearance of the strange plant on top. It did have the appearance of a plant, but the patterns on its body were not what plants should have. Instead, there were bumpy things similar to metal fragments. It was not entirely metal, nor was it entirely a plant.

"This should be directly below the base station." You Su looked at the distance on the surface. "The underground structure of the base station is not that deep. Its location should be directly below the base station, and the fusion weapon should be above it."

Ying Chenlin frowned and said, "Judging from the position, this thing is probably grown together with the fusion weapon."

Speaking of this, everyone seemed to understand why the border troops failed to find such a huge creature during their last reconnaissance. It turned out that this thing was lurking even further down. The border troops didn't even dare to touch the fusion weapons for fear that they would explode. Who knew that there was such a thing growing underneath the fusion weapons.

Just as everyone was observing the surrounding situation, a slight noise suddenly came from the side.

You Su paused and shouted, "Get out of the way!"

The strange plants that covered the entire top suddenly extended their tentacles towards the crowd, and the sudden attack forced everyone to disperse. The tentacles that attacked the mecha group failed to hit the target and quickly moved away, rushing straight towards the black and red mecha in the crowd.

Ying Chenlin immediately distanced himself when he saw this scene. He immediately retreated to the right and shouted sternly, "Everyone, move left!"

The tentacle did not move towards the left side where there were more mechas. It briefly determined Ying Chenlin's position and then pounced on Ying Chenlin fiercely. Seeing this, several mechas in the distance also reacted and realized that the pollutant was actually heading towards Ying Chenlin.

Ying Chenlin decisively distanced himself from it. From the moment Yuan reacted, he knew that it would be impossible to enter this place without being locked. This thing really wanted to catch it, or wanted to catch the karma fire weapon loaded by Yuan. ⊙

Seeing Ying Chenlin being attacked by tentacles, others were about to help but were stopped by Ying Chenlin.

"Go find the entrance to the base station!" Ying Chenlin shouted, "There must be an entrance to the base station at the top!"

The huge plant perched on top has not only large tentacles, but also some small tentacles. At that time, he and You Su were attacked by black tentacles when they tried to enter the bottom of the research institute. If the tentacles attacked them because they sensed Yuan's presence, there must be a hole that could reach the inside of the base station, otherwise this thing would not have been able to attack him and You Su.

You Su frowned slightly, and quickly determined the location of the stairs where he and Ying Chenlin were at that time. He shouted in the direction of Ji Qingfeng: "Go to the 12 o'clock position. It won't attack you. Now is the time!"

"Are there other caves in this place!?" Upon hearing this, Ji Qingfeng immediately took action and rushed towards the direction You Su mentioned.

Lin Yao watched Ying Chenlin dodge the tentacles, and hesitated whether to help or move forward. In the end, he followed Ji Qingfeng and ran over.

Lu Xi also followed. From the current situation, they could not deal with the tentacle at all if they stayed here. Attacks were ineffective against it, and staying here would only be hiding. The most urgent task was to find the weakness of this thing as soon as possible.

The entire cave was pitch black. Several people suppressed their nausea and looked for a hole at the top that could be used for passage. Passing by the wriggling tentacles, several people swam quickly to the location mentioned, and finally found several small holes in the rock wall at the top.

No large hole was found, only a three-meter-wide hole was found, which was too large for the mecha to pass through.

"How do we get through?" Zhao Lejie was stunned. "Even a mecha can't squeeze in here, which is three meters wide. How can we use artillery to bombard it?"

Lin Yao pulled out his long knife, and started to dig: "Just dig the road."

"Are you miners? How long will it take to dig this out?" Zhao Lejie was stunned.

Seeing this, Lu Xi stepped forward and immediately switched her weapon to a water cannon. "I'll lead the way. A cannon can easily trigger an energy source, but a water cannon won't cause an explosion."

Zhao Lejie was stunned. He saw KID and the other two immediately picked up their weapons and cleared a path towards the three-meter-wide hole. He had thought of using the weapons to deal with pollutants, but he never expected that one day he would have to work as a road digger with KID more than 300 meters underground.

The excavation was incredible. It turned out that there was basically rock layer underneath, which had not been touched by anyone for many years.

When Lin Yao cut the first time, he noticed that the rock formation in front of him was unusual. "What kind of ore is this? It feels so hard."

When Ying Chenlin saw the others taking action, he immediately led the tentacles in another direction. These tentacles will not attack other people at all. Their only targets are Pollutants and Yuan. As long as he stays in this place, others will be relatively safe.

He used the searchlight to observe the situation in the cave while flying. When he heard Lin Yao's question, he remembered the rock wall he saw when he came in. "The mines in this place should all be high-quality materials. When I came in, I saw the special Jade Blood Lava Mine, which is valuable."

Not to mention the Blood Lava Mine, just the name of the Koria Polluted Zone, the materials that can be seen everywhere here are basically A-level materials.

What's more, these minerals are buried underground. The output of each vein is rare material in the outside world. They are in a forbidden area that has not been developed for many years. With such a strong energy reaction, the hardness of these ores is high enough, and they are definitely excellent quality materials for use.

Zhao Lejie turned his head and saw that KID and the other two had already dug three meters up. None of the ore they had dug fell, and all of it went into their storage warehouse. "...Are you going to leave no ore at all?!

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"Why don't you take the things you dug?" Ji Qingfeng asked, "Aren't you tempted? Such a rare ore can be used as material for recasting your mecha."

Zhao Lejie: ​​“…”

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While KID and Zhao Lejie were trapped in the underground space, the border army team's investigation of the surrounding tentacles was also sent to the Koria Administration at the same time. Not only that, some border army teams outside the restricted area had already entered the restricted area and were rushing to the C-147 base station for support.

In the control room of the administration, when all the reports were gathered in front of Mr. Qiu, the solemnity on his face became more and more serious.

The staff nearby noticed that Elder Qiu was acting strangely. Shen Xingtang said, "Elder Qiu, if what you said about the fusion weapon has become a pollutant, this idea is indeed bold, but can the discarded tissue residues really reach this level?"

"...It can only be achieved, but there are conditions." Elder Qiu said solemnly: "The research on the pollutant weapon was suspended back then, but the intelligent program is still there. This principle is actually somewhat similar to mecha, but not completely similar. We know that S-class mecha is the S-class intelligence formed by the sympathy between mental power and embryo."

"The embryo is actually a pollutant material. The materials we use are all dead, and everything inside the institute is also dead. It is impossible to achieve such a condition." Mr. Qiu hesitated, "Unless there is a living thing inside."

A living thing! ? When these words were spoken, the staff around them couldn't believe it.

Because the border army had not found any problems in the base station during all these years of reconnaissance, except for the riot caused by pollutants outside the base station 8 years ago. Finally, the border army support was activated, and the losses in that operation were heavy.

While everyone was thinking, Director Kolya suddenly spoke up: "Mr. Qiu, I remember that you applied for this restricted area reconnaissance mission for a reason. At that time, you said it was because of the pollutant [fire] that year."

After the director mentioned this, everyone remembered that the reason why Mr. Qiu came to the restricted area for reconnaissance was because he discovered clues of the pollutant after retrieving the restricted area files 20 years ago, so he brought a border army team to investigate here.

Silence stayed among the crowd for about half a minute. Old Qiu's hand pressed on the operating table, his eyes fixed on the tentacle. "Yes, I came here because of the pollutant back then."

"Speaking of resistance to fire, the fusion weapon has an offensive consciousness, and I thought of a possibility." A terrible idea came to Elder Qiu's mind. He said carefully: "I checked the old files of the restricted area. When Major General Ying killed the pollutant, we only took away the energy crystal because the situation was critical."

Shen Xingtang frowned: "What happens after taking away the energy crystal?"

Mr. Qiu: "The body of Fire was taken away by several border troops for research. After retrieving the archives, I found that during the research at that time, the researchers found that Fire had certain regenerative properties, but those properties were very weak and disappeared very quickly."

Brother Zhang was stunned: "Wait, what does this have to do with tentacles?"

"So there is a possibility." Old Qiu hesitated and finally said, "At that time, Huo's body was basically taken away by the border troops, but a small part of the severed limbs were left in the waste disposal room under the base station. If the regeneration property is confirmed to exist, then could Huo's limbs also be in the fused weapon below?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the entire control room fell into silence.

Everyone is familiar with the regeneration ability. It can be said that many plant-based pollutants have regeneration abilities, whether strong or weak. This ability is not even very useful in mecha weapons and is often used as ordinary materials. If this ability was used at other times, no one would be anxious, but once this ability was used on this fusion weapon, everyone present who knew a little about pollutants would know that -

Regenerative superpower pollutants are the ones with the longest lifespan of all pollutants... and are the most active.

"Fire is a dual-property pollutant..." Director Kolya was stunned.

"No, if its energy crystal had dual properties, our researchers would have discovered it long ago." Elder Qiu said seriously, "But this pollutant is so resistant to fire, it can only be said that it is very likely related to fire. As for the regeneration property, isn't there a common relationship?"

"Symbiosis." Shen Xingtang pursed her lips slightly. "If there is a pollutant with symbiotic abilities that coexists with fire, it is indeed possible that it has resistance to fire. I'm afraid it was not completely dead back then, and is in the remains of the pollutant fire."

"It can coexist with fire-attributed pollutants..." Director Coria didn't dare to think any further. "The grade of this pollutant is at least S, and it should be more than just regeneration. I'm afraid it has a very high concealment. It is the pollutant with dual properties."

Everyone thought of that possibility, that it had high fire resistance, attacks were ineffective, and it had not been discovered by the border troops for so many years.

This pollutant has very strong vitality. If it is mixed in fusion weapons, the consequences will be disastrous. The border troops have been troubled by the ineffectiveness of weapons for so many years. Now that so many conditions have been added, they are facing even greater difficulties.

"There's news from the border troops that the lieutenant general has brought his troops here."

"Border troops have entered the restricted area. They have about 5 minutes to reach the base station."

"Enter the base station and have them confirm the situation immediately!" Elder Qiu said immediately: "No matter what, we must confirm whether the fusion weapons below have a direct relationship with fire and regeneration!"

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The base station is more than 300 meters underground, and the mining team has been working for three minutes.

However, they were not having a smooth journey in digging the road. The huge pollutant seemed to have noticed the movement of the rock wall, and several tentacles were patrolling over it.

Zhao Lejie had to put up a protective shield at the back to block the tentacles that were crawling over and protect the KID miners above. "Fuck, stop picking up the ore and start digging!"

While Zhao Lejie and Ji Qingfeng were being harassed by tentacles, the situation on Ying Chenlin's side also became bad.

Originally, only a single tentacle followed him, but the patience of this pollutant seemed limited. Or perhaps because they made too much noise, it immediately sent out multiple tentacles to attack him violently.

The tentacles of the pollutants began to move, and the instantaneous movement caused the surroundings to shake. Gravel continued to fall from the top. You Su turned his head and saw that Ji Qingfeng had completely entered the cave. He could vaguely see the light of Zhao Lejie's protective shield.

The dark space was not conducive to movement. The energy reaction covered everything, making it impossible for them to accurately determine the direction of the tentacles. All flights had to be judged by the naked eye. You Su and Huo Yan stayed in the cave to help Ying Chenlin, but they had not been attacked before, but now that the tentacles were moving, they had to dodge the attack.

"No! It's too obvious with the searchlight on." Huo Yan looked in the direction of Ying Chenlin, "We will only be exhausted if we stay here."

But they had to turn on the searchlight. Any detection radar system was almost ineffective in such a violent energy environment. They could only rely on their naked eyes to judge the flight. You Suo's sniper cannon bombarded the pollutant again, but the bombardment caused almost no damage to it. "It's useless to hurt it."

Ying Chenlin swept to the top position, "Hit the middle part and see!"

You Su adjusted his direction and immediately rushed towards the core of the plant.

But when he attacked, the surrounding tentacles coiled around and completely protected the core.

On the contrary, because of the attack, the pollutant became more and more crazy, and it began to sweep the threatening front. This time Ying Chenlin had to concentrate all his attention to avoid it. Moreover, after entering the underground space, the temperature of the fire from the sniper weapon he carried had exceeded 80 degrees Celsius.

With such high temperatures, he was completely unable to control the weapon through empathy for a long time. Since the incident with Qiu Jin, he had a new control over Yuan's driving and knew how to minimize the consumption of mental power. However, mental power would eventually run out, and now it had exceeded the half hour that Yuan had originally estimated.

Ying Chenlin pondered for a moment and switched the sniper cannon to his right hand.

"Brother You, what are you doing down there? Is there an earthquake?!" Several people who were mining felt the earthquake and looked down.

"Dig your own, don't worry about it." You Su frowned. The pollutant was too resistant to artillery fire and was almost in a state of complete defense.

"As long as it's a pollutant, it must have weaknesses." Huo Yan looked up and saw, "Since its energy reaction is so strong, could it be that the energy carried by those fusion weapons is its nutrient!?"

nourishment! ? Everyone thought of the energy content of the heavy weapons that the border troops were afraid of. That was enough energy to blow up the entire Koria contaminated area. If it all became nutrients, then there would be no point in fighting.

Zhao Lejie: ​​"If that's the case, let's run away. This thing is invincible, and the border troops can't deal with it!"

At this time, You Su noticed that the black and red mecha flying on the other side suddenly switched its weapons.

He paused for a moment and saw Ying Chenlin take out the sniper cannon, which was now glowing with a strange red light.

He didn't pay much attention to it at first, but now in the underground environment, the red light of the weapon was inexplicably dazzling, and it was obvious that the heat was not low.

You Su: "Should be Chen Lin."

"Two shots, you on the left and I on the right." Ying Chenlin lowered his voice, "5 seconds!"

When the weapon was taken out, the surrounding polluted tentacles rushed towards Ying Chenlin like crazy. ⊙

You Su immediately caught this gap and set up the sniper cannon again to lock onto the core position. Ying Chenlin endured the burning sensation of the high temperature, and the sniper cannon in his hand completed 50% of the power and blasted towards the core position of the pollutant!

"Wait?! That position!" Huo Yan saw this and immediately shouted to Zhao Lejie: ​​"Old Zhao, the shield push is the highest!!"

Zhao Lejie was stunned, and the next second he saw a fire dragon rushing out from the hole they dug, and a sea of ​​red appeared in front of him!

"Damn it!!!" Zhao Lejie was hit by the impact and crashed into Ji Qingfeng. The four miners were burned and shouted angrily: "You guys are firing cannons at your own people!"

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