Chapter 46

As the sky gradually darkened, the others lit a bonfire around them, roasted something simple to fill their stomachs, and then gathered together again.

Jiang Zihan stared at the hole closely, while Zhizhi stood on her shoulders and tried hard to stuff nuts into her mouth.

She chewed a few of them politely: "Okay Zhizhi, I'm not hungry, you eat it yourself." Her entire attention was now on the ground below, and she didn't know whether Lu Chenyuan had discovered the drainage device. The strange "hissing" sounds had weakened a lot.

Suddenly, the other end of her mental force twitched slightly, and her eyelashes trembled as she reacted instantly. Just as she was about to call for help to dig, she felt a sudden push from behind, and her feet instantly missed her, and she fell towards the cave entrance.

Jiang Zihan's mind went blank. Someone hit her neck hard. She came back to her senses instantly and instinctively threw Zhizhi up, grabbing a piece of her clothes at the same time: "Hurry up!"

The man was startled and immediately started to pull it apart. Ye Sheng ran over after hearing the sound and immediately cried out in surprise: "What are you doing!"

The other person slipped and they both fell down instantly. The man got mad and punched the cave entrance hard. The already fragile pile of stones collapsed immediately and the last light source was turned off.

"Oh no! Doctor Jiang fell into the hole!"

The crowd suddenly became chaotic.

Stones fell down in a rush. Jiang Zihan desperately tried to control his body, clamping his long legs around the opponent's neck and throwing himself down. "System, help me cushion the impact!"

In the darkness, crackling electric currents lit up, numbing all resistance from the person below. Invisible energy walls in the air blocked her several times, and finally she stepped on the flesh pads to reduce the momentum, but still fell and her eyes went black.

Jiang Zihan got up from the ground, frowned and looked at the stranger in front of her, and couldn't help but make a "tsk" sound. There were quite a lot of people joining the gathering place recently, and she had no impression of this face at all. She probably didn't know the others very well either, which gave people an opportunity to seize the opportunity.

As hurried footsteps approached, Jiang Zihan pressed the dagger at his waist with one hand. When he turned around, he met a pair of worried eyes. They were both stunned, but they breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Lu Chenyuan jumped over on the rocks and asked, "Are you hurt?"

Jiang Zihan shook his head: "There is a meat pad. Do you know this person?"

Compared to her who locked herself in the clinic all day, Lu Chenyuan was also responsible for the daily training of the patrol team and was more familiar with the personnel.

Lu Chenyuan squatted down and took a closer look: "They are not from the gathering place. They must have just sneaked in during the chaos."

He gritted his teeth and said, "It's my fault. If I hadn't brought someone new in at this critical moment, I wouldn't have let anyone take advantage of me."

He looked up. If there were other people sneaking in, he could only hope that the members would be vigilant and not be deceived.

"Did you find anything?" Jiang Zihan had long noticed that there was something wrong with Lu Chenyuan's clothes, and she smelled a fishy odor before she even got close.

Lu Chenyuan also reacted, took a few steps back, and took off the traitor's coat and put it on.

He shone the flashlight around and asked, "Do you know how to raise Gu?"

Raising Gu?

Jiang Zihan's heart skipped a beat: "What do you mean...?"

"Weren't there a lot of nematodes in that pool we found earlier? I suspect those were just primary mutants that were eliminated, and the ones left here are the evolved species that have been screened through layers of competition and devoured each other."

Lu Chenyuan's expression was a little ugly. These evolved species were larger in size and their fighting instincts were much stronger. If they continued to evolve, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Jiang Zihan: "So this underground space is used to cultivate evolutionary species and then send them to the surface for the next round of evolution?"

Lu Chenyuan nodded: "I have found the exhaust device, but I can't turn it off. I need to find a professional mechanic to come down."

But now the entrance to the cave is sealed. How are they going to go up and find the mechanic?

Jiang Zihan rubbed her arm that was hurt from the fall and suddenly paused. Although she didn't have a mechanic, she had a system!

She glanced at the man's back out of the corner of her eye. How could she convince him that she had some mechanical knowledge?

Jiang Zihan's mind raced as he approached calmly, "Take me over there first? Maybe I have another solution?"

Lu Chenyuan didn't suspect anything and jumped onto a huge rock and stretched out his hand to her. Jiang Zihan grabbed his hand and a pulling force came, and she was pulled up.

"Follow me, be careful." He led the person to his side and walked forward cautiously.

They walked for nearly a hundred meters, and all along the way were chopped-up bodies. The foul and fishy smell filled the air. Jiang Zihan couldn't help but hold his breath and moved closer with his clasped palms.

The two finally stopped in front of a large, dilapidated instrument. Jiang Zihan looked up. The huge tube was connected to the dark pool, and a long black thread was constantly wriggling inside. She calmly let go of her hand and took a few steps away.

Lu Chenyuan's palm felt empty and he couldn't help but clench it.

Jiang Zihan: "Is this the discharge device?"

"Right." Lu Chenyuan came back to his senses and walked to the operating table. "The wires to all the buttons are severed. I don't know how to fix it. If I accidentally connect the wrong wires and cause premature discharge, that would be a disaster."

Jiang Zihan approached. The timer on the instrument was still counting down. The dozen or so wires were broken very neatly, which was obviously caused by human intervention. People who didn't understand the instrument would have no way to do it.

She took a deep breath, and a faint voice came from her mind: [Host, I can disguise myself as a robot to restore and repair the console here, but can you give me a little more mental strength? I'm running low on energy...]

Jiang Zihan paused, thinking about the fight with the masked man just now. She caught a glimpse of an electric wire that tripped the man several times during the chaos, which gave her many opportunities. It seemed that it was not an accident.

"What should I do?"

[Put your hand on the mechanical carrier, then input mental power, and I can blend into the mental energy and temporarily escape.]

"You won't trip me up after you leave, will you?" Jiang Zihan was suspicious. Is this system so obedient?

The system held its breath and said, "I still rely on your mental power to operate. How can I possibly cheat you?"

Jiang Zihan was skeptical, but since he couldn't contact the outside world, he could only rely on it.

She followed the instructions and went around to another place. She finally saw the robot the system had indicated. She raised her eyebrows and asked, "Do you like this?"

There was a rusty old-fashioned housekeeping robot lying in the corner, one of its mechanical arms was broken, and it looked completely scrapped.

[…According to testing, this is the carrier with the closest frequency to my radio waves, which can significantly reduce energy consumption.]

In short, save mental energy.

Jiang Zihan immediately knocked on the board: "This is it."

She raised her hand, and her mental power poured into the robot's head. A large amount of data streamed across the screen, and the indicator light above it turned completely green: "Charging complete!"

The housekeeping robot creaked to its feet and limped over, a tray held high on its arm. "Your... coffee, please enjoy..."

Jiang Zihan was silent for a moment. "Never mind," she thought. "I'll fix it later." She pushed the robot to the operating table and watched it slowly connect the power cord.

Lu Chenyuan glanced around and came back to the half-lit button. He raised an eyebrow and said, "Is this a maintenance robot? It's still working?"

Jiang Zihan lowered his eyes and avoided looking: "I brought an energy board, and I didn't expect it to be compatible."

After all the power cords were connected, the two of them closed the drainage device as quickly as possible, and the countdown that was almost done finally ended.

【bite--】

The robot instinctively made a sound, but immediately reacted and swallowed up all the noise that followed.

The reward column was empty. Jiang Zihan smiled faintly and crushed the remaining carriers of the system in his mind.

The robot's metal shell couldn't help but tremble, looking like it was about to fall apart.

"?" Lu Chenyuan: "Can repairing the wires cause damage to the robot?"

Jiang Zihan remained calm: "It seems that it is really about to be scrapped. Fortunately, it didn't fail at the critical moment."

Lu Chenyuan: "Take it back and fix it. It should still be usable. A repair robot is also good. I can arrange it to repair the circuit."

The robot's screen tilted slightly, secretly sizing up Jiang Zihan. After all, she could block the supply of mental energy, and now she was its breadwinner, so it had no choice but to back down.

Tong was a little distressed. How could he convince her to keep it?

With a snap, a small stone fell down. Jiang Zihan looked up as if she had sensed something, and saw a furry ball crawling out and waving at them. She immediately understood and grabbed Lu Chenyuan: "Let's get out of the way..."

Lu Chenyuan took her a little further and covered her head with his coat. A few seconds later, pieces of stone fell down.

The pangolin stuck its head out and met the gazes of the two people below, then immediately sped up digging the hole.

…

The two returned to the crowd. The open space on the hillside was surrounded by alien plants, and the rescued deformed experimental subjects were temporarily resting here.

Lu Renshuang and the others will perform simple bandaging here and go back together after the battlefield is cleaned up.

The traitors who had mixed into the crowd were quickly caught by the elites brought back by Lu Chenyuan. Although they did not know the people in the gathering place, they were professionals in catching criminals.

Lu Chenyuan also carried the robot up. Lin Na walked around it, wanting to say something but stopping himself. "If you want robots, there are quite a few in the warehouse in Area D. They're much newer than this one."

The robot's old parts suddenly made a "bang" sound, and the connection of the neck almost got stuck.

Jiang Zihan poked the mechanical skull and suppressed a smile: "It's okay, this can still be used after some repairs. The gathering place is in great need of these, so let's move them all back."

Lin Na scratched his head and said, "Then let's ask the mechanic to fix it. It's too old."

Lu Chenyuan looked at Jiang Zihan's smiling face, an inexplicable emotion flashed in his eyes, and his chest suddenly felt a little swollen.

Is this also the result of being controlled by mental power?

He doesn't think so.

Zhao Ming came over with a tablet in hand. "Doctor Jiang, the data from that laboratory has been collected and packaged. We haven't touched the rest. We'll report it later and have Gaota handle it directly."

The projects currently involved in this laboratory are beyond their capabilities, which makes him feel a little scared.

Jiang Zihan praised: "Well done."

At this moment, Su Su, who was guarding outside, suddenly ran in with a bad look on her face: "There seems to be something unusual in the gathering place."

Jiang Zihan's expression immediately darkened, and everyone quickened their pace to return to the gathering place.

Because of Jiang Zihan's disappearance, most of the personnel in the gathering place were transferred away, and Kui Feng was left behind to lead the team.

Shortly after they left, unusual noises were heard from the back mountain. It turned out that half of the people from District D had surrounded the gathering place and tried to capture the people as well.

In addition to some wild war beasts, the highest-level one left in the gathering place was actually the elderly Jicheng. Everyone gritted their teeth and resisted, just trying their best to drag the others back.

At this moment, Jicheng, who was napping in the greenhouse, walked over slowly. His old body looked a little inconspicuous. He stood by the fence and shook himself, his eyes showing a bit of brilliance, which was unusual for him.

Rustle, rustle, rustle!!

Rows of bone spurs rained down from the sky, and the anchor, unable to dodge them, died instantly. A faint smell of blood spread, and Kui Feng paused with the knife in his hand, looking over in shock.

Bone walls were launched one after another, and they actually surrounded the surroundings layer by layer. A figure quickly passed by the back mountain, and the Silver Rock Lynx jumped in before the edge of the bone wall.

The creature on its back slowly raised its upper body, and a brown light flashed on the bone wall. The gaps became tighter. This war beast that looked like a sloth could actually reinforce these bone walls.

Together with some of the little cubs fighting guerrilla warfare, they actually blocked the attack of nearly a thousand people.

Jicheng's movements slowed down. The experienced veteran took a look around and confirmed that the other party could not make any waves, then slowly went back.

When Jiang Zihan and the others came back, they looked at the towering bone wall and could not believe their eyes. The hole that was originally a loophole had become the strongest corner?

Jiang Zihan first went to check on the situation in Jicheng and was relieved to find that this action did not aggravate its distortion. In fact, the battle even made the distortion energy flow more smoothly.

She looked expressionlessly at the group of captured anchors in the open space: "It seems that some people can't sit still anymore. In that case, let's not stay in Area D."

The urgent task calculated by the system should not only be the sewage, but also include this attack, and the war beasts are the accidents that it cannot estimate.

Jiang Zihan suddenly raised the corner of his mouth and nodded at Lu Chenyuan: "Want to compete?"

Lu Chenyuan raised his eyebrows: "Comparing what?"

Jiang Zihan tilted his head, his smile growing more pronounced. "Who's better, the elite team you lead or the war beasts I command?"