Chapter 181 Disconnection
"good!"
Ta-da...ta-da...ta...
But no matter how nervous they were, even if they tried to speed up, ten minutes was still too short.
It felt like only a short time had passed, but I could already hear my teammates urging me through the headset.
"There are only two mechanical dogs and four mechanical rats left. Hurry and prepare to evacuate!"
Soon, the technician's voice came from the headset.
"Captain, we estimate we can hold out for another two minutes, hurry up!"
"receive!"
Shark replied, but his hands did not stop moving. He continued to search while directing his teammates around him to retreat one after another.
But after the order was given, no one left the room.
"Captain, there's only a small area left. Let's search until we're done!"
"Yes, maybe this is the only chance. Let's search a little longer! That way we can evacuate with peace of mind!"
When the time comes, no one is willing to back down.
"That's an order!" cried Shark, groping in the mud on the floor.
Just as he was thinking about saying something to his teammates to persuade them to go back, he suddenly felt a circular grid under his hand.
Shark paused subconsciously, but his hands continued to move. He cleared away the debris surrounding the circular grid, and then saw a small vortex suddenly appear in front of him.
"Is this a... sewer?"
The surrounding water slowly gathered and swirled down along the circular grid, gurgling. Soon, the debris he had just cleared began to accumulate on the circular grid again.
When the shark confirmed that this was a sewer, it lost interest and pushed the dirt blocking the net mouth to the side.
But when he was about to move his gaze elsewhere, he suddenly discovered that something seemed to be flickering under the circular grid that was black and covered with mud.
The shark was startled and turned his gaze back.
After cleaning the debris off the grid again, Shark saw a square object shining in the light through the grid that was a few millimeters apart.
The object kept floating up and down with the downward flow of water. Through the metal floor drain, you could vaguely see the golden fox logo on it.
…
On the shore, the team members who were operating the robot mice and robot dogs were almost unable to hold on.
Even though they had thrown some things into the lake one after another after reminding their teammates to evacuate, distracting some of the octopus's attention, the remaining mechanical assistants could not hold on for long.
Seeing that they could no longer control the octopus in another area of water, the technician who was in charge of the command had to urge Shark and the others to evacuate immediately, while at the same time directing his teammates to set up more obstacles on the octopus's way back to the institute to buy more time for his teammates underwater.
If the teammates could leave before the octopus entered the research institute, there might be a chance of survival. If they happened to encounter the octopus during the evacuation, given its current irritated and crazy condition, they might not even have a chance to escape.
Seeing the octopus getting closer and closer to them, the technician kept urging it, but there was no response from the headset.
He didn't know what was happening to his teammates underwater, but for now, he could only organize them to continue blocking the octopus's movements while directing the rest of his teammates to get on the car. This was something they had agreed on yesterday.
…
Because the robot mouse was broken, the team members, freed up, carried the items they had previously unloaded from the car back in batches. Some domestic production lines have not yet resumed operation, and these machines are being used one by one. They should not be so extravagant unless it is absolutely necessary.
Although Jin, Tony, and the others had accompanied them on this trip, due to language barriers, they hadn't been assigned any important tasks and were merely assigned to minor duties. Seeing this, they joined in to help. However, compared to the other members of the team, who followed orders with utmost discipline, they were noticeably hesitant after hearing the translated instructions.
Tony crept up to Jin while he was moving things and asked in what he thought was a quiet voice, "Hey, man, did I hear you wrong? Are we just going to retreat like this?"
"What else?" Jin shrugged and decided to stay there any longer. When the octopus got closer, none of them would be able to escape.
"What about the people who went into the water earlier? Just leave them alone?"
Tony was very confused.
They had heard a lot about the unity of the Hua people before, but they didn't expect to see this scene for the first time when they came to help.
Although they had already arranged what to do in the current situation at the meeting before the operation, and he knew that this choice was made out of helplessness and was necessary to protect the majority of people, but now that the planned scenario really appeared before his eyes, Tony still felt a deep sense of incongruity.
Compared to Tony, Jin and others didn't think so much.
Jin patted his old friend on the shoulder and said, "Don't think too much. We just need to follow orders. They have their own arrangements. We just need to save our own lives. Jenna is still waiting for you!"
After saying that, he got out of the car and continued to move things.
As for the other members of the team, although they heard what Tony said, they had no intention of explaining at the moment.
No one knew whether the USB drive was found or not, and there was no news from the teammates who went into the water. Meanwhile, the dangerous octopus was getting closer and closer. In this situation, they were all too distracted to pay attention to anything else.
On the water surface below the mountain, the undulating waves are getting closer and closer, and you can vaguely see the tentacles and feet waving in the splashing water.
The technician's heartbeat quickened at the sight before him, but he still heard no sound. He gritted his teeth and commanded, "Have the robot dogs fire their shells and sever the octopus's limbs!"
Although the robot dogs were larger than the robot mice, their size was limited, and each could only carry three rounds of ammunition, which needed to be reloaded when used up. Because reloading the ammunition took a long time, and they were also worried that firing the ammunition would irritate the octopus, they had not used it when distracting the octopus.
But at this critical moment, there is no time to care about anything else.
Just two or three seconds after the technician gave the order, the tail of the robotic dog, which had been dodging the octopus underwater, suddenly exploded, disintegrating into three spiraling steel blades. Then, the robotic dog closed in and attacked their tentacles. The next second, thick blood seeped into the lake water.
But this damage was obviously not enough to break the octopus's tentacles.
The zombie octopus had no sense of touch, and even though the blades had inflicted several wounds on its body in a short period of time, it had no effect on its movements. In fact, due to the mechanical dog's approach and pause, its tentacles even whipped the mechanical dog accurately.
But before the octopus could attack again, a gun hole appeared on the chest of the mechanical dog. Then, the two mechanical dogs dispersed on both sides of the octopus, and two shells flew towards the octopus in the water almost at the same time.
"Boom!" "Boom!"
Two sounds appeared almost simultaneously, exploding like thunder in the lake. Simultaneously, the turbulent surface of the lake before them suddenly erupted in a wave of water.
On the computer screen, the robot dog's perspective swayed constantly with the turbulence of the water. But in this swaying, one could roughly see that the octopus had lost two tentacles.
The aftermath of the explosion was still there, and the lake bottom was still shaking, but fortunately the explosion had not caused any damage to the research institute not far away, and the institute was still standing tall in the water.
"good!"
The technician was shocked, but also relieved, and continued to command, "Second round, ready!"
In the murky, swaying water, two more shells flew towards the target. Two loud explosions were heard, and two more bloody flowers exploded from the octopus on the screen, and its severed tentacles fell to the bottom of the lake.
The octopus was unaware of its lost arm, but was quite interested in its lost, bloody limb. Seeing the octopus about to fall and stretch out its remaining arm to salvage the falling limb, the technician quickly ordered the third round to be fired.
An octopus's tentacles can regenerate when its body has enough energy. In this case, we cannot give it the opportunity to eat itself to replenish its energy.
In the increasingly turbid lake water, two more blood flowers exploded.
But after firing these three shells, the two mechanical dogs in the lake lost their last support and could only rely on dodging and continuously emitting plasma from their abdominal cavities to try their best to attract the attention of the octopus.
But after such a battle, the faint smell of plasma released by the mechanical dog in the fishy lake water had almost no appeal to the octopus.
Therefore, even though the two mechanical dogs were still diligently trying to attract the octopus's attention, the octopus quickly rushed towards the tentacles that fell to the bottom of the lake.
Even though they tried their best to stop it, the tentacles were quickly eaten by the octopus. And not long after the octopus started eating the tentacles, new ones grew back little by little where the original tentacles had been broken off.
As the octopuses gnawed away at the broken limbs at the bottom of the lake, leaving them with fewer and fewer, and their teammates still not returning, everyone on shore became extremely anxious. They kept calling out into their headsets, but there was still no sound.
They watched as the octopus regrew all its tentacles, then swam around at the bottom of the lake before slowly swimming towards the research institute...
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Meanwhile in the laboratory, Shark and his teammates were trying to work together to open the sewer filter.
When the shark found that the USB drive had fallen between two sewer filters, it tried to reach its fingers under the first layer of filter to remove the USB drive.
However, the mesh spacing of the filter was too small, and even with his little finger, he still couldn't get in. Later, Shark took out the dagger he carried with him and tried to pry the filter open, but found that the edge of the filter was welded as a whole and embedded directly into the floor.
【Author’s words】
Thank you for your support. The next chapter will be updated before 10 o'clock tomorrow night.
I forgot to send everyone the red envelopes for Chapter 178 a few days ago. I’ll go now.
It is expected to be completed by next Thursday.
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