Chapter 108
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The appearance of a base station still in operation in the restricted area was beyond the two teams' understanding. Qi Sicheng frowned subconsciously. Their mecha division had a very vague understanding of the Koria restricted area. The role of this base station in this restricted area was not known for the time being. However, judging from the attitude of the Koria Administration towards the restricted area, this restricted area was probably not simple.
Qi Sicheng glanced at the shielding system in the distance, which was no longer clearly visible, and then focused his attention on the base station again. "This base station may be related to the operating system of the entire restricted area."
"Then should we go check it out?" Huo Yan asked after hearing this: "If it's near the base station, there should be ground facilities, right? Maybe we can get in touch with the management bureau."
Ying Chenlin's gaze fell on You Su, and the other party no longer led the way.
From the moment he entered the scorched woods, You Su seemed to already know something.
You Su was very familiar with this restricted area, even more familiar than Ying Chenlin had originally guessed, and the other party's performance gave him a very strange feeling. For some reason, Ying Chenlin felt that You Su didn't like this restricted area very much. He couldn't explain the origin of this feeling, but he had a very strong feeling about it.
"Thank you." Ying Chenlin said in a low voice.
You Su didn't say anything, as if he was just a guide, taking the shortest route and happened to see this strange base station.
In the cockpit, Theo looked at the base station in the distance. There was a partial record of this base station in the incomplete data of his body, but when he wanted to scan the deep data of that base station, there was no record inside the body.
"Have we been here before?" Theo asked.
"I've been here." You Su didn't move forward. When he saw the base station, he already knew that other people would be interested in it.
Theo searched the data inside the machine relentlessly. When it came here with Yousu, it hadn't yet developed any mecha intelligence, and the data inside the machine was sorted out like an ordinary intelligent system. After a careful check, he found that the records related to the restricted area did not seem to have entered its core database.
Theo seemed to know something about the fault data in the database that was not entered.
Just when Qi Sicheng and Huo Yan were hesitating about the direction to go, the Gale Stealth Mecha Master who had been hovering around the team sent back a report, "Captain Qi, we've found something here, do you want to come over and take a look?"
Qi Sicheng came back to his senses: "What did you find?"
"A very strange hole." The stealth mecha didn't know how to describe it. "It's at the end of the ditch where the strange tentacle was just now."
After hearing what the hidden mecha master said, everyone felt that something was not right and planned to go over there to take a look.
Ying Chenlin temporarily put aside his speculation about You Su and went over there to see the situation.
Zhao Lejie and Ji Qingfeng fell behind and saw that he was still walking with the mantis. "If you can find a safe place, you should quickly deal with this pollutant."
There was an S-class king insect and a space-displacement crystal in the mother mantis. Ji Qingfeng knew that when the displacement ability failed, it would be a bit cumbersome and even dangerous to carry this pollutant in the restricted area, but it was not easy for them to deal with this pollutant while they were on the road.
It would be fine if it were simple material processing, but there were still a lot of bugs inside this pollutant. If you want to peel off some of the outer shell materials, you still have to deal with the bugs, and the most important thing is how to deal with the king bug.
Ji Qingfeng was a little reluctant to do it, but he also knew that the pollutants themselves were a threat, so he said, "We have to find a safe place. We are all rushing to get out, so how can we have time to deal with it?"
Zhao Lejie: "It's simple, just cut off the head, the energy crystal is inside."
Ji Qingfeng looked at the king insect tied around his neck: "It's easy for you to say that, but my daughter is still in the head."
The hidden mecha division's position was not far away, and when they arrived, the first thing they saw was the ditch.
The newly turned soil was scattered on the dead branches and leaves. There were traces of dragged soil at the bottom of the ditch with a diameter of about one meter. At the end of the traces was a hole deep underground. The hole was larger and wider than the ditch. At the entrance of the hole, you could see traces of being scratched by the mantis' legs.
It was obvious that the strange tentacle was pulling the mantis's leg directly into the ground.
Seeing this, several mecha masters
There was a slight silence.
Such pollutants are too strange. Even if the main body of the pollutant is deep underground and difficult to be captured by the mecha's detection system, the tentacles as part of its body are exposed on the surface. Logically, there should be a pollutant reaction, but there is none.
"Look at the shape of this hole." Qi Sicheng noticed the traces of cracked soil at the edge of the hole and said, "It should have dragged more than one pollutant."
In other words, that thing underground is dragging pollutants everywhere into the underground to eat.
And judging from its tentacles, the pollutant is most likely quite large.
"Is it hidden under the restricted area?" Huo Yan frowned and looked at it. "Does the Koria Administration know about this?"
This restricted area pollutant is obviously not an ordinary pollutant. It even dares to bring S-level pollutants. This means that the level of this thing should be S-level or S-level variation... or another higher level, possibly super S-level pollutant.
Lin Yao: "Will it be Super S?"
"It's unlikely. If it's a super S, it should have been found by the Koria Administration during the black hole riot." Zhao Lejie knew the situation. They came to the Koria contaminated area because of the black hole riot. The S-level pollutants in Koria were found. At that time, they all captured the magnetic field characteristics of the black hole. "The alliance has captured black holes, so they must pay special attention to the hidden dangers of black holes. If this thing is super S-level, it will leave some traces, right?"
Lu Xi: "When we went on the mission, we only mentioned 10 threatening S-level resources."
While the others were discussing, Ying Chenlin looked at the cave entrance for a while and quickly walked to the other side of the cave to observe. He used the mecha's scanning system to scan and analyze the ground soil and found that the entrance of the cave extended deeper into the ground, not only moving downwards but also moving forwards. He turned off the contaminant scanning system and turned on all other scanning systems in the mecha.
You Su was not with the other mecha pilots. His mecha was parked outside the cave entrance. All the control systems in the console were lit up, especially the two weapon systems which were in a combat-ready state. Right in front of his field of vision, a mecha had left the mecha group and walked to the other side of the cave entrance. He frowned slightly, and glanced at the pollution detection radar that had not responded.
Theo: "I don't have any data on such strange pollutants!"
“How could I have memories of something that is not in your database?” You Su said calmly, “But this place is indeed a lot weirder. It’s quieter than it was eight years ago.”
It was a little unusually quiet.
Theo hesitated for a moment and asked, "Should we report this to the border troops?"
The mechas in front of him were clustered together, reminding him of an old scene in his memory.
In just a moment, the gloom in his eyes was washed away, and he returned to his lazy look.
"What do you want to report?" You Suo's hands had been lingering on the weapon's operating table, and his left fingertips, which were connected to the empathy nerves, were rubbing slightly. "I am just a former mecha division of the Border Army. Now I am at most an enthusiastic citizen."
His peripheral vision fell on Ying Chenlin's mecha, "Besides, there is no need for us to report it. There are people who see things more carefully than us."
Theo was about to ask a few more questions when he heard Ying Chenlin's voice in the public channel of the two teams.
Ying Chenlin said: "You can turn on the energy scanner."
The other mecha masters stopped discussing and turned on their energy scanners upon hearing this.
The next second, their display screens showed results that were completely different from the pollution response scan.
There was a slight special energy reaction at the entrance of the cave, and the reactions going down along the surface were of varying degrees of intensity and depth, displayed on the display screen, which was shocking at first glance.
"How could it be an energy reaction?" Qi Sicheng frowned when he saw the report.
Ji Qingfeng: "No way? Could that thing just now be a huge energy source?"
Zhao Lejie couldn't help but say, "It's impossible to know! Where in the alliance can we find energy sources like this?"
Energy reactions are fixed, and there is rarely any mobile energy. Basically, there will be no reaction unless special energy materials such as minerals are explored. What they saw clearly had the same flexibility and attack capabilities as pollutants, so why did the pollution reaction have no results, while the energy reaction did?
"The energy reaction disappears here." Ying Chenlin was about fifty meters away from the mecha group. He stood on the soil somewhere. "Either it ends here, or it has exceeded the detection range of the onboard energy scanner."
Several mecha warriors looked in the direction of Ying Chenlin and noticed the direction in which the cave entrance extended.
As they flew over Ying Chenlin's mecha, they could see a faint purple light shield appearing behind the trees that were obscured by the scorched woods.
"This thing is the extension direction——"
Qi Sicheng said: "It's that base station."
Base station. The surrounding mecha operators all looked towards the operating base station in the distance. The purple light shield above the base station seemed to reveal something. The mecha operators looked at the base station with a different look. Assuming that these energy reactions are related to that strange pollutant...that doesn't mean that the pollutant is right below the base station?
"No way?" Zhao Lejie said.
Qi Sicheng frowned slightly, "Whether it will happen or not, it looks like we have to go to the base station."
If there are pollutants that pose a huge threat, as Alliance mecha divisions, they are obligated to report the pollutants to the Alliance.
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The restricted area covered with scorched trees is full of decayed plants and dim vitality, and the soil on the ground is exactly the same as the swamp forest outside. The border army squad that had just entered from the entrance was already heading towards the location of the abandoned base station.
While moving, Lieutenant Colonel Lu looked at the surrounding situation and said, "The situation in the restricted area is more stable than the data recorded last year. Has it been like this in recent years?"
"Yes, Major. Every time we come to investigate the restricted area over the years, the pollution inside has decreased year by year." The soldier explained: "The pollution value is also getting lower year by year."
Lieutenant Colonel Lu frowned and looked at the detection system: "Is the pollution value lower than that in the Koria contaminated area?"
"This is indeed strange," the soldier explained. "We carried out a mission just last year, and the reconnaissance results at that time were still above the pollution index in Kolya."
The mecha division of the border army couldn't help but pay attention to the mecha in the front. The original leader of the team was from their special forces exploration team.
However, after learning that the applicant for the mission was Mr. Qiu, the superiors replaced the general leading the team with Lieutenant Colonel Lu. They had been in the border army for some time and knew the name of Lieutenant Colonel Lu. He was a mecha master of the core commando team of the special forces. He had rich experience in conquering battlefields and was extremely powerful. It would be a waste of his talent to transfer Lieutenant Colonel Lu to this exploration mission.
"Strange." Lieutenant Colonel Lu said immediately: "Pay attention to the pollutants around you. The magnetic field in the restricted area is special. Pay attention to environmental changes."
After hearing Colonel Lu's instructions, everyone became alert and did not dare to relax at all even when they were moving forward quickly.
Lieutenant Colonel Lu looked at Theo's location on the map, his frown never relaxing.
In the main control room of the Koria Administration, all the staff were dealing with two things at the same time. The joint clearing mission was coming to an end, and the situation in the restricted area on the main planet made the staff's already difficult work even busier. When Director Koria, who remained in the control room, saw that the coordinates of the border troops on the map were heading towards the midpoint, his expression changed slightly.
Staff: "Jifeng and KID changed direction. They probably wanted to shorten the journey."
Director Corea: "Can we still contact them?"
"Their mechas don't have any special systems for the restricted area, so they can only try to communicate point-to-point." The staff member continued, "Based on their current route, they should be able to meet up with the team led by Lieutenant Colonel Lu soon."
Mr. Qiu paid attention to the coordinates on the map.
Director Kolya looked at Mr. Qiu who was silent beside him and said, "Their direction of advance will pass through the abandoned base station. You haven't told me why there is a sudden exploration mission."
The border troops have a mission request, and the Koria Administration can only cooperate.
But the destination of this mission request is a restricted area, so the level of the mission is different.
Director Koria has been working here for many years. During this period, the border troops have entered the restricted area only a few times. Since the mutant pollutant was cleared 20 years ago, the border troops have entered and exited the restricted area many times in recent years on the pretext of missions. The most tragic one was 8 years ago. ①
Eight years ago, a pollution riot occurred in the restricted area. Due to the special location, it was impossible to request the assistance of the Alliance's professional mecha divisions. All clearing tasks were secretly carried out by the border army's mecha divisions. The team was led by the special forces of the border army. However, the clearing of the special forces was not smooth. Four S-level mutant pollutants appeared, and a large number of border pollutants broke through the border defense.
Amid internal and external troubles, the special forces were surrounded by pollutants. In the end, the special forces successfully completed the clearing mission, but it was also the heaviest casualties since the border troops started the mission.
Since then, the Border Force has reassessed the restricted area and special investigation teams have entered it every three years.
"The last exploration mission was last year. According to regulations, regular exploration missions should be carried out one year later." Director Kolya looked at Mr. Qiu. "Not long ago, you came to retrieve the old files of the restricted area, and now you are bringing people here again. As the director of the Kolya Contaminated Area Management Bureau, I should also have the right to know."
Elder Qiu said solemnly, "I didn't hide anything. I applied for this mission last time, and I applied for an exploration mission on the grounds that the black hole might affect the restricted area. The Star Alliance took it very seriously, and finally the superior transferred Lieutenant Colonel Lu here."
Director Corea asked in confusion, "But we have already conducted the exploration of the black hole two months ago. The pollution value of the restricted area during this period has also been normal, even better than in the past few years."
Mr. Qiu hesitated for a moment and said, "The black hole is just an excuse. I found something in the old files. I hope everything is just my illusion—"
Before he could finish his words, the staff member next to him suddenly said, "Chief, KID and Jifeng's direction of advance has changed!"
Director Kolya and Mr. Qiu, who were talking, stopped talking immediately. When they looked at the map again, they found that the coordinates of KID and Jifeng had shifted to the 10 o'clock position. Director Kolya was stunned when he saw this: "This direction, they are going to the base station!"
Mr. Qiu's expression changed slightly, "Find a way to contact them. We can't let too many people know about the base station!"
While the outside world was hurriedly contacting the inside of the restricted area, KID and Jifeng's mecha warriors had already arrived near the base station. As soon as they approached the base station, the building appeared in front of everyone. All the mecha masters saw were relatively old-fashioned buildings. These buildings had a sense of age and it was obvious that they had not been renovated for many years.
The Gale Mecha Master said: "Captain Qi, we can no longer detect the energy reaction underground, but the energy reaction of the base station in this place is very obvious."
"It's normal for a base station to have an energy response." Huo Yan looked at the building in front of him, "This base station looks like it's been built for many years."
"It has not been renovated, but there is still an energy-operating base station." Zhao Lejie walked around to the entrance of the base station and asked, "What is this place used for?"
Ying Chenlin raised his head slightly and looked at the various changes in the styles inside the base station. "The antenna-type signal device on the radar system over there has been discontinued. I remember it was an old model from more than ten or twenty years ago. Such facilities are not used now."
As soon as he finished speaking, he entered through the entrance of the base station.
Qi Sicheng was still thinking, and a moment later, several mechas of KID had approached the entrance.
Zhao Lejie: “??? What are you doing?”
Lin Yao: "Since we're here, let's go in and take a look."
The entrance of the base station scanned the mecha and automatically opened the entrance barrier.
As soon as Ying Chenlin entered the base station, the anti-pollution reaction on the mecha was pulled to full. Seeing that others were still outside, he explained: "The anti-pollution equipment here is turned on."
The anti-pollution equipment is turned on, which means that even the most basic equipment in this base station is running.
It is a fully operational base station, but it has been unattended in this restricted area.
No matter how you look at it, this situation is suspicious.
The building that Ying Chenlin was paying attention to turned into something else. This base station was in operation, but there were signs of damage inside the base station. After the Battle of Qiujin, judging from the damage inside the base station in front of us, these were not natural damages, but something had attacked this base station, leaving traces of battle everywhere.
These traces of battle have been simply cleaned up, but they cannot conceal the dilapidated state of the base station.
When Ying Chenlin was observing, he saw that Theo had stopped in the distance, and You Su came out of the cockpit and landed steadily on the apron.
He paused for a moment, then drove the mecha towards the helipad inside the base station. After stopping on the helipad, he got out of the mecha cockpit.
Not long after You Su came out of the cockpit, he saw Ying Chenlin following him down.
Seeing this, he said, "Isolator."
Ying Chenlin took a few steps closer to You Su and showed him the isolator on his hand. "I'm wearing it."
You Su saw Ying Chenlin in combat uniform. The tight uniform outlined his thin but muscular figure, and his straight back showed that he had a good physique even as a maintenance engineer. He looked away, "Put on your coat, too."
Ying Chenlin was stunned for a moment, then took out KID's team uniform from his portable storage device.
While he was getting his clothes, You Su had already walked in on his own initiative.
Ying Chenlin put on his clothes casually and followed quickly.
Seeing the KIDs inside getting off the mechas one after another, Zhao Lejie, who was still at the entrance of the base station, was overwhelmed: "Why are you all getting off!"
Huo Yan: "Aren't you going to contact Kolya? This place is so well-equipped, the control room should still be usable, right?"
"The people in the Administration know we are here." Qi Sicheng also followed into the base station. "The main control room is indeed the way to contact the Administration. The local defense system is still there and is safe. We can use it temporarily."
In a sense, this place is indeed a relatively safe place in the current restricted area.
Seeing this, the other mecha masters followed Qi Sicheng in. Ji Qingfeng was unable to go in. He looked at the female mantis beside him and said, "Live pollutants cannot pass the defense system. I will stay outside with it and see how to deal with it."
Zhao Lejie didn't follow him when he saw this. "Why are you so hesitant about killing a pollutant? You can't just take it out, right? Besides, if the mantis is dead, your daughter will at most be the living king insect."
Ji Qingfeng sighed: "Everyone has feelings, how about you come?"
Zhao Lejie didn't want to stay outside with him and stare at a mantis or a bug.
Soon he followed the footsteps of other mecha masters and entered the base station.
As soon as Qi Sicheng and Huo Yan entered the place, they went to find the main control room in the base station. Ying Chenlin did not go to the main control room. He held Yuan's mecha key tightly in one hand and saw You Su walk to the building inside the base station.
Ying Chenlin looked at the building...a research institute?
This kind of building is most likely the place inside the base station that supplies supplies to researchers, but this building is larger than the research buildings inside the base station that Ying Chenlin had seen before. He followed You Su into the building, passed through several doors, and entered the inner hall.
There are very few permanent staff members in base stations in polluted areas today. Most of the time they are robots, so there are generally no unnecessary decorations.
However, the structure of the lobby inside this building is very similar to that of research institutes outside. There is a control console similar to the reception desk in the front, and virtual bulletin boards and work reports are hung on the walls on both sides.
Ying Chenlin walked over and saw the work log on the virtual bulletin board, but the important records on it had been basically deleted, and only some vague descriptions of the weapons could be seen. He is a maintenance technician and can understand some of the terms. Why would the research institute in the contaminated area be researching weapons?
After he finished looking at the bulletin board, he looked to the side and saw a work report chart with a shift schedule next to it.
The virtual screen in this area seemed to have been impacted, and cracks appeared on the screen where part of the image was missing. He took a few steps closer and saw several portraits displayed next to the work schedule. These small portraits seemed to be the researchers there.
Most of the faces are young, but there are also some very old people.
Ying Chenlin scanned the area quickly. Halfway through, he noticed someone approaching from behind and explained casually, "This research institute seems to be doing weapons research..."
Before he could finish his words, he caught sight of You Su's hand out of the corner of his eye.
As Ying Chenlin stepped back, he bumped into You Su. He paused and said, "Sorry."
You Su's hand passed over Ying Chenlin's shoulder and stopped behind him.
Ying Chenlin noticed You Su approaching and he seemed to be looking at something as well.
You Suo's other hand hovered above Ying Chenlin's right shoulder, "Turn around."
Ying Chenlin was startled, "What?"
At this moment, the force on my shoulder intensified.
"etc--"
Ying Chenlin was forced to turn around, leaning his entire body against the wall with his back against the virtual screen.
As soon as he raised his head, he noticed You Su's eyes on him.
The other person's eyes were very dark. When Ying Chenlin met his eyes, he noticed that his face and the virtual screen behind him were reflected in those eyes. The force from his shoulder wasn't strong, but it was his first time being so close to someone, and he had a strange feeling.
"What's wrong?" Ying Chenlin asked in confusion.
"Don't move."
You Su's eyes swept across Ying Chenlin's face, and finally landed on a figure that was at the same level as Ying Chenlin's shoulders.
——It was a face that looked very similar to Ying Chenlin.
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