Chapter 205
Chapter 205
The roots of the plants were spread all over the ice layer, and they looked hideous under the continuous bombardment of artillery fire. The thick and tangled roots broke through the ice and stabbed into the ground fiercely, which was in stark contrast to the original silence. The rumbling sound overlapped with the sound of ice breaking on the surface. A large amount of broken ice fell from great heights, and the entire underground ice space was crumbling.
Zhao Lejie used his shield to avoid the attack of a large number of roots. The thrusters were pushed to the extreme at this time. However, after he narrowly avoided the roots in front of him, the roots that fell from the side of his ear penetrated the shield and directly cracked the ice near his feet.
Huo Yan shouted from afar: "Old Zhao, protect yourself!"
"Fuck! Are you guys going to die? Get behind the shield!" Zhao Lejie quickly jumped to the side of Ying Chenlin and protected him with the shield. "Don't stay outside for too long, or you'll freeze to death!"
Ying Chenlin moved sideways into Zhao Lejie's shield, knocked off the frozen ice around him, and then rushed out of the shield's protection range again. The energy cannon bombarded the ice pillars in the distance. Lin Yao followed Huo Yan with sharp eyes, picked up the ice that fell on the ground during the repeated attacks of the roots, and stuffed them into the storage compartment.
Zhao Lejie could only keep up with KID's pace.
This damn underground space is not a place where they can fight freely. They can barely move by relying on the roots wrapped around their bodies, but they can only move outside the shield for about 1 minute! Even if we want to lure out these pollutants, can't we come up with a strategy to lure them out? ? If he is a pollutant, he will kill them here for such a reckless and aggressive provocation.
The dark environment of the underground ice layer makes mecha combat more difficult.
At this moment, the temperature around them dropped sharply again, dropping 15 degrees Celsius in the blink of an eye, and the ice layer around the mecha condensed faster.
"It's really here this time." Ying Chenlin said.
Zhao Lejie was stunned for a moment, "What's coming?"
The searchlight swept through the dark ice. A subtle but special sound seemed to appear amidst the constant sound of breaking ice. You Su's ears twitched slightly, and the energy cannon in his hand quickly changed the direction of the wind and blasted towards the direction of the sound.
The energy cannon cut out a ray of light, causing a violent vibration when it hit the top of the ice layer, hitting a contaminant that had been spying on the scene.
You Su said: "The culprit of the frozen energy."
Zhao Lejie's searchlight swept towards the location where You Su was bombarding, and suddenly he saw something hanging upside down on the ice ridge fifty meters away. It was more like a pair of special circles. A fragmented circular aperture with bright blue dots around it, and in the very center of it is a bottomless black that contains everything.
"Circle...?" Huo Yan noticed something strange. "No, that's an eye."
Those were a pair of black eyes surrounded by bright blue light.
The moment he noticed the eyes, You Su's energy cannon bombarded that location again.
Just when the energy cannon was about to hit the eyes, the eye on the ice spike hanging upside down moved, and the mecha masters who were paying attention to it immediately saw the full picture of the eye.
The crow-like pollutant was a similar color to the transparent white ice layer, as if it was completely immersed in this special environment. It flapped its icy wings, and the vibrating wings brought with them a strange cold current. The next second, it flew towards Lin Yao, who was closest to it.
Lin Yao dodged quickly, but the silent cold current was unavoidable. Before he could run a few steps away, the rapidly solidified ice immediately froze his thrusters. The hissing sound of the thruster energy stopped, and Lin Yao limped on one leg and fell unbalanced on the ice.
"It can freeze people!" Lin Yao struggled to get up and shouted to his teammates, "Be careful with your wings!"
The Ice Crow did not stop. After freezing Lin Yao, it locked onto You Su in the distance. It vibrated its wings violently, and the invisible ice blades quickly slammed towards You Su in the darkness.
Huo Yan's movements were even faster. He rushed in front of You Su with the anti-injury shield on his body. The open shield blocked the invisible cold current, and a thin layer of ice condensed around the shield in an instant.
"Freeze so quickly!?" Huo Yan was stunned.
You Su frowned and retreated, "It has been following us for a long time."
The plant roots attacking from all directions were already very troublesome, and the addition of this ice crow directly disrupted everyone's offensive rhythm. Lin Yao had not yet completely stood up from the ice, and had no choice but to roll a distance and stand on one leg, and hurriedly rushed into Zhao Lejie's protection circle.
"Hold on for a while!" Ying Chenlin said quickly.
Zhao Lejie was thinking about how he could hold on. He turned his head and saw Ying Chenlin rushing to some icicles despite the risk of being attacked by roots. He had to shout, "Why are you still picking up pollutants at this critical moment? Money or life!"
Before he could finish his words, he saw Ying Chenlin taking out an energy tube.
Seeing the energy pipe, Zhao Lejie's forehead buzzed, "Brother, promise me, this place is really not vulnerable to explosions!"
Ying Chenlin immediately broke off the mouth of the energy tube, and the energy liquid in the broken tube dripped onto the icicle.
Zhao Lejie: “?”
It would be fine if they caused an avalanche outside, but if they caused an explosion and collapse inside, they would really be buried in this place forever!
You Su's energy cannon was still firing. Under Huo Yan's cover, he attacked the Ice Crow on the high ground and said coldly, "What are you afraid of? This place can't be blown up."
Huo Yan also asked: "Is it really going to explode? Aren't the spatial coordinates still not restored?"
Ying Chenlin moved very quickly, breaking open the tube mouth at each location and explaining: "The energy liquid on Zhao Lejie's shield disappeared."
Energy source for the shield? Zhao Lejie wondered where the energy liquid was on his shield, but the next second he suddenly remembered that when they were dragged into the underground ice layer by the roots, Ying Chenlin seemed to have taken out an energy tube to attract the roots' attention. At that time, the bumpy environment seemed to have caused some of the energy liquid to spill out.
"The energy liquid was absorbed by the plant roots." Ying Chenlin explained.
When the dripping energy touched the icicle, the roots that had been lurking inside the icicle seemed to smell something special, and they scrambled to swallow up a few drops of energy liquid. They soon sank into the ice layer, with nothing left outside.
These energies are brought into the ice layer, so they will not explode due to energy cannon bombardment.
But knowing that these roots can absorb energy liquid, why did Ying Chenlin feed them the energy liquid?
Before anyone else could ask about the matter, they saw Ying Chenlin switch the light source of the searchlight in his hand to ultraviolet light, and the light in front of him suddenly dimmed. When the medical mecha swept the ultraviolet light upwards, it saw glowing dots in the ice layer around the icicles dripping with energy liquid, moving towards the distance.
This ice layer is rich in many special elements. When you scan it with ultraviolet light, you can see spots of fluorescence in the ice layer.
Among these fluorescent lights, there were a few drops of bright and dense light that were particularly obvious, and these lights were moving at the end of the ice cave corridor at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Huo Yan reacted when he saw this, "Energy liquid!?"
"Energy liquid flows...?!" Zhao Lejie reacted instantly, "You are looking for the source!"
The area covered by this plant-based pollutant is too wide, with so many roots everywhere. If they continue to search at a normal speed, they may not be able to find the last root of this plant pollutant even if all their mecha energy is exhausted.
Ying Chenlin originally observed that parts of the plant roots are black and parts are transparent, which means that the roots that are absorbing the flesh and blood energy of the pollutants are black. What if the energy liquid is used as a primer?
Then we can only let the pollutants absorb it and judge the light by the direction of the flow of the root light spot.
The energy liquid is full of rich mecha energy, and the rich metal elements contained in these mecha energies have fluorescent properties.
By scanning with ultraviolet light, certain things can be seen clearly - such as the direction of energy flow in transparent roots.
Zhao Lejie suddenly understood after seeing this. No wonder Ying Chenlin wanted to destroy the icicles. Attracting plant roots was only the first effect. His real goal was to find roots that actively absorbed energy. These icicles fixed on the surface of the ice were like the source of absorption. Starting from this direction, they could trace the direction of the flow.
Ying Chenlin said: "If the energy detection system had not been affected by the magnetic field and failed, we could have been faster."
Now that many systems of the mecha have failed, he can only use the most basic physical reaction method to track it.
"Wait?! Do you have enough energy tubes?" Zhao Lejie suddenly thought of something, "Didn't you explode once up there? How many energy tubes are left?"
"Enough." Ying Chenlin explained: "Before the Shuguang spacecraft took off, I took out all the energy tubes on the apron."
etc? Is there a resource storage room next to the Dawn spacecraft landing pad? ?
All the energy supplies from the Gale and Dawn systems were placed there. Zhao Lejie was shocked: "You... brought them all out???"
Huo Yan continued, "Don't worry, we always bring our belongings with us every time we set out, and it should be enough to last us a long time."
Zhao Lejie: "That seems to be the supplies for the entire team for this operation, right?"
Ying Chenlin nodded: "Well, I remember your team leader Boss Zhang said that you can take the supplies. Didn't he say that all the supplies will be reimbursed by the Dawn Galaxy this time?"
Zhao Lejie reacted in panic, oh yes, it seems that this time it was the Dawn Galaxy that was responsible... that's not right! Even if the Dawn Galaxy is destroyed, their Gale stock will be used first! ! !
The ice spike from high above hits
It came down, and its thick roots broke through the ice and hit Zhao Lejie's aperture, knocking the entire mecha back several steps. Zhao Lejie no longer cared about how much inventory there was. He looked at the fluorescent light from above that had already flowed a long distance away. He wanted to move forward with the shield on. The next second, a circle of thin ice formed on the light shield in front of him, seriously affecting his vision.
They wanted to chase the energy liquid, but the crow in the high place was already approaching. When it flapped its wings, the entire space was filled with cold currents stirred up by it.
"Fuck!" Zhao Lejie shouted, "This bird can flap so hard!"
And as the Ice Crow approached, the cold current that spread all around it seemed to be approaching everyone. No wonder they only felt a slight drop in temperature before they came down, but once they reached the bottom floor, the temperature dropped so obviously. This ice crow's wings can not only fan cold currents, but the temperature around it can also drop to the freezing point, and any fragments of pollutants that fall to the ground can be instantly frozen by it.
If it gets close to them, they won't have time to track down the energy source.
At this moment, a similar blue dot appeared behind the ice crow.
Huo Yan saw the pollutant and shouted, "Be careful, there is a smaller one behind it!"
Ying Chenlin was stunned: "Two?"
There was a smaller Ice Crow following behind the Ice Crow. When the big Ice Crow was fanning the cold current, the little Ice Crow behind it was also following. The two Ice Crows completely blocked the road ahead. Ying Chenlin held Yuan's key and looked into the distance with a bit of coldness in his eyes.
"Chen Lin, don't be impulsive." Yuan's voice reminded at the right time, "This place is not suitable for changing mechas."
Yuan is a mecha equipped with dual fire weapons, which gives it an advantage in dealing with pure ice pollutants, but he must leave the cockpit to change the mecha. In such a cold environment, even with the protection of Zhao Lejie's shield, a normal human body would probably turn into an icicle in an instant if it left the cockpit.
Ying Chenlin relaxed his hand and was observing the blind spot of the coverage area of the two ice crows in the distance when two energy cannons fired in succession at his ears caught his attention. You Su's movements were faster than Ying Chenlin's. He quickly approached the big ice crow along the edge of the ice cave. While moving, he pressed the energy cannon and swept across the ice ridges in front of the ice crow. The rumbling ice blocks blocked the vision of both the enemy and us.
You Su said coldly at this time: "Ying Chenlin, take them away."
"Don't just stand there, go!"
Ying Chenlin looked towards You Su suddenly, and saw the gun mecha flying through the falling icicles under the guidance of the purple light, and sticking to the direction of Bing Ya, "You——"
Huo Yan pushed his thrusters hard to catch up with You Su's pace. "Leave these two birds to us. My shield can hold up for a while. Don't worry, go ahead."
As soon as You Su's energy cannon was fired, it was slowed down by the cold current generated by the vibrating wings, and traces of energy freezing appeared on the surface of the fast-moving cannonball. He increased the energy output to the extreme, and operated the mecha faster and faster. "I'll come to you after I solve it."
Seeing this situation, Zhao Lejie said anxiously: "Damn it, let's not disperse this ice cave——"
"Let's go!" Ying Chenlin drove past Lin Yao with his thrusters, grabbed Zhao Lejie who was standing still, and rushed forward without looking back, "Lin Yao, follow me!"
Lin Yao shouted, “Here they come!”
The ice blocks above their heads fell with a loud thud, and along with the cold current, the thrusters of the three mechas were pushed almost to the limit. When the red and white gun mecha saw the three mechas entering the bombardment area, they raised their energy cannons and bombarded the top ice layer continuously. The Ice Crow changed its position under the influence of the falling ice spikes, forcing the Ice Crow to move.
Ying Chenlin broke the ice edges one by one while sliding, seized the gap forced by You Suo, and was the first to pass diagonally below the Ice Crow. Zhao Lejie had no time to look at the situation ahead. His shield was covered with ice spikes. He could only follow the medical mecha leading the way and travel at full speed in the ice cave.
When the three mechas were out of sight, You Su switched the energy cannon to a sniper cannon, "Huo Yan, don't leave my side."
Huo Yan understood, "Don't worry, I promise it won't freeze you."
You Su locked onto the Ice Crow high up in the sky, "Then let's make a quick decision."
In the dark cave, the front and rear mechas separated from each other in the commotion in the ice cave.
The guns and tanks remained in place, and the remaining three mechas passed through the ice spikes. Once they were out of the attack range of the Ice Crow, the deadly cold current was instantly reduced.
Ying Chenlin's ultraviolet lamp was still on. After crossing the range of the Ice Crow, he blasted off another icicle. The unscrewed energy dripped on the icicle, and a clear and obvious fluorescent light flowed. He picked up the pollutants and blasted forward again. There seemed to be other movements in the height, but he could no longer care about these. His main goal throughout the journey was to move forward.
"It's downhill ahead!" Lin Yao shouted.
Zhao Lejie couldn't see what was ahead, "Ice is blocking my face!"
Ying Chenlin pressed Zhao Lejie's head, corrected his direction, and slid down the ice when he fell down the slope. "Open your shield and follow me!"
The long ice cave slide is wide and has no end.
Lin Yao controlled the direction of the UV light and said, "Turn!"
Zhao Lejie couldn't see clearly in front of his shield. He could only hear the sound of an energy cannon of a mecha four or five meters away to the side.
When the three mechas jumped into a sharp downhill turn, they fell heavily on the icy ground. Ying Chenlin turned off the thrusters. He could not see the unknown dangers ahead on the dark road. He held the energy cannon in one hand and locked onto the icicles that were rushing out in front of him. In the dim vision of the ultraviolet light, he blasted down the icicles that blocked the way ahead one by one, and pulled Zhao Lejie to avoid obstacles on the ice one after another in the high-speed sliding environment.
Yuan's calm and orderly reporting continued in Ying Chenlin's mind, and Ying Chenlin shouted sharply: "Jump!"
Zhao Lejie jumped up subconsciously, and the two mechas jumped over the ice gully on the ground and slid into another corridor again. At this time, he glanced slightly to the side and saw the medical mecha firing energy cannons one after another while sliding in chaos. Then he heard the fire bursting from the ice in front and the rumbling sound of ice cubes falling to the ground.
The three mechas moved quickly. Lin Yao saw the fluorescent light above change direction again, "Turn left!"
"Fuck! Even parkour isn't this exciting!" Zhao Lejie's eyes went dark, and his vision was completely blocked. He didn't even have the vision to observe the direction of the fluorescent light. He only knew that he was being led by the mecha beside him the whole time.
At this moment, Lin Yao saw the fluorescent light sinking and shouted, "Go down!"
The thin ice in front of Zhao Lejie's shield cracked at this moment: "Down???"
The three of them were stunned, and when they looked forward, they saw a huge ice surface that was broken dozens of meters away.
Zhao Lejie: "Oh shit! I'm going to fall! The speed is too fast, the thrusters won't be able to respond in time!"
At this time, Ying Chenlin cut out the space staff and suddenly inserted it into the ground to slow down the downward force. He tightly controlled the impact force of his right hand and the ground, and he and Lin Yao next to him held Zhao Lejie, who was sliding down with a shield, on the left and right.
The three mechas braked suddenly in front of the ice fault and stopped successfully on the edge of the cliff.
Zhao Lejie's heart was beating in his throat. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw it stopped. But when he looked up and saw the situation in front of him, he was stunned.
"What the hell is this!?" Zhao Lejie was shocked.
Ying Chenlin said calmly: "We have arrived."
Below the broken ice layer, under the illumination of ultraviolet lamps, countless fluorescent dots were floating right in front of them. A large number of roots were suspended right above the broken ice surface. All the roots were swaying and floating. The dense, shallow or deep fluorescence made their scalps tingle.
——The end point of all roots, a large number of plant roots growing in the abyss of ice.
If they hadn't braked just now, they would have fallen directly into the source of the roots and wouldn't have been able to climb out!
"Keep your voice down and don't disturb them."
The roots of the plants here are very quiet, and it seems that they have no intention of attacking the mecha.
Ying Chenlin suddenly pulled Zhao Lejie up from the edge of the cliff. He noticed the divergence of the ultraviolet light source, and turned sideways to notice the looming figure of Lin Yao on the far left.
"It's foggy." Ying Chenlin said.
This fog was exactly the same as the fog they encountered on the snowfield.
Lin Yao stood firm and asked, "Are we there yet?"
Zhao Lejie raised his head and scanned the surroundings with the searchlight. When he looked up, he saw a huge red flower lying directly above him. He immediately lowered his voice and said, "Flower?"
Ying Chenlin heard Zhao Lejie's voice and looked upwards. In the faint mist, he saw a huge flower on the top. The flower grew on the surface of the ice. The entire pistil was a strange icy red color, and there were dots of yellow light on the petals. There was a lot of white mist lingering around it.
Lin Yao raised his head: "...Is this the source of the roots of these plants?"
"No." Ying Chenlin swept the light to the side. The source of the roots was below the broken ice layer. If the flower on the top was the source, then there would be no roots in the broken ice layer. It should be radiating from the flower as the center.
He pointed at the flower high up and said, "I seem to have seen this kind of flower in the database."
Zhao Lejie asked: "An indigenous species of Slarede?"
Ying Chenlin switched to the cached Slarede database and quickly found a pollutant that looked similar to the flower based on its appearance. "It's a parasitic flower from the Slarede Forest area."
Parasitic flower, an ancient plant that prefers humid and hot environments, grows in the Slared Forest area.
Zhao Lejie saw the information about the parasitic flower: "Parasite flower? How can it grow in such a cold environment?!"
"Pollutants don't discriminate between environments. It must have mutated greatly." Lin Yao observed the flower high up. "Is it only Class B? A parasitic flower, can it parasitize others?"
The information says that this parasitic flower has no leaves, roots or branches, and it relies on the host roots to absorb nutrients and grow.
Zhao Lejie: "Wait? If it's parasitic, then it's not!"
Ying Chenlin's light swept around the parasitic flower, "It grows parasitically on these roots."
These roots absorb energy and nutrients from the large amount of pollutants in the underground ice tombs. This parasitic flower can grow to this size, probably because it steals the nutrients from the large amount of energy in the ground. And judging from the current situation, this parasitic flower is no longer just a simple B-level one.
"Although it's still unclear what the source of these roots is, the white mist all over the snowfield should be caused by it." Ying Chenlin looked at the white mist emanating from the flower, "Normal parasitic flowers don't have such great power, but it parasitizes on the roots of plants scattered all over the ground here--"
Zhao Lejie and Lin Yao understood that normal plants could not affect such a large area, but this parasitic flower absorbed nutrients by parasitizing the roots that spread throughout the ground, and also emitted its own supernatural white mist through these roots.
Then as long as they deal with this flower, the problem of their limited communication radar will be solved!
"Wait? Why does it emit white mist?" Lin Yao didn't understand.
"Are you stupid? It's hunting. It eats and drinks other people's food. It creates some fog to help these roots catch pollutants. In the end, it is the one that benefits." Zhao Lejie thought of Ying Chenlin's previous guess. "This parasitic flower is, and so are the two fanning birds that attacked us. You guessed before that these plant roots drive a large amount of pollutants to hunt for it. What's underneath? The strong team is interested in this thing?! The strong team is not a pollutant..."
"I don't know." Ying Chenlin looked up, and the space staff in his right hand was switched to an energy cannon, aiming at the flower in the sky. "But this flower must be killed."
Zhao Lejie hastily opened his shield, "Wait! Can we check the escape route first? This flower may have other——"
The energy cannon blasted into the center of the flower with a buzzing sound. In an instant, a large amount of liquid spilled down from above and all over Zhao Lejie's shield. The result of this blast caused the expressions of the three people present to change slightly.
Ying Chenlin looked at it in surprise: "It went in."
Lin Yao exclaimed: "It didn't resist?"
Zhao Lejie: "Is it S-class? It's so easy for you to blast in."
Before they finished speaking, the atmosphere around them stopped strangely for a moment.
Down
At that moment, a large amount of white mist around him suddenly flowed back towards the direction of the pistil. A large amount of white mist was sucked into the pistil, causing the surrounding air to vibrate faintly.
At the same time, outside Slared's defense line.
The Supreme Administration of the Covenant Mission System received an emergency message from the Slared Contaminated Area Administration. The blaring alarm echoed throughout the Supreme Administration's control room, and all staff members looked towards the source of the message.
"The source is Slared?"
"Isn't the Slarede foundation facility abandoned?"
"Underground signal restored!"
"An alarm signal from the ground-based automatic facility."
The alarm signal went off the instant it came on, and all staff members moved in unison, "A large amount of energy fluctuations have been detected underground in Slarede!"
The coordinates of all mechas in the Slared contaminated area were presented in front of them. The Slared foundation system was urgently restored, and all the information was clearer than ever before.
At this time, all the strong teams in the Slared contaminated area saw an emergency message light up at the same time.
[It has been detected that you have entered the Slared Contaminated Area and have been automatically connected to the Slared Contaminated Area System. ]
The system automatically connected and a flood of information poured in.
The automatic recovery system disrupted the rhythm of all teams. Ji Qingfeng, who was braving the cold wind and holding a Gale signal transmitter outside the base station as an artificial antenna, heard sounds coming from all directions at that moment. The sound of the partition in the white fog magnetic field sounded at this time.
"Oh my god, what's going on?" Ji Qingfeng was stunned.
Hu Luobu in the white mist magnetic field reacted: "This voice?! Isn't it Ji Qingfeng?"
Wen Yi reacted and immediately adjusted the radar interface. The radar signal of the mecha within a radius of 100 miles was extremely clear. The coordinates of more than a dozen powerful mechas appeared on the radar at this moment. All the coordinates were moving and were moving rapidly towards the snowy mountain and snowfield area.
In the center where the strong teams gathered, there were several blue signals representing their own side.
Wen Yi said in a deep voice: "It's bad."
The signal is located 318 meters underground and is KID's mecha.
Colin gasped, "Exposed."
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