Fang Qingdai manipulated space to enter the factory, wanting to observe the group of zombies up close.
The team members breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the source of the panic.
"It's a zombie! I thought it was a ghost!"
Although zombies are rare now, they are not completely extinct. Occasionally, when you go on a mission, you can still see a few zombies wandering in the wasteland, looking like three-year-old cured meat.
Such freshness is rare.
"Huh? Why are they so interesting?"
The heaviness in Fang Qingdai's heart was dispelled by these team members. She said speechlessly, "Why don't you go and take a bite? It's a medium-rare fresh zombie meat!"
The team member scratched his head sheepishly: "Ahem, I mean, why do they look like they've only recently mutated?"
Fang Qingdai came in to observe out of curiosity.
She spread her mental energy, trying to find any unusual fluctuations.
But even after she enveloped the entire factory area, she didn't detect any unusual energy fluctuations.
Just as he was wondering, his mental energy suddenly transmitted back a trace of feedback.
Fang Qingdai immediately directed her mental energy toward the direction from which the feedback came, and surprisingly discovered several furtive figures!
She was stunned for a moment, thinking she had misperceived.
But after carefully sensing the situation several times with her spiritual power, Fang Qingdai was quite certain that there were indeed several people, living people!
Fang Qingdai immediately manipulated the space to rush over, and just then saw several people wearing top-level protective gear carefully walking into the highly polluted area, searching for something along the way with something that looked like a metal detector.
"Damn, people dare to come to this place? Which base has such a bold move?"
"Have other bases already developed defensive equipment capable of protecting against level nine contamination?"
The pollution level in this area is as high as level nine. The entire area is barren, and even the most resilient cockroaches will not approach it.
However, currently, legal bases can only produce level 8 defense equipment at most, and it can only provide short-term defense. Long-term operation will still result in contamination and infiltration.
What could it be that would make them risk entering?
Fang Qingdai recalled that although the dozen or so zombies in the factory had rotten flesh hanging on their bodies, the shape of their protective suits could still be vaguely seen.
So those zombies were all transformed from the vanguard of this group?
So many people have lost their lives in this area, yet people still keep going in one after another. Just how tempting is it?
Fang Qingdai immediately focused her mental energy on the group, listening to their conversation while manipulating space to follow them.
"Captain, how far should we scout this time?"
"The previous team recorded energy fluctuations in the southwest direction. They only went 1,600 meters deep. It is expected that they will get the accurate location of the energy fluctuations 300 meters further ahead."
"Pack up your supplies, stop unnecessary reconnaissance, and head southwest at full speed!"
Fang Qingdai glanced at the five-person team and had a general idea of what was going on.
They didn't know what they were looking for; the advance troops had no target and could only probe inward little by little.
If they were a fixed five-person team, then the dozen or so zombies in the factory could conclude that they had lost at least three or four teams before they obtained the intelligence about energy fluctuations in the southwest.
This is putting lives at stake!
Something that would make an organization go to such lengths and expense...
"There might be an energy stone to the southwest!"
Without hesitation, Fang Qingdai, having reached her conclusion, immediately manipulated the space and headed southwest.
She doesn't have an energy detector, but she has mental power!
After venturing approximately 1,600 meters deeper from the location where the team was discovered, Fang Qingdai began to deploy a large-scale mental energy network, sensing energy fluctuations inch by inch.
Not long after, her energy network gave feedback, and Fang Qingdai's eyes lit up. She immediately walked in the direction of the energy feedback.
As he walked, his mental energy continued to scan a large area until he shifted more than 800 meters to the east, at which point the energy fluctuations began to provide intense feedback!
The paulownia tree in the space trembled with excitement, and waves of consciousness entered Fang Qingdai's mind.
"Eastward, eastward!"
Fang Qingdai walked east for a while and saw a collapsed ruin.
Upon closer inspection, a huge crater was discovered in the center of the ruins, suggesting that something fell from the sky and struck the buildings, causing the area to collapse!
As Fang Qingdai walked towards the pit, she suddenly felt a blockage in her spiritual energy.
The surrounding magnetic field is very strange; it can even interfere with mental energy!
However, it seems that too much time has passed, and the remaining magnetic field has dissipated. Fang Qingdai was able to transmit her spiritual power even when she focused her mind to resist.
It is likely that the energy of the energy stone was able to be transmitted because the magnetic field dissipated, and the first batch of discovered energy stones should have appeared in the world under such circumstances.
Fang Qingdai walked to the edge of the pit despite the magnetic field interference, only to find that the pit was extremely deep, about thirty to fifty meters deep!
She carefully manipulated the space to descend, while sending a message to the paulownia tree: "Keep an eye on the fluctuations in the spatial walls. If things go wrong, we'll retreat first and then figure out what to do!"
She was worried that the strong fluctuations in the central magnetic field would affect the stability of the space wall, causing contaminants to penetrate.
After all, the previous imperial seal was able to penetrate the space barrier's defenses.
Fortunately, all was well and Fang Qingdai successfully reached the bottom of the pit.
"Base Commander, look!" A sharp-eyed team member spotted a small patch of glowing white light at the bottom of the dark pit and excitedly pointed to the spot, calling out to Fang Qingdai!
Fang Qingdai immediately enveloped it with her spiritual power and discovered that it really was an energy stone!
She suppressed her excitement and began frantically searching with her mental power. Every time she found a piece, she used her mental power to wrap it up and put it into her space.
For safety reasons, Fang Qingdai set up a barrier space specifically for storing energy stones.
These energy stones must be taken out to purify themselves before they come into contact with the human body.
After searching the entire bottom of the pit many times and confirming that there were no energy stones left, Fang Qingdai manipulated space to leave the pit.
More than two hundred energy stones!
No wonder that group of people went to such lengths to get in!
Fang Qingdai was curious about how they knew there were energy stones in this area. Did they have accurate information, or were they just speculating based on their experience of discovering energy stones before?
Fang Qingdai pondered for a moment, then turned to her team members: "Two of you, I'll take you to the edge of the contaminated area. You two go back to base and get more people to guard it. Once those people leave, take them down."
This area is currently within the territory of the Oasis Base. Although there are no explicit rules in the wasteland, it is a common practice that the citizens of each base will only carry out missions within the territory of their respective bases.
If you trespass into the territory of other bases to carry out missions, you'll be left alone if you're not encountered.
However, if the haul is substantial and the group is discovered, the base can intercept it on the grounds that other factions cannot take away items belonging to the base.
Now that they've been discovered, Fang Qingdai can use this as an excuse to detain and interrogate the person.
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