"Signal incoming."
"Yuanyu 2: I'm No. 3. No. 1 and I are coming up. Can you come out so we can get a seat? Over."
Jiang Ling got up from the ground. It took her several seconds, with the help of her psychic ability, to clearly see the two people not far away. If it weren't for their short shadows, she would have almost missed them.
Several people ran towards each other with their luggage. After a brief greeting, Wu Ying took a fancy to the odds and ends in Jiang Ling's hand.
"Oh, you brought this with you? That makes it easy."
He dragged out a half-person-high cargo box from the equipment box they brought up, and then took the signal booster from Jiang Ling. After that, he jogged away from the others and returned to the vicinity of the ice cave.
Jiang Ling did not wait for him, but took Political Commissar Xiao to her hiding place.
"You are making such a big noise, aren't you afraid of being noticed by the things in the sky?" Jiang Ling buried his orange equipment box back into the snow and said to Lao Xiao who was a few steps away.
She uses shortwave communication. Shortwave does not have the same penetrating power as longwave and will be suppressed by the ionosphere inside the atmosphere, so it is relatively safe.
"It's okay." Old Xiao used a pair of long tongs to collect the broken biological samples on the ground into a jar. The fragments were shaking slightly, as if they were about to come alive. "Did you feel the vibration? They launched several split-type submarine-launched missiles. The probability of them noticing us from above is almost zero."
"I hope you are right. By the way, that mutant doesn't look like an independent individual. You'd better collect more samples." Jiang Ling replied.
"Huh? What did you just say?" Political Commissar Xiao replaced the pin of the white phosphorus grenade in his hand, which was used to destroy the corpses.
"I said, that thing is not a mutant, but a symbiont of several mutants!" Jiang Ling repeated.
Political Commissar Xiao stood up, stepped back a few steps, and walked around to the side of the corpse to observe its structure. He used the modified viewfinder on his head to take a few photos of the object, and then sent the photos during the brief communication time with No. 509.
"Yuanyu 2, what do you think it is? Especially those bubbles on the ground. They seem very hard to me, like some kind of quick-drying concrete."
"I have a screwdriver in my toolbox. You can try to pry off a piece." Jiang Ling used her psychic power to throw the toolbox in front of him, and then continued to cover the equipment box with snow. The explosion they made had blown away the surrounding snow, so this time they had to go far away to collect materials.
"Why not use a tracheotomy? You can't be so incapable of using such a simple tool?" Lao Xiao opened the box and found that the lock core of the toolbox had been removed long ago.
"I've tried," Jiang Ling replied impatiently. "That thing is more durable than insulation tiles. Otherwise, how do you think I managed to stay here quietly for half a day?"
Upon hearing this, Political Commissar Xiao looked at the light blue foam again. He found that its lower surface was covered with bumpy, coin-sized depressions, and on the upper part was a circular smoke mark, and the surface shape of the mark had hardly changed.
This is a material that can withstand temperatures of at least 3000 degrees Celsius.
If what Jiang Ling said was true, then the value of this thing was immeasurable. Political Commissar Xiao quickly thought of various scenarios in which it could be used. He frowned and prepared himself for the risk.
The next moment, he held the screwdriver with both hands and pulled the power of the exoskeleton to the limit that the screwdriver could withstand. Then, with a "click", the front half of the screwdriver pierced into the foam pile.
Political Commissar Xiao only felt his knuckles numb from the shock, and he couldn't wait for it to ease, so he hurriedly looked at the place where his salty fish had stabbed.
I pulled the screwdriver out again with force; its cross-shaped tip was deformed. The screwdriver had only gone halfway in, most of its kinetic energy absorbed by the substance.
Clearly, it would be an excellent material, but unfortunately its cold working properties are not very good.
As a last resort, Lao Xiao had to use a hacksaw. After sawing off three blades, he finally got a thumb-sized scrap.
He quickly put it into the jar, fearing that the hard-earned sample would fall to the ground. The weight of this thing was very light and it might be blown away by the wind if he was not careful.
Not long after this, good news came from Old Wu.
"Yuanyu 3, the signal tower is responding. Distance... eleven kilometers southeast of us. This is definitely not interference. We've received the identification code!"
Jiang Ling and the other person packed up the remaining tools and put them into the storage drawer of the equipment box. It was only then that she realized that this equipment box was longer than hers.
They returned to the entrance of the ice cave and met up with Old Wu.
Wu Ying stood beside a device about the height of a man. The antenna of the device was raised very high—at least ten meters high. Connected to it was an orange cable that led all the way to the sea below the cave entrance.
"Fortunately, I have your signal booster, otherwise it can only be used as a navigation beacon." Old Wu covered the device with a camouflage net and sighed.
"You have so many talented people, how come you haven't considered this?"
"We don't need this stuff on the ground, and we don't have unlimited equipment." He shrugged inside the exoskeleton, but people outside couldn't see his body language.
Old Wu ran over to the equipment box and knocked on it twice. Several air currents rustled from the bottom of the box, and then it slowly rose. Two small crawler tracks extended from its bottom, and the rigid suspension supported the box away from the ice.
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