Chapter 221: Passing by Pirates
Lan Ximeng did not use her mental power to investigate, so she didn't know what had happened.
Ten people hid in the grass that was as tall as a person, and many mosquitoes began to circle around them.
Seeing this, Cheng Bai immediately opened a bottle of colorless and odorless potion and sprayed it on himself and others.
When Cheng Bai sprayed her, Lan Ximeng used her supernatural powers reflexively.
She was afraid of being cheated.
Cheng Bai didn't notice Lan Ximeng's actions. He took the things back, slightly raised his lips and said in a low voice, "Okay."
"Thanks."
Then the thirty people waited quietly again, and the mosquitoes that were circling around them had flown away.
Suddenly, a low engine sound came from the distance, like a hum from the end of the horizon.
Soon, beams of light cut through the night, illuminating the road.
A ray of light passed through the grass and shone on the faces of several people who were hiding.
The ten people remained motionless, staring outside closely.
A convoy was approaching slowly from the direction they were heading, its headlights illuminating the entire road in the darkness.
The vague sound became clearer as the convoy moved forward.
"In the depths of the boundless sea of stars,
Our warships cut through the night.
The stars show the direction,
Towards the unknown distance. ”
The singing is passionate and heroic, with a brisk rhythm.
This was the first time Lan Ximeng heard this song, so she didn’t know what it was.
But some of them knew it. Huang Zhishen and Zhou Nuo, who were the first to discover the problem, changed their expressions.
"Oh, space pirate, free spirit,
Chasing the dawn in the dark universe.
We are ghosts in the storm,
Leaving traces of legend among the stars. ”
The singing continued, and after hearing the lyrics, Lan Ximeng also knew who these people were.
She looked through the gaps in the grass and saw a number of weather-beaten off-road vehicles running on the road.
This car has no flight system and can only run on the ground.
Each vehicle was equipped with one or two machine gun-like weapons.
A car ran over something, a black and red object was embedded tightly in the tire.
Three minutes later, the convoy gradually moved away.
Huang Zhishen turned around and said seriously: "I think everyone knows what the motorcades in the past were like."
Seeing the others nod, he continued, "This group of pirates should be our target this time."
"They seem to be heading in the direction we came from. Could they have discovered us?" Jiang Ge wore a woolen hat on his crew cut because it was cold.
"It's possible." Huang Zhishen took out a tablet with a small red dot on it that kept moving to one side.
Xiao Yan asked curiously: "What is this?"
"This is a spider exploration locator. We dropped it when we came here." When Zhou Nuo was finishing, he dropped a locator at regular intervals on the road.
Only one out of a dozen locators was successfully retained.
"Let's rest here first and talk about it after tonight."
When the others heard this, they all started looking for a place to sit down and rest.
It's hard to sleep in this weather.
Especially now that they knew they had been discovered, taking out all their belongings would only expose their location and make it difficult to escape.
Two hours later.
"They stopped!" Huang Zhishen, who had been paying attention to the location, clicked a few times, and a split screen appeared.
Several people who couldn't sleep at all gathered around Huang Zhishen and looked at the tablet in his hand.
The spider controlled by Huang Zhishen crawled out and stopped at the corner of the front of the car.
The location where the pirates stayed was displayed in a split screen, and familiar traces were seen on the ground.
The faces of several people did not look very good.
"Isn't this where we rested before?"
Lan Ximeng also noticed it. It was already 6 o'clock in the evening, and they should have prepared to rest there for the night.
However, Huang Zhishen felt that the weather was too cold and there was no place to shelter from the wind nearby, so he rested for a while and continued on his way.
"How did they know where we were?"
Li Qiuyue didn't understand. This was arranged by the school and no one else should know about it.
"Could it be that someone spread our news?"
"Just take a look and you'll know." Huang Zhishen controlled the spider and crawled into the car.
A rustling sound was heard.
"Third brother, there is no one here. Do you think they are hiding?"
"No, these students don't know that we have sentries nearby. They should be heading towards the base now."
"We didn't encounter them along the way?"
"This place is so big, and there's more than just one road. They must have taken another road."
"Then Third Brother, what should we do?"
"Heh, they want to destroy us, so let's destroy them instead. There is only one shortest way to our base, let's go behind them and outflank them, don't let them have a chance to escape."
"yes."
"Go, set up the secret sentry."
Huang Zhishen controlled the spider to jump on the pirate who walked out of the car.
The pirate was shivering from the cold, and the sound of his teeth chattering could be heard.
"It's so cold! Can't this damn thing recover itself after sending the message?" The pirate complained as he came to an open space.
I took out a round detector and scanned the ground for a while, and the detector made a "beeping" sound.
The pirates swept away the nearby sand and gravel, and a thumb-sized stone appeared.
"What's this?"
Everyone continued to watch with confusion, and saw the pirate click on the stone a few times, and then carefully put the stone back in place.
The next second, six identical stones rolled from different places and gathered together with the original stone.
"I know what this is." Lan Ximeng remembered what her teacher once said in class. In some poor areas, due to limited economic conditions, people cannot afford expensive high-tech defense systems. They have to rely on simple tools and parts to piece together some seemingly inconspicuous devices to protect their homes.
These devices are usually made up of scrap metal, wires, sensors and simple circuits. They look rough and simple, and may even be mistaken for randomly discarded debris.
However, they carry an important alarm function.
These devices are strategically placed at key locations, such as the entrances to villages, important road junctions, or resource-rich areas.
Once an external enemy invades, touches or destroys these devices, they will immediately activate the preset alarm mechanism.
Sensors hidden inside the device detect anomalies and send messages of intrusion to the host through a simple signal transmission system.
After receiving the signal, the host will quickly issue an alarm to remind the villagers to prepare for response. Although these devices do not have strong interception or counterattack capabilities like high-tech defense systems, their alarm functions can remind people in the first time and buy villagers precious response time.
This defense method, which is adapted to local conditions, is simple but practical.
"It's a siren called a 'Home Sentinel' that sends out a signal once it's dispersed."
"I see." Cheng Bai, who was in charge of logistics, had noticed it before, but he didn't think too much about it and just thought it was something blown together by the wind.
"I'm sorry, it was my mistake. I saw this thing before, and I thought..."
Before Cheng Bai could finish his words, he was interrupted by Huang Zhishen.
"That's not the point right now. We can't outrun the pirates with the tools we have now. We have to find a way."
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