Chapter 70
Debris continued to roll down from the edge of the giant pit. The exploration team tried countless methods to deal with these deformed objects, but with little success.
Not only that, the technicians also found many bomb placement nodes underneath. Once the distorted objects are cleared, the entire island will be in trouble if the bomb is detonated.
Kui Feng stood at the edge of the huge pit and asked: "Hasn't there been any contact with the outside world yet?"
The tower liaison officer's forehead was covered in sweat. "The communication signal seems to have been cut off. Even the live broadcast room can't be connected."
The exploration team was manually clearing the aberrations when they heard the sounds of knives and guns tearing limbs apart from beneath the ground. Suddenly, someone nearby exclaimed in fear, "Are the numbers of those aberrations increasing?"
Awen looked at that place and saw the chopped limbs fell to the ground, and began to wriggle again in the mucus, and even began to devour and merge with each other!
"Can we use a flame gun?" Su Su wiped the sweat off her forehead. "What about burning all the distorted creatures in the secret passage that are out of range, and keeping some to slowly dismantle the bomb? At this rate, we can't keep up with the speed at which they split!"
The technicians are trying their best to find a way to activate the abandoned defense facilities. Their fingers are almost becoming afterimages. They have to delay a little longer.
Another member of the exploration team shook his head. "No, we tried, but the slime is both waterproof and fireproof. They're not afraid of it at all."
After all, physical attacks are still the most effective, but unfortunately manpower is limited.
Zhao Ming's shoulders slumped: "If only Dr. Jiang were here, she might have a way." If those distorted objects could be controlled, the bomb would basically not cause much damage.
In just a short while, another deformed creature was tentatively crawling out of the pit.
Chi Yan, who had drilled into the huge pit at some point, was frightened by these ugly things. He shook his wings and immediately spurted out a flame, a heat wave was set off, and a pile of charcoal was left in its place after a few seconds.
The flame of Chiyan is effective!
Ah Wen immediately grabbed the sniper rifle, his bloodshot eyes narrowed, and a burst of energy enveloped the bullet. With a whoosh, the immense impact shattered the aberration into pieces. The stump bounced a few times on the ground before visibly withering away.
The technician's eyes lit up: "Could it be that awakened superpowers can affect them?"
"But where can we find so many psychics and war beasts?"
Even if all the war beasts in Chang Gung Base were combined, they might not be able to completely control the bomb from exploding.
Kui Feng: "Then we should prepare for both scenarios. First, evacuate the ordinary people from the island, and we'll stay and deal with these things. I will never allow them to destroy the island."
They quickly evacuated the innocent people, but most of the war beasts were unwilling to leave and spontaneously gathered around the giant pit. Even if some evil beasts were attracted, they would be killed by the war beasts in the first time and would definitely not affect the mutual pit.
Zhao Ming and Lu Renshuang cleared a piece of space next to the huge pit and began to study the captured remains on the spot.
Lu Renshuang pondered further. Where did those people come from? Why did they go to such great lengths to return after leaving? Could there be something on this island that they were willing to risk their lives to obtain?
Suddenly, a whistle sounded from the edge of the pit, and a gray-haired man in a flowered shirt quickly jumped down the rock face. He saluted as a gentleman and explained his purpose: "Perhaps I know why those people came back."
Su Su took a few steps back and looked over curiously. Who was this?
The people in the tower have the information of all the anchors and recognized him almost at first sight. After all, he is very good-looking and has very distinct personal features.
"This is the person in charge of Area A," the tower technician introduced.
The gray-haired man patted the stone wall. "One of our base members wanted to dig a basement, but accidentally dug a little too deep and discovered a mineral underground. The amount is small, but it is very scattered."
A dark light flashed in the man's eyes, "Those minerals seem to be able to induce distortion energy."
Lu Renshuang and the others standing nearby straightened their backs sharply, immediately realizing that this ore was the key to those people's repeated targeting of the island. They were forced to flee the island not to cause trouble, but to accumulate energy for a comeback.
The monitoring equipment behind him suddenly sounded an alarm, and the red light flashed frequently. Zhao Ming immediately ran over. "The energy underground has exceeded the critical value. Shouldn't these aberrations have no detectable life signs?" He paused. "Could it be that... those aberrations have found ore?"
If that mysterious and unknown mineral really does contain the energy that triggers distortion, wouldn't it be even more difficult to suppress these distorted substances after they are replenished?
The good ones didn't work, and the bad ones did. Some of the deformed creatures underwent mutations, wriggling and actively devouring their companions. Their bodies expanded visibly. If this continued, this huge pit would surely overflow.
"Quick, surround the outside first, and don't let these mutants spread out." The exploration team took action immediately. Jicheng was brought to the vicinity of the giant pit. Bone spikes were fired to erect high walls to surround the edges and block all the mutants inside the bone wall.
The technician's voice suddenly trembled: "Oh no! They've triggered the explosion node."
Kui Feng looked at the bright red screen in front of him and asked, "How much time do we have left?"
"According to all the detected explosion points, there are still three minutes until detonation."
The scene suddenly became quiet.
Awen's nails turned white from exerting so much force. In such a short time, the technicians were unable to reactivate the defense facilities, and there was no time to evacuate the crowd. Fortunately, some people had been evacuated in advance, so some people were able to be saved.
The distorted objects continued to devour each other, and the locations of the explosion points were almost spread throughout the entire underground, which was no longer under human control.
Click, click.
Familiar mechanical footsteps were heard, and Zhao Ming was gently pushed. He was startled and turned around to see the old housekeeping robot of the base standing behind him.
He blinked away the moisture in his eyes and smiled wryly, "Why did you come here too? But it's good. You can record the scene. Maybe when the people behind come to explore, they can retrieve the last footage we left behind from your core chip."
The system's screen flickered, and the crisp mechanical synthesized voice suddenly sighed in a humane manner.
It took a few steps forward: "Starting the detection process now, beep--"
"Facility Node No. 1 has been abandoned. Testing the next node..."
The red light flashed rapidly. The underground defense facility network was intricate and complex. The technicians had only found a part of it after checking for so long, but they were all completely damaged. However, the system had eliminated hundreds of nodes in such a short time. Its efficiency far exceeded that of the technicians.
More and more people gathered around the system robot. As time passed, a line of green text finally popped up on the screen. A breakthrough was finally found among countless nodes. The technician's heart trembled with the green light.
Most of the energy stored in the system has been consumed. If we want to restart the node, its energy is definitely not enough.
But it did not hesitate at all and started the interfering radio waves. The entire underground suddenly shook, and those distorted objects seemed to be pressed down by an invisible giant hand, and the explosion point was forcibly cut off.
Zhao Ming was stunned. This energy was similar to that of Dr. Jiang.
Seeing this, Lu Renshuang quickly waved her hand and all researchers injected anesthetics to control the deformed objects first to reduce the burden on the system.
Sparks began to appear on the system robot, and its operation was overloaded. At the same time, the defense settings that had been abandoned for many years were finally miraculously restarted. The first detonation point was blocked by the defense facilities, leaving only a vibration.
The technicians followed suit, following the lines indicated by the system and beginning to activate. Immediately afterwards, the remaining defenses activated one after another, enveloping the entire crater like a cage.
The countdown continues, but it can no longer concern everyone, but what they are worried about has become something else.
Although the old robot had stopped its inspection, the parts were still creaking and the screen was showing garbled images. It had already used up its most core stored energy, and the remaining energy was not enough to maintain its own circulation.
The code disappeared line by line, and finally the screen went completely dark.
All the robots in the Chang Gung base stopped and entered standby mode.
…
On the other side, Jiang Zihan was helping to dig a hole. The soldiers supported the original stone wall and worked hard to dig a small hole. She immediately ejected a thin thread of mental power and soon felt a gentle stirring from the other end, which made her feel a little calmer.
He can still move, so it seems nothing serious.
Just as she was about to retract her mental power, Yu Bo suddenly swept to a corner. His eyebrows twitched, his eyes turned, and he quietly sent a message to the other end.
The two people hiding in the darkness listened to the faint sounds of digging coming from above, holding their breath. Suddenly, Lin Na's nose sniffed lightly and asked in confusion, "Do you smell anything?"
Qi Feng wrinkled his nose: "My nose is broken, I can only smell the smell of that stinky potion."
Lin Na was still a little worried. Just in case, he quietly gave himself a shot in the arm. Qi Feng immediately grabbed him and said, "What are you doing? Is this something good? Why are you sticking it in your arm?"
The place where the needle had pierced was swollen and stinging. Before Lin Na could say anything, his enhanced five senses immediately sensed something unusual. A black shadow pounced towards him. He immediately pushed Qi Feng, and the two of them wrestled with the shadow without saying a word.
The thread of mental power "saw" the movement below, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but twitch a few times. She didn't believe that such a tight jar could allow those two turtles to escape.
Suddenly, her hand trembled, and her gloating mood was instantly interrupted. A large amount of data flooded into her mind, and it felt like all the strength in her body was being drained away. The physical fitness that had been improved by the system was showing a slight decline. Fortunately, her mental strength was still there, and she was able to make up for it as it was leaking, and it was barely filling the gap.
Jiang Zihan suppressed his trembling hands and retreated a few steps to the side. All the data was left by the system, full of information about the war beast, but the position that originally belonged to it was completely empty.
Her eyes were a little dazed, her mind filled with the final image sent back by the system. She had imagined the system's ending countless times, but never imagined it would be so abrupt, without even a goodbye.
At this time, the passage was finally dug through, and the underground battle subsided. Lu Chenyuan was pulled up. She stepped forward to lend a hand, and he fell into her arms as if exhausted.
Jiang Zihan glanced expressionlessly at the two people behind him who were dragged out like dead fish. He felt suffocated in his chest and punched Lu Chenyuan on the shoulder.
Lu Chenyuan groaned suddenly: "I finally crawled out, why do I have to bear your beating..."
He chuckled and looked up, but before he finished speaking he saw her pale face and a slight frown between her brows.
He gently grabbed the other person's hand, only to feel something cold. Jiang Zihan came to his senses and worried that his wound would be exposed to unknown contamination for a long time, so he quickly half-supported him and walked towards the open space.
She spread out her palm, and the scalpel was about to take shape and then completely dissipated. She tried this back and forth many times.
Lu Chenyuan just looked at her quietly, sighed silently, raised his hand and placed his warm palm on her cold fingertips.
The simple touch surprisingly calmed Jiang Zihan's inner panic. She took a deep breath and took out the scalpel she had on hand to start cleaning the wound.
After the wound was treated, Jiang Zihan's mood calmed down a little. Lu Chenyuan leaned over and stared at her, saying softly, "What happened?"
Jiang Zihan was silent for a moment: "There must be something wrong with my ability."
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