The large residential area and their underground bunker are not connected; to reach the third space, one must go through the surface.
This means they have to break through the Zerg's encirclement.
Cen Yu suspected that this was a mission mode deliberately set by the system, since they couldn't use the mechs underground.
Having just reached the ground through another exit, Cen Yu immediately spotted the Zerg creature clinging to the building. He raised his hand while operating his mech—the built-in beam cannon blasted the Zerg creature to a pulp.
This commotion clearly attracted the attention of other Zerg loitering around.
The Sleeping Guy mech was modified and came with more powerful weapons... They didn't linger in the fight; after temporarily eliminating the nearby Zerg, they headed towards the large residential area.
Cen Yu glanced at the map; the system inside the mech could automatically scan for nearby Zerg.
Perhaps the explosion had caught the attention of these insects; judging from the map, the insectoids were heading this way.
Cen Yu skillfully dodged several attacks from the insects while piloting his mecha, then raised his hand and blasted the insects into dust before heading towards the large residential area with Huo Shen.
A distance of 10 kilometers is not far for a mech.
When they arrived at the large residential area, all they could see were broken windows and buildings damaged by bombing.
"Where?" Cen Yu asked.
"Underground." As he spoke, Sleeping Bro put away his mecha right in Cen Yu's sight, then turned around in mid-air, grabbed the edge of the balcony, and flipped over to crawl into the balcony.
Cen Yu glanced at it, then put away his mecha and nimbly landed next to Sleeping Bro.
“We’ll go underground,” said Sleeping Guy. “I remember the underground parking lot in this complex was also renovated.”
Cen Yu followed behind Sleeping Bro... The two arrived at the abandoned room. The owner of the house had long since disappeared. The ground was a mess. Cen Yu stepped over the overturned table and walked into the emergency exit of the residential building.
Cen Yu still kept that communicator in his pocket.
Whether it was because the distance had narrowed or because the signal had finally been restored, that familiar woman's voice came through the communicator again—
"Are you a survivor? We're in the third space."
Cen Yu reached out and took out the communicator, then turned off the communication and put it back in his pocket.
Huo Shen glanced back at Cen Yu, but Cen Yu didn't say anything. So Huo Shen turned back again, and the two continued walking silently through the emergency exit.
Compared to the previous underground bunker, there were no insects in the safety passage here... it was even a little too clean. They quickly arrived at the underground parking lot.
There weren't many cars in the underground parking lot of this residential area, perhaps because many people wanted to escape by car when the Zerg arrived.
The walls of the underground parking lot were covered in graffiti, including curses against the Zerg and messages about exchanging supplies.
"Ten cans for one safe space"
"The second space has fallen."
"There are still empty spaces downstairs at the Meiman Department Store!!"
"The Zerg can't recognize text?" Cen Yi asked, looking at the graffiti on the parking lot.
It seems that this information was exchanged among the survivors at the time. When he saw that there were still empty seats under the Meiman Department Store, Cen Yu couldn't help but narrow his eyes. If he remembered correctly, the place they first arrived at was the Meiman Department Store.
“At first, everyone thought so.” Huo Shen glanced at the graffiti above and said, “Low-level Zerg look like just enlarged insects. They have their own unique way of communicating and can’t understand human writing.”
Cen Yu recalled the King Insect he had seen in the beginner mode, and could roughly guess what Huo Shen would say next.
“But the people in the underground bunker didn’t expect that the insects they sent out at the beginning were just low-level minions, and that the later insects could read human writing.” Cen Yu said, glancing at the distorted graffiti on the wall. “So later insects imitated human writing and gave incorrect information.”
"Pretty much." Huo Shen shrugged. "When we arrived at the supposedly safe underground bunker, only to find the insects waiting there for ages..."
Cen Yu glanced again at the route map that was initially marked as the third underground space—
Perhaps to guide survivors arriving near this bunker for the first time, the route map, though simple, is still quite detailed.
The document not only marked the location of the third space, but also the secret code; only by matching the code could one pass.
Holding his weapon in one hand, Cen Yu simply headed towards the nearest entrance mentioned on the route map.
Huo Shen glanced at Cen Yu and followed behind, "Seriously, who exactly are you?"
"Li Chonghe".
“I’ve seen Li Chonghe’s image on the StarNet,” Huo Shen said with dissatisfaction. “He doesn’t look like you.”
He felt that this person really thought he was a fool! Li Chonghe doesn't look like this at all. Everyone knows that Li Chonghe doesn't have a beauty mark under his eyes... Although his partner covered his face, the two beauty marks under his eyes were still clearly visible in the exposed part of his eyes.
"It's been filtered," Cen Yu said stubbornly.
As he spoke, he had already discovered the entrance to the third space, so he made a "shh" gesture.
—The entrance to the third space, located at the foot of this residential building, is a manhole cover on the ground that is very easy to overlook.
But now that the manhole cover has been lifted, Cen Yu used his spiritual power to investigate and found nothing near the entrance.
“It’s empty,” Cen Yu said.
"Let's go in and take a look," Huo Shen said. Seeing Cen Yu about to step forward, he pressed down on the other's shoulder. "I'll go down first."
Huo Shen sensed something strange about this third space. Although dying inside the simulator wouldn't cause any problems, the other party would immediately leave the instance. Huo Shen thought the most annoying thing about the simulator was that the StarNet random mode didn't allow adding friends, probably to prevent Imperial Military Academy students from actually becoming friends with the Federation.
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