Following Chi Jiazhen's directions, Cen Yu walked deeper into the passage.
After waiting for that underground elevator, Cen Yu suddenly realized that this thing resembled something—
It looks like a building built upside down in the desert.
The elevator was long abandoned, but there was an emergency exit next to it leading downwards. Cen Yu touched his headphones. "Continue down?"
"Have the green camp discovered this place?"
"They found a small door." Chi Jiazhen's voice remained calm and unhurried as she directed Cen Yu, "This underground building has about five floors and an area equivalent to half a football field... It's near the mutated beast's lair."
Cen Yu didn't know much about Planet Nott, but he knew about the mutated beasts that were a specialty of the desert from the previous conversations on the channel.
Even if they don't have much hostility towards humans, it doesn't make sense that these mutated beasts wouldn't react when they build buildings right in people's lair.
Cen Yu muttered to himself, suspecting that there were other strange things about this underground building.
"So, which way do I go now?" Cen Yu asked. "The fifth basement level or the third?"
“Go to the third basement level first,” Chi Jiazhen said. “It looks like an underground warehouse over there; there might be some extra supplies there.”
With the elevator out of service, Cen Yu had to leave through the stairwell... He glanced at the signs in the building, and at that moment, the silent team voice chat sounded again, "Li Chonghe and I have entered the underground."
"?" Cen Yu heard Wen Xihe's voice, "Aren't you worried about being recognized?"
These two are big stars at the Imperial Military Academy; how could anyone in the Green Faction not recognize them?
“They’re all wearing masks,” Li Chonghe’s voice came through the channel. “There’s probably something wrong with the underground tunnels dug by the mutated beasts.”
"Where are you?" Wen Xihe asked again.
He turned on the communicator and could see where Cen Yu was from the shared location, so he knew that the other party had also entered the underground space.
The remaining two team members also entered the green camp's underground space through other entrances.
Perhaps because they had never set foot in the mysterious desert region before, Wen Xihe felt a strange sense of unease after entering.
"Are the Zerg interested in this mutated beast?" Wen Xihe suddenly asked.
He turned to look at Li Chonghe, who was also wearing a black mask and had entered the underground passage with him.
He came from a remote planet and didn't know as much about the empire's territory or these strange mutated beasts as Li Chonghe did.
“As far as I know, I’m not very interested,” Li Chonghe said.
"The meat of this mutated beast is not tasty; it has a strange sour and astringent taste. Apart from its skin, which can be used to make defensive materials, it has no other value."
The Zerg do not need this defensive material.
Because it was an internal team channel, their conversation reached Cen Yu and the other team members.
“The Zerg aren’t interested in mutated beasts…” Cen Yu pondered for a moment, “Are there mutated beasts inside the passage?”
“No,” Li Chonghe said. “There are no footprints of mutated beasts on the ground, nor any claw marks around.”
“This mutated beast has a simple diet and almost no natural enemies on Planet Nott,” Li Chonghe said. Contrary to its enormous and terrifying appearance, this mutated beast is a herbivore. When he landed, he found that the main food source for the mutated beasts in the vicinity was not lacking... In addition, given that it had no natural enemies, its sudden disappearance and extinction was indeed a bit strange.
"Let's put the mutated beast's trail aside for now," Chi Jiazhen's voice also rang out in the channel. "Cen Yu, continue to the third basement level."
“Li Chonghe and Wen Xihe, you can continue in the direction I mentioned earlier. They have set up outposts in that area.”
He then assigned the remaining two team members the task of sabotaging the operation from behind.
While listening to the conversation on the channel, Cen Yu kept moving. He looked up at the corridor and naturally noticed the countless cameras in the corridor... This feeling of being constantly monitored made him a little uncomfortable, and he wondered why there was such an underground building built near the mutated beast's lair.
This space has probably been unopened and unused for far too long.
Cen Yu entered the safety passage that had been violently broken open. All the original locks on the doors were jammed. He used his weapon to cut open an entrance that would allow him to pass through, and then stepped into the safety passage leading to the underground space.
It was different from the buildings he knew before.
The moment Cen Yu saw the stairwell, he realized that the building's ceiling height was... ridiculously high.
The safety passage in front of him was almost twice the length of any place he had ever been before.
Cen Yu was wearing the combat uniform that represented his faction, and then slowly walked into the underground space. He turned on the light on the side of his shoulder, and the air was filled with the smell of air that had not been circulated for a long time... Fortunately, there was still some residual air inside.
At the connection between the second and third basement levels, Cen Yu took out an air quality testing device. Only after the device lit up with a green light did he continue downstairs.
"Sizzle... sizzle..."
At that moment, a static noise suddenly came through the headphones.
“Chi Jiazhen?” Cen Yu stood on the stairs, wanting to ask him how the signal was, but found that all she heard in her headphones was a repetitive static sound.
It was as if the signal suddenly dropped after he entered the underground space.
...
"Cen Yu?"
Wen Xihe and Li Chonghe quickly rendered the green camp's outposts useless.
Just as they were about to continue, they suddenly heard Chi Jiazhen calling out in the channel.
"Cen Yu??"
However, Cen Yu remained silent.
Wen Xihe and Li Chonghe stopped in their tracks simultaneously. They exchanged a glance, and then Li Chonghe began to check Cen Yu's location.
The small icon representing Cen Yu's location has also disappeared from the location sharing interface.
“…gone.” Wen Xihe said in the channel.
"Where did he go?" Wen Xihe asked immediately.
Chi Jiazhen seemed surprised that such a thing could happen, and his tone was somewhat flustered, "Cen Yu disappeared suddenly."
"I just noticed that his icon has disappeared from the map."
Chi Jiazhen seemed surprised that such a thing would happen while she was in command. "Have we entered a signal jamming zone?"
Wen Xihe and Li Chonghe naturally made the same guess.
Cen Yu didn't speak much in the channel, and they didn't know much about the terrain on the other side, almost assuming it was an underground cavern similar to the area they had reached.
Because Chi Jiazhen and Cen Yu's previous discussion about the five underground levels took place in a one-on-one chat channel, neither of them knew that the area Cen Yu was heading to was an underground fortress.
"Let's go take a look."
In the end, Wen Xihe made a decision.
"Hopefully, it wasn't discovered by the green faction... that I was eliminated."
They just eliminated several opponents from the green faction in this way.
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