Chapter 420, Contaminated Zone 320 (Part 21)
When the robot is five meters away from the "mirror car", the recognition system automatically avoids the obstacle and walks around the vehicle to the back.
The sound of metal clashing gradually faded into the distance.
After waiting a while longer.
Finally, there was no more noise outside.
Wang Jiayu quietly opened the sunroof a crack and observed through the mirrored screen.
"They've all left."
Xie Tu checked his sidearm, bent down and stood up. "Song Liang, Yun Zhao, and Qi Ling stay in the car. Everyone else, get out!"
"yes!"
Yun Zhao nodded in agreement.
Song Liang needed to drive to pick them up. She and Qi Ling couldn't run fast, and in a city full of mirrors, they would easily expose their whereabouts and cause trouble for their teammates.
opposite.
Tao Haohao squatted in the carriage and pulled out four pieces of mirror that they had taken from inside the mall from under the seats.
Each piece is about the height of a person, just enough to block a person's body and prevent their shadow from being reflected on the four walls.
The rear door opened.
Xie Tu, holding the mirror block, was the first to jump out of the car.
The group of four quickly moved towards the central area.
The skylight has a gap.
Yun Zhao stood on the ammunition box and looked up at the inverted view in the sky.
At the top of the building, gears of all sizes meshed together tightly, rotating at a constant speed and rhythm.
It seemed to cause the surrounding air to circulate as well.
It gives one a sense of immense power, which is constantly emanating from these steel creations.
Because it's hanging upside down, you can see it extremely clearly.
Each building's fixtures are independent, with fine lines running along the edges, making it impossible to discern any connection between them.
Ahead.
The four members of Team Zero, holding mirrors, swept across the street like ghosts, approaching the park.
We quickly entered the park.
There was a flower bed around the outside of the park, and many trees were planted along the path. As soon as they entered, the four figures disappeared from sight.
When Yun Zhao realized he couldn't see anymore, he returned to his seat.
Qi Ling silently stood up, took her place, and continued to observe the scene above.
They were afraid of attracting robots.
The three people inside the car were very quiet, and no one spoke.
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"team leader."
Duan Xi couldn't keep his thoughts to himself, and as soon as they entered the park, he whispered, "Don't you think... this place looks a bit like the central plaza of the base?"
There is also a high platform in the very center.
But it's not a statue of a young girl; it's a pavilion.
It's the highest point in this area.
And in the distance, that huge mirrored building facing ahead, could it be the base's shopping center?
"But our base doesn't have any shopping malls or temples."
The speaker was Wang Jiayu.
She instinctively wanted to release the King Chameleon, but she forced herself to stop. "Besides," she said, "the shopping center at the base hadn't even started construction when this contaminated area was formed."
It can only be said to resemble in spirit, but it doesn't reach the level of being nearly identical.
Duan Xi: "I mean the terrain is similar!"
Xie Tu squinted and surveyed the park's surroundings. Once he confirmed there was no danger, he didn't linger any longer.
"Wang Jiayu, try shooting at the gears."
"Yes, Captain."
Wang Jiayu attached a silencer to the sniper rifle and gracefully climbed onto the pavilion on the high platform to find a suitable sniping position.
But there was nowhere to put the mirror in my hand.
Duan Xi and Tao Haohao came over and helped her hold the mirror.
Carrying something this big is actually quite troublesome. It's manageable for short-distance running, but not for combat.
Mirrors are fragile, and holding one makes it impossible to free your hands.
Wang Jiayu found a suitable angle, half-squatted down, and raised the gun.
The effective range of a sniper rifle is over two thousand meters, and even if nearby buildings are far away, they are still within its range.
"etc!"
Just as the trigger was about to be pulled, the captain's voice came through his ear.
Wang Jiayu was puzzled.
Xie Tu, who had been wandering around nearby, stepped down from the pavilion and came to the left side of the high platform at the nine o'clock position, where he used the tip of his spear to strike the piled-up stones.
The sentries all recognized it.
Tao Haohao looked surprised. "The bottom is empty?"
"Is it a safe house?" Duan Xi realized.
"It should be, we need to find the entrance first." Xie Tu circled the stone steps, tapping the stone wall with the tip of his spear in an attempt to find the entrance.
Upon hearing this, Tao Haohao quickly came down to help.
Holding a fragile mirror greatly hindered his movement, Tao Haohao muttered a complaint under his breath, and then followed the captain to examine every tile in the surrounding area.
"The underground seems to be hollow too?"
Duan Xi and Wang Jiayu also quickly came down to help.
"Only this side is safe. The safe house shouldn't be very big. Is the robot gatekeeper here?"
Xie Tu didn't speak, but released his senses to investigate the underground activity. He searched along the circled area and quickly found the entrance to the safe house.
—A movable floor tile.
After prying it open, a pitch-black passage was revealed.
"Wait here, I'll go in and take a look." Xie Tu handed the mirror to Tao Haohao, took out a flashlight from his backpack, and went down to the underground alone.
The passage was short, ending at a tightly closed iron gate.
The iron gate is marked 'Safe House 01'.
Each safe house is numbered, unlike anything an outsider could create.
Once inside the contaminated zone, survival is nearly impossible, so outsiders have no time to build safe houses around the contaminated area.
Was the goalkeeper doing this on purpose?
It couldn't have been done by the robot gatekeeper; it's a robot, there's no need for it to do that.
Is that the Mirror Gatekeeper?
What is it trying to tell us?
Is there a safe house outside?
Xie Tu connected many fragmented pieces of information to his mind.
The diary that guided them to Number 111, the whereabouts of Yun Zhao's father, the records of the Dark Guide...
And, here is the central area that closely resembles the terrain of the base.
While thinking, Xie Tu stepped forward and pried open the iron gate.
Like that 'Safe House 03', it was not large, covered in dust, and contained some old tables and chairs, as well as a stone bed.
Xie Tu went inside and looked around, but found nothing suspicious, so he quickly came out.
"Captain, what's the situation inside?" Duan Xi couldn't help but ask.
Xie Tu closed the floor tiles again, bent over, and casually replied, "Safe House 01, no other clues."
The three of them couldn't help but feel somewhat disappointed.
"Where would the robot gatekeeper be hiding?"
"I wonder if Captain Fu will find anything."
Xie Tu restored the place to its original state, and the four of them climbed back up to the pavilion.
Tao Haohao, holding a mirror with one hand, turned his head and said, "Wang Jiayu, time to get to work!"
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And on the streets outside.
"Why hasn't the captain made a move yet?" Song Liang looked down at his watch again.
During this time, two groups of robots patrolled the area, but not a single gunshot was heard.
"There might be other discoveries."
Yun Zhao sat there for a while, feeling increasingly uneasy. Finally, he couldn't help but stand up again and walk to the bottom of the skylight.
She had barely finished speaking.
Suddenly, a bullet struck the gears on top of the building at incredible speed.
As the bullet struck the gear.
Accompanied by the collision of bullets and gears.
Yun Zhao witnessed the gear shatter into countless fragments in an instant, followed by a surge of dark matter erupting from the broken gear.
"Energy is dark matter?" She was slightly taken aback.
I should have thought of that earlier.
The fact that no dark matter was found in the entire contaminated area is already quite unusual.
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