Chapter 332 Lost (2)
After Han Zu and Gloria had touched all the places on the walls and the ground in the main tomb chamber but could not find any mechanism, they came to the sarcophagus in the center of the tomb chamber. Han Zu reached out and grabbed the sarcophagus, ready to pull it off the ground.
"Wait! This lid has been opened before. Maybe the mechanism is inside the sarcophagus?"
But before Han Zu could exert any strength, Gloria noticed that the lid of the sarcophagus had been opened, but it was not obvious, just a few scratches. Han Zu loosened his arms, pushed open the lid of the sarcophagus, and put it aside. Gloria took a look inside the sarcophagus.
"This is also empty. Maybe the mechanism is hidden very secretly?"
"Would you like to know if you try it?"
Before Gloria could stop him, Han Zu reached into the sarcophagus. After searching for a while, he still found nothing.
"This shouldn't be possible? Is there really no mechanism, and we just need to move the sarcophagus?"
"No, there must be some mechanism. The edge of the bottom of the sarcophagus fits perfectly with the ground. If there is something underneath, there must be some mechanism that can move the sarcophagus. We don't know what will happen if we use brute force to move the sarcophagus, so I think we should look for it again."
However, after searching for another half an hour, the two still found nothing.
Moreover, after such a long time, the group of soldiers from the Ferdinand family outside still haven't come in. This is not normal.
"You keep looking. I'll go out and see what's going on outside. Logically, the group of soldiers outside should have sent people in a long time ago."
"Take it easy and don't make too much noise."
After leaving Gloria in the pyramid, Han Zu came to the entrance of the pyramid. Something seemed wrong outside. There was only the whistling sound of the sandstorm and the sound of sand rubbing against gravel. Han Zu could not hear the mechanical sound of the power armor that he had heard before.
Using the soul-grabbing miasma, Han Zu returned to the temporary camp outside, only to find that all the soldiers of the Ferdinand family who had stayed in the temporary camp had become the same as the scientific expedition team members. The chemical agents on them, which were made by Garcia, were all activated. The injection device of these agents was driven by the emergency automatic medical system on the power armor, so they must have encountered something that triggered the emergency protocol.
"Buzz~~Buzz~~"
Just as Han Zu regained his true form and carefully examined one of the soldiers lying on the ground, he heard the mechanical sound of the power armor moving.
"Is there anyone who wasn't knocked out by the potion?"
Following the direction of the sound, Han Zu came to the outside of one of the tents. Through the gap in the tent, Han Zu saw what was happening inside.
There was a soldier in power armor wandering around like a zombie. Han Zu looked at the location of the chemical agent pusher and saw that there was a malfunction. The chemical inside was not pushed into the soldier's body. Han Zu quietly entered the tent and prepared to see what was going on with the soldier. But just after he stepped into the tent, the soldier suddenly turned around and found Han Zu.
"What is this?!"
When Han Zu saw what was in the power armor in front of him, he was suddenly stunned, because although the soldier in the power armor was still there, he was pale and thin, as thin as skin and bones, with dull eyes, and looked no different from a walking corpse.
"So, if there were no chemical agents interfering with the things they touched, they would become like this?"
"Forehead....."
Just as Han Zu was trying to understand the current situation, the strange soldier staggered towards Han Zu and stretched out his hands, just like a zombie. There was no extra energy reaction on his body, and there was nothing worth studying, so Han Zu prepared to use fire to end the soldier's suffering.
“Hoo-boom~~!!”
"What?!!"
However, when the scorching flames that spewed out of Han Zu's mouth vaporized even the power armor, he was surprised to find that the soldier inside the power armor was completely unharmed, and even his skin-and-bone body began to recover rapidly. In a flash, he returned to his normal physical state, but his consciousness was still the same, lifeless.
"Immune to my fire? That's interesting...!!!"
At this moment, the soldier in front of Han Zu suddenly disappeared from his sight. At the same time, a high-energy reaction appeared behind Han Zu. Han Zu instinctively turned around to respond, but the energy disappeared again and reappeared in the opposite direction of Han Zu.
"throat!!!"
The soldier suddenly appeared on Han Zu's body, using all four limbs to tightly grasp Han Zu's body, and even opened his mouth wide to bite Han Zu's indestructible muscles. Just as Han Zu quickly reached out and prepared to pull the guy off, the moment his hand touched him, the soldier disappeared again.
"Teleport?! No! There is no unstable scattered energy reaction. His speed is too fast!"
Han Zu kept trying to intercept the soldier's movements, but there was no way. The guy's speed, compared to Han Zu's speed of intercepting him, was like a koala trying to intercept a cheetah that was sprinting at full speed. However, the cheetah's endurance was much stronger, as if there was a constant supply of energy supporting its activities.
This guy would always stick to Han Zu's body. Soon, Han Zu realized that this thing was absorbing his energy and that he was the one who had been providing him with energy. So now he was in a deadlock. No matter what, Han Zu could not catch this guy and could only be in a passive state.
“BOOM~~~~~!!!!”
Spreading the power of fire throughout his body, Han Zu created a huge energy explosion. The strange soldier, whose speed was so fast that he could not be seen at all, was blown away for a moment by the shock wave generated by the explosion, but disappeared again in the next instant. No matter what method Han Zu used, he could not do anything to that guy.
Han Zu simply gave up fighting back and let the guy stick to him, greedily absorbing his energy. Han Zu calmly thought about the countermeasures. After all, he had plenty of energy in his body, and the speed at which this guy absorbed energy could not keep up with his recovery speed.
"What's this look like? Did you kill all these people outside?"
Gloria, who was attracted by the sound of the explosion, walked out of the pyramid and saw a large open space in the temporary camp, as well as Han Zu, whose clothes were torn and full of burn marks, and a strange soldier who was also naked and attached to Han Zu's arm like a leech. Gloria immediately understood what was wrong here.
"No, these guys outside triggered the emergency protocol on their power armor and were injected with that chemical agent. Their current condition is exactly the same as those of the previous scientific expedition members. I speculate that they must have been affected by something in the pyramid and then injected with that chemical agent, which is why they are like this now."
"So what's going on with this guy?"
"His drug injection system malfunctioned, and no drug was injected. His current appearance is what he would look like without chemical control."
"Uh... turned into a leech? That's it? And why is this guy naked?"
"Try burning him with fire. Don't hold back. Burn him however you want."
“Hoo-boom~~!!!!”
"this?!!"
After trying it as Han Zu said, the strange soldier did not suffer any harm at all, and for some reason, this guy seemed to have gained some weight.
"You're immune to our fire?!"
"Not only that, this guy is like a battery with huge capacity. His appearance is absorbing my energy."
"Uh... Then why don't you get rid of him? Or kill him? Or do you have any special hobbies?"
"Don't blink. Now reach out and pull him off me."
"You can't do this yourself? I don't really want to touch a naked person I don't know..?!!!"
The moment Gloria reached out to the strange soldier, the soldier suddenly disappeared. Gloria immediately released a radiation pulse, but was surprised to find that the guy's speed was so fast that the pulse scanning him became extremely blurry. After trying several times in succession, she continued to speed up. But without the power of the radiation pulse, Gloria couldn't even grasp the guy's movements. You know, in terms of speed, she is much faster than Han Zu, even faster than when Han Zu used internal radiation to strengthen himself, but if she can't stop this strange soldier, Han Zu will be even more helpless.
"So the explosion just now was you trying to blow him away?"
"You saw the result. It's totally different. This guy is ridiculously fast. Moreover, any energy attack I use will only replenish his energy. If I want to attack with the Flesh Cannon, I will not be able to touch him at his speed."
"So what should we do? Just let this thing stay on you like a leech? Have you tried other methods? Like the radiation field? Or the magnetic field or something?"
"I tried, but it didn't work. But I did think of other ways."
Han Zu raised his chin to the side. Not far away was a medic in power armor. He had three chemical agent delivery devices on him, but only one was used. Following Han Zu's line of sight, Gloria also saw the two bottles of unused chemicals in the equipment.
"You want to try this? This guy is ridiculously fast. Trying to inject him with this drug probably won't work."
"I meant give me the injection."
"You think this chemical will block energy? But didn't you say you've used it before? It was a non-concentrated version, and even that only had a sedative effect on you. Can this diluted version work?"
"Ah, I forgot about that."
"Think about it again, maybe there are other ways. Oh, right! What if you use flying to consume all the energy in your body? Then can he leave you?"
"So you're planning on replacing me and having a naked man attached to your body?"
"Ah? No way?!!!"
"Then why do you want to guess, of the two of us, he is attached to my arm, while you are completely fine? What is the difference between us?"
"It's the difference in energy. It's possible... Oh! Then you must not use up all your energy. This guy is not my type. But it's okay for you."
Maintaining this strange state, after some thought, Gloria proposed a solution that sounded feasible.
"I have an idea. Can't your muscles be deformed freely? You can slow down, suck this guy into your body and trap him, and then use your ability to absorb energy to deal with him. See if it works."
"How could I have forgotten about this?! I'll try."
After spending some time, Han Zu moved his muscles like a meat grinder at a speed so slow that it was almost invisible to the naked eye, and began to slowly absorb the body of the strange soldier into his body. Surprisingly, this method was successful.
"Roar~~!!!"
However, just after absorbing one third of the soldier's body, the soldier suddenly reacted and began to struggle frantically, trying to break free from Han Zu's restraints. The part of his body that was not controlled was so fast that it was impossible to see clearly. But this time, he couldn't run away.
"You bastard! Run again!"
Han Zu used his arms to clamp the frantically struggling soldier's body, and then immediately used his ability to absorb energy to the maximum extent. In a flash, the soldier was sucked dry. His speed immediately became as slow as a snail. However, this time Han Zu did not absorb the guy's flesh and blood, but spit out his body, and then directly crushed his head. The weird soldier finally stopped all his movements and died.
"I thought you would just absorb it along with his flesh and blood."
"This thing is empty except for bones and skin."
"what?"
"Whatever happened to this guy, it was drained of its energy in a very short period of time, and then began to absorb his flesh and blood. I can feel that part of his bones have also been absorbed. It seems that no matter what he encountered, it is not picky about what it eats."
After dealing with this strange soldier, the two men breathed a sigh of relief.
"Gloria, did you find anything?"
"I found it. I know how to move the sarcophagus. I lay down in it and tried it. Then the sarcophagus opened by itself."
"What did you see?"
"You'd better see for yourself."
Han Zu was a little puzzled by Gloria's answer, but he still followed her back to the location of the sarcophagus. However, the location of the sarcophagus was still the same and had not been moved.
"Didn't you say that you have found a way to move the sarcophagus?"
"Indeed, there may be a time limit for opening it. If you don't believe me, just look at it."
Gloria lay down in the sarcophagus again, and sure enough, the sarcophagus began to move backwards, revealing the space underneath. Gloria sat up from the sarcophagus, leaned against the edge of the sarcophagus, and pointed to the space underneath the sarcophagus.
"Now you should know why I can't answer it, right?"
"It is indeed understandable."
Han Zu nodded, because the things under the sarcophagus were indeed not easy to describe.
Under the sarcophagus, in the rectangular groove only one centimeter away from the ground, there is a colorful and strange energy film made of pure energy. It looks like foam made by soapy water.