Chapter 382 Alien Battlefield (11) Element 12
“Sizzle…”
Behind the large amount of construction waste that blocked the waterway, that familiar yet unfamiliar voice rang out again.
"Scanning process interrupted. Specific reflective paint detected."
Han Zu wanted to use the contractor's equipment to scan the construction waste, but he found that the contractor's equipment could not penetrate the waste and scan the space behind it. This was not normal.
Although the contractor's equipment could not scan some things, almost all of them were special energies or life forms. And when this happened, the device's prompt was often a description of "unknown detected", rather than as detailed as this time. At least from what Han Zu learned, there was almost nothing known in the contractor's information that their equipment could not penetrate.
"So this is really a problem within them."
Although the contractor's equipment could not penetrate the construction waste for scanning and detection, fortunately Han Zu's ability of perspective could. Han Zu's ability of perspective could not penetrate some specific substances, but the construction waste in front of him was not on the list of those specific substances.
Through observation, Han Zu discovered that the material of these construction wastes seemed to be artificially aged, and they did not appear in this place that year. He used his perspective to observe the surrounding walls and did not find any collapse. Construction waste of this scale, which can block the height of the entire waterway, can only be artificially piled up if there is no structural collapse.
"Identifying the material age... Completed."
"Manufactured on..."
I casually broke off a piece of debris and used the equipment to test it, and found something more interesting. That is, the construction waste was created half a month ago. And the waterway was completely blocked even more recently, only nine days ago.
"Has anyone entered this empty city recently?"
When this thought came to Han Zu's mind, he immediately thought of something. When he and Gloria entered the empty city, the door at the entrance, which was out of order, kept trying to open. There was a composite old-fashioned sensing system at that location, and the door would only open when someone stood in the sensing detection area. At that time, the door was not damaged, but part of it was blocked, making it impossible to open.
“Someone tried to enter the empty city from that location before us. We are not the only ones here. There are others as well.”
"Who could it be? According to your guess, could it be the traitors within the contractor?"
"It's very possible. Be careful. If we encounter traitors, a fight is likely to break out. If it's really them, their strength is probably not much worse than the contractors. You must be alert."
"I see. Should I come to you right away?"
"No, I may encounter their outposts or camps here. If they are numerous, I may start to destroy the sewer system and bring the battle to the ground. Let's suspend the search for now, Gloria. Go find a suitable second high ground position. I may need information support."
"But it's possible that they've already left, or aren't currently near us. If that's the case, we need a target rendezvous time."
"One hour. If I don't find anyone else after one hour, or if there are no explosions in the city, I will go find you. Once you find a suitable location, don't use the contractor's equipment to leave coordinates. Do you remember that thing when we were still at the contractor's site?"
"You mean..."
"Leave me your location in that way. If the other party is really a traitor from the contractor, then they may have the authority to hack into the equipment protocols of the contractor's equipment. From now on, until we meet up, stop using the contractor's equipment."
"clear."
After thinking quickly, Han Zu immediately informed Gloria of his discovery, possible situations, and preliminary simple countermeasures, and then immediately cut off communication.
At the same time, Han Zu began to compress the energy in his body on a large scale, and then began to absorb the dissipated energy in the air without restraint. This behavior was so unrestrained that an energy cyclone appeared in the area of 10 meters in radius with Han Zu as the center. The reason for this behavior is still unknown, but it must be some special countermeasure.
"Om~~"
Since the energy in his body has already exceeded the maximum value, Han Zu's high-energy rays do not need to store energy at this time, and can output the maximum power. Using these enhanced high-energy rays, Han Zu easily and quickly cut a small hole in the construction waste in front, and then used the ability of the soul-grabbing miasma to enter the back of the blocked waterway through this small hole. Near the blocked position, all the way to the first bend of the waterway, there is nothing here, which is exactly the same as other waterways outside. However, using his powerful visual ability, Han Zu can find that there are many subtle traces of human construction on the walls on both sides. At the same time, behind these positions, Han Zu's perception ability also felt the slow flow of energy, which should be some kind of micro-transmission node that transmits energy. And these micro-transmission nodes, based on their structure, can be seen that these things must be recent products, but they are not too advanced and do not reach the strong sense of technology that the contractor has.
But in any case, this can prove that this city, at least in the city's sewer system, does have a group of guys who have only recently appeared. It's always right to be cautious. Keeping the low profile of the soul-grabbing miasma, Han Zu quickly floated into the depths of the waterway.
After walking several kilometers, behind a certain corner, Han Zu's perception ability discovered a large-scale energy surge. This scale of energy surge either came from some equipment or there was an incredibly strong enemy nearby. Han Zu floated over cautiously, and through the location of the energy surge and his perspective ability, he discovered an area between the waterway and the ground. It seemed to be a large room, and this room did not exist on the structural drawings of the sewer system. It was a newly built thing.
There were a lot of things in the room, which looked somewhat similar to the equipment style of the contractors, but not exactly the same. The room had no entrance, no ventilation system or sewage facilities, and no lighting equipment. This further confirmed Han Zu's guess that the owner of this room might be the traitors. After all, the contractors, the current contractors, did not need to breathe, eat, or excrete. They had bodies that were hard to tell whether they could be considered physical bodies, and of course they didn't care about the darkness at all.
Although it cannot be ruled out that the owner of this room is someone else, Han Zu thinks this possibility is not very high.
"call..."
Using the power of fire, Han Zu maintained the form of soul-grabbing miasma, melted a small hole in the wall that was difficult to find, and entered the room from this position. After a careful and cautious search, after confirming that there was no one else here, Han Zu returned to his normal form and began to investigate the room in depth.
There didn't seem to be any visible equipment in the room, but there were many large boxes. Han Zu had seen similar containers in these boxes at the contractors. They were usually filled with materials or ammunition supplies such as energy cores. Some of them were related to the contractors' frequent use of floating gun systems, but Han Zu didn't understand what their specific functions were. He only knew that a box as tall as a person could contain hundreds of floating guns. At first, Han Zu thought it was a transmission device specifically used to transmit floating guns, but later he found that it was not the case. Not only could that box not be used for transmission, it didn't even have any energy reaction, at least Han Zu didn't sense it at the time. After opening that box, it was empty.
Han Zu carefully checked the boxes and found that they all had a kind of blocking device he had never seen before. This blocking device was extremely similar to the blocking device used by the contractor, but the operating logic was completely different. Using his perspective ability, Han Zu observed some of the boxes and found that they seemed to be filled with some kind of viscous liquid, which might be some kind of liquid metal.
"Large reserves of element 12 detected."
As the search continued, the contractor's equipment suddenly prompted that it had located a large reserve of element 12. According to the equipment's scan, at least three boxes were filled with element 12.
At the beginning, Han Zu just thought that element 12 might be a specific substance used by contractors to replace clothing. After all, although element 12 can be changed into any shape, it actually has no defensive capabilities. After all, the clothes formed by element 12 can be poked through by even a child with the stick of a lollipop.
But later, by chance, Han Zu, who had nothing to do, once got all the Element 12 on him and pressed it into a metal ball. He found that this thing was incredibly strong. So far, it was one of the few things that his energy-storage rays could not penetrate at once. So from that time on, Han Zu began to use the contractor's equipment to search for various information about Element 12. But the results of the search made him very puzzled.
Because there is no information at all.
But the contractor's equipment calls this material element 12, which proves that the contractors must have a detailed understanding of this thing. There is only one possibility that there is no relevant information at all, and that is that this thing must be extremely important to them.
And there is one thing that Han Zu has always found very strange, that is, the way Han Zu controls this thing called Element 12 by the contractor's equipment is not actually through the contractor's equipment, nor even through his own energy, but through his own thinking. At the same time, Han Zu is also very clear that he actually has no difference between any organs now, that is to say, Element 12 and the substances that make up his body are probably something of the same root but different origin, and the most important point is that, so far, Element 12 is the only thing that Han Zu can be sure will not cause any negative impact on his body at any level.
This belief was so firm that even Han Zu found it strange. He suspected that it was a special biological instinct, but he could not find the specific and accurate reason. As a result, the idea of investigating element 12 was temporarily shelved. After all, it was completely harmless to him.
But now, Han Zu suddenly had a bold idea.
"Maybe I should open the boxes with element 12, but that might not be the right choice. There might be some alarm devices on these boxes that I haven't discovered."
Although Han Zu's mind was still struggling, his body had already moved instinctively. He was only stunned for a second or two. When Han Zu came to his senses, he found that his hand was already on the box.
"who cares."
This situation seemed to help Han Zu make a decision, and using his own strength, Han Zu easily opened one of the boxes filled with element 12. It seemed that there was really no equipment on these boxes, and nothing happened.
"It's a little cold."
Han Zu didn't think much about it and put his whole hand into the element No. 12 in the box. These things were like sticky liquid metal and were icy cold. However, the ambient temperature was obviously around 20 degrees, and there was no temperature equipment in the box. This was very strange.
Soon, the liquid began to decrease rapidly. Han Zu could feel that his body was automatically absorbing the element 12 inside. This box, which was almost as big as his body, was completely sucked up within five minutes, and not even a drop of element 12 was left.
Han Zu moved his body and felt nothing except a slight numbness. However, perhaps because the temperature of element 12 was particularly low, Han Zu felt some obvious abnormal temperature differences in his arms, just like the abnormal temperature difference that occurs when one is exposed to cold wind outside in winter and then goes back indoors to wash with cold water.
However, this situation only lasted for less than a few seconds, so Han Zu treated it as the same situation. After moving his arms twice, Han Zu used the contractor's equipment and his own perspective ability to find all the boxes containing element 12 in the room, gathered them together, and then opened them all. He put his hands, feet, head, or other parts of his body into element 12 and began to absorb them at the same time.
Excluding the box that had already absorbed all the element and the remaining two boxes, there were a total of nine boxes containing element 12. However, their size and shape were different from the three boxes filled with liquid element 12. If compared based on the size of these three boxes, Han Zu had absorbed a total of four boxes of element 12, which was exactly the same as his weight.
Soon, all of the element 12 was absorbed, leaving only a popsicle-sized, solid element 12. This solid element 12 creation seemed to be mixed with other things, which made it unable to be absorbed by Han Zu like other solid element 12. So Han Zu tried to use his fire ability to melt this thing. It didn't take long before this creation was quickly melted and absorbed by Han Zu, revealing the contents inside.
"Unstable element 12 detected."
The thing wrapped inside these solid element 12s is also a liquid substance. This substance is more viscous than normal element 12, and has a lower temperature. The color is also completely different from normal element 12. It is not light gray, but pink, and it emits a faint pulsating light.
"Where's the Death Barbie Pink I was holding?"
Han Zu blinked subconsciously, and when he looked at his hands again, the unstable element 12 on them suddenly disappeared. They did not drip onto the ground, and according to Han Zu's feeling, they did not seem to be absorbed by him.
"never mind."
But this was only a minor incident, for it had no serious consequences, in fact, nothing at all.
After closing the boxes and returning them to their original positions, Han Zu began to investigate other things in the room. Soon, he found something familiar. It was a platform that was not very thick, but not small in area, with a diameter of seven or eight meters. From the appearance, Han Zu was very familiar with it, but he was stunned for a moment and could not remember what it was used for.
“Sizzle…”
But it soon made a loud noise, which was exactly the same sound Han Zu had heard before. At the same time, the thing suddenly lit up.