Chapter 388 Alien Battlefield (17) The Hunters’ Plan

Chapter 388 Alien Battlefield (17) The Hunters’ Plan

"Buzz~~!!"

"How is the situation over there?"

"Not bad. I successfully circumvented a large number of biological groups and passed through the ground buildings. Now I have reached the city center. It sounds like it's very lively over there. Do you need my help?"

"It's a small situation, we can handle it. I sent you their characteristics and weaknesses. If you encounter these types of creatures, it will be easier to deal with them."

"According to the device's location display, we are not far away from each other. What are the results of the group you are tracking?"

"No, they move very fast. I guess they are very close to you now. Have you found the secret outpost?"

"Found it. According to the equipment scan, there is an unregistered special space in the underground of a collapsed building in the city center. There is no entrance. I am now on the first floor of this collapsed building. However, the structural damage here is very serious. It will probably take more than ten minutes to open the road."

"More than ten minutes... This time may not be enough. Although that team does not have long-distance transmission equipment or devices, it is possible that they have equipment that can be used for short-distance transmission. They may reach the outpost faster than you. Can you find another way to enter the outpost?"

"Besides here, there are a lot of biological swarms around the outpost in other directions that can lead to the outpost for some reason. With my strength, if I want to eliminate them and find another breakthrough point, it may take longer than opening up the road. However, whether it is the detection equipment or the radiation pulse scanning on my side, no other units have been detected except those strange biological swarms."

"We can't rule out the possibility that they have special equipment that can block detection. How is the transmission device inside the outpost?"

"Don't worry about that. When I detected the location of the outpost, I had already hacked into the underlying protocol of the transmission device. Now without our authorization, the device is just a piece of metal garbage. But unlike the information you sent before, the transmission device of this outpost is not a transmission platform, but an instrument with an elevator shape."

"In this case, they may also have a way to counter the intrusion. I can create some noise to buy you some time."

"But what if there are other outposts in the city? Once your presence is exposed, not only will these creatures swarm over there, but if they get wind of it, they may also change their route and leave from other directions."

"Don't worry about that. At the first outpost, I used the teleportation platform to search for other teleportation nodes. There are only five teleportation nodes that can be used in the entire city. Three of the outposts are located on the ground and have been destroyed by those biological groups. If you want to leave this planet, you can only leave from the teleportation platforms of these two outposts. Since they escaped from the first outpost, the possibility of them returning is not great."

"Okay, so which direction should I be looking?"

"According to your coordinates displayed on the device, you should be careful in the north direction. I will create a large gap on the ground and make some noise. This should attract a large number of creatures to rush over. After realizing that something is wrong, the team in front should slow down. After all, these creatures are not easy to deal with."

"receive."

After understanding what the hunter said and confirming that he was talking to others, all members of the team felt something was wrong. First of all, if a powerful hunter has a companion, then this companion is most likely another hunter. Moreover, several pieces of information that could be learned from their conversation were not good news for the team.

First, the person talking to the hunter in front of him is most likely another hunter who also possesses some powerful equipment. Judging from their conversation, the hunter on the other side is able to use the equipment to invade the outpost, so the equipment in his hand is most likely obtained from the traitor.

Second, it is now certain that the hunter in front of them is indeed tracking their team. Although the hunter has not explicitly stated that he wants to eliminate them, based on past experience, having too deep a connection with a hunter is often not a good thing, and of course there will be no good results.

Third, from the conversation between the two, it was known that the hunter in front of them was making sure that the team could not leave the city through teleportation. In other words, the hunter wanted to trap the team to get something from them. According to past painful experience, if you are caught or controlled by the hunter, no matter if you cooperate or not, the final result is that you will be killed. And the death will not be too painful, because hunters have an inexplicably low trust in the lives of other races. They always think that the other party is hiding something from them.

There is also a hidden point. The hunter in front said that he wanted to "make some noise". The hidden meaning of this sentence is that the hunter in front of him has not fought with all his strength until now. If the hunter's abilities are only what he has shown now, then if the team fights to the death, they may still be able to defeat the hunter, or die together. But if he has any other powers, then the probability will become lower and lower, and no one in the team may be able to escape.

Now the team is in a dilemma. If they force their way through the swarm of creatures and bypass the hunters, they may be able to reach the second outpost before the hunters catch up with them. However, the second outpost is guarded. If the opponent is really a hunter, then it is very likely that they will buy enough time for the hunter in front to arrive. The encirclement of two hunters will be a disaster for the team even if one of the hunters is not strong, not to mention that this "not strong" is compared with the male hunter.

But if they continue to stay behind the hunter, although it will be safe enough in the short term, with the terrain advantage and the hunter's strong strength, the small-scale hunter group will not pose any threat. But according to the hunter's previous communication, we can know that he plans to destroy the waterway and attract a large number of hunter creatures. The fact that he can make such a decision means that he either has enough strength to fight against a large number of hunter creatures, or has the mobility to leave here before the group arrives. But in either case, the team will be forced to stay behind to eat the spoils.

"What do we do now?"

"Change the route. We will give up using the outpost's transmission equipment and study the overall structure of the waterway. There should be some exits that are directly connected to the outside of Haigo. We will leave from those locations."

"I'll notify Xu and tell him the estimated coordinates to send a landing ship down. Although some hunter creatures destroyed Haigo's dome and escaped, there shouldn't be many of them. If we find the right direction, we should be able to bypass them."

"Do it now...what is that?!"

When the team leader Xin was communicating with other team members, he suddenly discovered two special aircraft in the maintenance passage above the waterway behind them. These two aircraft were very quiet and made no sound when flying. They also used some kind of invisible force field. However, this invisible force field was no different from being naked in front of their equipment, so they were immediately discovered by the team members.

"Someone is watching us! That's not our stuff!"

"Damn it! We were so focused that we didn't even notice this thing... Stop it! No!"

“Zi Buzz~~!!!”

The aircraft secretly following behind made the team members feel terrified, not because of how advanced they were, but because the technology level of the two aircraft was even lower than that of children's toys. However, it was precisely because of these non-threatening things that they were not targets for the equipment to locate and detect. In addition, they flew extremely quietly, making almost no sound, and the team members were concentrating on paying attention to the hunters and the hunters entering the waterway, so they were not discovered. What was even more terrifying was that who knew how long these two things had been following them.

However, the extreme mental tension made the team members lose their composure for a moment and made a wrong judgment. After discovering the two aircraft, Hai in the team raised his hand and fired two shots. Although his shooting was very accurate and the two particle beams directly destroyed the two aircraft, the buzzing sound of the energy weapon was loud enough. At least at this distance, as long as the hunter in front was not deaf, he would definitely be able to hear it.

Wu's hiding place was closest to the battle. He immediately looked in the direction of the hunter. He didn't seem to notice the sound of the energy weapon firing. He had already dealt with all the winged moths and embedded several pseudo-goats into the surrounding walls to restrict their movement. He was currently fighting the stranglers and leather bugs summoned by the nightmare. However, the battle situation was not optimistic for the hunter creatures. After all, the hunter already had experience dealing with them.

"Act now! Let's look at the schematics while running! What's the hunter's situation? Has he noticed us?"

"Buzz~~!!!"

“Crack~~!!”

"No, he's still fighting the hunter creatures... Oh, it looks like it's over."

In order to make sure that the hunter did not notice them, Wu looked in the hunter's direction again. The humming sound of energy and the sound of the lightning chain released by the Nightmare did not divert Wu's attention in time. After all, these sounds had appeared many times.

But when Wu turned around, he found that the stranglers had been destroyed by the high-energy rays, and most of the Ge?3?9 had been destroyed by the Nightmare's lightning chain. The remaining Ge?3?9 could not pose any threat to the hunter at all. They were just like the small insects that appeared in the summer, attacking the hunter's body without any power, but they were often directly crushed by the high-concentration energy wrapped around the hunter, or directly vaporized by the flames he occasionally sprayed.

The nightmare demon had been caught in the hunter's hand. The hunter's strong left arm, which was covered with tattoo-like patterns, had grasped the nightmare demon's tumorous head. As the hunter spewed out the last breath of fire and destroyed the other hunter creatures, he crushed the nightmare demon's head without hesitation, and the surroundings became quiet.

Wu stopped making any noise and made a few gestures to the other team members, telling them that the battle was over and they should keep quiet to avoid being discovered by the hunters. The other team members nodded, but Xin was the only one who was different. She quickly made a few tactical gestures and asked Wu to look in the direction of the hunters again. She looked anxious and in a hurry.

Wu immediately realized the seriousness of the matter and turned back, only to find that the hunter who had just been standing in the middle of the waterway had suddenly disappeared.

"Damn it! Where did he go?"

"His body suddenly exploded into a cloud of smoke and then disappeared, but our equipment can still scan similar energy flows, so he is still nearby."

"I think we should leave. We can't stay here any longer!"

"go!"

The team, with the same opinion, immediately rushed to the other side of the waterway. In order to avoid any problems, everyone activated the space deflection device and hid their bodies. They soon disappeared around the corner of the waterway.

The space deflection device used by the team members was originally an invention used in the transportation industry. Through specific equipment, they can create an additional space on the basis of the original space within a period of time. Because this additional space is built on the original space, it can still contact the original space to a certain extent. For example, it is a bubble that exists on this space. But this additional space is also an independent space, so things in the basic space cannot touch the inside of this space on a physical level. However, unstable energy or energy with too high a concentration can still destroy the stability of the additional space, and even destroy the additional space.

These things were originally used to increase the cargo capacity of transport vehicles and reduce space and weight. However, some people discovered the role of this invention in war, so after some modifications, this device became an indispensable single-soldier combat equipment, and it performed very well. The modified space deflection device not only increased the duration and reduced energy consumption on the basis of the original ability, but also increased stability, making it difficult or even impossible to destroy the additional space before the energy is exhausted or destroyed. After the military modification of this technology appeared, it did greatly reduce the casualties of combatants. Some people were even able to use this device to avoid the pursuit of hunters or delay until support arrived.

However, this device is not completely without weaknesses. According to the information collected, some very rare hunters with special energy, and some equally rare top-level hunter creatures, can detect units hiding with this device through the perception of unstable space. However, the only known unit that can directly destroy the existence of additional space is the one encountered 200 years ago, when the last group of hunter creatures appeared collectively, their ruler, but it has been killed by the Star Destroyer.

Under these circumstances, the safety of the team members is still guaranteed to a certain extent. Although the hunter in the rear is extremely powerful and completely different from other hunters they have met, he seems unable to detect the existence of the additional space.

Of course, there is one thing that has not been explained, that is, although the traitors also have high technological strength, they do not have similar equipment. After all, a big reason for the decision to transform these space deflection devices for military use was because of them. So the team is not worried that the traitors' equipment can detect them. And there seems to be a big problem inside the traitors. In fact, in recent decades, the traitors have hardly appeared anywhere. It is only possible to find their activities on the Domination Network, but again, the intervals between activities are not dense.

After one hour.

The team members arrived at the end of the waterway, where there was a naturally damaged waterway garbage crushing device with an incomplete structure. There were also many collapses at the location leading to the drainage pool below, but there was still a gap that was large enough to lead to the final drainage pipe that was flooded at the bottom.

The space at this location is unstable due to large-scale collapse, so if the team members want to go down from this location, they must first contact the space deflection device and go down to a relatively stable position in the water before they can continue to use it.

“Knock, knock, knock…”

"Did you hear any noise?"

"It seems to be... the sound of dense footsteps? It seems like someone is running."

"Isn't that the hunter?"

"Don't touch the device yet. According to the change in the sound, we won't have time to get down to a safe location before the sound reaches here. Let's observe the situation first."

As everyone was having a secret conversation, the footsteps in the distance were getting closer and closer. Although the team members were in a nearby space and had plenty of energy, they still instinctively leaned against the wall of the waterway, carefully watching the direction from which the sound came.

“Boom boom boom~~!!”