Chapter 394 Accident

Chapter 394 Accident

The facility was invaded over a large area. If one wanted to find the invader as quickly as possible, it would definitely be too late to gather together for action. So in order to speed up the process, after discussion, the team was finally divided into two parts. The team leader Xin, with Gloria and several team members, searched the upper area of ​​the invasion range. The two most powerful members of the team, Hai and Wu, took Han Zu to search the lower level where traces of the battle were found.

However, this alliance was not solid, and the trust between the two sides was not very reliable, so the team leader Xin secretly ordered one or two people from both teams to quietly leave and form a third team as support.

Of course, Han Zu was not without a backup plan. He used his perception ability to notice this situation, but he did not make a fuss. He just found an opportunity to quietly tear off a few small pieces of meat from his body and threw them on the armor of the third team member. These pieces of meat were small enough that it was difficult to find them through scanning, but Han Zu could clearly perceive the information around the pieces of meat within a certain range. Gloria also saw Han Zu's actions. Using radiation pulses, she was also able to locate the pieces of meat on the armor of the third team member. Although it was not as intuitive as Han Zu's, it was enough to confirm the location.

"We will search the upper floors, and you go to the lower floors. If you find anything, please contact us immediately."

"it is good."

After a few simple instructions at the fork in the road, the two teams immediately separated and acted separately. The situation was still unclear and every second counted.

A few minutes later, the lower corridor of the invasion area.

There were robots that suddenly stopped everywhere, maintaining the movements they were in before the stoppage. Most of them just stopped in the middle of their movements, while some were repairing the surrounding lines before the stoppage. From the exposed parts of the wall, it can be observed that some of the lines of the facility are very old and have been repaired and renovated many times. In some renovated locations, the equipment and lines used exceeded the reserved space of the original facility, so they can only be exposed outside the wall, compressing part of the corridor space.

"There is some residual information stored on this robot. If we scan it, we may be able to get some clues."

In the middle of the corridor, there was a robot that was parked in place and seemed to be heading somewhere, which attracted the attention of the lower team. According to the scanning of the equipment, they found a fragment of the picture from the residual information of the robot. The fragment was not very clear and there were signs of human damage, but the technology they used was not very advanced, so they were not able to completely clear all the information.

This clip, which only shows a partial picture, records a team of people wearing heavy armor who suddenly appeared out of nowhere and then suddenly disappeared. The picture is incomplete and it is unclear how many people there are in the team, but from what can be seen, the team is at least no less than twenty people.

"They must have used some invisible device. This intrusion seems to have a purpose."

"From what we know, the team in the picture doesn't carry any weapons, and there is no place to store weapons on the heavy armor. However, if there are human figures inside, the armor at the leg and chest positions can hide some small weapons. But from the information Xu gave us before, those marks were not caused by small weapons."

"Their route seems to be towards the short-distance teleportation platform ahead. What locations can the teleportation platform reach?"

"I can meet up with Xin and the others, go to the vehicle workshop, and teleport directly to the ship runway. If I have permission, I can also go to a storage room. However, the last login record of the storage room was several years ago. The storage room seems to contain some supplies and unimportant equipment."

While the team members were discussing, Han Zu was also using the contractor's equipment to translate their language. At the same time, he was also using his perception ability to conduct a large-scale search. Wu, who was around him, quickly observed Han Zu's actions. This action was very familiar to him. He had found the team members using the deflection device in Haigo's waterway before. So Wu immediately understood what he was doing. So he immediately informed Hai and other team members.

"The ability to search for targets is indeed very powerful, no matter what type of hunter it is."

"What did you find? You said your name is γ, right?"

Han Zu did not answer Hai's question immediately, but his eyes moved a long distance along the ground and finally stopped at a certain position. While he was moving his eyes, Wu also used his own equipment to try to locate what positions Han Zu was observing through the structural diagram of the facility uploaded to him by Xu.

The last place where Han Zu's gaze stopped was the ground at a corner at the end of the corridor. According to the structural diagram of the facility, there are five floors below this floor, three of which are on the surface and two are underground. The exact point where his gaze was fixed, the first and fifth floors below, have locations passing through here.

In order to quickly find the intruder, Wu did not display the structure diagram on the data screen inside his helmet, but used a holographic image to display it around him, so everyone around him could see Wu's operation on the structure diagram, including Han Zu. After retracting his gaze, Han Zu stretched out a finger and pointed to a certain position on the structure diagram, but it was strange that there was no room at this position on the structure diagram. According to the description of the structure diagram, there were no pipelines or anything like that here. It was just a simple peripheral building, and it was not an important position like load-bearing. There was nothing. This position was two floors below this floor, and the inner area of ​​the facility closest to this point was about a few hundred meters away.

"There's nothing here."

"But there is something here, maybe a secret space."

"Xu has a high level of authority. He won't hide anything from us, at least not from me."

"Everyone has secrets. It's also possible that your brothers don't know that there is a secret space here. After all, you haven't been to this facility very often, right?"

Although the trust issue did exist, what the hunter said made sense. So while moving towards the short-range teleportation device, Wu informed the other team led by Xin of the news. However, Xin had already arrived at the location where the traces of the battle appeared in the previous facility and was investigating, but he would soon be able to reunite with Wu's team.

"There is no other node of the short-range teleportation device that is close to that location. No matter which node we start from to head to that location again, it will take a long time."

"There should be an old-style artificial passage here, but it's not on the structural diagram. I'll contact Xu and ask him to find out if there are any old structural diagrams."

The communication connection was quickly established, and Xu, who was far away on the spacecraft, also received the news. However, after some searching, although he found the old structural diagram of the facility, he also found some bad news.

"When the facility was undergoing large-scale repairs a few years ago, in order to enhance the safety of the facility, all the artificial passages between each floor, except for the basic stairs at the entrance, were replaced by short-range teleportation devices. Most of the original artificial passages were also completely buried and became dead ends. Currently, there is no way to quickly reach the target location, unless you go directly to the next floor and dig a hole to get through."

"The situation is urgent now. I think the parliament will not cause trouble for us even if the facilities are damaged."

"The premise is that you really find the intruder."

"It's okay if you can't find it, okay."

Hai pointed at Han Zu, who was moving his neck and putting a cylindrical object of roasted plant powder wrapped in special paper into his mouth. His meaning was clear. Even if the person was not found, it was feasible to put the blame on the hunter. Not to mention the information about the hunter's battle scene. Once it was transmitted back, no one would doubt this statement.

"What is he doing? Eating? Why did he light that thing on fire? Is it a special herb or some special means of attack?"

"The post-burn device scanned a special chemical made by a special plant that can't grow in our soil. This chemical is harmless to us."

"What about the smoke that was produced? And the grease-like substances that were scanned?"

"It's harmless. The oil is probably the product of burning roasted plants. If absorbed into the body, it will indeed cause damage to the human body, but it's very small. If this dose is to be lethal, it needs to be at least doubled several times, and then the contact must be continuous for one or two hundred years."

"Special effects? Recovery? Treatment? Hormones?"

"It has a very low stimulant effect, but you see two jokes, the chemicals that the body automatically secretes are similar to this."

"Uh, your race doesn't know what smoke is?"

Han Zu, who heard the conversation between the others, seemed very surprised.

"I don't know. We rarely take the initiative to try such ingestion that can only cause harm to ourselves, even if the harm is very low."

Han Zu gave a thumbs up and exhaled a puff of smoke.

"That's off topic. Just keep going. If you need to dig a hole, dig it. I will try my best to help you solve the subsequent problems."

After the communication with Xu ended, the team continued to move forward. Through the short-range teleportation device, everyone quickly arrived at the next level. Not long after leaving the teleportation device, the teleportation device started to work again. The team members immediately raised their weapons, looked for cover, and were ready to fire at anything that appeared. However, when the teleported person appeared, the team members immediately put down their weapons. It was another team led by Xin and Gloria.

"How is the situation over there?"

"They were some mechanical sentinels brought by the team that tested the safety of the facility last time. The technology level of these sentinels is relatively advanced, and the invaders were unable to crack them, so a battle broke out. According to the investigation of the remaining traces, the battle took place at least a day ago. So we brought good news. Those invaders, their purpose should not be the planetary eraser, but according to the clues we got, they entered the control center of the eraser, but did not stay there, and the energy core area of ​​the eraser was not invaded. So they should be looking for something else. How are you guys?"

"We plan to dig a hole directly on this floor. If we are lucky, we may be able to find what they are looking for. Of course, we may also fall into their encirclement. All signs show that there are a lot of intruders, and they are somewhere inside this facility."

Although the team members still have some doubts about the hunter's clues, there are no new clues at present. Although there is no problem with the energy core, the facility being invaded is not a good thing. And just because there is no problem now does not mean there will be no problem in the future.

"That's it."

"What should we do? Should we just take action, or..."

“Zi Buzz~~!!!”

"Unknown energy flow detected, abnormal environment."

Just as the team members were discussing how to enter the lower level, Han Zu had already started using energy rays to cut the ground. The buzzing sound of energy interrupted the conversation of the team members. After the cutting began, the unknown energy flow detected by the equipment and the abnormal environment around it made the team members subconsciously aim their weapons at the position where Han Zu was cutting.

"boom!"

The cutting process did not take long. Soon, a large hole about one and a half meters thick, large enough for people to pass through without obstacles, appeared in front of everyone. The cut building materials fell down, making some noises. Judging from the size of the noises, the cut building materials had fallen at least several meters.

Xin called out a few floating cannons, ready to drop them as reconnaissance drones, but just as the floating cannons reached above the cave entrance, they suddenly malfunctioned, shut down automatically, and fell straight down, also making some noises. However, based on the analysis of the noise levels, the height to which the floating cannons fell this time seemed to be much higher than the height to which the piece of building material fell.

Han Zu tried to use his perspective and perception abilities to look downwards, but a strange situation occurred. Although his eyes could see the dim ground, his perspective ability suddenly lost its effect and his night vision ability was also weakened a lot. However, when he looked back at other locations in the corridor, there was no change. This showed that there was no problem with his own abilities, but that something under the hole affected his strength.

The team members' equipment also had problems. The closer they were to the cave entrance, the greater the interference. However, if they took a step back, the interference would disappear immediately.

"Error, unscannable area."

"What's happening here?"

The strange situation made everyone frown. If they wanted to know what was down there, there seemed to be no other way except to go down and observe with their own eyes. However, it was pitch black down there, and something seemed to be constantly falling, so there was really no desire to go down.

"threw up."

"and many more!!"

However, Han Zu, who was standing at the entrance of the cave, scratched his face, spit out the cigarette butt in his mouth, and jumped directly from the entrance of the cave. Not long after his figure disappeared from the entrance of the cave, the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground was heard. Sure enough, the height this time was much higher than the previous two times.

"Han Zu?!"

Gloria tried to call out, but got no response. Then she gritted her teeth and jumped down as well. Soon after, she heard the sound of landing, and the height dropped again.

"Damn it!"

Xin, the team leader, cursed inwardly, grabbed his weapon, and jumped down. Once the leader jumped down, the other team members jumped down immediately. With a few dull noises, even after the last two team members went down, the sound of the propulsion device came from the darkness below the cave. Everyone entered the cave.

“Tsk~~~”

But soon, something strange happened. The building material that Han Zu had cut out suddenly flew up, and then quickly returned to its original state, as if nothing had ever happened here.

"Xin? Wu? Hai? Damn it!!"

Xu, who was far away on the spaceship and waiting for information from the team, suddenly lost contact with all team members.