Chapter 395 "Floor 7" (1)

Chapter 395 "Floor 7" (1)

Before the people who followed Han Zu to jump down had time to ask why he acted so rashly, they all saw the strange building materials flying up and recovering automatically. Without the light source at the top, the originally very dim space immediately became pitch black, and you couldn't see your hand in front of you.

“Sizzle…Sizzle…”

"mistake."

At the same time, all the equipment on the team members, Han Zu and Gloria, had abnormalities, kept reporting errors, and entered a state of continuous restarting, making them completely unusable. At this moment, everyone completely lost all contact with the outside world.

"Our equipment is not affected, but the energy consumption has increased several times. Except when necessary, we should avoid unnecessary energy consumption. After all, we don't know when we can get out."

Wu immediately used the armor's built-in safety system to perform a self-check on his armor and weapons. Apart from the increased energy consumption, the armor and weapons were not affected in any other way. However, the micro-space dock used to release the floating artillery group had an abnormality, probably because it was directly connected to the equipment, so it could not be used now. However, based on the abnormal state of the floating artillery before they jumped down, even if there was no abnormality, the floating artillery group could not work in this position.

"Equipment.. Wrong.. Translation.. Not possible."

A tall figure patted Wu on the shoulder and explained something in an unskilled language. Wu briefly turned on the armor's night vision system and saw that this person was Han Zu. Although his words were not complete, it could be roughly inferred that he meant to say that the traitor's equipment had the same problem, and without the support of the traitor's equipment, he would not be able to translate the conversation between the two parties.

For an alliance that was not very strong to begin with and still had trust issues, not being able to communicate was not a small matter. Because of the location where they fell and the surrounding environment, the distance between them was very close, so almost everyone heard the news. It was this unexpected situation that greatly shook the team members' belief in the alliance.

Due to his incomplete trust in the hunters, Hai, a relatively radical member of the team, began to communicate with the rest of the team members in a unique language. The language he used was an unofficial language similar to a variant dialect. Since people who use this language are extremely rare even within the entire race, and this language has hundreds of language variants, even the equipment cannot effectively translate it. But by coincidence, Hai and Xin can use this language proficiently, and Wu has a very high talent for linguistics, so he also mastered the accurate use of this language. As for the other members of the team, because they have been together for a long time, even if they can't speak it, they can understand it.

"In this situation, should we continue to cooperate?"

"What do you think?"

"I think this is most likely a trap. After all, the two of them are hunters. I think the information Xu sent us before, as well as the guys in the video left by the mechanical sentinel we found, are most likely other hunters."

"But aside from the two of them here, this thing doesn't make any noise."

Wu tapped the helmet on his head twice with his fingers. This action made everyone think, including Hai, who did not trust the two hunters at all.

The position of the helmet that Wu tapped with his fingers is a special modular device. This device is not only independent of the equipment, but also has a unique energy supply mechanism. It has two energy cores, one is the secondary energy core from the armor, and the other is a complete lightweight dynamic energy storage device. As long as the team members exercise, they can charge the device. After many updates and iterations, only small movements are needed to ensure the stability of the charging and it is sufficient to support the operation of this special modular device.

This unique modular device was specially developed by the military to detect hunters. Its only function is to filter and detect special energy to analyze whether there are hunters around. Because of the uniqueness of its function, the accuracy of recognition cannot be said to be 95%, but at least it exceeds %, making it an extremely reliable device.

This device will continuously filter the energy in the surrounding environment, and has almost no effect on all energies, except for two types, one is element 12, and the other is a special and strange energy fluctuation that only hunters emit. Element was first discovered and recognized by the public because of a hunter attack several decades ago. According to the subsequent exploration and investigation at that time, some strange things in the history of their entire race, such as inexplicable attacks, sudden deaths of important historical figures, plagues, and strange massacres without any clues about the culprit, may actually be related to hunters. In fact, it seems that only places where hunters have appeared or are suspected of appearing can find a large amount of element . They have found element in other places, but either the quantity is very small or the purity is extremely low. Most of the elements that look like viscous liquids are found in places where hunters have appeared.

As for that kind of energy fluctuation, coincidentally, they are exactly what Han Zu can always sense, the most primitive special energy in his body, which he initially mistakenly thought was the gift of the dead realm. Every time Han Zu confirms whether what he is looking for is correct, he relies on his perception of this kind of energy fluctuation. For example, the previous ore, the huge liquid pool where the cultists gather, and the slimes in the underground world all emit energy fluctuations of different concentrations but consistent frequencies. When Han Zu uses his various abilities and stops consuming energy, some surplus energy remains, which is this kind of energy fluctuation.

The concentration of this energy fluctuation is very scary. It's not that the surplus energy is harmful, but because of its impact on the team's search equipment. When they first met Han Zu, the team members' search equipment kept issuing warnings as if there was a malfunction. That's why they immediately regarded Han Zu as a rare special hunter.

But in a way, their ideas are not only not wrong, but surprisingly accurate.

The equipment specially used to search for hunters was not affected by the abnormalities in the surrounding space at this moment, and the dynamic energy storage device ensured its normal operation. At this moment, the energy searched by the equipment was only for the two hunters next to them. In fact, when the team was divided into three groups to investigate inside the facility, the equipment did not detect any other energy except for the two of them. In other words, the only hunters in the entire facility were the two next to them. Although it was unclear where the secretive team came from, it was certain that they were not hunters.

Everyone quickly understood Wu's meaning, but this was not enough to dispel Hai's doubts.

"But we can't be sure about this for now. Those thick special armors may have the function of shielding the hunters' special energy fluctuations. Even if they are really not hunters, they may be some guys who cooperate with hunters."

"You're right. We know very little about hunters, except for some of their characteristics and energy fluctuations. But our experience dealing with hunters over the years has also taught us one thing, which is their motivation. Although your guess is indeed worthy of recognition, there is nothing in this facility that they are interested in."

"Maybe we just don't know. According to the information, this facility should have been scrapped and deleted 45 years ago, but it is still here and has been renovated before. I think there must be some secrets hidden here."

"You mean, you suspect there's a...creation engine here?"

"There are no living people in the entire facility except us. They are all robots or sentinels. Except in the event of a battle, any type of hunter is not interested in them. When our equipment was inside the facility, except for the two of them who have been confirmed and no longer sound the alarm, we did not find any Element XII. Based on these circumstances, if that team is the hunters, or at least related to the hunters, then this is the only motive for their appearance."

The Creation Engine was what Han Zu had discovered several times before. It was all made of flesh and blood. Coincidentally, both their language and human language had the same name for these things. In addition to the differences in culture, language, and race, the "home" race of these contractors seemed to be very similar to that of humans.

"That particular team has nothing to do with the Hunters. They are a different race."

At this time, the team leader Xin expressed her opinion to others, and from her tone, it could be heard that she was very sure of her judgment.

"Why do you say that? Do you have any clues...Oh."

Just as Hai was about to ask, he turned around and saw Xin squatting on the ground, observing something with the armored night vision system. He turned on the night vision system and found a large number of the special team found in the previous information, which had been chopped into pieces along with the users inside. Judging from the number, they seemed to have been wiped out here.

"Based on the cuts on the armor, we can basically judge that the armor of this team was cut by something that was not sharp. The cuts were rough and uneven. Some places were more like being pinched off than being cut."

"Some of the armor has traces of corrosion and burning from chemicals. Judging from the extent of the damage and the traces, no matter what these things are, they are extremely corrosive and caused this scale of damage in just a few seconds."

"How does it compare to our armor?"

"Not on the same level. Although our armor is several times thinner than theirs, its defense is far beyond their reach. For the same level of corrosive substances, our armor is at most just waxed and polished. If we use energy shields, the energy consumption is normally less than 1%. The venom of those moths is about the same power as this."

"However, these attacks, which we will call cutting wounds for the time being, cannot be underestimated. Although the armor of this team has low protection against chemical agents and even worse energy protection, its physical defense capability is basically the same as the previous generation of armor we use. Although attacks of the same level cannot cause any structural damage to our current armor, they will definitely be damaged. Based on these cutting marks, if they are some kind of creatures, their size is estimated to be about the same as those leather 3?9. So I reasonably suspect that they may be a kind of social creature like the leather 3?9."

"If that's the case, if there are enough of them, they can still cause considerable damage to us."

"That's right, but our weapon system has not been affected. Unless we encounter a swarm attack like before, we will still be able to deal with it."

"Om~~"

At this moment, the hunter, who had been talking to his companions nearby and apparently investigating the armor and corpses, suddenly stopped talking to his companions and stood up immediately. He adjusted his body and entered a posture ready for battle, just like the battle posture that the team members had witnessed before. At the same time, the buzzing sound of energy gathering also sounded, and a scarlet light could be seen in the hunter's eyes, which was a sign that he was about to release the energy ray.

"Get ready for battle!"

Without the support of equipment, the team members' safety assessment of the surrounding environment dropped a lot, but the hunters' ability to detect danger was not weakened at all. The team was of high quality and immediately made rapid adjustments based on the hunters' reactions, adjusting their formation and using two hunters as cover. The team members immediately took an all-round defensive posture, with their weapons ready and the various energy shields on their armor activated.