Chapter 397 "Floor 7" (3)

Chapter 397 "Floor 7" (3)

"So what you're saying is that behind the wall there's not just nothing, there's nothing?"

"Although your description is confusing, this is actually the case. You can also use the traitors' equipment to test yourself, and the results should be the same. After all, the equipment we use is essentially from the same source."

"Okay, but you call them renegades. Does this have anything to do with the abandoned empty city? What did you call it?"

"Hai Ge, this question doesn't seem to be what we should discuss now, just like I didn't ask why you were connected with those traitors."

"You're right."

While talking with Xin, Han Zu used the contractor's equipment to conduct a detailed inspection of the surrounding environment. As Xin said, there was indeed nothing behind the wall. However, there were slight differences in the wording used by the contractor's equipment and the team's equipment to describe "nothing".

"No presence detected."

But the general meaning is similar.

"What do your race call themselves? Wouldn't they also call themselves contractors?"

"what?"

At this moment, Han Zu suddenly changed the content of the conversation and began to ask about the other party's ethnic name. Although the change of topic was a bit abrupt, this question was different from Hai Ge's incident and was not a secret.

"We also call ourselves Tigres, but this name is only used in academia or when communicating with other races. We generally call ourselves humans."

"Humans? That's quite a coincidence. We also call ourselves humans. Homo sapiens is our academic name for ourselves. So far, we have not seen any other highly intelligent creatures capable of conducting conversations."

Although the conversation had gone off topic, Xin suddenly became interested in the hunter in front of him. He did not hide his identity at all, and through the equipment's analysis of his micro-expressions and movements, he was not lying at all. One more thing, he was not nervous at all about his current situation. Unlike the other Tig people present, he was not tense all the time, and even a little relaxed. If you were not also in this strange space, but just observing the hunter's state, you might think he really came to this place to swim.

"As a hunter, it is not a wise choice to tell a race that is hostile to hunters about your race."

"Hunter race? No, no, no, you must have misunderstood. It may be because I did not explain it clearly. I am me, and humans are humans. Oh, Homo sapiens."

"During the conversation, you meant to call the species Homo sapiens "we", but now you deny this statement. What do you want to express?"

"Okay, I'm a human being. Sorry, I used to be a Homo sapiens. But now I'm beyond the scope of Homo sapiens, at least biologically. But after all, I've lived as a Homo sapiens for a long time. So even though I'm a different species biologically, I haven't completely cut myself off from the Homo sapiens race in my mind. Does your race have philosophy? If so, maybe you should be able to understand what I mean."

"The Tigs also have this discipline. I can see what you mean. You seem to be somewhat different from the other hunters we have met before."

It seemed that the two were having a normal conversation, but in fact, Xin had been using her equipment to conduct a comprehensive and detailed scan of Han Zu since the beginning of the conversation. Although she tried her best to prevent the scanning signal from being detected by the traitor device on Han Zu, the two devices came from the same source after all. Han Zu knew what Xin was doing very early on, but he did not stop her.

"You know, scanning me is useless. Even if you compare multiple sets of data, the final result may be completely beyond your expectations. So no matter what you plan to do with this data, it actually has no effect on me...Don't be so nervous. I have no intention of attacking you."

After learning that Han Zu knew that he was scanning him, Xin immediately retreated backwards, and his hand was on his weapon, his expression was solemn, and his spirit was tense. Xin blamed himself in his heart, he shouldn't make such a low-level mistake, provoking a hunter, and being close enough to him, the end is never good, countless times the experience of the "predecessors" still didn't teach him a lesson. The surrounding team members also immediately prepared for battle after discovering the abnormality. Gloria, who had been observing the movements of the team members, immediately took action, and her palm became a knife and immediately went straight to the back of the head of the nearest team member, and the team member had no time to react.

“Swoosh~Swish!!!”

"It's just a misunderstanding. I have no intention of doing anything. Relax Gloria."

Just before the team member was about to be pierced through the head, all the team members who were looking at Han Zu saw another shocking scene. A strange tentacle that looked like rough metal but had abnormal ductility and flexibility jumped out from his side at an extremely fast speed, blocking Gloria's hand knife and the brain of the team member who was about to be pierced through the head. Gloria's hand knife did not have time to retract its force and stabbed into the tentacle released by Han Zu, but the kinetic energy was quickly diluted and absorbed. Gloria felt as if her hand seemed to have been stabbed into some non-Newtonian fluid.

"Don't be so tense, relax a little at the right time. I won't change my words easily."

Although the fact that a team member was almost killed did not make everyone relax their guard, the current situation made all the team members feel incredible. A hunter stopped another hunter's attack. This situation has never happened in the entire history of the Tig race. Not to mention that the relationship between the two hunters does not seem to be completely equal. There is a kind of superior-subordinate relationship. It is unheard of that a hunter would obey the orders of another hunter.

Gloria retracted her tentacles and stepped aside, but she kept scanning the team with her eyes. The frightened team member was also protected by other members. Han Zu coughed lightly and turned Xin's attention back to himself again, as if nothing had happened.

"Take a step to talk?"

In order to avoid such a "little incident" from happening again, Han Zu turned his body to the side, stretched out a hand, and headed towards a slightly farther place. Although Xin followed him, he did not release his hand on the weapon.

"Okay, this position should be fine. You can relax a bit. If you want to leave this place, cooperation is undoubtedly the best choice. Infighting at this time will only reduce the probability of our leaving and will not bring any benefits."

"You are the hunter who least resembles a hunter as far as I know."

"You always call me a hunter. What does that mean? I didn't find any relevant information in the equipment of the contractors, or the traitors you call them."

"This is normal, because our equipment does not have any information about hunters. In the entire control network, only some devices and people with the highest authority have information related to hunters."

"To keep it secret?"

"To avoid causing panic."

"The common people of the Tig don't know about the hunters?"

"Correct."

"But judging from your attitude towards 'hunters', you must have encountered hunters quite a few times in your history. Didn't the news spread among the people?"

"Yes, but they use some propaganda methods. The existence of hunters is similar to myths or ghost stories. There are people who believe in them, but they are only a minority."

"How did you classify me into the category of hunters? Do I have any common traits with hunters?"

"The topic has gone too far, and the level of trust between us is not enough to continue these conversations."

"You're right, that's fair."

"If you have nothing else to say, I'm going to discuss with my people how to leave. This place is very strange, and I don't plan to stay for long."

"You know, things may not develop as you expect. We may all die here soon."

What Han Zu said was not completely unreasonable, but although these words were true, they were not what Xin wanted to hear. At least now she did not want to admit that this was a very likely fact. So Xin did not respond to Han Zu and went straight back to the team. Han Zu also followed her back to where everyone was.

Because of the previous incident, the team and Han Zu and Gloria instinctively kept some distance. Although this space was bright, it always revealed a weird feeling. No one knew which way they should go or even whether to move. The team members were discussing related countermeasures, and Gloria and Han Zu were also talking, but their conversation was more radical than that of the team members.

"Do you think this wall can be penetrated?"

"I'm not sure, but there's nothing behind this. Really nothing. If the wall is broken through, we might be sucked into the void right away, or somewhere worse."

"So what do you think Gloria?"

"Try smashing it."

"I like your way of thinking. It fits my approach very well."

"boom!!!"

Gloria took a few steps back consciously, while Han Zu took a stance, stepped forward, twisted his waist, and swung his fist at the wall covered with neat white tiles. The shock wave generated by the powerful force hitting the wall even caused air waves within a certain range. The calm water surface in the swimming pool behind him was also blown into large ripples by the air waves. The loud noise caused by the bombardment attracted the attention of everyone around.

"What are you doing?!"

The team members immediately gathered around. This level of sound could be transmitted far in this space. If there was anything strange here, as long as they could recognize the sound, they would definitely be attracted. However, a full minute passed, and nothing happened except that the surface of the swimming pool returned to calm.

“Nothing hurt.”

Han Zu and Gloria's attention was not on this. They had been observing the place where Han Zu had just hit in his dream. When Han Zu put down his hand, there was nothing left where his fist had touched the wall, not even a scratch. Han Zu's attack did not cause any damage to the wall at all. For Han Zu, who could stop and destroy a hundred-ton boulder with the same force, this was not normal at all.

Soon, the team members also immediately discovered this abnormal situation. Hai took out his Gao Zhen dagger from his waist and tried to cut the tiles on the wall, but again, not even a trace was left.

"Perhaps the walls of this space can absorb kinetic energy?"

"Would you like to know if you try it?"

Soon, Han Zu used the energy ray to bombard the wall in the same way, but it also did not cause any damage to the wall. Not only that, when the energy ray hit the inclined surface of the tile, it was even able to refract the energy ray. Fortunately, Wu recognized this possibility in advance and told the others to lower their bodies as much as possible or lie down directly before Han Zu tried the energy ray, otherwise someone might really be injured by mistake.

Similarly, the various energy weapons of the team members could not cause any damage to the wall. They were meaningless except for wasting energy. So after the equipment measured and calculated, the team members who did not get any useful data immediately stopped wasting energy. Han Zu was happily trying the surrounding metal signs, inside the swimming pool, and under the water. There was enough surplus energy here, so he was not worried about the consumption of energy. But of course, except for turning some water into steam, it had no effect.

"Haven't you had enough fun yet?"

“I’m doing a test.”

"We are ready to start moving. If we stay where we are, no miracle will happen. However, we haven't decided which way to go yet. What does your hunter's intuition say?"

"I..."

"Han Zu, I heard something."

Gloria suddenly turned her head towards the front. She heard a sound coming from afar, but the sound was very vague and weak. If even she couldn't hear it, it would be even more impossible for others to hear it. If this was not her auditory hallucination, the source of the sound must be very far away from where everyone was.

"What did you hear Gloria?"

"Very...fuzzy, but there is a certain rhythm. But I think it's because we are too far away to hear clearly. But it shouldn't be a conversation. The rhythm doesn't seem right."

"Where did the sound come from?"

"I'm not sure, but the direction is definitely forward."

Han Zu snapped his fingers and flicked them towards the front.

"It seems that the direction we are going to move is clear. As for whether you want to go with us, that is not my problem."

"Didn't you say you wanted to cooperate?"

"Isn't it a way of cooperation if we don't attack each other? After all, the trust between the two sides is not high, right?"

Han Zu waved behind him, then followed Gloria and walked forward without looking back.

"How do we do that? Xin?"

"What do you think? Should we follow them?"

"Although I don't really trust them, in this strange space, if we can have two hunters on our side, it will definitely be good as long as we don't fight among ourselves before leaving here. After all, their strength is obvious to all of us."

"Although I don't want to agree with Wu's statement, it is true. Hunters do have a natural advantage in finding targets."

"Hu... Let's go and follow them."

With a long sigh, Xin made a judgment. They decided to keep up with the two hunters. After a few jogs, the team members caught up with the two hunters. After nearly half an hour of moving, everyone heard a faint sound, which was exactly the same as Gloria heard half an hour ago. She was indeed not lying.

Of course, as the distance changed, Gloria's perception of sound became clearer. This time, the rhythmic sounds became clearer. Although there were still some unclear places and she couldn't tell what made the sound, based on the rhythm and frequency of the sound, Gloria could judge that the sound seemed to be some unfamiliar song.