Chapter 433 "Infectious Diseases" (4)
"Where on earth do these things come from?"
"After looking at them for a long time, I got used to these disgusting things, but cleaning them is indeed a waste of time."
All the corridors in the warehouse area were originally built very large to facilitate the transportation of goods. They could even accommodate two heavy transport vehicles driving side by side, so this part of the road was originally easy to walk on. However, two hours after they arrived at the warehouse area and unblocked the lighting system, that is, now, they have only traveled one-fifth of the entire warehouse area, because starting from the elevator entrance, there are more and more strange fungal webs in this location. It seems that due to the increased activity, these things are becoming larger and larger, and more and more solid. If these things had not been scanned before, one would even think that these things are the roots or vines of some giant plants. These solid giant fungal webs blocked many places, making it impossible for the team to increase their speed. They could only use the tools or melee weapons in their hands to cut while constantly adjusting their routes.
The current location of the team is in front of the door of warehouse No. 14-21 in the warehouse area. According to the current terrain map scanned by the equipment, this part of the corridor has been completely blocked by the fungal webs, and it is necessary to bypass the warehouse from inside. Otherwise, if the action of cutting the fungal web is taken to move forward, at least several hours will be wasted.
But it was not so easy to get into warehouse 14-21. Although Sinler covered the security protocols of the entire warehouse and opened the door, the door was also covered by the fungus net. A path had to be cut to get in. After all, their shapes were normal, and with the heavy armor, they were not like Han Zu who could "flow" directly through the gaps in the fungus net.
"Can't you help us? Where did all your powerful strength go? If we use your energy beam, it should be easy to cut a gap for us to pass through, right?"
Looking at Han Zu, who was bored and moving back and forth in the gaps of the fungus net, the surrounding Tige team members couldn't help but complain a few words.
"I would like to help, after all, you are really too slow, but I don't know what's going on. I can't use any abilities other than converting energy in my current state. Besides, isn't Gloria also helping you? Although I look like a liquid alloy robot, it's just an appearance. I can't really turn my hands into some sharp alloy for cutting."
"Huh! Why don't you give it a try? What if it works? If we can get through here earlier, can't we figure out the situation sooner?"
Although it sounds like the Tig team spent a lot of time and energy here, in fact, there were only three or four people who consumed physical energy. In order to avoid sudden attacks later, these people did not use any armor energy to assist, but only used the energy swords or polymer vibration weapons in their hands to do the cutting work.
Xin and Gloria, their armor is a little smaller than others, so they have actually passed through the fungus net and reached the other side of the door. Now is not an important or dangerous time, so Hai, the team's heavy firepower, and Xinle, the engineer who is responsible for armor and weapon maintenance and information detection, did not participate in the cutting of the fungus net. Although Xinle's armor has enough tools to let them pass through here quickly, everyone agrees that it is better for these two to temporarily save the energy of the armor rather than wasting it on the road.
As for Wu Mo, this guy is indeed slacking off.
"Yes, yes. How about you try to absorb the energy from these fungal webs? Maybe you can reduce their strength, or even drain them dry?"
Although Wu was slacking off, he couldn't let others find out that he was slacking off, so he joined the discussion and put forward an idea of his own, but it was refuted by Xinle and Han Zu.
"In theory, yes, but you can't let him do that."
"why?"
"I have scanned these vines, or fungal webs... Anyway, there are many more of them than we have seen. Many of them have parasitized or grown into some of the power facilities on this floor. If Han Zu destroys them by absorbing energy, it is likely to affect the structural stability of this floor. These fungal webs seem to be connected together. If some parts lack energy, then other parts will begin to absorb the structure of these power sources. If the parts of these fungal webs that grow cover the power source of the weapon sequence, then once the energy changes unstablely, the weapon sequence will be completely locked, and I will not be able to shut them down."
"The engineer is right, so there's really nothing I can do now."
"...at least you shouldn't rock back and forth, it's annoying."
"Okay, sorry."
Another half an hour later, the team members finally cut a gap to pass through and entered warehouse 14-21. The walls and corners here were covered with fungus webs, and some places had fist-sized mushrooms, but their colorful appearance and some of them glowing clearly showed that these things were definitely not good stuff.
"Don't eat it."
Of course, the moment Gloria saw them, she immediately spoke out to stop Han Zu. This time it was just in time, and she stopped him before Han Zu stretched out his hand.
"alright."
Similarly, Han Zu actually secretly picked a few glowing mushrooms and hid them in his current liquid body. After all, he didn't just eat with his mouth, he could also break things down and absorb them. However, after being absorbed by Han Zu, these mushrooms did not have any effect.
"This warehouse contains some weapons and armor. They were abandoned here due to irreversible failures. According to the storage log of the High Wall, these items were originally to be sent to a forging planet in Sector 7 for destruction. However, they were left here because of a temporary mission."
The Tig team and Gloria had no interest in these unusable weapons and armors, but Han Zu was very interested in these "junk". After asking Sinler to unblock the storage boxes of these discarded equipment, Han Zu began to rummage through the piles of boxes of different sizes as if he was digging out antiques.
Although it couldn't be said to be disappointing, there was no surprise either. Indeed, most of these weapons and equipment were badly damaged, and apart from their appearance, their power was not very impressive to Han Zu.
"Ok?"
In one of the storage boxes, Han Zu saw something that was smaller than his entire upper body. It looked like some kind of device, not a weapon or equipment. Based on his understanding, Han Zu thought it might be a manufacturing device for something, or a drone dock or something like that, so he asked Sinler.
"What is this thing? It doesn't look like a weapon or equipment. Is it something mounted on your armor?"
"Oh, this is a dock for a floating gun. It's not used for armor. It's used for position defense. Its power source must have been directly hit, causing a certain degree of overload, which directly destroyed the manufacturing unit and control sequence of the floating gun. Now it's just scrap metal."
"I've also seen you use floaters. Isn't this thing really mounted on armor? It looks like the right size, right?"
"It's different. The floating cannons on our armor are assembled by micro-robots and are powered by remote transmission equipment. In other words, although we can summon a certain number of floating cannons, our armor does not have equipment that can produce floating cannons because it takes up too much space and consumes a lot of energy. So in essence, we just use the transmission equipment on the armor to remotely transmit the floating cannons."
Han Zu nodded, then pointed to a device on the back of the Sinler armor, below the robot pool, which was a dock for a small floating gun. Sinler naturally understood what he meant, walked to the storage box, and began to talk to Han Zu about the difference between the two.
"Yes, this is also a dock for floating guns. But from the size of these two devices, you can also see that the sizes of floating guns that can be produced by the two are completely different. These floating guns of mine have been modified by me to reduce energy consumption, but at the same time their size must also be miniaturized. Moreover, these floating guns of mine do not actually have the ability to attack. Their role is more to remotely repair other people's armor or weapons. They can be regarded as a kind of repair drone."
Then Sinler took back the weapon in his hand and picked up the floating gun dock in the box.
"This one is different. A normal floating gun dock can often produce multiple floating guns at a time. The energy required is not small, but it is only a threat to a single soldier. This one, based on the intact structure inside, can only produce one floating gun at a time. This kind of floating gun, which is almost half the size of a human, cannot be powered by normal single-soldier equipment. Even if there is, it is a special single-soldier model, but they will not use the energy of the entire armor to power a floating gun. As for armored vehicles, weapon systems with similar energy consumption levels to this thing are cheaper and more robust, so except for special circumstances where normal means of advancement are not possible, It is basically not installed on armed vehicles, so this thing is generally used for position defense. Since it is for position defense, the energy problem is naturally easy to solve. You can also install multiple floating gun docks of this type. Although it is expensive and consumes a lot of energy, the mobility and power of these things are still very objective. However, this type of floating gun is very old and has a fatal flaw. For the advantage of speed, the power source shell of this floating gun is easily damaged. I think the reason why this dock was damaged may be because the floating gun inside had its power source shell damaged, but the explosion occurred after returning to the dock. "
"So what are the capabilities of the floating guns in this dock?"
"If it's charged enough, it can leave the dock for one to two hours while continuously releasing firepower. The farthest controllable distance is 500 meters. If the attack power is reduced, it can be even farther. As for speed, because the floating guns on it have been modified to be lightweight, according to the scan, the speed of the floating guns inside should be the same as... um... I'll calculate it later..."
Xinle wanted to use something as an example, but after thinking about it carefully, it seems that there is no equipment or weapon with a speed similar to this type of floater. However, after thinking about it carefully, Xinle really remembered something similar, with a speed similar to this type of floater, but it was not a Tig's thing, but Han Zu's.
"The maximum speed of your biological missile is about the same as the basic speed of this type of floating gun. At full speed, it should be more than twice, but less than three times faster than your biological missiles."
"Where's the power?"
"It's about one-fifth to one-third of a biological missile, but the range is much smaller. This type of floating gun is a long-range fixed-point fire support unit, so although the power is not great, the attack speed and frequency are very fast. It should be about the same as the speed of your uncharged ray, but it's not as accurate, but the attack frequency is still stronger."
Han Zu became interested in this thing and took the scrap metal from Xinle.
"Can you give me this thing?"
"You mean getting a new one? I guess that's not possible. I can try to make you a similar one, but you don't need this, right?"
"No, no, I mean this piece of scrap metal in my hand."
"This? Of course you can. After all, this thing is going to be scrapped anyway."
"That's all right. It's mine now."
Although it was unclear why Han Zu wore this piece of scrap metal as if it were a vest that didn't fit him well, since the scrap metal was useless anyway, Xinle no longer cared about it and walked towards Gloria and the other team members who were discussing the route.
"...From this direction, if the elevator at the end of the corridor cannot be used, we can continue upwards from the lift platform in the loading area next to it."
"Have you decided on the route?"
"Well, we can start from...what is he doing?"
Han Zu's bizarre appearance briefly attracted the attention of others.
"It's okay, don't worry about him. When he's bored, he often does some weird and meaningless things."
Gloria didn't know the purpose of the metal "vest" Han Zu was wearing, so she didn't pay much attention to it.
"Okay, let's go out now..."
When everyone decided to move on, they seemed to hear some noisy sounds coming from the other exit of warehouse 14-21. The sounds sounded a bit like staggering footsteps, mixed with some unclear whispers. This attracted their attention.
"what sound?"