Chapter 465 Falling into the Deep Sea (8)

Chapter 465 Falling into the Deep Sea (8)

An hour later, the deepest point of the trench was 1200 meters.

“What the hell is this???”

Following the guidance of the metal plate, the two finally arrived at their destination. Now, the glowing pattern on the metal plate was located in the middle of the entire metal plate, and right in front of the two, a strange thing appeared.

"I can't scan it, but it looks like... a building?"

"It seems to be integrated with what the armor's detection module scanned, or at least connected. And its material looks the same... Han Zu, give me that metal plate."

The muscle where the metal plate was placed moved on its own and "spitted" it out, and Han Zu handed it to Xin.

"Give."

"Yes, the material of this metal plate is the same as this... building we saw. But this metal plate looks newer than this place. What should we do next?"

"I think it might be more appropriate to call it a suspected building complex. These... metal-covered areas are beyond the maximum range that the contractor's equipment can detect when it is stationary. If the metal material in this area is really some building debris or something similar, we'd better find an entrance to get inside."

"I don't think we should rush. We have almost walked a whole day from the wreckage to here. According to your speed, this is not a small area. Even if this ocean is ridiculously large, we have never seen a structure similar to this area. Don't you think it's strange? In an ocean with only primitive life, the appearance of this huge metal structure, which is obviously a creation, is abnormal no matter how you think about it."

"what's your plan?"

"There's something wrong with this area. I think we should not try to go in yet. Let's measure the size of this area first. Maybe we can analyze the complete outline and figure out what it might be if it is a man-made structure."

"It makes sense."

According to Xin's proposal, the two put the search for the entrance on hold and began to move along the area of ​​the suspected man-made metal building. Using the equipment on their bodies and Han Zu's perception ability, they made some detailed drawings of the nearby terrain.

This area is not small, and is even almost as big as the destroyed space station. The two were not able to complete the drawing in one go. In order to ensure that the engineering armor had sufficient energy, they temporarily stopped the drawing work after a few hours and prepared to rest for a while in a relatively safe place in the trench.

"It takes a while for the energy of the engineering armor to recover. By the way, why don't I feel tired at all? We have been operating continuously for more than a day. Is this also the benefit of "evolution"? "

"That's it."

"Does that mean I don't need to sleep to recover my strength from now on?"

"I'm not sure about that. After all, strictly speaking, there are only two people I've evolved, including you. I don't have many subjects to conduct experiments and comparisons. However, your physical strength will be much greater than before, but I don't know the exact amount."

"When you first went through the "evolution", how long did it take for you to become tired?"

"I don't remember exactly, but it should be three or four days. Of course, I felt tired when my energy ran out. But after that, as I got stronger, I gradually found it hard to feel tired. Although I slept a lot, I didn't need sleep to recover my strength. I just liked sleeping. But that's not necessarily true. After all, I still have the ability to convert energy."

"That is to say, if I have a chance to rest now, I should probably take a break, right?"

"Yes, it is difficult for anything larger than us to enter the place where we are now. There are no life signals suspected of Leviathan creatures in the scanning range of the equipment, so this is a safe area. If you want to rest, you can take this opportunity to sleep."

"Sleeping in the depths of an ocean trench while wearing engineering armor... This is truly an experience I have never had before."

"I guess I don't need to take guard duty anymore. I also plan to get some sleep."

"I've always been curious, don't you need to breathe?"

"Do you think I am still human?"

"Right."

Seeing Han Zu break off a piece of rock from the nearby rock wall and nail himself to it, Xin sucked her teeth. She still needed some time to adapt to this guy's weird behavior.

"Don't you feel any fear at all? After all, we are at an extremely deep bottom of the sea, and there are a lot of creatures around us that can crush us. How can you really sleep?"

"if not?"

"Okay... By the way, next time you use a device to communicate, don't simulate your own voice through the device. It sounds weird."

"Row."

Falling asleep in such a situation was a completely new experience for Xin, and it was also a big challenge. In the first two or three hours, she couldn't sleep at all. On the other hand, Han Zu, who had nailed himself to the rock wall next to her, fell asleep a few minutes after the communication ended.

However, Xin was very clear that prolonged high mental tension and concentration would eventually lead to adverse effects. She tried hard to calm down, and finally after four hours, she fell into a state of light sleep. Their location was indeed well chosen, and no living creatures approached here. Light sleep gradually turned into deep sleep, and Xin finally got enough rest.

After getting enough rest and resting the energy of the engineering armor, the two continued to work on drawing the structural diagram. Finally, after about two days, they completed the drawing of the nearby structural diagram.

"It looks like there is indeed some kind of man-made structure in this area, but there are three parts in total. However, I didn't find any gaps in the middle. It should be three independent parts, not one part broken into three pieces."

"But this structure is very rare. I always feel that it doesn't look like a building, but rather something else. And I don't know if there is something wrong with the metal plate. Since we arrived at this location, the position of the glowing pattern on it has not changed."

"I carefully used my perception to confirm the structure of the place we passed by, and I didn't find any entrance-like location. Either there is no entrance, or the entrance is not within the range we passed by, and it may be at the top or the bottom."

"The scanning module of the engineering armor was unable to confirm the true identity of this material. How about your Renegade equipment? Did you find anything?"

"No, I can't connect to the contractors' matrix and log into their database. There is no information about this material in the offline database built into the equipment."

"Then even if we want to go in, it seems we can only destroy an entrance manually, or look for other possible entrance locations. What are you going to do?"

"You know me, I keep things simple."

Han Zu's meaning was very clear. He didn't want to waste time looking for an entrance that he was not sure existed. The guiding role of the metal plate no longer had any further effect at this time. Since the two wanted to enter the interior of these three structures, the fastest and easiest way was to make a hole in it.

“I think this is a good location.”

"Okay, do you need my help?"

"Okay, I'll cut from the left and you from the right."

Among the three huge unknown metal structures, the two chose the one closest to them. The volume of this metal structure was smaller than the other two. After discussion, the two decided to open an entrance from the bottom of this metal structure. After selecting the location and marking it, the two immediately started working.

Han Zu used the high-energy rays emitted from his eyes to cut to the left, while Xin used the cutting tools on the engineering armor to cut to the right. However, as soon as the two began to work, a problem arose. Neither Han Zu's high-energy rays nor the particle cutting tools on Xin's armor could destroy the metal structure in front of them.

"Dang~~!"

"This thing is really solid, but there is definitely space inside."

The failure of cutting caused a slight change in Han Zu's mood. He punched the metal structure and soon heard an empty echo.

"If forcing through doesn't work, then we can only find the entrance."

"Every time things get complicated, okay."

Although they would need to use exhaustive search to find the entrance, Xin obviously didn't want to search the place thoroughly again, after all, it would be very time-consuming. However, there was no other way at the moment, so the two could only search bit by bit.

After about dozens of minutes of fruitless search, as the two continued to search, Xin noticed that there were some differences on the metal structure next to it. Compared to the other flat and smooth metal surfaces, she found some strange patterns with familiar shapes nearby. So Xin stopped and began to observe the patterns that appeared here.

"Han Zu, give me that metal plate."

"Did you find anything?"

After handing the metal plate to Xin, the latter held up the plate and began to compare the patterns on it with the patterns on the metal plane in front of him. The two were very similar, but some details were different.

"I previously speculated that the lines on these metal planes might be related to the lines on the metal plates. Now it seems that my idea is correct. We may be able to find the entrance to these giant metal structures based on the lines."

Han Zu took the metal plate again, compared it with the patterns on the surface next to it, and came to the same conclusion as Xin.

"Although the two patterns are very similar, the details of the pattern on the metal plate are different from those on the flat surface. I think that although the difference is not big, the impact may not be small. Maybe your idea is not correct."

"Han Zu, record the patterns on the metal plate and send them to me. We will split up and I will continue to look for this structure while you go to another one. Maybe we can find the exact same patterns. Judging from the fact that the metal plate can guide us to this location, its function must be more than just navigation. Maybe it is also a key to open the entrance."

"I hope you're right."

After confirming the course of action, the two separated and began to search for places on different metal structures that were exactly the same as the patterns on the metal plate. Han Zu kept groping on another metal structure and found several places where the patterns were very similar to those on the metal plate, but there were still a few subtle differences. Just as he was about to continue searching, the surrounding sea water began to fluctuate violently.

Based on the scanning of the equipment and the dual positioning of his own perception ability, Han Zu discovered that a huge Leviathan creature had appeared nearby again, with intermittent life signals. Han Zu immediately became alert and looked in the general direction, but did not see anything. The opponent was still quite far away. And it did not seem to be heading towards this location.

After waiting for a while, the life signal of the Leviathan creature gradually faded away. After confirming that it was safe, Han Zu continued to explore and observed the lines on the metal structure again. On the other side, Xin was also searching nervously in the area she was responsible for. Her engineering armor kept scanning the metal structure, but so far, nothing was found.

"Submarine unit detected."

"Error, unknown vehicle model."

At this moment, Xin's engineering armor suddenly scanned an underwater vehicle several kilometers away, which immediately aroused her interest. On this liquid planet in an unknown star field, in the deep sea where it was thought that no intelligent civilization existed, an active man-made object appeared for the first time during several days of investigation. This was not an ordinary thing.

"I spotted an active underwater vehicle that appears to be moving toward our location."

"Share the scan information with me. I'm heading back to your location."

After passing the message to Han Zu, she immediately adjusted the scanning mode of the engineering armor, trying to obtain more information about the underwater vehicle. However, it was an engineering armor after all, and compared with military armor, the scanning module could not confirm much information.

"Warning, strike detected en route, armor locked."

However, at this moment, the underwater vehicle suddenly accelerated and locked onto Xin's engineering armor. According to the detection module on the armor, the vehicle launched something towards Xin's position.

"I'm being targeted, an attack is coming towards my location, I need help!"

Xin quickly increased the energy input of the engineering armor's defense system, and immediately informed Han Zu of the emergency through the communication channel. After receiving the news, Han Zu interrupted the current exploration and rushed towards Xin at the highest speed.

"Boom~~!!"

Ten seconds later, two weapons, which should be torpedoes, hit Xin's engineering armor. Xin felt a strong vibration, but fortunately the engineering armor had a high defense and blocked the attack. She took this opportunity to activate the armor's propulsion sequence and maneuver to evade the position of the underwater vehicle scanned by the detection device.

Xin had no means of long-range attack, and the underwater vehicle seemed to have considerable technical capabilities and was aware of Xin's disadvantages. Although after several attacks it had reached a distance of several hundred meters from Xin and entered the visual range of Xin's armor, it stopped at that distance and continued to chase Xin with torpedoes.

Although Xin was in a very bad state at the moment and could only keep maneuvering to avoid attacks, the opponent's torpedoes could not cause any effective damage to Xin's engineering armor. So although it looked very lively, in fact, apart from the paint on the armor, Xin did not suffer any damage in the attack of the underwater vehicle.

"Buzz~~!!"

Just as the two sides were deadlocked, Han Zu circled around the side of the submersible, and his eyes shot out high-energy rays that penetrated the seawater and hit the side of the submersible. After being hit, the submersible shook violently, and its defense seemed to be not good enough. As if it had suffered a heavy blow, Han Zu continued to circle around the submersible, gradually shortening the distance between the two. After withstanding a round of bombing and particle weapons, Han Zu successfully stuck to the side of the submersible. He stretched out his hands, suddenly stabbed his fingers into the metal shell of the vehicle, and pressed his head against the shell of the vehicle, performing a zero-distance ray penetration.

"Boom~~!!"

"boom!!"

The power of close-range shooting should not be underestimated. The vehicle was completely penetrated and began to seep a lot of water. As the light on the vehicle gradually went out, it lost power and slowly sank toward the bottom of the sea. Han Zu inserted his hands into the vehicle, opened a hole, and got into the submersible. The submersible was not big, only a dozen meters, and the internal structure was very unique, which Han Zu had never seen before.

The interior was completely empty, without a single person or living creature. Some of the internal structures had also been destroyed by his previous ray attack, making it impossible to investigate.

"boom!"

Before long, the underwater vehicle, which was leaking a lot, was squeezed into a pile of scrap metal by the pressure of the seabed, and Han Zu had to use the ray to cut himself out again. Xin also rushed over from nearby.

"How are you?"

"It's alright, how's your armor?"

"That's fine. The attack power of this vehicle is very low. It's just some physical torpedoes. What's the situation inside?"

"No one was there. It was a drone. I have no impression of the structure and style inside, but I wrote it down with my equipment. You can take a look at it yourself. Maybe you can get some clues."

"I haven't seen it either, but I guess it has nothing to do with the power of the Tigs. Although this vehicle is unique, its technological level is too low compared to the Tigs and even some allied races with much lower technological capabilities."

"It's interesting that there are other civilizations in this place. Maybe it has something to do with these three giant metal structures?"

“It’s hard to be sure, but it’s a possibility.”