Act I: Broken Hearts Chapter 13: Return to the Wilderness
Resa stretched her waist and looked at the time on the display, but more than 3 hours had passed, but she didn't expect that she was so preoccupied with it, and she didn't even pay attention to the passage of time.
There was a jumble of sounds in the square, the sound of a bullet being loaded, and a strange clicking sound from the rapid deformation of the guidance device.
Ressa silently tightened the cloak, clicked the operation disk of the personal terminal on his left wrist, the cloak began to slowly become transparent, and a protective mask covered his cheeks, completely wrapping the face, in order to protect and prevent poison, and after a while, his figure disappeared in place, as if completely integrated with the surroundings.
He didn't say anything, just stood quietly in the square of the jumping device, maybe ordinary people can't find his invisibility, but the scanning device will definitely find it.
As the crowd around continued to gather, finally this small square was completely filled with the crowd, the huge screen of the square began to flash a countdown, this is the waiting time for the start of the folding device, as the time continues to decrease, the crowd gradually quieted down, Ressa remained invisible, standing quietly in the crowd, when the time returned to zero, the entire small square was surrounded by purple space ripples, with a flash of light, the square was silent again.
Ressa opened his eyes, the wilderness was still daylight, but there was a misty gray mist in the sky, blocking most of the sunlight, this was a barren land, the green vegetation was simply a luxury, Resa understood the environment through the information transmitted by the mask, and his movements did not stop, recording the current position on the operation disk on his wrist, so that he could summon the gateway back to the Leap Fortress.
At this time, the scan information was also passed back, and Ressa's location was not very good, and this area was obviously a little different from the area he had explored before (although the entire earth is counted as a wilderness, the area that human explorers can set foot in is not very large, so there will be cases of going to duplicate areas).
Obviously, this is an unknown area for Ressa, and the air quality in this area is temporarily within safety standards according to the data of the mask induction feedback, and Ressa has installed antivenom and neuroactive reagents into the reagent grooves of the wrist armor, which is also a major advantage of the auxiliary equipment developed by the Explorer Alliance.
When the external sensor senses that the surrounding environment will pose a threat to the user or the built-in sensor senses that the user's state is incorrect, the reagent model in the reagent tank will be screened and the reagent will be automatically used, so as to avoid the embarrassing situation that the agent cannot be used for the user's state in an emergency. The number of reagent tanks varies from 10 to 2 depending on the grade of the wrist armor being operated.
Ressa's mind moved, the nerve center command was issued, the mask on the face was opened, and in the case of the air quality in the area within the safety standard, the explorer would generally remove the tactical mask, after all, although the mask can filter the air, but the amount of emergency oxygen supply inside is unchanged, in the case of breathing, it is a safer choice to retain the emergency oxygen supply.
Ressa didn't remove the cloak's invisibility function, but only installed 3 energy bars on its energy slot, so that for a short period of time, the energy supply of the invisibility cloak can be maintained without drawing abilities from itself, this time out, Resa doesn't plan to stay in the wilderness for too long, if he doesn't complete his desired goal within two days, he will choose to leave, no matter what the harvest is.
It is desolate, forests, mountains, rivers, none of which make it look more like a desert, but the soil here is obviously different from the desert.
It won't be so unlucky! Ressa said secretly in her heart. He looked around, and in the distance, the outline of a city could be faintly seen.
There are three forbidden places in the circle of explorers:
The first forbidden place is in the sea or by the sea, where there are often too powerful celestial beasts to deal with, and some of the methods of mechanics will be greatly reduced in water warfare, and only explorers with guidance devices can take advantage of it. Therefore, the Explorer Alliance's hopping nodes try to avoid being close to the sea, even if there are far more resources in the sea than on land.
The second forbidden place is the forest, the forest, especially the large forest, these resources have long been cut down by humans, but after the beginning of the era of the beasts, they quickly spread on the earth, the forest is often the paradise of the beasts, they can quietly lurk and hunt when you are negligent, the complex environment makes the explorer tired to deal with, even if the mechanic with strong firepower, fighting in the jungle is not to get any benefit.
As for the third forbidden place, it is the urban ruins, the high-tech products of the city before the end of the world are undoubtedly outdated compared to the present, and there are often no resources urgently needed at this stage, and the city as a place for human survival, the population density is generally very large, so the urban ruins have basically become a paradise for humans and beasts, whether it is a mutant humanoid creature or a dead apostle due to a virus or medicine, it is the main color of the urban ruins.
These beasts are often of little value, and their large base consumes a lot of ammo or abilities from explorers.
This is undoubtedly a thankless task, so few explorers like to approach the city, and one thing, no one dares to kill the city's garrison system, and it is very likely that during your careful search, a sentry machine gun or turret will flip out of a corner in front of you, and it is very possible to kill someone who is not careful.
Ressa looked around, but it didn't seem to be of much value to explore. Except for the outline of the city, it is surrounded by barren Gobi.
Could it really be that he could only try his luck in the ruins of that city, Ressa thought with some chagrin, it was really a disadvantage.
This time, his goal is the fifth-order earth beast crystal nucleus, but if he goes to the ruins of the city, he doesn't know if there are earth beasts, but there are definitely a lot of mutated human beasts and dead apostles, after all, nearly 10 billion human beings, only less than 10% of the population has really survived, although there are 12 space nodes for human beings to reproduce, but, after all, this is the real home, so the number of humans and beasts here, thinking about it is a chill.
Ressa cautiously walked towards the ruins of the city, in such a scene, it seems that this ruin is the only place worth exploring, since the outline of the city can be seen, it means that the distance is not far away.
Wangshan ran dead horse is talking about the current situation, Resa traveled for 2 hours, the outline of the city only looks clearer, it seems that this ruin is also beginning to take shape, but I don't know if there will be high-level beasts.
Ressa's personal terminal control pad was lightly tapped on his wrist, and a pair of combat goggles covered his eyes, so that he could detect some subtle dangers in advance, such as some traps or mines from the mechanic, and so as not to step on traps set by other explorers or city defenses that were not useless.
After three hours of traveling, Resa finally approached the edge of the city, during which time he replaced the energy bars in his invisibility cloak twice.
As he advanced, the scene around him changed, and at first, the wreckage of some vehicles and some rotten bones could be seen scattered around, which had obviously been there for a long time, and even the slightest step on them would turn into slag all over the ground with a click.
As we got closer to the ruins of the city, more and more wreckage of vehicles crowded together, rotting bones covered the ground, stepping on them with a tooth-aching creak and a few creepy clicks.
Ressa's movements gradually slowed down, he didn't expect that what he saw in the ruins of this city was not a tidal wave of people and beasts, but a sea of bones, all kinds of vehicles or crowded, or collided, or deformed, or overturned, or crushed into discus, the wind blew, and a whirlwind of bone powder rolled up on the ground, which made Ressa's heart chill.
Ressa doesn't know what happened to the city, but from the scene in front of him, it is tantamount to experiencing a real purgatory on earth, with coming to the edge of the city, some huge beast-shaped bones or lying on their stomachs, or turning over, judging from the size of these skeletons, these can basically be determined to be very powerful earth beast-level existences, but here, they were shot one by one, and then think back to the direction of travel of those vehicles and white bones now, Resa probably guessed seven, seven, eight, eight.
The Celestial Beast Plague broke out, and people rushed to the surrounding cities, but this move attracted a large number of Earth Beasts to hunt down, and after killing a large number of humans, these Earth Beasts were shot one by one by the city fire cannons of large cities, as evidenced by the crooked forts on the city walls.
It's just obvious that these batteries alone can't stop the beast tide, so after shooting some earth beasts, the city still fell.
Ressa searched among the corpses of these earth beasts, but unfortunately, the energy cores of these earth beasts had long since disappeared, and nine times out of ten they were devoured by their own kind.
Ressa checked, and after making sure that there was nothing of value here, he began to lean towards the walls of the city, as for some pre-apocalyptic luxuries such as gold, silver, and jewelry mixed with the bones, Resa didn't even look at them, these things can please the girls at most, as for the exchange of exploration points, these things are basically worthless.
Instead of paying attention to these yellow and white objects, it is better to see if there is still a possibility of recycling the self-guided turret by the city wall.
Ressa cautiously touched the self-guided turret under the city wall, these things are rarely sold even by the Explorer Alliance, the self-guided cannon will run according to the established program after the programmer writes the program, and can even change the drum independently, and the self-guided turret like this is often more powerful than the self-propelled sentry gun, but the self-guided turret will be much slower in terms of rate of fire.
Resa had never seen these mechanical devices before the end of the world, so he knew relatively little about it, mainly because he believed that there was not necessarily anything valuable to be found in the ruins of the city, and these turrets were one of the items that the Explorer Alliance might recover.
Ressa slowly approached a relatively intact turret, and just as he approached within ten meters of the turret, several red box markings suddenly appeared on his battle goggles, and then, with a slight click, several small round instruments jerked up from several positions in front of him........................