"Snap"

Unlike those high-level evolutionaries who have abilities such as shimmering vision, Zhang Hong, who went down to the bottom of the cave, still honestly turned on the lamp that Gong Liang stuffed himself.

The other few people had no intention of signing up for the group, and out of confidence in their own strength, they had already taken the first step. Zhang Hong swept the surroundings with the bright flashlight in his hand, and found that he was now in a very wide underground facility, and the various architectural ruins arranged in a regular pattern and a straight road highlighted the fact that it was originally a man-made creation.

Zhang Hong, who had just come down from it with a zipline, landed in the middle of the road, and after a little observation, he chose to follow Will - according to the traces left on the ground, the three people who came down first had obviously gone their separate ways, and each chose a direction to explore.

And Weina's path is much more obvious than Hou Ping's all the way because of a Lori dragged behind him, which is more convenient to identify, so it is not easy for him to lose it. Moreover, Hou Ping, who had an unknown life on his body, obviously had an inexplicable hostility towards the Nangong family, and it was definitely not a good idea to follow him by himself.

After walking 100 meters forward, some scattered artificial tools appeared on the ground, most of them were some rusty vacuum food aluminum boxes and some deformed water storage cups, and occasionally a few bullet casings covered with patina. These things should have been left over from a long time ago, and they have little research value, Zhang Hong ignored the garbage on the ground and continued to move forward.

"Click!"

There was a crisp sound at Zhang Hong's feet, so abrupt in the silent cave.

Zhang Hong pointed the light in his hand at his feet, and found that the sound just now was a human hand bone. After years of erosion, this piece of bones, which was only half of the palm, had decayed and was easily trampled off by him passing by.

Zhang Hong frowned and retracted his foot, carefully observing the fracture of this hand bone. The incision was relatively flat, and the attacker had an unusually sharp tooth, and the half of the arm was torn off the body after being bitten off, and then discarded aside, apparently the abuser was not satisfied with the food full of bones. (Because there are no tooth marks elsewhere on the hand bones)

For xenomorphs that prioritize survival, picky eating behavior only exists at the top of the food chain, and only when they are confident that they can hunt enough food at any time will they give up the edible part. And as a sparse underground, the creatures that can survive with such extravagance and waste can be said to be the king of xenomorphs! Zhang Hong couldn't help but worry about the big and small in front of him.

In order to join them as soon as possible, Zhang Hong quickened his pace. In the next ten minutes, there were more scattered bones on the side of the road, and in addition to humans, there were many other biological species, and more and more military scrapped equipment began to appear on the ground.

"Whew!"

A dark shadow pounced on Zhang Hong from a pile of bones.

Zhang Hong, who was nervous all the way, was prepared, and pulled out his battle dagger with his backhand and slashed over.

After the blade and the black shadow intersected, Zhang Hong, who sensed that he was not feeling right, quickly retracted the knife and took several steps back. The black shadow fell to the ground with a click, falling to pieces. It turned out that the black shadow was just a skeleton that had long since been weathered! At the same time, another black shadow jumped up and pounced on Zhang Hong.

Zhang Hong, who was already prepared in his heart, did not retreat, but advanced, took two steps in a row with a dagger in his hand, and stabbed it fiercely into the head of the attacking black shadow.

Seeing this, the creature jumping in the air did not care about hurting people, and hurriedly used his hands to protect his eyes and other vital points, and met the attack with the back of his hand.

"Boom!"

The dagger was stuck in the black shadow's arm, making a sound of gold and stone intersecting, and it was bounced away, and the black shadow was knocked backwards and fell to the ground, rolling several times.

Zhang Hong took advantage of this gap to shoot the light in his hand at the black shadow, and the creature let out a scream to avoid the bright lamppost and hide in the darkness.

Although it was only for a moment, Zhang Hong still saw the appearance of the creature clearly.

The creature that attacked him resembled a shriveled old man, with a few sparse body hairs on his body, large bulging black eyes that occupied a quarter of the entire head, and the miniature little nose underneath was extremely incommensurate, and the uncoordinated xenomorph of facial features made people feel that it was shockingly ugly.

However, its strength is not bad, its strength and speed are not below that of ordinary third-order creatures, and as far as it was from the situation where it blocked its own attacks just now, its skin and bones were extremely hard, and its defense could be called perverted.

The moment he used a flashlight to irradiate it, the creature that was accustomed to the darkness suffered an attack similar to a dazzling bullet in its eyes, which literally burned its visual nerves.

Out of fear of the strong light in Zhang Hong's hand, he has been hiding behind obstacles after the failure of the first sneak attack, secretly coveting Zhang Hong's fresh food.

A small tail was hung on his buttocks, and Zhang Hong's speed of progress slowed down significantly, although Zhang Hong was anxious, he had no choice but to accept the reality and move slowly in vigilance.

Fortunately, this situation did not last long, and after stopping for a while, a beam of lightning suddenly lit up in front of Zhang Hong, and the dazzling light was mixed with the screams of some unknown creatures. Then, two men came running out of the darkness:

"Run!"

Zhang Hong immediately followed the team without saying a word.

After running for a while, the two leading people still didn't mean to stop, Zhang Hong finally couldn't hold back the doubts in his heart anymore, and asked:

"What's going on?"

"We kept walking forward after coming down, but we didn't expect to find an experimental base in Area C at the end of the passage, and we went in to take a look out of curiosity, and it ended up annoying a group of xenos."

Will said the story very succinctly, but Zhang Hong also almost understood the general meaning, after the two of them explored this direction, they probably alarmed a group of xenos who used the abandoned research base as a lair, and in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, they chose to escape.

"What a hassle! These things that don't know whether to live or die are always chasing us! Brother Will, do you want me to kill them all? ”

Lori, who had been running with her head down, suddenly spoke, and her tone was terrifying. Only then did Zhang Hong notice that although Lori's legs were very short, her running speed was not below them.

"Suzune, don't make any extraneous branches!"

"Oh~"

The bell that was reprimanded by Will was completely angry, and obediently continued to follow him.

"So what do we do now?"

You can't just run endlessly, right? Zhang Hong answered in his heart.

Will pointed ahead of him:

"Let's meet Hou Ping first, and then figure out a way."

What they didn't expect was that the other passage was surprisingly short. Within a few minutes of running, they saw a metal wall that sealed off the entire passageway, and two abandoned sentry posts stood on either side of the ruined gate, with some abandoned machinery parked in the doorway.

Seeing Will, they walked through without saying a word, and Zhang Hong had no choice. Maybe he could deal with one or two xenos like the one he encountered on the road, but what Will just said was a group! If you don't want to be torn apart by them, you can only try to keep up with the big army.

To Zhang Hong's surprise, the xenos behind him stopped their tracks one after another when they chased under the wall, as if there was something in the wall that they were very afraid of.

Zhang Hong relaxed his body at this time, glanced at the alien door sitting at the gate and roared a few times, and then turned around and walked deeper into the passage. Passing past some dilapidated buildings of unknown purpose, the scenery inside is completely different from the outside, not only has the ground turned into jade of unknown material, but the perimeter of the road is regularly inserted with crystals that can shine in the dark.

As Zhang Hong goes deeper, the dark cave is dotted with all kinds of jade and crystals like a treasure trove, with various colors of glow shining in between, and dots of starlight jumping back and forth between the crystals, making people feel like they are in an isolated fairy tale world. The three people who had entered the area before him were studying a strange circle surrounded by jade pillars.

"Did anything unusual happen when you entered this area?"

Seeing Zhang Hong come in, Hou Ping asked.

Zhang Hong was quite curious as to why Hou Ping asked like this:

"No! Everything is very normal! ”

"Is it just for me?"

After hearing Zhang Hong's answer, Hou Ping fell into deep thought, after he stepped over the metal wall, he was immediately besieged by the force field, and finally relied on his strong strength to rush over.

At first, he wasn't surprised to see Will and Lori come in, because they also had the corresponding strength. But in the end, Zhang Hong's appearance surprised him greatly, after so many days of getting along, he can be sure that Zhang Hong does not have the strength to break into the forbidden area.

Then there is only one reasonable explanation - there are prerequisites for the excitation of those force fields!

"Hey~"

After looking at the circle array for a while, Xiao Lori didn't know the essentials, and started Hou Ping's idea:

"Don't you always boast that you have lived a long time and are well-informed? What do you see here? ”

Unexpectedly, Hou Ping really ate this set of agitated generals, he gave up the question he was thinking about, pointed to the circle and said:

"Of course I got it! In my opinion, this thing should be an arbitrary door or a directional door that can teleport creatures and items directly to a certain place. Unfortunately, the device seems to have been broken by those stupid humans......"

"Broken?"

Little Lori asked unwillingly.

"It's broken!"

Hou Ping nodded regretfully:

"Those humans should have done a very rough manipulation on it, causing the whole system to stop. This rune array is so precise that I can see a rough idea but I can't repair it. ”

"I found out about this site when I was on the ground."

Will also gave up studying the suspended rune array, and raised his head to participate in the discussion:

"The information is vague, and a lot of things are vague, but we found a large laboratory on the other side, which shows that a lot of time and money has been invested in this site C. And the abbreviation in the record should be that someone deliberately downplayed its existence. ”

"Why hide it?"

Suzune asked curiously.

"Just think of the xenos who are chasing us. Those xenos are obviously some kind of genetically modified thing, and there will not be so many xenos until the old order is completely destroyed! ”