Volume 2: The Stairway to Heaven (29)
"Teacher Sun, they've been down for a long time, will they encounter any danger?"
In the control room, Zhang Li finally couldn't help but ask.
Zhang Hong and Liu Yuxin have not heard any news since they went down, thinking of the wall that was destroyed by the xenomorphs, Zhang Li had no way not to worry about the two of them.
Professor Sun, who was sitting on the edge of the table, was hammering his legs for himself with his hands one by one, and said with a smile:
"It's only been less than an hour, Xiaoli, don't be impatient!"
"Oh......"
Zhang Li replied helplessly, seeing that Professor Sun obviously didn't mean to let everyone go down the tunnel, Zhang Li, who was a little irritable, felt very depressed in the control room, and decided to take a walk nearby.
"Professor Sun, I'll take a look at the situation in the neighborhood."
"Then you have to be careful, although Liu Yuxin used bioradar just now to determine that there are only some small creatures nearby, but you can't take it lightly."
"Professor Sun, shall I go with him? It's good for two people to take care of each other. ”
A male assistant to Professor Sun grabbed a gun and carried it on his back.
"It's okay, Xiao Wang, you can accompany Xiaoli out for a trip."
Professor Sun admonished them solemnly
"You two don't go far! In addition, if you encounter those small xenomorphs, you can avoid them, and no one knows what those xenos have evolved, and they will lose their lives! ”
"We'll be careful!"
The two solemnly promised and walked out of the control room with their weapons.
After sliding around, the two found nothing, not even a living thing.
Zhang Li couldn't help but sigh with emotion:
"This place is so quiet!"
"yes, it's quiet, it's very clean, it's not like other places are full of disgusting garbage."
Zhang Li looked around, and it was really as Assistant Wang said, this area was a little too clean, except for some stones and iron cans on the ground, there were not more or less traces left by xenomorphs like other platforms.
What kind of leftover food they eat, what excrement everywhere, it's a bit surprising, maybe it's never a xenomorph living here? It's also unreasonable, those xenos are unlikely to give up such a suitable nest place, and the subway stations that humans have carefully built are much stronger and drier and cooler than the nests they dig themselves!
Zhang Li's heart suddenly trembled, and her eyes looked at Assistant Wang, with a panicked look on her face.
In fact, there is another possibility of this situation - that is, there is a strong and self-disciplined group living nearby, and they have strict planning for their territory to make this area appear orderly!
"Let's look closer?"
Assistant Wang obviously thought of the key to this.
Zhang Li didn't speak, just nodded vigorously.
They are now located in a subway station at the far edge of the city, and there are relatively few trains, so there is a large waiting room built between the subway station and the ground, and the two of them checked the waiting room again, and found more details in it that they had just overlooked.
"Zhang Li, look at these scratches on the ground!"
Zhang Li followed Assistant Wang's gestures and saw that the concrete floor of the waiting room was covered with all kinds of scratches, which should be traces left by various creatures from the appearance.
"Let's follow those traces!"
The trails stretched upwards at one end, presumably to the ground, so they just had to follow the other end.
They walked along the scratches in the waiting hall to the platform at the other end, and after continuing to move forward for more than ten minutes and turning a corner, Zhang Li and the others saw an unforgettable scene.
A few dozen meters in front of them was a subway pit stop, and the tracks were full of empty cars that had been occupied by them, covered with white ant eggs, and thousands of ants moved in an orderly manner in the vast pit station, performing their duties without interfering with each other.
Ants that grow to more than a meter long or crawl on the ceiling with food in their mouths, or busily enter and exit the carriages frequently, moving their eggs in and out.
Zhang Li's arrival did not cause panic in the ant colony, more than a hundred years have long made them forget what kind of creatures humans are, for the new unfamiliar smell, the ant colony only cautiously sent a few soldiers with a circle of significantly larger heads to drive them away.
The speed of the soldiers was astonishingly fast, and in a matter of seconds, the distance between them had been reduced to within ten meters.
"Run!"
Assistant Wang pulled the trigger with a loud shout, a string of tongues of fire came out of the assault rifle in his hand, and several soldiers who were sprinting were hit in the head by bullets, bursting out some transparent liquid and falling to the ground.
The piercing gunfire was unusually harsh in the subway station, and all the ants suspended their work and propped up their heads, their tentacles kept dancing in the direction of Zhang Li's escape, and the two jaws kept opening and closing like sickles.
Zhang Li and the others knew that the ant colony was communicating with each other in infrasound, transmitting messages to each other, and because of their attack, they had probably been classified as dangerous intruders by the ant colony.
Thinking of this, Zhang Li sped up her escape speed a few more times, she believed that in the dark passage behind, hundreds of ants were gathering.
The two of them ran back to the control room as fast as they could.
"Teacher Sun, you can't stay here any longer! This is the territory of an ant colony!"
"What!"
Professor Sun was so shocked that he stood up.
"Da Da Da"
Assistant Wang, who stayed at the door to watch the wind, began to shoot, which showed that the ant colony followed their scent and chased them to within a hundred meters, and the passage for them to escape to the ground had been sealed!
"Let's go! Enter the tunnel!"
Professor Sun resolutely chose to join Liu Yuxin and them, Sun Li knew very well that once the team was separated, with a few of them, they would definitely not survive for two hours in the subway station where xenomorphs were rampant!
The group entered the tunnel under the pressure of the ant colony. It is a metal tunnel buried underground, with lighting and surveillance equipment on the top and walls. Now, of course, they have all stopped working.
Retreating into a relatively narrow tunnel reduced the pressure of defense, but before seeing Liu Yuxin and Zhang Hong, all the people did not dare to take it lightly, and tried to move forward as fast as possible, although the weapon in their hands could effectively prevent the ant colony from approaching, but the ammunition reserves on their bodies were very limited, which everyone knew very well.
A little further inside, destroyed alloy gates began to appear in the tunnel, and various monitoring equipment and lighting equipment were added, and it seemed that they had entered the perimeter of this underground secret base.
"Bang Dang Chang~"
Zhang Li, who was walking in front, accidentally kicked a piece of metal at her feet, and Zhang Li, who was startled, hurriedly used the light to shine along the sound, but let herself let out an exclamation:
"Ahh
Illuminated by a tactical flashlight, a skeleton sitting in exoskeleton armor was staring at itself with its two empty eye holes.
A male assistant quickly stepped forward to check:
"It's the 'fierce wolf' type 2 in Area C, and the weapon is also the standard in Area C, there is a high probability that this is a secret base, you must know that these exoskeletons have just been developed, and the troops that can equip Type 2 are definitely elite!"
"Leave it alone! Let's move on!"
Sun Li stopped them from continuing to study the corpse, no matter what happened before, at least the front is safe now!
The further you go, the more corpses and weapon parts there are, and depending on the level of elite of the equipment, it is almost certain that this place used to be one
The base, which is very important to Area C**, was abandoned after some kind of accident, along with the city above......
Liu Yuxin and Zhang Hong were in an empty hall at this time, and after observing along the way, they determined that this was a biochemical laboratory abandoned by Area C, and now they are trying to reactivate the relevant facilities of this base to obtain a detailed map of this base, in this base that extends in all directions, if you can't follow the map, it will definitely be a nightmare!
"This should be the hall of this base, and we should be able to find a map of this base here."
Zhang Hong fiddled with the computer equipment at the front desk in the hall for a while, suddenly stood up and slapped the desktop heavily:
"Hell! This thing has been broken for almost 100 years! How can I find information in it!"
Liu Yuxin asked:
"Can't the information of this base be downloaded from the alliance's database?"
Zhang Hong spread his hands:
"I can't find this place in the database at all, it seems to be confidential information, I'm just an ordinary bodyguard, how can I have such a big face......"
"Then let's go back and explore here next time we get a chance."
"That's all there is to it"
The motivation for letting them come down to investigate was curiosity, but it obviously took a lot of effort to uncover the secrets here, and as far as they could see, there were no materials to collect, and there was no information or data worth recovering here, so it really didn't make it worthwhile for them to continue to invest their time here.
Liu Yuxin and Zhang Hong, who were about to join Professor Sun and then retreat to the ground, returned to the same path more than a dozen aisles, and Liu Yuxin's bioradar captured the signal of Sun Li and the others, and according to the radar markings, they were only a few kilometers away from them.
"What happened to them?"
Liu Yuxin pondered puzzled.
Could it be that he is hiding from some xenomorph?
Liu Yuxin increased the output power of the radar, and suddenly Liu Yuxin's eyes were dazzled by dense points of light.
"Not good!"
Liu Yuxin suddenly remembered the safety of Gong Liang and the others, and ran wildly with all her horsepower
"Brother Zhang, Professor Sun, they're in trouble! We need to go back to support them right now!"
Zhang Hong was also anxious when he heard this, Professor Sun was the target he wanted to protect, but now he didn't even have a decent combat power by his side.
"Let's ...... away"
As the saying goes: curiosity kills cats! Is this to be fulfilled in oneself? At the beginning, he asked Liu Yuxin to use the radar on the mecha to scan again and again to make sure that there was no danger nearby, so he was relieved! It can only be said that people are not as good as heaven......