Chapter 18: Ruins and Ruins

The next day, Yang Chuangrui, who crawled out of the pit, did not see the other teammates, and he was a little puzzled.

"It shouldn't be, these guys got up at dawn two days ago to wait for the results of the wind's investigation, why didn't they see anyone today?"

After checking a few nearby pits and finding no one, he looked into the distance, only to find Zhan sitting alone by the river scrubbing his weapons in the distance.

Walking to the river, Yang Chuangrui asked suspiciously:

"What about the others? Let's go early! ”

Hearing the voice, Zhan stopped what he was doing, and then turned back and replied:

"Yes, I went out to explore in advance, the neighborhood was too quiet, and it felt a little wrong."

"Did you find anything?"

"Not yet." After a slight pause, Zhan then spoke:

"Have you noticed that we haven't seen a single metal monster since we hunted the last spider yesterday at noon?"

"In the morning, when the wind probed in advance, he didn't find anything, so after he brought back the news, I asked them to check the situation in three directions."

After listening to the analysis of the battle, Yang Chuangrui also noticed the abnormality, although these robots are scattered very sparsely, the probability of not encountering one in an afternoon is still very low.

"Did you find any other suspicious spots?" Yang Chuangrui opened his mouth and asked.

"Not for the time being, I suspect that someone has been here in advance, those metal monsters have been led away or eliminated by them, we are very likely to be late this time."

While the two were talking, the three people who had gone out to investigate also rushed back from afar.

After listening to the reports of the three people, the team was completely sure that there were no robots around, which was completely inconsistent with the information given by Payt, not only were there no robots, but not even a single metal fragment was found nearby.

After that, they decided to rush to the location of the ruins at full speed, there may be other people here, and they are very strong, the robots in the vicinity have been cleaned up, even if they have nothing to gain, they must figure out the reason, which is related to the safety of the town.

After a quick morning of traveling, the team finally saw a dilapidated complex of buildings after climbing over a hill.

The complex is supposed to be made entirely of metal, and the exposed buildings have been completely destroyed, which is a bit of a misappropriation to say that they were destroyed, and they should have been completely demolished and taken away, leaving only a small amount of metal connected to the ground still standing there.

"Looks like something else has been here, it's definitely not the work of the small tribes nearby, they can't get so much metal, and they can't use so much metal." Zhan said with some concern.

Yang Chuangrui can see from the foundations of these buildings that there should have been fourteen large buildings here, and the layout was spread outward according to the largest circular building in the center.

To the east of the building is a flat piece of land, and you can vaguely see what kind of square or something it used to be, but all the things on it are gone, and you can only vaguely see the regional distribution.

The architectural layout does not look like it was inhabited, and the remaining buildings can probably indicate what the complex looked like before, which is supposed to be a place similar to warehouses and factories.

After observing for a while, the five decided to go down and check it out to see if they could find any clues.

Walking into the ruins of the metal wall, the five found that the dilapidated buildings had been violently demolished, and in many places there were traces of cutting and impact.

The five of them decided to split up, they had already looked around on the hillside just now, and the view from above was very good, and they could see all the locations of the ruins very clearly, and they found no trace of living things.

After assigning their respective exploration areas, the team finally decided to assemble on the small circular platform in the center of the ruins.

Yang Chuangrui was a little disappointed, he didn't have any sense of belonging to the town, he didn't have the heart to care about any bullshit searches, and he didn't care at all who was destroying this place and who had come.

He just wanted to find out what the connection between these buildings and robots was to the earth, and now that the ruins were destroyed like this, there was nothing left that could be taken down and transported, and he couldn't find any valuable information at all.

Yang Chuangrui, who didn't have the heart to investigate, walked straight to the platform that had been arranged in advance by the construction center.

Arriving at the platform, he found that this should be the most well-preserved place, it should be that the entire platform structure is made of tightly knit metal, and the thickness should be very high, Yang Chuangrui also saw different degrees of cutting and impact marks on the small platform.

Walking around the platform, Yang Chuangrui learned that the platform was about two meters high, the radius was about eight meters, the platform was covered by lines of different thicknesses, and there was a staircase on one side of the platform that could be used to go up and down, and he climbed up the platform along the stairs.

The top of the platform is not very flat, most of the top is covered by a thin layer of earth, and there is a ring-shaped bulge in the center of the platform, and there is an irregular dividing line in the center of the circle, which divides the inner circle into two pieces.

Suddenly, Yang Chuangrui reacted, "Wait! How does this thing look so much like a door? ”

"Maybe it's a basement entrance!"

With this discovery, Yang Chuangrui decided to take a good look at the platform.

So he began to clean the dust from the platform, and then he tapped around the platform, carefully observing the lines on the platform.

Several members of the team who came later were a little puzzled when they saw Yang Chuangrui's behavior, and they didn't understand what he was doing around a big piece of iron, but looking at his cautious expression, everyone didn't bother.

After a while, Yang Chuangrui found four small and very regular gaps on the side of the ring in the center of the platform, and he found that all the pattern lines on the platform were eventually connected to these gaps.

After Yang Chuangrui looked at the pattern and thought for a while, he had a guess in his heart, and then he walked towards the four people and shouted towards Zhan:

"Captain, give me 4 crystals."

"What are you going to do?" Zhan Hu asked suspiciously.

"A try!"

Zhan hesitated for a moment, but still took out 4 crystals from his body and handed them to Yang Chuangrui.

"If you stay away, you may be in danger." Yang Chuangrui didn't want to think about his own safety at this time, if he kept being timid, he didn't know when he would find a way to go home.

After speaking, Yang Chuangrui, who got the crystal, walked back to the center of the platform, he swept the dust around the groove, and carefully put the crystal into the groove.

As soon as the first crystal was placed in the groove, it was instantly attached to it, and then the crystal emitted a faint blue light, and the pattern lines near the groove also lit up with a blue shimmer, and the bright light quickly spread outward with the lines, and finally calmed down.

"It works!" Yang Chuangrui said in his heart.

Seeing this, the remaining 4 members of the unconscious team suddenly became nervous, and they tightened the weapons they held in their hands and watched around vigilantly.

Then Yang Chuangrui continued to put crystals into the groove of the platform, and every time he put one, there would be blue light that diffused outward along the lines, and the line pattern of the platform was brighter every time the blue light diffused.

The moment the last crystal was put into the groove, the platform suddenly shook slightly, and then, the ground in front of Yang Chuangrui rose, and a smaller platform appeared in front of Yang Chuangrui.

The moment the small platform stopped rising, a blue light curtain shot out from top to bottom in all directions, and finally all the light was concentrated on Yang Chuangrui.

Then the light faded away, and an electronic female voice came from the ground that had just risen, speaking peacefully in standard Mandarin:

"Welcome back, Commander!"