Chapter 43: Exploring the Ruins (Part 2)
There is an atmosphere in the Palanto plane, but the flight speed of the soldier mecha is still very fast, and it didn't take long for Qin Lun and the others to see the ancient ruins in the projection record.
Except for Bobby, who followed up and hit the number as one, the other nine members of the patrol team came. The soldier mech piloted by Officer Guise was partially lost in the First Battle of the Space Octopus, and now there are more than twenty left.
Because all the mobile forces were gone, the Attack armory officer Gies urgently repaired the battleship's APB force field. Although the weapon system has not been repaired yet, it is enough to hold out in a possible attack until Qin Lun and the others come to their aid, and there is no need to worry about their safety in a short time.
Located in the middle of a mountain range, this ancient site covers a huge area. From the air, the whole mountain range has been transformed by a great force, and a square funnel appears in the center, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, in the shape of an inverted pyramid.
The four walls of the Pyramid of the Funnel are made up of numerous huge staircases, and at the bottom is a small stone platform with nothing on it. What attracts everyone's attention is not this stone platform, but dozens of square corridors exposed above and below the four walls.
Perhaps because of the huge size of the Angel Clan, most of these corridors can accommodate four soldier mechs to enter side by side, and the height is high enough for the mecha to fly off the ground without looking too embarrassing.
"It used to seem like a base, and we should be rewarding." Robin's voice came from the communication channel of the whole team, "It's just that this place is well preserved, and there may be defenses left by the angel clan, everyone should be careful." ”
"There are a lot of passages, let's divide into three teams to enter!" Qin Lun divided the nine apostles into three groups, and he took Frank and Sava to take the lead and flew towards a Yongdao crossing above the ruins.
Although Frank and Sava are MT and medical apostles, their strength is not as good as the other second-order apostles, so it is most appropriate for him to take care of them.
"Unleash the probe machine!" Qin Lun commanded Alex beside him.
Alex nodded, and landed from the air near the Yongdao crossing, the shoulder of the soldier mech opening a hatch and firing several silver metal balls. The metal balls did not wait for them to hit the ground, and a glowing observation lens poked out from the front, and a thin metal wing popped out on each side, making a buzzing vibration sound, and flew towards the dark interior of the corridor.
At the same time, the display screen of the soldier mecha also showed the shared image of the sphere detector.
Qin Lun and the others did not leave anyone outside the ruins, and the area of this ruins was huge, almost no less than a giant city. At the same time, there are countless passages, and even if a hostile team attacks, it is impossible to block the entrances and exits. Therefore, they only left some guards in the outer hideouts, and they all entered the ruins.
"It's strange, I've seen the ruins of the Angel of Keith on the original Gise Star on the Faith, those ruins are very high-tech, but there doesn't seem to be any high-tech products here, and the stone wall of the Yongdao is basically part of the mountain." Sava, an archaeologist by training, was excited when she entered the ruins, muttering to herself as she stared at the images from the spherical probe along the way.
"Hey, is there a problem with the detector?" Vera at the front of the line screamed in surprise.
Qin Lun frowned slightly, he also saw the scene just now. The detection screen just shook a little, and it was completely black, and it was a problem with several spherical detectors at the same time, which was obviously not normal.
"Sir, do you need to put another batch of detectors?" Alex asked solemnly.
"No, Frank, you go ahead!" Qin Lun shook his head, the situation just now was too weird, since the first batch of probe balls didn't find any problems, it might not be useful to put another batch. The interior of the ruins is still very large, and the detector needs to be used sparingly.
"Okay, young master!" Frank lifted his Qiongqi skeletal shield and stepped out of the crowd and walked at the front of the group. And the head of the seventeenth fallen angel also grew several hairy tentacles on both sides, which were the multi-eyed horns transformed from the holy thorns.
"Frank, be careful, the corner in front is where the detector Qì people have an accident!" After walking a distance, Qin Lun reminded softly.
"Hmm!" Frank said yes and landed on the ground, the mech's right hand holding the shield in front of him, bending over and cautiously walking around the corner.
"Stop!" Qin Lun suddenly had a creepy feeling and blurted out.
"Snort~~" Before Qin Lun's words fell, a puff of white smoke rose from the bone shield in Frank's hand, and the hunchbacked servant soldiers froze in place, and after a few seconds, they slowly retreated to everyone's side.
"Poof!" As if he had discovered something, Alex pulled out the magnetic resonance knife equipped with the mecha and dug out several gray cylinders on the stone walls on both sides of the corridor.
"It's an antimatter ray device with its own sensor!" Alex looked at the cylinder in the mecha's hand for a while, and said in surprise, "After such a long time, these little things can still be used." ”
"It's no wonder that the previous detection screen doesn't show anything unusual, the antimatter rays have no brightness, and they blend in with the surrounding dark environment." Vera picked up a few pieces of the probe from the corner ground and sighed in amazement.
Frank looked down at the deep nicks on Qiongqi's shield, and a hint of palpitation appeared on his thick face.
Because the technology is not up to it, the APB force field of the soldier mecha is very ineffective against antimatter rays. If he hadn't stopped just now, the mech would have been cut into pieces by the antimatter ray, and if a ray had crossed the cockpit, it would have been up to his luck to survive or not.
"It's a pity that Sherlock didn't come along, he's most interested in this kind of thing!" Alex put the antimatter ray device into the mecha's equipment cabin, and the Gies don't know much about antimatter technology, so it has a lot of research value to bring it out.
"There should be other mechanisms ahead, you take turns to release spherical detectors, and work in groups of two to save use." Qin Lun thought for a while and said, "In addition, the members of the three groups use different detection horizons to minimize the risk factor. ”
"My lord, the communication signal inside the ruins is very poor, and I can't inform the other two teams of the situation here." Sava suddenly said with an ugly face.
"Forget it, I hope they don't lose manpower because of this!" Qin Lun sighed and led everyone to continue to explore. It's just that after this scene, everyone lost their previous leisurely mentality, and the atmosphere in the team unconsciously became tense.
As time passed, Qin Lun felt that they had penetrated deep into the interior of the mountain range of this ruin. It is no longer entirely a rock wall, and some sections of the road are beginning to be framed with metal composites, and they are not far from the core of the ruins.
Although they approached the important location of the ruins, the defense device similar to the antimatter ray did not reappear, which made everyone secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
"Sir, look!" Vera exclaimed in surprise.
"See!" A glimmer of light flashed in Qin Lun's eyes, and a huge metal gate appeared on the screen from the detector machine, and they finally came to the end of this corridor.
"Whew!" At this moment, a dazzling white light flashed on everyone's projection screen, and the whole picture went dark.
"The probe machine has been killed by something again!" Sava exclaimed.
"Release another batch, increase the number this time, you increase the output power of the APB force field, I guess this time it is not a fixed defense device." Qin Lun's heart was clouded, his eyesight was the strongest among the people, just now he vaguely saw a trace of strangeness in the white mang, but it happened too suddenly, he wasn't sure what he saw.
"Click!" Soon after the second batch of detectors were released, some strange sounds sounded in the depths of the tunnel, and it seemed that they were still extending to this side.
The second group of detectors was soon wiped out again, but this time, the picture was more complete. The things that kill the detector qì people seem to be strips with a strong electric light.
"Defensive formation!" Qin Lun strode forward, took the Qiongqi bone shield in Frank's hand, and stood at the front of the team.
The team waited for a while, the sound of movement on the opposite side became louder and louder, and with the help of the searchlight of the soldier mecha, they finally saw the rapidly pounced object.
"What is this?" While seeing the foreign object clearly, the vigilance in everyone's hearts has also reached the highest.
The object in the mecha screen is a monster machine with more than a dozen metal tails, shaped like a tadpole magnified countless times, but its tail is not one, but more than a dozen, grabbing the four walls of the road like tentacles and crawling.
The tadpole machine qì person is very large, half the size of the section of the Yongdao, plus more than a dozen metal tails or tentacles, almost filling the Yongdao, so that everyone has to face it head-on.
The crawling speed of the machine qì man was very fast, and he came to Qin Lun's front in an instant, and a tentacle with a dazzling electric light was drawn towards the seventeenth fallen angel. "Smack!" Before Qin Lun could observe the trajectory of the tentacles, he felt a shock from the mecha and was directly knocked away by the tentacles.
"Shoot!" Qin Lun only felt that his hand was light, and the incomparably hard Qiongqi bone shield was torn apart, and he even saw a scorched black shield from the corner of his eye.
"Bang bang bang!" The seventeenth fallen angel was knocked away like a bowling ball, and the brilliance of the APB force field rose and fell, and all the mecha that were knocked out of the air were ejected far away, embedded in the stone wall of the corridor.
The rest of the lucky ones hurriedly raised their guns to shoot, and the tunnel was suddenly filled with dazzling light of particle beams. However, they were soon dumbfounded, and a transparent mirror similar to an APB force field appeared on the surface of the tadpole automaton, defending all particle beams.
The only thing the beam does is push it a little farther away, and it doesn't cause real damage.
"It's really hard!" Qin Lun climbed out of the pit in the stone wall, the mechanical bag behind him was completely opened, and four cylindrical metal objects ejected out, levitating in front of the mecha.
"Spread out, let me come!" Qin Lun's face showed a hint of hideousness, in this narrow passage, the phased dense array cannon nicknamed "Icy Storm" would exert its greatest power.