Chapter 469: Detonating the Dam
Ma Yan'er said: "I took the initiative to ask for it." β
Lin Genie said: "This is not a scientific investigation at all, and there is no point in you coming. β
Ma Yan'er put down the notes in her hand, looked at Lin Geni and said, "Do you think I'm in the way?"
Lin Geni shook her head and said softly, "Sleep, replenish your strength, and soon you will have to set off again." She had basically guessed the reason why Ma Yan'er joined the team, it was probably because the general wanted to balance Lu Jianyang, with Ma Yan'er and Lu Mingxiang in this team, Lu Jianyang had to follow the general's orders.
Luo Lie and Shen Pengfei were in charge of the vigil tonight, Luo Lie took out the cigarette case, took out one and lit it himself, and then handed the cigarette case to Shen Pengfei. Shen Pengfei shook his head and smiled: "I don't smoke. β
Luo Lie put the cigarette case back, took a puff of his cigarette, and looked up at the starry night sky, from here, the night sky was no different from the outside world.
Shen Pengfei said: "We should not be far from our destination, and we will be able to arrive tomorrow morning at the latest." β
Luo Lie said: "The news that Long Tianxin gave you?"
Shen Pengfei hesitated, but finally nodded. He asked, "What kind of person is Long Tianxin?"
Luo Lie said: "Her most common method is to attack the east and west. β
Shen Pengfei said: "You mean she may have lied about this?"
Luo Lie said: "Not necessarily. He glanced at the surrounding tents and said in a low voice, "With our current combat strength, we may not be the opponent of the Scorpio Society. β
Shen Pengfei also admitted this, he did not admit defeat, sighed and said: "The main thing is that most of our weapons are out of order, and we can only use these backward equipment to fight the enemy, but I also have a backup plan, we don't have to face the enemy head-on, we can completely arrange explosives around the experimental base after finding it, and destroy the base." β
Luo Lie said: "Are you carrying enough explosives?"
Shen Pengfei said with confidence: "There is no problem. β
Luo Lie said: "The one who knows Ming Huayang best should be Long Tianxin, she should also know the Demon Island very well, didn't she provide you with the information of the Demon Island before you acted?"
Shen Pengfei shook his head: "No, what do you suspect?"
Luo Lie said: "I'm worried that she is just using us as bait. β
Shen Pengfei said: "She's really that powerful?"
Luo Lie said: "I just said that there is such a possibility, in short, we should be careful." β
Shen Pengfei got up and sprayed around the camp, using this plant-based spray to block their breath and minimize the risk from wild beasts. When the work was done, he picked up his binoculars and looked around, only to see a wild boar running for his life on the hillside, and two velociraptors behind him were unhurriedly flanking left and right.
It didn't take much effort to catch up with the boar at the speed of the velociraptor itself, but they were obviously teasing the boar, sometimes one left and one right, sometimes one in front and one back, forcing the boar to change direction, and the boar was so tired that he couldn't stop for a while, and his head hit the trunk of the tree in front of him.
The boar staggered in place as if drunk, and the two velociraptors took a step back, ready to strike a fatal blow at their prey.
But suddenly a huge head poked out of the woods, and with one bite it bit and dragged the boar in, and the boar struggled to hiss.
The two velociraptors watched their prey being snatched away, and the long hairs on the back of their necks stood up, and they opened their mouths to show their sharp teeth, and roared towards the forest.
The screams of the wild boars at the bottom of the mountain also woke up the companions in the camp, and Ma Yan'er poked her head out of the tent and exclaimed, "What happened?"
Luo Lie stood up: "The law of nature!" "Survival of the fittest, survival of the fittest."
Shen Pengfei looked at the time, there were still fifty minutes away from their agreed departure time, he decided to leave immediately, the head that poked out of the forest just now, bit the wild boar and dragged it in, because the speed of the giant beast was too fast, so he didn't see it completely, and he couldn't judge what kind of creature it was, but he judged by feeling that it should be a huge carnivorous creature like a Tyrannosaurus rex, that is, although it was about three kilometers away from their camp and located under the hillside, such a distance was nothing to a large creature at allγ
After receiving the order, everyone immediately began to prepare for the packing, and within five minutes they had all packed up and stopped, and they continued to set off towards the top of the mountain.
Ma Yan'er came to Shen Pengfei's side and asked curiously, "Captain Shen, what was it just now?"
Shen Tengfei said: "It should be two velociraptors chasing a wild boar, but a huge guy killed in the middle and snatched the prey." β
Ma Yan'er's eyes lit up and said, "Is it a Tyrannosaurus rex?"
Shen Pengfei said: "I didn't see it clearly, it only poked out a head, and it was too fast." β
Ma Yan'er said with anticipation: "I really hope to see it with my own eyes." β
Lu Mingxiang said: "It's better not to see it." β
The white face nodded and said, "Bodhisattva bless, I hope these monsters are as far away from us as possible." β
Shen Pengfei smiled and said, "When did you start believing in Buddhism? Aren't you an atheist?"
The white face said: "I'll just say that." β
Ma Yan'er said: "They are not monsters, they are all real creatures that have existed on the earth, and before the appearance of humans, they were the masters of the earth." β
Lu Mingxiang said: "But the era that belongs to them has passed, and since it has entered the dust of history, it should not come out to scare people again." β
The speaker had no intention of listening, and Luo Lie, who was walking at the back of the team, had a somewhat helpless expression, and he was also a monster who should enter the dust of history. Lin Geni, who was walking side by side with him, quietly held his hand and winked at him, she guessed what Luo Lie was thinking.
Each of them maintained a high degree of vigilance, after all, their current combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and they could only fight with traditional conventional weapons, let alone against the supernatural, even a Tyrannosaurus rex could cause them heavy losses, so they had to be cautious in their actions.
At three o'clock in the morning, they had successfully reached the peak, the sky was not yet bright, the whole island was still shrouded in darkness, Shen Pengfei raised the telescope to look down, and saw that there was a lake in the center of the island, just located at the mouth of the valley between the two peaks, and a dam was blocked at one-third of the lake, which divided the island into two parts, they were now located on the east side, there were no buildings on the east side of the dam, but there were some buildings on the other side.
Shen Pengfei was relieved: "There are buildings there, which should be the secret base of the Scorpion Society." β
"There's a hydropower station hidden here. β
Luo Lie said: "Not only the hydropower station, but also the dam is a natural wall, and the large beasts here should not be able to cross the dam and enter the other half. β
The artillery said: "If we knew this, we should have landed directly from the other side, and we would have saved so many unjust roads." β
The donkey said: "Although it may be possible to walk less, the risk of exposure will increase a lot." β
The artillery said: "How do you know that we are now, not exposed?"
The donkey said: "Probably not, we haven't seen any traces of civilization along the way, and the east of the reservoir dam has maintained its original style." β
Ma Yan'er said: "Do you think this is like a big safari park?"
Lin Geni said: "The test site is right, although the area here is not small, but it still cannot form a complete ecological environment, have you paid attention to the goat, it should be artificially fed." β
Ma Yan'er said: "You mean they will come over regularly to feed?"
Lin Genie nodded and said, "It should be so." β
Shen Pengfei said: "Everyone rests in place for fifteen minutes, we must speed up the pace and strive to reach the lakeside below before dawn." He estimated the distance, and with the speed of their march, he estimated that the lake below would be reached in two hours, and that it would not be dawn at about five o'clock.
Ma Yan'er said: "No need to rest, let's leave now." β
The others meant the same thing, and although the conversation between them was very lighthearted, everyone was very nervous, after all, they were in a dangerous environment, and an ancient beast would jump out at any time.
So everyone continued to move forward, a long march in the dense forest required a lot of physical strength, but their group of people were carefully selected professional soldiers, although Ma Yan'er was an exception, but she herself had an excellent physique, and she had undergone professional training before coming here, plus the novel scene she witnessed here made her extremely excited, and she didn't even feel tired.
Luo Lie is most worried about Lin Genie's body, after all, she has already had a precedent of having a seizure before, and she always pays attention to Lin Genie's condition, but until now Lin Genie is normal.
By the time dawn they had come to the valley, less than a kilometer away from the lake in front of them, and they did not rush out of the jungle, because they heard the roar in the air and saw a helicopter flying in their direction over the dam, and the people hurriedly dispersed and hidden.
Shen Pengfei looked up and found that the helicopter was not an advanced model, and there was a bull hanging at the bottom of the helicopter, obviously going to the jungle they passed through last night to feed.
Ma Yan'er glanced at Lin Genie, and sure enough, Lin Ge Ni said that the environment here still could not form a complete ecosystem, and those ancient beasts still needed to be fed by hand to survive.
There was more than one plane in charge of feeding, and they counted five planes flying out of the other side of the dam.
Lu Mingxiang was puzzled: "Why can their planes maneuver freely, while our planes and ships fail?"
Bai Face said: "It's like the frequency band of the walkie-talkie, they fit the frequency band here." β
The artillery said: "In this case, we can use it as long as we grab their planes and weapons." β
The donkey sang: "There are no guns and no cannons, the enemy has made us ......"
The cannon slapped him on the back of the head: "Be quiet, don't invite the monsters." β
A roar like thunder resounded in the air, everyone was startled, the sound came from the lake, and when they looked up, they saw a giant python stretching out on the surface of the lake, and as the behemoth appeared more and more out of the water, they saw that it was a plesiosaur.
Ma Yan'er was very happy, and quickly took out her camera to shoot at the lake.
The artillery was stupid and his mouth grew long, but he didn't expect him to be right, he smashed the donkey with his elbow and said, "Just tell you not to sing, you have summoned the big dragon." β
The donkey laughed: "This is called plesiosaur, which is herbivore and does not eat people." β
The cannon said: "Don't eat people? That's a dragon and not a donkey, you can try it." β
The donkey was robbed by him, and hurriedly asked Ma Yan'er for help: "Doctor, you say, you say, does the plesiosaur not eat people?"
Ma Yan'er nodded and said, "I don't eat people, it's indeed a herbivore." β
Luo Lie said: "It's better for everyone to be careful, after all, the genes of these creatures are not pure, maybe their genes have different degrees of mutation." β
The donkey was stunned and said, "What do you mean?"
Artillery laughed: "I still don't understand, that is, the tastes of these ancient creatures may have changed, and they used to be vegetarians and now they have changed to meat." β
Another plesiosaur surfaced out of the lake, and as its neck tilted, a large fish was thrown into the sky, and the plesiosaur that appeared first raised its little head and took the big fish in its mouth. When the donkey saw the scene in front of him, he involuntarily shrank his head back, and said in amazement: "It's ...... They actually eat meat......"
The artillery said: "Not only eat meat, but also eat meat without spitting out bones." β
Seeing the scene in front of them, everyone's mood became heavier and heavier, and sure enough, Luo Lie said that these cloned ancient creatures were really different from the paleontological records, and they were more or less mutated.
They waited patiently for about half an hour to see the helicopters returning one by one to drop food.
The woods where they were hiding had come to an end, and if they wanted to get to the dam, they had to pass through a large open area, and if they were passing through the open area ahead and the helicopter flew back, it would be easy to spot them, and they didn't want to be exposed so early.
Shen Pengfei drew a sketch of the front on the notebook he carried with him with a pen, signaling everyone to gather around, he said in a low voice: "This is the map I draw, if we want to enter their core, we must go to the other side of the dam, the middle section is relatively open, relatively easy to find, these are the two hidden places I just discovered, everyone should pay attention to the vigilance in the air, and at the same time pay attention to whether there are fierce beasts around, try to stay away from the lake, don't provoke the plesiosaur." β
Everyone circulated Shen Pengfei's notebook, and everyone kept the route in mind.
Because the intercom equipment is all in a state of failure, they can not be separated too far, even if they act separately, they need to strictly agree on the time.
This time, it was still Shen Pengfei's group that took the lead, and they quickly rushed towards the dam according to the established route, and the two groups of people acted in unison and were not separated.
As they quickly entered the open area, the ground shook suddenly, but it was a huge plesiosaur that crawled out of the lake, and only one foot landed on the shore, causing the ground to tremble. Everyone didn't dare to stop, they ran towards the dam at full speed, and another plesiosaur came ashore, it walked leisurely, although the pace of the stride was very slow, but after all, it was huge, and the speed of movement far exceeded that of humans, and the trouble was that it blocked Shen Pengfei's pre-formulated route.
Shen Pengfei raised his submachine gun and aimed at the head of the plesiosaur, if the two plesiosaurs attacked them, they would have to fight hard. The cannon raised its bazooka, and if the flesh-eating plesiogenite dared to open its mouth, it would blast its little head to pieces with a single rocket.
Luo Lie reminded everyone: "Don't worry, steady, steady, they move slowly, don't rush to fire." "To fire is to be exposed.
A plesiosaur's long neck bent a little, lowered its head and slowly approached Ma Yan'er, Lu Mingxiang pulled Ma Yan'er's arm and blocked her behind him, the plesiosaur did not attack, but raised its head again, and at this time the roar of a helicopter was heard in the air again.
Another helicopter flew towards their location, Luo Lie made a bold decision, he pointed to the underside of the plesiosaur's belly: "Everyone hide in!" Luo Lie was the first to come to the plesiosaur after speaking, and the others saw Luo Lie do this, so they could only follow him and come under the plesiosaur.
They were surrounded by open areas with no place to hide, and using the plesiosaur's massive body as cover was their only option.
The helicopter soon flew overhead.
Everyone hid under the plesiosaur, but the plesiosaur didn't attack them, Ma Yan'er was pleasantly surprised: "It turns out that their temperament is still relatively docile." As he spoke, the plesiosaur suddenly screamed, and at such a close distance, the roar sounded in their ears like a muffled thunder, and their eardrums buzzed.
The two forelimbs of the plesiosaur rose from the ground, and they hurriedly fled outward, just escaped from under the plesiosaur, the two forelimbs of the plesiosaur fell heavily to the ground, Shen Pengfei said: "Jump!" Everyone hurriedly jumped up, this was to prevent being injured by the shock wave of the plesiosaur landing.
A rock not far away bounced off the ground because of this powerful tremor, which showed the lethality of the plesiosaur's action.
They quickly ran towards the dam, and there was a plesiosaur in front of them, and the plesiosaur had been grazing there since it came ashore, but it knew how to mix meat and vegetables. The crowd had no intention of provoking this grazing behemoth, and chose to detour from behind it.
At this moment they heard a roar from the woods, and the two plesiosaurs were so frightened that they turned around and fled into the lake.
Luo Hunt turned around and looked, only to see, three red velociraptors rushed out of the forest, they ran as fast as lightning, although the velociraptor was not large, but they had superior wisdom and extraordinary combat effectiveness among ancient creatures, known as the Jurassic natural hunter.
The three-headed velociraptor targeted the plesiosaur they had been hiding.
The plesiosaur's legs were so short and thick compared to its slender neck that the plesiosaur was still slow to flee for its life.
A velociraptor has chased behind it, biting the tail of the plesiosaur in one bite, the plesiosaur was in great pain, raised its thick long tail, swept out fiercely, and tried to throw the velociraptor out of its body, but the velociraptor was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, biting its tail and not letting go, and the other two velociraptors had also come to the side of the plesiosaur, jumped up in the air, climbed directly onto the back of the plesiosaur, climbed quickly along the back, and bit the neck of the plesiosaur in one bite.
The plesiosaur let out a wail and struggled to break free, but its struggles were of no avail. Its companion had already rushed into the lake first, apparently abandoning it under threat of death.
The plesiosaur wailed in despair, its long neck twisted around, trying to bite the velociraptor that had been biting its neck to the point.
The velociraptor that had been waiting for an opportunity next to it jumped into the air at this moment and bit the place where the plesiosaur's neck met.
The plesiosaur could no longer withstand the combined attack of the three ferocious predators, and blood kept spurting from its body, and the plesiosaur had given up its resistance, and its massive body as large as a hill fell to the ground.
Luo Hunt and his entourage had quickly passed through the open area in front of them when the three-headed velociraptor hunted the plesiosaur, because with the experience just now, they knew that the plesiosaur should not take the initiative to attack humans, not to mention that a bloody massacre was being staged on the shore now, and the giant beasts in the lake were so frightened that they shrank to the bottom of the water, and no one dared to show up at this time.
They came to the edge of the dam, Ma Yan'er looked back, and saw that the plesiosaur's body was still twitching, the three-headed velociraptor was munching on their spoils, and there were also many turkey-shaped jawed dragons running out of the forest, because of the existence of the velociraptors, they did not dare to approach for the time being, only waiting for the velociraptors to eat and leave, they would approach to enjoy the plesiosaur's internal organs.
Ma Yan'er's eyes were filled with tears, and she sighed and said, "It's so cruel." β
Lu Mingxiang said: "This is the law of nature. β
The donkeys found the steps leading to the dam, which should have been unused for a long time, and they climbed the steps, no one wanted to continue to watch the bloody and cruel scene, of course, they also had another concern, if the velociraptor was full, would a new round of hunting begin?
The height of the dam was more than fifty meters, and they successfully ascended the dam without any guards on the way or on the top of the dam. They soon found out the reason, this dam used to have hydropower facilities, but now the hydropower has been abandoned, only to hold back the water and discharge the flood, the ladder they just passed, the large beast should not be able to climb down.
Several of them entered an abandoned room, which was supposed to be an observation room.
Shen Pengfei used the telescope to observe the surrounding situation, and he was a little puzzled: "Looking at the situation, the base should have to climb over the hill in front, and those helicopters flew from there." β
Luo Lie said: "Do you think there is something strange here?"
"What's weird?"
Luo Lie said: "The dam divides the lake into two parts, about two-thirds here, and one-third of the plesiosaur activity, but the lake below is rich in vegetation and there are a lot of ancient creatures, but there is no grass around this part of the lake. β
He reminded everyone that there was no vegetation around the lake west of the dam, and the shore was covered with black pebbles.
Lin Geni said: "It should be artificial. β
At this time, they suddenly heard a chirping sound, and the originally calm lake suddenly rippled, and they thought that some ancient beast was going to appear in the lake, but they soon saw an amazingly large antenna with a diameter of 100 meters slowly rising from the bottom of the lake.
Lu Mingxiang said: "This antenna should be able to absorb energy. β
They lurked indoors and did not dare to move, Shen Pengfei flew to the artillery and said: "Donkey, artillery, you go to the dam to arrange explosives, if necessary, we can blow up the dam." "If the dam is destroyed, the water in the lake above will rush down, and all the secrets hidden in the lake will be exposed.
The two nodded, picked up their equipment and prepared to set it up, but before they could set off, they heard an earth-shattering explosion, and the entire dam shook the ground, and most of them were unstable on their feet, and many people fell to the ground.
Luo Lie yelled, "Run!" He pointed to the northern section of the dam, where the explosion was coming from the south side and was still happening.
Everyone reacted, and they ran desperately in the direction Luo Lie pointed out.
The explosion started from the south of the dam and spread to the north, and the explosion opened a gap in the dam, and when they were about to leave the dam, a violent explosion from the center of the dam was triggered, and this explosion tore a crack more than ten meters long up and down the center of the dam.
The water in the lake gushed out of the cracks, and the strong water pressure caused further damage to the dam, and the calm lake suddenly found an outlet for catharsis, destroying the dam and rushing down from a height of fifty meters.
The feeding velociraptors were also alarmed by the sound of an explosion overhead, looked up, and immediately abandoned their prey.
The greedy jawed dragons reluctantly looked at the delicious food on the ground, but they didn't dare to stay long, and turned around one by one and ran towards the mountain.
Although Luo Lie was the first to make a decision, he was the last to leave, behind him the dam kept breaking and collapsing, and the others had already come to safety, Lu Mingxiang shouted: "Hurry, hurry, jump!"
Luo Lie didn't dare to look back, he could only trust Lu Mingxiang's judgment at this time, he jumped into the air, the more he was at the moment of life and death, the more he was able to burst out of his potential, Luo Lie's feet just left the ground, and the dam under his feet collapsed.
Luo Lie flew in the air, Lu Mingxiang and Shen Pengfei stretched out their hands to him at the same time, but neither of them could successfully grab Luo Lie's wrist, only a fraction of a second, watching Luo Lie's body fall downward.
Lin Geni screamed, "Luo Hunt!" She rushed towards the break desperately, and Ma Yan'er hugged her for fear that she would also fall with Luo Hunt.
The cannon leaned down, and he saw that Luo Lie grabbed the edge of the break with one hand, and there was an irregular bulge just one meter below, although Luo Lie did not grasp the hand of his companion, he grabbed the bulge at the last moment.
The artillery laughed and stretched out his hand to Luo Lie, and Shen Pengfei also rushed over, and they pulled Luo Lie up from below.