[Acquisition of three B-level or above phantom beast specimens has been completed. A new task has been posted.
3. Repair the escape cabin and rescue at least one advance team survivor.
4. Release after completing task three.
5. (Optional) Ensure that more than half of your initial team members survive.
6. Release after completing task three.
...]
Lu Ning lay slightly on her back and let the vehicle drive back automatically, while she checked the newly released tasks on her personal terminal. It is similar to this type of mission mode. The more missions you complete, the more mission information you will get, and the more hidden information you can get from it.
The distribution center will not deceive in its tasks, and at most it will play word games. So among the two tasks displayed now, the optional task has nothing to say, but the main task contains two important information.
"Escape Pod" and "Survivor."
After experiencing so many scenes, Lu Ning has basically understood some of the mission characteristics of the distribution center. The word "escape cabin" must not be a general term, but a certain kind of proper noun, otherwise there would be no need to go there specifically. Fix it. Since the survivors of the advance team can be rescued, there must be people who can be rescued, and the advance team has not been completely destroyed.
With these two pieces of information as a foundation, Lu Ning felt more settled. After all, most of the information she had in hand was uncertain, and none of it was more reliable than the tasks nailed on the distribution floor.
She had already put away the two specimens, but she still gave Qingniao and Kong Gu a look before leaving. After the two met, they were silent. After a long time, Kong Gu spoke: "It's not his fault."
"I know, I just want to give you a reason." Lu Ning said.
When we returned to the outpost, the shape of the building had already appeared in an open space, and the internal device was half-formed. It was a structure like a dumbbell, with hemispherical buildings at both ends and a passage in the middle. The robots were inside and outside. Busy, building materials were taken out from the outpost and carried into the building like an assembly line.
"Captain, that is..." Recorder narrowed his eyes and looked at the building, with a hint of doubt in his tone.
"It's a weapon." Lu Ning nodded.
"What level of weapon is this?" Spades also has some knowledge. He has seen some special types of weapons and has a very special structure in his impression.
"It's not harmful to us." Lu Ning said, "I will tell you how to use these two weapons after they are completed, but I will not give you permission. In addition, since the expulsion has been completed today, tomorrow we will set off to explore a message Marking point, it’s far away from here, we need to drive the landing craft there.”
"Landing craft? Then you must take me with you." Recorder smiled, "I can already smell the battle. I must not miss it."
"The candidates for this operation are Spades, Recorder, Iron Eyebrow and Dragon Vein." Lu Ning said, "Qiu Shu and Bayonet will be temporarily responsible for managing this outpost, and all internal affairs except external communications will be asked to them. In addition, Blue Bird, you must also be ready to begin your duties.”
"yes."
"Captain, don't you bring a medic?" Bayonet asked.
"It is more useful for the medical soldiers to stay here than to go with us. Your tasks will not be less." Lu Ning smiled.
In the evening, she explained to Qiu Shu and Bayonet the matters that needed to be handled after she left, as well as the authorization instructions in various situations, and then returned to her bedroom.
A scheduled report will be sent out tomorrow night, and after Lu Ning returned to the house, she directly connected to the satellite signal with her terminal and loaded the latest map. Soon the map completed the calculation transformation and could be zoomed to a certain extent. The precision of the satellite is enough to photograph the appearance of many ground buildings. If the beacon does not disappear and appear like the observer, maybe...
The image is enlarged, but the area where the beacon is located is blurry.
"What's going on?" Lu Ning drew a map and found that a large area there was blurred by some kind of gray and black. If you study it more carefully, you can see bright spots of light further away.
volcanic eruptions.
Lu Ning stood up, walked to the computer in the room, started to import, and opened several pictures at the same time - she took some previous recorded images from the observer's data, including those hundreds of thousands of years ago. Changes in the continent.
The land of Magic Star is still a plate type. Based on the changes in the boundaries, you can vaguely distinguish the zones prone to crustal changes. Obviously, the location of the volcano is not the junction of the plates.
"Earthquakes... volcanoes... it's really just the right time."
Lu Ning looked at the assembled terrain map and fell into deep thought.
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Early the next morning, Lu Ning came to the newly created "weapon" early.
The tundra injector has been completed, the huge "needle" has been pierced into the ground, and the transparent cylindrical containers have been lined up in a row, filled with light cyan tundra condensate, while the robot continues to feed the raw materials The raw materials for production are put into the furnace and it is completely ready to go.
Lu Ning came to the console, connected her terminal, pulled the switch, and entered the predetermined parameters. Immediately, there was a slight "clunk" sound all around, which was a sign of opening the valve to fully release the power of the weapon. In just a moment, Lu Ning saw the temperature reading drop from the detector around him.
"Captain?" Spades also got up early. Although he couldn't enter the building, you could feel that it was "alive" from the outside, and something was happening.
"Yes, the weapons are operational and the cold is coming."
"Severe cold?" The corner of Spade's mouth twitched. It's summer here now. What can the severe cold in summer be like? Climate-changing weapons may not be a big deal in the universe, but on the planet they are equivalent to a controllable natural disaster.
"You woke up so early, are you ready to go?"
"Uh, almost. By the way, captain, I'm here to inform you... No! It was Yang Hao who asked me to inform you... that man was killed by him."
"He doesn't have such a crazy desire for research." Lu Ning didn't care. "And he chose this time to inform me. This old fox is still very cunning. But forget it, I don't mean to blame him anyway, he just waits for me to come back. See a full research report."
"Captain, did you already know..."
"Qiu Shu has been keeping an eye on the outpost. If there is any problem, he will report it to me as soon as possible. Since he didn't tell me about it yesterday, it means that the future trouble has been eliminated."
Lu Ning walked out of the building, patted the shoulder of Spades at the door, and then walked to the landing craft.
About half an hour later, everyone arrived and took their seats on the landing craft. Lu Ning began to adjust the engine direction and prepare for vertical takeoff. She sent a signal to everyone and started the ignition.
The scorched earth was burned by the high temperature again, and the landing craft rose to high altitude within a few seconds. After adjusting its direction slightly, it rushed out like an arrow from a string.
The speed of the landing craft is naturally not comparable to that of ordinary vehicles. Since it can conduct short-distance space navigation when necessary, its speed can even exceed the first cosmic speed of the planet itself. Now, even if it flies at a flat speed, it only takes more than an hour. It takes time to reach the beacon location.
And there is something very clear, the clouds and mist turned into volcanic ash.
It's raining in this area.
"Start the environment adaptive system, basic protection program, and scan and switch to anti-interference mode." Spades reported, "Captain, the light here is too dark, and the real-life shooting effect is very poor. We can only use other means to make up for it."
"Adjusting to sound and light feedback imaging." Recorder's tone was full of interest, "The beacon has not been found yet!"
"Captain, we may have to land near the coordinates. Since it is a technological product of a different civilization, it is natural to avoid mechanical detection. We can only try to use the most primitive method." Longmai said.
"Then find a platform to land on."
This area is still a rugged mountainous area, and there are scattered rivers like veins in the middle. It is completely like a wild area.
"Beware of phantom beasts." Tiemei checked his equipment, "The terrain is not difficult for us, dangerous beasts are fatal."
"I got it, Uncle Tiemei." Spade laughed, "Is this your first time on a mission? To be honest, although the phantom beasts outside sound scary, they can still be easily killed with technological weapons. Unless it’s B…”
boom!
Before Spai Tao finished speaking, a gleaming golden dragon-like creature suddenly rushed out of the waterway in the distance. It raised water waves more than ten meters high, turned in the air, and plunged into the water again.
"What the hell is that?" Spade shouted at the top of his voice.
"It's the one you're talking about." Tie Mei tightened his wrists, "It doesn't look like it's easy to mess with. Fortunately, it didn't notice us."
Lu Ning led the team to take a detour, trying to avoid those powerful phantom beasts. Fortunately, there was no outpost nearby. The phantom beasts here seemed to have not evolved targeted countermeasures, so the detection methods were useless. very effective.
But after circling two mountains in a row, I still found nothing that looked like a building—not even any traces of building materials.
"Captain, are you hiding like you were then?" Spades climbed up a tree and looked around, but there was still nothing.
"Since NE-002 didn't remind me of any special means to make it visible, it means that the hiding method has failed. We just need to find it." Lu Ning said.
"That's what it is said, but she didn't see the condition of the beacon with her own eyes, right? Or she could tell us her detection method? Going around in circles like this is still a place where various phantom beasts hang out. Maybe we can ……oops!"
Spade screamed and fell from the tree, holding a piece of bark in his hand. With the cushioning of the space suit, it wouldn't hurt him, but he was just a little frightened.
"This tree is old enough..." Spade threw the bark aside, "The bark has started to fall off, is it going to die?"
"Uh..." Dragon Vein pulled him up, "The captain said you are very lucky. I originally thought that I believed in science and not luck."
"What are you talking about?"
Lu Ning couldn't help but smile: "It's nothing, not because the tree is old, but because this is a metal pillar wrapped with a layer of bark."
Everyone looked up, and the area where the spade was broken off now revealed the color inside - a metallic color like brass.
Spade rubbed the place where he fell, feeling a little unbelievable himself.
Environmental camouflage.
After cutting off the outer layer of the entire tree, it can be clearly seen that it is a metal pillar about as thick as a three-person hug. The information fed back by the detector on it is still a tree, indicating that even after all this time, the camouflage The effect remains. And if you cut a few trees nearby, you can see that they are normal trees. It can be said that Spade's luck is really amazing to be able to choose the camouflaged one from so many trees.
"In this case maybe..."
Lu Ning touched around the metal pillar, and finally touched the switch at a position about two meters high. A bright light appeared on the metal pillar, revealing a three-meter-high gate.
"A tall alien." Recorder raised his head and looked at the size of the door, "Fortunately it's not a small one, otherwise we wouldn't be able to get in."
"Why did you think of this at this time!" Spade was still doubting his luck, and ran inside without waiting for Lu Ning's order.
"Pay attention to safety, we don't know if there are any unknown risks here." Tie Mei still remained alert. After everyone walked in, there was also a metal table inside, surrounded by smooth and clean white walls, without any buttons or anything like that. on the surface. It's just that the light is much brighter than outside. It seems that the wall itself is also a light source.
Lu Ning was the last one to walk in, looked around, and then searched twice at the same height next to the door. Soon, the three-meter-high door disappeared, and everyone felt a sense of weightlessness.
"The platform is descending." Tie Mei was still very calm.
"Is this building hidden in the mountains?" Spade shouted.
Longmai thought for a while: "Maybe it disguised itself as a mountain, and then over time, the outside really turned into a mountain."
Lu Ning remembered that NE-002 once mentioned that this technology was called "eyes".
Through body sense, everyone could determine the speed of the platform. When a feeling of overweight came, they knew that they had reached the bottom. The same door appeared on the wall, and outside the door was a giant metal corridor. The sound of the collision of machines and the sound of gas being pressed could be heard in my ears, indicating that the place was still operating normally.
"Where does its energy come from? How does it resist the erosion of time?" Longmai was shocked when he saw the various undisguised mechanical pipes, gears, and valve structures inside. "It is still running! In other words, it is disguised It just failed because the timer expired, not because time caused damage to the camouflage core!"
"Longmai, I can understand your excitement, but we can't worry about these issues first." Tie Mei observed the surroundings carefully.
"What?"
"Since this place is still functioning, then the defense means are still alive, right?" Recorder laughed happily.
