"..."
Li Liang was helpless, this is all cyberpunk and what about feudal superstition?
"There must be a ghost in this place," K reloaded, "It might be fake."
It turned out to be such a "ghost".
"Fake?"
"Yes," K smiled, "It's a trick. Someone deliberately arranged this place to look like a thousand years ago. The vending machines and drinks are all fake, deliberately misleading us."
K's speculation brought Li Liang back to reality. This possibility existed.
Living in this era, K only believed what he saw with his eyes, so he came to the most realistic conclusion.
Li Liang turned to look at the tunnel.
Is it possible that there is a... tape recorder in that darkness, and also one in the abyss, and that weird noise is just BGM?
It's so ridiculous.
Li Liang shook his head: "What is the purpose of playing tricks on us?"
K said without thinking: "If it were me, I would use this inexplicable scene to distract the enemy's attention and mislead the opponent's thinking."
"Like magic?"
K sneered: "Yeah, a trick in a Rocky Mountain bar."
Although he thought it was impossible, Li Liang still felt a lot more relaxed.
According to the idea of absurd comedy, maybe the one thousand years ago I was just bored, and the layout was purely a hobby.
At this time.
There was a buzzing sound in the tunnel, echoing from far to near.
Armed drones are back.
Li Liang glanced at the watch, 3:55.
The drone took just over thirty minutes to complete the exploration.
moment.
An armed drone emerged from the darkness and landed quickly in front of him.
Holding the sphere in the center of the drone with both hands, he whispered: "Wake up the system menu."
The six compound eyes of the drone retract and project a small holographic image.
Unlike other cores, the menu of the armed drone is very concise, and different systems are related in a tree shape.
Li Liang clicked on the mission log and flipped through it. This drone was produced at the Dong-14th Ring Weapons Research Institute in Shangcheng District, Zhongjing. It entered service ten years ago and has been guarding the rare earth company. It has rarely performed serious tasks.
This is normal. Even the mines in the west have disappeared. Rare earth resources have become increasingly worthless. No one has enough money to attack rare earth companies.
Returning to the latest record, the flight route shows that the drones encountered a fork in the road shortly after flying into the tunnel. After automatically grouping, the drone chose a route to the north, and then experienced several groupings. Finally, It flew until it reached the end of a fork in the road before returning along the same path as instructed.
After comparing the maps, Li Liang breathed a sigh of relief.
The first drone to come back brought good news. From here to the exit near the Bureau of Order, the tunnel in the middle is open.
Over the next twenty minutes, all the drones returned one after another.
Based on the information brought back by each drone, Li Liang used a pen to draw the area leading to the tunnel on the map, with mixed results.
From here, you can reach the Bureau of Order headquarters, 189 First Street, and several exits on the southern outskirts of East City and West City, but further north are blocked.
In other words, after rescuing the consultant, they could not go through the tunnel to the New Order Joint Conference headquarters to meet Dr. Sisson, and could only use above-ground transportation.
Not only that, he and K led Ex Machina's large army into the parade and arrived at 189 First Street and then entered the tunnel, which could only go as far as the Bureau of Order.
Although the Bureau of Order Headquarters building is far away from the New Order Joint Meeting Building, there is an artificial lake in between. It is extremely dangerous to cross it by airship, so you can only go around it on the ground.
Li Liang could only accept the reality, rescue the consultant first and then adapt accordingly.
"Set off."
K said seriously: "I never thought that one day I would be able to ride a Xi'an drone and fly underground in Zhongjing."
Li Liang smiled. In fact, he never thought that in a thousand years he would experience a life more thrilling than the movies and meet so many different kinds of people.
"Come here," Li Liangchong waved to the first drone to come back, "take us to where you turned back."
The drone with "Order Bureau" written on its forehead by Li Liang stretched out two tentacles and wrapped them around his and K's waists.
Then, all the drones took off and flew towards the dark tunnel.
At the last moment, Li Liang looked back at the empty platform.
He had a vague feeling that maybe everything was just... just beginning.
In the dark tunnel, a group of armed drones flew rapidly.
The spotlights on the tentacles kept sweeping around, illuminating the black cables. Occasionally, you could see a series of pictures posted on the wall, which would turn into dynamic advertisements in your eyes when passing by quickly.
However, after a few minutes, Li Liang no longer had the energy to pay attention to the tunnel.
The drone flew so fast that he and K felt like they were riding on an open-top airship, and the oncoming wind made it difficult to keep their eyes open.
In order to get to the Order Bureau as soon as possible, he endured it, but the "driving experience" was too painful.
The flying posture like Superman didn't exist at all. He only felt that his waist was about to be torn off. He quickly stopped the drone and tried to ride on the central sphere, but the drone refused to take off.
Moreover, only the two tentacles equipped with mechanical claws of the armed drone have the function of wrapping and grasping, and the other tentacles do not participate at all.
In the end, the two of them could only fly sideways like mummies supported by the drone.
During the flight, Li Liang could always vaguely hear the noisy sound, neither far nor near, and the volume did not change.
Half an hour later, the drone swarm arrived at a dark platform.
Just like before, the moment the two stepped onto the platform, the lights came on one after another.
Li Liang rubbed his waist and asked, "Did you hear any strange sounds just now?"
"No," K also rubbed his waist, "What's the sound?"
"It's like there's a noisy market not far away."
K recalled: "No, there was only the sound of wind."
Li Liang nodded, his expression calm.
It seems that only I can hear it.
It's already weird enough here anyway, one more thing won't make any difference.
Looking around, he found that the platform looked almost identical to the one at Nanjiang Port.
However, upon closer inspection, there are still many differences in details.
In addition, the vending machine was intact and there were no bullet holes in the wall.
Li Liang remembered a certain movie he had seen a thousand years ago. Fortunately, reality had not strayed into an infinite loop.
"Let's go," Li Liang greeted K and walked all the way to the top of the steps.
Above the head is an exit similar to Nanjiang Port.
Li Liang first closed his eyes and looked up.
In Ling's field of vision, there was no one outside. Only a heart was beating more than ten meters away. Judging from the heart rate, the man seemed to be asleep.
K held the assault rifle and said softly: "There should be a warehouse outside."
"Yeah," Li Liang nodded, took out the Colt M1911 from the holster, and reached out to press it on the metal above his head.
The metal plate immediately split from the middle and slid to both sides.
next moment.
A dark shadow jumped down.
Li Liang subconsciously dodged to the side and raised his gun to aim.
Boom!
There was a loud bang.
It turned out to be a chest of drawers that had fallen on the steps.
K jumped up, grabbed the edge with one hand, and jumped up instantly.
Li Liang jumped up immediately, grabbed the edge of the hole with both hands, and then... slowly pulled himself up, then raised one leg and put it on the edge before turning over.
At this time, K’s muffled shout came from not far away: “Don’t move.”
It seemed that K had restrained the sleeping man. Li Liang stood up and looked around.
This is the warehouse of a second-hand furniture store, filled with old furniture, most of which are metal and worthless. The most valuable piece of solid wood has been dropped and broken into pieces.
Following the source of the sound just now, Li Liang walked into the next door in the dark.
Next door is the store.
The lights were dim, and the narrow room was filled with shelves, with some second-hand broken electrical appliances piled randomly on them. On a single bed against the wall, K was pressing an assault rifle against the back of a middle-aged man's head, pressing his knee against the Human back.
The man was so frightened that he couldn't even speak: "I, I, Sanhe, Sanheshe..."
"Shut up!" K shouted.
Li Liang walked quickly to the front door of the store.
For safety reasons, he did not ask House to come directly to the exit for assistance. For a key location like the Bureau of Order, the Marginal Operations Department must have assigned more than one spaceship. It would be easy for the agents to gather rashly and be discovered.
At this moment, the lift door of the store has been lowered, and there is a small window that can be opened on the door.
Li Liang turned off the light and quietly moved the window open a crack.
Outside is a not-so-wide street. The street lights are on, and the colorful lights of the shop signs next door are flashing on the right side. There is no one on the street.
There are also shops opposite, most of which have their lift doors lowered.
It was very quiet.
It's a little unusual to be quiet.
