Meng Qingxiao smiled and said: "Okay, Section Chief Zhang, thank you for sending me here. You can go back. Just let Company Commander Wang accompany me on the way down. There must be no one outside to take charge of the overall situation."
Meng Qingxiao did not allow Zhang Ying to object, and said to the soldiers beside him: "Captain Wang, you send two soldiers to escort Section Chief Zhang, and they will not return until they reach her car."
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Zhang Ying said helplessly, "Okay, then you should be more careful."
Accompanied by Captain Wang, the three of them all put on radiation protection suits, and then ordered other soldiers to stay away a hundred meters away, and then opened the box containing the snake beads.
This bead is dusty, only as big as a newborn baby's fist, and has no special features, but it contains very powerful energy.
Meng Qingxiao picked it up, put it in a small suitcase that was not radiation-proof, and then walked up.
Captain Wang led the way, and they continued to move deeper. After walking for more than a thousand meters, there was no way left, but there was a large hole where a person could walk with a slight bend.
This is the newly dug tunnel by Company Commander Wang and the others. It is a drilling machine specially brought from China. There is a soldier at the entrance of the tunnel who has already put on a radiation protection suit. He was sent here by Company Commander Wang just now. He will follow Meng Qingxiao. go ahead.
As soon as they got into the cave, they heard the roar of the machine in front of them. The four of them walked two to three hundred meters in and saw the machine and a soldier driving the machine, followed by another soldier. He was holding a tablet in his hand, and the two of them were also wearing radiation protection suits.
Seeing Meng Qingxiao coming in, the soldier saluted and then shouted loudly: "There are still about 338 meters before we can dig under the main trunk of the mutant plant." After speaking, he showed Meng Qingxiao up the tablet screen.
Meng Qingxiao came over to check it out and found that it was a distance measurement app. There was a virtual big tree on the screen and a coordinate, which displayed the distance between the coordinate and the big tree in real time.
Meng Qingxiao handed over the box and shouted to the soldier: "Put this thing in the cab. Remind the driver to take precautions. If you encounter strong resistance from tree roots, stop digging immediately. Don't hurt him." To myself.”
Meng Qingxiao came just in time. If he had come later, the machine would have stopped to rest temporarily. Otherwise, without the protection of snake beads, the tree roots in front would go crazy against them. attack.
They quickly dug within the attack range of the mutated tree, and everyone felt nervous, worried that the snake beads would be useless.
Fortunately, those crazy tree roots did not attack them. Even if many roots were dug out by the hole drill, it did not resist. It just kept trembling nervously. Now everyone finally felt relieved.
Meng Qingxiao also noticed that the twisted roots were different. Most of them were normal roots, but a small number of roots were mutated. There was red liquid flowing out of them, which should be the blood of the mutated tree.
After continuing to advance for more than two hundred meters, the huge roar suddenly disappeared, leaving only the sound of the machine itself turning, and everyone's ears suddenly became clear.
The driver in the cab turned back and called: "Commander, we have dug it out. There is a big cave in front of us with many tree roots." He continued to move forward, drove the machine into the hole, and gave way to Meng Qingxiao and the others. Out of the way.
Company Commander Wang entered first, followed by Meng Qingxiao. Under the illumination of searchlights, they could clearly see the scene inside.
It is indeed what the driver said. There are a lot of roots, some thick and some thin. Some roots are twisting slowly like snakes, and some roots are translucent like real animal blood vessels. The red blood inside is clearly visible.
It's very humid here, and you can hear the sound of water dripping on the water from time to time, and the soil under your feet is sticky.
They went seven or eight meters deep with difficulty, and saw a large number of things that looked like animal viscera, all hanging in mid-air, like nodules one after another of thick roots, all covered with fluffy surfaces. Short roots.
When the machine stopped running, and after a short period of adaptation, everyone's ears heard another sound, bang, bang, bang... like the beating of the heart.
"It seems we have found the right place." Captain Wang smiled, "The beating of this heart is really powerful."
At this time, the driver came over and handed over the box containing the snake bead. Meng Qingxiao took it and said, "Let's spread out and look for it. See where the heart is. The radiation range of this snake bead is 100 meters." , but to be on the safe side, please don’t stay 50 meters away from me.”
At this time, the soldier who was operating the tablet suddenly shouted: "Commander, I found it, see if it's the heart!"
He still held his tablet and waved excitedly to Meng Qingxiao.
Meng Qingxiao walked over quickly and looked at his tablet screen. Only then did he realize that this tablet was unusual. It seemed to be a medical scanning device, clearly scanning all the internal organs of the tree into the screen, especially its heart.
Everyone cheered and gathered around. What they saw on the screen was a blurry red shadow, but the shadow was beating rhythmically.
"Where is this shooting location?" Meng Qingxiao asked.
The soldier did not answer, but walked forward with difficulty for a distance while holding the tablet. Until his figure was almost completely blocked by the tree root network in front of him, he shouted: "It should be here."
Meng Qingxiao followed, followed the soldier's gesture and looked up, and saw a huge sphere hanging diagonally above him.
The diameter of this sphere is more than 5 meters. Its surface is dark brown, similar to the color of soil, but a little brighter than soil. The surface is also covered with fine short roots, like bristles.
"Damn it, isn't this thing too big?" a soldier exclaimed.
Company Commander Wang was convinced, nodded and said: "It's a bit ridiculously big."
Meng Qingxiao stretched out his hand to measure it. With his height of 1.88 meters, he couldn't even reach it.
"Commander, do you want to touch me? Come and step on my shoulders." The soldier who just shouted was clever and immediately came to squat in front of Meng Qingxiao.
"And me, step on both of us." The driver also came over in a hurry, and the two soldiers squatted side by side.
Meng Qingxiao took out his sharp-edged dagger and said with a smile: "Then you guys squat down, I'm coming up."
"Commander, do you want to break open this shell?" Captain Wang asked.
"Yeah, how can you inject anesthetics without incision?"
"Then rest. You can just ask us to do such small things. Why do you want to do everything yourself?" Captain Wang said with a hint of dissatisfaction.
The little cat, who showed no expression at all along the way, heard this and immediately covered his mouth and chuckled.
Meng Qingxiao saw this and was immediately overjoyed. He chuckled and said, "Okay, I'll just watch from now on, and I'll leave it all to you."
Captain Wang took out his dagger, then stepped on the shoulders of the two soldiers. He held the huge sphere with his left hand and tried to press it hard, but it didn't move. The shell surrounding the heart was quite strong. He raised the dagger with his right hand. , just as he was about to strike, he heard Meng Qingxiao reminding him: "Try to be gentle, don't wake up this monster."
Meng Qingxiao was also nervous. If the big tree spirit went crazy and attacked them at all costs, it would be very difficult for them to escape from their current position.
Company Commander Wang agreed and started to cut, but after a long time of effort, he couldn't even cut open the skin. He couldn't help crying and said: "Commander, I can't cut at all. Let alone trying harder, I can't cut even with all my strength." it."
"Try this one with me." Meng Qingxiao raised his hand and handed over his dagger.
Captain Wang took it and looked at it doubtfully. He felt that it was nothing special. It was just a black piece of iron without even a blade.
"Be gentle, don't use so much force." Before Captain Wang could take action, Meng Qingxiao reminded him again.
Captain Wang was very obedient, and he really just gave a light stroke, but then he was stunned. The shell that he had just tried so hard not to scratch, this time he actually scratched it with a gentle stroke. opened.
"Oh my God, Commander, your dagger is a divine weapon." Captain Wang exclaimed.
"Your teacher, Mr. Min, gave it to me."
"Sir, he is so generous!" Captain Wang sighed. He asked himself that if he got such a treasure, he would definitely not be willing to give it away. Let alone his own commander, even his uncles and brothers would not be willing to give it away.
After the shell was scratched, blood flowed out immediately, but very little, just a shallow trace. Captain Wang was very smart and did not disembowel it. Instead, he drew three connected straight lines, and then made the middle as if it were his A triangular piece of shell as big as a palm was buckled down hard.
As soon as the fragments of the shell hit the ground, everyone heard an even more shocking heartbeat, thump, thump, thump... as if it was beating on their own hearts.
Captain Wang swallowed involuntarily. Through the searchlight above his head, he could see clearly the heart inside. It was too big, only slightly smaller than the shell. Even the 50-meter heart he saw on the aircraft carrier The big scallops don’t have such big hearts.
"Here, insert this syringe and give it an injection." Meng Qingxiao took out an extra large syringe more than 20 centimeters long from the box where he had put the dragon balls. The needle was thicker than a ballpoint pen.
Company Commander Wang took it, swallowed again and said: "Commander, this thing is too big. I feel that these potions may not be enough."
"You should inject it first and then we'll see if it's not enough." Meng Qingxiao said, "I brought three of them specially. The doctor who gave me the medicine said that it would be enough to inject a hundred elephants."
"Oh, alright."
Company Commander Wang gritted his teeth, grabbed the big needle tube and stabbed it in hard.
