Chapter 1625
Chapter 1634 Bats in the Dark Night
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Explosions sounded behind him one after another, each one deafening. The sound waves they brought hit the cave, causing the rock walls to crack and the cave to shake. The feeling of the earth shaking and the mountains shaking brought great fear to people's hearts.
The cave is shaking violently, and wisps of dust will shake off from time to time. You can even catch a glimpse of it from the corner of your eye. With the explosions, the rock wall is gradually cracking cracks. If it weren't for the cover of a strong explosion, I'd probably have heard the ominous 'click! Click! ' The sound made people extremely frightened, fearing that the cave would collapse in the next second and bury them all inside.
The scythe of death seemed to have touched the neck. The cold blade made people's hair stand on end. The originally exhausted bodies, in the crisis of life and death, actually gained some strength, allowing them to speed up their pace. , strive forward.
No one wants to stay here, let alone die here.
The fear of death defeated exhaustion, causing the exhausted people to grit their teeth and move forward with all their strength, running and running again
With great difficulty, I finally saw the light ahead.
The light that I was used to seeing so often now looks so cute and exciting. I wish I could rush into its arms in one step and never leave again.
Wait until you come out of the dark cave, look at the sun hanging high in the sky, the blue sky, and the floating white clouds, feel the warmth on your body and the gentle breeze, and see the sky again They felt as if they were in another world. They collapsed on the ground without any image, breathing in the fresh air. There was no choking smoke and dust, and there was no dark humidity. It was fresh and fresh like never before.
There is only one thought left in everyone's mind: Survive.
When the soldiers and technicians who were left on the ground ran over, they saw a group of gray-headed people. Their faces were covered with beads of sweat, mixed with dust, forming wisps of black ash. Very embarrassed.
Needless to say, with this embarrassed appearance and the state of being stripped of armor, you can guess with your duodenum that the advance team must have encountered great danger underground.
Everyone hurried forward, helped up the exhausted soldiers, bandaged the wounded, helped them carry their heavy burdens, and handed them water
In the midst of the commotion, Hui Jian put down the only weapon in his hand. With half a bottle of water left, he gasped and turned around, looking at the entrance of the cave they rushed out from behind. The sun's rays could only shine into a distance of more than ten meters, and further inside was a darkness that was so dense that it could not be dissolved.
Even though she had rushed out and was exposed to the sun, Hui Jian still felt a strong sense of uneasiness. The darkness connecting the underground and the super-ancient city was like a huge mouth of an abyss. Quietly waiting for the prey to step in, and then swallow it in one bite.
"Captain Intermediate, please report the damage to the headquarters." Saeki's deep voice sounded from one side.
Hui Jiama turned around and saw that Saeki was no longer as high-spirited as when he was underground. He looked quite downcast because he had just counted the number of people and found that less than half of the people had come out, which meant that more than half of the soldiers had stayed underground. .
The loss is too great.
These were all team members he hand-picked, but they were buried with no bones left because of his orders. This made Saeki extremely painful and regretful, and he didn't know how to face their parents, wives and children.
If he had not asked people to spread out and search, they could gather in twos and threes and form a battle formation to cover each other's retreat. With the advantage of firepower, more people would definitely be able to evacuate.
But it’s too late to regret it now!
Megumi felt Saeki's sadness and grief, and nodded silently. Although she couldn't explain it clearly, the director sent her to temporarily join the Luluye investigation team, which indeed meant 'supervising the army'. After all, this island is of great importance, and there is no one. I really don't trust my own people.
This can be regarded as a rule on the surface, so even though this investigation was led by the police department, Director Ji Gang did not say a word of objection, but acquiesced to Hui Jia's participation. .
Then Hui Jian thought of something that needed attention and said, "Although I don't know if those things will come to the ground, it's better to be careful."
"I will Let people set up detectors at the entrance of the cave and temporarily evacuate the personnel to the ship before new orders are issued from the headquarters. "Saeki was not knocked down by grief and remained awake and rational.
For more than a year, the Luluye survey team collected a large amount of data on this roughly quadrilateral island and established a clear model.
This island, with a total area of 324 square kilometers above the water, has nearly a hundred mountains, large and small, but not a single blade of grass. At first, it seemed like nothing. After all, the island had just emerged from the bottom of the sea. , it is normal to have no terrestrial plants, but more than a year has passed and there is still no grass growing.
TPC specially selected many plants and trees suitable for growing in mountains and transplanted them at the landing site, but none of them survived. For this reason, TPC also set up a research team. During Saeki's mission this time, there were plants on the island. A large amount of soil is dug from different locations, sealed in boxes, and brought back for laboratory research around the world.
The soil samples excavated so far are all black, not fertile and oily black soil, but more like silt. When they were dug out, they were wet. Some team members curiously put them in the sun to dry. But it's been almost two weeks and it's still not completely dry.
Black mountains and black soil, if you encounter Black Sky again, it will really be a dark sky and a dark place, like a hell on earth. Those who can stay in such a depressing environment for a long time are all elites with extremely strong psychological qualities. After returning home, no matter which industry you go to, not to mention becoming a leader, you can also be among the best.
But the elites who were likely to have a better future lost more than half of them all at once, which made Saeki extremely heartbroken. He had no luck in his heart and was ready to take everyone back to the ship, even if he would be criticized. Don’t worry about timidity and cowardice.
Hearing Saeki's plan, Hui Jian nodded, agreed with Saeki's caution, and said: "It must be as soon as possible, after all."
Hui Jian looked up at the sky, and the sun was setting toward the sea in the west. There is not much time left before night falls. The previous nights were just darker, but today's night makes people feel frightened and frightened.
To know the high mountains of this island, after using seismic wave detection, it was found that there are artificially excavated tunnels everywhere inside the mountain and underground, and they are connected to each other, densely packed like an underground maze.
Once night falls, will those giant cockroach-like bugs come out of the tunnels in the mountains beneath the island?
No one can guarantee this.
When you find a cockroach under the floorboards, it means there is at least a nest of cockroaches in your home. This island was previously considered to be lifeless, but today hundreds of cockroaches were found in the underground super-ancient city. Looking deeper, I wonder if there are others that are also probably natural. What about the life that survived the ultra-ancient period?
Although Hui Jian is not a biologist, he at least knows a common sense of biology, that is, living things cannot exist alone. At least they need to be related to a food chain. This is also This means that there should be many kinds of creatures that are probably equally huge inside and underground on this seemingly deserted island.
In the past more than a year, they have not been discovered or attacked. It may be luck, or it may be that those creatures do not know that the island has risen from the sea, but today, their unexpected intrusion , it is still unknown whether this balance will be broken, but no one dares to risk their lives to block it, so leaving the island as soon as possible and going to the transport ship anchored at sea is the safest and safest choice.
Time is tight and the sun waits for no one.
After Saeki and Megumi reached an agreement, they immediately began to arrange the evacuation.
Although you have to run away, you can't just run away without caring about anything. You should take away expensive but easy-to-carry instruments and equipment as much as possible, such as hard drives that store data, experimental vessels, various samples, etc. Wait, take everything you can take away.
The giant bug has not yet disappeared, and they ran away in a panic without taking anything. So no matter how great the credit is, no one will use it.
It took a long time and a lot of resources to build this camp, but the retreat was much faster. All kinds of items were packed into categories, transported by vehicle to the built dock, and then hoisted onto the ship. Stack them on the deck first.
Busy and orderly!
When the setting sun shone on the sea, the huge camp became empty. A large number of equipment and equipment that were not easy to transport and carry were temporarily abandoned. Small items were all piled on the deck. Although the sky was dim, a lamp A searchlight illuminated the deck brightly. Under Saeki's order, staff members shuttled back and forth between the cabin and the deck to return items to the warehouse.
Although it is a temporary evacuation of the camp, it is always right to prepare for a rainy day. Even if nothing happens, it is just moving things out of the cabin. It does not take much effort, and they do not need to go. So Saeki asked people to move things into the cabin without any psychological burden, and was ready to sail at any time.
Hui Jian came to the communication room, connected to the satellite, and began to report to the headquarters today's big discovery underground and the dangers encountered, as well as
her personal feelings.
The compiled information and videos were transmitted via satellite to the offshore headquarters base that had just been repaired by TPC, allowing Director Sawai, Director Yoshigo and other high-level officials to see the large-scale underground caves and the magnificent The building complex, as well as the giant stone statues all over the ground.
"Oh my god, such a huge super-ancient city."
"There are so many giant stone statues."
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A group of high-ranking advisers They all lost their composure and looked at the giant stone statues all over the ground with great excitement. Although they were all broken into pieces, what did it matter? The technology developed by Masaki Keigo and Tango Yuji could theoretically create giant stone statues. , repair is not a problem.
But before they could cheer, Hui Jian played the video of the 'giant cockroaches' all over the ground, and the images of them attacking the soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables, causing all the excitement to come to an abrupt end. He was stunned as he looked at these 'insects' that were as big as tigers and emerged from the ruins.
"What is this?" Staff Officer Nagyun looked at these huge bugs in great surprise. Through the first angle of view captured by the camera on the soldier's helmet, he could clearly see that the laser gun hit these bugs, but it didn't hurt at all. Itchy, can't cause any harm.
“Is it a super-ancient creature?” Staff Officer Nanyuan could not help but frown. It was exciting and exciting to find a super-ancient city and so many giant stone statues, but there are so many giant stone statues in the city. Insects are very troublesome. If they are not removed, it will be impossible to excavate and study this ultra-ancient city, let alone transport the giant stone statues.
Director Sawai pondered for a moment and said: "How is the situation of the investigation team?"
"More than half of the advance team's casualties have been evacuated to the ship." Hui Jian said sadly, letting The high-ranking officials in the holographic image also lamented. No matter whether they were disapproving of the large number of soldiers who could warn them at any time, they still had to show their concern on the surface.
"And I'm worried that these giant bugs are not the only ones." Hui Jian expressed her worries.
"Not the only one?" Director Ji Gang closed his small fan and asked: "You mean there are other giant creatures, even monsters?"
"Luluye has always been at the bottom of the sea. And that underground city was not submerged by the sea. The traces mean that it is a completely closed environment inside." Hui Jian looked at the group of old people who held the highest power of mankind and said: "In other words, those giant bugs have probably been alive since super antiquity. "< br>
Southern ginseng Mou suddenly understood what Hui Jian meant and said: "You mean, it is possible that there are other super ancient creatures."
Think about it, these giant bugs are so huge in size, they are always You can't survive by eating rocks, right? Even if you eat rocks, you can eat up Luluye all over the years. And Luluye is still there today, which means that those giant bugs have other food sources and are used as food by them. If If it is a living thing, it also needs to eat.
By analogy, this means that there is likely to be a complete food chain in that closed super-ancient city, and this food chain is also likely to be filled with giant creatures.
There are a lot of giant creatures, and they are all from the ultra-ancient period. Thinking about them makes biologists excited, because this is important data for studying ultra-ancient times, and it may also reveal the process of biological changes on the earth.
"Yes," Jujian Hui nodded and said, "And whether these giant bugs carry germs, are they viruses that modern society cannot resist, and... these creatures"
As soon as Hui Jian said this, the communicator suddenly rang, and a sharp shout came from inside: "No, there's a bat attack, a giant bat."
(End of this chapter)