Chapter 227 Tunnel under the construction site
"Taklama Sandworm? What is that?" Sun Hang asked.
"As the name suggests, it is a type C monster that lives deep in the Taklima Desert. The locals call it the 'death worm'. It is a giant worm with a body length of more than 100 meters and a diameter of between five and eight meters. , its most striking feature is the lip-shaped mouthparts split into five petals, each lip is filled with sharp teeth... It is like a living shield machine that can easily travel through the hard rock formations under the desert. There were records of attacking oil drilling teams in the early years... However, after the Taklima Desert was classified as an occupied area, it was no longer a target. There have never been any recorded sightings of this weird thing again..."
After Yang Qi finished speaking, she paused again and continued: "The most important point is that this kind of strange thing... lives in groups."
"I think it's not 'death worms'." A voice came from above, and with a soft sound, Zhulong also fell to the bottom of the pit. "If there were such a group of death worms living underground in Tianfu City, this city would have been destroyed long ago. It’s already sunk underground. In my opinion, we might as well go down these tunnels and see where they lead.”
"This is also a way..." Yang Qi turned to look at Yang Lian, "Ah Lian, have you come up with the comparison results of the meme clips?"
"It's out... None of the existing databases can match the remaining meme fragments in the tunnel... In other words, this is most likely a new and unknown strange thing." Yang Lian shook his head, with a solemn look on his face. said.
"As soon as Yong Ye appeared, all kinds of monsters and monsters appeared." Sun Hang complained, "I'm not surprised anyway."
"Me too." Wang Xiyi said with a smile, standing next to Sun Hang, "I'll leave it to you."
"I don't know why I suddenly thought of a very old lyric." Sun Hang tilted his head, "'Sister, move forward boldly...'"
"Based on your age, you should probably call me sister." Wang Xiyi nudged him gently with her elbow.
"It's simple, just change two words." Sun Hang shrugged.
"How do you feel about the relationship between the two of you..." Yang Qi glanced at Sun Hang and Wang Xiyi, "When did it get so good?"
"We have always had a good relationship." Wang Xiyi put her arm on Sun Hang's shoulder.
"Can a life-long friendship be bad?" Sun Hang also echoed.
"Then you two will be in charge of the vanguard, and as for the rearguard, I'll leave it to Zhulong." Yang Qi assigned the task, "Zhong Ling, A Lian and Ye Xuan, we will be responsible for collecting data and samples. Is that okay?" < br>
"No problem." Zhulong responded.
"Guys...you, do you really plan to just walk in without making any preparations?" The white hat who followed us down said in shock.
"Preparations? What preparations?" Sun Hang looked back at him and asked.
"For example... sending drones for preliminary surveys, using large equipment to conduct all-terrain scanning, etc..." White Hat said.
"Yeah, if we just go in directly...wouldn't it be too reckless?" Another technician who followed the white hat said.
"Reckless? I generally call this efficient." Sun Hang said.
"At the very least, we have to notify various departments and mobilize enough manpower..." White Hat muttered.
He never imagined that just half an hour after he sent the message, these hunters would rush to the scene and plan to go deep into the tunnel suspected of being a monster's lair without any preparation...
The most terrible thing is that this group of people seems to have extremely high authority. The young man who always has a smile on his face just swipes his identification code, and the highest command authority on the scene is directly transferred to him. in hand.
"Every department? Haven't you already notified them?" Sun Hang said with a smile, "As for manpower, I'm sorry, at this moment, more than 80% of Tianfu City's combat power has been assembled on site."
Sun Hang thought for a while and realized that he might have been too conservative, so he changed his mind and said, "Oh, it's also possible that it's ninety percent."
The white hat almost cried - as the person in charge of the construction site, if something uncontrollable happens, even though the young man in front of him will bear most of the responsibility, his job will probably not be saved.
It's okay to say that I can't keep a job. After all, the architecture department of the school I graduated from is one of the best in Xiazhou Federation. Even if I can't be a project leader, I can always find a job as a duster to make a living... I'm afraid that I won't just be able to keep my job. , even my life was not saved...
"Well... why don't you guys wait first?" White Hat said again, "I'll evacuate the construction workers first... in case a fight breaks out..."
"Evacuate the construction workers...what have you been doing?" Sun Hang asked doubtfully.
The white hat instantly felt a great grievance, and said with a grimace: "Before professionals and the military take over the site, we have to keep an eye on this pit... Besides, those expensive construction equipment also have to be dismantled and shipped away one by one. , in addition to personnel safety, ensuring property safety is also my scope of responsibility..."
"How much time will it take?" Yang Qi asked.
"The most valuable equipment has already been loaded onto the truck. All that's left is to dismantle the large drilling machine. In two hours at most... no, one and a half hours, we can clear the site!" Bai Hat said.
"I'll give you ten minutes." Yang Qi said, "Throw all these equipment on the construction site. You just need to ensure that all non-combatants evacuate."
"But...but..."
"There's nothing wrong with it. Even if a fight does break out, the property damage caused will not be counted on you." Sun Hang said, "Twenty seconds have passed, and you still have nine minutes and forty minutes left. Seconds, I suggest you hurry up.”
"I-I'm going to evacuate people now!" The white hat hurriedly held the white hat on his head and led the people back to the ground on the elevator.
Except for Sun Hang and the others, there were only a dozen fully armed soldiers left at the bottom of the pit.
These are soldiers responsible for construction site security tasks. In theory, they are not considered "non-combatants." It is understandable that they will stay.
But in Sun Hang's eyes, if these people follow him, they will only increase unnecessary casualties. "You guys can go up too." Sun Hang said to the leading officer, "With the construction area as the center, a warning zone with a radius of five kilometers will be set up to prohibit any outsiders from entering."
"Yes!" the leading officer responded immediately.
It has to be said that it is easier to communicate with soldiers who have a duty to obey orders than to deal with people from other units. After paying a standard military salute, the officer immediately evacuated the pit with his men.
Eight minutes later, news came from White Hat that all non-combatants in the construction area had been evacuated, and the perimeter of the construction area had also been cordoned off. At the same time, all warning drones responsible for security work had also been evacuated. Take off and put this airspace completely under control.
"The action permission has been obtained from the research institute and the Countermeasures Committee." Yang Qi said to several others - in fact, with Sun Hang's authority, he could in turn issue orders to these two units and submit action permission, but It was just a matter of convenience while waiting for the people to evacuate.
More symbolic than practical...or to put it in a more domineering way: it's just to inform them, not to ask for their permission.
"Let's go." Wang Xiyi glanced at Sun Hang. The dragon wings behind her were slightly spread out, and a faint blue flame rose at the end of her tail, reflecting the dark tunnel into a dream-like blue. world.
"Yeah." Sun Hang took out his pistol and loaded the bullet.
"You're actually still using a gun...?" Yang Lian couldn't help but complain after catching a glimpse of Sun Hang's actions.
"The gun is very easy to use. To deal with those monsters that can be killed by bullets, or targets such as human gangsters and wild beasts, you only need to gently pull the trigger." Sun Hang said, "It's so good. If I can use the tools, why don’t I use them?”
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"A Lian, concentrate on your own affairs." Yang Qi said seriously. She took out a device similar to a temperature measuring gun and pointed it at the tunnel wall. A light green light shot out from the launch port and focused on On top of the rock wall.
"These meme fragments seem to have remained for a long time..." Yang Qi looked at the data displayed on the device screen and murmured, "According to the preliminary test results, they were left on these rock walls, at least a few It’s been ten years.”
"Decades? Doesn't it mean that after the meme leaves the strange object, it will become inactive in a short period of time?" Sun Hang was slightly startled, "There is nothing wrong with the equipment, right?"
"No... although most memes cannot exist alone in nature, there are a very small number of special individuals." Yang Qi explained, "They are like ancient bacteria preserved in the Antarctic ice and can even survive tens of thousands. year time.”
"Then, can we find out what type of monster these memes come from?" Sun Hang then asked.
Yang Qi shook her head: "There are only fragmented fragments, and the amount of information carried is pitiful... To be honest, I am also very curious as to why these memes can survive in the form of fragments for so long..."
"You can't say that this tunnel itself is a strange thing, right?" Sun Hang walked forward, looking up at the surrounding rock walls, "Is it another Geng-type strange thing?"
"My device didn't detect any strange smell anyway, what about you?" Yang Qi looked at Sun Hang, "Your perception should be sharper than this portable device."
"Same." Sun Hang said, "otherwise I would use declarative sentences instead of questions."
Everyone walked forward about a hundred meters along the tunnel, and the branch road mentioned by the white hat finally appeared in their sight.
These so-called forked roads are actually openings in the main tunnel wall. Compared with the main tunnel, which is spacious enough to drive an off-road vehicle, these forked roads can only accommodate a single person, and they have to bend their backs to do so. OK.
There are quite a few cave entrances like this. At least nineteen cave entrances were found within a short distance of thirty meters. Yang Qi marked the number in front of each cave entrance with a paint pen, while Yang Lian and Ye Xuan were responsible for taking photos. and measure the diameter of the hole.
"The largest diameter is Cave No. 3, which is 109 centimeters; the smallest is Cave No. 15, which is 97.5 centimeters..." Ye Xuan said while recording.
"Does that mean they are all about the same size?" Sun Hang walked to a cave entrance and shined the tactical flashlight mounted on his pistol into the cave entrance - the light beam probably extended less than ten meters before being blocked by the corner. If you want to know what's behind the corner, you can only see it by climbing in.
"I released all six archaeological snake-shaped drones I brought with me and surveyed caves No. 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 and 15 respectively," Yang Qi said, "At present, the drone status is normal. The drone that penetrated the longest into Cave No. 1 has moved 84 meters and found nothing except the bare rock wall."
"Sister, is this really a nest of some kind of weird thing?" Yang Lian rubbed her arm uncomfortably, "Tell me, will there be a lot of weird things pouring out of these holes later?" Come..."
"Don't scare yourself." Yang Qi glared at her sister, "According to the test results, the memes remaining on the rock wall are more than twenty years old. Even if it is a nest, it is still an abandoned one. Nest.”
"What if it's that weird thing with a long dormancy period? Like... a cicada?" Yang Lian couldn't help but think of his speculation when he first learned the news.
"I think these main tunnels and bifurcated caves... are like a main blood vessel and branch blood vessels." Zhulong said quietly, "We are like being in the body of an ancient giant beast. The remains of the giant beast After a long time, it turned into rock-like fossils, and these tunnels are the blood vessels of the giant beast..."
"Speaking of which, are there any myths and stories related to giant beasts that have been handed down in the Shuzhou area?" Ye Xuan suddenly asked.
"Such myths and stories exist in all regions and are not special." Yang Qi shook her head, "If we are inside the blood vessel of the remains of a giant beast, wouldn't the shape of this giant beast be larger than that of the entire Tianfu? Is the city still big? ”
"I'm just expressing my feelings." Zhulong smiled, "I read the Classic of Mountains and Seas again recently, and I subconsciously thought of the ancient and strange beasts described in the book."
"I hope it's not a giant beast." Yang Lian said, "There are fragments of memes from decades ago... Doesn't that mean that this giant beast still had vital signs decades ago?"
"That's not necessarily the case." Yang Qi shook her head, "It could also be other weird things that are parasitic in the body of the giant beast, just like the bacteria that are parasitic in the human intestines."
"Can the bacteria in the intestines survive for so many years after death?" Sun Hang complained.
"It's just a metaphor, a metaphor!"
"Stop making metaphors, come here, I've discovered something!" Sun Hang had already entered Cave No. 13 at some point, and was squatting on the edge of the cave entrance, waving to the others.
(End of chapter)