Chapter 378 Going down to the cave
“Give it to them.”
Chen Lin spoke directly to the soldier. The soldier did not hesitate at all, and went up and threw the things to the natives.
As soon as the indigenous leader got the things, his face was filled with excitement. He shouted to a few people he trusted and motioned for them to take the things back, while he treated Chen Lin with great respect. He spoke in a muffled voice.
After saying these words, everyone looked confused, but Chen Lin understood.
"Your team is coming with me. We are going to the underground cave that these natives are talking about."
"Mr. Chen!?"
Xiao Wu quickly squeezed up and moved towards Chen Lin said: "This is too dangerous. I'm afraid the security team can't let you go like this!"
Chen Lin raised his eyebrows: "This is related to the key core of opening the portal. If my abilities could be upgraded or enhanced, I wouldn't need to run around opening doors in two troublesome worlds like now."
"So, I have to go."
Xiao Wu wanted to say something more, but Chen Lin directly gave him instructions: "You should contact the person in the office to talk about this. I will deal with it today."
He turned to the person behind him. The guard team and a team that got off the Tianwei waved and motioned for them to follow them.
Xiao Wu was helpless and quickly gestured to his team members. One of the team members took the initiative to leave the team to report the matter, and he quickly followed Chen Lin - this kind of thing It's quite normal. Chen Lin didn't do it once or twice before.
Chen Lin originally thought of following the aborigines into the underground cave in plain clothes. However, in the mandatory order from the Tianwei, the association required Chen Lin to wear armor.
The Fuyao suit armor prepared by Lin Yun for Chen Lin is always carried. The special equipment box is carried by the guard team. The members who just left the team officially returned to the Suzaku aircraft on the Tianwei side. This armor was The box was taken down.
Chen Lin did not choose not to wear the power armor. He woke up the box on the ground as usual. After verifying his identity, in front of everyone present, he covered his whole body with armor in more than ten seconds—— It directly changed into a shape similar to the power armor warrior behind.
The indigenous leader and even everyone was dumbfounded. He stayed in place for more than ten seconds without reacting. When he finally came to his senses, this guy immediately prostrated on the ground and became pious again. Pay homage to the gods in front of you.
Chen Lin simply tried the effect of the armor on his body. After getting used to it, he quickly picked up a piece of raw ore, shook it towards the indigenous leader, and motioned for him to lead the way directly.
How dare the indigenous leaders disobey?
These god-like super beings appeared in front of him at this time. This leader knew very well that they controlled the life and death of the entire camp. Once he angered these powerful beings, the wrath of the gods could instantly Clear out the entire camp!
The huge space carrier in the sky is no joke. Even though the indigenous leaders don't know what magical abilities it has, the sheer size alone is enough to shock the indigenous people for a whole year.
Chen Lin followed the indigenous leader and walked in front. On both sides were soldiers guarding safety and vigilance. They passed directly through the indigenous camp below. A large number of indigenous primitive people came out of their houses curiously. They walked out, and they stared at the tall power armor warriors beside the indigenous leader, looking frightened and surprised.
"The primitive people of this tribe seem to be living a pretty good life?"
Chen Lin spoke into the communicator while observing the living environment of the primitive indigenous people on both sides.
"It makes sense. Their indigenous leader seems to be quite sensible. With such a leader, it can be more or less guaranteed that at least they will not go hungry!"
A soldier picked up the conversation and casually told what happened when the group of natives intended to attack the detection personnel.
Because Chen Lin came later, he didn't understand the details. He was quite surprised when he heard about it: "In this way, this tribe is lucky to have such an indigenous leader."
"Quite good. In ancient times, many scattered tribes died under the wrong leadership of their leaders. It is necessary to choose a suitable tribal leader."
"This leader is the first In time, he killed the priest who encouraged the attack on us and treated him as a victim in an attempt to calm our anger. It was obvious that he really wanted to let his tribe survive on this continent. "
Chen. Lin nodded slightly. He tried to speak to the indigenous leader in front of him in the Omer indigenous language, which he didn't know much. As soon as the words came out, the indigenous leader trembled and stopped.
He never expected that the gods could master their language so quickly!
"Baab, Ada, Aliba..."
The indigenous leader responded to Chen Lin's question cautiously. After hearing this, Chen Lin's face showed the same look.
"Mr. Chen, what are you asking?"
"Ask how many people there are in his tribe."
"Then have you asked?"
"They don't seem to be very good at mathematics. The answer they gave me was that there are more than a dozen knots of hemp rope... I guess this knot of hemp rope should be some kind of counting method. , how many people are there in a knot, maybe a dozen can have hundreds of people?”
“It’s really interesting. Could it be that they haven’t passed the most primitive stage yet?”
"I feel like it should be like this."
Chen Lin quickly spoke on the communicator, then sorted out his language, and tried to ask the indigenous leader again.
This time he asked about the contents of the underground caves. What preparations did the priests need to make before entering the underground caves? What did the priests obtain through the caves... There was a lot of content, and the indigenous leader seemed a little awkward when talking about it. Ba, but through his Aba Aba response, Chen Lin also had a rough understanding of what was in the underground cave.
The strange purple ore is distributed not far from their tribal camp. Although it is not clear how far away it is, according to the description, it should be a few kilometers at most.
These purple ores will emit bright light at night. The tribe initially planned to settle above those ore areas. However, after several attempts, they found that these purple ores would attract some kind of giant flying creatures at night. , those flying creatures only come out to look for food at night, and Chen Lin didn't know what their names were. In short, this kind of thing makes the natives very afraid.
For this reason, the tribe eventually gave up its plan to settle a camp above the mining area.
The indigenous leader doesn’t actually know what the purple ore can do. He only knows that the priests will become very smart after using the scepter inlaid with purple ore. They can participate in discussions on many things, hunting, Operations such as tribal communication and even medical treatment can be done at your fingertips.
Because of this, the indigenous leaders have always attached great importance to the purple raw ore, and from time to time they send people to the caves below to try to pick up some of the mineral drops and use them - they have no other means to mine these extremely hard minerals. Raw ore, hammering it with the primitive tools they had was tantamount to wishful thinking.
As for whether there is danger in the underground cave, the indigenous leader did not give Chen Lin a clear answer. He only said that he had never entered the underground cave below. "...Did any of the priests die after they went down to the cave?"
Chen Lin changed the way of asking, and this time the indigenous leader finally gave him a definite answer - entering the underground cave. There are only ten priests in the cave. He doesn't know what kind of monsters are in the underground caves, but he is sure that the level of danger is very high.
Chen Lin passed these contents to the team following him and the Tianwei space carrier, and soon received new orders from Wu Tianqi.
"The team members are waiting at the entrance of the cave. The Tianwei will send unmanned equipment to help you."
This time Chen Lin didn't say much.
......
The indigenous leader took Chen Lin and others to the entrance of the underground cave. It was said to be an underground cave, but the real scene was completely different from what Chen Lin imagined, extending underground. It's a huge dark hole.
The indigenous leader who led them to the scene pointed downwards and continued talking about Ada Ada. After listening, Chen Lin frowned.
"What did he say, Mr. Chen?"
"This guy said that there are often roars down there, and except for the priests who use vines and the like to go down, no one wants to go down the rest of the time. Let’s go.”
Chen Lin glanced down and seemed to see dots of light in the distance. These purple ores could emit bright light, which was in line with what he said at the beginning.
"Have the things sent from the Tianwei arrived?"
"Right away!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a low whistling sound came from the distance, and soon the drones in a formation quickly lowered their altitude and flew above the cave.
Not waiting for Chen Lin to give them instructions, these drone clusters remotely controlled by the operator above the Tianwei space carrier quickly flew into the cave.
As the lights of the drones were turned on, Chen Lin saw the pits on the side walls of the cave. The inner walls were extremely uneven, and various minerals were mixed in them, making it very messy.
The drones formed an array, and each group formed a lotus shape and slowly lowered its height. Chen Lin soon saw the real-time broadcast screen on the internal display of the power armor.
There are no traces of purple ore above the underground cave, nor any monsters, and nothing can be heard except the quiet sound of the engine flying.
As the depth increased, everyone quickly saw traces of purple raw ore from the broadcast screen. The purple raw ore at the bottom emitted an extremely dazzling purple-white light. The light of the drone was completely incomparable and could only be turned off. to get the most suitable lens image.
“Wait a minute... I think I saw a monster in the cave!”
Chen Lin saw the strange creature the moment the drone’s built-in lights were turned off - that It is a kind of reptile with purple limbs. They seem to be invisible under the light. The sudden turning off of the light makes it too late for them to react and change color, thus causing them to be discovered.
“I saw it too!”
“Those things seem to have the ability of chameleons, they can disguise themselves!”
"Turn on the thermal scanning function."
"Received, the thermal scanning image has been presented."
Then the thermal imaging picture appeared in front of everyone's eyes - the purple original below The color of the ore itself is cold, and the camouflaged creatures around it are not cold-blooded creatures, and their original appearances are revealed in front of the thermal imaging screen.
They are huge in size, almost two meters in length and about half a meter in width. They are four-limbed creatures that can be camouflaged.
"These things are real monsters..."
"Hey, I don't know how those primitive priests survived the attacks of these monsters. Did they come down in large numbers each time, and the lucky ones who survived took back those purple raw minerals?"
Chen Lin stared at the screen a few more times, and then joined the communicator: "The indigenous leader may have something to say that he has not finished speaking to us. These monsters must have something they like, and they rely on some kind of skills to be able to go smoothly. Go down to the bottom of the cave and get the ore."
"I think so too."
Chen Lin didn't have any ink at all, and he spoke sternly to the indigenous leader beside him. Asking about the relevant content, the indigenous leader soon became unable to withstand the torture from the gods, and explained that the priests would smear the juice of some kind of branch on their bodies every time before going down. This liquid can cover their own smell, and at the same time, it can also make those below The monster feels disgusted and moves away.
However, in such a hurry today, Chen Lin and the entire team did not have the time or energy to investigate what kind of tree sap it was. After asking, he handed it over to the Tianwei mothership, and then paid attention. The Tianwei signaled the drone swarm to tentatively attack the monsters below.
The well-camouflaged monsters didn't even realize that there was such a thing as "thermal imaging". After the drone swarm roared down, they were all dormant in place, waiting to suddenly attack them!
As a result, the attack of the drone cluster was launched first, and the airborne artillery carried by them launched a direct attack at the place with the densest camouflage. For a while, artillery fire roared and thick smoke rose everywhere.
A weird roar immediately came from below, and the smell of gunpowder drifted directly upwards along the cave. Chen Lin quickly smelled the smell from above, and he was somewhat intoxicated.
"You guys are so rude."
He said to the soldiers on the side, "I haven't figured out what kind of monsters these are, so I just attacked them all. Tutu, doesn’t this lose its research value?”
"Mr. Chen said this without conscience. We are not doing this for you!"
The deputy captain's voice came out through the communicator, "If you hadn't said that you needed to go in person, We have to come to this cave to see the situation after coming into contact with the purple raw ore. How can we do this?”
“Didn’t those monsters say they eat people before? Many priests were eaten, so we might as well just do it for them?” The people are out of harm's way."
"Wait until the place is clear, then go down with your team members!"
(End of this chapter)