Chapter 136 Thousand Years of Experiment·Discovery
Author: Trial Sword Tianya
Chapter 136 Thousand Years of Experiment·Discovery
(Chapter 135)
Under Chu Fei's guidance, everyone moved forward more than fifty meters.
The distance between everyone and the butterfly is shortened to 20 meters - the butterfly is flying forward, moving faster.
The butterfly is more than ten meters in size. From a distance of 20 meters, it is extremely shocking to see.
At this time, Chu Fei was not needed, everyone had already seen the huge butterfly through the infrared device.
Li Longhua whispered the order, "Throw out a drone and test the butterfly's perception of sound."
While talking, Chu Fei noticed that the butterfly's huge feather-like antennae were trembling slightly.
The antennae of butterflies are actually very beautiful, but now I am afraid that no one appreciates this beauty.
A small drone flew out and was only the size of an egg when unfolded.
The drone was very quiet. When it flew ten meters in front of the butterfly, it began to emit a sound, which was the cry of a chicken.
The sound is very small and gradually gets louder.
I saw the butterfly's antennae trembling and its flight direction beginning to change.
Li Longhua briefly commented, "He has good sound perception, and his IQ seems to be low. It seems that in this dark environment, sound is an important means of perception.
Keep this sound and back off the drone."
The drone began to retreat, and the butterfly began to pursue. But after a moment of pursuit, the butterfly suddenly stopped. With its antennae trembling, it flew straight towards the crowd, quickly approached within ten meters of them, and continued to move forward.
Li Longhua suddenly realized, "No, attack!"
The mechanical pistol fired, directly hitting the huge butterfly in front of it.
But at close range, everyone saw that the butterfly didn't even pause much, and the wounds on its body quickly recovered, and it was intact as before in the blink of an eye.
When Chu Fei saw this, he couldn't help but take a breath of air. What was described in the research materials he read outside actually came true!
The structure in the body can be controlled and liquefied, and damage can be converted at will. Because this conversion speed is very fast, the wound can even be restored instantly without affecting the battle.
Li Longhua said calmly: "Attack the head, or the brain structure!"
The butterfly was flying in an erratic trajectory. Everyone attacked several times before finally hitting the brain structure. The butterfly finally fluttered to the ground and never got up again.
The butterfly was no longer five meters away from everyone.
Chu Fei looked at the butterfly and used ultrasound to observe the situation inside the butterfly's body.
This butterfly has a complete internal organ structure, and even the bullet from the previous attack is still inside the body. However, the bullet has been wrapped in layers of floc structures and only stays on the surface of the body and does not penetrate deep into the body.
This butterfly is huge, and the penetration force of the bullet is only thirty to fifty centimeters.
Chu Fei quickly calculated in his mind: The maximum damage caused by the bullet would be if it did not penetrate the bullet but remained in the body, which would form a powerful cavity.
However, no such cavity was found in the body of the butterfly, which shows that the butterfly's recovery ability is beyond imagination!
This further proves that the research conducted thousands of years ago was successful, beyond imagination.
But it also makes this place more dangerous. For example, the butterfly right now can be resurrected indefinitely if it doesn't hit its vitals.
This is still a big one, but what if it is a small one? What about the one that cannot be aimed no matter how hard it is?
Many times, being smaller is more dangerous.
While Chu Fei was thinking, Li Longhua had already walked to the huge "butterfly", turned on the light and started to inspect it.
The crowd also surrounded him.
Only by looking at it up close can you understand the horror of this butterfly.
The scale powder on the surface of the body has evolved into scales. The edges of these scales are like knives and are extremely tough. Chu Fei stabbed it with a dagger and had to use a little force - this so-called "slightly force" is based on Chu Fei's current situation.
Under physical fitness.
After simple calculations, Chu Fei estimated the strength: equivalent to the strength of ordinary 1.2 mm No. 45 carbon steel.
1.2mm carbon steel, don’t underestimate it. If there was such a set of armor on the ancient battlefield, it would be invulnerable.
After quenching, No. 45 steel has the strength of a household kitchen knife.
At the moment, it's just a rudimentary mutated bug - it's obviously impossible for such a thing to cause the entire Flying Tigers squad to be annihilated.
One can imagine how powerful those advanced mutant bugs can be.
Chu Fei slowly circled around and saw the butterfly clearly, especially its mouthparts.
The mouthparts of this butterfly are as thick as a thigh and are covered with barbs. The actual length of the curled mouthparts is more than 2.7 meters!
Chu Fei always felt that the structure of this mouthpart was somewhat similar to the whip on his waist.
Li Longhua turned around and asked, "What do you think?"
Everyone talked about it, mostly because of danger, self-recovery, powerful mutation, etc.
Li Longhua asked around and asked Chu Fei. Chu Fei said: "The creatures here should have a certain degree of phototaxis. This research base focuses on the liquid metamorphosis process of pupae, and has not studied the rest.
Therefore, I think some basic weaknesses of insects can still be exploited, such as phototaxis.
But at the same time, we must be vigilant. After all, it has mutated, and no one knows what changes will occur. Not to mention that there is not only life on earth, but also life from other dimensions obtained through dimensional space and other methods."
Li Longhua looked at Chu Fei with admiration, "Well said."
Everyone continued to discuss, and with Chu Fei's ideas, the discussion became more and more content. At the same time, some people began to test the "toxicity" of butterflies.
Before the test results came out, Chu Fei twitched his ears and suddenly said, "Turn off the lights! Something is coming again, it sounds like a lot."
Li Longhua immediately ordered, "Turn out the lights. Chu Fei, continue to lead the way."
Chu Fei shook his head, "I can lead the way, but I can only find out the general situation around me. How to arrange tactics requires General Li."
Li Longhua frowned slightly, "What is the scope of your investigation? What are the details of the investigation?"
Chu Fei felt his investigative ability:
Full-range detection without blind spots, 100-meter range, maximum refresh frequency 30 Hz;
Local sector detection, up to 340 meters, 30 Hz;
If it is fuzzy detection of infrasound waves, it can reach 10 kilometers away and 30 Hz;
If it is the delicate perception of ultrasonic waves, the effective distance is only 10 meters and 30 Hz;
Lock a target within five points, maximum distance 340 meters, 120 Hz;
If you just lock on a point, lock on a target, the frequency can reach 500 Hz.
After completing the self-examination, Chu Fei spoke: "My current ability to sense the wind is limited. If it is full-range sensing, the maximum range is 30 meters; local sensing can reach more than 40 meters and no more than 50 meters, and the refresh frequency is up to 30 Hz.
If it's ultrasonic sensing, it's only about five meters.
But you can also use the passive mode to vaguely perceive the surroundings. In theory, all sounds around you can be retrieved. This has no distance limit. But it will be very blurry after it exceeds 340 meters.
The other is speed. The wind of perception relies on the speed of sound. If it is active detection and I make the sound and receive the echo, then the perceived speed is half the speed of sound.
If you use external sound perception, then the speed is the complete speed of sound.
Active detection is slow but effective;
Passive detection is slightly less effective, but faster."
Chu Fei's words are both true and false.
Li Longhua nodded slightly, "Then feel the surrounding situation and make a rough judgment first."
Chu Fei sensed it for a while and said: "In the 3 o'clock range ahead, the least movement is detected.
But the feedback information is a bit strange. The acoustic characteristics of the feedback are somewhat similar to the situation at Research Center 114. And the surrounding mutated insects and beasts seem to avoid this location.
Then there is the front. It seems that there are a lot of mutant insect beasts charging here, but they are only a little ahead, and the back is empty. However, according to the characteristics of the sound waves, the charging here is very fierce, and they may be larger.
Again, at the 10 o'clock direction, the density here is low, mainly because there are building pillars and other obstructions. These pillars may be of some help to us.
As for the remaining positions, they are pretty much the same.”
After a pause, Chu Fei added, "But one thing needs to be explained. The current investigation of the surroundings is based on the analysis of sounds coming from far away. They are all calculated indirectly, not directly perceived.
Therefore, this information can only be used as a reference and cannot be used directly."
Li Longhua nodded and asked, "If it were you, which direction would you choose to break out?"
Chu Fei pointed straight ahead, "Here!"
Li Longhua was a little surprised: "Oh? Reason?"
Chu Fei: "For us, darkness is our biggest enemy. When fighting in the dark, small animals are more dangerous. On the contrary, large animals are easier to hunt.
According to the analysis of the sound wave characteristics, the mutant animals directly in front are larger and may have stronger individual combat capabilities. However, if our team sprints, we only need to face a small number of mutant animals; it is safer to divide them evenly.
There are also biological characteristics here, which require hitting the vital points to be fatal. And the vital points of large animals are also easier to master.
The larger the animal, the bulkier it is and the slower its reaction speed.
Finally, ahead is the passage."
Li Longhua listened and had to nod appreciatively.
Yes, that makes sense.
Everyone also nodded and agreed with Chu Fei's analysis.
Anyone who often fights knows that they would rather face a mutant tiger than a group of mutant goats.
A mutated tiger can be beaten to death as long as the method is right.
But if it were a group of goats, they would be the ones who were killed by the goats.
It's a similar situation right now.
Once the decision was made, everyone no longer hesitated and moved forward quickly.
Although they were moving forward at a brisk pace, most of the people present were veterans and they all walked on their feet. Chu Fei also followed suit and lowered his voice as much as possible.
As he moved forward, Chu Fei finally locked onto the target through the wind of perception, and through a series of dot arrays, scanned the general shape of the target - it seemed like a group of spiders, a group of mutated big spiders!
Chu Fei looked unhappy and immediately said: "General Li, they are a group of mutant spiders. According to the feedback, they look very much like the human-faced spiders we saw at Base 114 before, and they are even bigger.
Generally speaking, larger animals are more sluggish, but spiders are an exception."
Almost all spiders have a pair of special skills - ejection and spinning.
The ejection has a fast starting speed, and the silk spinning is a range attack.
Li Longhua gritted his teeth and made an immediate decision, "Go left!"
To the left is the 10 o'clock direction that Chu Fei investigated earlier.
After moving forward for a while, Chu Fei scanned the shape of the mutated animal - it seemed to be a super strong locust, but a little fat.
Anyway, they are similar insects.
When we got closer, the infrared equipment started to work, and we discovered that it was a group of mole crickets. However, these mole crickets were a bit big, and each of them was very powerful.
Mole crickets fly fiercely, are fast, powerful, and run rampant. I wonder if the mutated mole crickets have a similar situation?
These mutated mole crickets did not run rampant like ordinary mole crickets at all, but crawled and moved forward carefully.
Perhaps the living environment for thousands of years has changed their habits.
But when Chu Fei and his party appeared near these mole crickets, they saw the tentacles of the mole crickets trembling rapidly, and then the mole cricket in front suddenly opened its wings, opened a pair of huge fangs, and flew towards everyone.
The mole cricket is huge, and its wings are waving and buzzing like a fighter jet. This is completely different from the flying state of a butterfly.
But one thing is that not only does the sound of a mole cricket fly resemble that of a fighter jet, but its flying posture is also the same - flying straight.
The first few team members immediately raised their guns and shot several times at the cricket's head.
With a popping sound, the flying mole cricket fell down. Its heavy body hit the ground with a muffled sound.
Chu Fei concluded based on the sound, "It weighs at least 70 kilograms. A bug actually weighs 70 kilograms.
Considering that bugs themselves are very powerful, if scaled up to the same proportion, the power of a 70-kilogram bug can only overturn a heavy excavator."
"It's not that exaggerated." Li Longhua shook his head slightly, "The larger the size, the weaker the leverage. Of course, the power of insects is indeed very strong, so you still have to be careful."
More mutated mole crickets flew up, and for a moment it felt like the sky was being blocked, as if the sky was being shrouded by small fighter jets.
Chu Fei thought in a hurry, "If there are any drones that can emit light and make sounds, let's try throwing one out."
Immediately, someone threw a drone. The drone was thrown more than twenty meters, its rotors spread out in mid-air, colorful lights flashed, and it made a pleasant ringing sound.
The next moment, the crickets that were blocking out the sky and the sun were chasing the drone.
"Phototaxis!" Chu Fei thought thoughtfully, and then said, "Let's go quickly."
There were a lot of mole crickets in front of them, but they turned a blind eye to Chu Fei and others.
Everyone passed through the encirclement without any danger.
There was a low sound of fighting from behind. The high-altitude luminous drone had disappeared.
"The bugs are fighting!" Li Longhua was thoughtful, but immediately said, "Let's walk quickly for a while, be careful to keep quiet and don't light the lamp. Chu Fei, continue to scan the surrounding environment, especially looking for stairs.
This should be the building of the research base, and there should be a lot of information and even technology here.
According to previous experience, it should be on the second or even third floor.
Also try to find out if there is a backup power system that can be switched."
Now that lights can't be used, the effectiveness of infrared equipment is limited after all. The investigation of the road surface and so on rely almost entirely on Chu Fei.
Watching Chu Fei carefully scan and point out the general situation around him, Li Longhua felt a sense of emotion in his heart: It was really the right thing to forcefully conquer Chu Fei.
But at the same time, I also have more feelings for Chu Fei: This is really a genius!
Through a simple conversation, Li Longhua already had a relatively clear understanding of the wind of perception. But it was precisely because of this clear understanding that he realized how difficult it was to perceive the wind.
The lattice is calculated through sound waves one by one, and then the approximate outline of the object is arranged through the refresh of the lattice.
The computing power used in this is beyond imagination.
However, in addition to computing power, there is also a large amount of basic knowledge to assist, such as the sonic characteristics of different substances. These data are massive and need to be memorized to form their own database.
So when Chu Fei said that the wind of perception consumes a lot of energy, Li Longhua didn't have the slightest doubt.
After walking for a while, Chu Fei suddenly stopped and said, "I found stairs ahead, but they seem to go down."
"Down?" Li Longhua was stunned for a moment, "Is there no way to go up?"
Chu Fei shook his head slightly, "Nothing has been found yet, at least not within the scope of my investigation."
Li Longhua thought thoughtfully, "There must be stairs in general buildings, thirty to fifty meters apart. We have walked quite a distance, and you have also scanned a large area, but you only found this one underground passage."
What can Chu Fei say? In such an environment, the so-called exploration is like a blind man touching an elephant... Well, well, it might as well be a blind man touching an elephant.
No matter how big the elephant is, it is limited. This place is really big.
How big is this dimensional space?
How big are the buildings here?
Where is the research base?
Where is danger and where is safety?
Sorry, don't know anything.
The entire team in front was wiped out, leaving only a messy picture for everyone. Most of them were strategic shifting battles...well, escapes.
But I still discovered something: emergency exit signs!
The team that was wiped out in front of them also followed this one and left.
Chu Fei looked at the emergency passage sign and suddenly said, "I have an idea. All important research locations should be connected to the emergency passage. Once something happens, they can be evacuated quickly.
Maybe, if we search against the emergency exit, we can find something."
"Not bad!" Li Longhua praised, "I didn't expect this!"
Everyone followed the emergency exit arrows to explore.
Suddenly, Chu Fei's eyes lit up - he found a piece of equipment, the nameplate of which was still barely legible: the incubator DC transformer.
In just a moment, the inspection route appeared in Chu Fei's mind!
Chu Fei remained calm and continued to move forward; anyway, it would be difficult for others to detect Chu Fei's expression in the darkness.
As the emergency exit continued for two minutes, Chu Fei finally discovered the next building on the inspection list: the transformer duty room, which is also the control center of the transformer equipment.
Two points determine a line. This principle can also be used on inspection routes.
With this, the direction of the inspection route can be determined, combined with the emergency access, to quickly outline the general situation, and then determine the final goal:
Control room!
The main control room is the main control center of the research base. In theory, all information is collected here.
However, due to the limited information in the inspection list, it is still not possible to determine the specific location of the main control room, whether it is upstairs or underground. This needs to be followed in retrospect by following the inspection list.
Should we inform Li Longhua and others?
Chu Fei immediately consumed a drop of wisdom dew to make deductions, thinking about dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of possibilities in an instant.
As the saying goes, a fool must only think once. After crazy thinking, Chu Fei finally made an absolutely rational choice.