Under the moonlight, the black sports car with no headlights on quietly stopped on the side of the road.
To put it nicely, Gardner Mental Hospital is surrounded by mountains and rivers, but to put it worse, it is in the wilderness, surrounded by basically solitary homes.
It would be too conspicuous for a car to drive past a place like this at night, so Xia Xu and Grant walked instead when they got to the nearby area.
Grant, the co-pilot, got out of the car first, followed by Atuo, who jumped out of the back seat window. Finally, Xia Xu opened the door and walked out of the driver's seat, casually taking out his silver-white smart glasses to replace the gold-rimmed flat glasses.
"What is this? Are you cosplaying a future warrior?"
Seeing Xia Xu take out a pair of glasses with such a sense of technology, Grant couldn't help but look at it with side eyes and was speechless at the same time.
"You have the werewolf gene, but I don't. Without this thing, I can't see the road clearly, so how can I walk on the mountain road."
Xia Xu shrugged.
Gardner is located on a hillside. It is not considered a mountain forest, but it has a certain slope and is surrounded by many trees. Normally, you can go up directly along the cement road, but there are surveillance cameras along the way.
This kind of security monitoring is basically a closed-circuit system. Unless you go to the scene and penetrate inside, it is difficult to achieve intrusion. In order to avoid alerting the snake, they decided to go around from the side.
But when it comes to night vision, both Ato and Grant, the half-werewolf, have certain night vision capabilities, but he does not.
But this is not a big problem. After he changed the smart glasses from AR mode to VR mode, they rely on the multi-spectral lens at the corner of the eye to capture visual information for secondary processing and presentation. Night vision is only a basic function.
Not to mention night vision, thermal imaging, sight distance adjustment, object recognition, dynamic tracking and other functions have been improved bit by bit with Xiaobaihua's powerful code editing ability.
Two people and one dog quickly entered the forest from the edge of the road.
Walking in silence amidst the chirping of insects and frogs, in this dead silence and noisy night, even the sound of breathing becomes extremely heavy and harsh, and the clicking sound of the trampled dead branches and leaves becomes more and more exciting. .
"Woo!"
Suddenly, Atuo, who had been following Xia Xu's feet, bit his trouser leg and pulled, letting out a low whimper.
"There are many light sources in front, they should be people, and there are a lot of them."
Xia Xu was immediately alert and called up the auxiliary module of the smart glasses. Soon, the dark mountain forest scene in front of him changed rapidly. As the night deepened layer by layer, dots of light spots appeared in the darkness.
This is a visual enhancement system based on image processing technology. By processing parameters such as light and contrast, it can transform visual images to varying degrees according to needs.
For example, now, algorithms are used to calculate light sources that are difficult to detect with the naked eye in visual images, and then through processing such as contrast, they are transformed into images that can be viewed visually.
This method collects visible light, so the distance will be much further. Otherwise, if you rely on thermal imaging, the effective distance of portable equipment is basically only a few meters or more than ten meters.
"Why didn't I see it? Where did you get this black technology?"
Grant was a little surprised and confused, but at this moment when there was no time to say anything, he still chose to trust his companions and quickly made a decision: "Go up the tree, hide for a while, and see the situation."
They were walking on a mountain road now, and normal people obviously wouldn't go into this forest at night.
He quickly climbed up to a large tree with a dense crown, and then stretched out his hand to pull Xia Xu up.
As for Atuo, there is no need to worry. If he really needs to hide, he is better than the two of them. Besides, he is a dog, so even if someone finds him, it will be nothing.
After holding his breath and hiding for a moment, a large number of light sources visible to the naked eye soon appeared in the forest. These light sources were floating all the time, and they looked like flashlights.
As the light source approached, the sound of footsteps trampling on dead leaves and subtle noises soon reached my ears.
"These people are searching the mountain."
Xia Xu and Grant looked at each other on the tree crown.
These people were spaced apart from each other and advancing gradually, obviously searching for something.
Moreover, these people were clearly equipped with firearms, but Grant, who was very familiar with this, recognized at a glance that these were not live ammunition guns, but some type of tranquilizer guns.
"Let's move out first."
Xia Xu's thoughts were racing and he suddenly changed his attention.
"Not going to Gardner?"
Grant frowned: "It's impossible for people to conduct a blanket search of the entire mountain. We may not be discovered."
"No, I just went out to get something."
Xia Xu didn't say much, he just jumped down from the tree canopy and called Grant and Atuo to evacuate quickly.
Turning back on the original road, going down the mountain was naturally much faster than going up the mountain. They were running all the way, and soon the two of them and the dog came out of the forest again and returned to the Venom Supercar.
"What on earth do you want to get? Why did you come all the way back?"
Although Grant followed because he chose to trust his companions, Grant was obviously still a little dissatisfied and confused at this time.
"Of course it's to get the equipment."
Xia Xu quickly started the brain control program of the smart glasses, and the storage compartments on both sides of the Venom supercar and the trunk popped open at the same time.
Click!
A total of ten metal spheres popped out together, rolling on the ground for a few times and then stretched out eight spider legs. They swayed from both sides of Xia Xu, and quickly jumped into the forest with the spider legs.
In fact, it's more than that. The two Spider Predators in Ato's backpack have also come out at this moment, and merged into the team quietly like a thousand rivers flowing back. The twelve Spider Predators each ran in one direction.
"This this……"
Grant looked at this scene with dumbfounded eyes, pointed at the spider, and then at Xia Xu, with a look of shock and horror.
Under this night, those spider-like predators look just like real giant spiders at first glance, but when you look closely and see that they are mechanical devices, they are just as astonishing and astonishing.
"Those people just now should obviously be from Gardner Mental Hospital. Someone or something must have escaped from Soushan at this time."
Xia Xu explained casually while operating: "For Gardner to search the mountain in such a big way, the things that escaped are definitely not easy. Finding him may be able to obtain more information than us sneaking in."
This is very simple logical reasoning.
There is only one solitary hospital here, Gardner Mental Hospital. It is obvious that Gardner is the only one who can send so many people late at night.
And what they can search the mountain for is naturally a movable object, worthy of such a big fanfare. It is either a test subject, an internal defector, or an insider who accidentally reveals the truth.
Being in the center of the whirlpool of the plot of "Giant", there is a 99% chance that this kind of character is a plot character, and he is definitely a relatively important supporting role.
Whether it is to understand the plot or to grasp the internal situation of Gardner Mental Hospital, it is obviously much simpler and more direct to find the hunted person before the search team than to continue to sneak into Gardner.
"No, where did you get these things? Technology is so advanced now?"
What Grant cares about at this moment is obviously not these reasons, but spiders! Mechanical spiders!
"No one told you?"
Xia Xu glanced at Grant in surprise, and then stretched out an index finger to touch the middle frame of his glasses in a coquettish manner: "Now, I'm spiderman!"