"What's going on?!" Nan Yingjian realized something had happened when she was woken up.
"We have lost contact with No. 917 and are now trying to determine its specific location."
"Lost contact..." Nan Yingjian's expression changed, and then she said: "No need to bother, notify the special formation to prepare for rescue work."
"yes!"
Around 9 a.m. on December 5, 149
Zhang Yu woke up.
His visual system was in chaos. He tried to get up, but failed.
The pain bluntly told him that his spine was broken... An injury of this degree would be fatal in this environment.
Fortunately, he has passed through the darkness before sunrise safely, and the next eight hours will be relatively safe...
"Restart the system."
"Confirm, system restart is in progress."
The world in front of him became dim again. Zhang Yu gritted his teeth and reached out his hand to press the mechanical switch of the mask.
The moment the mask opened, he felt his breathing became easier...
Now he can barely see the world around him.
This should be a cave. The surrounding area is filled with hot air and full of green vegetation... It seems that it has fallen into the environment of a volcanic hot spring structure.
"The system has been restarted and the data has been recalibrated... Warning, the body is seriously damaged! Warning, the spine is seriously damaged! Warning, the communication device cannot establish a connection! Warning..."
"That's enough, activate the puppeteer system."
"Processing."
"Huh..." Zhang Yu closed the mask again and opened his psionic vision. Then he found a row of footprints on the rock wall in front of him. They were the footprints left by wild beasts... It seemed that there had been prey during his coma.
The author tried to open his meat can.
"The Puppeteer system has been activated and spinal support is being established."
Zhang Yu was lying there, feeling as if a big hand appeared behind his back. It was firmly supporting Zhang Yu's severely damaged spine, and at the same time, a cold and biting feeling spread across his back.
After the Puppeteer system was activated, Zhang Yu's brain was directly synchronized with the Extremis weapon he was wearing, almost as if he was driving a humanoid mecha.
This way his body can be trimmed.
However, after checking the specific extent of physical damage, Zhang Yu realized that he must contact Nan Yingjian for support as soon as possible, otherwise he may be completely paralyzed in fifteen hours...
On the other side, other team members scattered in the territory of the Foreign Spirit Tribe also woke up one after another.
The extent of injuries they sustained in the fall varied.
Some were just ordinary bruises, while others broke their legs or even their necks...
Chang Yuan is one of the luckier ones.
The huge leaves of the honey tree became his slow descent device, so he just fell into a coma when he landed. When he woke up, not only was his exoskeleton system normal, but almost every part of his body was intact.
What's more troublesome is that Chang Yuan fell into the dog and monkey nest, and when he woke up, he was surrounded by cute and naive dogs and monkeys.
This native creature of Gaia, which is about the size of a two-year-old human baby, has white fur, and is agile, is currently one of the few species on Gaia that is immune to alienated cells.
In order to find the antidote to customer alienation, humans suffered a lot from dogs and monkeys.
But the result is... After research, scientists have found that the reason why dogs and monkeys are immune to alienated cells is because there is a very ancient inert gene in their bodies. This gene can effectively neutralize the alienated mutations caused by alienated cells...
But the problem is that this gene is not available to humans... If humans forcefully use this gene to prevent alienation, there are only two results.
Failure to prevent it leads to death.
The prevention is successful and the alienation is eliminated, but the people who use this genetic drug will be genetically modified by dogs and monkeys in a short period of time, so that they will continue to degenerate... and eventually become low-IQ creatures that are neither human nor monkeys...
Therefore, dogs and monkeys can retain their own group.
When Chang Yuan woke up, these dogs and monkeys were not afraid. They stuck out their tongues to dissipate heat like dogs. They squatted around curiously and looked at Chang Yuan, as if they were curious about what this thing was.
After Chang Yuan was sure that these dogs and monkeys were not a threat, he was about to get up when he found that his body was actually stuck to the resin of the honey tree.
Chang Yuan had experienced the strong stickiness of this resin a long time ago...but he never thought that one day he would become a fly falling into a tar pool.
After struggling several times to no avail, Chang Yuan was left with only two choices.
The first is to lie here and wait for rescue... It is currently 25 meters above the ground and surrounded by dogs and monkeys. It is basically certain that it is safe here, but it is hard to say at night.
The second is to melt the fusion core of the exoskeleton, which can release the terrifying heat of the core and ignite the honey tree. In this way, escaping from the trap is not a problem.
But maybe the surrounding ecological environment will suffer a disaster...at least these dogs and monkeys will definitely die.
In addition... after the fusion core melts down, the exoskeleton becomes the most common mechanical armor for Chang Yuan, and his chance of survival in the territory of the Foreign Spirit Tribe will decrease again.
…
After careful consideration, Chang Yuan decided to wait.
At least he wasn't planning on burning the place to the ground before noon.
Other soldiers who followed Zhang Yu and Chang Yuan deep into the territory of the Foreign Spirit Tribe also faced various problems.
Some people were slightly injured and had already begun to use worker bees to explore the surrounding area and search for teammates, but they found themselves lost not long after walking.
Even in the daytime, the jungle in the territory of the Foreign Spirit Tribe is extremely dangerous.
Those who were lost decided to find a nearby vantage point to wake up the communication system.
But as a result, they quickly lost sight of them as they moved forward in the thick fog...
There are also some people who are in a similar situation to Zhang Yu.
They jumped out of the Hunter late and were thrown to the ground by the explosion, causing serious injuries to their bodies.
Now most of them are waiting in place.
But even so, there are some who are not lucky enough to be killed by the dangers lurking in the darkness...
In just two hours from sunrise to 9 a.m., the life signals of seven people have disappeared...
Zhang Yu walked forward along the outer edge of the cave. He didn't know where he was at this moment, but he was sure that he could find his way out of the underground hot spring system by following the beast's footprints.
It turned out that his idea was correct.
This huge crack blade "led" Zhang Yu to find a crack that could leave the ground.
Although Zhang Yu cannot deal with powerful enemies now, he can still climb.
At around 11 a.m., Zhang Yu came to the ground.
Here, the advantages of the desperate weapon he wore became apparent.
Different from the quantum communication equipment equipped with conventional mechanical exoskeletons, the Extremis Arms has a very powerful psionic amplitude pulse system.
With the help of this system, Zhang Yu can outline a landscape environment structure map with a diameter of about five kilometers from his own origin, and at the same time, he can clearly see what creatures are active around him.
In addition, the most powerful thing about this system is that the amplitude of the psionic energy it emits is like a firework that can penetrate the atmosphere. The rescue team will find him soon.
With this trump card, Zhang Yu feels much more at ease.
He immediately turned on the amplitude pulse, and soon a complete landform map appeared around him.
Only Zhang Yu could see this map. He stood in the middle of the map and looked left and right, and quickly locked on a flashing life signal nearby. It was a string of encrypted codes and was the communication beacon of the Border Defense Force.
Zhang Yu was happy. After determining the target's location, he immediately moved closer to it and tried to establish communication with the target.
Communication was always intermittent at first, but we finally got in touch.
This soldier who was trapped in an ancient ruins broke his right leg and was currently repairing it in the uppermost room of the ruins. He told Zhang Yu that there were traces of supernatural activity near the ruins, reminding him to be careful!
Zhang Yu is not too worried about this.
Although we were attacked by unknown creatures last night, the data showed that those things were not alien spirits. The biggest difference between alien spirits and alien species is that they are civilized creatures and will not attack targets at will.
So in Zhang Yu's opinion, it might be a good thing if you can encounter a foreign spirit with a relatively high evolutionary level.
Of course...it's a good thing if you don't meet...
While Zhang Yu continued to use amplitude pulses to search for nearby team members, Nan Yingjian's team also arrived at the location where the crashed Hunter 917 last appeared.
But what makes everyone uneasy is...
This area is very desolate. Looking around from the empty land, there is nothing within dozens of kilometers around it.
Nan Yingjian checked the coordinate information again, and the data clearly recorded the coordinate position sent before No. 917 disappeared.
right here!
Right in this area!
However……
Why is there nothing?
The Liuguang Realm Guards of the Shenqi Clan have also searched the nearby area many times.
The team was led by a priest from the Shenqi tribe. He believed that No. 917 most likely did not crash but was hijacked.
This speculation is indeed very credible, but the question is, who can hijack a Hunter in an instant without anyone noticing?
If such a person really exists, then the problem is not as simple as Zhang Yu's disappearance.
"I will report the situation here to the elders and ask them to allow me to open the True Eye of Lightless City, so that we can figure out what happened." The priest said.
Things have come to this, and this is what we have to do...
Nan Yingjian: "Okay...but how long will it take?"
"If the elders agree, it will only take about ten hours. But if the elders don't agree, you will need to coordinate here."
Nan Yingjian understood, she nodded: "Okay, thank you."
The priest didn't say anything more, the Streaming Light Boundary Guard rose into the sky and disappeared in the sky in the blink of an eye.
I looked down at the pale earth. Under the clear sky, it was completely white... Where did No. 917 go...