Returning from the abyss

Chapter 533 Mission Information
[Acquisition of three Eudemons specimens above grade B, completed.A new task has been posted.

[-]. Repair the escape pod and rescue at least one advance party survivor.

[-]. Release after completing task [-].

[-]. (Optional) Ensure that more than half of the initial team members survive.

[-]. It will be released after completing task [-].

...]

Lu Ning lay back on the seat a little and let the vehicle drive back automatically, while she checked the newly released tasks on her personal terminal.Similar to this type of task mode, the more tasks you complete, the more task information you will get, and the more hidden information you can get from it.

The distribution center will not cheat in the task, at most play word games.So among the two tasks displayed today, there is nothing to say about the optional tasks, but the main task contains two important information.

"Escape Pod" and "Survivor".

After going through so many scenes, Lu Ning has already basically understood some of the mission characteristics of the distribution center. The word "escape pod" must not be a general term, but a proper noun, otherwise it would not be necessary to go there specifically. fix it.Since the survivors of the advance team can be rescued, there must be people who can be rescued, and the advance team has not been completely destroyed.

With these two pieces of information as a basis, Lu Ning's mind has settled a lot. After all, most of the information in her hands is uncertain, and none of them are more reliable than the nailed tasks on the distribution floor.

She had already collected those two specimens, but before leaving, she still gave Qingniao and Kong Gu a look.After the two met, they were silent, and it was after a long time that Kong Gu said, "It's not his fault."

"I know, just to let you know a reason." Lu Ning said so.

When returning to the outpost, the shape of the building appeared on a piece of open space, and the internal device was half formed. It was a structure like a dumbbell, with hemispherical buildings at both ends and a passage connecting the robot inside and outside. Busy, taking out building materials from the assembly line in the outpost and transporting them into the building.

"Captain, that's..." Clarinet narrowed his eyes and looked at the building, with a bit of doubt in his tone.

"It's a weapon." Lu Ning nodded.

"What level of weapon is this?" Spade also has some knowledge. He has seen some special types of weapons, and he has a very special structure in his impression.

"It's not harmful to us." Lu Ning said, "I will tell you how to use these two weapons after they are completed, but I won't give you permission. In addition, since the expulsion has been completed today, we will set off to explore a letter tomorrow. Punctuation, it is very far from here, we have to drive the landing craft to go there."

"Landing craft? You must take me with you." Clarinet smiled, "I already smell the smell of war, so I must not miss it."

"The candidates for this operation are Spades, Clarinet, Iron Eyebrow, and Dragon Vein." Lu Ning said, "Qiu Shu and Bayonet will be temporarily in charge of managing this outpost, and all internal affairs except external communications will be asked of them. In addition, Blue Bird, you too are ready to begin your duties."

"Yes."

"Captain, don't you bring a medical soldier?" Bayonet asked.

"It's more useful for the medical soldiers to stay here than to go with us. You will have more tasks." Lu Ning smiled.

In the evening, she explained to Qiao Shu and the bayonet the affairs she needed to deal with after she left, as well as the authorization instructions in various situations, and then returned to her bedroom.

A scheduled report will be sent out tomorrow night, and after returning to the house, Lu Ning directly connected to the satellite signal with his own terminal, and loaded the latest map.Soon the map has completed the calculus transformation and can be zoomed to a certain extent.The precision of the satellite is enough to capture the appearance of many ground buildings. If the beacon does not appear and disappear like the observer, maybe...

The image is zoomed in, but the area where the beacon is located is blurred.

"What's going on?" Lu Ning swiped the map, only to find that a large area over there was blurred by some kind of gray and black.If you look closely, you can see bright spots of light farther away.

volcanic eruptions.

As soon as Lu Ning stood up, she walked to the computer in the room, started importing, and simultaneously opened several pictures——she took some previous recorded images from the observer's data, including those hundreds of thousands of years ago. Continental changes.

The land of the phantom star is still a plate type, and according to the change of the boundary, it can be vaguely distinguished that the crustal change is frequent, and obviously the volcano is not located at the junction of the plates.

"Earthquakes...volcanoes...the timing is just right."

Lu Ning looked at the stitched topographic map and fell into deep thought.

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Early the next morning, Lu Ning came to the newly created "weapon" early.

The tundra injector has been completed, the huge "needle" has been pierced below the surface, the transparent cylindrical containers have been lined up, filled with light blue tundra condensate, and the robot is still continuing to inject raw materials The production of raw materials in the furnace is completely ready to go.

Lu Ning came to the console, docked her terminal, turned off the switch, and entered the predetermined parameters. Immediately, there was a slight "gudong" sound from around, which was a sign to open the valve to fully release the power of this weapon.In just a split second, Lu Ning saw the temperature reading drop from the detector beside him.

"Captain?" Spade also woke up very early. Although he couldn't enter the building, he could feel it "live" from the outside, and something was happening.

"Yes, the weapons are operational, the cold is coming."

"Severe cold?" The corner of Spade's mouth twitched, it's summer here, what could happen to the severe cold in summer?Climate-changing weapons may not be a big deal in the universe, but they are equivalent to a controllable natural disaster on the planet.

"You got up so early, are you ready to go?"

"Uh, almost. By the way, Captain, I'm here to inform you... No! I was asked by my father to inform you... That person was killed by him."

"He doesn't have such a crazy research desire." Lu Ning didn't care, "And he chose to inform me at this time, this old fox is still very cunning. But forget it, anyway, I didn't mean to blame him, I just asked for it when I came back. See the full research report."

"Captain, did you already know..."

"Qiu Shu has been keeping an eye on the outpost. If there is any problem, he will report to me as soon as possible. Since he didn't tell me about it yesterday, it means that the trouble has been resolved."

Lu Ning walked out of the building, patted Spades on the shoulder at the door, and walked towards the landing craft.

About half an hour later, everyone arrived and took their seats on the landing craft. Lu Ning began to adjust the direction of the engine, ready for vertical takeoff, and she sent a signal to everyone to start the ignition.

The scorched ground was once again scorched by high temperature, and the landing craft was lifted into the sky within a few seconds, and after adjusting its direction a little, it rushed out like an arrow leaving the string.

The speed of the landing craft is naturally not comparable to that of ordinary vehicles. Since it can carry out short-distance space travel when necessary, its speed can even break through the first cosmic speed of the planet itself, and now even if it flies at a flat speed, it only takes more than an hour. Time will be able to reach the beacon location.

And there is a very clear thing, the cloud of volcanic ash.

It is raining in this area.

"Start the environment adaptive system, the basic protection program, and switch to the anti-interference mode for scanning." Spade reported, "Captain, the light here is too dark, and the real-time shooting effect is very bad, so we can only make up for it by other means."

"Adjusting to acousto-optic feedback imaging." The tone of the clarinet is full of interest, "The beacon has not been found yet!"

"Captain, we may have to land near the coordinates. Since it is a technological product of a different civilization, it is natural to avoid mechanical detection. We can only try the most primitive method." Longmai said.

"Then find a platform to land on."

This area is still a rugged mountainous area, and there are scattered rivers like veins in the middle, completely like a wild area.

"Beware of Eudemons." Tie Mei checked the equipment on his body, "The terrain is not difficult for us, dangerous beasts are deadly."

"Understood, Uncle Tiemei." Spade laughed, "This is your first mission, right? To be honest, although the phantom beasts outside sound scary, they can still be easily killed by technological weapons. Unless it's B..."

boom!
Before Spade could finish his sentence, a glittering golden dragon-like creature suddenly rushed out of the distant waterway. It brought up a wave of water more than ten meters high, bent in the air, and plunged into the water again.

"What the hell is that?" Spades yelled under his breath.

"That's what you said." Tie Mei tightened his wrist, "It doesn't look very annoying, but luckily it didn't find us."

Lu Ning led the team to detour, trying to avoid those powerful phantom beasts. Fortunately, there were no outposts nearby. very effective.

But after circling two mountains in a row, they still didn't find anything that seemed to be a building—not even any traces of building materials.

"Captain, are you hiding as before?" Spade climbed up a tree and looked around, but there was still nothing.

"Since NE-002 didn't remind me that there is any special method to reveal it, it means that the concealment method has failed, we just need to find it." Lu Ning said.

"That's what I said, but she didn't see the situation of the beacon with her own eyes, did she? Or tell us her detection method? It's going around in circles like this, and it's still a place where all kinds of phantom beasts appear. ……oops!"

Spade let out an exclamation, and fell from the tree, holding a piece of bark in his hand. With the buffer of the space suit, he wouldn't be hurt, but he was a little frightened.

"This tree is old enough..." Spade threw the bark aside, "The bark is starting to fall off, isn't it dying?"

"Uh..." Longmai pulled him up, "The captain said you were very lucky. I thought I believed in science, not in luck."

"What did you say this for?"

Lu Ning couldn't help smiling: "It's nothing, it's not because the tree is old, but because it's a metal pillar covered with bark."

Everyone looked up, and the place where the spades were broken off now revealed the color inside—a metallic color like brass.

Spades rubbed the place where it fell, and he couldn't believe it.

Environmental camouflage.

After cutting off the outer layer of the entire tree, it can be clearly seen that this is a metal pillar about as thick as three people hugging each other. The information fed back by the detector is still a tree, which means that even after so long, the camouflage The effect is still there.And cut a few trees nearby to see that they are normal trees again. It can be said that the luck of spades is really amazing to be able to choose the one that is disguised from so many trees.

"In this case, maybe..."

Lu Ning fumbled around the metal pillar, and finally touched the switch at a position about two meters high. A bright light appeared on the metal pillar, revealing a three-meter-high gate.

"A tall alien." Clarinet looked up at the size of the door, "Fortunately it's not a small one, otherwise we wouldn't be able to get in."

"Why did you think of this at this time!" Spade was still doubting his luck, and ran inside without waiting for Lu Ning's order.

"Be careful, we don't know if there are any unknown risks here." Tie Mei remained vigilant. After everyone walked in, the interior was also a metal platform, surrounded by smooth and clean white walls, without any buttons or anything like that on the surface.It's just that the light is much brighter than the outside, which seems to be because the wall itself is also a light source.

Lu Ning was the last to go in, looked around, and then searched twice at the same height next to the door. Soon, the three-meter-high door disappeared, and everyone felt a sense of weightlessness.

"The platform is down." Tie Mei was still very calm.

"Is this building hidden in the mountains?" Spades yelled.

Longmai thought for a while: "Maybe it disguised itself as a mountain, and then over time, the outside really turned into a mountain."

Lu Ning remembered that NE-002 once mentioned that this technology is called "mesh".

Through body sensation, everyone can determine the speed state of the platform. When a sense of overweight comes, they know that they have reached the bottom. The same door appears on the wall, and outside the door is a huge metal corridor. The sound of the collision of the machine and the pressure of the gas came from the ear, indicating that the place is still operating normally.

"Where does its energy come from? How does it resist the erosion of time?" Longmai was also shocked when he saw all kinds of undisguised mechanical pipes, gears, and valve structures inside, "It's still running! It just failed because the time was up, not because the time caused damage to the camouflage core!"

"Longmai, I can understand your excitement, but we can't care about these issues first." Tie Mei looked around carefully.

"what?"

"Since it's still functioning here, the means of defense are still alive, right?" Clarinet let out a happy laugh.

(End of this chapter)