Returning from the abyss

Chapter 539 Volcanic Zone
Time passed by, and during this time, the environment around Outpost 48 has undergone tremendous changes. All the mountains have been turned into cold permafrost. Except for some thin vegetation, all the trees have withered, and the temperature has dropped to It's only like two or three degrees, and only slightly higher during the day.

People who have been wearing spacesuits for a long time can't actually feel the temperature change. During this period of time, they are all preparing weapons with high lethality.After all, the information about Beast God Valley has clearly shown that ordinary weapons are useless there.

This time Lu Ning brought all the staff with him.

Lei Wang and Acupuncture do not need to be close to the Beast God Valley area, but they must also establish a temporary base for support at a slightly further location.Lu Ning and Mo Lianren each drove a landing craft, and flew together to the continent where the ground environment was extremely harsh.

This continent was called the Lava Continent by the advance team. Due to the densely distributed active volcanic belts, most of the land was covered by volcanic ash and lava layers. The vegetation was sparse and the surface was full of cracks, which made people feel quite disturbed.

Only the two areas on the west side and the southeast corner can still land spacecraft.Since the southeast side is relatively close to the polar region, it is usually only those who come from the polar outpost will land there.Lu Ning saw several signals in the air.

"It seems that there are quite a lot of people here." Qiu Shu looked out the window, "We can receive seven signals just now, and we came relatively early."

Lu Ning snorted, she never believed Luo Xiao's so-called few people responded.

After the spaceship landed, two people came over soon, and they didn't seem to be the captain or the deputy team.

"Hello, two captains." One of them said in a very tactful tone, "We are here to welcome you all. Since everyone is willing to come and work together, they are comrades-in-arms. I don't know..."

"Stop talking nonsense, where is your large army? When we came over, we saw several spaceships." Mo Lianren didn't want to listen to his nonsense.

"Oh, everyone also knows that the terrain here is bad. The captain managed to find a place for a meeting. I still hope that only the captain and deputy team among you can go there." The man was not annoyed.

Lu Ning glanced at Qiu Shu, then nodded: "Yes, lead the way, our people will establish a station on the spot."

"Thank you very much then." The man rubbed his hands together, and turned around with his companion to lead the way.

"Captain, this guy is a bit annoying." Spades communicated in the team, "I always feel that they are planning something."

"Don't worry, I'm just going to see what's going on. Find a place nearby and set up a temporary camp. Don't let outsiders get close. We'll come back after we go and have a look." The team moved forward together.

This location can only be said to be slightly better, without dense ground fissures and uneven terrain formed by volcanic eruptions.However, occasional vibrations can still be felt under the feet, and large cracks can be seen not far away.Indeed, as Mo Lianren said before, it would be too much to say that this terrain was formed by the collision of two plates, and the plate is not moving fast, how could it be possible to hit such a level that it is almost completely broken?
"Hey, you two, who are the teams here?" Mo Lian shouted to the two in front.

"Of course, there are quite a few teams here, and there should be more follow-ups." The man hurriedly replied, "First of all, AL responded the most. I belong to the 004 team, and this one belongs to the 005 team. Our captain heard about the 007 team. In addition, DU-007 came with 014. The two teams seem to be exploring together. In addition, there are three teams, BW-009, 011, and HJ-010. The support team has arrived."

"Sure enough, most of the teams of Natural Evolution didn't participate." Lu Ning said in a low voice, "NE-002 coordinated most of the team's actions. If there is a team coming over later, it is likely to be inspired."

"Captain, we still need to see what kind of characters these captains are. Although there is a bit of a weird atmosphere, I think there are people who really want to find out here." Qiu Shu said.

"Ah."

After walking for a while along a low bush path that was opened up, a small forest appeared ahead.A few tents can be seen inside through the not-so-strong trees.

"It's over there. Even we can't go in to participate in the meeting of the captains. Please go there by yourself." The person who had been in charge of negotiating stopped, moved out of the way, and made a "please" gesture.

"Let me ask, your companion doesn't seem to like to talk very much, is it okay to let him be in charge of welcoming you?" Qiu Shu suddenly asked, pointing to the person beside him.

"Hahaha, after all, I have always been disgusted and noisy, even if one person talks to two people, it's okay."

Qiu Shu didn't say anything, as if it was just a joke.Soon, the four of Lu Ning walked into the forest together.

The tents there were built in a very primitive way. Except for two stools, stones were moved to the middle of the sitting place, probably because of environmental problems, and I didn’t bother to spend energy on these non-essential things.

A fire was raised in the center of the camp, surrounded by fourteen people standing or sitting on the ground, it seemed that every team that came came out together with the captain and deputy captain, enough attention to this operation.

"It looks like a newcomer." A person standing slightly on the edge, half leaning against a tree, said.

"Hey, welcome everyone." Another person sitting on the stone beside the fire turned his head and greeted.

The nameplates of the two are HJ-010 and BW-009 respectively, but it is not known whether they are the captain or the deputy team.

"Haha! I knew there would be more people coming, how about it?" On the other side of the fire, someone jumped up immediately, and her voice also directly indicated her identity——Luo Xiao.

"I didn't expect you to find so many people." Lu Ning glanced at her.

"Don't be angry! After all, I called everyone on the communication list! Haha! Sure enough, there are still many people who like to explore such places, don't they?"

"It would be correct for me to say that it would be right to sink this place directly with ICBMs." AL-005 said coldly, "I'm only here because I'm afraid that you will provoke some A-level monsters and make everyone suffer."

"How is it possible!" Luo Xiao waved his hand, "You guys are too nervous, although I don't look very reliable, but I will think about these things carefully!"

"for example?"

"For example, I have already laid triggers under some surrounding volcanoes. Even if I accidentally provoke some powerful monsters, I can use the volcano to send them directly to the sky!"

AL-005 snorted, noncommittal.

"Our goal is to investigate." HJ-010 said, "The terrain here is too strange, and the situation in Beast God Valley is also extremely special. We need to find out the reason for the formation of this place and see if it is related to the Phantom Star virus. In addition, it would be better to be able to study the evolution of Eudemons.”

"Having an attitude of research rather than destruction, this is our task." BW-009 smoothed things over, "I think you all come here because you want to get first-hand information, don't you?"

"That's it. How long have you been here? I don't know what preparations you have made?" Lu Ning asked.

"Plant the bomb, I'm with Captain DU-014." Luo Xiao didn't hide his actions at all, "We haven't been here for a long time, about ten hours, so we can't do much."

The rest of the people didn't follow up to speak, and they didn't come for a long time. It took a little time to set up their own camp. In addition to the previous discussions and discussions, it was natural that they didn't check the surrounding area.

"My men did some geological prospecting."

Finally, it was HJ-010 who spoke, and this one seemed to be the captain.

"Oh?" AL-005 was obviously interested, "I wonder if there are any surprises?"

"The depth of the ground fissure here is far deeper than we thought. To be honest, it is not surprising that some places directly erupt magma. The environment of the phantom star is a standard continental ocean planet. Although there is plate movement, it is close to the volcanic belt. The underground rift is obviously not a natural formation of this kind of planet."

"Maybe it's underground pressure." AL-004, who has been rarely speaking, said.

"This may be basically negated. It is impossible for underground pressure to erupt again where there is already a crack, just like if there is a hole in a balloon, the gas inside will gushes out from here instead of accumulating. But in geological dating, There have obviously been multiple stratum tearing phenomena here, which must be unnatural conditions."

Lu Ning thought for a while and asked, "Do you think it's possible that it's a phantom beast?"

"B-level phantom beasts can't do it." HJ-010 did not rule out this possibility, "Most of the tears in the ground are destructive shocks like detonation. It's no problem for B-level phantom beasts to smash the ground. But it’s not normal to cause this level of damage to the entire formation. If it’s really a phantom beast, it must be A-rank.”

"We can't deal with A-level Eudemons." BW-011 sighed, "The weapons we prepared are not powerful enough."

At this moment, figures appeared outside the woods again, and there were quite a few of them.Everyone stopped talking and cast their gazes over.But when the visitor finally appeared, Lu Ning's heart tightened slightly. She believed that other people's reactions to the visitor were also different.

AL-001, with five other captains.They walked in together with their respective deputy.

"Hey, Lu Ning, these are all people from Tianwenzhiguang, and number 001..." Mo Lianren whispered in the communication.

"Everyone, I have heard the report of this operation. Let me introduce myself. I am the captain of No. 001 of the Tianwenzhiguang, Wen Beiluo." The captain opened his hands slightly and introduced himself, "In view of this This mission was initiated by my subordinates, and it may involve B-level or even A-level creatures and a complicated terrain, so I decided to come and lead the team myself."

"Your subordinate? Who is it!" Luo Xiao frowned, "You're just a number..."

"No. 007, your ability is indeed good, and I also appreciate talented people. Therefore, I don't care what you said about No. 002 before, because it was just his arrogance. Now, you are my subordinate." Wen Bei clicked on his personal terminal, "Just three to ten minutes ago, I sent a general summons message to all the members of the Astronomical Light. This is the temporary authority granted to me by the alliance. I have the right to integrate all the ships I belong to. Squad, conduct operations that require more than the size of the squad."

"What?" Luo Xiao immediately opened the terminal, but at this moment, AL-004 spoke: "Indeed, I saw this message."

"Hey! Why didn't you tell me in advance?" Luo Xiao turned his head and looked over.

"I don't have to change something that is bound to happen."

Wen Beiluo laughed: "Don't be so contradictory, I know very well that a sudden airborne boss is really unpleasant, so I won't exercise this right all the time, it's just that everyone needs to cooperate with me during this operation. Of course Now, any idea can be brought up, we all need to discuss it.”

"It's easy to say, this is an action I initiated." Luo Xiao folded his arms, "I can obey orders, Wen Beiluo, but at least I have to feel that it's okay to follow you, right?"

"Oh, of course, the new official has to show his skills when he takes office." Wen Beiluo stretched out his hand behind him, and the adjutant behind him took out a box and put it in his hand. It was a metal box like a lockbox. After a few twists and turns on the top, a video was opened.

"I deduced the geological evolution of this continent, oh, of course, some small tricks were used in it. Through this deduction, we can easily perform geological comparisons to judge the natural and non-natural components, correct The rate should be above 99%. In addition, my people have also completed a new result, the Eudemons detector. As the name suggests, this is a detection device specially made for Eudemons. I think you have also experienced the detection of Eudemons by detectors before The pain of all kinds of malfunctions? And now we don’t need to worry about that.”

"Really?" HJ-010 asked immediately.

"Of course it is true, and we have produced many finished products. Each team member can receive one." Wen Beiluo said relaxedly, "And thirdly, with the investigation tools and detection tools, we still need weapons, right? Is it? I also prepared some special bullets, which can ignore the phantom layer defenses on the surface of some phantom beasts... Ah, I don’t know if you have encountered phantom beasts above B level, they generally have similar properties.”

This man is quite cunning.

Lu Ning's perception of Wen Beiluo can only be described as mediocre, but he has to admit that he has hit the nail on the head when he quickly buys people's hearts. As soon as he stepped forward, he took out three things that must be of great value in the next action, There is no pressure to take away Luo Xiao's right to speak, and even make Luo Xiao unable to say anything against it.

In fact, why can't other people see that this person is a smiling tiger?Even though his attitude looks good, his domineering behavior has been fully revealed.The only good news is that he does not have command authority over other fleets, that is to say, the rest of the people except the AL number do not need to obey Wen Beiluo's orders.

"Lu Ning, I won't equip my troops with this guy's stuff." Mo Lianren said directly in the communication.

(End of this chapter)