dawn effect

Chapter 89
Not seen for several months, Longquan Barren Town has undergone tremendous changes.

There are two more military bases on the outskirts of the deserted town, and countless more military armored vehicles. Optical nets and barbed wire nets have been erected, and heavy machine gun positions have been set up.

There are countless soldiers deploying and mobilizing inside and outside the base.

The cleanup of the Longquan Mountains has already begun.

Seeing the Pluto warrior unit of the Academy of Sciences coming, the guide responsible for commanding traffic and military management immediately exchanged communication agreements and military command agreements with the team members, and then guided the Pluto team to a temporary command post.

Tang Ning got out of the car and saw an old acquaintance, Chen Fanghai, wearing a lieutenant's epaulets and camouflage combat uniform.

Chen Fanghai paid a military salute to Tangning, then pursed his lips, and said in a heavy voice, "Candy, long time no see."

Tangning followed the old rules of the hunter team and hugged him, "Fang Hai, long time no see."

Chen Fanghai said: "Let's go, let's go see Xiao Yu first."

The black body bag was lying in the cold refrigerator. There was a metal plate on the zipper. Tangning pulled it open, revealing Wei Yu's clean face.

The small face is still so beautiful, but there is a small bullet hole on the forehead.

"The fatal wound is here. In addition, there are chest and spleen." Chen Fanghai's voice sounded from the side, full of heaviness.

"Not wearing a bulletproof suit?"

"The military's combat uniforms are made of thin steel sheets for protection. The purpose is not bulletproof, but anti-bite." Chen Fanghai said: "The military has never listed bulletproof as a requirement for combat uniforms. Even if it is proposed, the Ministry of the Interior will not approve it." .”

Tangning gently zipped it up, as if she was afraid of disturbing her sleeping comrades, "Where's the captain's body?"

"Here." Chen Fanghai opened another body bag.

What came into view was a battered face with a bullet hole in the lower jaw. Tangning could recognize that it was the result of a high-powered lead bullet fired through a young bird automatic pistol.

"suicide?"

"Yes, suicide."

"Are they... mutated?"

"No."

After zipping it up, Chen Fanghai said, "Let's go, see the commander, and I'll introduce the matter to you."

In the temporary command tent, Xia Dayu frowned and looked at the young man in front of him.

When I first heard that my younger sister was going to Han'an City, Xia Dayu was still a little worried, but the girl seemed to be enjoying herself in Han'an City. It seems that the matter of asking her brother to go to Neptune to find her a place to be beaten back then seems to have happened a long time ago. Forgotten.

Tangning was indeed powerful. The trick of manipulating the Pluto warrior to draw a white mist line with the tip of a knife became the highest pursuit of the hot-blooded second-year youths in countless settlements.

Although even Tangning herself never used that kind of fierce saber technique again.

Seeing that Xia Dayu was in a daze, Chen Fanghai saluted and said, "Report to the brigade commander! The Pluto team of the Academy of Sciences has arrived!"

Xia Dayu then said, "Tangning, I've known you for a long time, is Xiao Yu okay?"

"Xiaoyu?" Tangning was stunned for a moment, before realizing that this person should be Xia Xiaoyu, and quickly saluted, "Report to the brigade commander, you are talking about Director Xia? She is doing well in Han'an City."

"Well, Fang Hai, let's talk about it." Xia Dayu seemed to have just arrived here, so after asking this question, he stopped asking about personal matters and went straight to the point.

"Yes!" Chen Fanghai called up the holographic projection: "This morning, two soldiers from the Special Operations Brigade, according to the combat arrangement, went to an ancient underground base we discovered before, and carried out preliminary operations such as reconnaissance and wiring."

There is no Skynet signal in the underground base, so it is necessary to pull the wires. Everyone knows this.

"At 15:12 in the morning, the two soldiers did not return to the tunnel entrance within the specified time. The frontline headquarters escalated the incident and sent a reconnaissance team to investigate. There are [-] people in total. The captain is an experienced combat veteran. His name is Feng Qing, and he has served in the military for [-] years."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Tangning and added, "Wei Yu is also among them, in charge of the sniper position."

"At 25:[-] in the morning, an accident happened. Judging from the audio and video extracted from Wei Yu's tactical helmet, it was a fierce battle among the entire team, and the target of the battle...was themselves."

"Finally Feng Qing came out of the tunnel. When the sniper Wei Yu and the observer Liu Ping stepped forward to respond, they were suddenly attacked by Feng Qing and shot, and died on the spot."

"Afterwards, Feng Qing also reported that he and the whole team were infected, and asked the headquarters to close the tunnel, and then committed suicide with the conventional pistol he carried with him."

Xia Dayu frowned again: "What about after that?"

Chen Fanghai replied: "Afterwards, according to the emergency plan, the incident was escalated to the headquarters again. According to the instructions, we suspended the exploration of the tunnel, dispatched technical troops, used drones and detection vehicles, and took back Feng Qing and Liu Ping. ...and Wei Yu's... corpse."

After speaking, the other two videos began to play: "Preliminary investigation, the bodies of the three people showed no abnormality. The headquarters transferred the guidance of the Academy of Sciences, thinking that the team may have suffered some kind of mental disturbance, and had... hallucinations. Looked like a mutant."

Tangning looked at the images of the drones and the reconnaissance vehicle. The soldiers lying in the tunnel frowned like Xia Dayu, "Have you checked the gas in the tunnel?"

"Judging from the data of the gas analyzer that comes with the reconnaissance vehicle, there is nothing abnormal."

"The headquarters asked us to suspend our operations, and will send Pluto armed units to help us, but...I didn't expect Tangning to come, he is from the Academy of Sciences."

Xia Dayu said: "Our Pluto warriors have a heavy task now. Qiuyu went to Meizhou, and Wu Chen went to Dezhou, which is farther than coming from Han'an City."

"Ji Jixiao is the only one left in the capital of Shu. She is the only one left to clean up the key targets in the First Ring Road, and the rest are still training."

Tang Ning said, "Dean Wang attaches great importance to this incident. If it wasn't caused by gas, it would be a big deal."

"I can no longer send soldiers to take risks. Let me control the Pluto fighters to take a look. The Pluto fighters in your military have too many fragments, and they are not suitable even if they come."

"That's right." Xia Dayu didn't show any pretense, and stretched out his palm to Tangning, "Tangning, please excuse me from the Academy of Sciences."

Tangning reached out to shake hands with him, "You're welcome, you should."

The convoy hit the road and drove for more than half an hour along the densely forested mountain road before arriving at a position.

The position consisted of concrete-cast bunker blocks and a ruined building that looked like a school, with five armored vehicles on the playground.

The soldiers guarding here couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the Pluto unit coming.

After a brief introduction, Xia Dayu took over the command work.

It was almost evening, and it was getting dark early in the mountains. The searchlights in front of the position had already been turned on, and several beams of light pointed directly at the entrance of the tunnel ahead.

"Is this an ancient military base?" Tangning couldn't help asking as she looked at the command screen and saw the thick cement reinforcement at the entrance of the tunnel.

"Yes, we accidentally found in the data that there used to be a numbered weapons research institute here, and after searching here, we found that there really was one."

"Okay, I'll go take a look."

……

……

Under the lamp post of the searchlight, the ion engine roared softly, and the Pluto warrior dragged the information switch with optical fiber, and walked towards the entrance of the tunnel hundreds of meters away.

The tunnel was deep and silent. Tangning walked all the way, except for a dozen soldiers who died along the way, there was nothing unusual.

In the middle of the tunnel, there is also an optical cable. At the end of the optical cable, there are several soldiers lying down. Between them is an information exchange.

The switch had been damaged in the fierce firefight. Tangning took off the optical cable connector on it and connected it to the newly brought optical cable connector.

Just now this action was automatically completed by the built-in program of Pluto Warrior. When all the functions of the ecological cabin reached full capacity again, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Squad, increase the super-sensitivity to [-]." There must be something weird in this cave. After absorbing the lesson of Batman, Tangning didn't dare to push the super-sensitivity to full.

"receive."

Tangning didn't feel anything unusual except that her vision suddenly became clearer.

"Share the information to the military command room."

"receive."

After moving the soldiers' corpses out of the cave and handing them over to the military's own biochemical team, Tangning entered the cave again, dragging the newly replaced information switch and walking forward.

Because the tunnel was in disrepair for a long time, even the thick concrete walls were pierced by the roots of mutated plants in some places.

The water gathers at the roots of the trees, and as the roots drip into the puddles in the ground, there is a ding-ding-dong-dong sound.

The Pluto warrior dragged the switch and finally reached a large rusty iron gate.

Popping out the ion knife, Tangning began to cut the steel pillars that were blocked inside the gate.

"Tangning." Xia Dayu's voice sounded through the communication channel: "The biochemical team tested the soldiers' corpses, and everything is normal. The deaths were caused by mutual shooting."

"Got it. I'm alone now, don't worry about that, I'm ready to open the door."

"Keep communicating and be vigilant."

The rusty door was pulled open with the harsh metal friction sound under the great strength of the Pluto warrior.

Behind the gate is a circular hall with a central console and three bottomless passages.

Above the dome, there are also countless drooping tree roots, dripping with water.

"Undead people cannot exist in such an environment." A voice rang through the communication channel, "Tangning, I am Lao Wen from the Variant Biological Research Institute."

"Director Wen," Tangning said, "You're here too?"

"Can you explore further?"

"I'm afraid it won't work. Although the switch has the function of wireless transmission and reception, it also has a distance limit, unless another piece of optical fiber is connected."

"Then you collect all the information that can be collected in the hall, and return as soon as possible."

"Yes."

Tangning walked to the central console. Although the cabinets there were rusty, if there were crystals inside...

Just thinking of this, the Pluto warrior's feet suddenly became empty, and he fell down.

Tangning reacted quickly and grabbed the edge of the floor. However, the floor immediately came loose, and there was actually a huge underground space.

"Boom!" The Pluto warrior fell into a huge space, which seemed to be filled with a jelly-like gel, which slowed down the Pluto warrior, and finally became stuck in mid-air.

A circle of lights suddenly appeared around, swaying strangely through the "jelly" that was still oscillating slowly.

In a passage, a huge figure swam out.

(End of this chapter)