American Celestial Master

Chapter 252, Cave (2)

In fact, whether active infrared and optical fiber can be used normally in this hole, Lin Qiusheng himself has tried it. In fact, optical fiber is not too affected, but active infrared is really easy to attract attacks. Those Jersey Devil gargoyles can see to infrared light. However, these "specially customized drones" were all customized from School

Several technicians completed the final inspection of the unmanned reconnaissance drone, and then the drone slowly flew towards the cave.

There is no reason why this drone is so expensive. For example, its fan blades and engine are specially made, and the sound it makes when flying is much smaller than that of ordinary drones. Of course, for this reason, , the cost of this thing has increased a lot.

In fact, this function is not very useful, because the Golem has no hearing, and the Jersey Devil has extremely sensitive hearing. This means that no matter how loud the sound is, the Golem cannot hear it; no matter how quiet the sound is, the Jersey Devil can hear it. get. So spending money on mute is completely meaningless, but many times the money itself is the meaning of the money.

The drone quickly flew into the darkness, and in the control room on the other side, various pictures began to be displayed on several large screens. The kind of all black and white, with a large field of view and poor definition, is the image obtained by millimeter wave radar through synthetic aperture mode; the kind of all black is the image captured by the uncooled passive infrared camera; that kind of field of view It's very limited, but the clarity is quite good, and it's an image captured by an active infrared system.

The drone continued to fly inside, but there was no fog inside. So the visibility has been pretty good. Soon an underground hall appeared on the screen. The hall was empty except for a dozen rock puppets standing in the middle.

These dozen rock puppets are much smaller than the ones we have destroyed on the ground before. They are only slightly larger than normal humans, but the texture seems to be different from those we have seen before. Same. What everyone has seen on the ground before is basically made of granite, but the texture of these stone puppets seems to be different. Although the photos taken by the active infrared camera have no color, only grayscale differences, they can also It is clearly seen that these smaller rock puppets do not have the tingling spots on the granite. At least from the picture, their texture is quite delicate. This is by no means the texture of granite. Moreover, when the infrared headlight shines on these stone puppets, there are even reflective highlights, which means that these rock puppets have been carefully polished.

"Fly closer," O'Dell said.

So the drone flew closer again, hovered, and shot in stack mode to obtain higher resolution. New images were quickly transmitted. From the high-definition photos, you can see that the stone statues are very delicately made. Not only do they have clear facial features, but they even have very finely carved hair.

"In ancient America, there would never have been such exquisite carvings." O'Dell, who had made up a piece of American history, easily made this judgment.

"Yes, without the study of anatomy, it would be impossible to have a statue with such accurate proportions. Although the Native Americans have various blood sacrifices, often killing people as sacrifices, and even skinning people alive. But this does not mean that they are "There is anatomy." Professor Braun on the other hand said, "The various ancient American statues unearthed so far generally lack the ability to accurately grasp the proportions of various parts of the human body."

"Could it be that the immigrants at that time were the sculptors?" O'Dell asked again.

"Ordinary masons don't have such ability." Braun said, "Can you enlarge the details a little more?"

"Then we have to get closer." So the drone continued to get closer, and clearer photos were sent back.

"Zoom in, zoom in, oh, selling cakes, how is it possible? Every hair is clear? Zoom in a little more...even details like pores... Brigadier General O'Dell, you said these statues will be made of a certain Plant black magic to directly turn people into stone..."

Odell said horrified: "I don't know about this, but...ah, Ms. Lilith, what do you think?"

Jiuniang floated over from there, looked at the screen, and then said: "When I was studying European and Eastern black magic in school, I saw some similar things, such as the common manipulation of corpses. Plus some With special techniques, in the East, you can create iron-armored corpses and bronze-armored corpses. After some special processing, these corpses will have some metallic properties. In the West, it is not limited to black magic. You may. You know, there is a legend that when Byzantium fell, His Majesty Constantine XI did not actually die in battle, but was taken away by angels, turned into a stone statue, and placed in a cave. "

"I know," Braun said, "You'll be back like lightning. That means these stone statues could also be..."

Before he finished speaking, the picture on the monitor shook violently and then went out.

"It appears the drone has been lost," O'Dell said.

"It should be the Jersey Devil." Jiuniang said, "We didn't find them just now. There are live Jersey Devils in the zoo at School X. They have pretty good hearing and pretty good infrared vision. Of course, this is Characteristics of the living Jersey Devil. No one knows whether the gargoyle-shaped Jersey Devil still has these characteristics, but judging from the loss of the drone, it is likely that they still retain these abilities."

"Then let's get the second drone flying," O'Dell said. "It captured so many things that it's worth the price."

The second drone then took off and entered the cave.

This drone suffered a faster loss and was shot down before it even reached the position of the previous drone. But its loss was valuable, as it at least captured the gargoyle Jersey Devil attacking it. When these things are moving, the temperature in some places is higher than the ambient temperature due to friction. If it were an ordinary infrared camera, it would certainly not be able to detect such a small temperature difference. But this drone uses infrared imaging equipment with liquid nitrogen cooling, which is far more sensitive than ordinary infrared cameras. So it not only captured images of the gargoyle Jersey Devils that were coming towards them, but also discovered the hiding locations of those gargoyle Jersey Devils - they usually hide in small caves high up in the cave walls.

(End of this chapter)