Chapter 341: Non-Human? (Part 2)
Raising an eyebrow, Chen Nuo said nothing but closely followed the Captain, along with his group’s Kamisou Ichiro and Rebecca, back to the hall with Nolan.
Rebecca quickly recounted what had just happened. The Captain’s face changed as soon as he heard that the technicians had suddenly gone mad and attacked their own people. His expression turned even graver upon subsequently learning that two of the technicians exhibited bizarre changes—possessing imnse strength, imperviousness to injury, and the ability to forcefully smash through walls to escape. Chen Nuo, anwhile, noticed that Nolan’s expression seed very shocked.
Chen Nuo then slowly said, "We also found sothing in the living quarters near the warehouse. There’s a room in the living area where a tunnel has been dug underground, and it’s very deep. The tunnel is rough, obviously not excavated by machinery."
Nolan’s face grew increasingly stern. He quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and reported the situation to all the groups.
At that mont, Wizard’s voice ca through.
"There’s an accident with the Wizard team! The person who fell down is gone!"
"What do you an by ’gone’?" Nolan asked, dissatisfied.
"Gone ans gone! He fell down, and we tried to pull him up, but found no one below! He freaking disappeared sohow!"
Wizard said coldly, "There’s sothing wrong with the pit underground. We found sothing that looks like a tunnel..."
"Wizard team, imdiately leave the living quarters and et at the command center’s module camp!" Nolan made the decision without a second thought.
Just then, everyone in the hall heard faint airflow sounds. WHOOSHING noises ca from the pipes on the walls of the modules. Everyone was taken aback and then quickly beca vigilant. But a few seconds later, a WHIRRING sound ca from the heating vents of the module.
Just then, Lillian’s voice ca through the earpieces.
"Everyone, the technicians have successfully restarted the heating equipnt. Thank for letting you feel a bit of warm air!"
Nolan breathed a sigh of relief.
"What’s the point of restarting the heating?" the Captain frowned. "We’re only staying here for a while before we leave."
"No, it’s just a test of the equipnt. We aren’t actually using the facilities here," Nolan quickly clarified. "They didn’t restart the heating equipnt, but the central control system. Once the central control is restarted, the heating is automatically activated. It’s all one system."
The Captain didn’t speak anymore.
Chen Nuo glanced at the equipnt worn on everyone’s wrists, which were wristwatch tirs.
"I remind you, Mr. Nolan, thirty-five minutes have already passed in the hour-and-a-half window we had! We now have less than an hour left."
"I understand," Nolan said coldly. "Gathering information is the first step. If we encounter the enemy, we’ll proceed as agreed."
"Enemy, you an non-human monsters?" Kamisou Ichiro asked.
"Yes, non-human monsters." Nolan’s tone was very cold. "I don’t believe that any human paranormal organization on Earth would dare to make such an aggressive move against our company!"
Rebecca quickly said, "The two technicians who attacked us just now seed to have their bodies controlled by so kind of spiritual ability, and then..."
Nolan nodded to Rebecca to show he understood. "Let’s regroup with everyone first." Then he commanded the two ard personnel beside him, "Go outside, bring back the bodies of those two dead people, and examine them carefully."
Pausing, Nolan took a deep breath. "Group B, co with . We are going to check out the tunnel dug out in the warehouse module that the Captain ntioned! The rest stay at your positions and guard this place carefully!"
With that, Nolan looked at the Captain. "How about it, Captain?"
Chen Nuo didn’t make a sound. The Captain understood, nodded, and said, "I have no objections. Let’s go."
「A few minutes later, the group returned to the exterior of the warehouse materials module.」
This ti, Nolan first ordered two ard personnel to enter through the hole in the wall. They quickly scrambled inside. After a short while, the personnel inside returned to the opening and signaled that it was safe.
The group then re-entered the warehouse, skipping its inspection and moving directly through the module corridor into the living quarters module.
Chen Nuo saw that the door he had locked was now busted open. The cold-resistant composite door, reinforced with an integrated steel plate, had been torn completely from its fra and lay on the ground, severely deford.
One of the ard personnel cautiously approached the doorfra, shining a flashlight inside while keeping his gun aid, but he found nothing.
Nolan turned around. The Captain nodded, indicating he had already scanned the area with his spiritual power and found no anomalies inside.
Several of them entered the living quarters. Nolan looked at the gaping hole of the tunnel dug into the ground, his expression turning exceedingly grim.
"What the hell dug this out? This is damn freaky..."
As he spoke, the hawk-nosed man bent down, scooped up so frozen soil from the edge of the opening, and sniffed it.
"Did you find anything?" Chen Nuo couldn’t help but ask.
"I’m not a freaking dog," Nolan shook his head.
Chen Nuo rolled his eyes. Then why the hell are you sniffing it!
Chen Nuo slowly said, "There’s one problem. When we retreated from inside, I locked this door, but it’s clearly been busted open. That ans, just now sothing from underground ran out and then... broke through the door. But the thing that ran up didn’t leave the module to chase us. It might have gone back underground now."
No one suggested sending soone down to investigate. Even those with little sense knew from Hollywood movies that sending people into such a tunnel, likely harboring monsters, would undoubtedly result in initial casualties. Nolan, however, still had a plan.
He quickly gave instructions to his subordinates over the walkie-talkie.
Then, several ard personnel brought in a device resembling a Mars rover robot, sothing Chen Nuo recognized from TV in his previous life.
A technician quickly took out a tablet computer. After interfacing it with the rover, they lowered the machine into the tunnel.
Ard personnel guarded the entrance to the living area, their guns aid at the tunnel opening, while the others retreated to the outer warehouse room.
The rover slowly entered the tunnel.
Soon, the tablet computer’s screen showed a slightly blurry image. Because the rover’s built-in searchlight was small and the beam was weak, the image appeared very dark and jolted with the rover’s uneven movent, constantly shifting angles. Still, they could barely make out so details of the tunnel’s interior.
The tunnel extended downwards and widened. Gradually, a fork appeared at its end, where it split into two paths.
Chen Nuo had actually already probed the underground with his Spiritual Force Tentacles. But spiritual power wasn’t omnipotent. At tis like these, the rover could provide a clearer picture.
Two minutes passed.
Suddenly, CLICK!
The image on the screen shook violently! The rover seed to have collided with sothing, and the screen imdiately went dark.
"FUCK!" the technician cursed, frantically trying to restore the feed, but to no avail.
"Rewind the footage! Go back five seconds before it cut out!" Nolan commanded imdiately.
But even after replaying the footage three or four tis, Nolan asked, "Did you guys see anything?"
Everyone shook their heads.
The technician frowned and said, "It seems... it collided with sothing, but nothing’s visible in the footage."
Chen Nuo also frowned. "Collided with sothing invisible? Transparent?"
And just at that mont, all of a sudden...
BANG!!
The expressions of everyone present changed instantly.
"Gunfire!" Nolan shouted.
At the sa ti, Chen Nuo had already dashed out of the hole in the warehouse wall. He pointed in a direction and yelled, "It’s from the direction of the convoy outside the base!"
His words had barely faded when...
POP POP POP... BOOM BOOM... BOOM BOOM BOOM...
Rapid gunfire ca from the direction of the convoy waiting outside the base!
Nolan was already on his headset, urgently trying to contact soone. "Vanel! Vanel!"
And Chen Nuo had already dashed out without looking back!
"Anderson! Don’t run off!" Rebecca shouted from behind. But Chen Nuo didn’t listen at all.
The Captain didn’t hesitate and quickly chased after him.
And Kamisou Ichiro, surprisingly, also chased after the Captain.
"What are you doing here?" the Captain turned to glance at the man from Neon.
"In such a place, it’s safest to be with the Controller!" Kamisou Ichiro replied earnestly, not slowing down at all.
Nolan was urgently calling Vanel on his headset, about to give chase, when he glanced back towards the living area and the tunnel. He clenched his teeth and barked into his headset, "Research lab, send a team to support the convoy!!"
Chen Nuo ran swiftly!
Wind howled past his ears!
At this mont, he couldn’t afford to hesitate!
Vanel was his friend! A Davarishi!
But as Chen Nuo was running towards the periter of the base, suddenly, a loud noise ca from the depths of the base! A rumbling sound, accompanied by a shockwave of air, erupted, and the ground itself seed to beco unstable, shaking several tis!
Looking back, he saw a fireball soar into the sky from deep within the base, amidst the modular camp buildings!
An entire module building was blasted into the air, even taking flight!!
Chen Nuo instinctively paused for a mont, his footsteps slowing.
Just then, the Captain and Kamisou Ichiro caught up to him. The three of them turned almost simultaneously to look in the direction of the explosion.
"It seems... it’s the main control center for equipnt? Where Lord Diamond is?" the man from Neon quickly said.
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