Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 988: Continuous Vibration
Just when Bianca was struggling over whether to investigate further or leave here and carry out her own "escape plan", the ground suddenly shook violently again!
"Those giant beasts? Are they going to come out from underground again?!" Bianca looked around quickly, then chose a low but sturdy-looking building and hid inside.
Those giant beasts will attack any living thing they see, even the men in black are no exception. If they continue to stay in the middle of the street, they will definitely be targeted by the giant beasts that emerge .
Bianca found a hidden corner and squatted down. This position was the safest in the entire building. Even if the building was knocked down, the broken beams and load-bearing columns would create a "safe triangle" in Bianca's hiding place. Not only would Bianca not be crushed to death, but the ruined house would also be able to hide her body.
She just needs to wait until the giant beast leaves, use the power of her cyborg body to push open the rubble, and crawl out of the ruins.
"Giant beasts...why are there giant beasts under the Ark?" Bianca leaned against the wall, full of doubts.
It is said to be the underground of the Ark, but in fact it is still in the middle of the Ark - that is the structural layer foundation of the Ark. Now these residential areas and industrial areas are built on this structural layer. This structural layer is equivalent to the foundation laid when building a house.
Rather than saying that the giant beast drilled out from the ground, it would be more accurate to say that it drilled out from the foundation.
Although that place is sparsely populated, it is closely related to the lives of the residents on the Ark - a block's energy, power supply, gas supply and various infrastructure used to maintain the environment are mainly located in this structural layer. If there are really behemoths living in the structural layer, the lives of the residents will definitely not be affected in any way.
However, Bianca seemed to have never heard of such a story...
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Bianca was stunned, and she suddenly remembered some "urban legends"... Since we are talking about stories, then legends are naturally a type of story.
She remembered hearing some boastful mercenaries bragging while drunk after dinner. Some of them mentioned that there was an extremely strange moving maze within the structural layer of the Ark.
No one who enters this maze can come out alive, and all of them become food for the monsters living in the maze. Because the underground maze is very close to the Ark's main reactor and there are no good protection measures like the residential area, the monsters in the maze have undergone great mutations under the radiation day after day... In terms of danger, the underground maze is even more terrifying than those high-level Alpha civilization ruins.
Bianca had always thought that this was just a boring weird story made up by idle writers on the Internet, but now it seems that it is uncertain whether the underground maze exists, but within the structural layer... there really seems to be a large number of giant monsters that have mutated after being exposed to radiation!
"Were these monsters also 'bred' by the leaders of the men in black? No, that's not right... They have already taken control of the Ark. What we need to do now is to strengthen the Ark's defenses and resist attacks from Mukach and other fortresses... If these behemoths are to be used, they should be thrown onto the battlefield instead of being released inside the Ark."
"Allowing these behemoths to wreak havoc inside the Ark will only have the opposite effect."
"No, that's still not right... Perhaps these giant beasts were not released by the Men in Black, but simply broke through the containment facilities or devices and ran to the ground on their own? According to this explanation, the confusion of the Men in Black when they first saw the giant beasts can also be explained."
Bianca was still making a few wild guesses, but the vibration outside was becoming more and more intense... but it was just a vibration. Bianca didn't hear any of the beast's roars, the sounds of it drilling out of the ground, or anything like that.
"strangeness……"
Bianca thought about it again and again, and decided to go to the window to observe the situation.
The earthquake continued, but no giant beasts appeared in this block. There were only cracks on the ground and some signs that were not fixed firmly fell to the ground. Other than that, there were no other strange phenomena.
"Just...an earthquake?"
Bianca bravely returned to the street and looked around. She felt that her brain was overloaded... She was already very tired, and now all kinds of things that could not be explained by logic popped up in front of her one after another. She was even a little too lazy to think... If possible, she really wanted to ignore everything and find a soft big bed to have a good sleep.
But she also knew that now was definitely not the time to sleep.
Bianca lay down, pressed her body against the ground, and felt the vibration... The source of the vibration was due west. To the west of East District 8 was East District 7, then District 6, District 5, District 4... As the numbers gradually moved forward, the prosperity and land prices soared rapidly. The most central location was a restricted area for ordinary Ark residents.
"Core area".
"This vibration... is coming from the direction of the core area?" Bianca muttered to herself, "Is there some 'big guy' coming out from under the core area?"
However, even if it is a super giant beast, the vibration generated when "breaking out of the ground" should not last so long in theory... Unless, what appears in the core area is a large group of giant beasts.
Bianca was not nervous at all. On the contrary, she felt a bit gloating... The "big shot" who could only be contacted with a black card was most likely staying in the mysterious core area. Now that something happened in the core area, it was definitely great news for her.
"We must quickly find a way to leave the Ark, and then pass this news back to Mukach... We may be able to use these behemoths. During the counterattack, this will definitely be a force that can reverse the situation!" Bianca thought to herself.
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Ark, tectonic layer, "underground maze".
The Joker, Soap, Noir and Ulrich were leaning against a rusty metal pipe. The former kept making marks on the electronic map, while the latter three were gasping for breath.
In the past few hours, they have "released" at least twenty mutant beasts into the residential area above - these twenty mutant beasts are not ordinary monsters, they are all "boss-level" monsters that dominate a certain area. Even if their strength is not as good as that of the giant moth, it is not much weaker.
Releasing these monsters is not an easy task. If you are not careful, you may lose your life... However, the main reason why Soap and Noir are willing to participate in this crazy plan is because of the existence of the Joker, a "humanoid monster" with unfathomable strength.
It was not difficult for Ulrich to find the location of those mutated monsters and the exit to the ground.
During the years he lived in the underground maze , he unexpectedly acquired a very special ability: although he could not remember the ever-changing passages and blocks, nor could he draw an accurate map for Soap and the others, as long as he followed his feelings, he could always reach where he wanted to go and never get lost. Moreover, for those monsters with a strong sense of territory and a strong desire to attack, he could sense the existence of the other party from a long distance... This ability was originally supposed to be used for self-protection, but now it is used to actively find those monsters, and it is also very useful.
As long as there is a place that Ulrich is extremely reluctant to go to, there is a high probability that there is a "qualified" mutant monster there.
In the words of the Joker, under the dual effects of radiation and survival instinct, Ulrich has evolved an ability that is difficult to explain with existing biological theories. This ability is like migratory birds never getting lost when migrating long distances. As long as Ulrich is in this maze, it is like having its own navigation software, and it is the kind of navigation software that can highlight dangerous areas.
The most dangerous part of this plan is, naturally, to lead those mutant beasts away from their territory and to the exit of the maze - this step has always been completed by the Joker alone.
Those bad-tempered and simple-minded monsters were easy to deal with. All you had to do was shoot a burst of bullets at their butts and they would chase after them relentlessly. After the clown led them to the ground, he would use his unpredictable body movements to disappear from their sight. Those monsters that had lost their targets would naturally vent their anger on the surrounding buildings...
As for those more cunning monsters, even if they chase after the clown, they will stop vigilantly when the clown leaves their territory, and will not cross the line no matter how provocative the clown is.
Out of desperation, the clown could only use his "trump card" - he used his tentacles to inject a special substance into the bodies of those monsters. After receiving the "injection", even the calmest monsters would completely lose their minds as if they had seen a red mad bull, and rush towards the clown regardless of anything.
After being led to the ground by the clown, these monsters caused more serious damage than other monsters. In just a few minutes, several blocks were flattened into ruins.
I have to say, if a camera is added at a distance, the captured footage can be released as a monster special film with almost no editing... After all, those destroyed buildings are real things made of reinforced concrete, which is definitely not comparable to those models built of paper and plastic.
The cost of building an office building that was knocked over by a giant wild boar alone is estimated to be over 200 million credit points.
No special effects film director would dare to spend so much money on props...and even if the director really had that much money to squander, he wouldn't be able to hire a monster actor who could "play himself" like this.
Seeing the buildings collapsing one after another, Soap's heart was cheering and roaring. When those monsters slapped the roof of the mansion worth thousands of gold, he even felt better than the sprint stage before the sage time. He had a refreshing feeling of adrenaline rushing to the top of his soul.
Maybe... there is a twisted desire for destruction in the hearts of all human beings, but this desire is usually suppressed by reason.
Nouval looked at Soap, who was excited, and shook his head… Although these monsters caused great damage to the residential area, they did not cause much trouble to the “real enemy” - although the underground maze was large, most of them were located at the later end of the sequence, and they could not bring the monsters directly to the core area.
The only way is for the clown to continue to "lure the monsters" and lead them all the way to the core area. But after Soap proposed this idea, the clown rejected it. The clown said that if "Zeus" and others knew of his existence, they would not care about the rampaging monsters at all, but would be the top priority for the clown and his group to eliminate.
It’s not known whether the Joker can escape safely, but Soap and the others are definitely dead.
"Then let's put all the monsters in the underground maze up there first." After hearing what the clown said, Soap immediately followed his heart. "With so many monsters, there will always be a few that move towards the core area."
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"Ulrich, are there any other powerful monsters around here?" Soap glanced at the corpse-like Ulrich Nowitzki, "We have rested enough, it's time to continue 'working'."
"There should be no more around here... There are only a few corners that make me feel uneasy. They should... They should not be any powerful guys." Ulrich closed his eyes, as if he was sensing something.
After dealing with him for such a long time, Soap had a rough idea of Ulrich's "adjectives" - if Ulrich said "a place I would rather die than get close to", it was basically a "BOSS" level monster, with destructive power roughly equivalent to that of the giant moth. The next level was "very scary" or "I shudder when I think about it", and the next level was "a place that needs to be avoided as much as possible."
As for the monsters that made him feel "uneasy", they were at best common wild beasts in the wilderness - deadly enough to ordinary people, but not a threat at all to well-trained and fully-equipped soldiers.
"It seems that all the powerful monsters in this area have been released by us...it's time to move to another place." Soap clapped his hands and was about to turn around, but suddenly he stumbled and fell face down.
"Ouch...what the hell is tripping me...No! The ground, why is the ground shaking?!"
Soap climbed up using his hands and feet. He was surprised to find that the space they were in was constantly vibrating, as if a monster weighing dozens of tons was dancing above their heads.
"Is it a monster?" Nouval raised his head and looked upwards.
"No." The clown rejected it outright.
