Volume 7: Abandoned Sandstone City Chapter 337 Four overlapping marks
But that’s not all…
The hollowed-out bottom of the well only held out for less than half a second before it suddenly collapsed. The dilapidated lifting platform continued to fall with Ke Lan and the others, completely out of the well.
The surroundings were no longer smooth and flat well walls, but instead were covered with rocks that were like volcanic rocks with holes of all sizes. These rocks were extremely fragile and shattered under the impact of the lifting platform. They continued to fall for nearly a hundred meters before they barely stopped. Almost half of the bodies of the two mechas had been buried in the rubble... Fortunately, the people in the mechas were not injured except for being a little dizzy.
"Is this place... the bat rat's nest?" Valentina manipulated the body to stand up from the rubble and looked around. Many of the large and small holes were flashing with tiny bloody lights - these were immature bat rat cubs. As for the adult bat rats, they had all been killed by Valkyrie or crushed to death by the falling lift platform.
I have to say that the quality of this lifting platform is quite good. It is nearly 1.5 meters thick and made of multi-layer composite alloy. Judging from its luster, it seems that a lot of Nino alloy is mixed in. It was dropped from such a high place and penetrated the bat rat nest more than 100 meters deep. The platform itself only showed slight deformation.
"If we have the tools, we can cut this platform into pieces. It will be enough to make more than a dozen heavy shields." Ke Lan muttered and walked to the winch. Only then did he realize that the safety device of the winch was not damaged for no reason. The blood of the bat rats slaughtered by Valentina just now almost covered the entire platform. The blood not only corroded the connectors of the thrusters, but also corroded the tiny parts inside the safety device.
"I didn't expect that I would eventually fall into the hands of these little creatures." Ke Lan sighed and set his eyes on the compass on the heads-up display - fortunately, there was no magnetic field interference in this place, all detection equipment was working well, and communication with the outside world was not cut off. At this depth of nearly 400 meters, the machine could still receive information sent by the organizers of the event.
When they landed here, three more people were eliminated. Now, there are only 19 players left in the competition, including these three.
"But things don't seem as bad as we imagined. Anyway, as long as we make it into the top four, we can advance... If we keep hiding underground, maybe we can get into the top four. Now I hope that the bat rat's nest can be bigger... If it can lead to the center of the safe zone, it would be even better." Ke Lan said.
"Can we win like this?" Valentina asked.
"We can't win, but at least the strong teams are clearing out the lone wolves quickly enough, so we should be able to advance before the poison circle catches up with us."
Since the signal has not been blocked, it means that the locators built into their bodies are still functioning. In this way, even if they do not touch the light curtain, they will still be eliminated as long as the positioning shows that they are outside the range of the light curtain.
"We can't climb up. The rock layers are too brittle and can't support the weight of the machine. Just dig towards the center of the circle and dig as far as you can."
The standard combat dagger is actually not suitable for excavation operations, but compared to the engineer shovel in the emergency tool kit, the blade of the dagger used by the mecha is much wider. What's more, the rock layer itself is as crispy as wafer biscuits. As long as the dagger is inserted and stirred vigorously, a big hole can be expanded.
The two machines were not moving very fast in the bat rat's nest, but at least they would not encounter other participating teams here. The only thing they needed to be careful not to use too much force and collapse the entire nest.
In less than ten minutes, four more people were eliminated, and the remaining number became 15.
The organizer of the event also broadcast in the headphones of every remaining player: "Only half of the teams are left in the field. Now the electronic map will be unlocked for each player..."
Eight teams left? Ke Lan was slightly stunned. According to this calculation, there would be no more than three full teams left.
"Are there so many lone wolves? Besides, if we count our team as fully staffed, then at least one of the teams that made it out of the super resource point has lost some members. There are only two possible situations: they were besieged by other teams, or they encountered another team that captured the super resource point..."
As soon as the broadcast ended, a zoomable electronic map suddenly appeared below the line showing the remaining number of players. Through this electronic map, contestants could not only know their own coordinates and the scope of the safe zone, but they could even see the coordinates of other contestants on the field.
Your own units are all green dots, which refresh every second, while enemy units are red dots, which refresh every 120 seconds.
Ke Lan and his team are now in the lower city area. According to the rate of attrition, even if they stand still, they should be able to make it into the top four before the circle shrinks.
Based on the distance distribution between the red dots , Ke Lan discovered that there were exactly three full teams left on the field, a remnant team of two people, and four lone wolves.
But what made him laugh and cry was that the green dots of the three of them just happened to overlap with the red dot of a lone wolf, and it looked as if the two sides were in close combat - but the fact was that the lone wolf was just above them on the ground, and there was at least a hundred meters of rock between the two.
"There has been no information about reduction in members in the past half day. Could it be that the other teams think that we are forming an illegal team..." Ke Lan thought to himself, and couldn't help but glance at the small monitoring drone that had been following them - at least the event organizers and the audience can see their current situation, but the other contestants don't know it.
Ke Lan and the others were fine, but the situation of the lone wolf on the ground was not so good: the moment the map was unlocked, he noticed that there were three red dots overlapping with his own, and he was so scared that he almost jumped out of the driver's seat - according to the ratio of the map and the actual arena, the distance between these three enemies and him would not be more than 20 meters, but he did not see anything.
There were nothing but ruins all around him. He controlled the mecha to spin in place, feeling that a black gun barrel would stick out from every window of every building at any time.
"The enemy... where are the enemies hiding? Three against one, why aren't they attacking... are they trying to play a trick on me? Why can't I see anything? Could they... could they have got the optical camouflage armor? Are there such things in the supply point?" The pilot's palms were full of sweat, and his heart rate was getting faster and faster... After turning around in a daze for seven or eight times, he simply made up his mind, gritted his teeth, raised his machine gun and started firing indiscriminately at the surroundings.
As the machine gun sounded, the nearby teams immediately focused their attention in this direction -
"It's the direction where the four marked points overlapped before!"
"They finally started fighting?"
"If it was one against three, the battle would have been over. These should be two remnant teams..."
"But why is there only the sound of one weapon? This should be a 35mm four-barrel miniature cannon. If they can be suppressed by this weapon, the other team's equipment must not be very good."
"Let's go and mediate the fight!"
