Volume 9: Molten Mine Chapter 424: All Out Movement
These seeds of erosion crawled out from a ruin about 500 meters away from the ruins of the building. In the blink of an eye, they climbed over the obstacles that were insurmountable for Ke Lan and his team and approached the ruins of the building.
"Why is there only one team? This is different from what we expected!" Layton said anxiously, "If they find out that this S-type mutant was sniped from a distance, it will be troublesome!"
"It seems that it's not lively enough..." Ke Lan stared at the three B-type mutants in the front. When they rushed into the wreckage of the building, he pressed the detonator button without hesitation.
"boom!!!"
A huge explosion came from the bottom of the building wreckage. At the place where the building wreckage and the broken plate were connected, Ke Lan had pasted a total of six pieces of highly concentrated sticky explosives. These six pieces of explosives were almost equivalent to 120 kilograms of TNT. The impact caused by the explosion instantly diagnosed the edge of the broken plate that was already full of cracks. One end of the building wreckage lost its support and fell into the magma.
The mechanical snake's perspective instantly tilted to one side. In the darkness, it could vaguely see various debris in the building sliding to one side, but the seeds of erosion used their tentacles to fix their bodies and did not fall downwards with those things.
However, the balance of the wreckage of the building has been broken. After one end fell into the rift, the other end resting on the rock on the opposite bank was no longer solid and began to show signs of slowly sliding down. It was only a matter of time before the entire wreckage fell into the lava river.
But before this piece of building wreckage was swallowed by the hot magma, Ke Lan had to squeeze out its last value - to use it as bait, this big and heavy thing was really perfect.
He pressed another button on the detonator. For a moment, there were loud gunshots in the wreckage of the building and on the shore, as if several armed teams were firing at the same time. Although they were all light weapons, their number was large and the momentum was extremely impressive. Under this lure, several teams of Erosion Seeds left their hiding places, and the team closest to the boulder where Ke Lan and the others were was only a hundred meters away.
" It can be basically confirmed that the distance between each node of the control network composed of S-type mutants is 500 meters. Currently, seven nodes have been exposed. In other words, this area has been cleared." While speaking, Ke Lan circled an irregular area with a diameter of about three kilometers on the holographic projection map and shared this data with everyone in the reconnaissance team.
"In this direction, we won't encounter any more enemies until we reach this border." Ke Lan continued, "Hurry up and wait until the wreckage of the building completely slides into the rift and the explosives in the decoy bombs are exhausted. The 'commander' who controls these seeds of erosion will come to his senses."
"Are we just going to leave like this? What should we do when we return later?" Aya asked worriedly, "They...these seeds of erosion, will they expand the scope of their search? What if we run into them head-on?"
"I didn't plan to return the same way. After completing the mission, we will directly cross the mining area and go out from another direction." After Ke Lan said this, he was the first to climb down the boulder.
In the distance, more and more erosion species gathered beside the rift. There were more than a dozen S-type mutants alone. The tentacles on their heads trembled violently, as if they were exchanging information at a high frequency. And those powerful B-type mutants kept jumping towards the wreckage of the building and drilling in through various doors, windows and gaps.
It won't be long before they realize that the enemy is not inside the ruins of the building at all, but at this time, Ke Lan and others have already moved away from this area.
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In order to leave the control area of these seeds of erosion as quickly as possible, the members of the reconnaissance team were running at the fastest speed they could. At this time, no one cared about the problem of fuel consumption. When they encountered a crack, they directly activated the jet pack and jumped over it. When they encountered a fault and a cliff, they directly flew over it at full speed. The travel efficiency increased several times compared to before.
But the price they paid was that the limited fuel in the jetpack was completely exhausted, and they had to rely on their own feet to complete the second half of the journey, which was even more difficult.
"What kind of crappy thruster is this? Why can't it be powered by crystals?" The Hound complained. "The fuel is heavy and not durable. I pressed the eject button twice and it used up half of the reserve. I used up half of it just by climbing over a ten-meter-high cliff... Isn't this thing too rubbish?"
"We can't help it. The energy crystal converters that can be mass-produced at present are extremely unstable in high temperature environments. They must be used in conjunction with thick insulation shells and water cooling devices. In addition, the converter itself is very large. Add to that the weight of the high-powered ejector powered by crystals... Then each of us will have to carry at least another 200 kilograms , which is completely contrary to the concept of light-equipped infiltration..." Layton patted the hound's shoulder comfortingly, "Look at it more positively, old dog. At least the converter built into the power armor can still be used. Otherwise, you can only wear the nuclear-powered armor with a small reactor on the back... You don't want to run around in an environment of several hundred degrees with a mini reactor on your back, do you?"
"Then the armor you and the doctor wore on your last mission didn't have this problem, did it? I see that it was pretty light, right?"
"That's the prototype of the Ye Group... It hasn't been put into mass production yet. They just lent it to us last time, and now they have taken it back to collect data." As he spoke, Layton suddenly lowered his voice and switched the communication channel from the team to one-on-one. "Even if that thing is mass-produced, the price will definitely be an astronomical figure. It may not be a problem to equip each person in our hunting group with a set, but they..."
He signaled with his eyes to the security agents following Aya Breya and continued, "They definitely can't be equipped with such high-end equipment unless we pay for it on behalf of the Security Bureau."
"If you ask me, these guys are just a burden." The Hound said unhappily, "They have no skills at all, but they insist on following us around. Even when their equipment is lagging behind, they still ask us to spend money to upgrade it... There is no such a bullshit in the world!"
"There's nothing we can do. This is the result of Ke Lan's negotiations with the higher-ups at the Security Bureau. According to their original plan, the group of people camping outside were also going to follow us into the mining area."
"Hehe..." The hound pulled the corner of his mouth with a fake smile, "Come in here to give those erosion seeds a snack?"
