Last Totem Novel - Chapter 79
Chapter 79 Battery
Not long after they landed on the beach, a group of heavily armed soldiers greeted them. The leader was a skinny man. When he saw Zhao Linglong, he immediately gave a military salute and loudly said, “Report to the commander, the sixth fleet of the southwest branch, the vice captain of the Moon Sea. Respond to your orders.”
Zhao Linglong saluted and then asked, “Where is Captain Cole Harvey?”
“The captain is still directing the search on the frontlines. Please follow me to the camp command center. We will report the details to you there.”
Not long after, everyone followed the skinny black man to the temporary camp. Zhao Linglong walked into the tent in the middle. The captain and the others wanted to follow, but the guard politely stopped them.
“Distinguished guest, this is the temporary command post. It involves military secrets. Please wait a moment.”
The captain spread out his hands, shrugged his shoulders, and led everyone to the side, waiting for news of Zhao Linglong.
Tie Zha was in the hands of the water, neither saying a word nor looking left and right, looking very inconspicuous. The sailors did not pay much attention to him because they had been in contact with him during this period of time.
“Have you seen the people chasing the Star Chaser?” Tie Zha lowered his voice and asked Feng Yun behind him. Feng Yun shook his head and looked at the semi-circular building not far away. He replied in a deep voice, “It must have been used as cannon fodder.”
Tie Zha nodded. Just now, he had been observing secretly and discovered that although the soldiers were very polite, their expressions were somewhat nervous. Especially after they entered the camp, they seemed to scatter casually, but in fact, they had intentionally or unintentionally formed an encirclement around them.
At the same time, in the tent, Zhao Linglong frowned and questioned the captain, Cole Hassan.
“Why did you act without permission?”
“Search Officer Zhao, we can’t find your signal, and I heard that they have already withdrawn. I’m afraid that if we delay any longer, it will affect the collection of evidence. Just …”
“Tell me about the current situation.” Zhao Linglong interrupted Cole and stopped asking the question.
“The research facility is located deep underground. The power supply has been cut off. I have sent a team down. We plan to start the generator first, and then proceed with the next exploration …” Cole reported in a serious tone.
Zhao Linglong nodded, acknowledging her current job.
Upon receiving the confirmation of his superiors, Cole smiled as if relieved. He then signaled for the orderly to pour water. The orderly saluted, trotted two steps to a small table, poured two cups of hot tea, and brought it over.
“Chief, drink some tea first to warm up your body.” Cole said flatteringly.
Zhao Linglong looked at him and picked up the teacup. Her lips gently blew and she was about to take a sip when she smelled a trace of dizziness in the faint fragrance of the tea. She quietly put down the teacup and said, “It’s a little hot. Let’s put it down for a while.”
However, she shouldn’t have done anything wrong, just shouldn’t have explained. As a superior, do you need to explain to your subordinates whether you drink tea or not?
Cole’s expression froze, and a blue light suddenly appeared in his eyes as he punched Zhao Linglong!
Zhao Linglong was prepared and dodged Cole’s fist. Then, he pulled out his gun with his right hand and pulled the emergency ring with his left hand behind his back. In just 0.3 seconds, her third-generation psionic power armor would cover her entire body. With her strength as a Tier 4 Psionic Adept, coupled with her advanced power armor, Cole would be crushed like an ant by her.
“Bang!” With a gunshot, Cole flew backwards a few meters away. Although gunpowder weapons were unable to pierce through the psionic power armor, they were unable to withstand the tremendous impact. He had already lost his only chance, as if he had foreseen a tragic future. His eyes involuntarily revealed fear of death.
However, this time, fate seemed to have taken care of him.
Zhao Linglong pointed her gun at him with a stunned expression. The reason for that was because the psionic power armor did not instantly cover her entire body as expected. She pulled on the emergency ring again, but the power armor still didn’t react, as if it had failed.
As the saying goes, if you don’t die, you won’t die. This time, the captain had died steadily. The reason why Zhao Linglong’s power armor failed was because of him. When he was on the ship, in order to reduce Zhao Linglong’s threat, he took advantage of the intimacy between the two of them to secretly remove the power armor’s energy-gathering battery.
As for psionic energy below rank six, they were unable to radiate their psionic energy to the outside world. They could only stimulate their psionic energy to the surface of their bodies. Therefore, they needed to use psionic energy absorbing equipment to collect the psionic energy scattered all over their bodies, and then use this to drive the psionic energy power armor.
Zhao Linglong was only Tier 4. If she wore the first and second generation psionic power armor, she wouldn’t need a energy-gathering battery. However, the third-generation psionic power armor was only a small backpack before it was activated, and it was unable to collect psionic power from the surface of the body. Therefore, she had to activate the power armor and cover her entire body with a concentrated battery before she could ignite the psionic power device.
Seeing this, Cole immediately stood up and looked down at Zhao Linglong with a face full of ridicule. A psionic energy practitioner without a psionic energy armor was a fish on the display board. Of course, this was limited to Psionic Adepts below Tier 6. Those high-grade psionic energy practitioners could radiate their psionic energy to the outside world. Even without psionic energy equipment, they still possessed extremely strong lethality.
Clearly, Zhao Linglong was not above rank six. With a muffled sound, Cole punched Zhao Linglong in the abdomen, ending the battle.
“Throw it on the boat and lock it up. Enjoy it on the way back.” Cole ordered.
At this moment, the captain who heard the gunshots rushed into the tent and confronted Cole.
“Courting death?” Cole asked calmly.
The captain looked at Zhao Linglong, who was lying on the ground and forced out a bitter smile. Wearing psionic power armor, was Cole an existence that they could shake?
“I’ll give you ten minutes to prepare. Then, bring your men to the research facility and find a way to turn on the power.” Cole smiled playfully and threatened, “If you want to live.”
“Alright” The captain replied helplessly.
Tie Zha, who was hiding behind the crowd, originally wanted to run, but when he saw the four bowl-sized spray holes behind him, he immediately gave up. Although this person looked far inferior to the red-robed warrior who had assassinated him the other day, and his psionic power armor was somewhat obsolete, it was still not something he could deal with. Moreover, the other party also had a group of fully armed soldiers.
Ten minutes later …
The unconscious Zhao Linglong was unarmed and imprisoned in the warship’s cell. The captain brought everyone into the research facility under the surveillance of two soldiers.
The entrance was a long passage, and there were some messy and fresh footprints on the ground. Looks like someone came in not long ago. After walking in the passageway for a while, the captain suddenly stopped and gave Tie Zha a meaningful look. The latter nodded in understanding. At this time, at the end, the two soldiers in charge of surveillance lifted their flashlights and shouted, “What are you doing! Let’s go!”
“You see, there seems to be something unusual about this.” The captain pointed at a spot in the darkness.
The soldier stepped forward and lifted his flashlight to shine. There was only a pile of abandoned wires, so he scolded, “What the hell is going on …” Halfway through his words, he could not continue, because a sharp thorn had pierced through his throat!
Immediately after, the soldier behind him was about to squeeze out the crowd and go up to see the situation clearly, but his head suddenly tilted and he stood there without moving. Everyone turned around and saw a dim light. A spear-shaped object pierced through his temples!
In the blink of an eye, the spear disappeared. Then, Tie Zha walked out of the darkness, and the corpse of the soldier collapsed. Before everyone could figure out what had happened, the two soldiers had already turned into corpses.
“What’s your plan? Tell me.” Tie Zha asked straightforwardly.
“That person, how confident are you?” The captain asked.
“Not even in Chengdu.” Tie Zha said frankly. There was no point in hiding it at this time.
“What if he exhausts his psionic energy?” The captain hypothesized.
“It’s like killing a chicken.” Tie Zha replied. (This is the only way to pay tribute to Chen Daming.)
The captain pulled Tie Zha aside and whispered, “My abilities are the Poisonous Bee Needle and the Ant-Devouring Spider Venom. The target I stabbed will be weak for a short period of time and will expend multiple times more energy. Let’s go in and find the people from the Star Chaser, then join forces with them and find an opportunity to sneak attack him.”
“Not bad.” Tie Zha grinned and said.
The captain rolled his eyes and said, “If I die, just take it. But I have to remind you, I still have a basic ability, but I won’t tell you what it’s for. In any case, you can decide whether or not your genetic chain can carry the three abilities.”
“Can’t they be duplicated separately?” Tie Zha asked humbly. He didn’t know much about this matter.
“When using gene looting, you can only distinguish between normal genes and mutated genes. Multiple abilities are copied together.” Replied the captain.
“Thank you.” Tie Zha cupped his fists and said.
“I’m not dead yet” said the captain gloomily.
“Shua …” At this moment, the sound of the metal door opening suddenly came from ahead. The two of them quickly turned around and rushed to the front of the group. The metal door at the end of the tunnel was opened. Feng Yun was leaning against the door frame, raising his flashlight and looking inside.
The metal door was pitch black. Through the light from the flashlight, it could be judged that this was an empty hall. There was something white on the ground, like piles of snow. At this time, more flashlights shone in, the lights overlapping and brighter,
Upon closer inspection, the “snow” on the ground was actually piles of translucent silk threads that were tightly wrapped together, a bit like cotton and a bit like spider webs.
“Squeakk … Squeakk …”
Suddenly, a faint sound came from above his head. Feng Yun raised his angle and shone over …
In an instant, he was stunned by the scene in front of him. The flashlight couldn’t be held firmly and fell to the ground and was extinguished.
Everyone immediately lifted their flashlights and shot beams of light towards the ceiling …
“F*ck … what did you get!” The captain opened his mouth wide and exclaimed.