The Death List Novel - Chapter 575
Chapter 575 Exploration Of Ruins
There was an atmosphere in the Palanto Plane, but the speed of the armored soldier was still very fast. Not long after, Qin Lun and the others saw the ancient ruins in the projection record.
Apart from Bobby, who had a combination of follow-up hits and hits, the other nine members of the patrol team had arrived. Pilot Officer Keith had lost a portion of his armor during the Battle of the Cosmic Octopus, and there were still more than 20 left.
Because all the mobile forces had left, Ordnance Officer Keith on the Attack urgently repaired the warship’s APB force field. Although the weapon system hadn’t been repaired, it was still enough to last until Qin Lun and the others returned. There was no need to worry about their safety for a short period of time.
This ancient ruin is located in the center of a continuous mountain range. The ruins occupy a very large area. Looking down from the sky, the entire mountain range had been transformed by a great force. A funnel appeared in the center of the mountain range. The funnel was wide and narrow in the shape of an inverted pyramid.
The four walls of the funnel pyramid were made up of countless giant stairs. At the bottom of the pyramid was a small stone platform with nothing on it. What attracted everyone’s attention was not this stone platform, but the dozens of square tunnels that were exposed on the four walls.
Perhaps because the Angels were huge, most of these tunnels could accommodate four soldiers and mechs, and their altitude was high enough for the mechs to fly off the ground, so they didn’t look too embarrassed.
“This place used to seem to be a base. We should be able to gain something from it.” “It’s just that this place is well-preserved. There may be defensive measures left behind by the Angels. Everyone, be careful,” Robin instructed from the entire team’s communication channel.
“There are a lot of tunnels. Let’s split up into three teams and enter!” Qin Lun divided the nine Apostle into three groups. He led Frank and Sawa to a passageway above the ruins.
Although one of Frank and Sawa was an MT and the other was a medical Apostle, there was a gap in strength between them and the other Tier 2 Apostle. He was the most suitable person to take care of them.
“Release the Detector Robot!” Qin Lun instructed Alex beside him.
Alex nodded and landed near the entrance of the corridor. A hatch lid was opened on the shoulder of the soldier mecha and several silver metal balls were fired. Before these metal balls could land on the ground, a shining observation lens appeared in front of them. A thin metal wing popped out from each side, emitting a buzzing sound as it flew towards the dark corridor.
At the same time, a shared image of a sphere detector appeared on the display screen of the soldier’s armor.
Qin Lun and the others didn’t leave anyone outside the ruins. This ruins was huge, almost as big as a giant city. Moreover, there were countless passageways. Even if an enemy team attacked, they would not be able to seal the entrance and exit. As a result, they only left a few security devices outside the hiding place and entered the ruins.
‘”Strange. I saw the projection of Angel Keith’s ruins on Planet Keith on Faith. Those ruins are very high-tech, but there don’t seem to be any high-tech products here. The stone walls of the passageway are basically part of the mountain.” Sawa, who was an archaeologist, was quite excited after entering the ruins. She stared at the images from the spherical probe and muttered to herself along the way.
“Eh? Is there something wrong with the probe robot?” Vera, who was at the front of the line, cried out in surprise.
Qin Lun frowned slightly. He also saw what happened just now. The detection screen only trembled for a moment, and then the whole thing went black. Moreover, there were several spherical detectors that had problems at the same time. Obviously, it was not normal.
“Sir, do you need to release another batch of probe robots?” Alex asked solemnly.
“No need, Frank, you go ahead!” Qin Lun shook his head. The situation just now was too strange. Since the first batch of probe balls hadn’t found any problems, it wouldn’t be useful to release another batch. The interior of the ruins is still very large, so exploration robots need to be used sparingly.
“Alright, Young Master!” Frank picked up his Qiongqi bone shield and walked out in front of the group. On the other hand, the 17th Fallen Angel’s head also had a few furry antennae on both sides. They were the complex eyebrows of the Holy Thorn.
“Frank, be careful. The detection robot’s accident is at the corner ahead!” After walking a distance, Qin Lun reminded him softly.
“En!” Frank agreed and landed on the ground. The mecha’s right hand blocked the shield in front of him, bent down and carefully walked towards the corner.
“Stop!” Qin Lun suddenly felt a chill run down his spine as he blurted out.
Before Qin Lun could finish his words, white smoke rose from the bone shield in Frank’s hand. The hunchbacked servant stood stiffly on the spot. After a few seconds, he slowly retreated to everyone’s side.
“Ceng!” Alex seemed to have discovered something. He pulled out the MRI knife from his mech and dug out a few gray barrels on the stone walls on both sides of the corridor.
“It’s an antimatter ray device with its own sensors!” Alex looked at the barrel in the mech’s hand for a while and said in surprise, “After such a long time, these little things can actually be used.”
“No wonder the previous scans couldn’t see anything strange. The antimatter rays didn’t have any brightness and merged with the surrounding darkness.” Vera picked up a few pieces of the detector from the corner of the ground and said in surprise.
Frank lowered his head and looked at the deep marks on Qiongqi’s shield. A trace of lingering fear appeared on his thick face.
Because science and technology could not achieve it, the APB force field of the soldier-machine armor was very bad for antimatter rays. If he hadn’t stopped earlier, the mecha would have undoubtedly been sliced into pieces by the antimatter rays. If a ray had passed through the cockpit, it would have been up to him to survive.
“It’s a pity that Shylock didn’t follow me. He’s most interested in this kind of thing!” Alex put the anti-matter radiation device into the mecha cabin. Giese didn’t know much about anti-matter technology, so it was of great research value to bring it out.
“There should be other mechanisms up ahead. Take turns releasing the spherical detectors. Use them in groups of two.” Qin Lun thought for a while and said, “In addition, the three groups used different detection fields to minimize the risk factor.”
“Sir, the communication signal inside the ruins is very poor. I can’t inform the other two teams about the situation here.” Sawa suddenly said with an ugly expression.
“Forget it, I hope they don’t lose any manpower because of this!” Qin Lun sighed and led everyone to continue exploring. However, after this scene, everyone lost their leisure mentality, and the atmosphere in the team unknowingly became tense.
As time passed, Qin Lun felt that they had already penetrated deep into the mountain range of the ruins. This place was no longer completely a mountain wall. Metal composite frames began to appear on some sections of the road. They were not far from the core of the ruins.
Even though they were close to the important location of the ruins, the defensive devices that resembled antimatter rays did not appear again, causing everyone to secretly breathe a sigh of relief.
“Sir, look!” Vera suddenly cried out in surprise.
“I saw it!” Qin Lun’s eyes lit up. A huge metal gate appeared on the screen from the probe robot. They finally reached the end of the tunnel.
“Chi la!” At this moment, a dazzling white light flashed across everyone’s projection screen, and the entire scene darkened.
“Something killed the probe robot again!” Sawa cried out in alarm.
“Release another batch. This time, increase the number. You guys increase the output power of the APB force field. I don’t think this is a fixed defensive device.” Qin Lun’s heart was overshadowed. His eyesight was the strongest amongst the crowd. Just now, he vaguely saw something strange in the white light. However, things happened too suddenly. He wasn’t sure what he saw.
“Kakaka!” Not long after the second batch of exploration robots were released, some strange sounds came from the depths of the corridor, as if they were still extending in this direction.
The second batch of detection robots were quickly annihilated again, but this time, the scene everyone saw was more complete. The thing that annihilated the probe robot seemed to be a few strips, accompanied by dense lightning.
“Defense formation!” Qin Lun strode forward, took the Qiongqi bone shield from Frank and stood at the front of the line.
The team waited quietly for a while, and the strange sounds on the other side became louder and louder. With the help of the searchlight of the military man-machine armor, they could finally clearly see the rapidly pouncing object.
“What is this?” At the same time, everyone’s vigilance reached its peak.
The object on the mech screen was a monster robot with more than a dozen metal tails. Its shape was like a tadpole that had magnified countless times. However, its tail was not one, but more than a dozen. It grabbed onto the walls of the tunnel like a tentacle and crawled.
The tadpole robot was very large. It was half the size of the corridor’s cross-section, and with more than ten metal tentacles or tentacles, it was almost filled with corridors. Everyone had no choice but to face it head-on.
The robot’s crawling speed was very fast, and it instantly arrived in front of Qin Lun. A tentacle with dazzling lightning flashed towards the seventeenth Fallen Angel. “Pa!” Before Qin Lun could observe the trajectory of the tentacles, he felt the mecha tremble and was sent flying by the tentacles.
“Shoot!” Qin Lun felt his hand lighten and the incomparably hard Qiongqi bone shield shattered into pieces. He even saw a charred black patch on the shield with the residual light at the corner of his eyes.
“Bang, bang, bang!” The 17th Fallen Angel was sent flying like a bowling ball, sweeping through the mecha. The brilliance of the APB force field rose and fell one after another, and all the mecha that was sent flying flew far away, embedded into the stone wall of the corridor.
The remaining lucky ones hurriedly raised their guns and fired. The corridor was immediately filled with dazzling beams of light. However, they were quickly stunned. The surface of the tadpole robot monster had a transparent mirror that looked like an APB force field, defending all the particle beams.
The only use of the particle beam is to push it a little further away without causing any material damage.
“Truly hard!” Qin Lun crawled out of the pit on the stone wall. The mechanical bag on his back was completely opened. Four cylindrical metal objects shot out and floated in front of the mecha.
“Spread out, let me do it!” A sinister expression appeared on Qin Lun’s face. Within this narrow passage, the Phased Array Machine Cannon, nicknamed “Ice Cold Storm”, would display its maximum power.