Returning from the abyss

Chapter 520 Traces
The light emitted by the blue giant star shines on the ground, and many dark spots can be vaguely seen, which are projections from the asteroid belt.However, Tianmu Yi no longer appeared in this half of the sky, so it was quite clear.The phantom star has a thicker atmosphere, and even on a sunny day it feels a bit gloomy, but the time can still be judged.

It was already afternoon.

The three of Lu Ning sat on a high slope and ate "lunch" through the straw built into the space suit, which is liquid nutrients to be precise.

"It's such a trouble not being able to remove the spacesuit." Spade lay on the edge of a rock, complaining, "Captain, do you often encounter this kind of thing?"

"It's common when marching." Lu Ning counted the harvest in her hands. In addition to the previous two, she also caught a bug that was the same as a longhorn but was about the size of an apple. There were three live samples in total.The number of organs obtained from corpses is a bit larger, all of which have various detection and evasion effects.

There is almost no doubt that it will appear in the body and then retain this organ-specific effect, but it is still unclear whether this is the result of instinct or deliberation.Lu Ning has not found a C-level creature so far, which is actually abnormal, because there are also C-level creatures in this mountain area in the records of the year.

"This is a long way from the outpost." Spade said, "We have to get ready to return to time, Captain."

"Using jetpacks on the return journey will speed us up a lot." Lu Ning packed up the harvest this time, "But don't forget that the target number of this time is five, we must at least complete it."

"Ah...it's cloudy." Clarinet spoke suddenly, not following the topic as usual.

"It's cloudy and foggy here..." Just as Spades said, he suddenly flipped over and jumped off the rock. At the same time, Lu Ning also found a strong electric charge reaction on the detector in front of him!
Click!

A group of electric sparks exploded out of thin air on the stone, and even made a crack on the surface of the stone.

"It's an attack! Pay attention to your surroundings!" Spade hid behind a rock with a gun in his hand, aiming at the surroundings with full vigilance, but he stood there for more than ten seconds, and nothing followed.

Lu Ning looked at the sky, and it was indeed as clarinet said, the sky is cloudy now, although the brilliance of the stars can still be seen, but the sky has begun to darken a lot visible to the naked eye.She slightly expanded the search range of some detectors, which would inevitably produce errors and loss of accuracy, but she did find some special reactions in a farther range.

"They're moving away."

"Stay away from what?" Clarinet asked.

"I don't know, but the trend is moving away, maybe this is not a natural phenomenon."

"Certainly not! I was struck by lightning!" Spade shouted, "Is there any animal that can call wind and rain?"

"Land electric eel?" the clarinet interjected.

"Stop making such untimely jokes of yours at this time!"

At this moment, Lu Ning's eyes suddenly went dark, and she quickly released the filter reading function of the helmet. The surface of the helmet returned to a transparent state, and natural light came in, showing the most real situation of the outside world.

The creature that was not shown on the detector at all, and even the virtual imaging system failed to capture it, was in the sky, among the clouds.

"Oh... I see." Clarinet did the same thing, "What is that? A giant kite?"

There is an approximate triangle between the clouds, with a long-tailed shadow. It doesn't look big, but because he can't accurately judge the distance, Lu Ning doesn't know the real size of the creature.

"Is this guy completely invisible? Can't be seen by any detection?" Spade said in amazement, "We even..."

"The more sophisticated the detection method, the more likely it is to make a large error at a long distance. We can't infer the distance, but we should know that the creature should be at least seven or eight kilometers away from the ground just by visual inspection."

Lu Ning wasn't in a panic, this creature didn't target the three of them and release the attack, otherwise it would have been enough time for the next attack, but it was too late.And the range of random strikes that can be produced at such a high altitude is naturally quite large, and it is difficult to guarantee that the phantom beasts on the detector started to flee because they were shocked.

The helmet was automatically adjusted quickly and returned to working condition. However, Lu Ning did not activate those functions again. He only kept the electric charge detection and magnetic field detection, and expanded the detection range as much as possible. After starting the automatic log entry, he began to slide towards the downhill.

"team leader?"

"Beyond the scope of hunting, there is no need to waste time here."

"Where are we going now?"

"Acting against the wind, it appeared too abruptly, that is, it just took off." Clarinet also understands the army's judgment thinking, so he knows Lu Ning's purpose, "We have to try to find out its suspected stop .”

"What?" Spade didn't understand for a moment, and just followed the two of them down the slope.

Lu Ning walked against the wind, and the forest in front of him began to explode again with lightning, and ignited a giant tree.The burning flames looked even more glaring under the cloudy sky, but it also made Lu Ning feel relieved - the nature of lightning strikes at high places has not changed.

"Captain! Something is wrong with the flame!" Spade shouted.

Upon hearing this reminder, Lu Ning opened her hand to the burning tree——

A bright blue ball of light rushed out from the fingertips, plunged into the flames, and blasted the tree into pieces. The crushed coke formed an unnatural airflow in the air, and followed the flames to turn into a void again. Shadow, a fiery beast.

But before the phantom stared at it completely, it was torn apart by a string of bullets.Clarinet fired extremely fast, and she had no intention of waiting for this thing to show itself.In the successive blows, fine lightning appeared in the air again, and then Lu Ning blasted in another plasma cannon, completely blowing up the flames, and they could no longer gather together.

"It's okay, it's not that active...but it's not a living thing." Lu Ning glanced at the rapidly beating record data next to him, "Go back to the dragon vein and you'll have a job."

"Is that considered electric control?" Clarinet asked.

"It's much worse. There should be some other factor to activate the flames. But Eudemons always have some tricks that we don't know about, don't they?"

Lu Ning quickly ran past the flames. Enough charge tracking data had been collected, and now she was able to track the movement of the creature in the sky feasiblely, but the creature didn't notice it at all.

Soon, the result is output.

"One and a half kilometers, heading southeast." Lu Ning adjusted the direction a little bit, the surrounding magnetic field was disturbed by electric charges, but determining the direction was no longer a single method.Spades flipped over a piece of rotten wood, glanced over, and suddenly found a black figure in the dense forest walking quickly between the trees.

"Captain! On the right side! Found a human-sized creature."

"You can always find some hidden things." Lu Ning praised, and fired a flare to illuminate the dense forest. When the other party saw the flare, he went straight into the woods.

"Huh?" The clarinet snorted, raised the gun and fired a burst of fire, of course nothing was fired except for some dead branches and leaves.

"There are quite a lot of monsters and ghosts along the way." She recharged the magazine, but Lu Ning continued to run towards the target direction, Clarinet had no choice but to keep up, "Captain, why don't we take a look? That covert action is obviously..."

"I'm not ready to deal with creatures that may have intelligence now, unless they take the initiative to attack."

"Oh, but what if it's a survivor?"

"Survivor?" Spade was startled.

Clarinet nodded: "The evasive action just now came out of standard military training. Unless the creature here can perfectly imitate the action of the advance team that came here before, it should be human."

"If it's a person..." Lu Ning stepped on a three-meter-high low cliff in two or three steps, "Do you think that a member of the advance team has been hiding in the deep mountains and old forests for more than ten years in order to avoid the disaster of the outpost? Trying to ask for help, not shouting or identifying someone when you find him, and not even wearing normal protective clothing—can you trust this person?"

Even if it was just a glimpse, she could see the normal outline of the creature's head, not the state of being tightly wrapped in protective clothing.If that disease existed on the phantom star, how did such a person survive?

"Isn't that more dangerous? We have to deal with it?" Spades asked.

"It will be dealt with, but not now."

A [-]-kilometer cross-country trip is not even a physical exercise for soldiers, it is just a warm-up level.Lu Ning quickly rushed into an area with extremely dense electric charge reactions. This is a cave with obvious reddish-brown marks on the rock surface, which is different from the rest of the rocks in this area.

"Ore." Clarinet confirmed with a glance, "And it looks like iron ore."

"Ha...don't bully me that I don't read much. Ordinary iron oxide is not magnetic. No matter how strong the charge is, it won't be attracted." Spades panted slightly, not just because of running all the way, but because He has been paying attention to his surroundings, spending a lot of extra energy.

"It's just that the excessive charge on the monster dissociated iron ions and the like from the rock, and then settled on the surface of the rock." Lu Ning knocked, "There is only a very thin layer, it seems that there is no living here. how long."

"Be careful that there may be other threats inside, Captain." Spades reminded.

"Yes, clarinet, guard the door, spades and I go in."

Lu Ning turned on the searchlight.

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This cave was deeper than expected, and the original scene inside was destroyed by the unstable electric shock. Many rock surfaces were scorched or even cracked, but fortunately, there were no monsters like the flame condensed.

Going all the way to the very end, there is a hollow in the mountainside, and it is easy to see the victims there-three creatures the size of tigers that were electrocuted into coke.

"The rating is at least C." Lu Ning walked over and inspected the body of one of the beasts. The charge exploded from the inside, first scorching the internal organs, and then sprang out to burn the outer fur. Fully carbonized.

"It's really ruthless...but that's how beasts compete for territory. It's hard to tell what these three are." Spade also came to a tiger. He didn't have that much medical knowledge, but Stunned, he took out the short knife he was wearing and stabbed it, and the brittle black flesh fell off layer by layer.

But soon, Spades shouted again.

"Captain! This...Look at this! Is this..."

After hearing the news, Lu Ning walked over, and found that there were actually two light blue balls the size of grapes in the abdominal cavity of the beast that Spade poked open.She squatted down and checked with the detector. The ball contained extremely strong charges, but there was no sign of leakage at all. Most importantly, there was a life reaction inside!

"Spades."

"Huh? Captain?"

"I have to think about bringing you with me every time I come out. Your luck is really outrageous."

There was no such thing in the body of the one she picked, and the same was true in the body of the third one that was opened later. If she was in a hurry to leave here and didn't check all the corpses, then she really missed these two "eggs" up.

The space suit itself has the function of insulation. Lu Ning put on gloves, picked up the two eggs into the sample capsule, and put them away.Then she checked the terminal, and a statistic appeared behind her task of collecting B-level biological samples: 1/3.

The same kind is not counted twice, but you can collect these things instead of finding the challenge on the ontology, which can correspond to the difficulty of the second task.Lu Ning breathed a sigh of relief.

"Spades, can you find any treasures here?"

"Captain, I'm not really a treasure hunter...you can't force things like luck." Spades could also hear that Lu Ning was joking, "But it sounds like you're in a good mood, it seems that I've made this discovery a meritorious service Bar?"

"I will explain it to you in the report." Lu Ning is indeed in a good mood, "Since we have these two gains, we can return today, and I don't know if the creature will come back, so be careful .”

"learn!"

Going outside along the passage, Lu Ning is already thinking about how to solve the remaining two B-levels. The luck of spades can also be said to be arranged by the distribution center, but it may not be possible to complete the task entirely by this. Make more contact with other outposts, maybe it's time to release some information with reservations.

When approaching the entrance of the cave, both Lu Ning and Spade heard the sound of fighting from outside, and there was no sound of weapons slashing, just the most primitive fighting.

"Clarinet? Why doesn't she enter the channel notification?" Spade was a little surprised.

"Obviously, she thinks she can play well." Lu Ning basically understood some of the player's thoughts.

And since it was a fight, the opponent of the clarinet outside could also tell. The two walked out of the cave, just in time to see the clarinet hit a ragged man against a rock with the help of a space suit.There was a battered hammer not far from the two of them. It seemed that the man tried to attack the clarinet before, but was killed instead.

(End of this chapter)