Technological practice: leading the human race to the stars

Chapter 37 Preliminary exploration
After a while, the plane that Yuanze was on landed at the airport near the underground entrance of the nuclear power plant. After a series of tedious security checks and identity confirmation procedures, all the trainees dispersed to various areas of the nuclear power plant to conduct searches.

He took a deep breath and stepped into the elevator of the nuclear power plant.

He looked through the elevator glass and saw that all the electronic equipment here was automatically controlled. Various instruments emitted soft light, indicating the operating status of each system in the nuclear power plant.

Security robots and cameras on each floor are constantly patrolling and monitoring to ensure the safety of every corner.

"The communication here is really bad!" Not long after Yuan Ze entered an area of ​​the nuclear power plant, the communication with other teammates in the bracelet was blocked, and they were unable to know each other's location.

Yuanze could only move forward step by step while looking at the map instructions and high-frequency electromagnetic wave detection on the mask of his battle suit.

"There's nothing we can do about it. The radiation here is mainly neutron radiation, which is stronger than nuclear fission. Not to mention the accident."

"Why do you want to issue the mission in the training camp? The airport just now was almost full of military aircraft. Shouldn't there be troops stationed here?"

"Bring your electromagnetic cannon over here. Those weapons are too destructive. If they get penetrated somewhere, the accident will far exceed the most severe nuclear accident in history, the Norchebeli nuclear accident."

"They are just two small source beasts with limited destructive power. This is just the opportunity for you to complete the mission and learn a good lesson."

"How many?"

"That's not the case. My biological sense tells me..." Astra suddenly realized, "Don't try to trick me."

"You don't even tell me this. Are you sure you're not an artificial idiot?" Yuan Ze rolled his eyes, raised his alert, and continued to move forward.

"Humph!"

Yuanze came to the area he was responsible for, and from the outside, there were obvious signs of destruction.

This was a small power transmission and transformation studio, connected to external cables. But at this time, all the cables were cut, and the broken wires inside were hanging on the ground like black tentacles. The walls of the studio were also left with traces of being scratched by the source beast, and the deep claw marks were shocking.

Yuanze walked into the studio and found that the equipment inside was also destroyed.

The fusion battery, which was supposed to be running quietly, now looked like a toy that had been disassembled, with its internal parts scattered on the ground, emitting a cold metallic luster. On the console, the display screen had been broken, emitting a faint blue light, as if telling what happened before it was destroyed.

Yuan Ze carefully avoided the debris on the ground, his eyes scanning around, trying to find any possible clues. He noticed that some robot wreckage was scattered on the ground, their metal shells were covered with scratches and dents, obviously completely destroyed in the battle with the source beast.

He walked over to a console and tried to reboot the system, but only gibberish appeared on the screen.

"Judging from the extent of the destruction here, the source beast's power is not great." Yuan Ze frowned. He looked around, but there was nothing around except the destroyed equipment. There was not even a way to move forward.

He turned on the scanning function on his wristband and began to conduct a detailed inspection of the surroundings. He did not miss any corner of the studio, every floor, and every wall.

"Trace analysis activated."

"Analysis results: Judging from the material and traces of the damaged metal, two Shadow Escape Beasts once destroyed this place. One is a Level 4 Body Tempering Beast, and the other is a Level 3 Body Tempering Beast. An illusion wall is detected ahead. Should we move forward?"

"eliminate."

As soon as he finished speaking, a large damaged hole appeared in the door in front, and then a piece of hair connected to two wires fell into Yuanze's hands.

"Be careful, there's something wrong. How come Shadowbeast has learned to use its own hair to make it invisible?" Astra frowned and reminded Yuanze to be careful.

Yuan Ze was also very surprised. A large piece of metal plate was lying helplessly in a corner in front of him. The two shadow beasts actually blasted such a big gap in the door of the next level. "Be careful!" Astra suddenly reminded again.

Yuanze had just crawled out of the gap at this time, and before his "Flow" could react, Astra detected a slight abnormality coming from the air fluctuations.

Yuanze dodged immediately, and only heard a loud noise on the ground in front of him, followed by a dent in the ground that left the mark of a beast's claw.

"Gene chip overclocking, combat mode."

"Thermal imaging and high-frequency electromagnetic imaging have been turned on."

As soon as Yuanze thought about it, the red and black battle suit immediately switched from reconnaissance mode to combat mode. All the equipment used for reconnaissance were nano-scaled and integrated into the battle suit, and then the battle suit tightly wrapped Yuanze's body.

It was the first time that Yuanze encountered this kind of invisible enemy. This time, he used all his energy to overclock his body's perception ability, directly raising his body's perception to the limit.

The only sound that could be heard was the crackling sound of disconnected wires.

Yuanze did not dare to act rashly and took a defensive stance.

In fact, Genze Gang analyzed the defects of this source beast through the ability characteristics given by Astra.

Its shortcoming is that it cannot be used for strenuous exercise. The heat generated by exercise will increase the heat of the capillary network, thereby destroying its "thermal imaging" ability, and the skin's stealth ability will also decrease.

This is where thermal imaging comes into play.

So I can't keep wasting time with it like this.

Yuanze began to move quickly. His movements were swift, and every step he took was an attempt to lure the invisible shadow beast into attacking.

He knew that every attack would consume the Shadow Beast's energy and would also cause a brief fluctuation in its heat-stealth effect.

His tactics worked, and after dodging several times, he finally captured the shadow beast's faint heat signal on the thermal imager. It was a blurry shadow that appeared and disappeared from time to time, as if playing hide-and-seek with him.

Yuanze was delighted and immediately adjusted his direction, rushing towards the direction of the heat signal.

However, just as he was about to make contact with the Shadow Beast, the heat signature suddenly disappeared.

He was stunned for a moment, then realized that he had been tricked. The Shadow Beast used the characteristics of the heat-hiding ability to first weaken the heat dissipation ability to lure him in, and then strengthened the heat dissipation to continue hiding.

"An attack from 27° to the north." Astra captured this invisible attack using air flow.

Yuanze leaned sideways and tilted his head, and a gust of wind brushed past his ears, leaving him unharmed.

But after several attacks, the hermit beast still hit Yuanze. Surprisingly, this was a blind spot of the battle suit and blood oozed out.

The Hidden Beast kept hitting and stopping, and the rhythm kept changing, which put Yuanze into a passive situation again and made it a little difficult to cope with.

After several consecutive attacks, Yuan Ze seemed a little overwhelmed. After all, the force of even the weakest attack of this third-level body-tempered source beast was still quite strong for Yuan Ze. His torso, which did not have an overclocked physical fitness, could not withstand a few hits even under the protection of the battle suit.

Yuanze was exhausted and muttered a few words to the front. Then he fell to the ground with a thud and closed his eyes.

(End of this chapter)