Trickster Hunter.

Chapter 416: Still Sane
"It cut off its own arm?" Liu Li was stunned. "Could it be that this strange creature still retains some human consciousness?"

"It should be. The fact that it fell back just now was not because it was intentionally giving you a flaw, but because it was forced to interrupt its own movements." Sun Hang added.

"Then why was it so merciless when attacking other robots... I understand. The robot dog and the mechanical spider are not humanoid, so they don't have any psychological burden when attacking. But H4 is a humanoid robot. From the perspective of the monster, it is very similar to humans. So when attacking H4, the remaining trace of rationality in its consciousness stopped its behavior..." It must be said that Liu Li's brain is really quick. "It seems that I have to change my strategy... Fortunately, there is a permafrost coffin on the other helicopter."

"Crystal!" Liu Li shouted.

"I'm here!" The voice of Crystal Princess came from the direction of the cargo hold.

"Are you equipped?"

"Get dressed, and you can attack at any time!"

"Okay, I will drop you down now, but the goal of the operation will be changed from destroying the monster to capturing it alive. A permafrost coffin will land with you, and I will let the remaining robots cooperate with you. You must successfully capture this humanoid monster!" Liu Li said.

"I heard from you that this monster still has some sanity left, right?" asked the Crystal Princess.

"Yes, perhaps we can ask her about what happened in Bunker No. 1." While speaking, Liu Li let the two humanoid robots continue to deal with the monster, while adjusting the various parameters of the cargo hold airdrop device... At the same time, he also connected the communication of the research institute in the rear and began to communicate with those researchers in writing about the subsequent handling issues of containing the humanoid monster.

His brain was like a multi-threaded high-end CPU, executing multiple tasks with completely different contents at the same time, but without any mistakes... This guy was even staring at the playback video on another laptop with the corner of his eye, constantly replaying the battle that had just taken place in his mind.

"Prepare to launch!" Liu Li shouted in a low voice, then turned on the switch.

With the crisp sound of devices unlocking, the No. 1 hatch at the bottom of the cargo hold opened instantly, and the Crystal Princess, who was already wearing heavy power armor, was suspended by several steel cables and slowly lowered down.

"The specific coordinates of the airdrop have been entered into the mecha's main control computer... I wish you good luck." After Liu Li finished speaking, he opened the hooks of the steel cables. The power armor weighing nearly ten tons instantly fell to the ground at a high speed under the action of gravity.

At the same time, another helicopter not far away opened the hatch at the bottom of the cargo hold and threw down a permafrost coffin in the airdrop cabin.

Before the Crystal Princess landed, the battle situation in the bunker had already changed.

After cutting off one of its arms, the humanoid creature simply stopped attacking the two robots and turned to run deeper into the bunker. It was very fast and could move by stepping on walls and ceilings like an all-terrain mechanical spider. The two H4 robots' thruster fuel had been almost completely consumed in the previous battle, and they had no way of catching up with the creature that was determined to escape.

The jet thrusters on the robot are additionally installed. They do not use the robot's own electricity, but require additional semi-solid fuel. Due to space and weight limitations, the amount of fuel that can be added is pitifully small. At full power output, it can only maintain a working time of about ten seconds.

After all, this thing is not used to make the robot move faster, but to provide the robot with a one-time strong thrust at certain critical moments - for example, in close combat that requires explosive acceleration, or when a robot without flying ability accidentally falls off a cliff, these jet thrusters that can only be used for ten seconds can come in handy.

In addition, they have one final function if there is still fuel left.

Self-destruct.

Otherwise, if the humanoid monster had not suddenly held back, Liu Li would have been planning to let the robot that was knocked down self-destruct.

"Can you catch up?" Sun Hang said, watching the show from the side with his hands folded.

"I can't catch up with it, but there is no other exit deep in the bunker. I have asked the other two humanoid robots to encircle it. As long as we can block it deep in the bunker, it won't be able to escape." Liu Li said confidently.

In the midst of his busy schedule, he stretched out a finger and tapped a few times on the laptop keyboard next to him. The cross-sectional structure diagram of Bunker No. 1 and the plan of each floor suddenly appeared on the screen. A striking red dot was moving rapidly in the passage on the first underground floor. Soon it passed through a vertical shaft and entered the second underground floor.

Bunker No. 1 has a total of five floors, two above ground and three underground. The two above ground floors are where the communication base station, observation post, equipment warehouse, and vehicle warehouse are located. In addition, there is a small multi-functional conference room, which is the main activity area for the bunker garrison personnel.

The first and second underground floors are dormitories and warehouses. Although there are many rooms here, the structure is much simpler than the ground part. There are two simple corridors connected in a U-shaped structure, and the rooms are neatly distributed on both sides of the corridor. Every certain distance, there is a vertical shaft connecting the upper and lower parts. At both ends of the corridor, there are freight elevators installed... However, according to the results of the robot detection, both freight elevators are in a "stuck" state and cannot be used at all.

As for the third layer at the deepest part of the bunker, it is the equipment layer of the bunker - small nuclear reactors, power units, main control room, devices for controlling temperature and air circulation, etc. Almost all the large mechanical equipment used to maintain the normal operation of the entire bunker are stacked on this layer.

Apart from the engineers responsible for maintaining the equipment, few people normally come to this floor. For this reason, except for the two freight elevators, the passages for people to enter and exit are very narrow. Those vertical shafts are about the same width as the manholes on the street, and can barely allow one person to pass through.

"My side shows that the monster has run into the third underground floor!" The voice of the Crystal Princess sounded in the communication channel, "My armor is too large, I'm afraid it can't pass through those vertical shafts! Can I use destructive means to widen the shafts?"

"Don't." Liu Li said quickly, "With the destructive power of your armor, it will most likely cause the bunker to collapse. By then, the well has not been widened and you will be buried first."

"Then how do I get down?"

"Go to the elevator shaft," Liu Li said. "Although both elevators are stuck, you can just cut the steel cables of the elevator cars and then drill through the cars... The impact of doing so on the bunker's structure will be almost negligible."

"okay, I get it!"

As he was talking, the Crystal Princess, wearing heavy power armor, had successfully landed. Even with the foam gel cushioning, the huge impact when landing still made Liu Li's shoulders shrink subconsciously. He quickly took out the in-ear headphones in his ears and switched the communication channel to external speaker mode. The Crystal Princess kept the communication channel open during the landing process. The loud noise was like thunder close at hand, and almost deafened Liu Li.

Even the surveillance footage sent back by the robot located underground in the bunker showed slight vibrations, which shows how terrifying the impact force of the Crystal Princess was when she landed.

Liu Li wanted to tell Princess Crystal not to open the microphone when she wasn't talking, but the situation was urgent and he didn't have the time to waste on such meaningless conversations. He rubbed his ears and said, "You can't get into the front entrance of the bunker. Go around to the west side of the bunker. I've opened the door to the vehicle hangar for you. Enter from there!"

"it is good!"

The heavy power armor strode around to the west side of the bunker, stepping on the mud and water that almost covered the instep.

The door of the vehicle hangar rose slowly, but when it was halfway up, there was a teeth-grinding "creaking" sound, as if a mechanical component was stuck, causing the entire door to be stuck there.

The height of the gate is only about one meter. A human can get in by just bending over, but for the Crystal Princess's power armor, it is a bit difficult.

"The door is stuck. Don't worry, I'm trying to fix it. If it doesn't work, I can have a micro robot drill into the lift door to repair it..."

Before Liu Li finished speaking, Princess Crystal interrupted him: "It's okay, I can do it myself."

The heavy power armor stretched out its hand and grabbed the bottom of the lifting door. Then, accompanied by a low roar from the Crystal Princess, the alloy door weighing more than ten tons was lifted up by her!
The stuck mechanical component let out a groan as it could not bear the heavy weight, followed by a crisp breaking sound. The entire lifting device was scrapped in an instant, and the door fell heavily again, smashing hard on the ground.

However, the Crystal Princess had already passed through and entered the vehicle hangar.

"There are traces of fighting here." Crystal Princess looked around and said in a deep voice, "There are bloodstains on the wall, and bullet holes. Tsk... These scratches seem to be cut by some kind of melee weapon on the wall?"

"In Bunker No. 1, the only weapon that could create such traces is the Silver Fang." Liu Li said, "Yang Baishuang once fought with the monsters that invaded the bunker here."

"However, it is also possible that she had already turned into a monster by then." Liu Li added.

"But why did she cut the wall?" Sun Hang asked in confusion, "Did she get knocked away by the monster, and then, like in those action movies, she stuck the knife into the wall to stabilize her body?"

"If the force that knocked her away was so great, she wouldn't have a chance to insert her silver fangs into the wall...her body would explode the moment she was attacked." Liu Li said, staring at the real-time images sent back by the Crystal Princess.

Of course Liu Li also knew all of Yang Baishuang's physical data by heart. As a qualified person of the Silver Fang, Yang Baishuang had received extremely strict training since she was a child. However, no matter how much training she received, she still had the body of an ordinary person and it was impossible for her to surpass the limits of human beings.

As for the deep scratch on the wall, or it would be more appropriate to describe it as a "groove" - ​​its length is more than twenty meters. Liu Li immediately summarized all the data in his mind and established several complex mathematical models. The final conclusion was a paradox: if Yang Baishuang needed to insert the dagger into the wall to dissipate the force when he was knocked away, then the mark left on the wall would not be so deep or so long; and conversely, the force that can be dissipated by such a deep and long mark is something that Yang Baishuang's body cannot withstand.

There is only one possibility, that Yang Baishuang left traces on the wall when attacking the monster.

"Why is it on the wall?" Liu Li's mind moved. He felt that he was very close to the correct answer, but just one step away. "Could it be that the strange creature is moving close to the wall?"

While Liu Li was still thinking, Crystal Princess had already strode towards the freight elevator.

In order to facilitate the delivery of incoming materials into the warehouse as soon as possible, the entrance and exit of the freight elevator are opened on the wall on one side of the vehicle warehouse.

"I always feel that your expression now is like you are constipated." Sun Hang said, looking at Liu Li who was lost in thought.

"I'm thinking, don't disturb me."

"That humanoid monster has entered the central room. Are you sure you want to contain it there?" Sun Hang asked. "What if it makes a big noise? Will it blow up the whole bunker?"

The electricity that keeps the entire bunker running comes from a small nuclear reactor on the third underground floor. About two-thirds of this reactor is buried in the foundation of the bunker, and the remaining one-third is located in the largest room in the middle of the third underground floor.

This small reactor allows the bunker to continue operating for another thirty years while remaining completely independent, but it also raises the bunker's safety risks by more than one level.

Under normal circumstances, this small nuclear reactor is very safe...but if someone fights near the core, that's a different story.

The most crucial point is that there is still electricity in the bunker, which means that the reactor is still in working condition.

"At an altitude of two thousand meters, it shouldn't be able to reach us... As for Crystal, I'm afraid she will really turn into crystal." Sun Hang said, "Also, guess what will happen to Chimera 17 if such a small firecracker is detonated here?"

"Chimera 17? Chimera 17!" Hearing Sun Hang's words, Liu Li's eyes suddenly lit up and he switched the communication channel to another helicopter. "Helicopter No. 3, I remember you carried long-distance observation equipment, right? I will assign you a new task now. Don't worry about the bunker for now. You must immediately descend to observe Chimera 17. I need to know what changes have taken place in Chimera 17 during this period of time! Send me all the observation data as soon as possible!"

(End of this chapter)