Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 157 156. Think carefully, maybe this is your adventure!

After the earthquake stopped, everyone learned from the communication that was barely reconnected that it was an earthquake close to magnitude 7, but fortunately the epicenter was not here.

It happened in a nearby desert. It was said that a large glowing canyon had cracked there, and countless sands rolled down, constantly filling the gaps in the canyon.

Just leave this kind of troublesome matter to the company. As for the mercenaries, except for the unlucky guy who was seriously injured, everyone else is still in shock and needs time to recover.

After this is over, I guess everyone will still do what they need to do, go back to work underground, or run away to somewhere far away, instead of wasting time here...

As for the parking area in Abian, after simply restoring order, the company's personnel were responsible for repairing and maintaining the condition of the parking area, and the mercenaries... were at their own convenience.

In Sefer's car, Lin Shenxue tremblingly took herself off the tube and hurried to find Dr. Mei. On the way, she was grabbed by Tien.

"What are you doing?"

She gestured for a long time, trying to make Tien understand that she couldn't contact her boss.

Tien narrowed her eyes and crawled out from under the dining table. "Wait a minute, don't embarrass yourself. The communication is temporarily interrupted, not completely cut off. The ground beneath your feet hasn't cracked yet."

"Since there's no cracking, it means there's no big problem. What's wrong with shaking it? Do you think these cave dwellers haven't thought about earthquakes?"

That’s true. And there haven’t been any aftershocks for such a long time. Does that mean this strange phenomenon is finally over?

At this moment, in the restaurant where the two were, the communicator on the wall suddenly lit up, and Sefer's name and a striking dialog box appeared.

"The earthquake is over. How's the situation in the car? Are you all okay?"

"Oh? Our driver really cares about us. Don't worry, even if the ceiling collapses, your machine won't be damaged."

Tien replied leisurely, then asked, "What about you? Since communication was restored underground so quickly, does that mean the situation isn't too serious?"

"Uh... well, if I say it's not serious, that would be too comforting, but if I say it's serious... wait, it seems the channel doesn't support message exchanges other than audio right now."

After all, the earthquake had just occurred, and many communication interactions were in self-checking, with no time to process new information, so only some simple signal interactions were allowed.

"Anyway, the situation here is a bit strange. I'll show you guys something when I get a chance to go up there or come back by some other method."

There was some interference, noise and background noise in Seifer's voice, but overall it was still clear.

"There's a crack here, uh...where I can see it, and it's glowing."

"what?"

Tien sat up straight suddenly. People in this world were very sensitive to glowing things. When they heard the word glow, they knew it must be related to some energy.

"What color?" she asked.

At this moment, standing on the roof of a fairly sturdy building, Cypher looked down and nodded. "It's blue, very bright, and the way it radiates is different from the halo or light we usually see. It's like clouds and mist."

"This is firsthand information. You should quickly record the scene. Several companies will probably come to you to buy it!" However, Seifer felt that he could not make this money. He suddenly said, "Well, I'm a bit busy now," and abruptly cut off the communication.

Because, just now, the secret key of the autonomous body that Cypher had stolen suddenly lost its effect, and the thing that had been hovering nearby suddenly identified him as an enemy.

The moment he was locked onto the city, Seifer sprang into action. He ran towards one direction of the city, glancing down at the bottom.

The city, which was once extremely magnificent, has now become gray, and most areas have stopped running. The streets are filled with sand and gravel fallen from above and various metal garbage. However, this is not the worst.

What's worse is that the ground cracked due to the earthquake, and dirty floods came from nowhere, carrying sand and gravel and rolling down. The city's drainage system was working at full capacity, but it couldn't prevent it from being flooded.

Although they escaped the rock collapse, they could not escape the flood. What was even more terrifying was that a knife-like crack ran across the entire city. Part of the flood invaded it, and part continued to submerge the city.

Fortunately, most of the lighting has independent energy supply, so there is no need to worry about operating in the dark again.

Dodging between several buildings, Seifer kept looking at the diffuse, cloud-like blue halo. This strange phenomenon was everywhere in the city.

Even though he lacked common sense, he realized that this might be a condensing energy body that could cause strange phenomena.

There must be an energy vein quite deep beneath this city, but the people from the transformation agency have never discovered it. If it weren't for the earthquake, it would never have appeared!

So the reconstruction agency really dug out a vision - but the problem was that the newly built vision gate was broken because the cracks caused by the earthquake just covered the square.

If Seifer had an adventurous spirit, his best option now would be to wait for the concentration of the vision energy to form a vision, and then rush in to get the first taste of it.

But the thing behind him was not going to give him a chance to take risks.

Leaping and sprinting between the corridors, with gunfire barging in all directions behind them, these autonomous machines were chasing him instead of rushing to carry out disaster relief work or considering stopping the flood from underground leakage. Why the hell were they chasing him?
Could it be that the invaders have a higher priority than the integrity of the city!

After dodging a series of fire lines, Seifer turned around and shot down more and more pursuing autonomous machines. Finally, he found helplessly that he seemed to be blocked.

There were these things everywhere, so he had no choice but to jump off the roof!

With his arms outstretched and his legs together, Cypher drew an elegant curve in mid-air and fell headfirst into the rushing flood.

The moment it fell into the water, the machine did not sound an alarm. Instead, some fine gelatinous substances suddenly popped out from the inside. They stuck tightly to the surface of Cypher's mechanical body, blocking all the liquid from going out.

...By the way, it seems that I have never used this body to move directly under the sun or come into contact with water before. After all this time, it turns out that it has this kind of protection?
These things only protected the body. Cypher's metal head was completely submerged in the flood. Even because it was too heavy, in such turbulent and turbid water... he fell to the ground.

Then I was pushed forward by the current, and all I could hear was the sound of the flood, and I couldn't hear any other information at all.

...However, water does block the transmission of wireless signals. Under water, those autonomous machines become disabled one after another and are washed away like piles of scrap metal.

The crisis was temporarily resolved. When Seifer was about to turn back and find a good place to leave the flooded area, he found that the water around him became more turbulent.

Wait a minute… Falling into the water or jumping off a cliff might lead to some unexpected adventures, but how the hell did I end up near the chasm in the blink of an eye?!
(End of this chapter)