Planet of Sand and Oasis of Iron

Chapter 264 263. Take what you need and run away (Part )

Falling from the crack, the first thing that caught his eye was the glowing mineral layer in front of him. Seifer advanced without hesitation and quickly headed to the confluence of the "river" of energy according to the signal.

Then he stopped immediately and switched to the backup body that he hadn't used for a long time and buried under the crystal.

Pushing away the crystal in front of him, Seifer stood up and looked around. He heard a communication from above asking him about his current situation.

After confirming that the channel signal was strong—after all, the antenna had been sent down from above—Seifer directly turned on the video mode.

"I'm here... forget about the small talk, let's take a look at this thing."

Following the picture, passing over the crystals that could be used directly as finished products after a little processing, Seifer looked at the box that was half inserted into the pile of crystals and the countdown on the panel was constantly jumping.

"That's it! I saw this thing the last time I came down. How should I put it... I'm quite curious. Can anyone tell what it is?"

The people above couldn't tell, but the countdown on this thing meant that something must be sealed inside.

It is unknown what will happen after it is turned on or the countdown ends. For this reason, it is recommended that Seifer do not move for the time being, and the corporate mercenaries will come here with special facilities later.

After a while, the roar of the machine and the sound of crushing crystals came one after another.

At this time, Cypher had already stuffed the humanoid spare body into the horse's belly, and then switched to this special spare body. Looking back, he saw several machines coming with a bunch of boxes.

They smashed the box to the ground, and the closed box immediately opened up, allowing the various assembled construction machines inside, which only required simple operations on site to start working.

The whole area began to bustle with activity. After investigating with their own machines, the Phantom Mist Group told Cypher that the thing was not broken, but its energy had been exhausted.

The reason why it keeps jumping is because the energy radiation circulation of these crystals allows it to make some slight replenishments, but the question now is, how long has this thing been here?
Judging from the size of the mine, there must have been a huge underground river there before, but now the river has dried up and no one knows where it has gone.

Therefore, the Huanwu Group plans to follow the river upstream to find a possible place where such a creature may be washed down.

Maybe it will be some great archaeological discovery... Cypher doesn't care about these.

The experts from Huanwu Group gave some valuable advice. They said that since the conditions here are so simple, we should not rush to open the box to see what treasures are inside.

They provided additional energy supply facilities to fully charge the thing first and see how long it could run without the external power supply.

Then hand it over to Sefer, and ask him to take it to another node city and open it for inspection when it is safe.

The charging speed is very fast, and it can run independently for five hours after being fully charged... It's quite a long time, and there haven't been any strange problems during this period, so Sefer is still quite uncomfortable.

When he was about to leave with the box pulled out of the ground, someone from the Huanwu Group suddenly called him again.

"Ms. Red Crossbow, please wait a moment. We found these things under the box. They said that any unusual discoveries here must be given to you. Please accept them."

What the man carefully packed with a sponge pad was... a high-energy crystal.

Strictly speaking, this was given to Seifer separately. After the box was pulled out, three crystals lay beneath it. Analysts immediately determined that these three crystals were responsible for maintaining the countdown even without power lines to the box's ports.

It sounds unscientific, but... Cypher extended a mechanical arm from under his body and put it into the horse's belly. "Thank you very much. As for how to return this thing..."

"Don't worry about that. Please hurry up. Other companies will come over soon, and it would be bad if there was friction or a dispute."

The Centaur nodded slightly and returned to where it had just landed. It saw a smooth catapult placed on the crystalline ground. Its solid foundation made it look very reliable. It called Gao Shan and asked, "You mean the lift platform, the catapult?"

"Haha, not bad, right? This is everyone's favorite wild mode. Don't worry, it's enough for your body to reach the upper level - as for that box, don't worry, there is another ascending platform that will bring it up."

Seifer looked to the other side and saw several cables dangling and pulling the thing upwards.

He stepped onto the platform helplessly, and the ejection device immediately made a violent roar, instantly lifting the machine body rapidly, and finally launched it upwards like a slingshot!
To be honest, it's quite thrilling.

After spending so much time, he finally completed the earliest planned plan. When Seifer was taking this harvest with him and taking a short rest in the node city and preparing to leave, he received news.

Celery: I am celery~
Red Crossbow: ...What are you going to order next?

Celery: That's really not fun, not-so-new mercenaries. How about this: you exit the Node City first, then stand 115 meters outside and wait for ten hours?

Red Crossbow: In ten hours, when the sun rises, I will be dead.

Celery: What else? You asked me to give the order.

It's hard, the fist is hard.

Deciding to ignore her words for the time being, Cypher took the special box and ascended to the top of the Node City. Here, employees of the Reconstruction Agency were busy helping to dismantle the various halls temporarily set up by various companies.

From today on, these things theoretically have no meaning, and companies will only send corporate mercenaries to collect the output of the vision from the giant vision.

In theory, mercenaries can come, but without a commission, only those who are not too worried about money will come and try their luck.

Then there are the ordinary people who moved here... It is definitely not reliable to rely entirely on autonomous machines to transform such a large node city, especially since they have rebelled once.

I believe that within a few years, this node city will become the backbone of this area - after all, the overall facilities here are like a beehive, complete and can make life comfortable with just a little renovation.

Red Crossbow: So will this city be called Sudu in the future?

Celery: Huh? That's a good name~ Well, for a not-so-new mercenary, you're quite tasteful sometimes. Okay, I'm a bit busy right now, so let's get down to business.

It's not easy to get down to business straight away - but considering that she said she was busy, she must be extremely busy. Seifer wondered whether he should comfort her through words.

Celery: You must be thinking now, this noble president is so busy, if I say a few good words about him, it will definitely improve my image, right?

Red Crossbow: No.

Celery: Hehe, your denial is pretty pathetic. Well, forget it, then why don't you hurry and head to the Forge Node City now, before night falls? I've already made the call, and the factory there is ready to overhaul it for you.

Celery: Also, remember to give your car a name and replace the current name so that no one will remember it.
Celery: Consider this as your reward for bringing me so much interesting information. Let's go~
(This account has been cancelled)

I ran too fast - but I really need to go to the Furnace Node City to rest.

Repairing the car, fixing the fuselage, changing the name… there are so many things to do.

(End of this chapter)