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"The fear field is intensifying, and the anti-phase interference wave is almost saturated!" The technical sergeant crouching behind the bunker cried out in alarm.

"Interrupt its reading!" The demon is clearly absorbing metal to form the structure of ranged weapons, even swords. Some operators will no longer have to face flesh and wooden spikes, but a hail of bullets with the power of a machine gun.

"Boom!" The thermoelectric cannon struck the wall, tearing off large chunks of coke. "Idiot, don't use the thermoelectric cannon!"

"Ah!" An unlucky fellow was entangled by tree root-like tentacles. His armor groaned under the strain. While the armor withstood the attack, the backpack and anti-phase wave jammer on his back couldn't hold up.

As the jammer exploded, immense fear enveloped the victim, memories and emotions flooding back. "Bang!" Yelena gritted her teeth and shot the captured team member dead. "Watch out for your jammers, don't let them get destroyed."

In such a short reading time, the demon on the other side had already obtained some useful information from the memories and fears. Although it could not conjure powerful weapons, it could use the weapons of the dead.

The tentacles picked up the rifle from the ground and, based on the image of the opponent's hallucinations under extreme fear, they aimed the rifle at the squad members hiding behind sturdy cover before pulling the trigger.

Not only that, but there are also the most terrifying scenes imagined by the other party himself. No one knows his own weaknesses and fears better than himself, so the evil spirits naturally become the form and means he least wants to face in his fearful illusions.

Simply put, when a soldier in fear begins to think, "If the monster turns into this form and uses that method, my armor won't be able to protect me, I'm doomed," and experiences corresponding hallucinations, the demon will transform into that form.

For someone completely gripped by fear, there's no way to execute any deception tactics. In this state, the weaknesses they think of are real weaknesses, and the illusions and scenarios they encounter are also extremely damaging intelligence.

For example, the captured guy's hallucination of fear was that his teammate was suddenly controlled and shot at him with an assault rifle, and that the reason his teammate was controlled was that a demon went around from behind his neck, opened his helmet visor from the outside, and then pounced on his face.

"Be careful, the demon might unlock your armor! Don't get caught!" The mask lock certainly wouldn't be inside, otherwise how would the orderly helping with putting on and taking off armor get to work? Besides, on the battlefield, armor malfunctions would hinder quick removal.

However, these latches are designed to be quite concealed, and they will not suddenly unlock due to accidental touch. Instead, they use multiple security measures, making it difficult for someone to open them without knowing how to do so.

However, to avoid becoming an iron coffin trapping the people inside when attacked by weapons such as EMP, these latches are purely mechanical structures, and it does not require all three latches to be opened to escape, without using any fancy things like fingerprints.

After all, on the battlefield, the low probability of the enemy rushing over and unlocking your armor is not taken into consideration. The focus is more on reliability and reliable use in critical moments. What to do if someone takes your equipment and armor is generally not considered. What to do? Just wait to die. In war, people always die and equipment is always lost. It's not a video game.

"Ah!" Another unlucky guy was caught. This time, the demon's tentacles directly opened his locks, exposing him to the air. Then, the demon's flesh and blood engulfed him. The speed was so fast that Yelena didn't even have time to kill the captured unlucky guy. She watched helplessly as a terrified and distorted human face appeared on the demon's surface.

"Damn it!" "Forget about the generator, go all out!" The ground shook violently as the use of various high-powered weapons severely damaged the electrical equipment in the generator room, as well as destroying large swaths of demonic flesh.

"Mission failed, requesting evacuation!" The damage is so extensive that there's no point in repairing it. The fleet must immediately clear the area of ​​evil spirits and then find the next safe zone. The good news is that Rainbow Squad seems to be making good progress.

Chapter Fifty-Three: Infiltrating the Nest, Part Two

Chapter 53

As the doctor described, the electronic laboratory is located on a mobile platform, which is completely wedged between a wide ice fissure by glaciers and snow. The platform is supported and covered by a dense array of crystalline spikes.

The entrance was easy to find. Initially, the stern gate of the platform was fully open for evacuation. It seems the demons didn't block the passage but instead used it as a release route for their offspring. This unique structure and the laboratory's special value meant it couldn't be dealt with by naval guns; it could only be cleared through internal demolition, step by step.

However, due to this unique geographical structure, the interference from evil spirits in this area is relatively weak, at least in the outer areas. Elite operator squads can be dispatched to assist the Rainbow Squad in completing their breakthrough and search operations.

"The mission is divided into three steps. The first step is to enter the interior, find the crystals and demonic lairs that anchor and support it, clear them out, and plant the bombs."

"The second step is for the engineering department to install hooks and reinforce the hull. The third step is for the entire platform to be towed up by the mothership, to clean up the remaining evil spirits and hold out until the valuable items inside are recovered."

The goal is very clear and specific, but it is also very difficult. Although there are generally not many people in the electronic laboratory who turn into demons, the mobile platform itself is hard to say.

Meanwhile, Yelena's group also retreated from the underground garage in disarray. Without heavy weapons, they could not clear the demons from the power generation room, but using heavy weapons resulted in the destruction of a significant portion of the generator. Now, everyone was in a passive position and could only choose Plan Two as a last-ditch effort to salvage the situation.

The so-called Plan Two involves using a portable power source to directly activate the detected and repaired anti-phase wave generator, instead of relying on the original power supply system. However, due to the lack of the maximum-power unit installed in the generator room, the entire jamming network would be extremely unstable and fragile, requiring the mothership to operate its own low-quality replica at full power.

Next, if the demons in the garage are successfully eliminated before the mothership collapses and the core jammer is not destroyed, try to start it up using the mothership's power. If Project Two goes smoothly, we can still get a forward base in the polar region. However, if anything goes wrong, we can only retrieve the personnel and continue forward, hoping to find another safe docking area like this.

After a brief preparation, the Rainbow Team stepped into the entrance of the Electronic Research Institute. Under the light of their tactical flashlights, the entire cabin passageway was filled with crystallized skeletons, just like before. The fleeing crowd seemed to have frozen into a group of wax figures. The team carefully avoided these statues.

"Safety," Blitzkrieg raised his right hand. "Stay alert." No trace of demons was found in the passage. The large-scale battles that had entered this area earlier had temporarily drained the demon forces in this region. Even if they could recover their mass and replenish themselves from the soil and crystals, it couldn't be a process that could be completed instantly.

"What does this say?" Alexander looked up at the dim sign above his head. "Third Mobile Aerospace Industrial Platform Affiliated Electronic Industrial Module, Channel 2." The accompanying operatives looked up as well. Most of the ancient scripts were legible to them, given their training and professional education.

“Hmm,” Alexander said without speaking, continuing to protect the rear of the group. Several researchers were carefully taking samples from the crystalline mummies, but the samples were in terrible condition, exposed to the polar winds, and their integrity and color were completely different from those previously recovered from the nest.

The entrance is on the ground floor. After turning through the passage, you will see a fork in the road. Each of the three passages is marked with the area name and the passage name. The central passage leads to the main power structure and backup power generation compartment of the platform, while the two sides are corridors. The right side leads to the living quarters and stairs, and the left side leads to the cargo warehouse and freight elevator.

Which way?

"Get the backup power source sorted out first."

"It still works?"

“No, but the backup generator itself is valuable enough.” Perhaps feeling that the Rainbow Team couldn’t understand, the Doctor added in the communicator, “This kind of backup generator is designed to be relatively easy to disassemble. The original purpose of this platform is to quickly establish a cluster of facilities when it arrives at the destination.”

"So?" "So, there are four easily disassembled integrated nuclear fusion reactors inside. They may not be as advanced as Boss Xia's, but the reactors themselves should be usable, although the fuel is definitely gone."

Given the state of the platform, it was impossible to perform the shutdown procedure during the evacuation. Therefore, the reactor most likely ran dry until it completely exhausted its fuel or coolant, and then automatically shut down.

Fortunately, it is a fusion reactor, which is indeed safer than a fission reactor. Its biggest feature is that if the coolant is exhausted, the reactor will overheat and explode if it does not shut down automatically. Once the reactor ruptures, the fusion reaction will automatically terminate under depressurization.

If it were a fission reactor, the silo would already be at lethal radiation levels. Moreover, fusion radiation has a very short residual duration. Even if there are damaged parts of the reactor after so many years, there would be no residual radioactivity. However, if you switch to fission, the half-life of thousands or even hundreds of millions of years and the waste would be enough to cause serious problems.

"Understood!" When the topic of fusion reactors came up, everyone understood, and the Rainbow Team immediately grasped its importance and why it was in the first recovery sequence.

"The door is locked. Can we blow it up?" Ash kicked the iron door at the end with all his might. It was completely locked, and even with the power armor, it would be difficult to break it.

“No, but we brought a cutting machine.” Huang, who was following behind, had someone push a handcart over with a small tower cutting machine on it.

"Give us a few minutes." The high-pressure ion jet danced across the metal door, and the scorching golden-red fluid dripped down the door cracks, only to be shattered into clumps of fine metal slag by the spray cooling head and fall to the ground.

"It's open!"

"The demons are all concentrated on the upper level, so the lower level seems quite safe." "In fact, the demons on the lower level were all killed by us in the wilderness before, so there are naturally fewer of them." Huang opened the iron gate, and then everyone's anti-phase wave jammers sounded an alarm.

Inside the backup power generation compartment, a semi-crystalline mass of demonic flesh weakly waved its tentacles. "Withdraw!" Huang decisively ordered the operators to evacuate, leaving the thing inside to the Rainbow Squad to deal with. This demon seemed to be trapped in this enclosed compartment, or perhaps it had simply been exploited by squeezing too much flesh and blood to create its offspring, and now it looked extremely weak.

Ash shot off its tentacles with two shots, the wall-breaking grenade shattered the crystal shell, and then Frostflower stuffed an anti-demon incendiary bomb into its flesh.

"Disgusting!" When the armored gloves were pulled out, they were covered with strands of sticky, blood-red flesh, which had to be removed with a blowtorch.

With a small explosion, the entire demonic mass of flesh lit up from the inside out, like a golden bubble. Then the outer skin burst, and golden holy fire and steam rushed out.

"Solved. This is much easier to deal with than the previous one."

"Don't worry, the demons here won't be too strong," Huang said, having arranged for some operators to conduct preliminary reconnaissance. "While this platform serves as their best outer shell and defense, it also limits their access to biomass and flesh, as well as their growth rate. They're like parasitic creatures; once they grow beyond a certain point, they'll seek new nests. Those that remain here won't be any bigger than this steel shell they inhabit."

"So, they're all cubs?" Blitzcrank forcefully pulled out the carbonized demonic flesh and used a flamethrower to burn the inner, not-yet-completely-charred parts again.

"That's a fair assessment, and we need to act quickly." The demons from other areas are already approaching this area, and the gunfire from the blocking positions previously set up on the office building can be heard clearly here. The vibrations caused by the mothership's cannonballs landing are also clearly perceptible.

"Reactor dismantling complete, preliminary inspection shows no problems." The engineering team quickly dismantled the four reactors according to the quick dismantling manual provided by the doctor. In fact, the four reactors themselves are quick-dismantling integrated designs. Their four main parts, namely the reactor, control group, cooling group, and restraint coil, are all integrated and can be directly dismantled into four parts.

The massive power distribution and generation systems are fixed to the ship's hull, making disassembly extremely difficult. The base is also fixed in place. However, these parts are no longer needed, as their technological content is not particularly high.

It should be said that compared to reactor materials that can withstand the ultra-strong neutron radiation and ultra-high temperature baking of early fusion reactions, cooling equipment that needs to cool the inner wall of the shell, which is separated by less than 5 centimeters, to -270 degrees Celsius, restraint magnetic field generators that can suspend half a boat, and femtosecond-level plasma magnetic control cores, the power generation and substation facilities and the base are really at the level of an elementary school craft class.

"Do you think if we take a few photos now and go back to Earth, we'll get assassinated by the CIA?" Blitz asked suddenly, watching the engineering team further inspect and pack up the valuable equipment.

“You’re overthinking it,” Alexander replied calmly. “Won’t it?” Ash frowned. She felt there was a high probability of this happening unless Blitzkrieg joined the CIA or the United States.

“What I mean is, it’s not just the CIA that’s trying to assassinate you,” Alexander chuckled. “If you give the photos to any country, the rest will find a way to get rid of you before you hand them over. So, you’ll also have to deal with all the intelligence agents, including the KGB.”

"Then let's forget about it."

"However, if you take a picture of that Boss Xia, no one will assassinate you," Shuanghua joked. "Because it looks like a fake Hollywood photo no matter how you look at it." Because it's so advanced that no one believes it's real, you can show it off freely, haha.

"Come on, according to Boss Xia and Dr. Levy, we've already traversed some kind of spacetime rift, several centuries in the future. Whether the CIA will even still exist is questionable. Besides, I don't think Earth would even bother with this stuff now; they're all working with antimatter." Ash checked the weapon in his hand. "Have you rested enough? Let's move on!"

She was the temporary leader of the team. It was fine for the team members to relax a little in a safe area, tell jokes, and protect the engineers, but they couldn't just keep telling jokes here.

Just then, an operator rushed in, sweating profusely, and asked, "Does anyone here know how to defuse bombs?"

"What's wrong?" Ash asked.

"Something terrible has happened. Come with us to the warehouse immediately."

"Isn't this an electronics research institute? Why is there a bomb?!"

"How was I supposed to know they planted a self-destruct bomb? The doctor didn't say anything!" Huang also took off running, and the engineering team packed up the reactor and pushed it out at an astonishing speed.

"Because I don't know either." The doctor's voice remained calm, but it was clear that he was also surprised. Apparently, the security department hadn't informed him about planting the self-destruct bomb.

The bomb was not triggered because no one expected that the "planetary ecological modification plants" would cause problems, and no one expected that the disaster would come from the prematurely erupting sun.

However, the team's entry clearly triggered the mechanism of the bomb, which seemed to be designed to deal with the refugees and rioters from before. As for whether Ash and her team could dismantle it, no one had any hope.

"The timer is 15 minutes. You have 5 minutes, and 10 minutes to evacuate. Preserving lives is the top priority."

"Roger!" Underneath the warehouse floor, the engineers discovered more than one bomb, already timed. It seemed to have been activated the moment they entered the warehouse. God knows why these things need electricity and are still functional.

It seems to be designed to deal with those rioters from back then. If they rushed into the warehouse to loot, fifteen minutes would be enough time for our own people to escape, while the rioters would be tied down by the various valuable goods inside the warehouse.

"We'll gather as much stuff as possible to evacuate; you're in charge of defusing the bombs."

"Damn it, I've never seen these bombs before." Ash was sweating profusely as he looked at these Originium-powered bombs. This was completely different from the technology on Earth.

"Then abandon the bomb disposal and let's retreat!"

"But the research institute above has..."

"There's no chance now. I hope the bomb won't destroy the upper-level research facility!"

In the rush, the doctor didn't know what the bombs contained. They might be ordinary Originium bombs, capable of destroying the cargo hold and the rioters inside, but not causing much damage to the platform itself. After all, given the circumstances at the time, such a platform had already lost its manufacturing capability.

It could also be a level 1 Originium detonation mutagen, which would be enough to blow up the entire platform, even blasting away any friendly personnel who couldn't run fast. Or it could be a precise and complete destruction of the entire platform, preventing it from falling into the hands of rioters and refugees.

What does the research institute have?

"We have the production materials and equipment for synthetic jade chips."

"After all these years, can it still be read?"

"Yes, we can carve the words into stone." In fact, it has a structure similar to a vinyl record, with thin sheets with a diameter of over 15 meters and graphene stacked together to form a thick cylinder.

"anything else?"

"The ultra-high precision ion etching machines, photolithography equipment, ultra-high precision grinding machines, etc., needed to produce various electronic chips and devices are valuable resources of civilized technology."

"Wait, didn't you use quantum chips?"

“That’s Boss Xia’s technology, and it can no longer be produced. So, we have to reclaim our lost legacy now.” The Rainbow Team, who had been here for a while, already knew that Terra was a lost planet. They once had a glorious and splendid civilization, but now only the remnants of survivors remain in the ruins.

While some of the lights were indeed a bit too large, such as the Great Flame Super Shipyard that the Arctic Behemoth entered for resupply, those magnificent industrial monsters were awe-inspiring and even terrifying. However, for the post-apocalyptic survivors, the factories that manufactured landships and the landships themselves were indeed far beyond what was allowed.

"The demons have arrived!"

"They really know how to pick their timing. They've set up a defensive formation. Hold on!" The operators' weapons roared as demonic offspring that were jumping down from the ceiling and corridors were blasted into mangled pieces.

"Hurry up, engineering team! We only have 2 minutes left!"

"Accelerating!" The hook directly hooked onto a container, and then the large transport truck violently pulled the thing across the warehouse floor, leaving a trail of sparks. After pulling it out of the warehouse, it dragged it along the ground, completely disregarding whether the contents inside would be damaged by the collision.

"Time's up, alternating fire, evacuate!" Regardless of the fact that most of the cargo in the warehouse was still unpacked, and only two reactors had been salvaged, the rest had to be abandoned. After all, these elite operators were more valuable than these inanimate objects.

Ten minutes was enough time for them to run to a relatively safe distance. "Over here, over here!" An operative standing in a makeshift trench waved, and the Rainbow Squad jumped in. Then a series of explosions rang out.