These signs also mean that there are unknown dangers hidden in the underground ruins.
And, most likely, more than one.
"Your weapons are ready to be loaded, Stafford. Stay alert at all times." Luke reminded in a very low voice, but he only pulled out his pistol.
Pistols are flexible to use, small in size, and easier to discard, making them more suitable for dealing with possible critical situations.
Stafford took the HK416 that he had originally worn across his body and made an OK gesture.
Weiland didn't say anything, which meant he had no objection.
Luke and the other two continued to move forward.
After walking in the dim passage for a few more minutes, intensive gunfire suddenly rang out not far away.
"It should be one of ours." Stafford reminded quickly and quietly.
He is the security supervisor and he is personally responsible for equipping the team with weapons. He can tell which weapons are firing by listening to the sound of gunfire.
Luke didn't say anything, but just made two tactical signs to him, asking him to be alert.
Silently, Luke touched his chest and a small mirror appeared from the entrance.
Outside is a large passage about seven or eight meters high and six or seven meters wide, with rows of statues on both sides of the passage.
More than a dozen members of the expedition team were raising their guns and firing indiscriminately at the statue diagonally above them, while one member on the side wall had his head lowered.
The team member's body did not fall down, but a strange metal spear pierced through his chest and nailed him firmly to the stone wall.
Luke narrowed his eyes, not looking at the team members, but pointing the small mirror at a dark corner somewhere in the passage.
But he immediately pointed the mirror to another place, but saw only an old statue.
With a raised corner of his mouth, Luke quickly put down Willand from his back and gestured to Stafford behind him.
Stafford watched his gesture and suddenly his nerves tightened.
He stepped forward, pressed down on Weyland's shoulder and patted him gently, then slowly pushed back and brought his boss away from the entrance. He then watched Luke slip out of the entrance nimbly and disappear into a statue on the side.
The next moment, Stafford's eye twitched.
Because of his angle, he could see that a thick metal spear in the hand of the statue where Luke was hiding began to move and was slowly pulled into the darkness.
Woo!
Amidst the dull sound of breaking wind, the metal spear that was originally a decoration turned into a black shadow, instantly swept across a space of more than ten meters, and shot into the dark corner above the passage.
At the same time, Luke's gun fired.
Bang bang bang!
The bullet was fired from a completely different corner from where the decorative spear was fired, on the other side of the passage.
Amidst the flying sparks and flashes of tiny blue lightning, a burly figure appeared vaguely next to a statue above the passage.
This burly figure has an overall human shape, but its height reaches about two meters and a half, which does not look like a human.
The explorers in the passage just noticed the burly figure. Before they could move their guns, they heard a strange and shrill roar, and they couldn't help but pause.
Only Weyland and the other two, who had been paying attention to Luke's actions, noticed that the place where the strange roar came from was the corner where Luke threw the decorative spear.
So, in addition to that burly figure in the passage, there is another enemy hiding in another corner
Weiland and the other man felt a chill in their hearts.
If Luke hadn't taken action, they wouldn't have noticed the location of the two enemies.
In other words, if the two of them went in by themselves, they would be in the same dilemma as the explorers below, unable to detect the enemy.
Luke suddenly said, "Stafford, tell your men to retreat."
Stafford quickly said: "Everyone retreat, this is our new teammate."
A group of panicked team members suddenly heard the voice of their supervisor Stafford, and they hurriedly did as they were told, as if they had found a life-saving straw.
As the blue light flashed, the burly figure did not stop the actions of the team members, but turned his head to look in the direction where Luke was.
Luke's figure slowly walked out of the darkness, his hands formed into a triangle, and he raised the gun in front of his eyes and pointed it.
The expedition members were able to identify Luke at a glance. The equipment he was wearing had the Weyland Company logo and was the same style as that of the expedition team.
But they just glanced at Luke and did not dare to stop.
The attack they just suffered made them so confused that they almost collapsed.
Stafford's voice continued to command: "Don't panic, keep the formation steady and retreat."
The security personnel among these team members were well-trained. Even though they were panicked just now, they still maintained some basic defensive formations, so they were not easily killed.
Now, with Stafford's command, everyone felt more confident and quickly retreated into the passage where Luke came out.
"Take them and evacuate slowly. I will come to you after I deal with this guy. Be careful of the dark corners and overhead. There is more than one kind of monster here." Luke said without turning his head.
Stafford hesitated and looked at Wilander.
After all, Weiland was a veteran boss. After just a brief thought, he nodded slightly and agreed to the proposal.
Judging from the abilities and personality Luke has shown, he is not the kind of brainless and impulsive young man.
The scene of how he had acted in an instant and saved the team members was still fresh in his mind, and he chose to believe Luke.
He still remembers that Aoki, the extremely steady and cautious old fox, described Luke as "the professional who is best at handling violent incidents."
Over there, the dozen or so surviving expedition members, led by Stafford, carefully retreated along the way they came.
In the passage, Luke and the burly figure stood quietly.
Now that the distance was closer, and with the help of the glow sticks thrown by the explorers, he could see the general appearance of the burly figure.
I saw that it was wearing a strange helmet with a round forehead.
The eyes of the helmet are something like gray lenses, and there are three neatly symmetrical rows of depressions on the cheeks, making it look a bit like a cat's face.
There are two rows of tubes on the side of the helmet, which may be used to provide breathing gas. There are dozens of dreadlocks and hair-like things on the back of both sides.
Of course, Luke knew it wasn't hair, that smell wasn't right.
It has half armor on its upper body, arm armor on its forearms, and leg armor on its calves, all of which flash with a dull metallic luster.
The details of this set of armor have a distinct technological style, which shows that it is not an ancient armor with purely protective functions.
With Luke's eyesight and Stark's technological capabilities, he was able to deduce that several locations should be interfaces for other external equipment.
So, this guy is not a wild beast, it is an unknown creature with technology and civilization.
After looking at Luke for a moment, the cat-faced mask suddenly jumped down from above.
Luke didn't shoot it.
The opponent's action was not to pounce on him, but simply to jump to the ground.