The truck was moving fast on the rough road, and the people on the roof played cards happily without fear of bumps. Only Xia Ruize was not happy looking at the small life bottle.
There is an upper limit to the life energy that the body can absorb every day. In order not to waste every day, the three of them need to run a longer distance at night to find suitable prey, sometimes running all night.
Fortunately, Gao Hexuan has satellites, can determine the suitable target location in advance, and can track the location of the convoy, otherwise they will not be able to find them when they run out at night.
After more than three days, the convoy finally arrived at the northernmost tip of the mainland. The land here is connected to the mainland where Liguo is located. If you go by land, you must go around here to set foot on the mainland where Liguo is located.
It took another three days for the convoy to enter the border of Liguo. The team members who had been relaxed along the way were reminded by their respective captains, and finally raised their vigilance.
The distance along this road is simpler than imagined. Except for staying in the car and bumping with the truck, most of the time there is no need to fight, because there is no shadow of the living corpse.
Only the guards at the research base know that the real difficulty of this search mission is the destination, the Holes Research Base.
In order to go all out to deal with the mutants that may be encountered, the team finally stopped to rest for a day when they were still one day away from the Hall base, so that the team members could recharge their batteries and go all out.
Subsequently, the ten vehicles of the same road convoy were divided into three groups, three or four vehicles, and approached the Halls research base from different directions.
After being able to see the Halls research base from a distance, the truck slowed down and only made a slight running sound. The guards leading the team were full of vigilance, and carefully directed their men to do a good job of defense.
The nervousness of the guards was transmitted to the team members under them. Although they didn't know what they were wary of, everyone became nervous.
There are wild grass and dead trees in sight, with an ominous black color, which makes people panic. The only advantage is probably that they can see everything at a glance, and they are not afraid of the enemy lurking close.
As it got closer and closer to Hall's base, even the soil turned black, as if scorched.
The base building is also completely black, like a huge black monster lying on the ground, waiting for snacks to be delivered to the door.
The atmosphere in the team became more and more tense. Except for the slightly agitated young researcher, everyone else had serious expressions, and their intuition told them that there was danger lurking in the silent environment.
The walkie-talkie sounded "Zi La Zi La" to confirm everyone's guess.
The walkie-talkie in the hands of team leader Liu Jie suddenly sounded exclamations and calls for help, but the panic and noise soon disappeared. No matter how Liu Jie asked, there was no response from the other side.
Staring at the walkie-talkie in Liu Jie's hand, the other people on the roof had a bad premonition, which was quickly confirmed. The four cars in this group checked the news with each other and found that they all received a message from another team. Distress signals, but when the situation is unclear, there is no further information.
The cold air climbed up on the back, and no one could figure out what happened. Could it be that another group of convoys was wiped out in a very short period of time
No matter how frightened everyone was, the truck was still driving towards the base unswervingly.
When they drove to the decayed building, the truck finally stopped. Everyone jumped out of the truck and formed a team to move towards the building. There was silence around them, only the footsteps of themselves and their companions could be heard, but everyone felt their hearts were being clenched. Tight, it seems that something is secretly peeping at them.
Among a group of people, I am afraid that only the researchers are full of excitement and anticipation.
The research base has been abandoned for a long time. Everyone entered the interior from the collapsed corner, and forced to break open when encountering an impassable road. Everyone was wearing full-body protective clothing and gas masks. Watching the four researchers get busy.
The intercom suddenly rang again, this time it was the channel signal of the last group of convoys, but as before, after a burst of chaotic voices, no matter how they called, there was no response from the other side.
Several captains tried to contact the team members of the last team, but all failed.
All the soldiers in the laboratory looked at each other blankly, with surprise in their eyes.
"How long will it take?"
Finally, someone couldn't help urging the busy researcher. He always felt that this place was too dangerous and wanted to leave immediately.
The researchers were engrossed in the work at hand, and did not respond at all. The team captain took a look and comforted him: "Be quiet, don't be impatient, hurry up, don't disturb the doctors."
"They conduct research on the spot and transmit the data back to the research base via satellite."
Gao Hexuan noticed something unusual, and told the two big brothers about his discovery in the heart network.
Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian looked at each other and suddenly realized.
After the first search mission of the research base failed, they never expected to bring the data back smoothly. This time they changed their thinking and sent researchers to carry out research directly in the abandoned Hall base and pass the important data back. , As for whether the people involved in the mission can safely escape from Hall's base, it is not within the scope of the plan's consideration.
At this time, the other two groups in the same convoy should have been wiped out, and they might be the ones being targeted next.
Xia Ruize put down the gun in his hand, and then squeezed his light arrow tightly, always turning on the space backtracking. If the other two groups of convoys can't even send out a distress signal, the enemy's strength is bound to be strong, and he can't be too cautious.
Gao Hexuan had already started tapping the code, and clusters of light gray codes formed behind him.
Time passed by every minute and every second, and the heavy pressure made the soldiers except the researchers wait silently and suffer. Suddenly, footsteps came from outside the passage.
The footsteps of "click", "click" were clear and presumptuous, as if the humans in the building had no reinforcements, and they didn't even bother to hide.
It was clear that there were no sentries outside the laboratory, and the footsteps definitely did not belong to humans. Everyone stared at the entrance of the passage and clenched the weapons in their hands.
Only the four researchers didn't even take a second look, and continued to be busy with the research work at hand. For their research base, this time is the best and last chance. If they can't collect enough data on the original virus this time, , the base is unable to organize another search operation.
After all, this kind of action of sending people to death can only be used once and it will bankrupt the credit.
The footsteps were getting closer, and when everyone was looking at the entrance of the passage, Xia Ruize suddenly shouted "behind!"
While admonishing, Xia Ruize turned around and shot arrows neatly. With a "whoosh", the sound of footsteps disappeared, and the arrows shot and the target were all gone.
The soldiers who hadn't seen anything couldn't help cast their puzzled eyes on Xia Ruize, only to see that the gentle temperament of the young man standing in the corner suddenly changed, revealing a sharp edge, looking around seriously and vigilantly, and at the same time reminded road:
"The enemy is very fast, flexible, and a little bigger than a human. Be careful."
Hearing Xia Ruize's words, the people in the laboratory suddenly showed different expressions. The guards were horrified, and the others were baffled.
Xia Ruize turned to look at the captain of the team, and asked in a cold voice, "Shouldn't I explain it to everyone?"
Facing the angry questioning eyes of the others, the captain, who hadn't had time to take back his horrified expression, sighed in his heart. It seemed that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he had to explain:
"What we encountered is likely to be a higher-level monster than the super-alien species, which is named 'variant'. Unlike the living corpses of the previous levels, the higher the level, the larger the size. The mutants are condensed in size, only bigger The most common living corpses are a bit bigger, but their strengths are vastly different, not only are they powerful and fast, researchers also speculate that they have a certain amount of wisdom."
After two seconds of reaction, after receiving the information revealed by the captain, many people were completely blown up:
"What do you mean? I never said before I came here that I would encounter monsters scarier than super aliens!"
"You knew in advance? Then you must be prepared to deal with it?"
"I'm quitting! Your research base has killed me!"
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Facing the questioning from the crowd, the head of the brigade showed embarrassment and replied:
"Now I'm afraid I can't leave even if I want to. The other party has already set their sights on us... No one can escape, we can only try our best to delay it for a while..."
The reason for convening so many team members is that the research base is hoping that there are more people and more strength, and that the mutation will be delayed for a while, so that the researchers can collect more data.
The plan has been going well so far. They touched the inside of the Halls Research Base and began to conduct experiments to collect data. However, the team leader recalled the momentary communication between the two groups of convoys before, and doubted how long they could delay.
Seeing that the captain and other guards were silent and gave up hope of escape, the others panicked instantly. Did these lunatics in the research base come to die knowing it well? And dragged more than two hundred of them into the water together
The sudden revelation of the truth of the mission made everyone unacceptable. The research base actually concealed the real purpose of recruiting death squads and sent them to die in a foreign country thousands of miles away? !
The angry allied forces of the various bases and the guards of the research base completely confronted each other, and in the chaos at the scene, no one noticed that Xia Ruize and Cheng Huaiqian were no longer in the laboratory.