"What's the situation?" The data terminal stopped tossing its eyes and asked through the mental connection.
"The beacon has been blocked," Hao Ren said with a serious face, "the drone swarm has not received any navigation signals."
"No navigation signal? Is there a signal but no navigation information, or is there no communication at all?"
Hao Ren immediately asked the drone group, and the answer he got was that the fleet had intermittently received messages from some beacons a few minutes ago, but the information contained no data that could be used for navigation. Signal transmission was also completely interrupted.
He frowned slightly: "Our beacon transmitter is down, and now I can still contact it from here, it is on standby on the tallest building in Black Street, but the system shows that the channel between the beacon and the outer universe is faulty .The communication between the drone swarm and the beacon lasted only four and a half minutes, and hardly anything of value was transmitted."
The data terminal thought for a while, and shouted: "Help this machine up!"
Hao Ren carried "her" to the communication device, so that the latter could see the display parameters on it. After researching for a while, the data terminal said in frustration: "I just remembered that the slots of this machine are gone now, it seems that there is no way to connect with this thing, right..."
Hao Ren was furious: "Can you be a little more reliable!"
"Anyway, it seems impossible to use beacons to navigate," the data terminal ignored Hao Ren's anger, "It's still impossible to determine the position of the planet 'Drom'. What are you going to do next?"
"Launch the probe," Hao Ren replied without hesitation, "If the 'Drom' is shrouded in a layer of distorted space, then the range should be limited. Let's launch the probe into space from here to see if it can fly. How far away. If the detector doesn’t work, then the next time you come in, take the Giant Turtle Rock Platform with you, and I will drive the spaceship to rush out.”
The two immediately began to study the next step of launching the detector. Because they didn't want to attract unnecessary attention, they decided to wait until the evening before taking the opportunity to leave the mercenary regiment's garrison and go to the suburbs to release the detector. But just when they had just finished discussing. A loud noise suddenly came from outside the barracks.
Hao Ren opened the alloy shutters on the side of the small room, and through the window, he saw many mercenaries running around in the open space of the regiment. And an armored vehicle full of bullet marks was coming in from the direction of the gate of the camp. After the armored vehicle came to a stop, the first person to jump off from it was someone he knew: an unusually tall and strong man like a champion bodybuilder. The mercenary Karl who I met on the first day.
"It looks like there's something to do?" Hao Ren said in a low voice, "Nolan seems to have come out too."
"This machine can't see it! You have to play the role of necrophilia well. At this time, you should carry this machine on your back to watch the excitement!"
"You wait inside," Hao Ren casually said to the data terminal, "I'll go out and check the situation."
After speaking, he ran out. The voice of the data terminal echoed in his mind: "You took over the visual sharing of this machine! You let this machine look at the ceiling here to play? Hey, don't go! Where's the professionalism of necrophilia? !"
After Hao Ren ran outside, he saw Ulanov standing in front of him. He stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder: "What's the matter?"
"Karl has returned from City Zero, and he may have brought big business," Ulanov said without looking back, "He is the liaison between us and City Zero."
Hao Ren glanced at the mercenary Carl, who was tall and thick, and said to himself that such a taciturn and burly man turned out to be a diplomat of Gray Fox—Isn't Nolan's selection and appointment criteria based on metaphysics
At this time, the surrounding mercenaries gave way one after another, and Nolan walked out from behind the crowd. Hao Ren noticed that her walking pace was still slightly uncoordinated, but it had basically returned to normal. But not long ago, she had a broken bone—I have to lament the incredible nanomedical technology in this world.
"Boss, Baihe Chamber of Commerce has a deal," Carl bowed his head to Nolan. "I hope we can escort a few people."
"Escort?" Nolan raised his eyebrows, "That's why that old bastard asked you to come over? Has all his guards died?"
"What does the Lily Chamber of Commerce do?" Hao Ren muttered to Ulanov next to him in a low voice. "Engage in Ji's base camp?"
Ulanov: "Huh?"
A mercenary introduced after hearing Hao Ren's question: "The White River Chamber of Commerce is one of the bosses of Zero City. They control a quarter of Zero City's guards. It stands to reason that military operations in Zero City and Black Street They don't need to ask the mercenary group to help."
Facing Nolan's inquiry, Carl quickly replied: "The scope of this activity is not around Zero City and Black Street, and the Guard Corps cannot be dispatched."
Nolan immediately became alert: "Where do they want us to send people?"
"...the ruins of the North Ring Tower."
When the surrounding mercenaries heard the name of the place, they immediately became agitated, but Nolan waved his hand without hesitation: "This order will not be accepted."
Almost at the same time that Nolan finished speaking, another hoarse and deep voice came from the crowd: "I'm going!"
Hao Ren looked around in surprise: it was Ulanov who spoke just now.
"Going to the Northern Ring Tower, are you sure?" Nolan looked at Ulanov with no emotion in his indifferent gray eyes. "That place is a restricted area for life."
"But you have come out of there alive, and more than once." Ulanov looked at Nolan unyieldingly through the mask, "'Grey Fox' knows the safe route, doesn't he? Otherwise, the Baihe Chamber of Commerce I will not find you to do this business."
"You also know that this is a business," Nolan raised his arms across his chest, "As a businessman, I can't do business at a loss. I have been to that ghostly place three times, and each time I lost a lot of money. Tragically, only three people came back alive. So I won't accept this business."
At this time, Carl suddenly said next to him: "The Baihe Chamber of Commerce is asking a very high price this time."
Nolan's eyebrows moved, and Carl bent down and whispered some details into her ear. Hao Ren hurriedly grabbed Ulanov at this moment: "What is that Northern Ring Tower... um, why are you so obsessed with it?" going there?"
Hao Ren was about to ask what the "Northern Ring Tower" was, but remembering the reactions of the mercenaries, he realized that it should be a famous place, and it would be too ignorant to ask rashly, so he temporarily changed the way of asking.
Ulanov was silent for a moment before speaking: "...it has nothing to do with you, I just want to go and see."
He and Hao Ren are far from being close, so he doesn't want to go into details about many things.
Hao Ren sighed regretfully, but heard the voice of the data terminal suddenly coming from his mind: "Northern Ring Tower? Do you want this machine to help you check the information?"
"You?" Hao Ren was stunned for a moment, "What can you do in this state? Aren't you unable to move anything except your eyeballs?"
"This machine just successfully stood up! Although only one leg works..."
Hao Ren suddenly coughed violently, and the sudden movement caused the surrounding mercenaries to look sideways. He quickly waved his hands to express his apology, and then lowered his head to hide the surprise on his face: "You stood up? You have mastered the ability to move in just a while?"
"Isn't it enough that this machine is so talented?" The voice of the data terminal was triumphant. Don't want this machine to help you look up information? This machine is almost crawling to the front of the laptop."
Hao Ren only gave the terminal three words: "Quickly check."
At this time, Karl had finished whispering to Nolan, who frowned and thought about it, and looked around at the mercenaries after a long time: "Well, I don't force you to participate in this mission, but anyone who participates can come back alive." Get an ecological residence in Zero City."
This is the "high price" offered by the Baihe Chamber of Commerce.
Hao Ren didn't know the specific value of an ecological residence in this world, but seeing the reactions of the people around him, he realized that it might be an astonishing wealth.
The data terminal also quickly transmitted the information it found: "Found it - the Northland Ring Tower, which was the control center when the nanometer fleet lost control sixty-five years ago, and that place has been preserved until now. The three 'master' computers Still buried under them!"
(Ask for a monthly ticket~!~!) (To be continued~^~)