by Chen Ran
The strange fish shook its large head, spitting out the mud from its mouth. Zero bit the fluorescent rod in his mouth, and with the blade as the main supporting point, and at the same time used his Second Order strength strengthening ability, allowing his other hand's five fingers to be like steel nails piercing into the riverbed to play a supporting role.
When the sea dragonfish turned towards him, he changed his hands, supporting himself on the riverbed with both of his feet, he crawled towards the opposite direction of the sea dragonfish. The water was turbulent, and although zero had minimized the friction, it was not easy to get up.
What gave him a headache was that the sea dragonfish did not seem to be prepared to let go of this fella who accidentally invaded their domain. Therefore, the sea dragonfish that acted as a protector turned its body, used its five pairs of long legs to stab into the ground, and chased after Su Yun.
Fortunately, the sea dragonfish's body was too huge, which meant that it had to bear an even greater water pressure than zero. This caused the sea dragonfish's speed to be much slower than zero. However, it had a long stride, which more or less leveled the disadvantage in speed, only slightly slower than zero.
From time to time, this weird fish would use its large mouth, or its asymmetrical pincers to attack zero. Although Zero did not turn his head, but through the changes in the water behind him, he was able to avoid the attacks of the sea dragonfish beforehand. It was just that the repeated attacks had no effect, causing the sea dragonfish to be extremely angry.
Just like that, with one running and one chasing, Zero brought the strange fish to a mountain wall next to the large crevice. In this place, the flow of the water became chaotic. Zero could clearly feel several undercurrents passing by his body. There are many reasons for the undercurrent, but in the river, it is mostly because of the gap in the riverbed or the wall, and because of the air injection, it affects the flow of the current, thus causing the undercurrent.
Right now, they could feel the existence of undercurrents around the mountain walls, which meant that there were probably many pores on the mountain walls of the big fissure, which was a good place to temporarily hide from the sea dragonfish. With this thought in mind, Zero moved closer to the mountain wall.
At this time, the sea dragonfish had also come over. Because it was close to the mountain wall, the pressure on the sea dragonfish was not as large as it was in the middle of the water, causing the speed of the strange fish to suddenly increase. There were many times when it managed to bite him. Unfortunately, in the water, the M500 on him or the Colt were useless. On the contrary, the military knife in his hand was more practical.
It was just that the sword had the effect of stabilizing the body, it could not be used at all. He did not want to use it against the sea dragonfish. Furthermore, Zero did not believe that a small military knife could pose any threat to the sea dragonfish.
Behind him, the water violently gushed out. The sea dragonfish opened its mouth and tried to bite him again. This time, the strange fish was ferocious, with half of its leg in the attack range. Zero could only shrink his leg all of a sudden and almost arched his body into a ball, allowing the sea dragonfish's big mouth to graze his sole.
The monster fish's mouth closed, and Zero took the chance to support himself as he heavily stepped on the sea dragonfish's head.
The might of a stage two burst forth. The sea dragonfish that was as big as a water buffalo was also stomped on by Zero to the point that its body was slightly lifted up. As for Zero, it borrowed the force of the impact and darted forward, shuttling through the area like a swordfish. Unexpectedly, a strong undercurrent slammed into him, causing him to lose his balance. Fortunately, he immediately plunged his saber into the riverbed, not giving the torrent behind him a chance to rush further away.
Borrowing the fluorescent rod's light, Zero saw an irregular hole in the mountain wall. Air was injected into the hole, forming the intense undercurrent. Su Ming was overjoyed and immediately swam towards the cave entrance. The water in the cave was relatively smooth, only occasionally there were undercurrents, but as long as one was careful, they would not be forced out of the cave. After all, compared to the torrent outside the cave, this undercurrent could still be offset by zero power.
Unexpectedly, the good news did not last long, and the sea dragonfish also followed along, feeling as if it would not rest until it was dead.
After being in the water for such a long time, the penetrating wound left by the Parkland's killer had already started to worsen. Zero's right side was starting to feel numb. If he couldn't get out of the water and deal with the wound in a short period of time, even if he managed to survive, he would cause an unrecoverable hidden injury in the future.
The air in his lungs was also a troublesome problem. From the moment he entered the water until now, he had never taken a breath of fresh air. If he could not find an exit, he would drown in fear.
The sound of water could be heard behind him as the sea dragonfish chased after him.
After leaving the underground water filled with torrents of water, the water flow in this space did not disturb the sea dragonfish much. The strange fish waved its long, sharp legs, as if it was flying, and slowly approached zero. With a speed of zero, it was impossible to shake off this strange fish. He gritted his teeth and suddenly retreated in the direction of the fish's belly.
The sea dragonfish did not expect Zero to do this. In its life span that was not considered short, it had yet to encounter any life-threatening prey that crawled under its body. This mutated organism, who was not very intelligent, did not have any idea at the moment.
With a horizontal cut, the poor muscle fiber's nerves were cut off.
Under the pain, the monster's feet and legs were in disarray, causing the soil in the cave to fly in all directions. The originally unclear water area became even more turbid.
Zero took the opportunity to swim away. After about five meters, the monster fish started chasing after him. But this time, the sea dragonfish was injured in one leg, and could not move as fast as before, and the distance between them gradually widened.
The farther up this hole was, the smaller the space became. In the end, only one person would be able to pass through as the two walls shrunk. The sea dragonfish was in a hurry to catch up, but suddenly crashed into Su Yun when she was about to exit the gap.
A tremor immediately came from the water, many of the stone chips fell off from the strange fish's collisions, but this metamorph caused half of its head to be stuck in the exit.
Zero looked back and saw the weird fish shaking its head. After a long while, it finally broke free. The two tentacles kept pointing in the direction of zero, but the sea dragonfish that knew that it was impossible to pass through let out a muffled cry, and could only turn around and leave.
Zero let out a sigh of relief and continued swimming upstream. When he was less than three meters away, he broke out of the water and breathed in the air. Even though it was not fresh, there was still a musty smell coming from it.
Zero lifted the fluorescent rod and looked around, only to realize that he was in a puddle. In front of him, the ground tilted upwards, and further in, it was hidden in the darkness. However, it was obvious that this cave was not small at all.
He quickly swam over and crawled out of the water on his hands and knees. He then lay down on the wet ground and panted.
Chapter 150 - Unknown Civilization
After giving himself five minutes of rest, Zero still struggled to get up, no matter how tired and tired he was. The subterranean space did not seem to be in any danger at the moment, but there were sea dragonfish that could even appear in the underground water. Who knew if there were any other metamorph present in the ground. Zero did not dare to be careless, but before he left, he still had to deal with his wounds.
He looked at the hole on his right chest that had turned white from the water. He was lucky that Parkland's killer used a standard sniper b
ullet instead of an armored bullet or explosive bullet, otherwise his injuries would not have ended up like this.
He first evaporated the vapor on his body with the high-temperature power formed by a Level 1 Fire Essence Su, then he took out the remaining disinfectant and spray from his army backpack to disinfect the wound. Without any extra bandages, he could only remove one of the sleeves of his tactical suit, and then cut it open with his army knife. After doing all this, Zero lifted the fluorescent rod and headed towards the darkness of the cave.
From time to time, mutated insects the size of pinky tails drilled into the wet cave. These small insects ate mostly mud. However, there were even larger Earth Worms that used them as food. When they passed by, he saw a few puncturer s that were as thick as an arm crawling out of some of the holes in the cave, and then, he picked up these bugs and swallowed them.
The mutated insects that were hidden deep underground were very sensitive to light. The dim light from the light was as eye-catching as sunlight to them. Thus, when they felt the source of the fluorescent rod's light, the few puncturer s went back to their own nests, allowing Zero to lower the left wheel and continue moving forward.
The deeper they went, the more branches the cave grew. It looked like the lair of some large earthworm. In this labyrinth of caves, if they went the wrong way, they might never get out. But there was a breeze in the cave, and a small flame rose between his fingers, judging his path by the direction in which it swayed. In this way, the labyrinth of caves could not hold up to zero, and the wind guided him faithfully in the right direction.
He silently calculated his steps. When he counted to 1045 steps, everything in front of him suddenly became clear.
He had already walked out of the fulcrum's complicated cave, but in front of him was an even larger natural cave. Judging by the size of the cave, it was hard to tell from the weak light emitted by the fluorescent rod. But after ten minutes or so of walking along the edge and still not seeing the end, he had to give up. Judging from the occasional whistling of the wind in the cave, this place was probably the size of a football field.
Zero lifted the fluorescent rod again. Under the dim yellow light, he saw the rocks and irregular stalagmites above him. The width of the cave was extremely wide but the height was limited. It was only about five meters, which created an abnormal feeling of oppression. From time to time, cold droplets of water would drip down from the stalagmites. In other words, there was even underground water flowing on this layer of stalagmites.
If there was a current, there would be an exit, but the problem was how to penetrate the rock layer. He walked aimlessly into the depths of the cave, hoping to find some sort of opening. However, he did not find the opening to the water, but a metallic reflection appeared in the fluorescent rod's light. Where did the metal come from? Could it be a mine? Zero thought.
The metallic reflection came from the darkness in front of him, and he quickened his pace. This time, he did not walk very far. After about ten meters, his foot landed on a strange metal object.
Zero crouched down. This piece of metal was only a thin piece, but it had been molded into the shape of a feather. There was a corrosive technique on the metal piece that carved out lines similar to circuit crystal plates. Embedded into the end of the piece of black and purple crystal stone was a proof that it was not a natural product.
When the fluorescent rod approached the metal plate, Zero could clearly see the crystal stone embedded inside suddenly flash with a faint light. Following the flow of this ray of light from the patterns on the metal plate, the entire plate slightly trembled as if it was alive.
Zero looked at all of this in surprise. Judging from the light source of the fluorescent rod, the purple black crystal was actually similar to a solar panel and could absorb light sources to use as energy sources. Judging from the vibration of the metal plate, this feathery object contains three systems: light source absorption, energy conversion and driving.
The use of solar energy as the main source of energy, as well as its conversion and driving processes, is not impossible to achieve at today's technological level. But that required a system of units and structures, and no matter how elaborate the processing was, it was impossible to organically combine the three systems into a thin sheet of metal no more than five millimeters in length and no more.
Judging from the thick layer of dust on the metal sheet, it was unknown how many years it had lain in this dark cave. To the best of his knowledge, out of all the energy research results that Dark Council had made known to the public, the most representative magnetic energy units could only last about ten years without any additional energy supply.
However, this piece of metal, Zero believed that it would definitely last more than ten years or more in this cave.
So, what kind of organization did it come from? Was it a product of the new era, or was it the crystallization of technology from the old era? However, he believed that even if the resources of the old era were plentiful, there wouldn't be enough technological support to produce such thin metal sheets.
As they moved forward, more and more of these metal plates appeared. They were scattered all over the place, like the wings of some prehistoric bird.
Finally, when they were a hundred meters away from the first piece, Zero stopped and a huge wing covered with the same metallic texture dropped limply to the ground. The metal sheets fell off from this wing, and Zero could even see the metal frame after the piece fell off. This imitation of the wings of a bird made of metal, made Zero think of a noun.
Bionic technology!
Although biomimetic technology had been developed in the old era, it was still unable to reach the technological level of this metal wing, let alone the exquisite system on that piece of wing. He took out the other fluorescent rod s and made them light up at their roots. Then, he threw a few fluorescent rod in different directions.
Thus, an unbelievable scene appeared before his eyes.
What appeared before Zero's eyes was a strange looking flying machine. It was the size of an old ship, with a U-shaped front end and a streamlined rear end. The entire aircraft was covered in mud, and a portion of it was stuck in the layer of rock above. It was as if it was stuck in a cave.
There were three enormous metallic wings on each side of the aircraft, and they were all hanging limply to the ground. However, after coming in contact with the light emitted by the fluorescent rod, the light absorption system of the metal wings started to move naturally. However, the wings only vibrated slightly before quieting down. At the same time, all of the zero fluorescent rod had extinguished. That was because all the light sources had been absorbed by the metallic wings.
With the last fluorescent rod in his hand, he carefully distanced himself from these large wings, so as to avoid losing even the last bit of light.
He was almost certain that neither the aircraft itself nor the metal wings were the product of the new or the old. So which civilization does it belong to?
Was it an alien civilization? Or some unknown civilization relic in the history of Earth?
For a moment, this airship attracted far more attention than it did when it left the cave. It was as if he was standing in front of a huge mystery, and Zero could not wait to solve it.
Chapter 151 - Entering the spacecraft
As the light source released by the fluorescent rod was absorbed by the strange flying machine, the cave became dark again. There was only one fluorescent rod left in Zero's hand. He did not even dare to approach the metal wings of the airship, afraid that he would even absorb the remaining light.
This unknown civilization seemed to be very advanced in the use of light. However, the weak light emitted by the fluorescent rod could also become the energy of the metal wings, which meant that the technology used to absorb and process energy was far more advanced than the current one. To be able to accomplish this task without wasting any energy, it was practically impossible in the eyes of zero.
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sp; However, this type of energy processing system, which was at the molecular level of precision, reminded Zero of his own body. For ordinary people, a small amount of food can double the amount of energy needed to maintain zero or more activity. The food within his body had been separated and used, not a single ounce of it was wasted. This was very similar to the energy processing mode of the aircraft in front of him.
Zero's breathing suddenly became rapid.
He had an impulse to get into the aircraft, although in conventional judgment it was almost impossible.
Even the current technology could develop all sorts of strict authority systems. How could an unknown civilization, which had surpassed the current technology, be unguarded in this area? He was certain that the aircraft had its own authorization system or identification system to prevent outsiders from entering.
No matter how one looked at it, he was not qualified to enter the aircraft. However, other than entering normally, he could also enter violently. A small part of the underground base was now an anti-nuclear strike shelter of the old era. After being discovered, they would often resort to violence to break their defences due to their authority. After entering the base, only professionals reset the program and access rights.
However, this aircraft in front of him, which had a U-shaped streamlined front end, did not have a single porthole, not even a metal joint. It was as if the aircraft had been molded as a whole, rather than pieced together and welded together as a modern industry.
A drone with no gaps, Zero had no idea how to destroy such a structure.
Naturally, he was not willing to give up so easily, so Zero placed the fluorescent rod far away from the airship to ensure that its light source was not absorbed by the wings of the airship. Then he removed the right eye cover, causing the golden right eye to shine with a golden light. With Su Yun's right eye, as long as there was a weak light source, he would be able to see anything. As a result, even though the fluorescent rod was far away, he could still see what was in front of him.
