Chapter 575 Rough Road
For example, radiation, another example
"How far is it from the outermost layer?" The leader couldn't help but ask.
"Out of reach." Chen Ze shook his head solemnly.
"So now." The leader stared at Chen Ze with bright eyes.
"Wait." Chen Ze stretched out a tentacle arm and swung forward, picked up a piece of flower bone and crushed it into pieces.
The warm snow then divided into many parts and spread out like wool.
"Wait for the light snow below to surge up." Although Chen Ze retracted his mechanical arm after waving the light snow away, he still showed no intention of relaxing.
If the leader has enlightenment, he will cast light in the direction Chen Ze is looking.
On the ceiling, the crystal walls were dim.
This is not surprising. The further you go to the outer layer, the darker the crystal wall becomes.
It's just that this time the crystal wall seems to be a bit completely black, as if it is covered with a thick and sticky shadow.
咕噜 咕噜
There seemed to be something alive squirming in the darkness, and some shapeless bubbles could be vaguely seen exploding and bursting, only to disappear after careful scanning.
"This is." The leader began to self-check and scan the module.
"We are in trouble." The soul core in front of Chen Ze moved, and a sword-like golden light shot toward the ceiling.
"Hoohoho-"
Where the golden light pointed, a pool of decayed human faces that looked like mud were disintegrating and melting in the roar, returning to the embrace of boundless darkness.
The wait is always extremely long.
It wasn't until the tide of light snow finally rose up from the ground that the robots' sluggish voltage was slightly relieved.
"Everyone obeys the order!"
"Everyone! Hey! Stop connecting!"
"Everyone obeys the order!"
"Cheer up, everyone!"
“Pull up the power!”.
The electric waves and sound waves intermingled, like an invisible riding crop that kept waving, completely waking up the rocket that had been silent for a long time.
The pilots took their places, and the navigator Chen Ze also evoked the boundless light and snow again.
Under the guidance of the soul core, several waterfalls were pulled out of the ocean-like sea of light, hanging upside down and rushing towards the top of the rocket, where they merged into a new drill bit.
The light drill spins rapidly, stirring up thick light snow and spreading along the bottom, covering the entire rocket like a coat.
In an instant, all passengers felt a refreshing feeling of smooth circuit.
"take off!"
In the sound of the command that echoed throughout the arrow body, the brand-new light tower soared into the sky and flew away.
Although the rocket's momentum was huge, the silent crystal wall was not to be outdone.
This time the breakthrough only lasted two levels.
The tenth floor.
As usual, Chen Ze commanded the rocket to land temporarily and wait for replenishment of "fuel".
But as the layers get longer and the area becomes wider, it takes longer for the light snow pouring out from the ground to fill each layer.
So after waiting for a long time, everyone still didn't see the familiar light coming.
The passengers began to panic, and the crashes caused by tremors were like a symphony without a conductor.
"9527." The leader rushed back from the lower level worriedly.
"The temperature here is too low. Is there any way to further insulate it?"
The low temperature makes the robots run sluggishly, and even brings fear into them.
Chen Ze shook his head and pointed at the increasingly sparse light and snow protective shield outside.
"It's not enough."
Upon closer inspection, the outer edge of the photomask is getting thinner and thinner, as if it is being eaten away by something invisible.
The further outside he went, the more Chen Ze became aware of the hidden force fields everywhere.
At first it was just like being tied up with ropes, but now on the tenth floor it's almost like being pushed into a mire and being breathless.
"Is there any way to move?" the leader asked again.
Chen Ze didn't answer, but just cast a bright light on him.
It's not enough to just stand still and fight against the erosion of strange forces. How can you still have the energy to take action?
"I remember there are factory ruins nearby," the leader explained,
"I never understood why they didn't take the equipment down, but now I maybe understand."
"Supplies." Chen Ze spat out a word at him.
"The possibility is very high." The leader looked eager to try.
"It should be nearby."
Although looking around, there was nothing around, only disturbing ripples in the darkness.
But the leader still has confidence in his memory.
"Who is going?" Chen Ze asked this key question.
"I'll go." The leader flipped over the armor without hesitation, unfolded the tracks, and entered the armed form.
Needless to say, there is danger in the darkness, but besides the leader, who else has the ability to go out and explore the way?
Chen Ze will definitely stay as the host.
So he knocked out an odd-numbered soul core from the polymer in front of him and gave it to the leader.
"Hold it and I'll help you clear the way."
The leader didn't hesitate. After integrating it into his soul core, he started the crawler track, circled it three or two times to the edge of the platform and jumped off.
"leader!"
"Leader, where are you going?"
Someone tried to stop him, but was shouted back by the leader.
"Obey the order! Stay where you are!"
pat.
Crawling on the ground.
The leader carefully raised his soul core and faced the boundless darkness ahead.
It couldn't help but look back. The stagnant giant rocket was like a dazzling light tower, and a veil of light and snow curtains swayed down from the top of the tower, almost covering the machine body.
If you go forward one more circle, you will be out of the shelter range.
Suddenly, the soul core flashed in front of him.
A slender and difficult-to-discern beam of light seemed to be absent, directed towards the top of the tower spire.
Chen Ze nodded towards it.
The leader turned back, turned on all the lighting modules on his body, and drove into the darkness without hesitation.
Bang.
As soon as he left the mask, the leader noticed something falling to the ground in the distance.
It tried to throw the beam, but was swallowed up by the boundless darkness like a giant beast.
Sizzling, sizzling, sizzling
It seemed like some kind of sticky beach was approaching.
But the leader couldn't notice anything. There was only empty darkness in front of him.
It begins to charge up its particle cannon.
At this moment, a soft beam of light suddenly lit up in front of itself, originating from the soul core that Chen Ze had given it.
The light spread warmly, illuminating the darkness around him and also illuminating the unknown shadow that suddenly shrank back as if frightened.
The leader drove forward and saw that there was only a pool of greasy brown turbid liquid on the ground.
It went around and searched along the way according to the direction in its memory.
Soon, it found a pile of dust-free old equipment, which was placed in a fence like a construction shed.
Like luggage that has been packed but not taken away.
The leader stretched out all the robotic arms, tied it tightly along the armrest bracket, moved it into the idle cart next to it, and started on the way home.
The light along the way flickered on and off, and there were constant roars or whines coming from far and near, but the leader ignored them all.
In this way, we returned to the light shield of the base camp that had been dimmed to the point of being barely detectable.
It looked up at Chen Ze and received the latter's approval.
In fact, as soon as he got closer, Chen Ze could feel the specialness of these parts and equipment.
Just like the cabins that make up the stack, it has some soul-core-like qualities, so it can restrain the robots and can also work together to drive the rocket into the air.
This is simply a supply package that has been prepared in advance.
So under the command of the leader, these parts and equipment were successively disassembled and connected to the original rocket body. The originally slender rocket became "fatter", but it became more consistent with Chen Ze's divinity, and its driving force on Guang Xue became stronger.
"I didn't expect it started so long ago." The leader who returned to the top couldn't help but sigh,
"These devices, as well as the light snow erupting from the ground, are all helping us escape."
"Maybe we can actually pull it off."
During the conversation, the warm light and snowy ocean finally arrived. Chen Ze drove as usual, driving the rocket towards the dome.
The eleventh floor.
The expanded rocket was still unable to withstand the stronger crystal wall. In order to maintain the light and snow reserve to maintain the protective shield, Chen Ze had to stay again.
"I'm going to find supplies." The leader stiffly drove the tracks forward.
The low temperature has affected his normal actions.
Chen Ze didn't hesitate, just handed it another soul core.
The leader jumped down from the light tower and disappeared into the darkness.
After a while, screams and collisions were heard from the depths of the darkness, and then there was the roar of artillery fire, and the sound of shattering could be heard endlessly.
But there were still no waves in his field of vision, as if all the movement was just an auditory hallucination.
Chen Ze was trying to protect him from the air, when a large number of figures jumped out from the edge of the arrow body like dumplings.
"Let's go too!" The robots, whose shells were covered with frost, couldn't even move their tracks, but they left the mask one after another.
Chen Ze took advantage of the situation and released the soul cores, watching these fireflies rush into the darkness blankly, and gradually formed a path of light that reflected each other.
The end of the light path extends all the way to the leader who is waiting for him.
"Leader!" Someone shouted loudly, but was hit in the head by the leader's particle cannon.
call out.
Before the unlucky guy could dodge, the particle beam passed by, causing the light group that came to it to twist and tremble without knowing when.
Sizzling, sizzling
It was a humanoid figure that flashed all the time, like a blurry silhouette taken from a cartoon. It seemed to be emitting some kind of incomprehensible crazy scream while struggling.
Boo hoo hoo hoo——
Several more particle beams came in, completely scalding the human figure and melting it away.
"Leader!" Everyone stepped forward to help him.
"Are you OK?"
"It's okay." The leader swung his robotic arm and gestured to the equipment stacked not far behind him.
"Move your things back quickly."
Everyone did as they were told, and encountered several attacks from unknown light groups along the way, all with little or no risk.
The twelfth floor.
The fattened rocket made a routine stop, but the darkness around it became thicker.
Needless to say, the leader led the team out to search for supplies as usual.
But this time, the supply ground was nowhere to be seen.
"Let's change direction." The leader warned before stopping to prevent a collision behind him.
However, it soon discovered that it was eerily quiet behind it.
Turning around, there was only darkness in front of him.
The team got separated.
The leader tried to shout loudly, but as soon as the out-of-body sound waves emitted the body-protecting fluorescent light, they were swallowed up by the impatient darkness.
The darkness still surges.
As if provoking, a dry palm as pale as gray slowly reached out and touched the fluorescent light in front of the leader.
Sizzle.
The withered hands were melted and dripping, turning into pickled slime like wax oil, and quickly writhed and crawled back.
Only the vicious and evil laughter that is still echoing is left.
The leader remained unmoved and moved forward.
Until the front finally hit a wall.
As the leader approached, the body's fluorescent light reflected the rugged black crystal wall.
It suddenly realized that it had missed an important piece of information.
The twelfth floor is no longer the base built by the previous rulers.
Maybe it's a previous generation, or maybe it's even older, but no matter what, it means there will no longer be rocket supply points prepared in advance on this level.
Not only that, I'm afraid even the terrain and architecture are very different.
The leader couldn't help but worry about his separated subordinates.
In its worry, it saw an etching mark surrounded by texture on the crystal wall in front of it.
It seems like text?
The leader quickly took out a blue book from his body, turned to a blank page and recorded it using stereolithography.
"Leader." A vague voice seemed to be calling from beside him.
The leader looked at the soul core that protected him, and there was a message coming from the Rocket Base Camp in the distance.
"Turn back, go straight, turn left, and go straight to the end." Chen Ze said.
The leader put away the blue book without hesitation and followed the instructions, only to turn back.
"who is it!"
The leader roared and fired a bright light.
The darkness that followed this "surprise attack" was caught off guard, and it was suddenly illuminated to the end, revealing a hurried robot figure.
Pregnant woman? !
The leader clearly caught a glimpse of the fetus hanging on the other person's body.
But all the pregnant women are obviously staying in the base camp?
The leader's doubts are destined to be unconfirmed.
Because the darkness that reacted has become angry and angry. Not only is it as thick as the substance, but it also keeps stretching out its horrifying pale limbs with the intention of touching the fuselage.
This caused the leader's protective light and snow to decrease rapidly, and he had no choice but to speed up and rush on his way.
By the time the leader came back, a large number of exploration team members who had returned from the expedition had gathered near the rocket.
"Where are the others?" The leader returned to the light shield covered in dust.
The team members' voltage was low, and no one answered for a while.
it is more than words.
"How many people?" The leader asked in a different way.
"A total of twenty-three people have not come back." This time it finally got the answer.
23. The leader tightened his tentacle claws.
suddenly.
Sizzling, sizzling, sizzling, sizzling, sizzling!
"what--"
"You, what are you doing?"
"Go and help!".
A certain robot suddenly burst into flames, causing multiple explosions in its body, causing people around to rush to help put out the fire.
But after the explosion was stopped, the robot's system was completely paralyzed.
It stayed in the dark for too long, its protective light and snow were exhausted, and it had to find its way in a deadly radiation environment.
Although he insisted on returning to the base camp, most of the delicate components in his body had been damaged due to being exposed for too long.
There is no way to save the day.
"Want..." It finally sent out some intermittent weak sound waves,
"Okay, I really want to go and see the outside world."
"Hey, help me, help me quickly. Pull me up quickly."
It struggled with the remaining half of its body.
Just when everyone was almost desperate, a burst of bright light suddenly burst out from its body.
This is? !
Everyone's hope was aroused.
But when the light dissipated, everyone's mood fell to the bottom like a roller coaster.
It turned into a soul core.
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It's twenty-four now. (End of chapter)