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Chapter 532: The Enormous... Tongue!
This stone statue looked similar to the previous one, but the expression on the stone figure had changed.
If the previous stone figure's expression was filled with compassion, then this stone figure wore an expression filled with malice.
Even the fearless Red Alert soldiers, upon seeing the stone statue, felt their hairs stand on end in an instant, as if they were experiencing an imminent catastrophe.
With caution, the Red Alert soldiers held their firearms and slowly approached. However, after circling the area for a while, nothing happened, and they couldn't see the temple Lisa mentioned. They didn't know what to do next.
Just when the Red Alert soldiers were preparing to explore the surroundings, an endless black mist suddenly surged from the stone statue. The black mist was dark and profound, giving people an eerie feeling at first glance.
The Red Alert soldiers instinctively opened fire, and countless bullets landed in the black mist, making no sound as if all the bullets were swallowed up.
"Where is he?" Su Chen's gaze narrowed. When the Red Alert soldiers saw this eerie stone statue, he had been searching for the soldier's location on the map.
But there were too many Black Spots on Yan Yun Star, and he hadn't been able to locate this Red Alert soldier's exact position. Su Chen knew this wouldn't work; the black mist was obviously unusual. He had to use another method.
That method was to summon the Paratrooper Squad and the Hunting Dog Team, landing them directly at the locations of the Black Spots. Based on their reports, he could confirm the location of this Red Alert soldier.
With just a thought, hundreds and thousands of paratroopers and Hunting Dog teams suddenly appeared above the Black Spots on the map. Before long, a Paratrooper Squad reported that they had spotted the Red Alert soldier below!
"So, he's here?" Su Chen's gaze fell on a Black Spot near the coast. The Red Alert soldier was right there, tens of thousands of kilometers away from the ruins. The key was that he hadn't seen any teleportation traces in between.
The black mist didn't move fast, which gave the Red Alert soldier a chance to escape. However, when he had run less than five hundred meters, he found himself unable to get out.
The surroundings seemed to be empty, but no matter which direction he ran in, he would end up back where he started. He couldn't escape.
The Paratrooper Squad descending from the sky also encountered this problem. They couldn't land on the ground and kept repeating the landing process. There was something wrong with the space here!
"There's a problem with the space. It seems we have to address it specifically."
When it came to something related to both Weapons and space, the first thing Su Chen thought of was the Hyperspace Teleportation Device. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com
However, the Hyperspace Teleportation Device's ability was to teleport friendly units within a certain range to another location. He didn't know if it could deal with this bizarre space.
Just as Su Chen was preparing to use the Hyperspace Teleportation Device, the ground in that area suddenly shook violently, and cracks appeared on the ground, as if something was about to emerge from beneath!
The Red Alert soldier saw a colossal object, several hundred meters tall, emerge from the ground. It directly enveloped the stone statue emitting the black mist and pulled it down. The area instantly became quiet.
Without the stone statue, the Paratrooper Squad finally landed on the ground. The abnormal spatial phenomena seemed to have disappeared. They immediately reported the situation to Commander.
"An enormous... tongue?" Hearing the report from the Red Alert soldiers, Su Chen's expression was quite strange.
He suddenly thought of an entity— the giant monster that Taru had mentioned earlier. The tongue they had just seen was likely a part of it.
The Red Alert soldiers carefully examined the crack, but it was pitch black below, and they couldn't see where it led to. There was no sign of the stone statue or the enormous tongue.
With the stone statue gone, Su Chen couldn't find the way to the Warship's location. What should he do now?
Su Chen had Tanya try it as well, but nothing happened when Tanya appeared there.
In other words, the path to the Warship's original location was cut off.
Helpless, Su Chen could only temporarily give up searching that area and let them continue exploring the ruins. Tanya would need some time to return to the ruins.
After a day and night of searching, it seemed that there was nothing inside the ruins. The traps were still there, causing them some minor trouble.
Su Chen felt that one team was too few. He decided to send a team of ten thousand to search everywhere. frёeωebɳovel.com
In such a massive ruin, there couldn't possibly be only the Warship.
Sure enough, with the Red Alert troops conducting a carpet search, they finally found something in another location.
It was a black cylinder, barely five meters high, with some strange patterns floating on it, of an unknown material.
A Red Alert soldier tried to interact with it, but the black cylinder seemed to be made of an unknown material. Even when they used their most powerful attacks on it, there was no reaction.
At this point, they needed the expertise of Yun Ru.
Through the live feed, Yun Ru carefully observed the situation.
After the disappearance of the stone statue, everything mysterious in the ruins seemed to have vanished, and the feed was transmitted back.
"I can't discern anything from here. I might need to go there in person and bring my assistant along."
Before long, Yun Ru and Taru appeared beside the black cylinder, and they were both very interested in the unknown object.
"It doesn't look like something from the Qiluo Civilization, at least I haven't come across anything similar in the data," Taru observed.
Keep in mind that he had thoroughly studied all the Qiluo Civilization-related technology left in that City. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to transfer his consciousness into the iron sphere and survive to this day.
Yun Ru frowned, and she tried various methods, but the black cylinder didn't react to anything. Could it be that this was just an empty shell?
"It's impossible. There must be something wrong with our approach. If we liken the black cylinder to a safe, then we must have entered the wrong combination, so it won't respond naturally."
Yun Ru stared at the black cylinder intently for several hours, and then a thought suddenly crossed her mind.
"Bring Rabbit over!" Yun Ru said to the nearby Red Alert soldier.
Soon, Rabbit was brought over, looking quite puzzled. There was no food here, so why had they called it over?
"Rabbit, don't you think the patterns on the surface of this thing look similar to the ones on your body?" Yun Ru held Rabbit and said with a smile.
If Yun Ru hadn't regularly fed Rabbit, she wouldn't have noticed this. Indeed, the various patterns that appeared on the surface of the black cylinder were quite similar to those on Rabbit's body.
Yun Ru had conducted an investigation before and found that the Ghost Patterns on each Ghost Clan member were unique, meaning no two Ghost Patterns were the same.
However, the patterns on the surface of the black cylinder were surprisingly similar to Rabbit's. This made Yun Ru suspect that there might be a connection between Rabbit and the black cylinder. (To be continued...)
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