Chapter 18 Alien (Kneeling)

Ten days have passed, and the Z7 base is intact.

After the initial zero brought back the information, it did attract the attention of old Jack. For this reason, Old Jack restricted anyone from entering and leaving the base and suspended mining operations to avoid the sound made during mining from attracting the attention of the powerful creatures. At the same time, old Jack asked Zuo Ge to lead the team and stand guard 24 hours a day to strengthen the surveillance and martial law at the entrance and exit of the base.

However, ten days later, nothing happened and no other abnormalities were found around the base, so old Jack lifted the martial law.

Although Zero is still a little worried, the direction of the creature's movement is so obvious that it simply points directly to the base, but how can it disappear out of thin air? But he knows better that it is impossible for old Jack to stop the operation of the base for a long time. Ten days is already the limit of the Z7 base. Therefore, zero did not stop the lifting of martial law.

Regarding the reconnaissance around the area of the base, he personally participated in the operation and confirmed that there were no traces of suspicious creatures approaching. In this case, the lifting of martial law is a matter of course.

Z7 base has returned to its original operation.

However, the original hunting mission has been cancelled. With the migration of the largest wolves near the base, no new wolves will threaten the safety of the base in a short time. Zero returned to his usual three-point and one-line days, and kept looping on the three things of being Leah's guard, the practice field and sleeping. He has been at the base for two years and is basically familiar with life in the new era.

If Zero himself wishes, he will leave the base long after the emergence of first-order strength and defense strengthening ability. After excellently completing the mission of Silver Tree City, Zero's ability was affirmed by old Jack. The hibernation warehouse hidden by old Jack as a collection, old Jack once generously asked Zero to carefully inspect the hibernation warehouse. Unfortunately, not much valuable things were found in this awakened appliance.

The only clue is a set of English engraved after the hibernation warehouse.

Halson!

No matter how you look at it, it looks like a person's name. However, hundreds of people named Halson around the world searched through the base's computer. For zero, this clue is no different from no clue.

If you want to find your past, you can only try your luck elsewhere.

After the catastrophe, the global land plate has changed. The former five ocean states now have only one highly polluting sea area called the Angry Sea, and after the change, connection and collapse of the six plates, there are only three of the six plates left.

The new plate is naturally renamed, such as the continent where Zero is now located, which is called Zhongzhou.

The Zhongzhou plate was formed by the collision between the original Asia-Europe plate and the American plate, which is the largest plate in the world known at present. Of course, the national system located in the two major sections of the old era has disappeared. What now rules this continent are big companies and chaebols like Parkland.

Z7 base is located on the edge of the Zhongzhou plate, which can provide very little information. Zero must go deep into the center of the mainland to get more information from other companies or chaebols.

However, he did not leave.

It's just for Leah.

This girl, who is very similar to the shadow in the dream, makes Zero unwilling to stay away. It seems that by staying with Leah, he can occasionally live in a dream and forget the cruel world outside.

This day, Zero came to Leah's laboratory as usual, and old Jack was also there. The grandfather and grandson were absorbed in observing a potion, and even the arrival of zero did not attract their attention. Zero leaned against the door and knew that Leah was recently studying an antiviral serum that could relieve the damage and invasion of the third-level virus. If the research is successful, Z7 base not only has the ability to initially treat tertiary viruses, but also can obtain other economic sources by selling drugs.

But with a soft sound in the test tube, there was a choking smoke. Even the layman knew that the experiment had failed.

Old Jack patted Leah on the shoulder, who was crying with a sad face. After comforting his granddaughter for a while, old Jack's eyes fell on Zero: "You go to the study with me. I have a task for you today."

nodded and followed old Jack out of the lab.

Half an hour later, he appeared in front of the gate of the operation area.

The door is opening, and when there is a door gap for only one person to pass through, it drills into the dark mining area.

He received a reconnaissance mission.

Recently, some miners found traces of gold swallowing insects in the depths of the operation area.

The golden worm is shaped like a maggot and is more than 20 meters long. Due to the lack of certain elements, the body of this insect likes to disappear by swallowing metal minerals and using their strong gastric acid, and finally extract the required elements to provide them to the body.

However, because of this special hobby of insects, they become great enemies in any mining area. Gold swallowing insects will occupy the mining area as a nest. They are asexual breeding organisms. Often a gold swallowing insect can give birth to a nest of worms in the coming year, which will make the mineral deposits of an area become false.

The vision of the golden worm has deteriorated, but living under the ground and swallowing metal makes the skin of this insect's body surface comparable to strong fat material armor, with good impact resistance and blasting, so it is difficult to kill. Therefore, various mining bases both hate this kind of bug and have a headache.

Zero's mission is to detect the bottom of the mining area. Once the existence of gold swallowing worms is found, what needs to be done is to collect various information such as the number and path of insects. It is convenient for old Jack to judge whether he should ask for support from the headquarters or give up this mining area.

The danger of reconnaissance missions is relatively low, and the same zero remuneration is lower. After the completion of this task, the zero reward is only 20 yuan. But Zero did not refuse. If there is no task, the salary of one month will be as little as money.

He took old Jack's mining car to the bottom of the work area. Led by a miner named Nick, Zero came to a mine cave. The wall of the mine also reveals pieces of natural copper ore, but a circular passage appears on the other side of the wall. There are remnants of something similar to body fluids in the passage, and the gray-white ** engraving is left by the golden worm, which acts as a lubricant so that the golden corpse can quickly swim to the ground.

And this channel is naturally drilled out by swallowing gold worms, and this kind of insect's mouth is full of sharp teeth. In addition to easily biting metal, it can also dig a large amount of mud and stone. However, these substances that are not swallowed by the goldworm will soon melt into mud and drain from its anus without taking up the capacity of the stomach bag.

Zero wiped his hand stained with insect liquid on the clean wall. He asked Nick to go back to work, but he climbed into the passage of the golden worm.

He must confirm where the bug has gone? Are you going through the mining area or are you going to settle down here?

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