The base hidden under the surface of the planet looked like a small town. It was divided into different areas, and the most important ones were the research area and the living area.
Both the research area and the living area were very lively. From the White Spirit's point of view, the research area was pretty much the same as the other 'Miracle's' bases. They were already used to the forbidden research, so they didn't have much of a reaction when they saw them, even if there was a newborn baby inside one of the liquid tanks that was kicking its little legs. Things like this had happened too many times. Anyone who came into contact with Miracle or investigated Miracle in depth would know something about it.
"Can we get the layout of the base?" Silin asked.
"Not yet." The White Spirit moved through some of the equipment and the network. Sometimes, it attached itself to the experimental equipment or electrical appliances of various sizes. Sometimes, it would sneak into the people's microcomputers to check, but it had not found the detailed layout of the entire base.
"Forget it. Let's take it one step at a time and stabilize the situation," Silin said.
There were not many people in the base, but they seemed to be in good spirits. Sometimes, a few of them would sit together and chat while they ate, and the content of their conversation would be about what was happening in the League of Stars.
These people did not have any taboos there, and they could talk about many things, such as the Nightmare Tapir and the virus.
It had to be said that those who could hide in this place had the right to speak in Miracle. Even if they could not compare to the higher-ups who had been captured by the eight armies, the fact that they had such secret information proved their identity and status.
Silin did not ask the White Spirit to look for the secret information that was secretly stored in some equipment. Instead, he asked her to listen to these people's conversation. Instead of looking for it blindly, it would be better to wait for a while and get a general idea from these people. Then, they would look for it with the general idea.
Everything the White Spirit had heard and seen in this place gave everyone enough information to shock them. Some of them were bragging when they were drunk, some of them were chatting when they were having a private meeting, and some of them mentioned it when they were discussing research progress and facts. The base made them feel at ease, and they lowered their guard. There were always some people who were not as secretive as they thought they were.
A person's willpower was actually much lower than they thought it was.
As a result, Silin and the rest had a rough understanding of the Nightmare Tapir's operation within two hours. In between, there were two particle storms. Whenever this happened, these people would put down their work, chat, or engage in some lewd activities. But this was the time when they could learn the most information, and it was also the time when it was most convenient for the White Spirit to act. All the information on the devices was stolen at this time, and only then would the people in the base not suspect anything.
According to what these people said, the Nightmare Tapir was indeed activated after it was unsealed. Theoretically, it could carry thousands of types of viruses. That was the result of the Nightmare Tapir's research. However, after Si Fang's Tapir Extermination Operation, the Nightmare Tapir, which had just been revived, was more or less restricted.
According to the information received in the letter, the descendant Nightmare Tapir that was captured in the infected zone carried 237 types of viruses. If it was really a new generation that had split, the mother Nightmare Tapir would not have more than 1,000 types of viruses at most if they were to extrapolate upwards.
The mother Nightmare Tapir could only have one descendant every time it split. The descendant Nightmare Tapir would be stored after each split and wait for the next descendant to split from the mother. Only the descendant that split from the mother would have the best effect because each split would reduce the number of viruses. The viruses they carried might not be replicated completely. It was a random replication. Just like the second generation Nightmare Tapir that split from the mother Nightmare Tapir, the viruses they carried might not be the same. There might even be a huge difference in the number of viruses they carried.
The more types of viruses they carried, the slower they split. Moreover, although the sixth, seventh, and eighth generation Nightmare Tapirs split fast, their quality could not compare to the second and third generation Nightmare Tapirs.
To ensure that they had an excellent source of infection, Miracle's people had been waiting for the mother to split. They would only take revenge when they had enough excellent sources of infection. This was also the reason why they hadn't made a move even after so much time had passed, even though they had been surrounded by various parties and had captured so many of their higher-ups.
Unfortunately, this was not the base to study the Nightmare Tapir. Moreover, these people had no idea where exactly the mother was. If they wanted to solve this crisis completely, they would have to find the mother in the end. Otherwise, the virus infection would last for a long time. Only the activated mother would have complete antibodies against the hundreds of viruses. The descendant did not have such antibodies, so the information that they could find from the descendant Nightmare Tapir was limited.
The main reason for the existence of this base was to develop some of the viruses.
Eighty-six types of man-made viruses were produced in this secret base. These viruses were then handed over to the people at the headquarters. Then, the people at the headquarters would implant the viruses produced by the other bases into the mother Nightmare Tapir.
What made everyone feel helpless was that the base had handed over the detailed information of the viruses when they handed over the 86 types of viruses. Meanwhile, the information and data regarding the 86 types of viruses on all the devices and equipment in this base had been wiped clean permanently. This was to prevent the internal personnel from leaking the information and causing all their efforts to go to waste. It was obvious how careful Miracle was when it came to this matter.
"We don't have the data of those viruses, but according to that big-bellied guy just now, there's still a vaccine here?" Lung tapped his fingers.
"These people have been injected with the vaccine. They're not afraid of being infected by these 86 types of viruses. The vaccine should be real, but we don't know where the vaccine is hidden. Do you have any ideas, Silin? "Ci Jincheng asked. Silin was the one who infiltrated the base, so Ci Jincheng had to ask Silin's opinion.
Silin thinks for a moment and said, "We can definitely find it if we want to, but we'll have to plan how we should act after we find it."
Indeed, no one could get in right now, and the emergency alarms would go off the moment there was a small crack in the sealed passageways.
"The problem now is how to get the vaccine. If we can move the vaccine to the passageway, we can act as soon as possible even if the alarm goes off," Ci Jincheng said.
Get the vaccine …
"Let me think about it." Silin contacted the White Spirit after he finished talking to Ci Jincheng.
"Can you control the housekeeping robots in the base?" Silin asked. Actually, the White Spirit had already found the place where the vaccine was stored. What they needed to do now was to come up with a plan of action.
"Yes, they're not hard to control. However, if I control a housekeeping robot, I won't be able to pay attention to anything else." The White Spirit answered.
"You don't have to pay attention to anything else. The next small-scale particle storm will arrive in twenty-five minutes, and it will last for around ten minutes. It'll be best for us to act then, but we need to hurry. Are you confident? "
"Ten minutes … won't be easy. The place where the vaccine is stored is a little troublesome, and the closest exit will take us five minutes. The housekeeping robots have a speed limit here, and they can't go faster than a certain speed. If we go too fast, we'll attract their attention. "
"How long will it take? Based on the speed of the housekeeping robots and the factor of deciphering the door of the warehouse where the vaccine is stored, how long do you think it'll take?"
The White Spirit thought for a moment, "A conservative estimate of fifteen minutes. If we run into other things, it'll probably take a little longer."
Silin nodded. He believed in the White Spirit's estimate. In that case, they had to wait for an opportunity.
Once he thought about it, Silin discussed it with Ci Jincheng and the others. Everyone agreed to wait for an opportunity. After all, they could only succeed in this operation. Once they took action, they could not afford to wait any longer.
"This is the first time I've hoped for a larger particle storm to appear," Knight joked.
"Isn't that so? In the past, when I heard about a particle storm, I would run as fast as I could and avoid it. I've never looked forward to it this much." Feng Haicao exercised his arms and prepared for the upcoming operation.
"A person's strength is limited, no matter what. Sometimes, we have to rely on the right time and the right place." Yue Lou sighed. Even if he was a sharpshooter, so what? He had already faced many setbacks.
Mengqi Aro stood quietly behind him. He was silent, and Huimao had never come out of his cloak after he shrank back into it. The others thought that Huimao was tired and wanted to sleep, but Mengqi Aro could sense that there was something off about Huimao. In truth, it probably wanted to follow Silin out, didn't it? However, what was the reason for it to stay on the aircraft?
While waiting for an opportunity, everyone discussed their next move.
While the small particle storm was interfering, the White Spirit in the base had already started moving. She was choosing her target, and she had more than one target. This was because the robots in the research zone were not allowed to leave the research zone, and the robots in the living zone were not allowed to enter the research zone.
On the surface of the planet, Silin said to Czedow, "When the time comes, I'll take the vaccine. You support the White Spirit and prevent those people from forcefully interfering with the communication network. Don't hide your ability, just attack their control system directly. Buy time for the White Spirit. It doesn't matter even if all the control systems inside collapse, especially the martial arts system that can extend out. When the time comes, leaving will be easier. This time, we can't do it quietly. Since we can't do it secretly, we'll do it openly. No matter what, with the White Spirit as the leader, even if we can't get the vaccine, we'll bring her back first. After all, the speed of a robot's movement while attached to it is far slower than her stealth speed in the network. "
"Yes, I will."
Fortunately, after the small particle storm was over, the next one would be of a higher level. It was estimated that it would last around fifteen to seventeen minutes.
"Let's go with this one. This is already the longest storm we've been through," Silin said. If they waited any longer, there was no telling if there would be another storm that lasted longer than ten minutes.
"Then it's decided. You can start preparing now, I'll send them over too," Ci Jincheng answered.
While waiting for the particle storm, Ci Jincheng informed everyone on the spaceplane. Like before, everyone except Kang Man and Allen started moving. Mengchi Aluo was not among them. He and Huimao were also on the spaceplane.
There were fourteen space fighters. The space fighters were not big, and there were only two seats in the cockpit. One was for the pilot, and the other was reserved for the people who would receive them when the time came.
"Can these fighters really withstand the particle storm?" Knight looked at the fighters in front of him doubtfully. He wasn't afraid, he was just puzzled.
"If they can't, they'll still be affected. But let's fly the fighters over first and hide behind the asteroids closest to the planet. Even if we can't withstand the particle storm, we can still activate our shields and hold on for a while. The possibility of being discovered is very small," Ci Jincheng said.
In reality, even if the possibility of being discovered was very small, they weren't going to activate their shields. Everything would be for naught if they were discovered.
"Just hide inside the fighters with the protective suits. It's fine as long as we don't die. It's not like we're those weaklings. Didn't you see that Silin and Czedow have survived a couple of rounds already? "Pride raised his chin and looked at Knight and the others disdainfully.
Knight curled his lips, "I was just saying."
"Let's go. Cut the crap." Lung had already jumped into the space fighter.
The others also jumped in one after another. Mengi Aro was still standing at his original position in the control room. Allen didn't really know how to start a conversation, but he didn't have the time right now. He had too much work to do. As for Kang Man, he was still the main pilot of the spaceplane. He had even less time to take care of people, so he just sat there and didn't say a word. The originally lively discussion in the control room suddenly quieted down.
The signal points of the space fighters that flew out could be seen on the screen in the control room. These signal points were all moving towards that planet.
Mengi Aro lowered his head and looked at Huimao who was hiding inside his' cloak '. The cat was currently propping up its ears and moving them from time to time. It was obvious that it wasn't asleep and had been paying attention to the movements outside. It even looked a little nervous, and the restless movements of its paws showed that the fellow had been itching for a long time but had been suppressing it all along.
Before the next particle storm arrived, Ci Jincheng and the others had already found cover and parked their space fighters on the nearest asteroids. They were waiting for an opportunity with their backs facing the planet.
Silin and Czedow had changed their location. The previous passage was a little far from the passage that the White Spirit planned to transport the vaccine out of. In order to better receive the White Spirit and save time, Silin and Czedow arrived at the passage they planned.
This tightly sealed passage led to a place where the research zone and the living zone intersected. The research zone was more heavily guarded, and during the non-particle storm period, the security there was even tighter. It was probably to prevent information theft. That was why the White Spirit didn't attack from there. There were fewer entrances and exits there, and compared to the research zone, the defense of the planned passage was relatively lax. Although it would take half a minute longer to arrive here, it was safer.
Also, there were only some large transport robots in the research zone, so it was impossible to transport the vaccine to the passage. No transport robot would go to the passage area, but the small robots in the living zone were different. There were a lot of them, and they would go to many places. There were also robots that came to the passage area to clean up, so they wouldn't attract any suspicion here.
After receiving the preparatory information from Ci Jincheng and the others, Silin informed the White Spirit that they could begin.
In the living zone, a small cleaning robot's eyes flashed with white light. Then, it headed towards a certain direction. There were too many robots like this in the living zone, so no one would pay attention to what this robot was doing.
This small robot moved forward at the same speed as the other robots. Occasionally, it would stop to clean up some dirt on the ground. Although it would stop and do some work, and it would take a few turns to clean up the dirt, it was actually heading in the same direction.
The small robot stopped at a corner near the passage. Just like the other cleaning robots, it would stop to rest after working for a while to save energy.
After the little robot stopped, in the research area, on the walkway outside several large laboratories, a robot that looked like a cart slowly moved forward. Every time it passed by a large laboratory's garbage outlet, it would stop, open the garbage outlet's outer cover, and take out some recycled, filtered, and some non-recyclable waste liquid from inside and put them on the cart. This was also the underground base's cleaning robot. It was a robot that was only active in the research zone. They would transport the research lab's waste and some used non-recyclable high-risk items to one place for centralized disposal.
The cleaning time of these robots was not fixed. Sometimes, some labs were busier and there would be more waste, so these robots would clean up more frequently. Therefore, when this cleaning robot came over to clean up, it did not attract the attention of the researchers in the labs.
Slowly, it moved towards a fork. When it reached the fork, the lighting equipment in the passageway and the display screens of the various labs started flashing.
The storm was coming.
Some people in the lab began to curse. However, every time they encountered this situation, these people would stay in place, sit down to rest, or take a nap. It was not a good idea to go out at this time. If they were unlucky enough to encounter a problem with the equipment, or if some equipment was accidentally damaged due to the discharge or explosion of this particle storm, it would be a tragedy.
The walkway that used to be frequented by people from time to time was now empty. No one noticed that the cleaning robot did not move along its usual cleaning route. Instead, it turned a corner and went to the other side. Its speed was also a lot faster. Some of the hidden sensor equipment here were all on strike at this moment, and there was no response to the cleaning robot's non-set path.
Soon, the cleaning robot stopped in front of a closed metal door.
Inside the door, the storm did not affect it much. Perhaps it was because there were important things frozen here, and it took extra effort to build it, the instruments here were all working normally.
The password lock on one of the refrigerated cabinets jumped a few times, and then it opened automatically. White mist spread out from inside.
Not far away, there was a mechanical arm on a shelf. This mechanical arm was used to help pick up items from high places. Now, it was moving the wheels below it. It came over to take out a box from the refrigerator, closed the refrigerator, and restored the settings and data on the door.
There was also a password lock on the box. Just like the refrigerator, the data on the password lock flashed a few times, and then it was unlocked.
The mechanical arm opened the box, revealing the contents inside.
After checking, the mechanical arm closed the box again, and the password lock was restored. The mechanical arm moved the box to the door. When it reached the door, the warehouse door opened. When it opened, there was a prompt sound, but at this time, because of the influence of this particle storm, some of the instruments in the lab malfunctioned and sounded an alarm, covering the alarm sound of the warehouse door. At the same time, the screen in the control room of the research area kept flashing, and it was impossible to see what was happening there. At this moment, the monitor was leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed.
The mechanical arm placed the box in a hidden position in the middle of the cart, then retreated, and the door closed. The cleaning robot retreated, calmly leaving at the fork, and went to the planned location. Everything here was quiet again.
Silin looked at the time. There were still three minutes left before the storm passed. Three minutes was enough for the White Spirit to reach the exit.
One minute before the storm ended, the handover between the cleaning robot in the research area and the cleaning robot in the living area was completed. The box was moved from the former to the latter's cleaning slot.
Thirty seconds before the storm ended, the small robot reached the planned entrance and opened the tunnel.
Beep!
A sharp alarm rang through the entire base with a suppressive sound wave.
"What's wrong?!"
"Who?! Who opened the tunnel?! "
"Hurry up and investigate!"
The people in the base were stunned by the alarm. The storm had not completely ended, and some people were even wondering whether the particle storm had caused the system to malfunction.
To be safe, the guards acted quickly. When they discovered the reason, the small robot with the box in the opened tunnel had almost reached the exit outside.
"Activate the mandatory defense!"
"But the storm hasn't stopped …"
"Activate!"
"Yes!"
The base was instantly in a panic.
But soon, they discovered that the external defense system was not just affected by the particle storm. There was also some other reason that prevented the tunnel from being forcefully closed.
Who is it?!
Outside the tunnel, Czedow's eyes flashed. He was dragging the defense system so that it could not forcefully close the tunnel. It was extremely difficult to do this while the particle storm was still ongoing.
When the particle storm was about to end, the external tunnel was opened. The small robot came out of the tunnel, and Silin and Xi Ying rushed up to it at the same time. Silin took the box, and Czedow took the White Spirit back.
While Cillin and Czedow were running toward the entrance of the passage, five space fighters swayed and flew toward them. Due to the particle storm, they couldn't maintain their stealth state at all, and they couldn't fly normally either.
"Fuck, this is the first time I've flown a space fighter in a particle storm. If the old man knew about this, he'd say we're crazy!" Knight shouted while piloting the space fighter. However, his tone was filled with excitement.
Although driving through the particle storm wasn't stable and dangerous, everyone's morale was high because they had obtained the vaccines for the eighty-six viruses. They were going to protect Cillin and Czedow even if it meant risking their lives. At a time like this, no one cared if the storm had stopped or not.
By the time Silin received the box, the two space fighters were already behind them. Silin jumped into the air, and with the help of the thrusters, he directly entered the open hatch of the space fighter. On the other side, Czedow also entered the other space fighter.
The storm had completely passed.
The timing was just right.
The space fighters behind them also flew over and helped cover the two space fighters.
The base that started to attack because the storm had stopped focused on the space fighters numbered D-793 and D-791 on their wings. They saw the two men jump into the two fighter jets with the same serial numbers. No matter what these people had taken, they had to kill Wushe since they had come out of this place.
The two large entrances on the surface had also opened, and a few space fighters flew out of them one after another to intercept the intruders.
The exchange of fire between the two sides was very intense, but Silin and Czedow's movements were simply too fast. By the time the base caught up to them, they were already close to the asteroid belt. However, this didn't dissuade the base's personnel from giving chase. Instead, they attacked even more crazily than before. In fact, they didn't even hesitate to use weapons like shockwave bombs. They didn't care even if their own people were within range of the shockwave.
However, the 14 fighter jets were too cunning. They shuttled through the asteroid belts as nimbly as fish, skillfully avoiding the shockwaves and the other party's attacks. They even deliberately released a smoke bomb. The dispersed smoke and dust covered the area, making it difficult for the people at the base to see which two fighter jets they were. However, the base's personnel had already identified the numbers on the space fighters' wings, and they used almost all their firepower to attack the two space fighters.
A spaceplane appeared from the asteroid belt. It didn't slow down, and just like the space fighters, it weaved through the asteroid belt and flew towards the periphery of the asteroid belt. At the same time, it opened its hatch to let the space fighters in.
It didn't matter if the other space fighters flew in, but the base's personnel landed on the two space fighters numbered D-793 and D-791 at the very end. Unfortunately, these two space fighters were the strangest among the space fighters. They were extremely difficult to lock onto, and there were a couple of times when they performed super maneuvers such as rapid turning and dodging.
Gradually, all fourteen space fighters flew back into the spaceplane. The two space fighters that were targeted were the last to enter. After all of them had entered the spaceplane, the spaceplane's protective shield was activated, and it left the asteroid belt at full speed.
Inside the spaceplane, the space fighters that Cillin and Czedow jumped out of weren't D-793 or D-791. Knight and Pride were the ones who jumped out of the two numbered space fighters.
At this moment, the numbers on the space fighters' wings disappeared at the same time. Numbers were used to fool people in the first place. Who the fuck would be stupid enough to put a number on their own space fighters' wings and use it as a target?
In reality, the base's personnel would've thought things through if they had calmed down, but they were too anxious at the time and neglected it.
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