To ensure safety, Vivian threw a little bat down again. This time, she let the little bat fly down with a small piece of protective crystal attached to it. Looking at the little thing wobbling down the tunnel with the crystal attached to it, Hao Ren was really worried that it would crash into the wall. Fortunately, it managed to reach the bottom.
The metal pipe was connected to a tunnel world that extended in all directions. The structure was as complex as an ant's nest. Vivian found the route that the Stitched Monster had taken when it came out from the pipe based on the blood stains on the pipe. She found many dead monsters in the pipe. They were all dead together, and most of the skin on their upper bodies was burnt. The cause of the burn was a short-circuit failure of their black electric vest. It seemed that the electromagnetic pulse bomb that Hao Ren had thrown down earlier was very effective. Not only did it destroy the mechanical control of the metal pipe, but it also killed a large number of monsters that were rushing out and blocked some of the exits.
However, Vivian's little bat also found that there was a grinding sound coming from some of the forks in the pipe. It might be gradually recovering. If the pipe system had a self-maintenance and cleaning function, then the other monsters should soon find a new exit and rush out.
Hao Ren decided to rush in before the pipe system recovered. To give everyone enough time and to cause more trouble for the underground facility, he threw a few more electromagnetic pulse bombs into one of the pipes.
After a series of muffled sounds came from deep underground, Hao Ren nodded. "It's clean. Let's go down. I'll take the lead. "
Uruk frowned. He had never seen this thing before. He instinctively felt that there was a disgusting aura coming from the depths of the tunnel. However, he did not hesitate or retreat. No matter what, there was a group of unclean creatures digging such a hole in the depths of the werewolf's sacred mountain. He could not leave it alone. The alpha wolf turned its head and looked around. "Are you guys ready to go down? I don't have to go down, right? "
Uruk stared at his mount. "How can you get cold feet at a time like this?"
The alpha wolf bared its fangs. "Look at my four claws! How do you expect me to dig into the pipe with this thing? "
Uruk suddenly felt that his mount's words made a lot of sense, and he was speechless.
"Stand guard outside with the other wolves," Hao Ren instructed the alpha wolf. "I'll leave you a communicator. If there's any movement, inform us immediately. Just talk to it. In addition, the other soldiers should be coming soon. Let them come down, and we will leave some people below to receive them. Ophra, is this okay? "
Hao Ren was used to being the team leader, so he habitually gave out the following instructions. After he was done, he remembered that there was a real commander here. Ophra waved her hand carelessly. "Let's do it this way. I've already discovered it. You're very familiar with the situation now. I don't know where to start if I want to command."
Hao Ren hung the communicator around the Wolf King's neck. After confirming that everything was ready, he was the first to jump into the dark mechanical pipe.
The pipe was inclined downwards, but the slope was still enough for people to walk. As long as they were careful, they would not fall. The inside of the pipe was more spacious than expected. An adult could almost stand upright in it. It was not so much a pipe, but a cylindrical corridor. Hao Ren observed the metal wall around him as he walked. The metal on it was obviously not cast by the local technology of Holletta, and its fine structure was far beyond the technological level of this planet. The more he looked, the more shocked he was. The existence of these high-tech things could only mean one thing, and that was that hidden in the sacred mountain was far more than just the lair of the Disciples of Glory!
Would a cult formed by the local natives need such a high-tech alien base?
"The brain monster has been lurking on this planet for at least thousands of years." Vivian was also thinking about a similar question. "This underground base should have been slowly built by it. This means that it has at least a certain amount of industrial equipment on hand."
Hao Ren nodded silently and said nothing.
The situation had far exceeded his initial speculation. At first, he thought that only one brain monster came to this planet by chance and organized a group of local natives to form the Cult of Origination, and all this should have happened in recent years. But now the reality was the opposite of his speculation: the brain monster had been dormant in this world for thousands of years, and it had built a surprising underground base in this sacred mountain, and the Cult of Origination …
It was probably just a small group attached to this underground base.
"There's a strong interference here," the voice of the MDT woke Hao Ren from his thoughts. "The source of the interference is still deeper. But I don't know if it's the power of the base or something else. "
Hao Ren replied casually, "Anyway, let's go and have a look. There's not much choice anyway."
Y 'zaks stooped at the back of the team. It was really strenuous for him to walk here. Y' lisabet could not stand it anymore. "Dad, why didn't you shrink yourself back then?"
Y 'zaks replied in a muffled voice, "When I first transformed into a human, I happened to meet a Quibis barbarian. I thought this was the standard human height … Now I can't change it even if I wanted to."
Not long after the team moved forward in this strange alloy pipe, they encountered the first fork that Vivian had found. Lily pointed to the fork and shouted, "Look over there!"
Several smelly flesh monsters were lying dead in one of the pipes. Their black vests had exploded due to the overload of the circuit, and their entire upper bodies were almost cooked. Traces of intense electric arc ablation could be seen on the walls of the pipes. This was the masterpiece of an electromagnetic pulse bomb.
Hao Ren suppressed his disgust and went forward to open the black vest of one of the monsters. The thing had broken into pieces, and a little flipping would cause a piece to fall off. Hao Ren found that the thing was made of layers of soft plastic-like material. The outer layer was inlaid with black crystals, and the inner layer was a large number of wires. There were also many shiny metal needles on one side of the body. If he was not mistaken, these needles should directly pierce into the monster's muscles: they were the power source and control secret of these flesh and blood monsters.
"It's a combination of biology and machinery, and looks like an industrial product, an assembly line product," the MDT quickly made a judgment. "It's not quite the same as the 'knight' I saw at the banquet in the royal city."
"The question is, where did the 'material' of these monsters come from?" Lily frowned and poked the arm of a stitched monster with Flamejoy. "It looks like it's pieced together with human organs, and many of the organs have signs of being modified … This would require a lot of corpses, right?"
Nangong Wuyue whispered cautiously, "Could it be the missing heretics?"
Hao Ren immediately thought of something. He recalled that he had not met any of the Cult of Origination since he entered the mountain. He suddenly felt that this possibility could not be ignored. "This … is very possible!"
"Unbelievable," Ophra frowned. "The demon actually made his followers into such monsters?"
"Humans are not his followers at all," Hao Ren threw away the vest fragments, stood up and clapped his hands. "The brain monster and the First Born have the same belief, and that is, all life deserves to die. It's just that the brain monster is smarter, and it will try to let its prey kill each other first."
Y 'zaks stepped forward and waved his hand on a stitched monster. There was a vague, translucent thing in his hand. The thing struggled violently in his palm until it dissipated. Y' zaks shook his head. "But these heretics were transformed into monsters when they were conscious and willing."
Everyone was silent for a moment. At last, Ophra could only sigh. "Incomprehensible belief."
Ophra left two soldiers at the first fork to pick up the follow-up team and then ordered them to move forward. They avoided the pipeline that might lead to the 'flesh monster factory' and chose a direction where there was no smell of blood. As they went deeper, more lights appeared in the passage, which seemed to prove that they were moving in the right direction: they were approaching the deep area of the underground facility.
Just as the team arrived at another fork, a sound of mechanical activity suddenly came from nearby.
Lily's hearing was very sensitive. She immediately turned her sharp ears to the direction of the sound. "Over there!"
Y 'zaks immediately stood up and said, "Everyone — Bang!"
Y 'zaks looked up and found that her father's head was stuck in the ceiling. She sighed and said, "Dad, why didn't you make your body smaller in the first place?"
Y 'zaks's voice came from behind a layer of steel. "Stop talking, let me pull it out first …"
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