"What's going on?" The MDT stopped struggling with its eyes and asked through the mental connection.
"The beacon has been blocked," Hao Ren said, looking very serious. "The drone cluster did not receive any navigation signal."
"No navigation signal? Did they receive a signal but no navigation information, or did they not establish communication at all? "
Hao Ren immediately asked the drone cluster, and the answer was that the drone cluster had received some intermittent signals from the beacon a few minutes ago, but there was no navigational data in these signals, and even these intermittent signals were completely cut off a few minutes ago.
He frowned slightly. "Our beacon transmitter has stopped working. I can still contact it from here. It is on standby on the tallest building in Black Street, but the system shows that the channel between the beacon and the outer universe is down. The communication between the drone cluster and the beacon only lasted four and a half minutes, and there was almost nothing of value transmitted. "
The MDT thought for a moment and yelled, "Help me up!"
Hao Ren held 'her' in front of the communication device so that the latter could see the parameters displayed on it. The MDT studied it for a while and said in frustration, "I just remembered that my slots are all gone now. It seems that there is no way to connect to this thing …"
"Can you be a little more reliable?" Hao Ren was furious.
"Anyway, it seems impossible to use the beacon to navigate," the MDT said, ignoring Hao Ren's anger. "There is still no way to determine the location of Zorm. What are you going to do next? "
"Launch the probe," Hao Ren replied without hesitation. "If Zorm is shrouded in a layer of distorted space, then the range should be limited. We will launch the probe from here into space and see how far it can go. If the probe does not work, then the next time we come in, we will bring the Petrachelys with us. I will fly the spacecraft out. "
The two immediately began to discuss the next step of launching the probe. As they did not want to attract unnecessary attention, they decided to wait until the evening to leave the mercenary group's station and go to the suburbs to release the probe. But just as they finished their discussion, a loud noise suddenly came from outside the barracks.
Hao Ren opened the alloy shutter on the side of the small room. Through the window, he saw a lot of mercenaries running around in the open space outside, and an armored vehicle full of bullet holes was driving in from the direction of the camp gate. After the armored vehicle came to a stop, the first person to jump out was someone he knew: an unusually tall man, like a bodybuilder champion. It was Carl, the mercenary he met on the first day.
"Looks like there's going to be some kind of operation?" Hao Ren whispered. "Nolan seems to have come out too."
"I can't see! You have to play your role as a necrophiliac. At this time, you should carry me on your back and watch the show! "
"You wait in the house," Hao Ren said to the MDT. "I'll go out and see what's going on."
After that, he ran out. The voice of the MDT echoed in his mind, "You should connect my vision sharing! You want me to stare at the ceiling? Hey, hey, don't go! Where's the professionalism of a necrophiliac? "
When Hao Ren ran outside, he saw Ulyanov standing in front of him. He stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder. "What's going on?"
"Carl is back from Zero City. He may have brought a big deal," Ulyanov said without looking back. "He is our liaison between Zero City and us."
Hao Ren glanced at the burly mercenary Carl in front of him and thought that such a quiet, burly man was actually a diplomat of Gray Fox. Nolan's criteria for selecting talents was based on metaphysics, wasn't it?
At this time, the surrounding mercenaries gave way, and Nolan came out from behind the crowd. Hao Ren noticed that her gait was still a little uncoordinated, but she was basically back to normal. Not long ago, she had a fracture. Hao Ren had to marvel at the incredible nano medical technology in this world.
"Boss, White River Consortium has a business," Carl bowed his head to Nolan. "They want us to escort a few people."
"Escort?" Nolan's eyebrows twitched. "That old fart called you over for this? His guards are all dead? "
"What does Lily Consortium do?" Hao Ren whispered to Ulyanov next to him. "The base camp of prostitutes?"
"Huh?" Ulyanov asked.
A mercenary heard Hao Ren's question and said, "White River Consortium is one of the bosses of Zero City. They control a quarter of Zero City's guards. It stands to reason that they don't need mercenaries for military operations in Zero City and Black Street."
Facing Nolan's question, Carl quickly replied, "The scope of this operation is not around Zero City and Black Street, so the guards can't be deployed."
Nolan immediately became alert. "Where do they want us to send them?"
"… The ruins of the Northern Ring Tower."
The surrounding mercenaries immediately became restless when they heard the name. Nolan waved her hand without hesitation. "I'm not taking this job."
Almost at the same time as Nolan's voice trailed off, another hoarse voice came from the crowd, "I want to go!"
Hao Ren looked to his side in surprise: it was Ulyanov who spoke.
"You want to go to the Northern Ring Tower? Are you sure?" Nolan looked at Ulyanov, her indifferent gray eyes emotionlessly. "That place is a forbidden zone for life."
"But you have come out of there alive, more than once." Ulyanov stared at Nolan through the visor. "Gray Fox knows the safe route, doesn't he? Otherwise, White River Consortium wouldn't have asked you for this job. "
"You also know that this is a business," Nolan raised her arms and crossed her chest. "As a businessman, I can't do a losing deal. I have been to that damn place three times, and each time I lost a lot. The worst time, only three people came back alive. So, I'm not taking this job. "
At this time, Carl suddenly said, "White River Consortium is offering a very high price this time."
Nolan's eyebrows twitched. Carl bent down and whispered some details in her ear. Hao Ren quickly grabbed Ulyanov and asked, "What is the Northern Ring Tower? Why do you want to go there?"
Hao Ren almost asked what the Northern Ring Tower was, but when he thought of the mercenaries' reaction, he realized that it must be a famous place. It would make him look ignorant if he asked rashly, so he changed the way he asked.
Ulyanov was silent for a moment before he said, "It's none of your business. I just want to go and have a look."
He and Hao Ren were far from familiar, so he did not want to talk about many things in detail.
Hao Ren sighed regretfully. But then he heard the voice of the MDT suddenly came to his mind. "Northern Ring Tower? Do you want me to help you look it up? "
"You?" Hao Ren was startled. "What can you do in this state? You can't move anything except your eyes, right? "
"I managed to stand up just now! Although only one leg is useful … "
Hao Ren suddenly coughed violently. The sudden movement attracted the attention of the surrounding mercenaries. He quickly waved his hand to express his apology, then bowed his head to hide the surprised look on his face. "You stood up? You can move in such a short time? "
"I'm talented, okay?" The MDT sounded triumphant. "It's just a shell, but I've programmed a dozen hard drives using the simulation language. Now it can move … Do you want me to help you with the information? I'm almost at the front of the laptop. "
Hao Ren only gave the MDT three words: "Hurry up."
At this time, Carl had whispered to Nolan. The latter frowned in thought. After a long while, she looked around at the mercenaries and said, "Well, I won't force you to participate in this mission. But as long as you come back alive, you will get an ecological house in Zero City."
This was the 'high price' offered by White River Consortium.
Hao Ren did not know the specific value of an ecological house in this world. But looking at the reaction of the people around him, he realized that it was probably an amazing fortune.
The MDT quickly sent over the information it had found. "Found it. The Northern Ring Tower is the control center when the Nanomachine Swarm went out of control sixty-five years ago. The place has been preserved until now. The three 'master' computers are still buried under them!"
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