Resurrection Empire

Half an hour later, after intensive and comprehensive preparations, a medium-sized hunting team of 42 people, led by eight professional captains, quietly closed the net.

A big hunt surrounding the fifth-level ruin beast—the mud cave leech is about to begin.

At this time, the leech was no longer where it first appeared. Instead, it had moved several hundred meters away and stopped moving. Instead, it was entrenched in a cave it had just excavated and lazily stopped moving.

The war is about to break out.

Lin Wang looked at the upper middle part of the giant screen, which was a message from Yu Junren, with his brows furrowed and his face ashen.

"The ghost particle communicator has been damaged, but as long as the damage is not serious, there is still a chance to repair it. You must find the lost volcanic rock boring machine within three hours, otherwise all five of you will be executed .”

Using Ren Zhong as bait to save the lives of Pan Fenglian and Song Qianlian seemed like a good deal.

But this still made Lin Wang very distressed.

It doesn't matter if Ren Zhong dies, the important thing is that nothing happens to the tunnel boring machine.

He didn't expect that Ren Zhong would be so unbearable in front of a level five beast.

Surveillance video before the loss of contact showed that after being overtaken by leeches, Ren Zhong did not make any effective escape maneuvers. He only screamed in panic, then tugged at him randomly, grabbed the SOS emergency button and punched him for a second. Five presses.

Then, the external output power of the ghost particle communicator suddenly increased, and Lin Wang only heard a piercing and tooth-piercing scream in the team's communication channel. Immediately, Ren Zhong's tunnel boring machine was violently hit, and the violently shaking video showed Ren Zhong even more confused.

Not long after, the rock boring machine suddenly disappeared from the three-dimensional map, and the team's communication was completely cut off.

There is no doubt that Ren Zhong's tunnel boring machine was severely damaged, the ghost particle communication device malfunctioned, and it was swallowed whole by mud cave leeches.

Due to the structural strength and protective performance of the volcanic rock boring machine, the internal and external protective layers of its core cabins such as the cockpit and analysis cabin can remain inside the leech's body for nearly three hours without melting.

In addition, the drill bit cannot be damaged, so as long as the parts in the core cabin are not seriously damaged, the tunnel boring machine can still be repaired on the Source Star. That's why Yu Junren proposed a three-hour limit.

At the same time, Lin Wang was rejoicing. Fortunately, it was a one-for-two exchange. If both Pan Fenglian and Song Qianlian's boring machines were swallowed by leeches, then Yu Junren's patience would have to be lost on the spot, not to mention the damage to the team's strength. zero.

He didn't even have a chance to make up for his mistakes.

Lin Wang took a deep breath, connected to the team channel, and said: "Dear colleagues, my team member is still alive or dead inside. As long as the leech can be killed in time, he still has hope of survival. This team is willing to give up this excavation operation. Half of the remuneration and an investment of 500,000 points, please don’t hide your clumsiness and cooperate with me sincerely to complete the hunting operation as soon as possible and rescue my people."

"Captain Lin Renyi!"

"It's easy to say, let's work together. Captain Lin's people are also our people."

In the team channel, other captains are very complimentary.

Thirty minutes later, the other seven captains and Lin Wang completed the detailed preparation of the battle plan and the supporting pre-war preparations.

The energy level intensity index of a fifth-level ruin beast ranges from 10,000 to 50,000. The initial test index of this leech is as high as over 30,000, and is still rising slowly.

Moreover, as an otherworldly fifth-level ruin beast with more or less special abilities, a fourth-level professional would never dare to act rashly just relying on the power of numbers.

That is courting death.

Following the order from Lin Wang, who had paid for the command, 42 boring machines began to gather from all directions towards the hiding place of the leeches in the mud cave.

Arriving at a similar position, the 42 level-4 professionals were divided into eight groups and gathered together. Under the leadership of the mecha warriors of their respective teams, they began to use the mechanical devices on the exoskeleton armor to quickly dig in and rush straight towards the leeches.

Then, a vigorous battle started.

The vibrations in the underground rumbled and spread, like a small mantle movement.

Under the cover of this vibrating ripple, further below, the heavy rock boring machine is slowly advancing at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.

Ren Zhong switched the propulsion mode to a purely manual mechanism and relied on hand pressure to continuously fine-tune the thrust, simulating the vibration frequency released when the tunnel boring machine moved forward into a third-level ruin beast ground-burrowing sandworm.

There is a deformed deep depression on the cylinder of the rear half of his tunnel boring machine.

This was when he was "escaped" just now, he deliberately pretended to make a control error, slightly blocking the leech and the source stone, and causing the opponent's thick tail to shine here.

The leech's strike was very precise, and he didn't dodge at all.

The boring machine can withstand the fierce attack of level four beasts, but the leech is level five, and the cylindrical cabin is deformed with just one blow.

In the violent shock, Ren Zhong did something.

He slammed the SOS button, activated the overload signal calling function of the ghost communicator, and sent out a precise positioning information for about 5 seconds.

This is a "normal operation" when a person is dying, but it seems a bit stupid.

After all, everyone works in the same mining area, and most others know his general location, and there are not dozens of people scattered around the world engaged in planetary development, so there is no need to use overload signals.

The most critical thing is that once the ghost communicator turns on the overload signal, there will be at least ten minutes of equipment cooling and recovery time, and it can only operate at lower power.

This is the reason why Ren Zhong gradually "lost contact".

But, it’s natural for people to act stupidly when they are in a state of extreme panic.

What’s even “worse” is that the location where the leech struck happened to be the smart cabin that houses core computing functions such as the black box and the brain center.

The smart cabin itself has reliable alien technology-level defense, but the main line linking the smart cabin with other cabins must be exposed outside the module and is more likely to be impacted. It needs to be repaired from time to time. This part of the line uses It is a material produced independently by Yuanxing, and its material properties are much weaker.

The lines were crushed by the deformed metal structure.

Since then, all smart devices that require high computing power have failed, and the heavy-duty rock boring machine has become an "ancient tractor". Only geomagnetic sensors, planetary gravity height difference meters, gyroscopes, etc. have their own low computing power chips. The basic equipment is still functioning.

By the way, the monitoring scanners located inside and outside the cabin of the Lagann boring machine were also cut off by this collision.

The scan modeling surveillance video turned into a snowflake.

Moreover, just before he was struck by a leech and the surveillance system stopped functioning, Ren Zhong took advantage of the violent shaking during the impact to do something.

Under the camera, he pretended to fall back, his hands were dancing wildly on the operating table, and quietly, his armored right foot was stabbing under the operating table.

Quite coincidentally, his finger pressed the communication system maintenance switch.

The box containing the ghost communicator clicked open on its own.

His right foot stabbed inward with precision, and it happened to step down the link line even more "coincidentally".

Now it's better, basic communication is gone.

Since then, he has completely become a lost underground "ghost".

…

Two and a half hours later, in the underground cylindrical hall, Lin Wang looked at the leech corpses piled up like mud in the mud cave with a livid face.

Yu Junren, who was standing aside with his arms folded, also looked as if he was drowning.

The other professional teams happily accepted the reward from Lin Wang and went to work again.

There were only five people in the hall at this time, including Yu Junren, the bodyguard team of Chenhui Company, and Lin Wang, who was being interrogated like prisoners.

At this time, these five people were not in good condition. They were disgraced and had some injuries on their bodies.

Lin Wang spent money, killed level five ruin beasts, disassembled the chips, and cut open the corpses, but there was no snail boring machine inside.

"Lin Wang, tell me, where is the machine?"

Yu Junren asked.

Lin Wang turned back stiffly, "I...I don't know."

Yu Junren turned his hand and slapped Lin Wang in the face, "Your team members, which ones were you closest to when the accident happened? Now you tell me that you don't know? There is no such thing in the command system, and the communication is completely lost. Before the communication was lost, , and there is also a final reminder that the intelligent central control system is completely offline. It means that there is also a problem with the core equipment inside! Look at the performance of your idiot team members, what are they doing with this dancing look? Singing? "

The other party was not a professional, so the slap was not heavy. Lin Wang's face was not painful, but it was still burning.

At this moment, a thumping sound came from the alloy wall of Repair Station No. 3, as if something was lightly hitting it outside.

That is the repair position of the dismantling engineer of the professional team ranked first in the exam.

Everyone was shocked.

Yu Junren quickly ordered the logistics department to open the alloy door in front of the No. 3 maintenance station.

A drill bit covered with mud rotated in until it was mostly submerged in the cylindrical hall, and then the rotation slowly stopped.

The number 12 is spray-painted on the deformed cylindrical tank behind the side of the drill bit.

This is the No. 12 tunnel boring machine!

The air suddenly became stagnant.

"The anti-gravity engine of this tunnel boring machine can't run. Pull it in quickly!"

Five minutes later, a disgraced Ren Zhong emerged from the cockpit.

"Stand there and don't move. I'll interrogate you later."

Yu Junren waved his hand.

Like a primary school student who had done something wrong, Ren Zhong stood beside Lin Wang nervously with his hands together.

Lin Wang opened his mouth wide and looked at him with wide eyes. He was speechless and choked for a moment.

God knows what he was thinking at this time.

After a long time, this man actually ran away in a snail boring machine!

So we cut open the leeches and found nothing?

Then what the hell did I spend half a million dollars on?

What am I drawing?

Damn it!

Wait, why does Ren Zhong look like he is suppressing a smile?

Are you so happy to escape death?

Lin Wang had ten thousand questions in his mind that he wanted to ask, but it was not convenient for him to ask them.

On the other side, the mechanic team swarmed over.

"The core equipment of the cockpit is intact! The link line of the ghost communicator was knocked off by this idiot, but it is not broken!"

"The power cabin is intact!"

"The analysis cabin is intact!"

"The equipment inside the smart cabin is intact! Only the main link is broken!"

…

Good news comes frequently and good news continues.

Just over ten minutes later, the machine maintenance team leader concluded, "All core equipment is intact and will be fully repaired tomorrow evening, and normal operation can be resumed the day after tomorrow."

Yu Junren breathed a long sigh of relief, quietly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and returned to Lin Wang, Ren Zhong and others.

He stared at Ren Zhong.

"Tell me what happened and how you escaped."

Ren Zhong swallowed his saliva, stretched out his hand, and opened it. Inside was the Kangaroo Market animal skin bag, "Mr. Yu, I found this."

Yu Junren took the skin bag from Ren Zhong's hand, "I asked you how you ran away and what if you found the source stone. There were already people yesterday... Hey. Dr. Tang, come here."

Five minutes later, Dr. Tang gave his evaluation, "This is a second-grade source stone. It is also the largest piece of source stone found in all the excavation work of the head office in the past five years. It can be used..."

Yu Junren waved his hand, "Okay, I know."

After saying that, he turned his attention back to Ren Zhong and said with a smile: "According to the regulations, our company will purchase this second-level source stone from you at a fair price of 500,000. The same as the female excavator yesterday , your money has been transferred to your account through special channels."

Ren nodded, his watch already receiving the notification.

450,000 points were received, and another 50,000 points were automatically deducted as a commission for Spark resources.

This money was personal income for him, a "lucky player," and it directly skipped Lin Wang's professional team account.

Next, Ren Zhong explained everything "exactly".

"At that time, I just randomly chose a direction and ran away. I didn't know what happened. After catching up with me, the leech just slapped me, and then stayed there without moving."

"Before the scanner failed, I vaguely saw it seeming to pounce on a radiation point, climb on it and stop moving. Then many of my smart devices suddenly malfunctioned, and I didn't know how to repair them, so I had to switch to manual mode and be cautious. Run away."

Here, Yu Junren interrupted.

There was regret on his face, "There should be another source stone there, but it was swallowed by a leech. Unlucky."

Lin Wang added, "Previously we did see that the energy level index of leeches was rising rapidly, which is very abnormal."

Ren Zhong: "Uh..."

Yu Junren: "You continue."

"I was afraid of attracting its attention, so I didn't dare to push it with all my strength. Without the positioning guidance of the ghost communicator, I could only wander around based on my feelings. After wandering around for about an hour, the radiation detector gave a signal."

"I thought that this signal was very similar to the radiation of the ore source stone described in the previous operation manual, so I boldly went over to take a look at the situation, and unexpectedly I actually picked one up. Then I wandered around for a long time. Finally, I trembled along the ground Move closer here according to Yi's prompt. The ground tremor caused by the captain's return pointed the way to me. I really found the right direction, thank God."

Ren Zhong's explanation is very reasonable and seamless.

Later, Yu Junren called in a psychology expert to give Ren Zhong a question-and-answer polygraph test in the interrogation room.

Ren Zhong cleared the customs and saw Lin Wang outside the interrogation room.

Frankly speaking, Lin Wang was in a very complicated mood at this time.

In order to "save Ren Chong", he spent 500,000, but it was all in vain.

He thought it was over, he was dead this time.

In fact, looking at the value of the equipment alone, he believed that the entire team's entire property might be able to afford a new rock boring machine.

But what Yu Junren cares about is not money. Behind this matter may also involve his promotion.

Therefore, he wanted to execute everyone to set an example, give an explanation to the higher-ups, and also serve as a wake-up call to the entire Source Star excavators.

Lin Wang was very reluctant, but there was nothing he could do.

But despite the heavy workload, he miraculously survived, picked up a large source stone, and made a fortune.

The real value of this large ore source stone is definitely not only 500,000, it may be worth a volcanic rock boring machine.

Otherwise, Yu Junren's attitude would not have changed so quickly.

And the damage to the rock boring machine was not serious, that’s it.

Therefore, in the end, Lin Wang and the other five people were rescued from the gate of hell.

This is indeed a great achievement.

"Well, Captain...my performance is not bad, right?"

Ren Zhong asked happily.

Lin Wang took a deep look at him and said, "That's pretty good. In a sense, you saved our lives."

"Oh, I'm just too stupid. If I had been more careful on the way to investigate, I wouldn't have fallen prey to the mud cave leeches."

"It's okay. As long as you are alive, everything is possible. Speaking of which, you are not short of money now. You still owe me 235,000..."

Ren Zhong hesitated for a moment and said in a pleading tone: "Captain, I... I want to save some money. Manager Ju helped me change the design a little so that the armor I am wearing is more in line with my personal characteristics. Wait for me After I get used to it, it won't be long before I can try to hunt the third-level or even weaker fourth-level beasts alone. Captain, can you let me pay back your money slowly?"

Lin Wang hesitated, "Okay."

"Thank you for your understanding, captain."

"We are our own people. Thank you." Lin Wang waved his hand, "Mr. Yu gave you a day off. You can have a good rest today and tomorrow. In fact, some people from the entertainment industry came to the command center two days ago. , are of very high quality. The girl yesterday was not grand enough. She only cared about eating and not playing, but you can go and have fun by yourself. It’s rare to get rich, so you should enjoy it.”

Ren Zhong seemed to grit his teeth and said: "I can't just take care of myself. I'll go up and make arrangements. When everyone gets off work in the evening, I'll treat everyone to a meal and have fun again. As captain How about a treat in your name?"

Lin Wang raised his eyebrows and said, "Person No. 43, it's not easy to eat and play together. It will cost 10,000 points."

Ren Zhong gritted his teeth again, "Ten thousand points should be appropriate to express gratitude. Although I was lucky enough to survive, Captain, you also took risks to save me."

"Okay, that's settled then. Okay, let's continue going to the mine. You go back to the dormitory to rest."

Ren returned to the dormitory.

He didn't walk through a high-sensitivity full-body scanner.

After Yu Junren collected the source stone, he didn't care about him anymore.

This is a form of psychological deception.

He is a lucky man who narrowly escaped death.

He is also the weakest second-level professional in the entire excavation team.

There is no way he has the courage and ability to be a thief.

He had great luck and found a valuable second-level source stone while escaping.

When he found out the secondary source stone, the ecstasy and anticipation on his face couldn't be false.

He even discovered two source stones in one day, but the other one was swallowed by mud cave leeches and quickly digested.

He couldn't have had better luck hitting a third one in a row.

He also passed all polygraph tests by psychological experts.

In short, it is impossible for him to have a larger source stone.

But he really does.

And it is the only first-grade source stone in the entire Chenhui mining area, located in one of the two central magnetic nodes in the entire mining area.

Occupying another level one node is another level five ruin beast.

In fact, he almost encountered Ren Zhong, but he found out that the radiation index there was abnormal, and quietly escaped early.

Everything is under his control.

The dangers of top-notch criminals with high IQs are really huge.

[Recommended vote coin slot. This chapter is five hours late. I am so tired today that I am writing slowly. Next chapter tomorrow morning at eight o'clock]

[PS: I made small adjustments to the content of the previous chapter, lowering the number of deaths of the professional team excavating in the first eight days to 5, and adjusting the remaining excavators to 43. At the same time, I advanced the appearance time of the first small source stone to the seventh day. This logic is more rigorous, I hope everyone knows. 】