bioinnovel Chapter 280 In the mine!
Chapter 280 In the mine!
The temporary defensive position of the Qingcheng International Exploration Team was set up about 30 meters inside the mine, behind a natural bend.
This place was originally an abandoned sulfur mine transfer station, and the space is quite spacious.
At this moment, seven or eight exploration team members wearing bulletproof vests were gripping their light weapons tightly, hiding behind several collapsed rusty tin boxes.
Each of them had bruises on their face, and their eyes revealed exhaustion and despair from prolonged high pressure.
A dozen meters directly opposite them stood five mercenaries dressed in heavy protective suits.
These five people were different from the small fry on the periphery that Zhang Yan had chopped up like vegetables.
They were extremely robust, so much so that their hazmat suits were somewhat deformed from the strain.
The strangest thing was that they didn't raise their guns to fire, but stared at the exploration team with an almost mocking look, as if they were looking at a few rats trapped in a dead end.
"Your leader has been riddled with bullets outside."
The lead mercenary lifted the mask off his hazmat suit, revealing a face covered in dark red veins.
His hazmat suit, located on his chest, was pushed up by some kind of internal bone spurs, emitting a nauseating crimson glow.
"Hand over the core sample of the star sand gold, and I'll give you a quick death."
His voice was hoarse, like sandpaper being rubbed.
The exploration team leader was a middle-aged man in his forties named Zhou Jian.
He gripped the assault rifle tightly in his hand, his palms sweating profusely.
He knew very well that the other side was not joking. In the past few days of fighting, he had personally witnessed these guys in hazmat suits not only not fall down after being hit in the torso, but continue to charge as if nothing had happened.
Just as Zhou Jian was considering whether to detonate the explosives behind him and perish together with these monsters.
A very faint sound of footsteps came from the darkness in the direction of the entrance.
Everyone's nerves tensed instantly.
The mercenary leader's brows furrowed sharply.
He had set up a defensive line of more than sixty people around the perimeter, and even a fly flying in would trigger an alarm. Why is someone walking right here now, and why is the communication channel completely silent?
A tall, slender figure slowly emerged from the shadows.
He wore a close-fitting, dark-colored combat suit without any reflective markings.
He wasn't wearing a helmet, revealing a handsome but cold face.
Most striking was the high-frequency vibrating dagger dripping dark red blood from the tactical slot on the outside of his thigh.
Zhang Yan.
The moment Zhou Jian saw that face, his pupils contracted sharply, and his heart began to pound wildly.
As the person in charge of Qingcheng International's core overseas projects, he was certainly qualified to know some high-level inside information.
Before he left, Nie Qingcheng made a long-distance call to him and gave him some top-secret instructions.
At the very end of that encrypted document bag was a photograph.
The young man in the photo is the one right in front of me.
Nie Qingcheng's exact words at the time were: "This is the only person I care about in this world."
"If I encounter him outside, his words are my highest command."
Zhou Jian swallowed, his throat dry.
He never dreamed that on this isolated island in the Western Pacific, in the face of their imminent annihilation, the boss's man would appear like a ghost, all alone.
"Who are you?"
The mercenary leader turned around, his red eyes fixed on Zhang Yan.
He could sense that the person in front of him didn't have any firearms, but strangely, the power within him was sending him an extremely dangerous and insane warning.
Zhang Yan didn't look at him.
His gaze didn't linger on these mercenaries for more than a second.
From the moment he stepped into the mine, his attention was completely drawn to the deeper darkness.
It was a natural fissure leading to the depths of the earth.
A foul stench was pouring up from the depths of the crevice, accompanied by a dense, chaotic, and chilling sound of limbs rubbing together and a low growl.
What's down there?
Zhang Yan spoke, his voice echoing calmly in the mine.
The mercenary leader's expression changed completely.
He was not only shocked by Zhang Yan's attitude of ignoring him, but also shocked that the other party had actually noticed what was below.
The reason they kept the exploration team here instead of launching a full-scale attack was not for the purpose of persuading them to surrender, but because they dared not venture any deeper.
Beneath that rift lies a terrifying being that even they, the followers who have been granted power by "God," tremble with fear.
"Friend, you're the one who took down the people outside, aren't you?"
The mercenary leader suppressed his inner turmoil.
"His skills are indeed quite good."
"But since you're also here for the star sand gold, why don't we make a deal?"
"The samples are in their hands. Once we get them, the ownership of the star sand gold vein will be split 50/50."
"The waters here are too deep for you to handle alone."
This is what he considers the optimal solution.
The outer defenses were breached silently, and the person in front of them was extremely dangerous.
If we can keep the other side calm, obtain the samples, and evacuate, the mission will be complete.
"Half on each side?"
Zhang Yan turned his head and finally focused his gaze on him.
That look was as if he were looking at a corpse that had been rotting for half a month.
He went to great lengths, traveling 2,800 nautical miles to get here, just to collect stardust gold to create the Vermilion Bird.
point?
Why share with a bunch of Ruins' retinue that aren't even human?
"roar--!"
Just then, the roar from deep within the rift suddenly amplified.
The stone walls of the entire mine began to tremble slightly, and the foul-smelling wind instantly became violent.
In the darkness visible to the naked eye, countless pairs of ruby-red eyes are rising rapidly like a tide.
"Damn it! That thing's awake!"
The mercenary leader's expression changed drastically, and he no longer cared about pretense.
His hazmat suit was instantly torn apart by several thick, pale bone spikes, and his body swelled to a terrifying height of two and a half meters in two seconds.
He suddenly turned around, not to face the monster deep inside, but instead, he charged towards the bunker where the exploration team was located with extreme ferocity.
Take the samples and run!
That was the only thought left in his mind.
As long as we get the samples, even if these few people die here, we can use the samples to explain ourselves to those behind the scenes.
As for this mysterious young man, let him stay here and become a snack for the monster.
"Let's do it!"
He roared, and the other four mercenaries also underwent a transformation at the same time. Their bodies grew taller, their muscles tore through their hazmat suits, and they charged towards Zhou Jian and the others with a wild howl.
In despair, Zhou Jian raised his gun and even closed his eyes, preparing to face death.
"I want to take something."
Zhang Yan's calm voice echoed in the cave, and then he raised his right hand.
A flash of blue light appeared on the miniature controller on my wrist.
Space itself was distorted extremely violently.
In the next millisecond, three jet-black mechanical tigers, each nearly two meters tall at the shoulder and three meters long, appeared out of thin air in the narrow open space between the mercenaries and the exploration team.
"Tiger" style mechanical beast.
The eerie blue electronic eye was like the gaze of death.
The titanium carbide tungsten alloy armor gleamed coldly under the emergency lights.
No nonsense was needed, not even Zhang Yan's voice commands.
The tactical AI inside the mech has locked onto all hostile targets within a microsecond.
The mercenary leader, whose body had swelled to two and a half meters tall, didn't even have time to react to the steel behemoth that had appeared out of nowhere before one of the Black Tigers started moving.
too fast.
With a servo response speed of 0.3 milliseconds, Black Tiger's movements completely exceed the limits of retinal capture for carbon-based creatures.
All that could be heard was a very faint metallic scraping sound.
Black Tiger and the mercenary leader passed each other.
The mercenary leader remained in a forward-leaning posture, and after taking two full steps forward, his entire upper body, from his left shoulder to his right waist, slid down without warning, leaving a smooth, mirror-like cut.
The polymer particle claw instantly burned his internal organs and bones to charcoal, with hardly any blood spurting out.
"Bang."
The mangled corpse crashed down less than half a meter in front of Zhou Jian, emitting a foul stench of burnt meat.
The remaining four accomplices were so startled by this sudden turn of events that they froze in their tracks.
But Black Tiger will not stop.
The other two mechs started up simultaneously.
The steel whip ripped through the air, smashing the heads of the two mercenaries on the left with tremendous force.
The immense impact pinned the headless corpse firmly to the hard rock wall of the mine, creating two deep craters.
The last black tiger stood upright, its two heavy front paws pressing the remaining two mercenaries to the ground, unleashing a burst of hydraulic force of tens of tons.
With a sickening cracking sound, the two men were reduced to two puddles of minced meat on the ground.
From the appearance of the Tiger to the complete annihilation of all five high-ranking mercenaries.
It took less than two seconds.
Zhou Jian and the exploration team were stunned, their minds completely blank.
They stared at the three mechanical tigers, which exuded a terrifying and oppressive aura, and forgot to breathe.
Zhang Yan didn't look at the corpses scattered on the ground; his gaze remained fixed on the entrance to the abyss rift.
In that darkness, hundreds and thousands of fleshy monsters, resembling giant insects covered in segmented limbs, with pairs of scarlet eyes, surged wildly from the ground.
"Take them out."
Zhang Yan issued the order.
The three Tiger tanks instantly turned around and walked to the exploration team members who were still in a daze.
"Let's go outside." Zhang Yan didn't turn around. "What happens here next is not for you to see."