bioinnovel Chapter 342 Substation!
Chapter 342 Substation!
At 2:17 a.m., Zhang Yan parked his car one kilometer away from the abandoned substation.
Nie Qingcheng did not send any more messages.
Her last message was before he left the house.
"I'm at home."
Just those three words.
Zhang Yan looked at it twice before putting the phone back into his inner pocket.
This is more effective than any advice.
She didn't ask him to come back sooner.
They didn't say anything about being careful.
She only told him that the home was still there.
Zhang Yan got out of the car, locked the door, and looked up into the distance.
The abandoned substation has aged exterior walls, the iron gate is sealed, and there are no lights inside.
From the outside, this place looks like it's been dead for many years.
On the system's heat map, the underground is a different story.
B+ level core heat source.
Twenty-three human infrared signatures.
Two underground floors.
In the center of the core layer, there is a rising contaminant.
Zhang Yan released six miniature reconnaissance robots.
Two entered from the drainage ditch.
Two are running through ventilation ducts.
Two animals clung to the outer wall as they climbed toward the main control building.
The footage was transmitted back quickly.
The ground floor is empty.
The underground entrance is hidden behind the old power distribution room.
There are two doors at the entrance.
One light and one dark.
An energy sensing device was added behind the hidden door.
It's not an electronic lock.
When Zhang Yan saw that thing, his eyebrows twitched slightly.
TFC is learned very quickly.
After the Shanghai node was compromised, they began deploying defenses against Tiangong Heart.
The microrobots continued to explore deeper.
There are fifteen guards on the first basement level.
They are scattered in the corridors, equipment rooms, and stairwells.
There are still eight people in the core layer.
The eight people were clearly equipped differently.
The system scan results are displayed.
Modify armor-piercing projectiles.
The warhead contains a small amount of crystalline powder coating.
It has a penetrating and interfering effect on high-energy armor.
Zhang Yan looked at the prompt, his expression unchanged.
They even used crystalline powder.
This shows that the technology chain behind TFC is more complete than what was revealed at the Shanghai event.
Ordinary firearms cannot harm the White Tiger.
However, bullets with a crystal coating can at least cause a brief disruption to the armor's energy layer.
They are not waiting to die.
They are upgrading.
Zhang Yan switched the exoskeleton to close-fitting mode, retracted the Thousand Machine Arm behind his back, and placed the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship into the groove in his palm.
He did not enter through the main entrance.
The drainage pipe is located on the east side of the substation and leads directly to the underground equipment floor.
The entrance is very narrow.
The Thousand-Machine Arm pried open the rusted pipe wall, and Zhang Yan slid in sideways.
Just as we entered the underground edge, the system suddenly popped up an alarm.
A contaminated energy sensing network was detected.
Triggered.
Zhang Yan paused for a moment.
It wasn't that he stepped on the wrong step.
The energy characteristics of the Heart of Heaven's Craftsmanship have been identified.
The next second, the entire underground space lit up with red lights.
There were no piercing sirens.
Only rows of dark red indicator lights flashed on the wall.
The guards on the first basement level moved simultaneously.
"Invasion".
"Core layer protection".
"Group B is contracted."
The sound came from inside the wall.
Zhang Yan quickly revised the plan in his mind.
Infiltration failed.
Then hurry up and fight.
We cannot give the core layer time to transfer contaminants.
He leaped out of the pipe opening and landed in the east corridor on the first basement level.
Two guards recently turned and raised their guns.
Zhang Yan did not give them a chance to fire.
The thousand-arm mechanism unfolds.
The first robotic arm gripped the left guard's wrist and twisted it backward.
The gun fell to the ground.
The second robotic arm swept across, striking the right guard in the back of the knee.
The moment the man knelt down, Zhang Yan was already close, his palm striking the man's shoulder and neck.
coma.
The first guard attempted to draw his sword.
Zhang Yan retaliated with an elbow strike, sending him crashing into the wall.
two seconds.
The two fell to the ground.
Zhang Yan casually used mechanical straps to lock them in place and continued forward.
Four guards approached from the end of the corridor.
Gunshots rang out.
The bullet struck the defensive surface of the Thousand-Machine Arm, sending sparks flying.
Zhang Yan did not retreat.
He rushed forward along the left wall, keeping his feet low to avoid the frontal line of fire.
The machine gun arm extends from the side, first bending the barrel, then locking the joint.
One person dislocated their shoulder.
One person was swept in the abdomen.
One person was struck on the back of the neck.
Just as the last one was about to retreat, Zhang Yan stepped in front of him, raised his hand, pressed his face down, and pinned him to the ground.
The layout of the basement is not complicated.
TFC believed that issuing an alarm would buy time.
However, they underestimated Zhang Yan's speed in clearing the area.
Three and a half minutes.
All fifteen guards were rendered helpless.
No one died.
But everyone was fixed in place, their mouths were sealed, and their hands and feet were locked.
Zhang Yan did not stop.
The staircase leads to the core floor.
A series of footsteps could be heard from below.
The eight elite soldiers did not come up, but instead set up a defensive line at the entrance to the core layer.
The other side knew very well that their mission was not to hunt down the intruders.
It is about safeguarding the core.
Zhang Yan walked to the stairwell and first released a reconnaissance robot.
The moment the footage was transmitted back, a bullet blew the robot apart.
The system detected the ballistic trajectory.
Eight people.
Crossfire.
Crystal powder warhead.
Zhang Yan glanced at the width of the corridor.
The White Tiger can enter.
But you must stop your gait.
He raised his hand.
"White Tiger".
A giant black mechanical tiger descended from the system space, its four claws pressing down on the stair platform, its metal body slightly lowered.
The underground space was too narrow; it neither roared nor displayed its full form.
But that sense of oppression was enough.
Zhang Yan gave the instructions.
"Non-lethal control".
The white tiger charged down.
The eight elite soldiers at the entrance to the core layer opened fire simultaneously.
The bullets with the crystal coating hit the White Tiger's body, leaving small scratches on several parts of the outer armor, and the energy layer flashed twice.
it works.
But that's not enough.
The White Tiger's speed did not decrease.
It made a precise, almost illogical turn in the narrow corridor, then slammed down with its front paws, crushing the gun in the hand of the first elite soldier.
The second person attempted to throw an explosive device.
The white tiger swept its tail, caught the explosive device, and flung it into the empty room.
A muffled thud was heard.
The corridor shook.
Zhang Yan followed behind Bai Hu, with Qianji Arm filling in for him.
Someone tried to go around to the back through the side door.
He raised his hand and grabbed the door frame, pressing himself back against the wall.
The eight elite soldiers held out for less than a minute.
The last person wanted to bite the capsule in their mouth.
Zhang Yan grabbed his chin first, and the Thousand Machine Arm took out the capsule and threw it into the isolation box.
He glanced down at it.
It's not poison.
It is a pollution inducer.
Once bitten, it will undergo forced transformation in a short period of time.
Zhang Yan's eyes grew even colder.
TFC doesn't even plan to keep the guards.
He locked up all the survivors and headed towards the center of the inner circle.
The Jinghai node is twice the size of the Huhai node.
The spatial compression chamber is more stable.
The central contaminant was not in the form of an anemone, but rather an elongated humanoid silhouette with its limbs secured by a dozen alloy chains and a complex energy-conducting device connected to its chest and abdomen.
The system annotation popped up.
Class A contaminant.
Restricted status.
Energy output in progress.
Zhang Yan did not hesitate.
First, interrupt the conduction.
The Azure Dragon module remotely scanned and marked four underground energy lines.
The White Tiger is responsible for suppressing the surrounding structure, while the Thousand Arms sequentially cut off the external guide channels.
The core cavity began to vibrate.
The contaminant struggled inside the compression chamber, and dark red energy surged back along the chains.
Zhang Yan raised his hand and attached the Heart of Heavenly Craftsmanship to the core interface.
Purification pulse activated.
In the first second, the contaminated creature's limbs twitched.
In the third second, a crack appeared at the edge of the compression chamber.
In the fifth second, the dark red energy was forcibly pushed back into the main body by the blue and white light.
Eighth second.
The top of the core layer suddenly collapsed.
It wasn't an explosion.
It was broken open directly from the outside.
Concrete and steel bars fell and slammed onto the white tiger's carapace with a dull thud.
Zhang Yan did not let go.
The Thousand Arms automatically extended their defensive surfaces backward.
After the rubble fell, someone jumped down from the cave entrance.
The landing point was very accurate.
Just two meters behind Zhang Yan.
The system annotation popped up instantly.
Humanity.
Pollution-free energy.
Carrying high-energy weapons.
Threat level: Unknown.