bioinnovel Chapter 374 One Two Meters!
Chapter 374 One Two Meters!
Two days later, Shennongjia.
The ground command center was set up on a flat area directly above the target area.
Three military tents, two communications vehicles, and one portable satellite antenna.
Nie Qingcheng sat inside the main tent, with six screens in front of her.
"Relay node one, 400 meters, signal is normal."
Qin Xiao's voice came through the walkie-talkie. "Node two, 600 meters, signal normal. Node three, 800 meters—signal attenuated to 62%, but usable."
Nie Qingcheng pressed the call button.
"What about the low-frequency system at Guantiange Pavilion?"
Another voice came in.
Stargazing.
"Activated, coverage depth 2,000 meters, delay approximately 4 seconds."
Nie Qingcheng nodded. "Zhang Yan."
Zhang Yan's voice came through the earphones. Clear and steady.
"exist."
"All systems are ready."
"Understood. I'm going down now."
Nie Qingcheng tapped her fingers lightly on the table.
"Report every 100 meters."
"it is good."
The sound of metal scraping could be heard over the communication channel.
That was the sound of the black scorpion's limbs moving on the rock wall.
Zhang Yan stood on the back of the black scorpion, as the mechanical scorpion descended vertically along the natural cave.
"One hundred meters. Normal."
The cave walls were slippery, with occasional water droplets falling, and the temperature was slowly rising.
"Two hundred meters. Normal."
"Three hundred meters. Normal."
The descent was rapid. The black scorpion's six segments were firmly embedded in the rock face, making it extremely stable.
"Four hundred meters, after passing relay node one, the signal is at full strength."
"Received." Nie Qingcheng's voice.
"500 meters. Temperature rose three degrees. No abnormalities."
"Six hundred meters. Passing through relay node two."
"receive."
"Seven hundred meters."
Zhang Yan paused for a moment.
"The texture of the rock face has begun to change, and its hardness has increased."
Nie Qingcheng asked, "Has the impact decreased?"
"It doesn't matter, the black scorpion can be cut."
"continue."
"Eight hundred meters, passing through relay node three."
Zhang Yan's voice began to have a slight electrical noise, and the signal was attenuating.
"Communication quality has deteriorated; switch to Guantiange low-frequency system."
Four-second delay.
Nie Qingcheng's voice came again, slightly distorted.
"Received, continue."
Nine hundred meters.
Zhang Yan glanced at the system interface.
The interface is shaking.
It wasn't a violent shaking, but an extremely subtle tremor, like the surface of water being affected by distant shockwaves.
"The system interface is experiencing slight instability," Zhang Yan said. "It doesn't affect functionality."
"One kilometer."
Zhang Yan glanced down at the time on his wrist.
Then he frowned.
The clock on the back of the black scorpion shows 14:23:07.
The clock on the system interface displays 14:23:11.
It was four seconds off.
"Timestamps are out of sync".
Zhang Yan said.
"A four-second deviation has occurred between the devices."
Nie Qingcheng's voice deepened.
"What's the reason?"
"Unknown, continuing to decline."
"1,100 meters".
Zhang Yan's gaze fell on the rock wall.
He stopped.
"Black Scorpion, stop."
The mechanical scorpion froze instantly.
Zhang Yan reached out and touched the rock wall in front of him.
wrong.
This is not a natural rock face.
section.
An extremely smooth cut surface.
There are no tool marks.
There were no signs of vibration.
There is no ablation from thermal cutting.
It's as if something directly "split" the rock apart.
Zhang Yan used the probe of the Thousand Machine Arm to test the hardness.
The value exceeded the limit. It was beyond the measurement range.
He tried a different approach.
Let the Heart of the Creator release a weak pulse, which is emitted close to the cut surface.
The pulse is applied.
It bounced back.
It bounced back completely.
Zero loss.
Zero absorption.
100% reflective.
Zhang Yan stared at that data for three seconds.
"Artificial cutting marks were found at a distance of 1,100 meters."
He said.
"Not modern tools, not Mohist style."
"The material is unknown, the hardness exceeds the range, and the pulse of the Heavenly Craftsmanship is completely reflected."
Four-second delay.
Nie Qingcheng's voice: "Your judgment?"
"It's something no human could do."
There was a long silence on the other end of the line.
Then Nie Qingcheng asked, "Continue or retreat?"
Zhang Yan looked at the smooth, mirror-like cut surface.
"continue."
"1200 meters."
The black scorpion's limbs landed on the flat ground.
It's not the bottom of the cave, it's the ground, an artificial ground.
Zhang Yan jumped off the black scorpion's back.
He looked up.
It is not an empty cavity.
It is a spherical space.
A huge spherical space.
The diameter far exceeds the forty meters indicated in the exploration report. It is at least two hundred meters.
The inner wall of the sphere is covered with runes.
Densely packed, stretching from the feet to the top of the head, covering the entire inner surface of the sphere.
Each rune emitted an extremely faint light, its color somewhere between silver and pale gold.
Zhang Yan recognized some of them.
It shares the same origin as the symbol for "door" on the Guantiange manuscript.
But it's more complicated, much more complicated.
The symbols on the manuscript are just simplified sketches of these runes.
And at the very center of the spherical space—
A black sphere was suspended in the air.
It is about three meters in diameter.
The surface flows slowly like liquid metal.
There is no supporting structure, and no sign of an energy field supporting it.
It just hung there.
Zhang Yan stood there, staring at it for a long time.
"Zhang Yan?" Nie Qingcheng's voice was delayed by four seconds and slightly distorted.
"Have you arrived? Report back."
Zhang Yan took a deep breath.
"arrive."
"What's going on?"
"It's not a cavity," Zhang Yan said. "It's an artificially carved spherical space, over two hundred meters in diameter. The inner walls are covered with runes. In the very center is a suspended black sphere."
There was a long silence on the phone.
When Nie Qingcheng's voice rang out again, her tone was extremely restrained.
"Threat level?"
"There has been no hostile reaction so far."
"How are you?"
"normal."
Zhang Yan took a step forward.
The heart of nature was moved.
He didn't start it.
It lit up by itself.
A blue-white light emanated from his chest, passing through his clothes and illuminating the surrounding ground.
Then it started to vibrate.
It wasn't a warning vibration. It was a... resonance.
It's like when two tuning forks of the same frequency come close together, one of them is excited by the other.
Zhang Yan looked down at the light emanating from his chest.
The system interface pops up.
It's not a red alert.
It's not a blue warning.
gold.
He had never seen a golden system interface before.
There is only one line of text above.
"Upper-level protocol interface detected. Connect?"
Zhang Yan stood still.
The black sphere flowed slowly in front of him.
The spirit of divine craftsmanship resonated continuously in his chest.
A golden interface floated in the center of his field of vision, awaiting his reply.
"Zhang Yan?" Nie Qingcheng's voice came through the earpiece. "Why aren't you saying anything?"
Zhang Yan opened his mouth.
"I need to make a decision."