Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 211 Close Reconnaissance
The next morning, at Xu He’s residence.

Chen Jian had already put on all his equipment, but Xu He, who was sitting opposite him, still looked sleepy, and the blood from the puncture of the brain-computer interface on his back had not yet completely dried up.

Chen Jian explained the plan to him directly, but after listening to Chen Jian's plan, Xu He waved his hands repeatedly.

"What? I'm going to Huadu with you guys?"

"I thought I just had to sit here and wait - isn't fighting what you guys do best?"

"I'm not going. Those people in Huadu are all crazy. If they find me, I might die there."

"Yes, their palace is not that easy to enter!"

"It's a fortress built on a mountain. No one can enter, not even the Mechanicus or the Holy Blood."

"Oh yeah! Fortress!"

"I've heard a saying! Fortresses are conquered from within!"

“So we should start from within – we should buy off some of the Huadu people.”

"Speaking of bribery."

"Okay."

Chen Jian raised his hand to interrupt Xu He, and then said:

"From now on, don't say a word and just give directions."

"If I ask you something, you just answer with a nod or a shake of your head, okay?"

Xu He nodded exaggeratedly, and Chen Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"You've been to the palace in Flora, right?"

Xu He nodded again.

"Do you know the general layout of the interior of the palace? The key is the layout of the enclosed rooms."

"Know"

Halfway through his words, Xu He suddenly shut up and then nodded vigorously.

"That's enough, follow us!"

Chen Jian waved his hand, and Xu He immediately picked up the box containing the brain-computer device and followed Chen Jian.

Ji Xing, Xie Liu and Li Shi formed a triangle and surrounded him closely, always on guard against his sneak attacks.

But it was obvious that he had no such intention at all.

His entire mind seemed to have been controlled by this brain-machine, turning him crazy and stubborn.

Now, he only had one goal in mind.

That is to enter Huadu again and find more secrets about brain-computer interaction.

So, what exactly attracted him to that brain machine?
Maybe that is also a way to escape reality?
Chen Jian didn't think too much about it. He just made sure that he was willing to cooperate and then immediately led the team out.

It is 260 kilometers from Zhuolu City to Quancheng, also known as the Flower City. According to the plan, they will reach Qianfeng City, 50 kilometers away from Quancheng, before nightfall. After repairing outside the Qianfeng ruins, they will conduct close reconnaissance near Quancheng late at night and formulate a final combat plan.

Everything went smoothly.

Along the way, Chen Jian did not actively hunt monsters, but ordered everyone to seize every opportunity to rest as much as possible.

After all, although according to the plan he was only going to carry out an infiltration and decapitation operation, any infiltration operation was not foolproof.

If discovered, he would also need the support of the team members during the evacuation.

The convoy drove northward and, after bypassing two monsters that were estimated to be above level three, the few people successfully arrived at the Qianfeng Ruins, set up camp in a relatively secluded place, and established a forward command post.

Immediately afterwards, without any pause, Chen Jian opened up a simple runway, released the Tianqiong-S long-flight UAV, and entered the Qianfeng ruins, preparing to climb to the top of Mount Tai and build a signal base station with wide-area coverage.

"Fuxi is responsible for drone aerial reconnaissance, Li Shijixing is optimistic about Xu He, Xie Liuleijie will follow me."

After Chen Jian's order was given, the three of them set off immediately and headed towards Mount Tai.

The drones overhead kept circling, and the route was quickly mapped out.

In order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, this route avoided all locations where monsters might be encountered, and Chen Jian and Lei Jie also turned on the electro-variable camouflage of their mechas.

Infiltration operations never start from the moment of "infiltration".

In fact, from the moment the reconnaissance operation was launched, the main theme of "infiltration" has been fully implemented.

"How high is Mount Tai?"

Lei Jie asked as he moved forward through the dense jungle.

"More than 1500 meters. Why, you've never climbed it before?"

Chen Jian answered casually.

"I haven't climbed it. I had planned to climb it once before, but there were always too many people there."

"You know, I don't really like crowded places."

"Now that there are fewer people, you can have a good climb."

Chen Jian said jokingly.

"That's because there are fewer people. Suspicious heat signals were detected 800 meters ahead, detour."

"Got it, take a detour."

Chen Jian answered briefly, and the three of them changed direction and headed north.

While moving, the two micro drones had locked onto the monster that was hunting not far away and were updating its location information in real time.

"We have passed the danger zone and reached the starting point of the climb."

“Is this the starting point for climbing??”

Chen Jian stared in amazement at the terrain in front of him that was completely covered with vegetation. For a moment, he was unable to even reconcile this place with the Mount Tai in his memory.

All the cable cars and stairs are gone, even the wide square and parking lot have disappeared without a trace.

The only slight difference that could be seen was that the vegetation in front of them was relatively shorter and less dense.

"What? You still expect there will be a path for you to climb up?"

Reggie asked amusedly.

"That's exactly what I thought."

Chen Jian nodded seriously, and then said:
"This is Mount Tai, one of the highest mountains within a radius of hundreds of kilometers."

"Logically speaking, humans have a natural faith in mountains. Even in the end times, there should be people who try to climb mountains."

“But now it seems the mountain has been completely forgotten.”

"That's quite normal."

Xie Liu on the side said:

“Mountain climbing does not mean much to us, but it brings uncontrollable risks.”

"No one is willing to leave the relatively safe area of human activity to explore, unless they are hunters or holy blood with a hunting mission."

"But speaking of which, Captain, is this mountain special?"

"Of course it's special."

Chen Jian sighed softly and replied:

"The first of the Five Mountains, the place of Fengshan, but it's meaningless to talk about this now."

"Let's go and climb the mountain."

"Xie Liu, climb up the tree to set up the relay base station. Be sure to spread out the solar panels so they are above the tree canopy."

"clear."

Xie Liu climbed up a relatively straight tree with the micro base station on his back, while Chen Jian climbed up non-stop with Lei Jie.

Without the trail, the difficulty of climbing has more than doubled.

Even though he was wearing the Nezha exoskeleton, Chen Jian still felt a huge drain on his physical energy.

It took the three of them four hours to finally reach the top of the mountain, and by then, it was already 4 o'clock in the middle of the night.

“Build base stations and access the network.”

After Chen Jian's order was given, the three people divided the work and cooperated to quickly complete the base station deployment.

Almost at the same time, several green dots gradually lit up on the eyepiece in front of Chen Jian.

"The base station has been activated and connected to the core network."

"Signal search completed, Skydome-S has received cellular network signal."

"Image data has been transmitted." "Route planning is complete."

"Signal relay established, signal coverage complete."

"Commander, the equipment is ready. Shall we start the reconnaissance?"

"Start reconnaissance! Xie Liuleijie, we are retreating."

Chen Jian gave orders in a low voice, and the three of them returned down the mountain along the original route. At the same time, a large amount of reconnaissance intelligence analyzed by Fuxi began to be transmitted back.

The first thing to be created was the high-altitude infrared imaging map of the Spring City, or the Flower City. Judging from the map, the city is not too large.

It is only two kilometers long and wide, and the area of external production and living facilities is also quite small.

Compared to a big city like Jinling, this place is no different from a village.

However, completely inconsistent with its smaller area is its extremely high population density.

The dense lights tell it all, and the active heat signals on the streets in the city further show the prosperity of the city.

Chen Jian subconsciously zoomed in, trying to see the pattern of the residents' activities in the city.

But he didn't notice that Xie Liu beside him had taken off the smart goggles on his head.

Then he saw the almost disgusting scene in the city.

Countless naked bodies were reveling around a huge bonfire, and humans were venting their desires to each other like wild beasts.

Someone took burning wood from the campfire and waved and whipped it vigorously, while the person under him made meaningless roars.

In this carnival, the concept of gender has long been blurred.

Chen Jian even doubted whether they knew whether the people around them were human or not.

They were just trying every possible means to pursue the ultimate pleasure, and when the camera zoomed in as much as possible, Chen Jian even saw some other instruments that he had never thought would appear in such a place.

However, if it were just this, it would not be enough for Xie Liu to take off the eyepiece directly.

As those people lost the last bit of their sanity under the control of drugs, they also lost their sense of danger.

Many people seem to regard this carnival as the last carnival in their lives.

Blood, suffocation, torture
When the negative perceptions brought about by harm are blocked, all behaviors accompanied by "pleasure" become the ultimate enjoyment they pursue.

Even if they will die because of it.

Chen Jian saw the corpse on the ground.

But the residents turned a blind eye.

No.
They can see it too.

There are even some people who have a special interest in those corpses.

"Oh shit."

Chen Jian raised the camera.

This scene made him feel physically uncomfortable, and he didn't even want to look at it any more.

“Is this what these people do every day?”

Hearing his words, Xie Liu shook his head with difficulty, and then replied:

“Not every day.”

"They have a fixed 'carnival day', and we probably just happened to catch it."

"very good."

Chen Jian exhaled slowly and continued:
"This is good news for us. If the whole city is partying, it should be much easier for us to infiltrate."

"uncertain."

Lei Jie shook his head and said:
"I saw the palace."

"The situation there is completely different from that in Huadu City."

"The picture is transferred to me."

Chen Jian gave a brief order, and the image of the palace immediately appeared in his eyepiece.

This is a building built on top of a mountain.

The scale is also not large, and it is definitely not the kind of gorgeous and solemn palace in the stereotype.

On the contrary, it was just a group of square gray and white buildings.

There was no light emitted, and if the thermal imaging lens had not captured the Flower City Guards patrolling the palace, it might even have been mistaken for the remains of a concrete building from before the catastrophe.

In stark contrast to the carnival atmosphere in Flower City down the mountain, everyone here remained extremely sober.

In the camera, Chen Jian saw several guard members performing a shift change and handover, and judging from their skilled movements, this guard team must have been executing this process for more than a day or two.

"That's pretty cool, a drug dealer wouldn't take drugs himself, right?"

Lei Jie spat in disdain, while Chen Jian replied calmly:

“It’s the same everywhere.”

"Fuxi, release the hummingbird drone and begin reconnaissance of the interior of the building."

"Received. The drone has been released and is being taken over by the War Skull."

"The Warskull takes over."

A cold prompt sound rang out from the battle skull system, and then the picture on Chen Jian's eyepiece was split into three, and the pictures taken by the two Hummingbird drones were also presented in front of him at the same time.

As the altitude decreases, the picture gradually gets closer.

Five minutes later, Zhan Skull completed the 5D modeling of all the buildings in the palace, but four of them were completely closed, and even a micro drone like the Hummingbird could not find the entrance to enter.

At this time, Xu He's role was reflected.

He can go where hummingbirds can’t.

With Xie Liu's help, he marked the real "royal palace" on the screen, which is where the so-called Queen of Flower City works on a daily basis.

The location he pointed out coincided with two buildings that hummingbirds could not enter.

The target was determined, and when Chen Jian led the team back, it was just 3 o'clock.

"How to say?"

Lei Jie asked:
"Shall we set off now, or wait until tomorrow?"

Chen Jian hesitated slightly.

Tonight is the carnival day in Huadu. If we set off immediately, the team will face less external resistance when infiltrating.

But the problem is, it's too late.

At 3 o'clock, it will take at least : to arrive in Huadu.

It should be around 5 o'clock when you enter the palace.

This time is quite awkward.

They had too little time to act. Even if they could bypass the guards, anything unusual in the palace would surely be discovered by daybreak.

Dilemma.

Chen Jian was still thinking about how to deal with it, and at this time, Ji Xing suddenly said:
"According to reconnaissance information, the number of guards in the palace should not exceed 100."

"We have a total of six people who can join the operation."

"That means, on average, a person only needs to address .16 targets at most."

"As long as we are fast enough, we have a chance to kill all these guards without alerting other armed forces in Huadu City."

"By then, we will have much more time."

"Makes sense."

Chen Jian nodded slowly.

"Lei Jie, did you bring your QCQ201?"

"I brought it. It was said before that it was a decapitation operation, so how could I not bring it? You also brought your 06."

"That's no problem."

Chen Jian let out a long sigh, and then ordered:

"Battle Skull, plan the entry route and monitor the enemy's movements."

"Xie Liu, Li Shi, Ji Xing, take Xu He with you, let's charge at full speed!"

(End of this chapter)