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

Chapter 221 Cryogenic Monster
When we left Quancheng, it was already past 4 p.m.

Chen Jian led the team northward and arrived at Pingyuan Town, where they had stayed before, at 6 pm.

He had not originally planned to spend the night here, but instead planned to continue northward and rest after reaching Ander further north. However, he did not expect that before entering Pingyuan Town, he had already discovered something unusual here.

The town was more lively than ever before, and the lights were more dense than ever before.

A large number of merchants gathered on the outskirts of the town, as if waiting for something.

And when the convoy's bright and dazzling lights appeared, they rushed forward almost impatiently and surrounded the convoy in an instant.

"Sir! Sir! Save us!"

"Sir! Ender is in trouble! Help us!"

"Sir! We are merchants from the Mechanicus. We have just contacted the Holy Temple, and the Holy Temple has directed us to seek your help!"

"Sir! Please be kind!"

Chaotic noises continued to ring out. Chen Jian pushed open the car door, looked at the people around him with a puzzled look on his face, and subconsciously asked:

"What happened?"

"Ander City! Two monsters appeared outside Ander City!"

"The Crusaders there have all left, and Ender City is now an empty city!"

"No one can stop those two monsters. If they really want to attack Ender, everyone there will be finished!"

Someone in the crowd was shouting at the top of his lungs, and the puzzled expression on Chen Jian's face became even more intense.

what's the situation?
It took them less than an hour to walk from Huadu to Pingyuan Town.

When we were in Flower City, the Bishop of the Mechanicus had not yet raised any questions, but an hour later, the monsters came?
This is somewhat unbelievable.

Chen Jian turned around and gave Ji Xing a look, who immediately returned to the car to contact the Mechanicus to confirm the situation. Chen Jian raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, and then asked the man who claimed to be a Mechanicus merchant:

"Are you sure there are monsters around Ender City?"

"That's impossible. How could there be monsters in Ender City?"

Before the man could answer, Xu He, who had also gotten out of the car behind him, staggered over.

"If there were any monsters, the Holy Blood Temple would have issued a warning long ago."

"I didn't hear there were any monsters there. They were just scaring themselves."

"Yes, scare yourself!"

"Even if there are monsters, why would they look for us?"

"We are not working for free, and neither are the Holy Blooders!"

"You have to pay more! Yes, I don't want money, I want a brain computer!"

"Do you have any clues about the brain machine? Tell me, do you have any?"

Xu He, who had recovered from the shock of "Lin Jing's death", became weird again. Chen Jian frowned and looked at him, made a "shut up" gesture, and then continued:
"Don't worry about him."

"Tell me, what is the current situation in Ender City?"

The man who claimed to be a businessman quickly stepped forward and replied:
"Just as this gentleman said, neither the Holy Blood Temple nor the Mechanicus issued a warning."

"But many of us did see the monster!"

"And there were two monsters. I promise that they were not an illusion!"

"They were near Ender City. When we saw them, they were less than 10 kilometers away from Ender City."

"However, the direction they are heading doesn't seem to be heading directly towards Ender City!"

"clear."

Chen Jian nodded slightly, and then asked:

"You said you contacted the Holy Temple. What was their attitude?"

"The temple believes that this may be just a random accident, just the migration of monsters."

"They have already mobilized the Skitarii from other cities to go to Ander, but the distance is too far, and we are afraid we will be too late."

"Sir, your team is the fastest team! I have heard about the deeds of the Chinese Army!"

"I know you are the most powerful hunters, so I took the risk to ask for your help!"

"We can't lose Ender, that's our home. I know this request is presumptuous, but we can pay the price!"

"We can pay the reward, if you ask."

"Let's not talk about this yet."

Chen Jian interrupted the man and asked:

"Is there any more detailed information? Has everyone here seen the monster?"

“Most people have seen it!”

The man nodded quickly.

After a brief thought, Chen Jian said:
"You organize it and bring all the intelligence you have so far to me."

"If there really is a monster, we will go there."

"Yes! Yes! Sir! I will do it right away!"

The man excitedly returned to the crowd and quickly dispersed with everyone.

Chen Jian immediately ordered the release of drones and organized forward reconnaissance.

The drone image was transferred to the smart eyepiece. Chen Jian took a quick look around and after confirming that there were no traces of monsters, he handed over the command of the drone to Zhan Skull.

At this time, Lei Jie, who had just come down from 30A, walked up to him and asked:
"Are you going to take care of it?"

"What can we do? They have come to us for help."

Chen Jian exhaled and continued:
"This is a good thing - I was worried that our image was too violent in the eyes of ordinary people."

"After all, we attacked both Jinling and Huadu, and almost all the forces that came into contact with us were defeated."

"If this image becomes fixed someday, it will be difficult for us to change it."

"But it seems okay now. In their eyes, we are still more like a strong 'Monster Hunter' team."

"This image is very beneficial to us, and we should maintain it well."

"really."

Lei Jie nodded in conviction and continued:
"We have to go to Ander anyway, so this can be considered as providing us with a new source of intelligence."

"But I do find it a bit strange. Forget about Shen Yue. We are already in the north, and there are actually two monsters joining forces?"

"How exactly is the beast tide formed? Is communication between monsters not affected by distance?"

"I do not know."

Chen Jian shook his head and said:
"It's not necessarily a combination of monsters. It's possible that they just happened to appear at the same time."

"Anyway, let's find out where it is first."

"Two monsters, it's not too difficult for us."

"Didn't they just drag over a 152mm howitzer? It'll only take a few shots."

"Maybe if we open fire directly in Plain Town, we can kill them right away."

"hope so."

Lei Jie's tone was calm, but he was a little worried in his heart.

If this is also a precursor to a beast tide, then the frequency of such precursors appearing is really too frequent.

From north to south, it appeared twice within a few days.

How much more is there out of sight?

At the same time, in the lobby of the hostel in Plain Town.

A man named Jinzan, who claimed to be a merchant of the Mechanicus, was surrounded by the crowd. In front of him was a tattered table with a rough white paper on it.

Chaos, noise, and bustle filled the entire inn. Jin Zan raised the brush in his hand and shouted:
"Quiet! Quiet!"

"We must quickly organize all the information and hand it over to them, otherwise once those two monsters enter Ender City, our goods will be gone!"

"Stop talking at the same time, and take them one at a time!"

"Listen to me, answer whatever I ask!"

After the words fell, everyone fell silent. He took a deep breath and asked:
"Li Mo, you speak first!"

"Your team is closest to those two monsters. What did you see?"

"I?"

The man named Li Mo was stunned for a moment, then replied:
"I do not know!"

"I was closest to the monster, but because I was too close, I didn't see anything!"

"Those two monsters almost stepped over my head!"

"All I know is that they are big, quadrupedal, and their abdomens... I can't even see their abdomens."

"Yes, they walked very fast. I don't know if they noticed me, but they certainly didn't attack me."

"They were heading in Ender's direction, which is the opposite direction I was going."

"I didn't even dare to look back. I ran all the way to Plain Town, and then I found you."

"I don't know about the rest."

"What a waste!"

Jin Zan cursed angrily, and then continued to ask another person:
"Wang Jian, what about you? You are the farthest away, what did you see?"

"Two monsters."

The man he pointed at frowned and thought, as if recalling what he saw.

After a moment, he calmly replied:

"The two monsters are actually quite far apart. They should be one in front and one behind."

"But it's definitely not that one is chasing the other. They probably just happened to be taking the same route."

"It was too far away, I couldn't see it clearly."

"But I remember that one of the monsters was very thin."

“Very thin??”

Jin Zan was surprised and said:
"What kind of description is that? Do you mean very flat, or very thin?"

“It’s just very thin.”

Wang Jian said firmly:
"From a distance, it looks like a thin film. Like a big butterfly, but it can't fly."

"The other one... It doesn't have any special features, but the air it spews out is very white."

“I feel like it’s cold.”

Very cold?

This is useful information.

In fact, he himself only saw the "jet-breathing" monster.

He thought it was just ordinary breath.

But after Wang Jian's description, he suddenly realized that this might be a unique feature.

Jin Zan wrote this description on paper, then added a few more sentences, comparing the features of the monster he saw with those seen by Wang Jian, and finally formed a definite piece of information.

Putting down the bi in his hand, Jin Zan continued to ask the people around him about the situation.

After compiling the descriptions of all the witnesses, the content on the paper became more and more.

When the white paper was finally filled, he breathed a sigh of relief and said:
"If I had known I would have prepared this thing in advance - it delayed me another twenty minutes!"

"Okay, I have to deliver this thing to those Chinese soldiers."

"The temple won't arrive in time, we can only count on them"

"Are they really.reliable?"

Someone in the crowd suddenly asked a question. Jin Zan stood up and sneered:

"Is it reliable?"

"Your question is a little ridiculous."

"Don't you know? The Holy Hall once had some misunderstandings with the Chinese Army, but now, the misunderstanding has been resolved."

"Do you know why? Because they helped the Holy Temple defeat the enemies of Floral City."

"Their power is by no means weaker than that of the Holy Temple. In some aspects, they are even stronger."

"Even if you haven't heard of their stories, didn't you see the corpses of those monsters along the way when you came from the south?"

After the words were spoken, the person who asked the question fell silent.

After a moment, he coughed and said a little awkwardly:

"I did see it, but it doesn't seem to mean anything."

"The Holy Blood Temple and the Mechanicus are also hunting monsters, but now, they are powerless. Those Chinese soldiers..."

"You don't understand."

Jin Zan waved his hand impatiently, and then said:
"Those powerful monsters were killed by them easily."

"They came to the north just to take revenge on Huadu. On the way, they killed more than a dozen level 4 monsters."

"Now do you know why I'm looking for them?"

"Okay, don't waste my time."

"Get out of the way! I need to go meet the adults now!"

A few minutes later, Chen Jian received the information sent by Jin Zan.

There were densely written words on the white paper. Chen Jian glanced at the contents and said with a frown:

"It is huge, exhaling thick white gas, has four legs but no belly, like a reptile."

"Very thin biofilm with tentacles at least ten meters long"

"What the hell is this? A big lizard and a big butterfly?"

"It looks like it."

Lei Jie stared at the drone's aerial reconnaissance screen and said:
"It seems like we haven't encountered these strange monsters for quite a while. All the monsters we encountered from Jinling were relatively normal."

"That is, it is a little bigger, but it doesn't have any specialized features."

"But these two look unusual."

"Maybe they are two level three or above monsters?"

"If there really are two level three monsters or above, things won't be that simple."

Chen Jian put down the paper in his hand and asked:

"Fuxi, did the aerial reconnaissance find anything?"

"No trace of monsters has been found yet."

Fuxi's answer disappointed Chen Jian a little, but before he could speak, Fuxi continued:
"However, from the aerial thermal imaging footage, I noticed a large number of abnormally low temperature areas in the surrounding areas."

"Abnormally low temperature?!"

Chen Jian looked up in surprise, and in the field of view of the intelligent eyepiece, Fuxi had already marked all the low-temperature areas.

"These areas are slightly cooler than the surrounding environment, but not because of topographical influences."

"For example, near the mountain I marked, the temperature in the basin at the foot of the mountain is lower than that at the top of the mountain."

"It seems that a large amount of low-temperature gas is deposited at the foot of the mountain, but the source is unknown."

Cryogenic gas of unknown origin.

Chen Jian looked at the information summarized by Jin Zan again.

White gas.

Is this condensation caused by low temperature?
No way, that monster can cool down?
What's wrong with the air conditioner?

Is there such a thing in nature?
Chen Jian realized that Lei Jie's judgment was probably correct.

This is most likely a level three or higher monster.

Can change the environment.
Is it level 2 or level 1?!

(End of this chapter)