Mobile Shelter

After seeing Lu Ziye get out of the car, the man waved his hand casually.

Others who see this behavior might assume it's a habit he has when greeting others.

But when his team saw their captain make that move, all the members of his squad, as if deliberately showing goodwill, took off their helmets and casually tucked them into their waistbands.

However, if you look closely, you can see that as they took off their helmets, everyone unconsciously pressed the same spot on their shoulder.

"Hello, I'm Lu Ziye, the team leader of the Chengfeng team. It's raining quite heavily outside, so our team is temporarily taking shelter here. I don't know where you are...?"

Although Lu Ziye stopped asking halfway through his sentence, Li Qiang knew what Lu Ziye wanted to know, so he generously explained, "There's nothing I can't say. Our team's mission is to chase after alien beasts and, if we happen to encounter any survivors or alien humans..."

With your consent, we will escort you to the southern city where our team is located.

Upon hearing Li Qiang's words, Lu Ziye immediately retorted, "How do you know we're not from the same planet? And do you know that this isn't actually your planet, but ours?"

When Li Qiang heard Lu Ziye say that this was not his planet, but Lu Ziye's planet, he did not panic and remained very calm.

"Our team's mission is to hunt alien beasts. These alien beasts are not creatures native to our planet, but rather creatures that have entered our planet through spatial rifts."

Although we are all human beings and may live on planets with very similar environments, two different planets still have differences in their basic rules.

Take, for example, the most basic rules of space. The space on our planet is very fragile, and spatial rifts often appear from time to time. Many alien creatures that do not belong to our world can enter our world through spatial rifts.

Of course, the creatures that cross spatial rifts into our world are not just various animals; there are also humans from other worlds who happen to stumble into spatial rifts and enter our world.

According to those people, this phenomenon is called time travel in most worlds, and they themselves liked to call themselves time travelers when they first entered our world.

This situation may be very rare in your world, but it is quite common in our world. Therefore, our team, which frequently comes into contact with alien life, is used to it.

Whether this is your planet or our planet, it doesn't really matter to us.

To tell you the truth, because we followed these alien beasts directly through the spatial rift to this place, whether this is our planet or yours, we need to leave through the spatial rift we came from when we return.

Therefore, no matter which planet this is, it has no impact on us.

You don't need to worry about the dangers of crossing spatial rifts. Where we're from, crossing spatial rifts is similar to flying in an airplane. Occasionally we might encounter spatial turbulence, but most of the time it's perfectly safe.

Although Li Qiang spoke so sincerely, Lu Ziye couldn't help but feel that what he said sounded a bit fake.

Just as Lu Ziye was about to ask some more questions, he suddenly felt a little listless.

Not only Lu Ziye, but also the ordinary people in the miscellaneous cars around them had unknowingly fallen into a coma.

After seeing Lu Ziye swaying and his eyes almost closing, Li Qiang smiled and turned to his teammates, saying, "I originally thought it was just a small job of chasing alien beasts, but I didn't expect that they would lead us to find a spatial rift."

Even more fortunately, there are still normal humans alive here. There should be quite a few people in these cars. Everyone, hurry up and try to take them all away safely.

Just as the captain turned around with a smile and ordered his team to prepare for action, he saw his teammates looking at him with a surprised expression.

Having spent every day with those team members, I knew that the surprised looks they were giving me were definitely not directed at me.

Li Qiang quickly turned around and found that although Lu Ziye was somewhat listless, he had not lost consciousness.

At the same time, several people jumped off the heavy-duty RVs behind them.

What Li Qiang didn't expect was that a faint light suddenly emanated from one of the cars, covering a large area.

To Li Qiang's surprise, the distance between him and Lu Ziye was not far, but the faint light precisely enveloped Li Qiang without covering him.

As the faint light appeared, Lu Ziye, who had been listless and on the verge of fainting, instantly returned to normal. Not only that, the people who jumped off the car also rushed to Lu Ziye's side immediately.

Just as Li Qiang was secretly praising the other party's quick reaction, a device on his waist inexplicably emitted a 'beep beep beep' warning sound.

The machine around his waist may look small, but it was a special item that he had bought at a high price.

This device has a very simple function: it sets a standard value, and when energy levels above this standard value appear in the surrounding area, the device will immediately issue an alarm.

Teams like theirs that hunt down strange beasts are not afraid of open combat, no matter how strong the enemy is.

But they are still human after all. Although they are not afraid of direct combat, they are afraid of being defeated for no reason.

Although most alien beasts do not have any special abilities and all their combat power comes from their strong physical attributes, some special alien beasts have mastered extraordinary abilities. Once an alien beast possesses extraordinary abilities, its combat ability will undergo a dramatic change compared to those alien beasts that rely solely on brute force.

That's why he specifically bought this detection device, so that when hunting strange beasts, he could detect those beasts possessing extraordinary abilities and inform himself and other team members in advance to take precautions.

At this moment, the instrument on his waist made a sound, and Li Qiang immediately looked around warily.

When Li Qiang's gaze swept over Dong Qi's car, he suddenly noticed that a glowing pillar had appeared on the roof of the car at some unknown time.

Seeing the flashing lights in various areas of the pillar, Li Qiang immediately guessed the source of the noise from the instrument on his waist.

Li Qiang casually turned off the alarm on the instrument and continued speaking to Lu Ziye with an unchanged smile: "Captain Lu, what happened? We were just chatting peacefully a moment ago, why did you suddenly change your attitude and become so hostile towards us?"

Lu Ziye never expected that Li Qiang would cry wolf, and for a moment he was speechless and didn't know what to say.

After calming himself down a bit, Lu Ziye spoke again: "Alright, there are only the two of us here. Who are you putting on this show for?"

Tell me, why did you attack us when we first met?

Seeing Lu Ziye's blunt and uncompromising words, Li Qiang's smile remained unchanged. He still pretended to be kind and advised, "I don't know what you're talking about. We were just having a nice chat. It was you who suddenly made a move. I've been standing here the whole time and haven't done anything. Don't wrong me."

Seeing that Li Qiang was still insisting on making excuses, Lu Ziye suddenly realized that they must be carrying small recording devices similar to body cameras.

Because every word he says is filmed, he still pretends nothing happened, even now.

Faced with this situation, Lu Ziye guessed that the actions just now were probably the work of their team in private, and that the city where the other party was located should have a complete legal system.

If Lu Ziye's guess is correct, the world the other party is in should be in a period of relative peace.

Because only in times of peace will people consider procedural justice; in times of chaos, the other party will not deliberately act so humble and polite.

Lu Ziye did not offer any explanation for Li Qiang's question. Just as Lu Ziye had guessed, Li Qiang carried recording equipment, making it inappropriate for him to provoke or engage in combat.

Therefore, without realizing it, the silent atmosphere became somewhat awkward.

Sitting in his car, Dong Qi watched the confrontation with the two sides with some boredom. Just as he was about to grab some melon seeds, he suddenly heard Liu Yi's voice coming from the radio:

"Everyone, my companion vines have located the spatial rift they mentioned. There are four people there now, and it seems they are guarding that spatial rift."

"While those guys are stalemated, should we sneak over and pull off something big?"

Upon hearing Liu Yi's absurd suggestion, Dong Qi was momentarily at a loss for words.

Those members of the convoy who were suited to act alone had all gotten out of the car and were now standing behind Lu Ziye to support him.

Those Awakened individuals still remaining in the vehicle at this time were all support characters with weak combat abilities.

Not to mention the spot where they broke through, there were no obstructions around, so our personnel couldn't sneak through at all.

Even if they could find the warehouse door, without going through that passage, with the heavy rain outside, leaving quietly would be an impossible task.

"Alright, Liu Yi, just stay put. If you really want to do something, then have your symbiotic vines lie in ambush at the warehouse entrance."

Whether it's preventing the enemy from escaping the warehouse or stopping their reinforcements from entering, this would be a great achievement.

Hearing Li Feng say this, Liu Yi did not object. He quietly retrieved his companion vine and then hid underground in the warehouse passage.

Perhaps seeing that their previous little trick had failed, Li Qiang's members suddenly put on their helmets at the same time.

If only the first person puts on a helmet, perhaps no one will care. But if all members of the opposing team put on helmets at the same time, then the other team's intentions are self-evident.

Upon discovering this, Yin An instantly raised a stone wall in front of them.

Instead of fleeing back to where their vehicle was, they immediately began their attack.

When Li Qiang's team put their helmets back on, they were already prepared for battle. As the stone wall rose in front of Lu Ziye and his men, the members of Yun Rui's squad raised their guns and began firing.

Of course, the weapons they used were not the double-barreled shotguns on their backs, but the pistols they carried with them.

Just as Yunrui's squad raised their guns to fire, Li Qiang quickly put on his helmet, then nimbly rolled to the ground, clearing a shooting position for his teammates not far away.

However, to Li Qiang's surprise, Yunrui's team's shooting only lasted for one round.

It wasn't that they ran out of bullets in their magazines, but rather that Zheng Huo used his special ability to apply multiple layers of gravity to them.

They never expected that someone on the Wind Chaser team could manipulate gravity. Caught off guard, their bodies couldn't withstand the sudden increase in gravity and they fell heavily to the ground.

Upon hearing the sound of his teammate falling to the ground, he initially thought it was an enemy counterattack that had injured his teammate. However, when Li Qiang quickly turned his head to check on his teammate's situation, he realized that...

Li Qiang's body suddenly became extremely heavy, and he fell to the ground without any resistance. At this moment, it was extremely difficult for him to even lift a finger.

Even Zheng Huo, the instigator, could hardly believe it when he saw this scene.

In those past battles, although Zheng Huo awakened a very powerful gravity-based superpower, as seen in novels and movies, his superpower was not very effective in real combat. Therefore, he has gradually adapted to playing a support role in battles.

If it weren't for the fact that his spellcasting range was relatively short, he would likely have stayed in the car like Liu Yi and the others, and never got out to approach the battlefield.

However, this time, when he released his superpower, he thought he was going to use it to inflict a negative status effect of slowing down the opponent in all directions. But he didn't expect the superpower to be so effective that it made the opponent unable to resist.

Kou Hai walked to Li Qiang's side and tentatively manipulated the man's body. After confirming that the man was indeed unable to resist, he shouted to the others, "I didn't expect Kou Hai's superpower to be so strong. He actually rendered the man unable to resist."

After seeing Kou Hai's actions, the others carefully bypassed the stone wall made by Yin An and walked to Li Qiang's side.

Ji Yunting squatted down with some curiosity, tapped the metal exoskeleton on the other person's body, and said with some envy, "If only we could take off this exoskeleton from their bodies. To be honest, I really want an Iron Man suit."

Upon hearing Ji Yunting's words, Lu Ziye's eyes lit up instantly. He then shouted to the convoy, "Xu Yinuo, come over here quickly and see if you can strip the metal armor off their body."

Upon hearing Lu Ziye's words, Li Qiang on the ground immediately tried to speak, but before he could utter a sound, the sharp-eyed Yin An noticed and promptly covered his mouth with mud.

Upon hearing Lu Ziye's shouts, Xu Yinuo immediately jumped out of the car and quickly ran over.

At this moment, the other people sitting in the car also heard Lu Ziye's shout, so a group of nosy people all got out of the car and surrounded him.

Seeing that Li Qiang was unable to move on the ground, Xu Yinuo placed her hand on his body while continuously using her supernatural abilities to examine the condition of his battle suit.

His initial excitement turned into surprise as his supernatural abilities began to probe. He paused, then looked astonished, and somewhat disbelieving, he inexplicably pressed his hand against Li Qiang's head. Finally, his expression turned disdainful.

"Pah! What he's wearing isn't an exoskeleton suit at all, or rather, he's not even human."

Based on my investigation, apart from his head, which is a normal human head, everything below his neck is made of mechanical metal.

I don't know if you've seen RoboCop, but at least the RoboCop in that movie has some organs on its body besides its head.

But this thing, except for its head, is made entirely of metal; it's not human at all.

After speaking, Xu Yinuo immediately checked the other members of the Yunrui Squad to see if their bodies had been completely transformed into metal, just like Li Qiang's.

In fact, when Xu Yinuo saw Yunrui's team take off their helmets and reveal their faces, she really wanted to get a similar mechanical combat suit.

After all, if he had a mechanical suit, he would no longer be a protected support staff member in the convoy. Besides, his superpowers are a perfect match for the mechanical suit.

If he could really obtain a mechanical battle suit, then in every aspect, it would be considered an epic upgrade.

But the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. He never expected that the exposed metallic appearance of the entire Yunrui Squad was not an independent metal battle suit, but simply their bodies.

The heads they had just revealed when they removed their helmets were indeed the only human feature on their bodies.

After learning about Yunrui's team's situation, the others immediately realized why they wanted to bring living people back.

Although Xu Yinuo's superpower cannot directly create machinery, since it can repair machinery, it can also destroy it.

Therefore, for the Yunrui Squad with their mechanical bodies, Xu Yinuo's ability to control them was even stronger than Zheng Huo's.

If Zheng Huo's gravity ability to control his opponent is based on direct control through powerful numerical values...

Xu Yinuo directly used her superpower to physically modify several key transmission points in the other party's body, causing them to be instantly paralyzed. Even if they wanted to repair it, it would require the intervention of a mechanical superpower user.

Otherwise, the only way to restore it to normal is to disassemble it directly and manually replace the parts.

Originally, Zheng Huo used his supernatural abilities to forcibly control them. They had encountered this situation before and knew that once Zheng Huo's energy was exhausted, they would regain their freedom.

But when Xu Yinuo used her superpower to physically destroy the parts inside her body, their faces immediately showed expressions of horror.