Mobile Shelter

After physically severing all the internal organs of the Yunrui Squad members, Xu Yinuo stood up, patted her slightly dirty hands, and casually said to Lu Ziye:

"Captain Lu, I've got everything sorted out here. Unless they also possess mechanical repair abilities, they absolutely cannot move unless their internal parts are replaced."

Destruction is not repair. Xu Yinuo does not need to understand the mechanical structure of the other party's body, nor does she need to understand neural connection technology. She only needs to disconnect the physical end drive part to paralyze the other party directly.

Of course, this paralysis only paralyzes their movements; it does not have much impact on their internal energy circulation or some embedded devices.

But for the Wind Chaser team, this already achieved their goal of restricting the other party's movements.

After confirming that the other party was paralyzed, Zheng Huo released the gravity suppression of his superpower, and then Kou Hai gathered all the members of the other party's team together.

After discovering that Lu Ziye and his team had completely subdued the enemy, Liu Yi spoke up: "Captain Lu, my companion vines have found the enemy's team members not far away. There are four people there, and it seems they are guarding the spatial rift the enemy mentioned."

Upon hearing Liu Yi's words, Lu Ziye immediately retorted, "Can you just take them under control?"

"No, my symbiotic vines can only control two people at a time, and those two people have to be standing very close together."

"In that case, Zheng Huo, why don't you and Kou Hai go over there and arrest those four people?"

Before Lu Ziye could continue making arrangements, all the members of Yunrui's team who had been thrown on the ground suddenly closed their eyes.

Xu Yinuo, who was in charge of guarding the area, noticed this and immediately placed her hand on one of the people to check him again.

Not long after, Xu Yinuo stood up with a frown and said, "I don't understand their internal structure, so I can only use physical methods to paralyze them."

But it's perfectly normal for mechanical creations like them to have self-destruct programs. I just checked, and all their power supply lines are now completely destroyed.

It's unclear whether they committed suicide after being arrested, or whether their arrest triggered a remote self-destruct program.

After listening to Xu Yinuo's analysis, Lu Ziye quickly said, "Liu Yi, quickly use your companion vines to check on the situation of the four people over there."

If those four people stay where they are, that's fine. But if you discover they're preparing to leave, try to stop them. Even if you can't stop them all, at least keep one, or at least keep the devices they brought with them.

Upon hearing Lu Ziye's arrangement, Liu Yi knew the situation was urgent, so he didn't reply. Instead, he activated his symbiotic vines and returned to the area where he had just discovered those people.

However, they may have already begun preparing to evacuate before the other party activated the remote self-destruct program. By the time the accompanying vines reached the area where those people were, the four people who were originally guarding the spot had already disappeared without a trace.

Although those people escaped, this experience made Dong Qi realize that humans on Earth are not alone.

Although the Yunrui squad they captured, of all its members, only one head belonged to a human.

Even so, it's clear that there are indeed humans there, otherwise this modification couldn't have been completed.

Since those people are dead, their equipment naturally became the spoils of war for the Wind Riders Squad.

But when they excitedly tried to dismantle the equipment from the corpses on the ground, they were surprised to find that their equipment had unknowingly become a pile of junk.

Faced with this situation, although everyone felt somewhat disappointed, they didn't care too much. After all, this unexpected situation was just a lucky encounter for them.

Of course, they did gain something, though. The beasts that were hit by the orange-yellow orbs and shrunk and sealed inside the coins were unaffected.

Dong Qi took a coin that sealed a strange beast from Xu Yinuo's hand. He first squeezed it with his hand to test its hardness. After finding that it was indeed very hard, he threw it back to her. Dong Qi didn't care about such things.

After Xu Yinuo received the coin that Dong Qi threw back, she didn't take it with her, since she didn't know when the strange beast sealed in the coin would suddenly be unsealed.

Therefore, in order to avoid trouble, Xu Yinuo simply threw it on the ground.

On the contrary, Xu Yinuo directly severed the heads of three members of the Yunrui squad who appeared to be dead, and took their bodies back to the car, seemingly intending to disassemble and study them.

Seeing Xu Yinuo's actions, Dong Qi thought for a moment, then asked the others, "Does anyone else want to dismantle and study these bodies? If no one else needs them, I'll take all the remaining corpses with me and melt them down; that should yield a lot of metal."

When the others heard Dong Qi's inquiry, they also thought that the corpses might be a treasure. However, after hearing that Dong Qi only wanted to melt down the corpses to obtain metal, the others instantly lost interest.

Although all members of Yunrui's team are now corpses, no one knows what unexpected changes might occur later, such as time bombs planted inside the robots that will detonate some time later after they bring the corpses back to the vehicle.

Because Xu Yinuo possesses the relevant superpowers, she is naturally not afraid of the possibility that there are other people hiding among the corpses.

Dong Qi would demand corpses, and once he got them, he would melt them down. Even if there were hidden tricks inside, they would disappear after being melted down.

After they brought the bodies back to the car, they took up space, made it impossible to study them, and made it impossible to check for any hidden dangers within them.

Therefore, they had no interest in the corpses of the remaining members of Yunrui's squad on the ground; on the contrary, they were quite disgusted by them.

Seeing that no one else was competing with him, Dong Qi followed Xu Yinuo's example and directly severed the heads of the remaining corpses before taking the headless bodies back to the car.

After all, once those corpses are decapitated, they are essentially just headless robots. It is only if they have human heads that they resemble real corpses.

Dong Qi isn't a pervert, so he wouldn't collect the corpse's head along with it for research purposes.

Yin An frowned as he looked at the heads left on the ground. He then used his special ability to create a deep pit around him, and then kicked the heads into the pit with great disgust.

Then he kicked all the unwanted coins that sealed the monsters into the pit before using his powers to close the ground.

Since the secret realm remained unchanged despite the complete annihilation and disappearance of Yunrui's team, the sudden appearance of Yunrui's team can truly be considered a fortuitous encounter.

Now that their adventure has ended, they need to return to their daily routines.

The reason for entering this secret realm is that most of the members of the convoy are about to run out of supplies.

Therefore, at this point, other issues are no longer important; the most important thing is to collect edible resources from the secret realm.

"Next, Yin An, you and Liu Yi should each use your own methods to investigate the distribution of monsters in this secret realm."

Logically speaking, wherever treasures appear, there will be strange beasts guarding them.

Conversely, this means that wherever strange beasts appear, there will surely be treasures.

Both Yin An and Liu Yi possess the ability to investigate their surroundings, but its effectiveness is not very strong.

Yin Anshi uses ground vibrations for detection. Although the detection range is quite large, it can only detect situations where people are walking on the ground. It cannot detect units that are flying in the air, on other objects, or stationary.

While Liu Yi's companion vines can detect both ground-walking and stationary units, their detection range is much smaller compared to Yin An's extensive detection range.

To be honest, if the Chengfeng team hadn't lacked specialized personnel, they certainly wouldn't have assigned this task to these two mediocre people.

Besides these two, only Dong Qi in the convoy possesses the ability to gather intelligence.

However, Dong Qi's intelligence gathering ability relies entirely on drones from the technology side. Therefore, if he encounters a situation like now where drones cannot be used, Dong Qi's intelligence gathering methods are essentially rendered useless.

Under normal circumstances, the intelligence that Dong Qi, Yin An, and Liu Yi can gather by working together is not much weaker than that of awakened individuals with professional superpowers.

But faced with this special situation, the three of them could only stare helplessly.

After a long while, Yin An stood up from the ground and then said, "Because of the heavy rain outside, it greatly interfered with my ability to detect things, so I haven't obtained any useful information yet."

Then Liu Yi, who had been keeping his eyes closed, spoke up: "There are many buildings here, and many of them have basements. My symbiotic vines are not yet able to travel through the concrete."

My vines can't penetrate buildings, so they're not very effective at either reconnaissance or supporting combat.

Upon hearing Liu Yi's words, Lu Ziye instantly understood that once they entered the building, they would immediately lack a powerful combat force.

"Since we can't obtain any useful information, we can only explore the secret realm in batches, following the most traditional method."

The buildings in this secret realm are quite dense, so to ensure safety and to speed up the exploration, we will split into four groups.

Liu Yi, Xu Yinuo, and Li Feng, the three of you should stay here and guard the convoy.

Dong Qi was still alone.

The remaining members are in one team.

Wang Xiaoai was in a team with the newly joined physical awakeners.

Other ordinary people are free to form teams without restrictions.

The weather outside is a bit bad, so we can't use the flare gun to call for help. Therefore, everyone should prioritize safety while exploring. If you encounter a monster that you can't defeat, don't lure it towards the convoy. Try to make a big commotion so that the others will hear it and come to your aid.

The older members of the convoy were already used to Lu Ziye's arrangements.

The new members of the team, seeing that although the awakened ones were acting as a group, they were not being treated as cannon fodder, naturally did not object.

Although the teammates assigned to Wang Xiaoai were all Awakened Ones with physical constitutions, there were quite a few of them, so their safety was very reliable.

Even so, Wang Xiaoai was unwilling to go out and explore, and only wanted to stay in the caravan with Xu Yinuo and the others.

"Wang Xiaoai, if we were in a desert environment, I wouldn't ask you to go out without you saying so. But look, it's still pouring rain outside. This is the perfect environment for you to use your superpowers."

Furthermore, the mission to send you out to explore doesn't require you to be at the forefront. You're a support character with healing abilities; you don't need to be in the lead. Haven't we already assigned several front-line units to you?

Seeing Lu Ziye explaining to her in such a serious tone, Wang Xiaoai knew that she really couldn't refuse this expedition, otherwise she would never be able to truly integrate into the core of the team in the future.

Seeing that Wang Xiaoai finally agreed to go out, Lu Ziye couldn't help but smile.

After all, a captain's authority is built up little by little through such small matters.

Because of poor visibility due to the heavy rain outside, in order to avoid repeated explorations, the three exploration teams were divided into three groups, with each team responsible for one direction of exploration.

"This exploration trip will only last six hours. After six hours, unless we get stuck and can't get out, everyone will have to come back here."

If you really don't gain anything, it's fine to come back early, but when you come back, you should try your best not to bring any trouble back here.

Alright, enough of the other unnecessary details. Let's get started.

Watching the others leave in raincoats, Dong Qi remained seated in his car. At this moment, Dong Qi also discovered the advantage of his car's small size.

If his vehicle were the same size as those heavy-duty motorhomes, it would be almost impossible for him to explore in his vehicle.

The compact size of the Benming vehicle ensures that, as long as the space is not particularly cramped, it will not affect the Benming vehicle's freedom of movement.

Although light commercial vehicles cannot access the next floor via stairs in multi-story buildings, dedicated vehicles can use a robotic arm to directly destroy the roof or ground, allowing them to access the next floor without using stairs.

The abandoned industrial area, shrouded in continuous rain, needs no introduction; it's definitely a classic setting for horror movies.

However, the definition of a horror film depends on who the main character is. For example, in the classic film "The Beauty of Chu," if the main character is Erlang Shen, then it's not a horror film but a comedy.

At this point, Dong Qi, though not as powerful as the fleas on Erlang Shen's celestial hound, was already capable of lying flat in most horror movies.

However, Dong Qi was not an arrogant person. Therefore, after entering the new building, although his vehicle could not move freely inside due to its size, he was able to move around freely.

But don't forget your main vehicle's mechanical escorts, whether it's the mechanical wolf or the simulated scout, both are suitable for exploring inside buildings.

Especially the rarely seen simulated scouts, because in most secret realms, the enemies you face are the kind that come straight at you, so most of the time, there is no need to gather intelligence.

But in this environment, those simulated scouts finally encountered the scenario they were best at.

With the rapid disappearance of the simulated scouts and mechanical wolves, Dong Qi no longer needed to drive his personal car around aimlessly.

If all the building doors here weren't already locked, there would have been no need for our special vehicle to break them down.

And believe it or not, no matter how solid the wall or door is, it is basically no match for the reinforced robotic arm.

Dong Qi sat comfortably in the car, reviewing the scenes captured by the mechanical guards as they entered the building through the screen on the center console.

Looking at the old furnishings inside the building, Dong Qi couldn't help but think that it would be difficult to find the food they needed in this secret place.

But what made Dong Qi a little nervous was that just as he reached this conclusion, the simulated scout actually found valuable supplies.

Unlike other search teams, which would take away small amounts of supplies they found, they only recorded the location of supplies after finding a large amount.

As for Dong Qi, if he finds that the quantity of supplies is small, he will not take action himself, but will only record the location and inform the ordinary people who will be dispatched later.

However, once they discover a large amount of supplies, they will immediately take action and store them in their farm warehouse.

The simulated scouts discovered canned goods with a very long shelf life, and the quantity was enough to fill almost half a warehouse.

Although it's just a small warehouse inside a building, the number is estimated to be several thousand to tens of thousands of cans.

I don't know why, but it's supposed to be a warehouse, yet it's located on the third floor.

Since the vehicle couldn't reach the third floor via the stairs, it relied on a robotic arm to climb the building's exterior wall and then tear a gap in the third-floor wall, allowing the vehicle to enter directly onto the third floor.

From entering the third floor to collect supplies to emptying the warehouse and leaving the third floor, Dong Qi did not get out of the car the entire time.

Since valuable resources can be found here, more valuable resources must be found in other warehouses as well.

This wasn't just any building complex; it was an industrial park. So, more than the food, Dong Qi was looking for unprocessed metal ingots.

Dong Qi wasn't worried about Lu Ziye's side discovering similar supply warehouses, because they knew Dong Qi's needs, so they would definitely record and inform Dong Qi if they encountered similar warehouses.

However, Wang Xiaoai, who had just joined the team, and the other awakened individuals with physical abilities were unaware of Dong Qi's needs. Therefore, if they encountered a similar supply depot, they would not take the initiative to record it and would likely ignore it directly.

Dong Qi was now truly regretting that he should have reminded the other party before setting off that if he found a similar warehouse, he certainly wouldn't have let the other party help for nothing.

Perhaps because Dong Qi was somewhat greedy, he searched several buildings, but he couldn't find any other valuable warehouses, let alone the metal warehouses he was looking for.