Chapter 531 Disappeared

Although it took longer than expected, the group of scientific research NPCs still had to take a look, so we still pushed open the door protected by the golem guard, and what happened behind it was a little surprising.

According to original expectations, there should be a place like a rest area or an office area behind this door, at least a place where people can live. However, what we actually saw when we opened the door was a natural tunnel. This tunnel is filled with naturally formed rocks. At a glance, you can tell that this is definitely not an artificial passage. At most, the ground has been slightly flattened, and the walls and cave roof are all naturally formed.

"There is actually a passage?" Jin Coin said: "These guys are really good at using the three holes of the cunning rabbit!"

"No way, who told us to want those scientific research NPCs!" Christina said: "Besides, don't you think this is a good thing?"

What Christina said is absolutely correct. This passage is actually a good thing for us. Although the existence of this passage means that the other party has ran away from other exits, if it were not for the existence of this passage, the other party would be blocked in a dead end by us. At that time, the other party would only have to escape when there is no hope of escape. If we can kill those scientific research NPCs first, we will gain nothing. But now, because there are other exits, the other party is not at the end of their rope, and naturally there is no need to engage in a mutual destruction. So, this passage may be a good thing.

Although the opponent ran away, we had no intention of giving up. Those guys with a bunch of scientific research NPCs will definitely not be able to move faster. Of course, we were delayed for too long by that damn golem guard. So the other party must have run a certain distance, but as long as the other party has not exceeded our tracking range, it doesn't matter even if it is further away.

In order to prevent the opponent from setting up traps in the passage, I released Bai Lang and Fei Dart first to let them explore the path in front, but in the end we ran through the entire passage in one breath without encountering any obstacles. Apart from the extremely long length, this passage does not have any traps.

This passage is not horizontal, but has been turning back and forth in a zigzag shape, and is constantly climbing upwards, just like a stairwell. The only difference is that there are no steps on the ground. When we finished running this ultra-long passage that was comparable to a marathon track, we were completely dumbfounded as soon as we came out.

What is in front of me is not some underground cave. It is a semi-open port. This port is still located inside the mountain. But its opening is very large, and although the pier has a large horizontal span, the pier entering the cave is not deep, so we can see the blue sky and white clouds outside even when standing on the shore.

"Have we reached the sea?" Radamance asked, looking at the sky outside.

Zhenhong ran back and forth on the dock. Then he said: "There were at least three ships parked here. But they all went out. The anchor chain on the dock was burned by magic. And there is some magic crystal powder in the warehouse."

"Wait here for a moment." I said, spread my wings and flew out, starting to climb upward as soon as I left the port gate. During the climb, I first turned around to take a look at the port, and found that the port was built on an island. The island is not very large. Of course this is relative to an island. Its actual area may be equivalent to the combined area of ​​three to four capital airports, which is slightly larger. This area is more than enough for a base anyway.

The terrain on this island is not very complicated. The entire island is a ring of craters about a hundred meters high on the outside. A little further inside is a circle of relatively flat woodland. However, the height of this woodland is relatively high, almost higher than the sea outside. The plane is more than seventy meters higher, which means it is close to the height of the crater. Inside this relatively flat area is the highest mountain on the island. The altitude of this mountain may be close to 500 meters, which is much higher than the ring of mountains outside. And the result seems to be quite stable. Like the kind that could collapse easily.

In reality, this island doesn't actually have much value for transformation, so there is no water source, but in the game, this restriction is not a problem at all. Coupled with the vertical channel leading directly to the submarine base and the semi-natural port here, this island can be transformed into a sea fortress with a little modification. It can not only be used as a naval supply base, but also as an unsinkable aircraft carrier. to use. Of course, the location of this island is also good. It is just in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Our guild can supply and maintain the fleet in the United States on the way.

After observing the situation on the island, I continued to climb, and then summoned the flying birds, Lucky and the others in mid-air.

"Huh? This place is nice! Boss, did you summon us here for a vacation?" Lucky guy started teasing glibly as soon as he came out.

I didn't joke with him and assigned the task directly. "You two have good eyesight. Divide your efforts and search in different directions to see if there are any ships in the nearby waters. Report to me immediately if you find one."

"Understood." After receiving the order, several dragons and birds immediately dispersed and flew in different directions. The opponent is using a ship instead of a submarine this time, so we might be able to spot the opponent from the air. The most important thing is that it is not only daytime, but also the light intensity is very good. There are no clouds in the sky, and the visibility is very high. As long as you have good eyesight, you can see things hundreds of kilometers away at a glance. I don't think the other party can travel hundreds of kilometers in such a short period of time.

In fact, although we were delayed for a while by the golem guards, it actually only took more than ten minutes. There were so many scientific research NPCs on the other side, and it would definitely not be as fast as us to pass through the passage, and it would also take time to board the ship and go to sea. Calculated in this way, the other party can at most leave the port a few minutes earlier than us. Even assuming that the other party is as fast as lightning and leaves the sea ten minutes earlier than us. Even if it is a Formula One rowing boat, how far can it run in ten minutes? With such a good view, we dispersed our troops and went out to search. It is said that it is definitely possible to publish the target.

but. Sometimes things will not go wrong just because you think there is a problem. For example, now. After flying in the sky for half an hour, my group of demon pets and I finally gave up the search and returned to the port.

The slowest of my pets and I can fly at a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour. This speed is absolutely impossible for any ship, including hovercraft and hydrofoils. However, even after flying at this speed for half an hour, we still could not find any ships. No, it's not like I didn't find anything. During this period, Xiao San and Feiniao each discovered a ship, but Feiniao discovered an Australian player's sailboat, and it was also a wooden transport ship. The structure and speed of this ship are completely inconsistent with the ship we are looking for. Besides, the other party left three ships, even if the two ships discovered by Xiao San and Feiniao were the other party's ships. Where did the other one go? What's more, the root that Asuka discovered was the Australian player's ship. And what the mistress encountered was our guild's own ship.

After our guild's ship was discovered, the mistress went up to inquire about the situation. Since it was our own ship, the identification was quickly completed. Later, the other party also said that no other ships had been found within five or six hours. vessel. That is to say. Our tracking clues have been completely cut off.

The fact that the enemy left the port at least ten minutes earlier than us was already extremely unnatural. In fact, under normal circumstances, if the other party can leave the port three minutes earlier than us, it is considered very fast. But the fact is that the other party left the port. And he ran away without a trace.

On the way back, I reflected on it. I first guessed that the other party was using a submarine, but then I thought about it and it seemed impossible. There are signs on the harbor that ships have just left their posts. Moreover, the traces left by these ships indicate that they are all ships in the ruins, and there are no ships built by the players themselves. Most of these relic warships have various problems, so it is impossible for them to display their superb navigation capabilities as soon as they are acquired by the opponent. Although diving is not a very complicated matter, it is obvious that the boat leaving the port is not a submarine. Although the constructed warship we discovered before can also dive, Nadong needs an intelligent core. The other party obviously does not have the technology to activate that thing, so even if the other party gets any ship, it can only be a surface ship, and it is impossible to launch it from underwater. leave.

In addition to the other party diving away, the other possibility I can think of is that the other party is beyond our tracking range. However, this guess is even more impossible, because the time we chased him out will definitely not be much later than the other party. At our speed, if the other party can still escape our detection range, the only possibility is that the other party's ship can run at a speed above subsonic speed, but this is obviously unrealistic. Atlantis's thruster technology is indeed much more advanced than the technology that players have researched on their own, but it is not yet to the point where the ship can run at subsonic speeds. In fact, there are only a few ships in Atlantis that can reach 200 kilometers per hour. They are all small traffic boats without any armed or reconnaissance functions. They are designed to test the ultimate speed. If even the kind of ship specially designed to test the ultimate speed can only run at a speed of more than 200 kilometers per hour, then this subsonic ship obviously does not exist.

If running out of the detection range and escaping by diving are both unreliable, then there is only one possibility left.

"The other party has a device similar to our mirage system?" Jin Coin asked in surprise after hearing what I said.

Christina analyzed from the side: "If there is no problem with what the president said before, then this is indeed the highest possibility. There must be a camouflage system on the other party's ship, otherwise there is no reason to be able to do it so quickly Get out of our surveillance range."

"But doesn't the president have the ability to see through all invisibility and disguise?" Jin Coin asked.

I quickly clarified: "The only ones I can identify are illusions formed through spells. For example, invisibility can have a certain detection effect, but it has no great effect on optical camouflage."

The so-called optical camouflage is to use the method of refracting light to change the light seen by the other party and the actual situation, thereby achieving the purpose of invisibility, camouflage or diluting the existence. This is different from magic disguise. Because optical camouflage does not affect the other party's vision, what the other party sees is indeed real light, but some illusions are caused by refraction, so general anti-stealth detection skills are ineffective against this camouflage.

Of course, optical camouflage is not a panacea. Although this kind of camouflage will not be affected by detection techniques such as anti-invisibility, the camouflage effect of this kind of camouflage is very poor. Although it is not easy to detect when you are far away, if you look closer, you can easily find traces of distortion in the light in front of you. It feels like putting a very clean piece of highly transparent glass in front of you. Although it is transparent, it hardly affects your line of sight and may even allow you to bump into it without paying special attention. , but as long as you pay a little attention, you will find that there is indeed a glass there.

The best optical camouflage effect in the game can currently achieve is this glass-like effect. Although it is almost invisible if you are not paying attention, you can still find it if you look carefully. But... Lucky and I just observed from the air. Although my eyesight and that of my dragon pets are all abnormal, in order to increase the range of sight, we all observed the sea surface at a height of more than a thousand meters. , and we used a rough browsing method at that time. After all, the sea is so big that it is impossible for us to focus on a small area and observe it bit by bit. That would be too slow.

I estimate that the other party was able to escape from under our noses because our detection method failed to detect the optical camouflage, and the result was that it was missed directly.

In any case, the person has been lost, which means that all our previous efforts have been in vain. Christina thought of contacting Shan55, but the result was just as I expected, Shan55's signal could not be connected.

While we were sighing and feeling sad about not being able to catch those NPCs this time, we suddenly heard the headphones ringing. To be honest, it's quite strange that the communicator in this place can be connected, because this place doesn't seem to be within the coverage of our guild's communicator.

Although I didn't know what would suddenly connect, I still activated the communicator, and then heard the voice of the God of War.

"It seems like you have lost track of your target?"

"You already know?"

"Well, that member named Shan Wuwu contacted me." Military God said unhurriedly.

"What? How did he contact you? Where are they now? Why did he contact you directly instead of answering my message?" (To be continued...)