Chapter 43 Danger Zone

After taking down the Fighting Tarantula, we get a Super Excavator. The chopped off thighs of this thing quickly grew back after being replenished with energy fluid, and then began to make holes under my control. The eight legs seemed to be very thin, but they were not slow at all when working. The earth and rocks were flying around, and then I saw this guy moving into the passage little by little. The digging speed was faster than a turtle crawling. The speed is much faster. Although the turtle crawls slowly, don't forget that it is digging a hole! This speed is already quite remarkable!

With the help of this thing, it took us less than twenty minutes to pass through the blocked passage in front of us, and then we discovered that there was another big mountain ahead. Yes, that’s right, it’s really a big mountain. The entire rock in the upper part of the mountain collapsed, completely sealing this side. My scan results show that the thickness of the rock in front of me is at least thirty meters, with no edges visible from top to bottom. It is almost impossible to get around it anyway. I have to dig hard, but it is not an easy task to penetrate such a deep rock. .

"Thirty meters deep?" The guide looked at me in surprise and asked, "How long do you think it will take to dig through?"

I touched the rock in front of me and said: "This is a whole piece of stone rich in uranium. It has the effect of depleted uranium armor and is amazingly hard. To make holes in this kind of thing, ordinary drills are useless. That wolf Spiders are fine, but they won’t be too fast.”

"What should we do?"

"Actually, using explosives is a good idea, but I'm afraid that the passage here won't be able to withstand another landslide."

"This is absolutely not possible." There was a structural engineer in the guide. He simply looked at the reading on the instrument and said: "No, the pressure is too great. Once negative pressure is formed, the entire mountain will be shattered. Explosives cannot be used."

"Then we can only dig slowly."

"I'm afraid the people below won't be able to survive until that time!" the guide of the medical team next to him said again.

For a moment we all fell silent. The medical team hoped to hurry up, but the engineering team refused to allow the explosion. The walls here are too hard. The excavation speed will definitely not be faster, this is simply an unsolvable method.

Ling thought for a moment and said, "Maybe we can use an ion effect field."

After hearing Ling's suggestion, I hesitated for a while, and after thinking about it, it seemed that it was indeed a solution. But although I understood it, the guide next to me didn't understand it, and asked with some confusion: "What are you talking about?"

"A very special technology, but once activated it will produce very huge electromagnetic radiation. But it doesn't seem to be a big deal in a place like this."

As for other places, I still need to worry. This place is originally a uranium mine, and there are gamma rays everywhere. It doesn't seem to be a big deal to get more radiation in a place like this.

"Does the radiation dose exceed the upper limit of our protective clothing?" the guide asked.

I nodded and said, "Absolutely. But you can hide in the passage you came from, and you'll be fine."

After we agreed, we quickly started taking action. Programmable atoms are needed to deploy the ion effect field, and this place happens to be full of uranium ores. It can be absorbed in large quantities and converted into atomic energy armor, and it can also strengthen defense.

After releasing the programmable atoms, a ring nearly half the height of a human was quickly completed in front of us. We watched as the black atomic ash continued to climb up the base of the formed ring, and then gradually merged into the edge to form a complete ring. The Ring, that scene is like magic. It's really amazing. Unfortunately, the guides all hid in the passage and did not stay here at all, so no one saw them.

After the ring was formed, a big bump immediately bulged behind it, and then began to grow continuously. A rather complicated protrusion was quickly formed, and several exposed crystal-like things could be seen. Actually, that's the quantum thruster nozzle.

It only took a few minutes to complete the entire device. It ended up being something that looked a bit like a car engine, but there was a ring in the front biting into the rock, and there were five tracks around it. You can walk forward in the dug channel.

After this thing was in place, I immediately activated its mobile core, and then I saw those blue nozzles suddenly began to emit dazzling blue flames, and at the same time, the side of the thing biting on the rock and the back showed off this side. The two circular structures began to rotate in two directions, and as the two parts reversed, the entire device immediately began to push into the rock little by little, and the speed became faster and faster.

"I didn't expect this thing to be so easy to use!" Even we were shocked when we looked at the device that moved as fast as ordinary people jogging. But it only makes sense when you think about it.

We did not invent it per se, but the warheads of the earth-penetrating bombs used by the creators. Generally, this kind of bomb is dropped by a small warship, and the front end is equipped with this plasma effect field device. After touching the ground, this thing will start to drill underground, and then it will drill all the way into the center of the earth with the bomb behind it. Then with a bang, the entire planet will turn into a bunch of space meteorites flying all over the sky, and the power is absolutely brutal.

Of course, the bomb we made did not have a planet-destroying bomb, only a digging drill, but the effect was still very good. It drilled several meters deep in the blink of an eye, and the speed was still increasing.

After about five or six minutes, the thing in front suddenly stopped running, then started to reverse, and quickly backed out of the passage. This is set in advance. After digging through, do not penetrate the last layer of rock wall and go back directly. This is to prevent someone on the opposite side. What if this thing goes through in one go and penetrates the survivors?

This thing quickly retreated to us and immediately turned into dust and reintegrated into the power armor on my body. We need to figure out the next thing ourselves.

Let Xiaochun call the guides back, and at the same time give the order to Wolf Spider to dig back. The tunnel here is too small for the wolf spider to get through. It is better to let it dig a way back. At least Everett can follow it and maybe help.

The hole we just dug in the rock is about 1.2 meters in diameter. Anyway, it is enough for people to go through, and it is wide enough to wear power armor.

I climbed in first, and then walked through the entire 35-meter-long passage to the bottom of this straight passage. There is also a layer of rock layer about one centimeter thick, which was left deliberately. I've scanned the back here with an electromagnetic scan. After confirming that there was no one behind him, he punched a hole in the stone.

After peeling off the thin layer of rock skin at the entrance of the cave, we entered the space behind. The landslide here is obviously very severe, and the original passage is no longer visible at all. All that can be seen are large stones or concrete blocks everywhere, and occasionally some exposed steel bars and hydraulic support beams. There are also some narrow passages among these messy things. Of course, they are the gaps between the stones that support each other. This kind of passage can only be said to be barely passable. But I could only crawl forward using my hands and feet. It was impossible to stand up and follow.

After I got into the tunnel we dug, I started to crawl forward along the gaps between the stones in front of me. The people behind me could only follow in a file, because the tunnel was so narrow that there was no way to walk parallel to each other.

I climbed a short distance ahead and found that a stone blocked half of the passage. The remaining gap was so small that I could barely squeeze through if I took off my power armor. But even if I can take off the power armor, the guide behind me obviously can't do this. We are surrounded by uranium ore with strong radiation. As long as ordinary people take off their clothes, they will start vomiting blood within a minute, and they will definitely die within two minutes. So I still have to figure out how to clear the roads.

The rock is not big and it is easy to break free. But the problem is that it's still holding up against the stone above. If I break this rock, the rocks above it will collapse, and the vibration may cause a chain reaction, which might bury us all alive. I'm fine anyway. Even if the entire mountain collapses, the atomic armor can withstand it. By digging bit by bit with programmable atoms, I will be able to get out sooner or later. But the guide behind and the people waiting for rescue in front cannot, so they must be handled with care.

Take a look at the structure of this stone. I carefully used the laser cutter among the multi-tools on my wrist to cut off a third of the rock, leaving enough space for everyone to crawl through.

After opening the passage, I continued to move forward. Fortunately, the road behind was not easy to walk. But he is still barely able to pass.

After crawling for about seventy or eighty meters among a pile of rocks, I finally got out of the suffocating stone passage. I don’t know where this place is anymore, because the original map is useless due to landslides and mountain movements. All I know is that this used to be a fork in a certain passage, but half of it was blocked. The part I could see had a huge gate, but it looked like it probably couldn't be opened.

"What's wrong? There's no way again?" The people behind climbed out one after another, and were stunned when they saw the big iron gate in front.

One of the guides turned on his wrist computer and operated on it, and then said: "This should be the isolation door of the rest area. Damn it, why did you come here! This thing should be hundreds of meters away!"

"Is the mountain moving on such a large scale?"

"No, no." A guide next to him said while operating his wrist computer: "This door is still in place and has not been moved."

"Impossible! We don't have..." The previous guide got stuck mid-sentence.

The guide at the back continued: "Do you understand? The passage has collapsed. We are not walking the original path. The collapsed stones have raised the ground. We have been climbing up from just now. At this position It happens to be the original rest area.”

"If that's the case, our current location should be near the original rest area." The previous guide said, "If that's the case, the trapped people should be not far from here."

"Where was the final personnel position at that time?" I asked.

"Here." One of the guides showed me the screen of the wrist computer.

"It doesn't look far, but the direction is wrong!"

"How about digging down and taking a look?" one of the guides asked.

"No, the rock formation is too thick and uneven. It is not easy to dig down like this. It will cause a second landslide and it will be more troublesome. You have to find a way through." Another person suggested.

I looked at the previous topographic map of the surroundings, then re-scanned the current situation, and then said: "There is a passage less than ten meters ahead from here. You can get through by digging these few meters. You guys stay back first, and we will drive forward." dig."

Therefore, this place is suitable for us to serve as a rescue team. The passage in front of us is blocked by boulders weighing hundreds of thousands of kilograms. Without an excavator, humans can't do anything with these things. However, the road ahead has collapsed like that, and the excavator is digging in little by little. I don't know how long it has been. Things are much more convenient for us in comparison. We have reached this depth in less than an hour and a half, and the speed of moving these boulders is no slower than the excavator.

The eight guides looked at us working in pairs, just like a courier company loading and unloading goods, throwing hundreds of kilograms of boulders here and there. None of them knew what to say.

Soon we cleared the stones in front of us to create a passage, and then we discovered that it was indeed a horizontal passage in front of us, but the outer wall was damaged, just enough for us to enter. After entering here, you can see a door on the left front, which is very similar to the previous gate. In fact, these two doors are the two entrances and exits of the rest area. We bypassed the door in front by carrying stones, but there is nothing we can do about the door here.

This kind of door is a sliding door that needs to be opened to the left and right, but the passage outside is deformed and there is no space for the door to slide, so we only have two options. Either remove it or cut a hole in it.

The thickness of the protective door in a safe house in a uranium mine can be imagined. It's not practical to dismantle it, and it's not easy to dig holes. Fortunately, we are all destroyers. The high-frequency vibrating blades were applied together, and a small hole was quickly opened that could barely be crawled through.

As soon as the door was opened, I smelled the smell of blood. Unlike the guide, my helmet visor was open, and I wasn’t afraid of radiation anyway. The strong smell of blood here means that at least several people died. Otherwise, it wouldn't be so strong. But compared to this, I also smelled a bit of a bad smell, which seemed to be the smell of battery fluid. It was probably some equipment that had been smashed. leaked out.

Carefully getting in through the entrance and exit, the smell inside became even more unpleasant. In addition to the two more serious strange smells before, there was also a hint of something burnt, and it seemed to be getting worse.

I activated all the scanning devices on my body and scanned the environment inside, and then the target was instantly fixed on a small piece of gray-white material.

"Your sister! How come there is purified plutonium here? I've never heard of natural plutonium!" (To be continued ~^~)