Chapter 18

Ten days later, z7 base was intact.

After zero brought the information back at first, it really attracted the attention of old Jack. To this end, old Jack ordered no one to enter the base, and suspended the mining operation, so that the sound made during mining could not attract the attention of the tyrant. Meanwhile, old Jack asked Zog to lead the team and stand guard 24 hours to strengthen the surveillance and martial law at the entrance and exit of the base.

However, ten days later, nothing happened and no other abnormalities were found around the base, so old Jack lifted the martial law.

Although zero is still a little worried, the direction of the creature's movement is so obvious that it almost points to the base, but how can it disappear out of thin air. But he knows better that old Jack can't stop the base for a long time. Ten days is the limit of z7 base. Therefore, the lifting of martial law has not been stopped.

As for the reconnaissance around the base, he personally participated in the operation and confirmed that there was no trace of suspicious organisms approaching. In that case, the lifting of martial law is a matter of course.

Z7 base has resumed its original operation.

However, the original hunting mission has been cancelled. With the migration of the largest wolf group near the base, no new wolf group will threaten the safety of the base in a short time. Zero resumed the day of 3:00 a.m. on weekdays, and kept on cycling in serving as Leah's guard, driving range and sleeping. He has been in the base for two years and is basically familiar with the life of the new era.

According to the will of zero itself, he will leave the base as early as after the emergence of first-order strength and defense enhancement ability. After completing the task of silver tree city, zero's ability was affirmed by old Jack. The hibernation warehouse that was hidden by old Jack as a collection. Old Jack once generously asked zero to carefully inspect the hibernation warehouse. Unfortunately, there are not many valuable things found in this zero awakening appliance.

The only clue is a group of English engraved behind the hibernation warehouse.

Harson!

No matter how you look at it, it's like a person's name. However, there are hundreds of people named Harson all over the world. This clue is no different from no clue for zero.

If you want to find your past, you have to take a chance elsewhere.

After the catastrophe, the global land plate has changed. The former five Oceania now has only one highly polluted sea area called the Nu sea, and only three of the six plates remain after the change, connection and collapse of the six plates.

The new plate is naturally renamed. For example, the continent where zero is now located is called Zhongzhou.

The Zhongzhou plate is formed by the collision of the original Eurasian plate and the American plate. It is the largest plate in the world. Of course, the state system in the two sections of the old era has disappeared. Now the continent is dominated by big companies and chaebols like parkland.

Z7 base is located at the edge of Zhongzhou plate, which can provide little information to zero. Zero must go deep into the mainland center to get more information from other companies or chaebols.

However, he did not leave.

It's all about Leah.

This girl, who is very similar to the beautiful shadow in her dream, makes zero unwilling to stay away. It seems that by staying with Leah, he can occasionally live in a dream and forget the cruel world outside.

On that day, zero came to Leah's laboratory as usual, and old Jack was there. The master and the grandson watched a potion intently, and even the arrival of zero did not attract their attention. Leaning against the door, he knew that Leah was studying an anti-virus serum recently, which could alleviate the damage and invasion of grade III virus. If the research is successful, z7 base not only has the ability to initially treat tertiary virus, but also can obtain other economic sources by selling drugs.

But with a slight sound in the test tube, choking smoke rose. Even the layman knew that the experiment had failed.

Old Jack patted Leah on the shoulder, who was crying. After comforting his granddaughter for a while, old Jack's eyes fell on Zero: "you go to the study with me. I have a task for you today."

He nodded and left the laboratory behind old Jack.

Half an hour later, he appeared in front of the gate of the operation area.

The gate is opening. When there is a crack in the door for only one person to pass, zero drilling into the dark mining area.

He received a reconnaissance mission.

Recently, some miners found traces of gold swallowing insects deep in the operation area.

The golden swallowing worm looks like a maggot and has a body length of more than 20 meters. Due to the lack of certain elements in the body of this insect, they like to swallow metal minerals, disappear with their strong gastric acid, and finally extract the required elements for the body.

However, because of the special hobby of this kind of insects, they become the great enemy of any mining area. Gold swallowing insects will occupy the mining area as a nest. They are asexual creatures. Often a gold swallowing insect will produce a nest of insects in the coming year, which will turn the mineral resources in an area into nothingness.

The eyesight of the golden swallowing insect has deteriorated, but its long-term residence in the ground and swallowing metal make the skin on the surface of the insect comparable to the armor of strong fat material, which has good impact resistance and blasting resistance, so it is difficult to be killed. Therefore, various mining bases not only hate this insect, but also have a headache.

The task of zero is to scout the bottom of the mining area. Once the existence of gold swallowing insects is found, what zero needs to do is to collect various information such as the number and path of insects. So that old Jack can judge whether he should ask the headquarters for support or give up the mining area.

The risk of reconnaissance mission is relatively low. Similarly, the zero reward will be lower. After the completion of this task, zero will only get a reward of $20. But zero didn't refuse. If he didn't work, zero one month's salary would be so little money.

Take old Jack's mine car to the bottom of the working area. Under the leadership of a miner named Nick, he came to a mine. Natural copper mines are also exposed on the wall of the mine, but a circular channel appears on the other side of the wall. There is something similar to body fluid left in the channel. The gray white liquid is left by the gold swallowing insect. It acts as a lubricant so that the gold swallowing corpse can quickly swim underground.

This passage was naturally drilled by gold swallowing insects, whose mouthparts were covered with sharp inverted teeth. In addition to easily biting metal, it can also dig a lot of mud and stone. However, these substances that are not needed by the gold swallowing insect will soon be melted into mud and discharged from its anus without occupying the capacity of the stomach bag.

Zero wiped his hands stained with insect liquid on the clean wall. He asked Nick to go back to work, but he climbed in towards the passage where gold swallowing insects haunted.

He has to make sure where the bug went? Are you going through the mining area or are you going to make a home here?