"Mr. Captain! Your people did not obey the command!" Nolan looked at the captain and shouted angrily.
The captain did not speak, but Chen Nuo shook his head and said coldly: "Mr. Nolan, now is not the time to accuse! What is going on with those monsters underground!"
"How the hell do I know! You should have followed the command just now!"
"Stop arguing, we are in big trouble! This base is sealed! You can't get out!" the captain said angrily.
Nolan was stunned for a moment: "...What do you mean?"
"Boundary!" Chen Nuo quickly answered: "There is a barrier similar to a barrier on the edge of the base. If you have to describe it vividly...
We are ‘covered’ inside!”
The wizard heard Chen Nuo's words and raised his eyebrows.
After all, he is one of the strongest controllers among humans. The wizard quickly blasted out his mental power, and several tentacles quickly spread towards the sky in all directions of the base.
Then, the wizard's expression changed.
"He didn't lie! My mental power was blocked in every direction!"
"Can it be broken?" Nolan asked quickly.
The wizard looked complicated, looked at Nolan, frowned, and slowly shook his head...
"The energy of this barrier is very thick...I can't penetrate it."
Nolan's face became extremely ugly: "..."
At this moment, the neon man Shen Soichiro suddenly spoke again.
"Where is Lord Diamond?"
"...I don't know." Nolan gritted his teeth: "After the explosion at the main control equipment just now, we couldn't contact them. They won't be buried underneath, right?"
"Lillian will not die so easily." The wizard shook his head and looked back at the direction of the master control equipment where the explosion's firelight had weakened...
The fire has become smaller. Under this low temperature, the flame burning has obviously been suppressed, but the control cabin has been blown to pieces.
"Lillian! Reply! Reply immediately!"
Nolan used the walkie-talkie again to try to contact him with a straight face.
"Make a decision quickly, Nolan, what are we going to do! The window time is running out! And this place is sealed, we have to find a way out!" The wizard angrily went over and grabbed Nolan's shoulders, saying coldly
: "If you can't help it, then I will have to find a way to leave on my own!"
Nolan said quickly: "Don't worry, I'm thinking of a way...the convoy outside..."
"There is no sound from the convoy." Chen Nuo shook his head: "Vanel and the others might..."
After a pause, Chen Nuo suddenly frowned and raised his hand as if waving it in the air.
"Do you... feel it?"
Chen Nuo's reminder made everyone else look puzzled, but the wizard's expression suddenly changed. He stretched out his hand and touched the air a few times...
"Damn it! The temperature is dropping!!" the wizard cursed.
"Yes, the temperature is dropping." Chen Nuo frowned: "The barrier has appeared and this place has been sealed. Does that mean...
The window period suddenly ended?
The barrier appears and ultra-low temperature is about to appear?"
These words immediately made everyone's faces turn livid.
The wizard raised his eyebrows and thought for a moment: "Nolan?"
Nolan took a deep breath and made a quick decision: "Everyone, return to the command center cabin! It's better to be indoors than outdoors!"
"What about Master Diamond?" Rebecca suddenly asked: "There was an explosion over there, and there is no news. Should we just ignore her?"
Nolan turned to Rebecca and said fiercely: "Shut up!"
Facing a controller is one thing, but Nolan is not so polite when it comes to ordinary abilities like Rebecca. After all, he is also a senior member of the action team within the Octopus Monster.
"Lady Diamond is in control! She can solve her own problems!
And...if the situation she encounters cannot be solved by the controller, do you think it will be useful for us to send people there?
If a problem cannot be solved by one controller, why should we send two controllers there?!"
After saying that, Nolan turned around and ran towards the command center cabin with the armed men.
Before leaving, he said coldly to the wizard and captain, especially the wizard: "Two controllers, if you want to find a way out on your own, please feel free! But at this time, collective action is the best choice. This is
My opinion!”
The wizard said nothing. The captain glanced at Chen Nuo, who nodded.
The captain immediately chased Nolan and others.
The wizard took a deep breath, looked up at the sky, felt the icy chill in the air, and finally walked over.
Chen Nuo glanced at the instrument on his wrist, which had a temperature display.
Current temperature: minus 60 degrees.
A group of people trotted all the way to the cabin door of the command center, and there was movement in the base behind them.
On the ground filled up by the ruins of the warehouse, clattering sounds began to appear again, as if something was ready to move below.
"Go in quickly!!" Nolan stood at the door waving his arms: "Quickly, quickly!!"
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The cabin of the command center is the largest in the entire base. The hall inside is as big as a basketball court, and there are several passages around it, leading to each zone.
After entering the hall, Nolan immediately directed the few remaining armed personnel to quickly carry out the equipment.
"There is a material area in the cabin of the command center. There is a small gun store inside, and there are many things you can use!"
The armed men carried out boxes of materials, ran outside under Nolan's command, took out things from inside, and began to throw them around the cabin. Soon they traveled a semicircle outside the direction of the gate.
shaped arc.
"What should we do?" The wizard looked very impatient.
Nolan gritted his teeth and looked at the wizard: "Let your people help quickly!"
The wizard took a deep breath, glanced at Nolan, and cast a glance at the follower beside him. The follower immediately joined the busy ranks of armed men. Other ability users also followed suit to carry things.
Chen Nuo noticed that in the wizard's group, there were originally four ability users, but there was one missing technician, the one the wizard said was missing after falling into the pit.
Now it seems that the odds are stacked against it, and the monster may have dragged it away after falling.
What made Chen Nuo feel a little weird even more was that Nolan's team made Chen Nuo notice a detail.
The four remaining armed men around Nolan all came out to help carry things.
However, the two technicians who had been following Nolan's group never showed up.
They should still be in the cabin room with the sign "Lab"!
More than twenty material boxes were moved out, and Chen Nuo also joined in to help.
Soon, at the front of the command center, items in special packages were piled on the semicircular arc.
Chen Nuo glanced at the packaging above and raised his eyebrows.
"Solid fuel?"
At this moment, an armed man on guard nearby suddenly yelled: "Those things are out again!!!"
Just far to the left of the base, the ruins on the ground in the warehouse area had squirmed a few times again, and then began to collapse completely, as if the ground had been hollowed out again, and the post-explosion ruins piled on top of them collapsed one after another.
Several cracks reappeared, and as the cracks appeared, the heart-numbing sound of crashing came again.
Then, translucent monsters crawled out one by one, and they seemed to make a low roar. Although the sound was not loud, like rustling, there were many of them. When these sounds gathered together, they gave people a creepy feeling.
"Go back! Go back everyone!!"
Nolan yelled from behind.
Chen Nuo noticed that these monsters crawled out of the cracks in the ground sporadically, but they did not immediately attack here. Instead, they squatted around the cracks in the ground, roaring in a low voice, but pacing back and forth anxiously.
.
"Why don't they come over?" Rebecca's voice appeared behind her.
Chen Nuo did not answer, but Neon God Soichiro said coldly: "Do you want them to come over?"
The female esper glared at Kamizou Ichiro, said nothing, took a deep breath, looked into the distance again, with a trace of fear in her eyes, and slowly retreated into the cabin of the command center.
After Chen Nuo entered the cabin, he walked directly in front of Nolan.
"What should we do now?" Chen Nuo asked.
He raised the temperature display interface on his arm: "It's minus 63 degrees! The temperature is still falling!"
"That's right, Nolan! We can't be trapped here! The temperature continues to drop. If that low temperature occurs, we will freeze to death! We are not the ones in control! The controllers may be able to resist this low temperature, but we can't.
That kind of skill!"
Rebecca was obviously very frightened and excited. After she took the lead in shouting, soon, even the two ordinary ability users next to the wizard came over and joined Rebecca, looking at Nolan excitedly.
Nolan took a deep breath: "Be quiet..."
"What are you quiet about?! It's now..." A person with abilities yelled angrily.
"I said! Be quiet!!!!!!!!!!" Nolan suddenly stopped shouting!!
He suddenly yelled, making everyone stunned.
But Nolan quickly said: "I'm in contact with the outside world! I can't contact the convoy. They should have been killed in an accident! But I have already contacted the outpost! They have sent someone to drive over to pick up the team.
, it will take about twenty minutes! They will bring equipment and high-performance explosives to try to figure out whether they can blow up this damn barrier!"
"What should I do if it can't be blown up?" The wizard spoke from the side and sneered: "The barrier that I can't even break through, do you think you can blow it up with a bomb?"
Nolan glanced at the wizard and said nothing.
But this look made both Chen Nuo and the wizard realize something instantly.
There was a trace of surprise in Chen Nuo's eyes, and the wizard opened his mouth: "You can't be...Fake! You are really brave!"
"It's for small tactical use..." Nolan shook his head and didn't explain much.
The wizard thought for a while and said no more.
The captain asked: "What about the problem at hand?"
"You mean..."
"First, the temperature! Second, those monsters outside!" Chen Nuo immediately began to play the role of the captain's "spokesperson". He quickly said: "The temperature continues to drop! If it continues to drop like this, our cold-proof equipment will be able to withstand it
I can’t live with lower temperatures!”
"We brought those spacesuit modification equipment, but those things are outside! In the convoy!" Nolan shook his head: "But there are other ways we can try. There is a large amount of solid fuel stored here, and we can make a fire.
Keep warm."
"Make a fire? Like the primitive people? Can you make a fire for warmth and withstand ultra-low temperatures of more than 100 degrees below zero?!!"
"No, of course it can't be here." Nolan sighed helplessly: "This is also my second question I want to answer, about those monsters outside."
Chen Nuo nodded. Looking at Nolan, it was obvious that this octopus monster had hidden a lot of secrets. There must be hidden secrets in this base! After thinking about it, Chen Nuo nodded and said, "Then you can tell me now."
Nolan's face was expressionless: "Here... there is an underground space."
Everyone fell silent.
The wizard nodded: "Underground space? Do you mean the excavated heating pipes or..."
"No, it's much deeper than that. Fifteen meters underground! Of course, it's impossible to dig out a big place from such a deep place. But it's enough to accommodate all of us.
That place is radiation-proof, explosion-proof, and shock-proof, and is made of composite steel plate alloy and insulation materials. The average thickness of the steel plate reaches 50 centimeters, and the thickest part is 110 centimeters!"
When Nolan said this, everyone fell silent.
Everyone looked at this guy in surprise.
But the thought in everyone's mind at this moment is the same:
In a ghostly place like Antarctica, the octopus dug such a deep place and created such an existence that is simply like a doomsday fortress...
Why?!
"Everyone!" Nolan said slowly: "At present, the temperature has only dropped a little. We are not sure that the window period will definitely end, nor are we sure that the temperature will drop to that terrible level soon!
The outpost has sent people!
In the best case scenario, we only need to hold on for 20 minutes, reinforcements will arrive, and we can go out after blowing up the barrier!
In other words, we may not need to use the underground fortifications I mentioned.
The worst has not yet come!
Moreover, even if the worst happens, after we hide down there for 27 hours, the next window will come and we can still get out by then!"
The wizard looked at the captain.
The captain was enveloped in the wizard's eyes. He was stunned at first, but then he came to his senses.
This was a subconscious move by the wizard.
When faced with a difficult situation, the wizard naturally selects candidates who he believes are qualified to serve as his "companions" or "kindred spirits".
Obviously, among all the people, only the captain is the one in control who is recognized by the wizard for his strength.
At this time, the wizard subconsciously looked at the captain.
The captain had an expressionless face, and he was so anxious that he spoke to the wizard first: "What do you mean, wizard?"
"..." The wizard was stunned. This bastard stole my line.
However, the wizard was not willing to waste time thinking too much now, and immediately said: "Nolan, take us down first. I want to see the place you mentioned."
Nolan's eyes flashed, as if he was weighing things in his mind.
"They're coming!!!"
At this time, an armed man guarding the door shouted: "Those monsters are coming!!"
Nolan immediately left the esper behind and ran to the door!
Through the window, the warehouse area in the distance had been completely dug up, and densely packed monsters crawled out in a swarm, and then slowly swarmed towards the command center with a clattering sound.
The speed was very slow at first, but soon, as the roars of the monsters became more and more anxious, the monsters in front suddenly accelerated their speed.
Some took the lead, and the monsters behind also started running wildly!
Looking around, there are hundreds of monsters running on the ground, with eight long limbs crawling like spiders...
(It's really a bit like that time in the rainforest...) Chen Nuo sighed inwardly.
Nolan took a deep breath: "Light the fire! Stay at your post! Hold the hall!!!!"
The armed personnel of the octopus monster are obviously very loyal. Under this desperate situation, they still carry out Nolan's orders to the letter.
Soon, the door of the command center was opened, and four armed men gathered at the door...
"Light those solid fuels!!" Nolan turned to the ability users behind him and shouted: "Let's do it together!!"
The armed men took out burning rods and threw them towards the solid fuel piled outside. Soon more than ten burning rods were thrown out.
At this time, the ability users also joined in. One of the ability users actually had the ability to control fire. However, the ability was obviously not very strong, but it was enough to set fire.
As the fire burned and spread, the area in front of the command center was soon surrounded by a semicircular fire ring!
Many of the monsters that rushed to the front immediately let out fearful roars and retreated. However, after being squeezed and pushed by the monsters swarming from behind, a few monsters were squeezed out.
When it crossed the fire ring, the monster's body immediately seemed as if grease had been ignited. After the flames were ignited on its body, its whole body suddenly burst into flames!
"Are they afraid of fire?" Rebecca, a female with abilities, lit up.
"No, they are sensitive to temperature... they can only adapt to low temperatures." Kamizou Ichiro stood next to Rebecca, staring at the monsters.
"Shoot! Shoot!!!" the armed men roared.
The four armed men guarding the door immediately opened fire, shooting at the sporadic monsters that rushed through the ring of fire.
"Don't let them near here!!"
"Fire!!! Don't save bullets!!!"
Gunshots came one after another.
The wizard glanced outside and saw that the ring of fire had successfully blocked the wave of monsters. They began to retreat and kept a distance from the ring of fire, but they were still entrenched on the periphery of the ring of fire, swarming around anxiously.
Occasionally, sporadic monsters were squeezed out by their companions and crossed the fire ring, and were quickly killed by concentrated fire.
"They shouldn't be able to get through..."
"But solid fuel won't burn for long!" Chen Nuo shook his head.
The wizard glanced at Chen Nuo: "Mr. Anderson, I admire your mind very much. Do you have any ideas at this time?"
Chen Nuo looked at his old rival, raised his chin, and gestured towards Nolan.
The wizard understood, nodded, and walked to Nolan: "Nolan, take us to see that underground fortification!"
"Repulse this wave first..."
"They can't get through!" The wizard shook his head and said coldly with a stern look on his face: "Don't delay! Once the solid fuel burns out, we won't be able to stop them! It's impossible to fight back!
Take me to see that place!
Now!!"
Next to him, the captain also took two steps forward. He said nothing, but stood with the wizard.
Nolan nodded: "Okay! But, it's just you two! No one else can go down until the last moment!"
"No, my people must go with me." The captain immediately refused: "Anderson must come with me!"
The wizard glanced at the captain and nodded: "Yes! My people must also follow! There are two of me here, two of the captain, and the four of us will go down with you!"