Chapter 1 A Small Reminder

The absurdity of a car being rigged with explosives left everyone around dumbfounded.

Before they could recover, the jeep flared up with red light and exploded automatically.

Boom.

The roar accompanied a violent heatwave, and the sight of car parts flying in all directions suddenly overwhelmed everyone nearby.

The explosion lasted for a full three seconds, followed by a secondary explosion before it subsided.

Ding.

A faint text message tone rang from Li Cheng颐's phone, dragging him back from his stunned shock.

He quickly took out his phone.

The screen clearly read: Received a regional broadcast message, view?

He paused, unlocked the phone, opened the message box, and opened the message.

'This is just a small reminder.' – Unknown number.

Turning off his phone, Li Cheng頤's expression darkened, and he looked up at the burning jeep.

"...Will this have a big impact on what's below?" he asked.

Ding Chongyi, still shaken from the experience, heard the question and also came back to his senses.

"After blasting open the entrance, and then throwing another bomb in, the underground is probably completely collapsed now, what do you think?"

"This is covering up the evidence..." Li Cheng颐's mind was still flashing with the image of the jeep rushing forward.

"Have the company people come to clean up the wreckage and check for clues. Be quick, the purpose of the person behind this is probably to delay time," Ding Chongyi said solemnly.

"..." Li Cheng颐 stared intently at the burning car, understanding that entering the Gelius underground garage again in the short term was out of the question.

The other party's goal of delaying time had been achieved.

And this attack also made him wake up.

In reality, he couldn't use the Floral Scale Armor; his only reliance was the Floral Language ability. His actual combat power was probably less than even a well-trained veteran.

Don't let his Floral Language ability fool you, it can take effect after touching things, but if a real fight breaks out, he would be taken out before even getting close.

'Looks like I have to find a way to improve my own strength in reality... The Floral Scale Armor consumes too much when worn, and is not suitable for exposure to others, it can only be used as a trump card, then the truly concealed and practical ability is Floral Language.

I myself should focus on combat and firearms, etc. and only use these as trump cards, to decide the outcome at crucial moments.'

Before he could sort out his thoughts.

Bang!

Suddenly, a gunshot rang out from not far away.

A worker in a yellow hat standing on the outer perimeter fell in response, blood slowly seeping from the side of his forehead.

"Gun!!" The surrounding workers in yellow hats screamed in terror, scattering and hiding.

In just a few seconds, the dozen or so workers on the scene dispersed and ran to hide behind the surrounding iron shacks.

Li Cheng颐 grabbed Ding Chongyi and ran all the way, also hiding behind an iron shack.

But before they could dial the police, a burly figure dragging a person quickly approached from the distant woods.

The figure was two meters tall, with a buzz cut, yellow eyes, wearing a black t-shirt, and carrying a silver pistol in one hand.

It was Song Ran!

"The person has been caught, send people to call the police, Huang Zhisheng, send a letter to the head office to report, and the rest of you, check the situation over at the cave, and see if we can salvage anything," Song Ran quickly directed the division of labor after approaching, and then checked the dead person.

"Expert Ding? Brother Cheng颐? Are you all right?" He asked through his AR glasses.

"We're okay." Li Cheng颐 breathed a sigh of relief, walked out of the corner with Ding Chongyi, and looked at the person in Song Ran's hand.

"Know who this is?" He glanced at the jeep still burning over the cave entrance, his mood sinking even further.

Just when they were about to go down, something like this suddenly happened.

"Don't know, the person was already dead when we caught him, there was a chip in his head, and it burned out instantly." Song Ran's face was cold, obviously also very upset.

He and Huang Zhisheng originally planned to lure the enemy, but they didn't expect the other party to be so ruthless, sending out suicide attackers directly.

"Can the cave be cleared now?" Song Ran asked.

"No way. I estimate that the original cavity structure of the entire garage has been collapsed by that explosion," Ding Chongyi sighed. "If we want to get in, we have to clear the rubble bit by bit, it will take a very long time."

"We don't have enough manpower here, relying on these people, I'm afraid we can't stop the force behind this," Song Ran said in a low voice. "Notify the boss, and see if we want to give up, and see if we can find out the details behind this force. If we don't find the mastermind, we'll always be very passive."

Suddenly, Ding Chongyi adjusted the AR he was wearing, and a hint of surprise appeared on his face.

"Wait, the underground cavity hasn't collapsed!"

"Not collapsed??" Li Cheng颐 and Song Ran were both stunned, and then looked at her.

"The installed detector is lucky, it's still good, and the feedback signal shows that it hasn't collapsed. In this case, we can completely pretend to clear it, and actually sneak in! Just put on a show that it's really impossible to clear!" Ding Chongyi said quickly. "I'll go take a look first."

She hurriedly walked towards the cave entrance, cooperating with the other frightened workers to begin verifying the situation on the scene.

Soon, a piece of good news that made people rejoice spread: the underground garage was indeed still intact, only one corner had been collapsed.

Li Cheng颐 didn't hesitate at all, and immediately put on his equipment, tied the rope, stood at the edge of the cave entrance, and looked inside.

He wanted to take this opportunity to quickly complete this exploration.

According to the intelligence data, as long as he could enter the garage, he would most likely find a way to escape the dead corner!

Therefore, for the sake of the next entry, he had to hurry!

The night was deep, and Song Ran also understood the importance of the matter, and took the initiative to patrol the surrounding area.

Li Cheng颐 and Ding Chongyi, Huang Zhisheng, and two workers in yellow hats around them, a total of five people, stood at the entrance of the cave.

"Are you ready?" Huang Zhisheng looked at Li Cheng颐.

"Ready at any time." Li Cheng颐 took a deep breath and walked to the edge of the cave entrance.

"Then prepare." Huang Zhisheng signaled to the other two workers.

The two squatted down and opened two silver metal boxes.

Two silver-white mechanical spiders the size of fists immediately crawled out of the boxes.

The spiders had a 360-degree rotating free detection head on their backs.

In the rustling sound, the two mechanical spiders quickly drilled into the cave first, their fat bellies lit up with bright white light, completely illuminating a section of the cave.

"Just follow the engineering spiders, pay attention to safety!" Huang Zhisheng said seriously to Li Cheng颐.

"Okay!"

Looking at the cave in front of him, Li Cheng颐 took a step forward, squatted down gently, put his feet in first, and then moved downwards little by little with his elbows.

His body slowly sank into the black cave, following the engineering spiders in front, constantly sinking in two balls of faint white light.

Bang!

Suddenly, another burst of gunfire came from the exit overhead.

"Scatter! Drag the prepared cover over here, block this side, remember to leave a gap!" Ding Chongyi's voice was decisive and quick. He wasn't frightened by the gunfire at all.

Li Cheng颐's heart sank, knowing that another attack had come.

He looked up.

At this time, he had already descended to a position more than ten meters down, and there were many protruding metal frames on the inner wall of the cave, making it easy to stabilize the body.

He used his legs to brace himself against the opposite side, leaned his back against the soil wall, and looked up.

At the cave entrance, a thick metal cover was slowly closing, and four hands were lifting it, trying to cover the entire cave.

"Cheng颐, we will cover the exit, the oxygen you carry can support you for at least three hours, don't worry, you must be quick! Come up immediately after finding a clue, we can contact you in time with the AR," Ding Chongyi's voice came from the glasses.

"Understood." Li Cheng颐 replied.

Immediately, he continued to climb down.

This time, he took off the rope on his waist, tied one end to the metal frame on the cave wall, and then let go of his hands and feet, relying on the rope to suspend himself in mid-air, and lowered himself section by section.

In the hissing sound of sliding down, the gloves on Li Cheng颐's hands also began to rub and heat up, and the smell of burnt leather could be smelled as he got closer.

But this method of moving was much faster than before.

A few minutes later.

The reinforced thin rope was basically released, and the AR glasses also showed the current underground depth: 247 meters.

Pa.

Li Cheng颐's feet finally stepped on a soft patch of soil, he stabilized his oxygen mask, and used the white light of the engineering spiders to look around.

The surroundings were still dark soil walls, but to the left rear, there was an extra black hole as tall as a person.

A gust of cold wind blew out of the hole.

"How's the situation now?" Ding Chongyi's voice sounded in his ear.

"I'm down, the explosion just now only hit the middle of the passage, it's still far from the bottom, they probably didn't expect this place to be buried so deep," Li Cheng颐 replied.

He paused and asked, "How is the situation on the surface?"

"There are experts, Supervisor Song Ran is still in a firefight with the other side, there are a few of them, but Song Ran is the strongest, don't worry. I'm leading people to guard the exit here, to prevent anyone from making trouble," Ding Chongyi said solemnly.

"Okay, I'll hurry!" Li Cheng颐 replied.

"Be careful not to damage the engineering spiders, they have signal amplifiers on them, our contact also relies on them for relay amplification," Ding Chongyi said.

"Understood."

The connection was broken.

Li Cheng颐 looked at the gray night vision in front of him.

He untied the rope buckle on his body, took a deep breath, calmed his mind, and turned to face the small black hole as tall as a person.

A line of green prompts immediately appeared in the vision: Link to the engineering spiders and command movement?

"Yes."

Immediately, two small green spider patterns appeared in the upper right corner of the AR.

"Linked, you can command the spiders to move and explore through gestures."

The prompt reappeared, and then slowly faded away.

Li Cheng颐 reached out and swiped forward somewhat clumsily.

In the vision, the two spiders quickly crawled into the black hole, the white light on their bellies illuminated a large circle of space around them.

Li Cheng颐 followed behind, drilled into the black hole, tilted downwards, and continued to go deeper.

After about ten meters, the front suddenly opened up.

The two little spiders drilled into a large cavity at once.

Li Cheng颐 quickly followed, and drilled out of the hole.

Hiss...

His feet landed, and he exhaled a long breath of carbon dioxide.

In the night vision in front of him, the strange parking lot he saw in the dead corner was clearly presented.

"Finally arrived..." He used the white light of the spiders to look at everything in front of him.

Parking spaces with white lines painted on the black ground.

Gray and white load-bearing columns.

Red maintenance doors on the right wall at intervals.

And on the ceiling, two rows of old light tubes, one horizontal and one vertical.

Everything was exactly the same as in the dead corner.

Only here it was more old, cold, and humid.