Equipped with a battleship-class propeller, the high-speed transport plane is very fast. Even if the blasphemer mecha is hung up, such a big guy is still much faster and more stable than when Koran and them took the "Amelin-class transport plane".
In just seven hours, the high-speed transport plane sent them to the edge of great basin, an hour shorter than expected.
Accustomed to the hellish bureau, Ke Lan and others rarely feel an inexplicable sense of relaxation-saving an hour on the road means that it costs an hour for nothing, but dealing with all kinds of emergencies is not like the original plan, and every step needs to be done against time.
"Arrived at the scheduled place an hour ago," Kelan looked up at the vertical high-speed transport plane and said, "It’s easier than expected, but we still have to cross great basin in three hours-the undead crew will send someone to intercept us at any time before entering the foggy forest."
"Three hours to get to the road without any obstacles should be no problem." Thirty-three said and jumped into the passenger seat of the armored off-road vehicle.
This armored off-road vehicle is the only one they carry except the blasphemer’s mecha. The Nino alloy skeleton customized by SOMA consortium flag "Jigang Industry" adopts the quadruple crystal engine, which can keep the cruising speed of 300 kilometers per hour on flat unpaved roads. If necessary, it can even achieve "flying with great strength"-flying short distances and low by relying on the Tibetan site rocket propulsion and folding gliders … Of course, these magic change were independently completed by Leighton and Chi feng han. If those engineers in Jigang Industry know that these two people have changed their pride into this appearance, it will also be.
Short-distance flight function looks stupid, but it is definitely not a chicken rib-there are many cracks with unknown depth and the widest rift valley in great basin, which can even reach 50 meters. The blasphemer mecha naturally jumps over with propellers and anti-gravity devices, but generally the mask can choose a detour when it encounters this terrain.
It’s too rough for Kelan and them to detour-they can choose the straightest route if they want to cross great basin in three hours.
Kelan got into the cockpit-this armored off-road vehicle is adopted as an independent cockpit similar to the mecha, and the driving mode is different from that of manipulating the mecha. If it weren’t for valentina’s need to drive the blasphemer, it wouldn’t be Kelan’s place to sit.
"Are you all seated?" Kelan adjusted the inclination angle of the driver’s seat to the angle between sitting and half lying, raised his hand and preliminarily debugged all the devices in the cockpit, then started the engine.
Compared with the roar and vibration of the engine, the crystallization engine is much quieter, but the moment when Kelan stepped on the gas pedal, he still felt a full sense of pushing back.
The armored off-road vehicle rushed out in an instant to take the air cushion to slide, while the blasphemer followed the side of the car closely.
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Although great basin is named "basin", it is actually Alpha star. A huge crater is located in the center of the crater, and the meteorite core has long since disappeared, leaving an inverted conical deep well with a depth of more than 100,000 meters and a diameter of more than 20 kilometers.
The fact that Kelan and his party crossed the route is that the tangent of the edge of this deep well spans about 150 kilometers, and it can take three hours to cross according to the cruising speed of the vehicle.
Of course, the former process has not encountered obstacles.
But if someone knows something about great basin’s ecological environment, he will know that this is almost impossible.
Although great basin is a barren land without large-scale vegetation, the view of water source is a desolate scene interwoven with khaki and marl, but there is no shortage of traces of indigenous creatures in this place
At the beginning of the formation of great basin, the meteorite from the distant universe violently hit the surface of Alpha Star, creating this super crater, and at the same time, some rare element fragments carried by that meteorite were integrated into this land.
In the following long years, with the erosion of wind and rain, these meteorite fragments buried deep underground gradually exposed on the surface of the basin … These rare elements with strong radiation are deadly things that must be kept away from human beings, but they are "necessary" for the growth and development of some indigenous creatures on Alpha Star.
These meteorite fragments attracted a large number of indigenous creatures to eat the soil and gravel in the basin, and these indigenous creatures looking for radioactive materials in turn attracted a group of their prey predators … So a deformed but reasonable ecological circle appeared in great basin.
However, these indigenous creatures attracted by radioactive materials will not live in great basin for a long time. After all, this place has nothing but meteorite fragments and sand … Humans can’t live without eating and living on vitamin supplements, and indigenous creatures can’t rely on a little bit of meteorite fragments in sand to satisfy their hunger. It is for this reason that the great basin ecological circle has a strong "seasonality".
Just like migratory birds and fish migration on the earth, those indigenous creatures will also go to great basin regularly to ingest radioactive elements necessary for life, and then great basin will become lively.
According to this feature, the experts of Ark divided the ecological environment of great basin into two stages: the active period and the dead period.
However, the most popular names are "active period" and "quiet period", but later some scholars think that the word "dead silence" is lifeless, and great basin is more appropriate. This second name has gradually become popular and replaced the first name to become the mainstream.
Unfortunately, it was the "active period" when they chose to cross great basin.
There is nothing that can be done. great basin’s "active period" and "dead period" alternate for as long as three months. It is impossible for Kelan to wait until three months before acting.
By that time, the undead crew will have already discovered it. He has found clues to the fog forest … I’m afraid it won’t be so easy to sneak out again.
"Indigenous biological communities occur five kilometers ahead". The off-road vehicle goes forward at high speed and is released for reconnaissance. The man-machine also follows up synchronously in the local area and gives the surrounding situation to the vehicle in real time.
Chapter seven hundred and thirty-three Sudden gun
"It’s a group of steel-backed one-horned rhinos … although they are herbivores, they are the kind of herbivores that are grumpy." Ivan, who is in the back seat of an off-road vehicle, looked at the picture of the man-machine coming back and said, "They are just in our way. If the off-road vehicle passes through them directly, these grumpy guys will definitely come after us."
Although the speed of the steel-backed rhinoceros trying to chase Kelan and their off-road vehicles is simply a fantasy, hundreds of single animals are as heavy as elephants. If the steel-backed rhinoceros runs at a high speed, it will be too noisy. Who knows what it will attract …
If you attract a few predators, you may be able to solve it through fighting, but if you arrange the ark with a weather reconnaissance robot near great basin, things will be in trouble
Although Ke Lan, their off-road vehicles and blasphemers’ mecha have added anti-radar stealth coatings, this kind of invisibility is not physically invisible like optical camouflage, and it will still be found if it is directly exposed to man-machine visible light lenses.
Even if the undead crew come and don’t send anyone to stop them, they can still be attacked from a long distance to destroy their only way-missiles and paddle flying are much faster than off-road vehicles.
The action across great basin should be as fast as possible and as secretive as possible.
"Can you clear all the steel-backed one-horned rhinoceros in 120 seconds before making a long-range weapon?" Asked Koran communication channel
"But" valentina immediately responded that the blasphemer mecha suddenly accelerated beyond the SUV and thought about taxiing ahead.
It didn’t take long for the blasphemer mecha figure to appear in the man-machine picture. The one-horned rhinoceros with its lips and teeth arched with sand and steel back immediately noticed that this nearby giant had raised its head and looked towards the blasphemer mecha.
But before these steel-backed unicorns can react, the blasphemer mecha has already cut into the herd, and the heavy armor-piercing swordsmen will cut off the nearest two steel-backed unicorns.
The steel-backed one-horned rhinoceros has a thick layer of "armor" on its back, which is made up of multiple layers of composite cuticles and hardened grease. Its defense ability is very strong. It can hold a 5-inch caliber heavy machine gun and point it at a distance of 100 meters. However, there is almost no difference between a blasphemer’s heavy armor-piercing sword and a red-hot metal knife cream cake.
A blasphemer bent over and plunged into a heavy armor-piercing sword to draw a full moon, and three steel-backed rhinoceroses were cut off-the bodies of these beasts were carbonized by the energy shield wrapped around the blade without even shooting blood.
Yu gang’s one-horned rhinoceros didn’t respond until this time, but it didn’t rush towards the blasphemer mecha, but turned and ran.
Many steel-backed rhinoceroses were knocked over by their own kind because they gathered too closely. After several hooves stepped on the steel-backed rhinoceros, these unlucky individuals had completely lost their interest.
"It seems that no matter how grumpy the beast is, he will be defeated and flee when he can’t fight the enemy at all." Thirty-three said in a teasing tone
Ivan was not too surprised to see this scene. If our off-road vehicle passes by them, they will certainly come after us, but if we run amok and crush these steel-backed rhinoceroses with energy shields, they will choose to avoid it.
"Typical bullying" Thirty-three took a piece of chewing gum from his pocket and threw it into his mouth to chew two "real people and wild animals are no different"
"From a biological macro point of view, that’s right," Ivan nodded. "We were also a beast before our ancestors evolved wisdom."
"You see these steel-backed one-horned rhinoceroses are quite clever. They know how to escape in several directions … The little girl’s mecha is very fast, but it should be impossible to kill all these guys in two minutes, right?" 33 looked at the screen and said
"Just drive away the one-horned rhinoceros with a steel back." Koran also noticed this and changed the original order.
In just 30 seconds, more than 100 steel-backed rhinoceros have been killed by the blasphemer’s mecha sword, and more than 100 steel-backed rhinoceros have been divided into more than a dozen smaller groups and scattered-these escaped steel-backed rhinoceros are hard to create a large-scale beast tide even if they attract other predators … chasing Alpha stars like this can be seen everywhere, and they are not worried about attracting the attention of the ark.
Hang the heavy sunder armor sword back to the back. The blasphemer mecha went for a spin around the slaughterhouse full of steel-backed one-horned rhinoceros and returned to the side of the off-road vehicle.
"I’m sorry I can’t do it …" valentina sound communication channel rang.
"It’s not your fault. I mean, it’s 120 seconds. These steel-backed one-horned rhinoceroses mean that after these beasts are angered, they all rush towards you. Since they choose to escape, it makes no difference whether I kill them all or not." Kelan said.
Valentina didn’t continue to talk. The communication channel was silent again.
The blasphemer’s mecha is not without long-range weapons. In addition to the powerful small plasma gun, Leighton and Chi feng han added a lot of extra weapons to this mecha. This is a set of "HWS expansion kit" named by Leighton. The additional equipment and angular external armor almost completely hide the original features of the blasphemer’s mecha, which will not affect the flexibility of the movable joint as much as possible. Before, this external armor was built with 20 different weapons-Leighton that guy originally said, "Anyway, the blasphemer’s mecha is so powerful with anti-gravity devices.
But before entering the foggy forest, it is best not to be found by nearby man-machine or observation points.
"The road has been cleared to move on." When Kelan planned to add another foot to the gas pedal, a shot suddenly echoed through great basin.