Chapter 441: Abandoned Base

In the secret underwater port of the nuclear submarine, Lin Xian never expected that beneath this Haiyan Prison, there would exist such a heavy-duty military base.

"No wonder. If it's such a large military base and the Shengcheng people are hiding here as a stronghold, then it's not strange." Kiki looked enlightened.

"Since the Shengcheng organization prepared to snipe us in advance, why has this place fallen too?" Xiang Xiang Ningjing frowned: "Or is it that this stronghold has already been wiped out?"

"Very likely." Lin Xian said in a deep voice: "However, I just checked the situation of the zombies in those prisons, and they don't seem to be from the Shengcheng organization. This means they haven't been entrenched here for a long time, but appeared here recently."

Kiki nodded: "Something must have happened here, so this shelter fell, and the underground passage was also invaded by bizarre entities."

Huo Ge crossed his arms: "Then didn't we make this trip for nothing?"

Lin Xian's gaze narrowed: "At least I've roughly guessed how those people came and how they planned to leave."

"You mean, the submarine?" Kiki said.

Lin Xian looked at the drone he had released to monitor the sinkhole in the warehouse, ensuring that the black worm monster hadn't crawled out, before saying: "However, the middle-aged man who used the taboo item hasn't been found yet. Besides, the submarine travels through the deep sea. Logically speaking, it should be more dangerous than the surface. This point doesn't seem to make sense..."

Kiki looked worried: "I don't know how Chen Jiejie is doing. Has the Dark Mark been removed? Otherwise, these bizarre entities drawn here by the Shengcheng might just swallow our Infinity whole."

Lin Xian's expression darkened upon hearing this. His communication drones couldn't contact Chen Sixuan's side across the sea area, which made him feel uneasy. Originally, his plan was to strike directly at the Shengcheng's lair to prevent them from attacking the Infinity again after nightfall. In a situation where giant beasts were besieging the city, a simple bait could very likely push them into a desperate situation. So, Lin Xian decided to let Chen Sixuan lead the team to change positions and remove the mark, while he led people to pursue. The guy who escaped using the taboo item made Lin Xian unable to rest easy.

Who knew that before they could even enter the underground lair, they would be blocked by a bizarre invisible creature with an explosive concentration of dark aura entrenched in the passage. Although the monster entrenched in the passage was large, it was far from the scale of those Special-rank or even A-rank ones. But in terms of threat, Lin Xian felt that this thing might be close to an S-rank dark invasion concentration; otherwise, Abai wouldn't have suffered such a strong impact.

"That thing is blocking the passage, we definitely can't get in, but..." Xiang Xiang Ningjing said at this moment: "Could the people down there also be gone?"

"Gone is a good thing." Kiki said: "We are just worried about being attacked by them again after nightfall. As long as we get through tonight, we will leave this ghost place. We aren't interested in this base or anything."

Lin Xian fell into deep thought. A fragment of Gu Zheng's consciousness flashed before his eyes again, causing his head to ache. At this moment, he heard that muffled drum-like sound, suddenly opened his eyes, and said in a deep voice:

"I was wondering what that sound was. So... it was inside the submarine!"

"Lin Dui?" Xiang Xiang Ningjing looked at Lin Xian.

"Besides the surface team, the Shengcheng also has a submarine unit." Lin Xian frowned, his expression sharp: "Strange, the Falcon Sea Group doesn't dare to travel through dangerous sea areas at will, but they can, and they even dare to sneak in the deep sea..."

Kiki looked at Lin Xian and said: "Are you suspecting they have a way to avoid bizarre entities?"

Lin Xian shook his head, looked at Kiki, and said solemnly: "If the Shengcheng organization really has communication with the Dark Civilization, and the Descent Sect is the opposition organization to the Dark Civilization among humans, it should make sense that they possess such means."

"That's true. Once they've become traitors, the Dark Civilization might give them some kind of pass or something..." Kiki said.

"A pass?"

"I'm just describing it blindly. That's roughly the meaning. If the Dark Civilization treats them as friendly forces, is it really possible that they wouldn't be attacked by bizarre entities?" Kiki said.

Xiang Xiang Ningjing frowned: "But this afternoon, this group of people was clearly attacked."

"Discussing this is meaningless." Lin Xian interrupted their conversation and said directly: "Since we are here, we must investigate this submarine base. Taking the initiative is better than passively waiting for these minions of the Descent Sect to attack us. Besides, in such a military base, we might find some useful things."

"For example, a nuclear submarine?" Xiaoqing responded quietly from the side.

Lin Xian said: "Or, some kind of taboo item, a disaster plant."

"But... how do we get in?" Xiang Xiang Ningjing asked.

"There are quite a few ways to get in." Kiki operated the mobile terminal quickly, and soon figured out the general layout of this base.

"This submarine port has no outer port, which means it is an inner port with a high degree of secrecy. In other words, this port is built inside the mountain of the outlying island. You see, the terrain of this outlying island's mountain is very special, with a large underground cavity and a deep-water cliff. It is simply an excellent and secret inner port base. No wonder they built it here. If the submarine were to be resupplied and maintained here, satellites would never be able to search for it..."

Kiki pointed to a valley on the offline map: "There is a secret passage here, like a mine tunnel, but it has been sealed. In fact, it is the real entrance. The sea flood passage under the prison is a backup entrance. The entrance is under Prison Building No. 1. The hole under this warehouse should have been blown open by accident. Besides these two roads, the only way left is the deep-water floating port passage of the submarine."

"Don't even think about the deep-water floating port. Let's find a way from these two shore passages." Lin Xian said.

"There is that monster in the passage here. Should we only try to enter from that mountain entrance?" Xiang Xiang Ningjing said.

Lin Xian and Kiki analyzed the blueprint and found that the building level of the entrance passage was very high. However, this secret submarine port should have been around for some years. Since the establishment of the Federation government, the secret armed forces of major regional powers have begun to be centrally dispatched with the Dragon Kingdom as the leader, and the Star Army was born under this background.

"That tsunami flood discharge passage and the submarine base are a whole, prepared for tide diversion and extreme situations. If this passage is infiltrated by bizarre entities, it means the inside of the base is also not safe." Lin Xian frowned. He had always been against acting in the dark, because once marked, even a first-level mark was extremely dangerous. But they were now besieged on the island, and that Giant Ocean God was likely lurking in the nearby sea or airspace. In this situation, knowing that he was being watched by the Descent Sect, how could he sit and wait for death?

What's more, Ryan of the Falcon Sea Group had also mentioned a taboo item that could potentially affect the Galan submarine volcano. Now it seems very likely that it is related to the middle-aged man who ran away. Lin Xian felt that this hidden danger must be figured out.

"Don't be in a hurry. Acting in the dark is never convenient. Although this island is not big, it is definitely not a good place. The headache is that Viola is not here. But I will also use a robot to explore first, and scan the spirit-swing value on the waypoints. This is safer."

Kiki nodded: "That's right."

Lin Xian raised his hand, and the Black Star Forge flickered. At this moment, an ACT mecha like the one Qian Suxun had was taken out by Lin Xian. This mecha was prepared by Lin Xian to test the neural interaction system for super-large mechas. For this reason, some remote improvements were made, which could do many things that flying drones could not. There was no other way at this time, so Lin Xian took this thing out to replace Viola for remote exploration.

Lin Xian handed the operation task to Kiki. The little girl immediately took over, and began to design waypoints. Soon, on the prison tower in the dark, a keen humanoid mecha, accompanied by several reconnaissance drones, fell from the high building, and then rushed into the woods at a very fast speed. The sudden movement immediately startled many zombies that had run out of the prison in the woods. For a time, roars were everywhere, moving in the dark.

At the same time, Lin Xian began to rebuild the information link toward the main island with drones. Although the sea waves were surging at this time, those drones were very likely to be destroyed by surges or bizarre entities when guiding at low altitude. However, he couldn't care so much now. If the drones were gone, they could be rebuilt, and those bizarre entities could not lock his position through the drones. Now the top priority was that he needed to try to contact the Infinity to ensure that the base camp was safe.

The prison tower was silent in the shadows. The team members all communicated information through the power armor light screen, and only the energy lines outside the armor emitted a faint fluorescence. The surroundings were dead silent, but in the dark, everyone was very experienced. The shadows in those open areas were extremely dangerous. Even if they were only C-rank or D-rank bizarre entities, they were quite troublesome in the dark.

In Kiki's operation screen, she had fully accessed the control of the ACT mecha and was sneaking at high speed, following a mountain road to the northwest foot of the mountain on the outlying island. In the screen, a military outpost that looked like an abandoned one appeared in the night vision, and then the ACT mecha went straight through a fence and came to a huge mountain gate that looked like an air-raid shelter.

This was a huge explosion-proof gate. Kiki walked up and opened the terminal cover of the door lock on the small door on the side, and an aged access panel appeared in her sight.