Chapter 136: Spaceship (Part 2) - Seeking Subscription Support
"A corpse?"
Sun Cheng hesitated slightly; looking at the damaged off-road vehicle not far away, he knew that this place must have been attacked by a Tyrannosaurus rex.
After a moment of hesitation, he still walked over and lifted the alloy plate, and sure enough, he saw the corpse of a familiar man lying underneath!
"Doctor Malcolm?"
Sun Cheng sighed. He recognized who this corpse was; it was none other than Doctor Malcolm, who had sat in the same vehicle with him that afternoon and had educated him on quite a bit of knowledge about the dinosaurs on the island.
Seeing that an acquaintance he hadn't known long but had a good impression of had died here, Sun Cheng felt a tightness in his chest and knelt down to observe a moment of silence for him for a few seconds.
Just as he was about to pull the alloy plate back over, he suddenly noticed his chest rising and falling faintly. He couldn't help but put away the sorrow on his face and hurriedly reached out to touch his neck, his expression changing slightly, "Still breathing, so that's it, he just fainted!"
Frowning, Sun Cheng thought for a moment and covered him with the alloy plate again, but was careful to leave some gaps so he wouldn't go into shock from lack of oxygen.
He still had to go find the Hunter's spaceship. Malcolm had a depression in his chest and his leg was covered in blood with a tourniquet applied; he was clearly injured. Without a vehicle, even if he wanted to lend a hand, he had no way to transport him. Letting Doctor Malcolm stay here to wait for rescue was safer instead.
Not long after, a familiar sound of flapping wings finally came to his ears. Sun Cheng followed the sound and looked over, and sure enough, he saw Defender flying up from below the canyon, and he hurriedly went up to meet him and asked, "How is the situation below?"
"The spaceship is right below the canyon, one kilometer away from here. However, there are Laser Locators set up by the Hunters everywhere near the spaceship..."
"Everywhere..."
Sun Cheng frowned slightly. He had learned about the Hunters' equipment systematically from both Revenge and Defender, and therefore knew that the Laser Locator was not just a warning device.
On the contrary, the Laser Locator was a dangerous piece of equipment developed by the Hunters' weapons experts for hunting a terrifying monster called the 【Xenomorph】. Once it started working, it would automatically detect biological reactions within a certain range and fire grid-like laser beams at all creatures attempting to pass through its guarded area, capable of cutting enemies into pieces.
The canyon below was also within the core activity area of the Tyrannosaurus rex and was already dangerous, and with the many Laser Locators set up by the Specter, there was no guarantee that that guy wasn't also wandering nearby. Sun Cheng also had to be careful to guard against certain highly venomous snakes and insects hidden in the mountain forest.
To sum it up in one sentence: wanting to walk to the spaceship safely is not easy!
After giving a few instructions, Defender went ahead to scout the path as before, and Revenge stayed invisible on the side to protect him. Sun Cheng followed a small path that Defender had found nearby, walked into the mountain forest, and headed toward the canyon below.
Although E Zone was used by International Genetic Technologies to house the Tyrannosaurus rex, because the Tyrannosaurus rex was planned to be kept in a cage, there were other dinosaurs in E Zone. The canyon not only held a group of Gallimimus, but it was also the largest settlement of Brachiosaurus on the island.
Brachiosaurus and Seismosaurus both belong to the Diplodocidae family, but because they lived in different eras, separated by tens of millions of years, although they looked somewhat similar in appearance, they were actually two completely different types of herbivorous dinosaurs.
Compared to the Seismosaurus, the Brachiosaurus was much smaller in size, but an adult Brachiosaurus would likely be twenty or thirty meters long and weigh thirty or forty tons. Just like elephants compared to lions, tigers, and leopards, ordinary carnivorous dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus rex, would not be willing to provoke it unless they were extremely hungry.
Bumping along the small path, let alone having to spare attention to be vigilant, just avoiding the thorns and branches along the way so as not to slip and fall into a mud pit or slide down the hillside took all of Sun Cheng's energy. As for vigilance, he could only rely on Defender and Revenge.
They were, after all, the lowest-level Decepticons. Just like that Frenzy Body he had initially obtained in the other world, although the core of the equipment could scan electronic devices and radio frequencies within a certain range, it was ineffective against humans and other creatures; it couldn't react until they walked into its line of sight.
Snap!
The machete cut through another branch blocking his way. Sun Cheng panted heavily. Traversing from the road above the canyon along the small path to the canyon below was only a few hundred meters, but it had truly exhausted him. The falls and bumps along the way not only made him look like he had just crawled out of a mud pit or swamp, but his face and arms were also covered in many wounds, all scratched by the thorns and branches along the way.
However, he had finally made it down to the canyon.
Just as he let out a long breath and walked a few steps into the canyon, he suddenly felt a slight crunching sound under his feet. Sun Cheng couldn't help but look down at his feet and was stunned for a moment.
"This is... a dinosaur egg?"
Under his mud-covered shoes, he was stepping on a gray-white, elongated object. After looking around to check for danger and finding none, Sun Cheng squatted down to take a look and soon realized that what he had stepped on was a dinosaur egg, or more accurately, a broken eggshell!
With his limited knowledge, he obviously couldn't figure out what kind of dinosaur this was, but this discovery made the anger that Sun Cheng had been unable to suppress in his heart boil even more.
"Damn Hammond... damn International Genetic Technologies, saying that all the dinosaurs on the island are female and can only be artificially bred in the island's hatchery... lying to ghosts, how can female dinosaurs alone lay eggs..."
No wonder he and Doctor Sai tele boshi were attacked by two small Dilophosaurus that ran out from nowhere when they were at the Gongdianchu; it turns out they were born in the wild, no wonder they were so wild!
He fiercely crushed these eggshells with his foot. After standing up again, Sun Cheng identified the direction and confirmed with Defender that his marching direction was correct, before continuing to walk forward, stepping heavily and lightly.
After walking only a few dozen meters forward, Sun Cheng suddenly stopped, because Defender, who was responsible for scouting, had stopped and was currently hovering a few meters ahead.
"Why did you stop?"
Sun Cheng raised his weapon vigilantly and walked up to ask.
"The spaceship is just a hundred meters ahead. We have entered a high-alert zone; there are Infrared Locators everywhere ahead!" Defender vibrated his wings and flew up again, stopping at shoulder height to say.
Following the thin metal arm it extended to look ahead, Sun Cheng squinted and searched carefully for a while, and sure enough, he found a red light flashing incessantly in the soil off the path.
Seeing it point to other places again, he searched carefully and couldn't help but take a deep breath.
In the small area ahead, he soon found five or six hidden red dots flashing constantly. Because he couldn't determine the detection range of each locator, there was truly no way forward here!
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