Chapter 137: Spaceship (Part 2) [Supplement 48]

The area ahead was densely packed with Laser Locators; there was no way forward!

What should he do?

Sun Cheng frowned and stood still, his gaze lingering for a moment on the red dots flickering intermittently in the mud ahead, before he asked Grant, "Is there any way to disable them?"

"Once a Laser Locator is activated, it can be turned off via the control backend; aside from that, it can also be destroyed using external force..."

"Destroyed by external force?"

He hesitated for a moment, searched the vicinity for a while before finding a rock, retreated four or five steps until he felt relatively safe, picked up the Flashlight, squinted to aim at a Laser Locator, and threw the rock over.

"Clack!"

Because the distance was not very far, the rock hit one of the Laser Locators quite accurately.

However, what puzzled him was that the Laser Locator on the ground showed no reaction; it appeared neither triggered nor damaged.

Perhaps even Grant could not bear to watch any longer and spoke up to remind him: "Master, rocks will not trigger the locators; they can only be triggered by organisms possessing thermal reactions..."

"Thermal reactions..."

This made him frown incessantly; did he have to go hunt a dinosaur and then use it to trigger these locators?

Being at his wit's end made his mood suddenly irritable, so Sun Cheng had to ask: "Are there any other directions to bypass these locators and reach the spaceship directly?"

"No, the Hunters have deployed locators in every direction around the spaceship..."

This was tricky!

After thinking left and right for a while, his heart suddenly stirred; he took a Hand Grenade from his waist, held it, and asked again: "If I use a Hand Grenade, can I destroy these locators?"

"Yes!"

Grant's answer was very crisp, "A Hand Grenade will generate a large amount of heat when it explodes; even if it cannot destroy them directly, it can trigger all the locators within range. However, the straight-line distance from here to the place where we just discovered that Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Ghost is no more than one kilometer. Once the Hand Grenade explodes, there will be unpredictable consequences!"

What are unpredictable consequences?

Nothing more than the explosion attracting both the Ghost and the Tyrannosaurus Rex over!

Sun Cheng hesitated for a moment, but decided on balance that the risk was worth taking.

He had already come this far, and with the Ghost's spaceship almost within his grasp, there was absolutely no reason to give up!

Immediately, Sun Cheng made up his mind. After letting Grant mark the locations of the buried locators ahead for him, he calculated silently in his heart for a while. Then, gritting his teeth, he took a few steps back, pulled the pin of the Hand Grenade, ran forward a few steps, and then leaned forward, lying flat in the mud.

"Boom!"

A violent explosion soon came from behind. The splashing shrapnel tore the bark off the surrounding trees, and the foul mud splashed from the explosion site flew over ten meters away; one clump even landed on the back of his head.

"Did it succeed?"

After the brief ringing in his ears subsided, Sun Cheng shook his dizzy head and couldn't help but ask Grant loudly.

A sound of flapping wings flew away from near to far, and soon flew back. Then, Grant's cold electronic voice sounded, "Master, three were successfully destroyed, and six were triggered. There are no more locators in this outermost perimeter..."

Grant and Frenzy, like him, had retreated to a distance to hide before the explosion, so they were not hurt.

Upon hearing this, Sun Cheng couldn't help but feel a surge of joy.

Raising the Flashlight, he looked ahead and saw that the exploded Hand Grenade had left a deep hole in the ground, with white smoke permeating the surroundings. Moving closer to look carefully, sure enough, the red dots of the locators were no longer visible.

Just as he was feeling excited, a long roar of a giant beast suddenly came from the distant mountain forest—low, powerful, and filled with anger. Wasn't that exactly the roar of the Tyrannosaurus Rex he had heard from afar not long ago?

Sun Cheng's heart sank, and the joy on his face was immediately withdrawn.

He hurriedly climbed up from the ground. Since Grant had confirmed that it was safe here, he didn't even bother to wipe the mud off his body and ran straight ahead.

In the distant mountain forest, the uneasy shrieks of birds and the sound of trees being pushed over could be heard from time to time, which undoubtedly spurred Sun Cheng to move faster.

However, having run only thirty or forty meters, Grant, who was flying in front, stopped again and called him to a halt, "Master, stop. There is one locator each within three to five meters in the 11 o'clock, 1 o'clock, and 3 o'clock directions ahead. Please be careful to destroy them..."

With the experience from last time, Sun Cheng decisively took out another Hand Grenade, pulled the pin, threw it, and then retreated to hide.

The explosion destroyed the locators set by the Ghost again, and also made the long roar of the Tyrannosaurus Rex in the forest even more furious, with the sound getting closer and closer to him.

Sun Cheng dared not linger. After Grant confirmed it was safe, he immediately rushed forward. This time, he ran another forty meters or so before Grant called him to a halt again, "There is one locator each within two to four meters in the 10 o'clock, 12 o'clock, 1 o'clock, 4 o'clock, and 6 o'clock directions ahead. Please be careful to destroy them..."

Taking out a Hand Grenade and holding it in his hand, Sun Cheng's face looked somewhat ugly, "Grant, exactly how many locators are there?"

Although the United States is a country that allows arms sales, Hand Grenades are clearly not something that can be bought in regular weapon supermarkets.

There were only a few Hand Grenades in the security room on the island. When leaving the Yanjiu Zhongxin, for the sake of portability, Sun Cheng had only taken four.

"This is the last spot in this direction. The Hunter's spaceship is currently just over ten meters away in the 11 o'clock direction directly in front of you, Master!"

Upon hearing this, Sun Cheng felt a boost in his spirits and hurriedly looked up, but he hadn't expected that it was clearly just an empty clearing; where was any spaceship!

Just as he was puzzled, a furious roar came from behind again. He hurriedly looked back; although he didn't see anything, he knew just from the sound that the Tyrannosaurus Rex was not far from him now.

Not daring to ask Grant carefully anymore, Sun Cheng hurriedly raised the Hand Grenade, pulled the pin violently, and then threw it forward.

"Boom..."

The huge sound caused by the explosion was undoubtedly the best beacon.

"Roar..."

Behind him, along with the explosion, a terrifying beast roar and the sound of trees being snapped echoed. Sun Cheng did not dare to hide far away this time, so he felt as if his whole body had been roasted by the boiling heat of the explosion.

However, out of concern for the increasingly close beast roar, he did not dare to wait long and quickly climbed up from the ground. He had just reached out to wipe the foul mud off his face when, to his surprise, he looked up and saw a huge, terrifying monster charging toward him with all its might from over a hundred meters away.

The successive explosions and the Flashlight in Sun Cheng's hand were exactly the best beacons!

"Oh no..."

His face dropped suddenly, and in an instant, he felt cold sweat breaking out all over his body.

All the information about the Tyrannosaurus Rex that Doctor Grant had mentioned in the afternoon emerged in his mind one by one.

"... The Tyrannosaurus Rex is a very ferocious and cunning predator. They have an extremely strong sense of territory, and are cunning, treacherous, and irritable... The maximum bite force of a Tyrannosaurus Rex is about 183,000 to 235,000 Newtons; this is a force that can easily tear apart an infantry fighting vehicle... Its muscles are very well-developed, especially its two hind legs and tail. Being stepped on by its hind legs, even a car can be easily crushed, while its tail can whip a prey weighing two or three tons into the air... Slow speed is probably the only weakness of the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Of course, I mean it is not as fast as our cars, but according to data projections, the Tyrannosaurus Rex can reach speeds of thirty to forty kilometers per hour. This means that if humans and it existed in the same era, the only thing we could do once we encountered a Tyrannosaurus Rex is to pray that this guy is full..."

Too many things flashed through his mind in an instant. Sun Cheng felt death so close to him for the first time, and even his thoughts seemed to be frozen.

"Master, it has been confirmed that there are no more locators ahead..."

Fortunately, the cold electronic voice was like a basin of cold water poured over his head, instantly bringing him back to his senses.

After calming down, Sun Cheng struggled to climb up from the ground. No longer daring to turn his head to look at the terrifying giant beast that had already rushed to within a few dozen meters of him, he ran with all his might toward the spaceship.

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