Chapter 159: Suona Island

"Is it shut down?"

Sun Cheng looked at Defender, who nodded in understanding, "The Infrared Locator here has indeed been shut down..."

After receiving a confirmation from it, Sun Cheng nodded slightly, looked down again at the metal bracer on his left arm, felt its weight, and then gave the order to continue moving forward.

The Handheld Briefcase he had taken out from the Spherical Space contained the new exoskeleton device that Atlas and the others had redesigned for Sun Cheng in reality, based on the exoskeleton device he had obtained from the Ghost.

Because time was tight, and considering that he shouldn't encounter anything too dangerous in reality for the time being, the exoskeleton device on his arm was, strictly speaking, not yet perfect; at least in terms of combat, it was still far from it.

Because the auxiliary device contained all the data from the original Hunter auxiliary equipment, all the locators set up by the Ghost that he encountered along the way were safely shut down by him.

Soon after Sun Cheng and his companions walked out of this not-so-large Canyon, a flat grassland came into view.

"What a marvelous little island..."

Although it was not his first time experiencing the complex terrain of this island, having just climbed over a valley to reach a grassland, and then thinking back to how he had driven over several mountain peaks and passed through a sea of forest, Sun Cheng had to admit that this Nublar Island was truly the great power of nature.

Heaven knows that when he was in the world of 【Transformers】, he had also piloted the Frenzy Body to fly to this sea area of the other world, but unfortunately, even after searching for half a day along the coordinates from the real world, he was never able to find Nublar Island.

It can be seen that the real world he was in and the world of 【Transformers】, even though they had many similarities, were truly not located in the same parallel universe.

After a night of rushing, it was already nearly four o'clock in the morning; the distant horizon was slightly brightening, but the island was still shrouded in darkness.

Many Brachiosaurus inhabited this grassland outside the Canyon, and along the way, Sun Cheng could hear the sudden, high-pitched, and long calls of the Brachiosaurus from time to time.

As they were walking forward, Defender, who was flying in front to keep watch, suddenly stopped.

Revenge had not received any transmission from him, so Sun Cheng immediately understood that it must have discovered something, though it should not be dangerous.

He couldn't help but quicken his pace and jogged toward it. Before he even got close, he felt a pungent, fishy stench rush toward him, which immediately made him feel a surge of nausea in his stomach; the midnight snack he had eaten at the Exhibition Center not long ago was nearly vomited out from the disgust.

"What is that smell..."

Covering his nose slightly, Sun Cheng leaned in.

"Master, it is a few corpses..."

Defender pointed to the top of the large tree where it had stopped. Sun Cheng followed the direction it pointed, raised his Flashlight to look, and his stomach churned even more violently.

"Damn it..." he cursed under his breath.

With the help of the Flashlight's beam, he could vaguely see several long, strip-shaped objects hanging from the branches three or four meters high. The thick, fishy stench nearby came from here; even without Defender's reminder, he could guess what was hanging above.

"They must be the missing security personnel from the island. They encountered the Ghost..."

Even though it had been washed by a heavy rain not long ago, this thick, fishy stench was still continuously wafting out, making Sun Cheng so disgusted that he didn't want to stay here for even a minute.

Just as he was about to leave, he never expected that as soon as he stretched out his foot, he felt something under his shoe make a friction sound against it; it was clearly a small metal object.

He pulled back his foot and shone the Flashlight toward where the sound came from. Sun Cheng's face turned pale, and he hurriedly took a step back, frantically shaking his foot.

It turned out that the soft spot he had stepped on, which he had thought was just some soft mud washed away after the heavy rain, was actually full of bloody organs, which appeared to come from the corpses on the tree.

And the reason for the sound was that his shoe had just stepped on a small metal object among the pile of organs; it looked like a US Military Dog Tag.

Enduring the nausea, Sun Cheng drew his Military Knife from his waist, picked it up in front of him, and shone the Flashlight on it, "Jimi Huopu... Green Berets..."

His expression shifted slightly, and he couldn't help but look up again at the corpses hanging on the tree. He really didn't expect them to be from the US Army Special Forces—the Green Berets.

"Could they be companions of Major Daqi and the others?"

Sun Cheng frowned and looked at the dog tag for a while, but unfortunately, he couldn't stay any longer because of the stench, so he threw the bloody dog tag onto the ground and called for Defender and Revenge to continue walking into the distance.

They walked for three or four kilometers along the grassland, finally walking out of the activity range of the Gallimimus, and after climbing over a gate not far ahead, they would be able to leave E Zone.

Persisting until he reached the gate, Sun Cheng panted heavily. His physical strength and energy had not recovered from the short-term traversal; on the contrary, he had walked at least twenty kilometers in the real world since last night and had gone through several battles. Having not slept all night, he was not only physically exhausted but his spirit was also increasingly weary.

"Let's rest here for a while!"

He ordered Defender to open the gate, and after entering the steel passage behind the gate, Sun Cheng sat down on the ground, preparing to rest for a while, otherwise, he really couldn't walk anymore.

Defender and Revenge stood quietly on his left and right to guard him. Seeing that a little light could already be seen in the sky, Sun Cheng's mood eased slightly, and he couldn't help but think of the Exhibition Center, so he asked Defender: "You were hiding in the Exhibition Center before; tell me, what did you see?"

"The true research center of International Genetic Technologies is on Suona Island, 140 kilometers away. Nublar Island is just the exhibition area for International Genetic Technologies. Therefore, the research center you mentioned, Master, should refer to the Exhibition Center!"

"There is another Suona Island?"

Sun Cheng was stunned, then quickly came back to his senses.

That's right!

He had found it strange before; although the Exhibition Center was not small, it was still too small to be used for researching and breeding dinosaurs.

Now that Defender had explained it this way, it resolved the doubt in his heart. Sure enough, the true research center of International Genetic Technologies was elsewhere.

He couldn't help but feel some interest in Suona Island, but after thinking about his experience on Nublar Island, he could only temporarily dismiss the idea of going to explore the truth. In the future, after the Hunter's spaceship was modified by Atlas and the others, he would sneak over to the island to take a look.

For now, he didn't continue to ask Defender about Suona Island, but instead listened to it talk about its encounters at the Exhibition Center.

Just as he was listening with interest, he didn't know how much time had passed, when Revenge and Defender, who were guarding him in front of Sun Cheng, suddenly trembled in unison, and the light flickering in their electronic eyes dimmed accordingly.

He was just curious and wanted to ask when he suddenly felt a slight tremor in the ground, followed by a terrifying explosion coming from afar.

The light of the explosion shot into the sky, instantly rendering the entire Nublar Island as bright as day.

Sun Cheng stood up abruptly and looked toward the direction of the explosion.

"That is... the Exhibition Center?"

Sun Cheng's heart sank, and he immediately understood: the last Ghost on the island was also dead!

PS:

Thanks to the four readers 'Eclaide', 'Liang Ren Yi Shi Jie', 'Ye Yu Yan Yue', and 'Dao Ke Yu Dao' for their support and rewards.

I have started using anti-theft chapters recently, which has affected the reading experience of all you readers. I, Battleship i, apologize here. However, after the anti-theft chapters were enabled, the subscription ratio for these chapters is on average 40% to 60% higher than those without, which really makes me feel quite sad.