#526 - Chapter 526 Sand Man
Soon, the flying robot arrived in the Aksu region.
"Wait, is this the Peacock River?" Dongfang Chen asked, pointing at the screen.
"Yes, Commander." Little Lin replied.
The location of the epicenter is in the central area of Aksu, 10 kilometers south of the Peacock River, and only 10 kilometers away from the Taklamakan Desert to the south.
This is the only way to cross western Wujiang and enter Moduo.
"The epicenter is here?" Dongfang Chen asked.
"Yes, Commander."
"Zoom in!"
"Okay."
Dongfang Chen had a faint feeling that something was about to happen here.
"Dai Zheng, come and take a look. Is this the location where we rescued Old Qin more than ten years ago?" Dongfang Chen called Dai Zheng over.
"Let me see." Dai Zheng immediately walked over.
"Almost. It should be a bit further north, closer to Lop Nur." Dai Zheng replied after looking at the map for a while.
"Okay! Little Lin, send more drones to closely monitor this area. Report immediately if you find anything unusual." Dongfang Chen ordered.
"Yes, Commander."
A steady stream of drones flew towards the Aksu region.
......
"Holy One, look, there are drones in the sky!" A follower shouted.
"Hide everyone, don't move!" Jing Qi ordered.
"Holy One, these drones aren't here to find us, are they?" The follower asked.
"They should have been attracted by the tremor." Jing Qi thought for a moment and analyzed.
"That's good!" The follower breathed a sigh of relief.
"What the hell is going on! We are already Tier 2 Mutants, but we are being forced to hide like rats by a bunch of ants. It's really humiliating!" The injured follower complained.
"Stop talking nonsense. If you want to die, go far away, don't implicate us." Another follower retorted.
"Shut up, all of you!" Jing Qi was annoyed to death.
He had been tracking the source of the sound, and now he had a bad feeling. He felt that these sounds were directed at them.
......
"Commander, there is an anomaly." Not long after, Little Lin reminded.
"What's wrong?" Dongfang Chen asked.
"Unidentified objects have appeared on the ground." Little Lin reported.
"Zoom in!" Dongfang Chen stared at the screen.
"Zoom in again!"
At this time, faint black dots could be vaguely seen moving.
"Zoom in again!"
Now, the little black dots could be seen more clearly.
"What are these things?" Dongfang Chen felt a chill down his spine.
These things looked like flowing sand, and also like walking little people.
The reason why they appeared black from a distance was because what was seen was only their shadows.
"Preliminary judgment is sand." Little Lin replied.
"......" Dongfang Chen was speechless.
Little Lin always said some inexplicable nonsense at certain times.
He could see that too.
But the question was, why did this sand take on the shape of people, and why could it walk on the Gobi Desert?
"Test it and see why they can move?" Dongfang Chen ordered.
"Yes, Commander." Little Lin replied.
"Warning! A large number of nanobots have been destroyed!"
"Warning! A large number of nanobots have been destroyed!"
"What's going on?" Dongfang Chen asked.
"Commander, nanobots cannot get close to those sand people. As long as the distance is less than 10 centimeters, they will be directly destroyed." Little Lin replied.
"Commander, the exploration mission has failed." Little Lin added.
"Find out why the nanobots were destroyed?" Dongfang Chen ordered.
"Yes, Commander, checking now."
"Commander, there is an extremely dense electromagnetic field on the outer layer of the sand people. Nanobots will immediately fail after approaching." Little Lin quickly reported the results.
This was already the second thing that restrained nanobots.
Previously, it was discovered that there was a layer of nano-coating on the surface of the Ok Empire's mecha, which had a strong adsorption to nanobots.
But that was only the surface after all.
Integrating nanobots into the warhead of armor-piercing bullets could effectively solve this problem.
But now the electromagnetic field on the sand people might completely disable the nanobots.
"Dai Zheng, send a mecha over and try firing a few armor-piercing rounds." Dongfang Chen ordered.
"Yes!" Dai Zheng accepted the order and left.
Half an hour later, the mecha arrived in the sky above Aksu.
For safety reasons, the mecha remained in flight and dared not land.
"Commander, the mecha is in position." Dai Zheng walked back and reported.
"Fire." Dongfang Chen ordered.
"Yes!"
"Fire!" Dai Zheng shouted.
"Bang bang bang bang ~"
A burst of bullets shot towards a sand person.
"Shashasha ~"
The bullets passed directly through the sand person after hitting it.
The sand person was not affected in any way.
"Alright, let him come back!" Dongfang Chen already understood.
Armor-piercing bullets had absolutely no effect.
