#1964 - Through the shell

Alyssa’s progress and actions were very important, but she didn’t know this, and the idea of ​​finding treasure and making a lot of money prevailed in her mind.

Even Li Chengxi did not have an accurate understanding of the importance of this matter.

After all, no one knows what the Glowing Ion Yin Cult has kept for the Demon King over the years.

However, Alyssa had her own schedule, and Li Chengxi never urged her, so she naturally followed the schedule.

There is no real day and night in the void, and all schedules are based on the so-called "standard time".

When Li Chengxi looked over, Alyssa and the others were already on their way again.

There were originally many roads leading to the warehouse and even the freight port, but except for the maintenance passage, all the roads were blocked artificially.

If they returned by the same route, they would go back to the foundry, but if they opened a blocked road, to be honest, they didn't know which one would be more appropriate.

Even though you have a map, this is not a game. There are no accurate task instructions on the map, and it will not tell you where the things you want to find are.

Before this, everyone was actually heading towards the core command room of the fortress. Alyssa thought that as long as she put the boot disk on it, Li Chengxi would take over the entire planet fortress, and it would be easy to find anything she wanted.

But not to mention that the planet fortress is too huge and the road to the command room is too far. Referring to the situation of the warehouse and cargo port, no one can tell how many areas the planet fortress is physically divided into. It is very likely that it is not fully connected.

This means that even if the boot disk is put in, Alyssa and the others may still need to continue exploring in the end, which will take too much time.

In view of this, the Swan did not enter the cargo port simply to move the spoils. In the past period of time, the ship's large scanner has conducted a detailed scan of the interior of the planet fortress.

Vilania, who was in charge of operating the scanner, said that although the planet fortress was too large to accurately scan every route, it was successfully confirmed that there were several parts with extremely high energy reactions inside the planet fortress.

Considering its size, the part with extremely high energy reaction might be the reactor, but with the information collected during the war of gods, Villania compared the data and ruled out the place that might be the reactor. The remaining place might very well be the place where the priesthood that Li Chengxi was looking for was placed.

This is much easier and the route becomes clearer.

Fang Lanyin used the crane on the Swan to open the sealed door, and then Alyssa led the original team out of the freight warehouse and headed towards the nearest suspicious location scanned by the scanner.

Although it is said to be the closest, the actual distance cannot be close.

The energy source of this planetary fortress is intact, and the air and water circulation systems are basically working, but a large number of facilities are unusable due to lack of maintenance. If you rely purely on walking, it will take two or three days to get there, and nothing can go wrong or take a detour during this period.

The group drove a large flatbed truck for transporting goods back on the road. About half an hour later, they walked out of the freight channel and the flatbed truck could not move forward, so everyone had to get off and walk.

After walking for nearly half an hour, Alyssa and her friends were lucky enough to find a fast transport belt that was still working.

In the past, people in the planet fortress relied on this thing for quick commuting, which saved a lot of time. It's a pity that the small internal portal cannot be activated, otherwise they would be able to move instantly within the planet fortress.

The group crossed a large area on this conveyor belt. The distance they walked on the conveyor belt was longer than the distance they walked in the previous two days.

But it still hasn't reached the deepest part of the planet fortress, this thing is just too big.

After spending forty minutes comfortably, the conveyor belt reached the end and everyone had to get off and continue walking.

About two hours after the start, Alyssa called up the information data provided by the scanner and the map she had found before, and chose the correct gate at an almost formed intersection.

This door is extremely heavy and looks just like an airlock door. Alyssa guessed that this door should be the dividing door between different sections of the planet fortress.

After all, planet fortresses are built in a modular way just like battleships. They are plugged together like building blocks and look like a whole from the outside. In fact, planet fortresses are like onions, with one layer wrapped inside another.

Arriving here means that Alyssa and the others have just passed through the outermost layer of the planetary fortress.

The indicator light on the door was completely broken. No one knew the air pressure, gravity, whether there were toxic gases, etc. behind the door, so they all put on masks before opening the door.

Sophia used door-breaking explosives to blow up the gate's operating mechanism, and after tinkering with it for a while, she was able to reopen the gate, which had probably not been opened for hundreds of years.

Everyone clenched their guns and stared at the door. There was a muffled "empty" sound, and the thick metal plates opened to the left and right. A burst of white mist first gushed out from the cracks.

This made Alyssa's heart skip a beat. Damn, could the cooling device at the back explode?

The air circulation system within the planetary fortress will generally collect the water vapor and put it back into the water circulation, so this kind of water mist situation will not occur.

Either the air circulation system broke down or the pipes carrying high-temperature and high-pressure cooling water burst, which is why there is a lot of water mist.

At this time, the gate was fully opened, and the water mist was like a sand dune that was piled too high, falling down through the gap in the gate.

A thick layer of fog had begun to spread around everyone's feet, as if licking their protective suits, quietly slipping away, and pouring into the air circulation system in the corridor.

Alyssa took out the test stick and found that there was no problem with the air quality and no toxins were found. What surprised her even more was that the temperature of the white water mist was not actually high. It was not the high-temperature steam transformed from high-temperature and high-pressure cooling water as Alyssa had just thought.

No, then how is this fog formed?

Just after putting away the test stick, Alyssa heard Li Chengxi say in her headphones:

"Something is coming towards you. It must be a monster."

"Everyone, prepare for battle!"

Everyone immediately raised their guns and put their fingers on the trigger.

The next moment, two huge black shadows emerged from the mist. At first glance, they looked like two huge crocodiles, nearly half a person's height, and their length could not be seen clearly.

They were the first to notice Alyssa and the others at the door, and immediately opened their mouths to attack.

Although crocodiles have short legs, they run very fast, especially a huge crocodile like this one, which can jump far away with just one leap.

"Fire!"

The beams of light from various energy weapons intertwined together, piercing through the mist, scorching flesh and blood, and mixed with one or two violent explosions.

Crocodile, pawn.