Fantasy Game: Infinite City

Some time ago, the spacecraft was about to explode three minutes ago.

Five kilometers away from the spacecraft.

A medium-sized landing ship that can accommodate one hundred people landed from the sky. After the hatch at the rear of the landing ship opened, a team of 20 people walked down the ladder in an orderly and rapid manner. All of them were wearing heavy but flexible power armor. However, not all of these 20 people were the same. Six of them had white-painted power armor and had additional backpacks on their backs that looked like some kind of medical device. They should be the medical staff in the team.

Two of them were wearing power armors painted bright silver. On both sides of the helmet of one of them, there were golden decorative parts resembling wheat ears. On the shoulder armors of the power armors were two different golden badges. The badge on the left shoulder was some kind of ancient hieroglyphics that looked very much like the oracle bone script of the Dragon Kingdom. On the right shoulder was a creature head wrapped in wheat ears that looked like a dragon's head. The other one's power armor was similar to his, except that the wheat ears on his head were missing.

There are 12 people left, their power armor is red, but the helmets and shoulder armor are not painted. Everyone is about the same height, about 3 meters. If the thickness of the power armor is excluded, the basic height of these people should be around meters.

Everyone was holding a weapon. The 12 ordinary soldiers were holding fully automatic machine guns with a caliber of over 40 mm but made to look like rifles. The medical staff were holding semi-automatic hand cannons with a caliber of over 30 mm. Everyone had close combat weapons hanging on their backs. The 12 ordinary soldiers were holding short power hammers, and the six medical soldiers were holding one-handed sickles with high-frequency vibrating blades.

The remaining two soldiers seem to be the commanders of this team. The one with wheat ears on his helmet should be the one with the highest status, and the other should be his adjutant or something like that.

On the ground to the commander's right is a heavy hammer spear. The rectangular hammer head with a cone at the end can pierce into the ground. It can stand upright and stable on the ground even without holding it with hands. There are some small devices on the base of the spear blade that is more than half a meter long, which should be able to be used to launch deadly energy beams. On the commander's left hand is a hard and sharp power claw that can easily tear apart 20 cm thick solid alloy.

The adjutant was much more low-key than the commander, only holding a two-handed high-frequency vibration sickle and a mechanical howitzer mounted on his shoulder armor.

The two people received information from the headquarters through the information screen in the power armor helmet and discussed something with each other.

"Captain, we..."

"This isn't home, what kind of position is this?"

"Okay, Zhuang, what are you going to do?"

"You should have received the message from home. Our mission is to rescue the engineer and the captain. According to what Harlock said before, the attack on the ground did not kill them. However, due to the enemy's ambush, Harlock was unable to return in time to rescue them. We should start looking for them first."

"That old guy Harlock was really lucky. The enemy's landing capsule shot directly into the command room of his gunship and almost crushed him to death. However, he reacted quickly and pulled out his pistol to shoot the soldiers in the landing capsule into a sieve."

"Well, the political commissar did tell me about this. He said that old man Harlock fought the enemy without wearing power armor, and one of his hands was blown off by the enemy's weapon. Calculating the time, he should have recovered by now. With the old man's personality, he should be here soon."

"It's good to have his gunboat support, although it may not be necessary, but Harlock is indeed a reliable comrade."

"Don't be careless. A lot of the mechanically modified soldiers sent by Harlock were killed in the first wave of conflict. Most importantly, those enemies don't have power armor."

"According to the information sent back by the captain before we lost contact, those enemies are very strange. They wear armor from the ground era and have weapons that are even inferior to ours. However, they are able to gain a slight advantage in the battle with the mechanical soldiers. Where do you think they came from?"

"No matter where they come from, they are very dangerous. We must be careful and never take it lightly. How is the political commissar?"

Another signal appeared in the company commander's communication channel, coming from inside the landing ship. It was the political commissar mentioned by the company commander.

"I have made all the arrangements here. I will lead the remaining comrades to hold on to the landing module. At the same time, I will use radar to search for the captain and the engineer's distress signals. Captain, I don't think you should go there yourself. At least you should bring some soldiers with you. This is the first landing on this planet. Before we find the captain and the engineer, we don't have any detailed information about this planet."

"I will not say more about the importance of the landing module. As your company commander, I must lead by example. A high military rank does not mean that I am more important than others. Political Commissar, your awareness needs to be improved."

"Captain, I still stick to my opinion. I think you should really bring some more..."

"Alright, alright, follow the order. By the way, remember my principles. If an uncontrollable situation occurs, you must evacuate with the comrades who remain on the landing module immediately. As for whether to use gunboats to clean up the situation or something else, you can decide for yourself."

"beep."

The company commander cut off communication with the political commissar, pulled up the hammer spear on the ground and put it on his shoulder, and said a few words to the soldiers following him.

"For this mission, let me be frank. We have almost no information, so everything depends on ourselves. If you don't want to go, get out now and return to the landing module. Don't try to escape from the battle!"

"Wind! Wind! Wind!"

However, none of the soldiers, including the medics, retreated. Although their expressions could not be seen through the power armor, the momentum of their slogans showed the resolute faces hidden under the power armor.

"Okay, no shame. Let's go!"

Carrying hammer spears, the captain and the adjutant walked at the front of the team, the medical soldiers were surrounded in the middle, and the whole team left the landing capsule and began to move up a river. Their target was the crashed spacecraft, and the captain, engineer and others might return there.

"There is a special unknown spore in the air. It is toxin-containing and highly parasitic, but it is only effective against living things. This should be what Hallock and the survivors were talking about."

"The engineer sent back a message earlier, but due to signal problems, the message was incomplete. We can only analyze the word "time limit". Combined with the vaccines and some plants brought back by the survivors, I guess they probably want to say that these vaccines are not permanent, medic!"

"Have!"

The company commander expressed his idea and asked the medical soldiers to collect some potentially useful alien plants according to the vaccine formula they had previously learned, so as to take them back for research.

"The crash site of the spacecraft is just a few kilometers ahead. I tried to send a signal there, but there was no response. The engineer and the captain should not have returned yet."

"When we get there, we'll investigate first to see if there's anything left..."

"Boom!!!!" A huge explosion and ground vibration occurred suddenly, and a huge fireball appeared in the sky. It was clearly visible even from several kilometers away. In an instant, the sky was filled with dazzling light.

"Hold your weapons, keep steady, and don't fire accidentally!"

At the command of the company commander, the entire team half-knelt on the ground, tightly holding their weapons. The team's discipline and execution were very high, and no accidents occurred.

The gradually decreasing shock wave and air wave passed through the team after a few seconds. The company commander ordered to wait for a while, and after making sure that there would be no secondary explosion, he stood up and ordered the team to move quickly towards the explosion site.

"Everyone, listen to my orders! Adjust the dynamic server power to 15%, quickly move towards the explosion site, and prepare for battle!"

"Everyone has heard what the captain said! Everyone, stay within the limit, conserve the energy of your power armor, and prepare for possible combat or search and rescue!"

"Dong dong dong dong!"

The company commander and the adjutant led the group of canned goods and rushed to the explosion point quickly and orderly.

After a while, the explosion site was in ruins.

Most of the spacecraft had been vaporized, and the remaining surviving parts had been melted into liquid metal by the high temperature, flowing at the bottom of the huge crater created by the explosion. The area nearby had been burned into a wasteland, with occasional flames still burning stubbornly.

"Who the hell did this?"

"Zhuang, judging from the traces left by the explosion, someone must have overloaded the main reactor of the spacecraft, causing the explosion from the inside."

"It must have been someone else who did it! The engineer and the captain would never do such a thing. Those two guys value the spaceship more than themselves, especially the old engineer. This spaceship is basically his child. He was personally responsible for more than 80% of the changes."

"Is it possible that they were attacked again? They had no choice but to detonate the spacecraft?"

"No, I just sent a message to the political commissar. He did not find the registered signal source before the explosion. This means that the captain and the engineer were not at the explosion site. We have to find the server on the spacecraft first. (The black box)"

"I doubt the servers will survive. With an explosion of this magnitude, I don't think anything would be left."

"The outside of the server is wrapped with a special material that can theoretically withstand temperatures exceeding ten thousand degrees for a short period of time. Keep hope, Adjutant. We really need this hope if we want to figure out what happened."

"Captain! We have made a discovery here!"

A soldier ran over from a distance and called out to the company commander. The company commander and the adjutant quickly caught up with him, and after some distance, they came to a group of rocks.

"Captain, adjutant, our detector has detected the server's signal. The signal is a little weak, but still intact. The explosion must have shattered the spacecraft into pieces, and thrown the pieces out of the range of the fireball and landed here. The pieces should still carry the server, which is not seriously damaged."

"Can you locate the exact location?"

"Yes, he was a few meters underground. He must have fallen into a cave by chance and avoided the expansion of the fireball."

"Where's the Terraformer? Bring it here!"

Several soldiers walked over quickly and took out some instruments they were carrying. With the help of detectors, these instruments shot out several curved energy beams, changing the topography of the rock group and opening up a flat road in the intricate rock group, leading directly to the location of the server signal.

When they arrived just above the signal location, they found a naturally formed cave. The cave was not deep, only about six or seven meters. The entrance to the cave was not small, enough for the soldiers' power armor to pass freely. After confirming it was safe, several soldiers used jet packs to descend to the bottom of the cave and brought up the fragments of the spacecraft.

"The edges showed signs of melting due to high temperatures. Fortunately, the internal servers were not damaged, but the protective shells were scrapped."

"What's with the signal degradation? Was the servo damaged by the melted casing?"

"No, Zhuang, there is some water at the bottom of the cave. There should be some unknown radiation in it that can interfere with the server's signal. It should be fine now."

The captain put the hammer on the ground aside, and used the power claws on the power armor to gently peel the server out from the curled up fragments. Fortunately, the server was not seriously damaged, only a corner was melted a little, but fortunately the storage unit inside was not damaged.

"Here, this is your job. Remember to send the records back to the political commissar."

"rest assured."

The adjutant turned on the server, connected to the storage unit through the interface on the power armor, and explored the information inside. However, looking at the adjutant's increasingly surprised expression, the company commander began to feel that this matter seemed to be becoming more complicated.

"What did you see?"

"I... I'm not sure. I think we have to go back to the landing ship first. I have to confirm that what I saw is indeed real."

"So serious? Okay, everyone! Return to the landing ship!"

“Dong dong dong dong!!!”

With heavy footsteps, the team quickly returned to the landing ship, and brought back a lot of native plant samples needed for vaccine production.

Time returns to the present.

Garcia followed the guidance of the system and came to a swamp-like place. There were pools of water of varying sizes with colorful liquids floating on the surface. It was obvious that they contained a large amount of toxins and radioactivity, and occasionally there was a pungent smell rising.

Although there was no indication of poisoning or abnormal status on the system panel, Garcia still resisted instinctively. These liquids looked like they were not good things.

"Can a place like this really have the materials to repair Han Zu?"

However, the range given by the system seems very definite.

After walking around this colorful swamp, Garcia found nothing, but he did find some strange creatures. They looked like toads with eight legs, but their eyes were like snail tentacles, and their bodies were covered with long, hard hairs. They were about the size of a microwave oven.

"Crack."

However, the calls of these creatures are not much different from those of toads, and they don't seem to like exercise. The unique membranes on their soles can greatly enhance their buoyancy, allowing them to squat on the water. Some of the relatively small ones, which should be juveniles of this species, can even walk on the water.

However, what Garcia is looking for should have nothing to do with them, and should not be outside the swamp, but deep inside.

"Ugh! This feels really creepy. I hope I don't sink into the mud."

Garcia slowly walked into the swamp. The liquid was not as smooth as it looked. Instead, it was very sticky. Stepping in it felt like an unknown creature was touching her skin. It was very uncomfortable.

Fortunately, the mud under the liquid was not deep, just above Garcia's knees. Although he walked very slowly, it was not dangerous.

The mud was above Garcia's knees, and the colorful sticky liquid on it just covered his abdomen. It was not dangerous, but the touch was certainly not pleasant.

It took Garcia two full hours to gradually walk to the depths of the swamp, where some aquatic plants grew. Unlike those alien plants that eat other creatures, these plants are just simple plants. They have tissues similar to lotus leaves, but they are obviously much larger. The toad-like creatures that have been seen before would occasionally appear on these lotus leaf-like tissues.

"This should be it, so what exactly do I need to look for?"

Turning his head and looking around, the surroundings were peaceful, but the colorful light pollution made Garcia lose his direction for a moment and he didn't know what to look for.