Chapter 552 Tracking
When day comes, the sky is red and the atmosphere always has a faint smell of ammonia. Coupled with a sand storm that has no signs at all, it is definitely not a good place to live in peace.
"Have you determined the location? It should be not far from the main plane."
"There is actually no concept of distance, but if you use the distance to mark it, it is not far away, X21238 world, a broken world with no value."
The advantages of owning R&D departments and professionals have emerged again. While other big trucks are still busy exploring the surrounding situation, Zheng Li's people have deduced specific information about the world from minerals, carbon isotopes, and atmospheric data, and have also determined the approximate location of their current location.
"It's a pity that they didn't enter that passage world directly."
"The other party is not stupid, and we must also consider the possibility that the teleportation point is discovered by us. The nearest space conversion point should be within the sixth ring road."
The X21238 world is a relatively young world in terms of numbering, but not every world has value. Some worlds have nothing valuable except wind, sand, atmosphere, and water sources.
In the arena of the gods, there are quite a few such abandoned worlds. Some think they have no development value, while others are because they are full of difficult monsters.
Judging from the more than six hours of driving, Zheng Li felt that the world should be the former. The wind and sand kept hitting the glass walls of the cart. Even if the wind and sand were already done, the journey along the way was still quite unhappy.
The wheels have been repeatedly trapped in floating sand several times, and the firefly cart is forced to use psionic technology to maintain normal operation. Such consumption is not something that ordinary carts can support.
"The exit should not be far, let's stick with it."
The huge short-range teleportation capability is quite limited. This world is not far from Shiqian City. Song Ying and the others have found several ways to return to the city. The closest link is only about two or three days' drive.
The tracked convoy has disbanded. The wolves are not chasing the prey themselves, but rather tracking and searching for the paths the prey has taken. The dispersion is to collect more information and increase the chance of finding prey.
Zheng Li looked at the sky. There were only a few hours of daytime here. The red sky finally turned black again, but there were no stars in the sky.
The dense dark clouds and strong winds make positioning extremely difficult. While floating sand creates difficulties for the cart, it also erases all traces of travel. If you target the "Smoke Bomb World", this is indeed a very successful choice.
At least, just the first step, in the first world, some hunting dogs tend to lose their direction.
"Which exit did they come out? It shouldn't be the official exit. Could it be the crack that I opened in private?"
Although it is a different world in the data, the situation seems to be developing towards an increasingly worse situation.
Not long ago, the firefly cart walked through the fortress city where humans were here, which means passing by the space checkpoint of Shiqian City.
Even gods cannot know every space rift in the nearby small and medium-sized world. The human side’s defensive tendency is to block all “points” leading to the main plane. This is the best choice under the premise of limited defensive power.
But if this world leads directly to a deeper other world, then if the opponent's army comes from that side, he can only passively defend himself.
"Hope is still just our plane."
If it is still a human territory, then the unknown space crack is farther away from Shimian City in terms of physical distance, making it easier to be prepared.
To put it bluntly, the closer you get, the less strategic space you have, and this world is not suitable as a frontline for defense.
Unfortunately, Zheng Li's prayer was not responded. When the tracking "butterfly" stopped the rhythm of flying, the landing point was a hidden cave.
"The space crack in the cave with artificial structure? It's really a big deal."
The firefly cart has never been known for its speed, and Zheng Li was not the first to find a target. A row of carts had already been parked outside the cave. When he walked into the cave, he also saw the people talking.
"How is it? Where is the way? Has anyone gone?"
Song Ying went up to ask about the situation, but Zheng Li opened her eyes and looked over.
On the other side, there is a clear sky and a blue beach. Although it is still a "sand beach", the scenery is completely different from what is here.
The space crack without obstacles cannot defend against Zheng Li's spying on him.
Finding this rift does not mean that the hunter's work in this world is over. On the contrary, some more troublesome things have just begun.
"Leave three cars, equipped with professional equipment, and look for other unrecorded cracks."
There may not be only one crack to the same world. On the contrary, due to the feasibility of the link, the cost of artificially creating a second crack will be quite low.
This world has been confirmed to border the world of human beings. So, in addition to the jumping cleft in the "autonomous region", there are probably more than a dozen known clefts, especially the world is obviously weak.
The existence of this "plural cave" often means that the two worlds are in a state of fusion, and it will be relatively easy to open a crack. This is the swallowing of strong to weak between planes. It is a good thing for the human world, but not necessarily for the human beings living on it.
"If it is confirmed that this is the road world left by the Atels, I am afraid that this place will be transformed into a fortress world. When I think of the guys who are going to come here to work, I feel sad for them."
Along the way, everyone also checked the information. There was really nothing in this world. The only common creature is the mud-type creature. Basically, all kinds of "stinky fish and rotten shrimps" are tossed with rare water sources here. The taste is said to be quite scattered, the kind that is rare and hard to eat with shredded pork.
Deserts, especially floating sand terrain, occupy at least 50% of the world's areas. This geographical structure is not only not suitable for transportation, but also not suitable for building foundations.
The followers who stayed behind were more about communication and communication with surrounding towns, allowing the message to move the city when it was passed, and allowing them to send professionals to conduct complete exploration of such a worthless abandoned small world, which is indeed very suitable for hiding things.
Next, as long as we determine the strategic necessity of defense here, no matter how hard it is, at least several legions will be stationed.
The subsequent development still made Zheng Li underestimate the layout of the Atel people.
"This is the seventh world, right?"
"Yes, I traveled through seven worlds in two days, including the two times I returned to the human Mercury world, and I traveled through nine times."
As unknown space cracks were discovered, even though they returned to the human world twice in the middle, until now, the escaped convoy still did not pass the official human level and there was no possibility of being verified.
Something strange happened. Since the two return to the human world had actually been around for a whole circle, some areas had begun to overlap, and the trackers had turned around.
"Have you missed it? Or did you go wrong? No, we tracked it all the way very carefully. It is impossible for so many professional trackers to make mistakes at the same time. They are repeatedly turning around, and they have taken the 'useless' back path."
To deal with the tracker, repeatedly circle and suddenly turn at a certain position. Although this trick is old-fashioned, it is indeed very useful.
There are quite a few traces along the way. When they suddenly disappear at a certain point, those already rare traces become interference from hunters and an obstacle to determining that "point".
"On the bus around the city, they got off the bus halfway, but we couldn't determine which station it was. The most deadly thing was that time was on their side, and we couldn't afford it."
A tracer explained the current situation in vivid words. The biggest problem is that they will go further and further over time, making tracking more difficult.
The gray enterprise that smuggled showed off its professionalism at this time, which made the police who were trying to rescue them feel very troubled. It was a dilemma that people couldn't laugh at.
"Scatter, fortunately we have a lot of people. The task force has considered this kind of information."
"This is what the other party expects. It is not advisable for wise men to take the initiative to divide the troops."
But in the current situation, division of troops is the only choice. Everyone determines their own goals. Although most people may waste a lot of time, there are always people who will be on the right path.
"Zheng Li, come here."
At this time, an unexpected communication made Zheng Li stunned for a moment.
"Sherry? Now?"
"Yeah, now."
In the reception room, Zheng Li saw Shirley and Xiaolan with a cautious look on their faces, as well as Zheng Lusuo and Mr. Long who were busy with work.
In order to deal with possible battles, Zheng Li did not hesitate to attract foreign aid this time. Two of the twelve zodiac signs were idle and agreed to come and help. At the same time, there were two helpers from the Zheng family.
Originally, Zheng Hongqi was very interested in following him, but as a guard, she could not leave the city at will, so she could only give up helplessly.
As thugs who were "hired" here, they have been in the car for nothing in the past two days. Now they take the initiative to come over to Zheng Li. Of course, there is something important. In fact, when they called him Shirley, Zheng Li guessed what might have happened.
"I felt the psychic energy of Capricorn. Although it was very weak, she should have passed through that area."
Well, it's true that it's the matter between the twelve zodiac signs.
This roundabout way, shuttled through the "unrecorded cracks", and seemed to have unknowingly approached the world that Capricorn had passed through as mentioned in the previous information.
Obviously, this is already a new path, with no unknown channels appearing in the human military database.
Shirley said that she was informing her, and she even asked, asking, "Do you see if you can find the Capricorn?"
This is indeed not suitable for public speaking when you are doing serious business, and you run out to talk about private matters, which may even affect your next actions.
After looking at the map, it was also a suspicious place around. Zheng Li said to other convoys and booked a section of searching and tracking.
At this time, the hunters who had traveled through seven or eight worlds had spent more than four days. The facts of circles were placed in front of them, and many people also lacked the confidence at the beginning.
What is most troublesome is that some of the "trackers" have begun to become significantly invalid and they don't even give guidance on circles.
If something hadn't happened there, it would have been active interference, which would have caused most of the investigation methods to become invalid.
All the "tokens" of some big trucks have failed and have completely lost the possibility of independent tracking. They can only follow other big trucks and work as handymen.
Fortunately, or it was not luck at all, all the three tokens in Zheng Li's hand were in good condition, and his request for independent exploration was quickly approved.
Not long after, on a cliff, Shirley found a psionic mark, which was a sheep's head carved on the mountain wall, and was covered with blood stains with powerful psionic energy.
Even though several years had passed at the earliest, the red blood mark still shone with a faint light of inspiration, as if announcing that its master is still alive.
Immediately, Shirley touched the sheep's head mark, her face full of joy.
Zheng Li paused for a moment and thought
"Why did she leave her mark here? There is no village in front of her, and no shop behind her. If I am a lost traveler, I want to leave a record and let the search find the direction I am moving forward. I must leave an arrow representing the direction at conspicuous intersections, crossroads and other places."
Zheng Li opened his eyes, opened his psychic energy, and looked at the opposite side.
Sure enough, he saw a portal that had become a ruin on that side, which was an artificial portal that had been activated.
As for the teleportation building here? I'm afraid it has been buried in the soil and rocks, or it has been a one-time from the beginning.
"I informed the convoy that we found a one-way teleportation point, and the target might be there, maybe 'they' are getting off here."
There is a ruin on the opposite side that is suspected to be a teleportation point, which is not enough conclusive evidence. Zheng Li and his party have seen too many messy things in the past two days, and there are also a few strange scenes next to each other, which makes people have no idea how to choose to track it.
But now, in a dilemma where everyone is confused and can only use time and attempts to solve puzzles, a clear direction instantly becomes everyone's hope.
Soon, when the experts verified Zheng Li’s statement, the convoy was divided into five cars and prepared to go in and investigate.
Space experts are also busy. This place is not Shiqiancheng. Without unlimited equipment, funds and personnel support, it takes less than hours to reconstruct a crack in the space.
At this time, Zheng Li didn't want to wait.
"Let's go one step first."
Since he could see it and was not far away, Zheng Li was cruel and took action.
He did not use his space jumping ability in place. If the information left behind in the local area is destroyed, tracking will become more difficult.
The firefly cart drove a little further away, but it still locked in the opposite world. After confirming that the distance was enough, the firefly cart fell into a different world as the silver light flashed.
The next moment, she left the fragile world at full speed and tore it apart behind it. The fragile world can easily cause chain dimensional shocks. Every time she uses the "exchange" ability, she must be extremely careful.
And when the firefly cart just arrived at a safe area, they knew that the road was correct.
On the ground in front, there is a familiar mineral water bottle. The Shiqiancheng trademark on it makes people feel full of irony.
Chapter completed!