Chapter 151
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Chapter 151: Deadly Weapons
The outer cannon fodder patrol teams, equipped with the Cerberus-II electronic reconnaissance dogs, split into 20 groups to search. However, until now, there has been no information at all. The Cerberus-II electronic reconnaissance dog, designed using biomimetic mechanical principles, is an intelligent robotic dog. While it has no combat capability, it is equipped with a variety of detection devices, including infrared, radar, and life detection. Its electronic sense of smell can reach 500 times that of an ordinary police dog, making it highly skilled at tracking and searching. It can perform optical visual tracking and has a 72-hour operational endurance.
Yet even with this, the 20 patrol teams with Cerberus-II dogs found no leads, still trapped in the places where the target had once appeared. All clues ended where the internal guard squad had perished, as if the target had evaporated into thin air.
The host took a deep breath, recognizing that the situation was grim. He clapped his hands to get everyone’s attention and said, “Waiting like this is not a solution. Investigator Moore and Major James, stay behind to form a special task force specifically for this issue. Everyone else, return to your posts and continue working.”
While everyone at the mountain base worried about Lin Mo’s whereabouts, Lin Mo, the protagonist, lounged leisurely underground beneath a baobab tree. Inside a space of more than ten square meters opened up by the gold giant dragon Gold Coin, he relaxed while munching on a baobab fruit freshly baked in a Gold Coin microwave. He watched television shows on a Gold Coin screen, with lighting and ventilation all in place, feeling as comfortable as if on vacation. He could even slightly bathe in the moisture absorbed from the baobab tree.
The patrol teams with Cerberus-II electronic reconnaissance dogs passed by the baobab tree multiple times but still failed to uncover the underground secret. It was unfortunate that human knowledge led them not to install metal detectors on the Cerberus dogs.
Lin Mo carried a small component storage block that provided important parts for the gold giant dragon to transform into various electronic devices. Originally, the storage block could accommodate a device the size of a human head, but now it was only the size of a fist. Lin Mo dubbed it the “Spark.”
The gold giant dragon could evolve all sorts of electronic equipment using this spark. If it weren’t for the fact that the giant dragon still hadn’t mastered many technologies, this component storage block would be even more compact and easier to carry.
This seemingly inconspicuous “Spark” component storage block was like a plug-in module for the gold giant dragon, allowing the combination of different functions to evolve into identical real products.
A set of Future Warrior individual exoskeleton armor lay nearby, with most of its technology already understood and modified by the gold giant dragon. Various secret doors and restrictions had been eliminated, making it Lin Mo’s exclusive armor, no longer subject to enemy long-distance surveillance.
As soon as it contacted the remote server, the gold giant dragon discovered a massive underground base hidden within the mountains.
Perhaps to avoid the eyes in the sky, many bases preferred to be set in remote locations or underground. Unlike the Chinese military, which chose to stay hidden in plain sight, this American Delta Force base was obscured in the wilderness. In this desolate area, constantly plagued by conflict, to find such a large base was truly unfathomable.
Although news reported that the U.S. had established several secret drone bases in Africa, this base seemed to surpass an ordinary drone base in significance.
Perhaps the base held some unspeakable secrets, which explained the intense reaction to Lin Mo’s arrival.
As night fell, a hand suddenly shot up from the dirt. The black armor gleamed no light, resembling a demon from hell pressing down onto the ground, as a figure sprang forth from below.
To preserve the integrity of the surface while creating a hollow space underground, the gold giant dragon had to stuff excess dirt into the loose core of the adjacent baobab tree, completely relying on sheer force to create the space. The large tree remained standing solely due to the support from its earth core.
It might take a few days for people to discover that several dead baobab trees had their sturdy trunks filled with dirt, while a considerable space lay beneath the ground.
Under the dim starlight, the distant Mibatong range loomed like a massive, shadowy city wall standing on the earth. Lin Mo oriented himself and transformed into a swift spirit in the night, darting toward a certain direction.
The black Future Warrior exoskeleton armor provided excellent camouflage. Combined with the detection modules loaded by Gold Coin, it identified numerous various types of devices along the way and marked their locations on Lin Mo’s visor display. It also analyzed blind spots. If there were no blind spots, Gold Coin would send out mini versions of itself to assist, since many electronic products in this world contained metals, and electronic signals relied on metal transmission, giving the gold giant dragon an advantage.
As Lin Mo got closer to the mountain range, the number of monitoring devices increased, particularly optical and life detection equipment, even surpassing those at Team 7759’s base and the Night. This indicated how massive the U.S. military’s investment in this base was.
Thanks to its sensitivity to metals, the gold giant dragon acted as a natural metal detector, quickly identifying an unusual patch of land with significant metal reactions. Below was a long space, more like a tunnel.
A mini snake-like Gold Coin emerged from the underground to report this finding to Lin Mo. Each party, one person and one dragon, was indeed better off working together.
“A runway? An underground runway?” Lin Mo examined the surroundings closely, which were nearly entirely composed of sand and grass, with even small ponds. It was hard to imagine a hidden paradise beneath the ground here.
Drilling a hole through layers of steel on the ground was a trivial task for the gold giant dragon. After ensuring cover, Lin Mo successfully reached the underground tunnel. Using the dim amber glow as a light source, the night vision feature enabled Lin Mo to clearly see that this was not only an underground tunnel but also a runway capable of accommodating five planes concurrently, with two taking off simultaneously. The laser range finder on the helmet immediately calculated the runway length to be a full 2 kilometers, including space for helicopter takeoffs and landings.
At this moment, the runway was completely dark with no lights, only the dim glow of Lin Mo’s night vision source. He walked silently through the tunnel.
Sensing the massive metal reactions, the gold giant dragon’s heart raced with excitement. If not for Lin Mo’s attempts to restrain it, it would likely have lost control and devoured everything in sight, as the quantity of metal materials present far exceeded what it had previously consumed.
Following the tunnel, Lin Mo stealthily advanced deep inside. As a pilot, he understood the various functional areas near the runway. Although it was an American base, the layout was largely familiar to him.
Suddenly, the faint sound of tires rolling over the surface reached his ears. Lin Mo quickly pressed himself against the metallic wall. The Gold Coin on his wrist opened up, enveloping Lin Mo as if blending into the surface, disappearing from the edge of the runway just as a team of armed soldiers on electric carts rolled by, bright headlights illuminating a wide area. If Lin Mo had still been standing there, he would have likely been exposed to the light.
As the electric cart passed, a shadow appeared on the wall. Gold Coin transformed back into the form of a watch around Lin Mo’s left wrist. He continued to move deeper inside, and without needing to communicate verbally, a tacit understanding seemed to develop between the man and the dragon, a bond that Lin Mo had never imagined during his time in the Dragon Knight Corps of the Su Lan Empire.
In a spacious storage room, Lin Mo spotted six F-22 Raptors parked, causing his pupils to contract sharply. The ultimate temptation made even the Gold Coin on his wrist twitch with excitement. The sight of the F-series could boil the blood of both man and dragon, as they struggled to suppress the impulse to rush forward.
“If only I could get my hands on one!” Lin Mo licked his lips greedily, staring intently at the quietly parked F-22 fighters in a shadowy corner. However, he was more focused on how to dismantle the engines of the planes. The F-22’s twin-engine setup was simply outstanding (produced by Pratt & Whitney, utilizing the F119-PW-100 engine, able to increase thrust by 100% at supersonic speeds without afterburner, and 50% with afterburner, with a 40% reduction in parts, improving reliability, maintainability, and logistical support by 80%; it, along with the F135 series engine, was the only engine produced for two kinds of fourth-generation aircraft in the U.S.). Lin Mo had never had the opportunity to see it at the Zhuhai Airshow and could only sneak a glance here.
“If only I could take a bite out of it!” Gold Coin seemed equally eager, salivating. Ever since swallowing two F-14s last time, it had shamelessly added F-series fighters to its list of favorite delicacies—the taste, the aftertaste, was simply unforgettable for the dragon.
Neither Lin Mo nor Gold Coin acted rashly. The base’s defenses were not so simple; managing to infiltrate was already a rare achievement. Beside the six F-22 Raptors, not only were there more than ten soldiers stationed to guard them, but there were also several battle robots standing still.
There was no doubt that if any noise was detected, the battle robots, armed with a multitude of lethal weapons, would be devastatingly effective. They seemed to be equipped with suspected laser weapons, and Lin Mo had no confidence in surviving such an encounter, just as Gold Coin would struggle as well. The power of laser weapons disregarded physical defenses, vaporizing anything in their path.
