211: encounter

Ran Quan replied, "Understood!"

After replying, Ran Quan said to the Scavenger Squad Leader, "Headquarters has dispatched support troops; we need to activate the positioning emitter."

"Yes, sir!" The Scavenger Squad Leader nodded and immediately activated the positioning emitter.

Every Scavenger Squad member had a positioning emitter, but since they were together, they only activated the Leader's and the combat vehicle's.

"Let's advance slowly and wait for the support troops," Ran Quan said.

"Yes, sir!" The Scavenger Squad Leader nodded; they just needed to follow orders.

The team continued to move forward.

"Wait..."

After walking for about ten minutes, Ran Quan suddenly sensed something. His powerful physical quality of 10.7 and mental strength of 1.2, combined with his recent entry into "cultivation," allowed him to perceive something in the unseen.

"To your stations!" The Scavenger Squad Leader reacted immediately.

In an instant, they shifted from a state of alert to a state of combat readiness.

Immediately after, everyone saw many red lights appearing in the distance.

"...Damn it!" Ran Quan took a closer look, and the next moment, an expletive slipped out.

Because he saw at least thirty robots, densely packed and identical, like replicas, appearing in the distance.

Upon seeing this, Ran Quan immediately realized that these must have been produced on an "assembly line"! They were highly standardized!

Clearly, there was definitely a production factory behind them.

And these robots were all on The Ground, coming from an area far from the passage, from a distance... their conjecture was likely true...

"Take cover! Fight!" Ran Quan shouted.

The Scavenger Squad's movements were already complete.

Da da da da ~

The heavy machine guns began to fire.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh! Grenades flew out one after another.

When the robots were attacked, the red lights in their eyes flickered a few times. They all raised their hands, and their hands transformed into cannon barrels.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Highly compressed air cannons fired towards them.

The principle behind these air cannons was unknown, containing some Frontier Technology. They could form a compressed, projectile-shaped shot, and their power was quite terrifying, truly like cannonballs. They would even explode upon impact, which was a bit absurd.

Moreover, they were fired from such small cannon barrels.

In short, Ran Quan, who didn't understand scientific research, couldn't comprehend it.

Old Jiang: We who understand also don't understand.

Both sides engaged in long-range combat.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Explosions resounded continuously.

Although Ran Quan and his team relied on various covers to minimize damage, and their protective gear was also very powerful.

The covers were also diminishing under the attack of the air cannons.

Boom!!!

An air cannon struck the combat vehicle, creating one large dent after another, but it was not critical and could hold out for a while longer.

"This won't do..." Ran Quan looked at the robots opposite him. The firepower of both sides was not on the same level. The robots seemed to only have the air cannon as a long-range attack form.

Its power was not small, but compared to their firepower, it was far inferior.

However, there were many robots, and dozens of air cannons scattering at once were quite terrifying.

The robots did not seem to dodge during the firefight.

Eight robots were lost.

Ran Quan held a Scavenger's standard rifle. Although he wasn't very skilled with it, he just had to keep firing.

With so many robots, he was bound to hit something...

Boom!!!

A Scavenger member was hit directly by an air cannon, instantly blown back more than ten meters and fell to The Ground, rolling several times.

He endured the pain, half-crouched on The Ground, and continued to output firepower.

With protective gear and being a super soldier who used Gene Serum, taking a direct hit from an air cannon was not fatal.

However, if they took a few more hits, their protective gear might hold up, but their internal organs wouldn't.

Just as Ran Quan and his team were starting to struggle.

Many energy projectiles flew from a distance.

Boom ~ Boom ~ Boom ~

A series of explosions erupted, a direct missile barrage.

"Reinforcements are here!" Ran Quan's face lit up with joy upon seeing these energy projectiles.

He knew the reinforcements had arrived.

Their speed was truly fast enough!

They caught up to them in less than fifteen minutes.

However, it was true, after all, the reinforcements came straight through, without needing to stop and search, just heading directly to this location.

After a round of missile barrages, followed by a dense, continuous "da" sound.

In minutes, all these robots fell to The Ground.

At this point, the firing stopped.

Ran Quan turned his head and saw twelve special combat vehicles driving over, and 36 Scavenger members who had already disembarked from the vehicles. (2 inside, 3 outside)

Frontier Technology seemed to attach great importance, directly dispatching 60 Scavenger soldiers, which meant 12 squads.

"Sir!" A Scavenger Squad Leader walked over and saluted Ran Quan.

"Mhm! Clear the battlefield! Load all these robot remains onto the vehicles!" Ran Quan said.

"Yes, sir!"

A group of soldiers began to clear the battlefield, loading all the robot remains onto the vehicles.

A total of six vehicles were filled.

"All filled vehicles return to base. The rest follow me and continue advancing." Ran Quan thought for a moment and said. While waiting for the battlefield to be cleared, Frontier Technology Headquarters had also sent him a message, instructing him to continue advancing as safely as possible to check the situation in the farther areas.

"Understood!" The Scavenger Squad Leader nodded.

Then, the six combat vehicles filled with robot remains immediately returned to base.

The remaining six vehicles plus Ran Quan's squad, making a total of seven combat vehicles, continued to advance.

"Depart!" Seeing that the basic reorganization was complete, Ran Quan waved his hand and continued forward.

And another message came from headquarters:

Headquarters: "Please report any situation immediately."

Ran Quan: "Understood."

Ran Quan continued to push forward into the distance.

But strangely, they advanced for nearly half an hour without encountering anything unusual.

They didn't even encounter a single monster.

"I have a bad feeling." Ran Quan felt that this situation was too strange. It would be understandable if they had just left the passage and walked for half an hour without encountering anything.

However, according to their current distance, they had already exceeded fifty kilometers.

As a result, apart from the group of robots they encountered earlier, they hadn't encountered any more robots, not even monsters. And before encountering that group of robots, they had encountered dismembered monsters...

It seemed likely that those robots were responsible, which meant these robots were not only enemies with them but also with those monsters.

In other words, it was very likely the existence of a third party.

So... it further intensified the possibility of "other worlds."