Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!
Chapter 161 - 57 Air Force Tenth Division Base

Chapter 161: Chapter 57 Air Force Tenth Division Base

The assembly by the Mechanical God Sect took over 20 hours, but the retreat took less than 6 hours.

They didn’t take their companions’ bodies but gathered them all together. After a simple ritual, they poured what seemed to be gasoline refined from plastic bottles and set them ablaze.

After they left, black smoke accompanied by the stench of burning bodies drifted in the air. The Terror Demons, drawn by the smell, departed in disappointment upon seeing the roaring flames.

The entire Anqing Ruins returned to calm once more. After night fell again, Chen Jian finally led the hibernating team to start their activities.

"....Is everything taken care of?"

"All done."

Lei Jie nodded and replied:

"The Ring Chamber of Commerce has already responded. From this afternoon, they began sending people to urgently rush to nearby human settlements, including Susong and Wangjiang, to organize the local villagers’ evacuation."

"As of now, the settlements closer to us should have completed their evacuation. The merchants of the Ring Chamber of Commerce will take them to Wuxue, and then disperse them from there."

"Those willing to go to Yellow Stone can go to Yellow Stone, and those unwilling to go can settle on their own."

"Anyway, these scattered Terror Demons shouldn’t pose a significant impact on nearby civilians."

"Most of them will still instinctively attack the largest human settlement nearby, just like the Blood Skull of Han Shui back then."

"And without a leader to guide them, Anqing City’s defense forces can definitely hold the line."

"That’s good."

Chen Jian let out a sigh of relief, then said:

"The Ring Chamber of Commerce is finally doing something decent... If we helped them with such a big favor and they refused to even do this little thing, we’d really need to reconsider our cooperative relationship with them."

"Indeed."

With the exoskeleton’s hydraulic device locked, Shen Yue placed the fully charged battery into the battery compartment, stood up, and said:

"But now a new problem arises----as we previously speculated, the Ring Chamber of Commerce is definitely aware of things happening here."

"That also means they anticipated our ability to completely wipe out the Terror Demons."

"Since that’s the case, I want to ask, what exactly do they want to do?"

"They’re no benevolent people who punish evil and promote good. They’re merchants; they care more about profits than anyone."

"There must be something here that can only be retrieved after clearing out all the Terror Demons----so what do you think they’re looking for?"

"Maybe it’s an underground structure?"

He Shuo interjected:

"Judging by the nature of the Ring Chamber of Commerce, the things they’re interested in are nothing more than equipment that can be traded or pre-war technological products."

"And such things are most likely found only in underground structures."

"Perhaps they’ve obtained the coordinates of the underground structure through some means, just like 7025?"

Before Chen Jian could respond, Ji Xing shook his head and said:

"Impossible."

"The Anqing Ruins have long been scavenged more than once. The ’underground structure’ you mention, if it refers to underground warehouses left from before the catastrophe, has most likely already been excavated."

"The Mechanical God Sect didn’t build Anqing City in a day. As I’ve said before, the foundation of Anqing City is the Anqing Ruins, and whatever’s in here should have long been emptied out."

"What’s left are worthless rocks and decaying steel.... What’s the use of that?"

"That’s unreasonable."

Chen Jian frowned and said:

"If there really is nothing inside, where did those new weapons and equipment in the hands of the Terror Demons come from? Could it all have been sent by Huadu?"

"Most likely so."

After a brief thought, Shen Yue calmly analyzed:

"Initially, we misjudged the Terror Demon forces in the Anqing Ruins and the number of Huadu personnel."

"At first, we thought it was at most a camp on the scale of a thousand people, with at most dozens of Huadu personnel."

"But now it appears their numbers are in the hundreds."

"Given that, it’s reasonable that a large volume of equipment has flowed into the Terror Demon camp...."

"If that’s really the case, then that’s troublesome."

Chen Jian sighed and then said:

"I can’t really guess what they’re looking for.... But, it’s actually not important."

"They won’t tell us, and we can’t speculate."

"Since that’s the case, let’s just stick to our own plan and search one by one."

"Which place should we target first—Factory 4822, or the Air Force Tenth Division Base?"

"There’s no need to look at Factory 4822 any more."

Lei Jie shook his head and said:

"The site of 4822 mostly overlaps with the central area of the Terror Demon camp, and even if it doesn’t overlap, the warehouses there are above ground; nothing should be left."

"However, the Air Force Tenth Division Base might still have some things to scrape together."

"After all, that was the station of the first nuclear strike division in the country."

"Who knows, maybe we can get more... from there."

Lei Jie didn’t finish his sentence, but Chen Jian already understood.

Undoubtedly, except for Ji Xing, the desire for nuclear power was deeply ingrained in every member of this team.

If they could actually obtain new tactical nuclear weapons, they wouldn’t need anything else.

Thus, Chen Jian decisively nodded and then immediately marked the target location on the map.

"A straight-line distance of 26 kilometers—if we proceed along the road, we will pass by no less than 6 Terror Demon camps and 12 high-value pre-catastrophe targets."