Fantasy Game: Infinite City

15 kilometers from the underground mountain range. Southwest corner of an unknown underground plain.

There were two people wearing highly modular power armor, observing and maintaining a signal transmitter placed between them. The modular power armor of the two people had many special plug-ins, and the largest plug-in on one of the power armors was a set of hot melt weapon system. Judging from the caliber of the weapon and the sophisticated and sturdy reactor, this hot melt weapon system was enough to deal with light ground armed vehicles and most light armed vehicles. Although in this underground world, there were some giant creatures whose defense could temporarily rival that of heavy ground armed vehicles. But the burning characteristics of the hot melt weapon system were enough to deal with those guys made of flesh and blood.

Although the other person did not have such a powerful weapon system, his power armor was two times larger than the one with the weapon system. Although it looked bulky, it was actually very flexible. By observing this heavy power armor, it was confirmed that it carried a complete medical pulse transmitter and a chemical transmitter for repairing the armor.

On the grass a few hundred meters away from them, Han Zu and Gloria lay in the grass that was more than half a person's height, quietly observing them.

"I didn't expect my vision to be enhanced. I can actually see the details of their power armor from such a distance."

"Have you found anything? Where did they come from?"

"Let me see... I found it! There's an emblem on the side of their power armor. Do you see it?"

"Is that a.. manticore? Or the kind with wings? What's wrong?"

"The winged manticore is the family emblem of the Ferdinand family."

"So they are indeed from the Ferdinand family."

"They should be calling for support from the outside world, but there is no network connection at this location, so they probably can't contact backup for the time being. Even so, we don't have much time. When the Ferdinand family finds that they can't contact them, they will move their satellite over Antarctica and send a transport plane to drop a signal relay device. They don't look very anxious, which means they are probably waiting for the family's action."

"From this perspective, the Feidenan family is still hiding quite deeply."

"What do you mean?"

"If the Infinite Company encountered a similar incident, they would directly dispatch the Gray Action Team, and then directly transmit according to the terminal signal carried by the exploration pioneers, and then build a temporary transmission anchor point on the spot. Then they would send more armed forces to provide support. This efficient and fast method was able to infiltrate the Feidenan family of the Infinite Company. They certainly would not be without the corresponding equipment, but they still chose relatively primitive means to avoid being tracked down. They are really cautious."

"So what are you going to do? Kill them first?"

"No, seeing how fearless they are, they may have already used some emergency signal to contact the family for support, or they may have made some agreement before arriving here, such as if the advance team is not contacted within the specified time, the headquarters will send people. So reinforcements may already be on the way. If we take action now, the reinforcements will definitely find out. Even if they don't know it was us, they can judge from the residual energy reaction that they were not killed by some underground creatures."

"Just leave it like that? Didn't you say that when you find what you're looking for, other people will probably have some influence on you?"

"That's not possible either, but we can't kill them, at least not now. Let me think..."

"Beep~~~"

At this moment, something walked to the place where the two were lying and made a sound. In fact, the two had already noticed this guy a long time ago, but because this thing really did not pose any danger, they did not pay much attention to it.

This is an underground creature that is exactly the same as a sheep in every way. The only difference is that this creature is as big as a buffalo. It is also a herbivore, but probably because its food is those same strange plants, its hair is particularly soft, very clean, and exudes an oily sheen. In addition to this one, there are many other creatures of this kind next to it, Han Zu, and Gloria.

Moreover, these creatures are not afraid of humans at all and are extremely docile. If it weren't for their astonishing appetite, Han Zu would even want to get one to raise for fun.

"I think I've got an idea. Do you still have any of the wild fruits we picked over there?"

"Give."

Gloria took out a few wild fruits. These fruits were very unique. There was nothing similar to them on the ground, and their taste was completely different. However, these wild fruits were very sweet, but not too sweet. Coincidentally, the sheep next to them, as big as buffaloes, loved to eat these fruits very much.

"puff."

Han Zu first stretched out a very thin tentacle, then cut it off, used the tip to pierce the fruits together, and then wrapped it around the horns of the creature like the other end of a carrot fishing rod. Because their hair was very long, it could perfectly cover the severed tentacle.

The pierced wild fruit leaked sweet juice, attracting the creature next to it, which had a low IQ, and began to move forward. At this moment, Han Zu took off his clothes, and his body suddenly exploded, turning into a gray turbid mist, hiding under the creature's hair.

Gloria remained where she was, carefully observing the creature's movements.

Han Zu maintained the form of soul-grabbing miasma, and used the strong connection between his body to control the tentacles hidden under the hair to slightly change the direction, so that the creature walked towards the two armed forces of the Ferdinand family in the distance. Before long, he walked to their side.

"Buzz~~!"

"Wait a minute! They are those sheep-like creatures. Relax, these guys have no offensive power at all."

Compared to the calm man in heavy power armor, the man in power armor equipped with a hot-melt weapon system is much more nervous and looks like he is on edge all the time.

"So, although this place is very strange, after all, we are in the barren central Antarctic region above us. No one would come here! Relax, come! Come and touch this creature. Its fur is very soft. Maybe it can relax your tense nerves."

"I think we should not do that. After all, we were attacked by creatures when we were in the underground cave before."

"If it weren't for our stupid captain who crushed a lot of eggs of those creatures, we wouldn't have been chased by those transparent things for so long. Isn't that the case?"

"Ha... Well, you're right. I really don't understand how that guy became the captain."

"There's someone up there! What else could it be?"

While the two men were chatting while stroking the sheep's wool, they did not notice that the sheep was chewing wild fruits that did not grow nearby. Of course, they did not notice that a turbid mist quietly seeped into the grass and moved towards the location of the signal transmitter.

The two of them didn't notice that while they were chatting, the energy of the signal transmitter's reactor had been completely sucked out, and the reactor was left with only an empty shell. And just a few seconds after the reactor was drained of energy, the turbid mist had moved from the reactor to the energy furnace on the two people's power armor.

Unlike the structure of the signal transmitter, when the energy of the power armor reaches a value that is too low, the system on the power armor will issue prompts and warnings. This warning usually appears when the remaining energy is less than 10%. However, due to the different models of power armor, their energy furnaces only absorb half of the energy.

After doing all this, the turbid mist hid again under the creature's hair. As the creature left, the two men returned to the signal transmitter, but perhaps out of laziness or confidence in the equipment, neither of them checked whether there was any problem with the signal transmitter.

When the creature was far enough away from the two of them, the turbid gray mist returned to the ground, moved at a high speed along the grass, returned to Gloria's position, and reorganized into Han Zu's body.

"Give me the clothes."

"Here, I never thought that this ability could be used in this way. I saw that you destroyed the signal transmitter?"

"Well, I cleaned the energy reactor of the signal transmitter and absorbed half of the energy of their power armor. I also tampered with their communicators. In this way, they will not find out anything in a short time. We don't need to worry about them for the time being. Let's go to the remaining five people."

With the help of the scanning equipment, Han Zu can quickly confirm what kind of biological reactions are around him, so he doesn't have to pay attention to hiding all the time to avoid being discovered, so his movement speed is much faster. The location of the other five people happened to be in a swamp area in a dense forest. With the help of the tall trees outside the swamp, Han Zu and Gloria quickly arrived at the edge of the swamp.

Although the swamp area is large, there are not many tall plants nearby, so the two quickly found another wave of armed forces from the Ferdinand family. They were collecting and investigating something inside the swamp. One of them was sitting on a tilted tree trunk inside the swamp, and the guy who was bossing people around should be their captain.

The power armor of these people is less modular than that of the previous two people, but at the same time it also focuses more on defense than their power armor. But because of this, except for the captain sitting on the tree trunk and one of the people carrying the swamp mobile equipment, the other three people moved very slowly in the swamp. However, because they were standing in a shallow area of ​​the swamp, they did not sink, but the mud and accumulated water covering the area above the knees was also a considerable obstacle.

The swamp was very deep where Han Zu and Gloria were, enough to cover most of Han Zu's body, leaving only Gloria's head exposed. It was at this time that Han Zu, who was listening to Gloria's whispered speculation about the concentration of methane, came up with an idea.

"Have you ever heard of the legend of the swamp monster?"

"I've heard of it. Why...wait a minute, what do you mean..."

"We can do this and that..."

Han Zu whispered his plan into Gloria's ear. After understanding what Han Zu wanted to do, the two looked at each other, nodded, then lowered their bodies and dived into the mud of the swamp.

"I really don't understand why those guys at the research institute must have samples from the swamp. What's so good about investigating such a crappy place?"

"There are a lot of . . . in the swamp."

"Who asked you that?! Shut up and get to work!"

The captain, who was sitting on a tree trunk and unwilling to dirty his power armor, complained to his subordinates. It seemed that his subordinates also had some complaints about him, muttering and cursing in low voices at the captain who was not working.

“Gulp…Gulp…”

"What's the noise?"

"It seems to be coming from the swamp, over there."

"Could it be a creature like a crocodile?"

"That shouldn't be the case, right? We've used instruments to test it, and there shouldn't be any creatures that big here, right?"

"You guys are so useless! You can't even use a testing device properly! I..."

“CRASH!!!!”

"boom!"

"Hurry up and save me! Hurry..."

“Gulp, gulp…”

Just as the captain finally jumped down from the tree trunk, cursing and preparing to walk towards the other team members, a tall monster covered in mud suddenly appeared from behind him, tied up his body, and then suddenly pulled him into the mud of the swamp. The captain's power armor struggled frantically for a few times, but soon it quieted down and sank under the mud amid the mixed sounds of metal being quickly squeezed and deformed, bones breaking, and mud and liquid being stirred.

"Get ready for battle! Everyone move closer! Evacuate the swamp quickly!"

The sudden and huge change made the other four people stunned for a while, but their rich combat experience made them come back to their senses immediately. They activated the weapon system on the power armor, gathered together, and began to move out of the swamp. However, due to the weight of the power armor, even though they reacted quickly, they actually did not move very fast.

“Gulp…”

"Crash!!!"

"Watch your back!"

At this moment, a monster that was a circle smaller than the previous one suddenly jumped out from under the mud, jumped onto the back of a power armor, hugged the head tightly, and pulled it down suddenly. Although this monster was not big in size, it was incredibly strong. With just this one move, another power armor was knocked down and pressed into the mud.

"Shoot at me! Shoot at me!!!"

"Boom boom boom boom!!!!"

The man who fell in the mud shouted to his companions to fire at him. Soon, his companions operated the weapon system and fired a short burst of fire at his power armor. However, because the concentration of methane was not low, it triggered several small-scale methane explosions, which blew the small swamp monster away.

"Get up quickly!"

"How's it going?! Did you kill that guy?!"

"Not sure, but we did hit it. It was blown away by the methane explosion just now. Right there... that guy is gone!"

After getting rid of the small swamp monster, the other three quickly ran over and pulled their companion out of the mud. Just as they were trying to look for the swamp monster that had been blown away, they were surprised to find that the figure had disappeared.

"Be careful! There's more than one here, and the big one is the threat!"

"Crash!!!"

"over there!"

"boom!!"

"Boom boom boom boom!!!"

"Eh!!!"

In the swamp a little distance away from the four people, the small swamp monster suddenly stood up from the mud, and threw a ball of mud at the man they had not been able to kill just now. The four people immediately opened fire in its direction. This time, the four people saw that their attacks successfully hit the swamp monster, but the swamp monster seemed unharmed, and instead burrowed back into the mud and disappeared.

At the same time, the man hit by the mud ball suddenly felt a sharp pain in his arm. He turned around and found that there was a huge burnt gap in his power armor arm, and most of the skin on his arm was burned. His companions quickly used the medical plug-in to give him emergency treatment. They used some pain-relieving treatment gel to temporarily seal his wound, allowing him to continue moving.

"Be careful! The mud balls that monster throws are likely to be extremely corrosive!"

"Be careful!!!"

"laugh!!!!"

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!!!!"

At this moment, the large swamp monster reappeared, grabbed one of the men, and then spewed out some kind of highly corrosive mud flow, which corroded the man, the helmet and breastplate of the power armor, and the head and chest below into a skeleton in a blink of an eye at a speed visible to the naked eye. Then it disappeared again in the mud.

"Retreat quickly!!!"

The remaining three people were already in disarray. The man with the swamp mobile device abandoned his companions and quickly ran out of the swamp. He could hear the crazy firing of the weapon systems of his two companions behind him, as well as the screams of two people. He turned around suddenly and found two swamp monsters, one big and one small, slaughtering his last two companions.

But this guy was lucky. When his two companions were killed, he successfully left the swamp area. He didn't care about anything else and ran out crawling.

“Buzz~!!”

However, at this moment, he suddenly heard a sound and subconsciously looked back. He saw a huge mud ball emitting light rushing towards him at a speed that was impossible to avoid.

"How can this mud ball glow?"

This was the last thought that came to this guy before he and his power armor were evaporated.