Fatal Shot

Chapter 697: Spaceship?!

"Eh? That's a little bit disappointing. Nevermind about whether it's good to explore it…"

"How are we going to find the position of that research base in the midst of such a large area if we don't have any clues?"

One Pillar Skyward looked disappointed and said with that a defeated tone.

His words explained why some of the others were frowning earlier.

It was clear that the A-2 research base was in an important zone which was highly confidential. That was why the location of the base was not directly shown on the structural image stored inside this intelligence terminal.

Due to a lack of intelligence, they did not have a clue at hand. In an underground city that was so frighteningly large, finding a research base that they have never seen before was almost an impossible task!

With only ten of them, merely walking over the entire area would probably take a few days.

Not to mention, a lot of the buildings inside this underground base had very complex structures. Based on the structural image, some of the buildings were thousands of meters deep!

Thousands of meters! What did this mean?

Moreover, though all members of the party were equipped with full sets of Rare Grade gears and were very well-prepared, they were very aware that their overall condition was poor.

With their strength, it was not possible for them to operate well in a high-level ruin like this for a very long time.

In the no-man desert zone, and after three days of consumption, their ability to sustain themselves had greatly diminished. Even if they were able to avoid some monsters with the effects of the Scout Bracelet, and even with Feng Luo on their team, which meant that they had the ability to defeat a Level-70 Commander Grade monster, just how long could their remaining supplies last?

The moment the gunners run out of ammunition, or the manipulators run out of MP, or the warriors run out of backup armor…

No matter how strong the team was, their only choice would be to retreat!

"What should we do?"

Everyone grimaced.

After all, they had toiled for a few days before reaching this destination.

In the end, they discovered that their current abilities were not enough to complete the mission!

They were both disappointed and frustrated!

Only Feng Luo, at the moment, was still staring at the map projected in the air. His eyes showed that he was in deep thought. In particular, his gaze fell on a specific location on the map a few times!

"Mu Zi… Can you zoom in over here?"

Feng Luo suddenly spoke to Mu Zi and pointed to a spot on the map.

"Oh… okay!"

Mu Zi was stunned for a brief moment. Then, he immediately lowered his head to control the device.

As Mu Zi worked on the device, the others looked over at it. Dai asked expectantly, "Brother Feng, did you discover something?"

He asked the question because Feng Luo was earlier able to determine through the recon meter image that a base existed during the battle. It convinced the rest of them about Feng Luo's observation skills.

And Feng Luo's current facial expression looked as if he had discovered something!

"I'm still not sure yet. Let's wait for Mu Zi to zoom in the image first."

Feng Luo did not answer with 100% conviction. He only kept staring at the map.

At that moment, Mu Zi had zoomed in on the zone that Feng Luo pointed at and the area covered the entire screen.

"Is that an intelligence terminal?"

At that point, the rest of the group looked at the screen with puzzled gazes.

They noticed that the area which Mu Zi zoomed in to was a fusiform building zone filled with buildings that had relatively simpler designs compared to the one they were in. The zone was around a five-kilometer straight-line distance away from their current position.

However, the building zone covered quite a large area.

From the map, the building zone covered an area that was around five-kilometers in diameter!

The structure of the underground city was different from the cities on the surface.

Since weight was a consideration, the buildings were not constructed together. Instead, they were scattered into several different zones.

And in between these different zones were various underground corridors similar to the one that they walked through.

The building zones varied in size. Some were big while others were tiny. However, this zone, which was named The Terminal, was the absolute largest zone around. Its diameter of five-kilometers means that it was one percent of the humongous underground city!

"Terminal? Looking at the structure and the name, it looks similar to a land route point terminal on the surface… Looking down at the map from a bird's eye view, this zone looks like it is directly or at least indirectly connected to its surrounding zones!"

"It looks like it is a transportation hub. Since it is related to almost every other zone, there should be a lot of clues in there… Brother Feng, do you think that we might be able to find information regarding the target research base in this terminal?"

Burnt And Run's eyes lit up as he asked.

"Not necessarily."

Feng Luo's reply brushed off his question. He then said, "Look over here. What is the shape of this zone? Also, what is the structure of the building?"

"Shape? Structure?"

The others turned to investigate the area on the map after hearing Feng Luo speak.

"Hold on… The shape of this zone… Why does it look a bit like a ship?"

Before long, Dai was the first to speak curiously.

"No… That's not a ship. There's no way a ship as big as that exists, right? Tsk… Holy crap, could this be a…"

One Pillar Skyward interrupted Dai. His eyes were filled with excitement and shock. He took a deep breath before finally saying, "Spaceship!"

"Oh my God!"

"Really!? It looks like it is!"

"I didn't notice it before, but upon closer inspection, it really does look like one. Moreover, the deepest area of the building structures in this zone goes a thousand meters deep! Even if it were an underground city, a building zone usually wouldn't have anything that was as deep!"

"A spaceship… This value… I can't even imagine it anymore!"

Everyone started to understand what this zone was.

After that, the initial defeated mood had turned into excitement.

A spaceship! This was a spaceship!

Space. That was the key!

War's current version was probably the version for Force awakening. This version was also the version after Level-50.

On the forum, there was a theory. It said that in the next update — or at least, the update after the next one — the game would welcome the space era.

After all, considering the background story of War, the people would charge out of the planet and into space one day, after technology has recovered to a certain degree.

From the background story, the inter-planet Sam Group would probably have a lot of parts to play!

Apart from the background, there was another piece of evidence. The evidence was the players had discovered that the highest level monsters on the planet were only Level-70!

So, where were the monsters that were of a higher level?

It was clear. They were in space. A case in point is when Feng Luo and the others viewed the extracted memories of the Cerebrate. They saw the gigantic galactic beasts that were larger than spaceships. Those were simply breath-taking!

However, this version probably still needed more time before activating those contents.

After all, players did not even have the Force yet. They would have no chance of defeating those mega monsters which were above Level-80!

However, even though the space version was not activated, it did not mean that a spaceship would be useless.

For example, among the NPC factions in the current War, only the rebel army and the Federation Government had the ability to build spaceships. Moreover, although these spaceships or spacecraft could fly in space, they had not yet made the crucial spatial transition technology possible, and the uses were limited.

The reason was that back in the day when the Sam Group retreated, they took away all data regarding this particular technology as well as the spaceships.

This was also the reason why the current game setting was limited to one planet!

Since the two strongest factions had limited spaceship construction capabilities, there was no need to consider the capabilities of other factions.

This meant that all NPC factions would desire a genuine spaceship!

So, if players, who were regarded by NPCs as adventurers, could discover a spaceship leftover by the Sam Group in the ruin and thereafter hand it over to the Federation Government or any other faction, their reward would be unbelievable, based on the principles of the rewarding system!

Legendary equipment, hidden occupations, and huge amount of credit points… All of these are at your fingertips.