Chapter 266: City (First Update)

A moment later, Captain Wang Sheng and the third squad flew to the H1 entrance.

The white-grey slanted door was tightly shut.

Captain Wang Sheng immediately maneuvered his Azure Wing Mecha to lower its beam cannon and said to everyone, “Concentrate fire, break open the entrance door!”

“Understood!”

Su Ming and the others maneuvered their Iron Guards to lower their cannons, fiercely firing at the closed entrance!

Rumble~

Under the fierce attack, the entrance was violently blasted open.

“Go!”

Captain Wang Sheng led the way, maneuvering his Azure Wing Mecha and flying inside.

Mia then followed, bringing Su Ming and the others with her.

Soon, everyone entered the dark entrance tunnel, and Captain Wang Sheng issued an order over the communication channel.

“Everyone, turn on your searchlights!”

“Understood!”

Everyone responded, turning on their mecha’s searchlights, and instantly the dark entrance tunnel lit up.

Su Ming vigilantly scanned his surroundings.

The long, slender entrance tunnel was empty, all the overhead lighting was out, and only the emergency lights at the bottom of the walls were on. Also, because there was no gravity coverage here, everything was in a floating state.

At the same time, Su Ming also noticed that a thin layer of frost had frozen on the pipes overhead.

“There’s no gravity coverage here, everyone maintain a certain distance and watch out for floating objects.”

Wang Sheng, Captain reminded everyone as he led the team deeper into the tunnel.

“Yes!”

Su Ming and the others replied with tense nerves.

Soon, they arrived at the first crossroads. Wang Sheng, Captain checked the nautilus’s map and then issued an order.

“Angyue, Zhao Wen, you each take a small team and explore both sides. See if there are any survivors; if not, withdraw and catch up with the main force!”

“Understood!”

The two squad leaders, Angyue, responded in a deep voice, then left with their subordinates.

“We’ll continue forward. As long as we keep going along the main passage, we’ll be able to reach the central living area.”

Wang Sheng, Captain said to everyone.

“Understood!”

Mia and the other teachers responded.

Everyone continued forward, the entire passage was very quiet, and they saw no traces or figures along the way, giving them a very oppressive feeling.

Just then, a faint abnormal sound came from inside the passage.

“What was that sound?”

Wang Sheng, Captain sharply questioned.

Instantly, everyone present felt their hearts tremble, and they all raised their weapons, turning their heads to look around for enemies.

Unfortunately, everything in the passage was normal; they couldn’t see any enemies or abnormalities, and the scanning device also showed no abnormalities.

“Captain Wang Sheng? Did you find something unusual?”

Teacher Ofam asked in a deep voice.

Captain Wang Sheng once again adjusted his sensory device to maximum, listened carefully, and with a changing expression, said, “It might have been my imagination. Let’s continue forward.”

“Okay!”

Opham and the others didn’t say anything either.

“Phew~, you scared me to death. I thought we were ambushed. Turns out it was a misjudgment after all.”

Zhang Yi said in the squad channel, still shaken.

“Don’t let your guard down. It was a misjudgment this time, but it might not be next time.”

Su Ming calmly reminded Zhang Yi.

“Okay.”

Zhang Yi swallowed hard and replied with difficulty.

“Su Ming is right, never let your guard down. Also, stay close to me. Without my command, no one is allowed to leave the team or act recklessly. This isn’t a joke; if you die, I can only collect your bodies.”

Mia added, in strong agreement.

“Understood!”

Rhein and the others felt even more pressure.

However, the subsequent exploration went very smoothly, and they didn’t encounter any monsters, arriving smoothly at the end of the main passage.

A fifty-meter-high gate made of thick grey metal came into view.

Zzz~

Captain Wang Sheng maneuvered his Azure Wing Mecha, raising two beam sabers and rushing forward, sharply striking the gate.

Along with flying light particles, two very shallow cuts were made in the thick gate.

“This sturdy?”

Wang Sheng, Captain’s heart sank as he watched this scene.

However, just then, Opham spoke over the communication channel.

“Captain Wang Sheng, let me!”

“Okay!”

Wang Sheng, Captain didn’t say anything either.

Opham maneuvered his Azure Wing Mecha forward. He took out four directional demolition charges and skillfully installed them on the four corners of the gate.

Everyone retreated upon seeing this.

Opham then also retreated and activated the directional demolition charges!

Boom!

With a huge explosion, the thick metal gate was skillfully blasted open.

“Good job!”

Captain Wang Sheng led everyone forward.

The moment they passed through the gate and entered the interior, everyone was stunned by the sight before them.

The entire view suddenly opened up, and a circular city appeared before everyone’s eyes. Buildings stood tall within the city, and they could even see some thirty-story high-rises.

However, the entire city was dead silent, with no lights visible, and countless objects could be seen floating in mid-air.

The top of the city was filled with countless pieces of trash and debris.

“My goodness, it’s actually a city!”

“There’s actually a city residing within this mothership, how much must this be worth!”

Many students exclaimed in awe.

Although they were all Level 4 motherships, motherships capable of containing a city were incredibly expensive.

However, Captain Wang Sheng, Mia, and the others looked at the silent city, their expressions all very grim.

This completely exceeded their expectations. They had originally thought this was a militarized fortress mothership, but it turned out to be a living-type fortress mothership.

Just then, a girl from Class Three named Bonnie inadvertently maneuvered her mecha to turn around, and her burst machine gun, which she was holding, touched a floating object.

She focused her gaze, her pupils instantly dilated, and she cried out in terror, “Look!”

Su Ming and the others were startled and all looked over.

“What happened?”

“Dea-dead person…”

Bonnie cried out, somewhat flustered.

Su Ming and the others looked closely and then saw the floating corpse. It was a middle-aged man wearing a white T-shirt, his body covered in frost.

And this wasn’t the important part. If it were just a simple corpse, it wouldn’t have caused Bonnie such terror. The main thing was that after the corpse’s face was touched by the burst machine gun,

The corpse’s facial skin directly tore open a large hole, and the inside was empty, without any flesh or tissue.

Mia stepped forward, examined it carefully, and calmly said, “The inside of the corpse has been hollowed out, leaving only a skin. It looks very much like it was sucked or parasitized by Kirami.”

“This is troublesome now.”

Captain Wang Sheng replied with a grim face.

“Wait, those things floating ahead, could they all be corpses?”

Rhein suddenly thought of something and said in shock.

“What do you think?”

Su Ming replied with a calm expression.

He entered a string of commands, adjusted the optical device, captured images of the floating objects in the city’s mid-air in the distance, and then zoomed in.

As expected, besides debris, the objects floating in mid-air were all hollowed-out corpses.

“Holy crap, how many people must have died?”

Zhang Yi asked, swallowing with difficulty.