Chapter 164 Underground Base

Just then, Su Mo rushed out of the turning point in the passage ahead and saw the fleeing monster in the distance.

A humanoid body with gills on its face, eyes like obsidian, covered in barbs, extremely sharp claws, and a slender tail, it was a standard i-type alien mutated Hei Yuan beast.

Su Mo narrowed his eyes and sped up to chase it. Fortunately, this monster didn't run into a narrow area, otherwise, the Killing Blade really wouldn't be able to catch up.

But just as Su Mo was about to catch up with the monster, the two rushed to the edge of the launch pad in the cracked center of the base.

The Hei Yuan beast climbed straight down like a gecko.

Su Mo walked to the edge and looked into the depths of the central launch pad, which was pitch black and bottomless.

Soon after, Lin Zinuo rushed over with a team of people.

"Su Mo, are you okay?"

"I'm fine."

Su Mo replied indifferently.

"Did you catch that monster?"

"An i-type Hei Yuan beast."

"Phew, after all that, it turned out to be an i-type Hei Yuan beast. I thought it was some kind of monster."

Lin Zinuo breathed a sigh of relief.

"The problem is, it climbed down and escaped."

Su Mo said solemnly.

"So what if it escaped? It's just an i-type monster, it won't cause any trouble. I'll just tell Zhou Qian and the others to be careful."

Lin Zinuo didn't sense much of a crisis.

"It's not that simple. I've been finding it strange that I haven't been able to find the monsters on the island. It wasn't until just now that I saw that monster climb down that I finally realized what I had been overlooking."

"Overlooking what?"

"The bottom of the launch pad, the bottom level of this base. Think about it, how were Legion Commander Xiao Wen and the others ambushed in the first place? Wasn't it because that iii-type monster suddenly emerged from the inside?"

"Wait, are you saying that those monsters never left, and they're all down there?"

Lin Zinuo immediately reacted, her face changing slightly.

"Although it's not 100% certain, it's probably not far from the truth. How's the transfer of supplies going?"

Su Mo asked.

"There are a lot of weapons in the armory, so it will take some more time. But the valuable weapons have already been transferred out. Why are you asking this?"

"I'll go down and take a look when you're almost done transferring."

Su Mo replied simply.

"No way, are you crazy? If the bottom is the lair of those monsters, going down there is like kicking their nest."

"We have to try to see if we can eliminate these hidden dangers and truly occupy Hai Feng Island. The production areas left by the Tianlong Guild, although they are damaged to varying degrees, most of them can be used after some repairs. And most importantly, I feel that once the Earth Cup starts, the Hai Wan base might not be safe. In comparison, Hai Feng Island is much safer."

Su Mo explained his thoughts to Lin Zinuo.

Lin Zinuo: "Why don't you take some people with you?"

"No need, I can handle it alone."

Su Mo replied with certainty.

"Okay, I'll tell them to hurry up."

Seeing Su Mo so insistent, Lin Zinuo didn't say anything else.

The next morning, when the sun shone on Hai Feng Island again, Zhou Qian ran over to report.

"The armory has been completely emptied."

"Okay, Su Mo, you can start."

Lin Zinuo looked up at Su Mo and said.

Su Mo controlled the Killing Blade and jumped into the launch pad.

After falling freely for a while, the Killing Blade crashed onto a steel frame base with a bang.

Su Mo controlled the mecha to look around, but no swarm of monsters rushed up as expected. However, Su Mo still found some sticky traces left by monsters crawling on the base.

He followed the traces forward and soon reached the edge of the base.

There was a huge entrance to a tunnel on the side near the bottom of the mountain, with a height of seventy or eighty meters.

"Could there be an underground base here?"

Su Mo was also very surprised.

Of course, Su Mo didn't back down, and he controlled the mecha to walk inside.

Not long after entering the tunnel, a prompt popped up on the mecha's screen.

"Warning: Toxic components detected, internal circulation system activated."

Su Mo just glanced at the prompt and continued to control the mecha forward.

After walking for about a hundred meters, Su Mo saw a giant metal bulkhead door, but this door had been violently destroyed beyond recognition.

The ground was stained with black blood, making the atmosphere even more eerie.

Su Mo controlled the mecha to continue moving forward, and another prompt popped up on the mecha.

"Warning: Strong heat radiation reaction detected."

Su Mo glanced at the scanning radar. There was a huge red dot flashing in the depths. But surprisingly, he didn't see too many small red dots.

He continued to advance, and the tunnel under his feet sloped downward, indicating that the base below was buried very deep.

At the same time, Su Mo began to see some torn pieces of protective clothing, but he didn't see any corpses. As expected, they had been eaten clean.

After a while, Su Mo reached the end of the tunnel.

A messy and spacious giant biochemical laboratory came into view. At the very back of the laboratory, there was a giant biochemical pool, surrounded by some scattered Hei Yuan beasts.

A iii-type commander-level mutated Hei Yuan beast, with an incredibly bloated and massive body, densely covered with red spots, a head like a flower bud, full of sharp teeth inside, and ten scarlet eyeballs along the edge of its mouth, a generally anthropomorphic body, with a pair of clawed hands and forked feet, and a tail divided into black tentacles, was soaking inside.

The iii-type commander-level Hei Yuan beast used its tail to bind the scattered Hei Yuan beasts and drag them directly into the biochemical pool.

In the next second, the Hei Yuan beasts that were dragged in turned into a pool of blood.

The entire iii-type commander-level Hei Yuan beast was emitting an extremely strong heat radiation reaction. If there were no accidents, the underground biochemical laboratory should have a very strong isolation effect.

Su Mo's eyelids twitched slightly. He felt that this monster seemed to be a whole size bigger than its previous form, and the aura it emitted was even more terrifying.

In addition, this Hei Yuan beast seemed to be at a critical moment of evolution, and its eyeballs were closed. It didn't even open them when it was binding those Hei Yuan beasts.

And it didn't launch an attack on Su Mo immediately.

If this trend of strengthening continued, given this guy some more time, its template might be strengthened by another level.

Su Mo didn't launch an attack immediately. He first observed the laboratory and didn't see any other powerful monsters.

The laboratory was full of precision instruments and equipment, most of which were damaged. The toxic gas permeating the tunnel should have leaked from the equipment here.

A small portion of it was not damaged, but its value was probably not very high anymore.

Because when the fight starts later, it probably won't end well.

The only thing worth noting was that on the right side of the laboratory, there was a sealed circular bulkhead door, a bit like the door of a vault. There might be something inside.

After confirming that there were no problems.