Chapter 22 Sweeping Away

Inside the steel container, a ten-meter-long block of ice appeared, crystal clear and transparent, revealing the object sealed within. It was a mass of tangled tree roots, surrounded by numerous free-floating white filaments, its length reaching at least seven or eight meters. The thing possessed both the texture of meat and the characteristics of a plant, making its origin difficult to determine.

Upon seeing this, many Contractors groaned and staggered back several steps, some even bleeding from their noses and mouths. The woman named "Zi" reacted most strongly, closing her eyes and collapsing powerlessly to the ground, like a flower that had exhausted its vitality, appearing to have suffered a serious injury.

Fang Senyan immediately noticed that all those affected were Contractors with remarkable Spirit and Intelligence attributes. Someone like him, with low Spirit, low Intelligence, and terrible elemental affinity, could stare at the thing for a day and be perfectly fine. Clearly, the mental fluctuations emanating from it were extremely intense, and the higher a Contractor's achievements in Spirit and Intelligence, the greater the impact they would feel.

Under the frenzied attacks of the beasts, the ice block quickly shattered and melted completely into the ground. When the root-like object came into contact with the earth, it seemed to grow a large number of roots from within, deeply embedding itself in the soil. Then, a large number of white filaments could be seen spreading from all directions, decomposing the root-like object at an indescribable speed. It visibly shrank and disappeared, completely breaking down before everyone's eyes in less than three minutes.

"That's it...! The original work mentioned that the roots of trees and the soil on Pandora are connected by some kind of magical link! Each tree is like a computer with connecting roads, like nerve cells, linking the entire planet into a whole! These white filaments are very much like the connecting medium." A flash of inspiration ran through Fang Senyan's mind:

"I was right! This thing that the RD people obtained must be extremely important to Eywa (Mother Tree), the powerful and mysterious life form on Pandora! Judging from the way it was decomposed, it should be an extremely important food for Eywa (Mother Tree), like salt to humans, the amount ingested may not need to be much, but it is essential every day!"

"Hmm, based on these observations today, it can even be further inferred... the main body of Eywa (Mother Tree) might have a fundamental connection with fungi on Earth."

Now that the crisis of the beast swarm attack had been completely eliminated at its source, the frantically attacking beasts also dispersed. Fang Senyan immediately thought of something, but he was not in a hurry to say it. Yuan Zhan then said:

"There's good news. The communication device on this Valkyrie transport has been destroyed. It was damaged during the violent impact of the landing. The latest contact message they sent was a request for reinforcements from the airborne mothership or Hell's Gate base before the crash. After that, they couldn't contact the outside world. In other words, the mothership is completely unaware of anything we do. To be precise, our hostile relationship with RD will gradually return to normal within twenty-four hours, eventually becoming friendly again."

The pale-faced Zi breathed a sigh of relief and issued an order:

"According to the information I obtained, the engine that the mission requires us to protect isn't actually that big. It's just above this core control room. Send three people to guard it... Although the beasts have retreated, that doesn't necessarily mean it won't be damaged. From now until the first mission is completed, take shifts every three hours... Reef, since we've formed an alliance, your people must join in too."

Reef said calmly:

"No problem."

Zi then coughed lightly a few times and said:

"Next, Arkefiel, Yuan Zhan, and Reef, stay behind. Now, while we're cooperating, we have the luxurious configuration of two top-tier Ms at this stage. We can discuss how to maximize our profits from this." The rest of you are free to move about."

After hearing this, Fang Senyan and Mogansha began to walk towards the bottom of the spaceship, seemingly to clean up the battlefield. But as soon as they left the sight of the Illuminati members, Fang Senyan turned around again and walked towards the passage of the adjacent cabin. Mogansha asked curiously:

"What are we going to do?"

Fang Senyan said lightly:

"Based on my deduction, there should still be something waiting for us to discover."

Mogansha shook his head and said:

"Boss, you underestimate those Illuminati guys. I believe that while we were watching outside the window earlier, they had already scavenged this floor cleaner than a bone licked by hyenas! Besides, those RD people who escaped shouldn't have left behind anything valuable either, damn it! I think it would be a good idea to go to the crash site of those bastards and see if we can find something."

Fang Senyan smiled:

"You're wrong. There's still a place they can't get into, and there should be some valuable things there."

As he spoke, the silver-white metal identity card between his fingers was shining with a faint light.

A narrow, steel-colored space, simple decorations, cabinets welded into the space. Monotonous blue and white cabinets, gray, dusty wool blankets. This was everything presented to Fang Senyan and Mogansha.

Behind them, a metal sliding door had been opened, and the silver-white metal card was inserted into its switch.

Mogansha directly pushed open the closet next to him with the golden muzzle of his gun, his eyes suddenly lighting up:

"N-9 Wasp Pistol (N-9)" (The pistol used by Colonel Miles Quaritch in the movie to shoot and injure the female doctor.)

"Quality: Black."

"This weapon cannot be infused with weapon souls."

"Condition: Slightly damaged."

"Equipment Position: One-handed."

"Length: 228 mm"

"Weight: 1.1 kg."

"Installed Accessories: Optical and Infrared Remote Sensing Device (Removable), extending the effective range of the gun by 300 meters."

"Attack Power: 60~80,"

"Equipment: Perception +2/Agility +5."

"Equipment: Strength -2/Constitution -1/Charisma -3/Intelligence -1."

"Ammunition Capacity: 4" (Half-damaged state: Should be 8)

"Rate of Fire: 3 seconds/shot."

"Equipment Requirements: Agility 30, Perception 25, Basic Ranged Combat lv5."

"This weapon's special effect: Wasp Tail Sting, has a 33% chance to ignore 50% of the target's defense and cause penetrating damage when attacking. This effect has priority."

The original owner of this pistol probably noticed a minor malfunction, so he didn't carry it with him and casually left it in the cabinet, preparing to repair it after getting off work. Who knew that this one shift would be his last!

There was no doubt that this thing belonged to Mogansha. The power of this weapon lay not in anything else, but in the installed accessories! For a sniper rifle, this optical and infrared remote sensing device was a useless trinket, but for a pistol, it invisibly multiplied the effective range several times over!

And there was also the penetrating effect with its own priority. A high activation rate of 33%, a high defense ignoring rate of 50%. Combined with Mogansha's own abilities, this thing, although a pistol, was definitely no less powerful than a small, rapid-firing sniper rifle.

Having gained something, Mogansha continued to search. Although he didn't find anything else, he was still satisfied. He looked at Fang Senyan, who was standing in front of the desk in a daze, and patted him on the shoulder:

"Boss, not bad, this gun is black, but it's better than many silver storyline equipment! It's pretty good that we didn't find anything else."

A mysterious smile appeared on the corner of Fang Senyan's mouth:

"You're wrong. The biggest gain from our visit here is this."

Mogansha looked in the direction of Fang Senyan's finger with suspicion. There, a light blue locked notebook with scribbled handwriting was open, and Fang Senyan was reading the following content:

"Today is January 3rd, oh, wrong, January 2nd. God bless, I always forget that this damn demon planet has 25 hours a day."

"We were ordered to survey area VII today. I suspect we've been targeted by those blue-skinned giant monkey people again."

"God bless, it is said that these Na'vi are also divided into civilized tribes and uncivilized natives. To put it simply, you can use the template of the cannibals of New Guinea to apply to those uncivilized tribes. In their eyes, humans and wildebeest are the same, belonging to the edible and capturable species."

"Fortunately, the Na'vi near Hell's Gate seem to be civilized tribes. They are willing to contact humans with some peaceful means. This is also one of the main reasons why Hell's Gate can be established."

"............"

"January 11th, flood! Oh my god, oh my god! Why is there a flood in this season? If I hadn't climbed onto a tendril fern at the time, I might have been swept away by the muddy river. Banbo seemed to have oxygen supply problems in the flood. I saw with my own eyes how his face changed from normal to the color of cooked ketchup..."

"Okay, okay, I know Mr. Smith will express regret at this time and tell us that this is another unexpected accident. It's just that the frequency of these accidents is too high!"