Traveler of the River of Time and Space

Chapter 654 24: Dimensional Strike 3

Siberia, a certain secret base.

This place was once an important military base at Earth's poles during the old times. It suffered extremely severe nuclear strikes when the catastrophe occurred, resulting in such severe nuclear pollution that it remains uninhabitable to this day, requiring humans to wear protective suits to operate here. For a long time, no outsiders disturbed here, yet now, a group of visitors from the East has arrived.

"Comrade, it's just ahead."

A squad of elite soldiers wearing power armor emblazoned with a pentagram escorted several researchers clad in protective suits to these ruins.

Due to the near-collapse of civilization post-war, the Soviet Union's legacy from the other pole of the Earth remains unclaimed to this day, roaming around this wasteland are Frenzied Corpse Ghosts that emerged after the catastrophe. Unlike those in other places, due to extremely high radiation pollution and deep mutation, coupled with some pre-war genetic research results, these Corpse Ghosts have evolved into a glowing variant.

Beidou suffered considerable casualties due to inadequate preparation during the first exploration, and was forced to retreat just after opening the underground base's gate.

However, this time they came prepared.

Su Ziyu handed over some technology through Su Ying to Beidou, who gathered the entire industrial system's power, and within an extremely short period used cutting-edge materials, along with lightweight modular printing technology, to produce space-age conscript infantry armor, namely the City Defense Army power armor. Although it's just basic-level power armor from the interstellar age, it is still several eras ahead compared to the current wasteland.

This set of power armor's defensive capability and mobility are about twice that of the most advanced power armor in the wasteland, able to effectively defend against energy and conventional weapons, and most importantly, it can engage in a certain degree of neural connection.

The most behind-the-times aspect of wasteland power armor is that it can only rely on programs and manual operations, lacking neural-level operability.

This unit's weapons are very uniform, all equipped with Gauss rifles. Their ammunition consists of special alloy steel needles. According to Beidou's lab tests, Gauss rifle bullets have a muzzle velocity of 5 Mach, an energy of 150,000 joules, sufficient to penetrate 500mm of steel armor, making them directly anti-tank capable, and can handle other wasteland power armors essentially with one shot each. The standard magazine capacity is 100 rounds, and the special extended magazine holds 200 rounds.

This time, Beidou is determined to take down this military base because according to the intelligence they received, the base holds complete pre-war era space technology data.

That is, part of the research results from the "Star Wars" program.

Among them, they value the space paratrooper technology the most, which is a technique similar to orbital deployment. It can deploy mobile units to any corner of the Earth within a very short time. Besides, the base also preserves a large amount of secret research results from the pre-war era, many of which are top-secret files unknown to the outside world.

Including the legendary 'Voice of Hell'.

In the pre-war era, as the Earth's other pole, the Soviet Union secretly excavated a special place. It is rumored that after reaching a certain depth, they heard some terrifying, strange sounds and stopped the excavation project.

However, according to secret data obtained by Beidou, this operation actually didn't stop; they even drilled deeper underground.

But due to some accidents, the entire plan was shelved.

Yet, the legend of the 'Voice of Hell' still spread. According to the intelligence Beidou acquired, buried deep underground at the site of their previous excavation could be something terrifying; back then, all the members responsible for this plan went insane after hearing the Voice of Hell.

Cleaning the base's perimeter went very smoothly.

The City Defense Army's power armor has neural connection devices. Beidou's elite troops generally experience a significant boost in reaction speed; true Space Marines can achieve reaction speeds at the nanosecond level. Although these Beidou soldiers lack match-grade capabilities, they don't feel as cumbersome when wearing other power armors. Even the highly mutated and fast-moving Glowing Frenzied Corpse Ghosts don't leave them flustered.

Soon the team entered the underground base.

They had the base's entire blueprint, allowing them to quickly find what they were looking for.

However, while searching for 'Voice of Hell' data, a bit of an accident occurred because when they entered deep underground, they found nothing.

"Something's not right."

"It seems someone was here before us." The combat team's leader, Ugly Ox, frowned as he looked at the chaotic room, which had several dried and weathered Frenzied Corpse Ghost corpses. This area was destroyed, and the documentation on 'Voice of Hell' was long gone.

Someone must have been here before them, but exactly how long ago is uncertain.

Judging by the dust marks around, it should have been some time ago.

"The primary mission goal has been achieved."

"Let's retreat first."

"The radiation here is too high." The Deputy Commander beside him reminded.

Ugly Ox looked around and waved, "Prepare to retreat."

"Notify the researchers behind us, let them see if there's anything else they need to take."

Most of the mission's results have been achieved, but the Voice of Hell document is missing, which leaves him feeling a bit uneasy. The Corpse Ghosts in the base are strong, not weaker than Death's Claws individually. Those who entered ahead must be strong, but despite that, they didn't take any other research findings, just the less noticeable Voice of Hell, which leaves him feeling very suspicious. This matter must be reported when they return.

Polaris.

Just after awakening, Pasha immediately took over the entire affairs of Polaris. She was as decisive and swift as ever, directly ordering the secret teams of Polaris to arrest and execute some people.

After handling all this, she finally had time to reminisce with Su Ziyu.

"You are back..."

Pasha reached out her hands to touch Su Ziyu's cheek, feeling the touch conveyed by the ancient prosthetic arm, sighing, "Quite marvelous."

"I haven't felt the touch of a normal human for so long."

"You have grown old."

"I thought you'd never age."

Perhaps for Su Ziyu, they were merely separated by experiences across several planes, but for Pasha, it had been a long time since she'd seen Su Ziyu. Over a dozen years passed in the blink of an eye, if she were an ordinary woman, she probably wouldn't have endured, but she was Pasha, a warrior of strong conviction, facing danger and challenges alone most of the time.

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