After finishing, Lin Xian reached out to control, and the four Thunder Falcon drones on the ground activated again, slowly ascending into the air and flying in front of Lin Xian.
This flying drone is only the size of a basketball overall, covered with a certain amount of armor, equipped with a Hall Flight Propulsion Engine, and the Plasma Arc Pulse Cannon inside looks very threatening. According to the blueprint scanned earlier, the Extreme Energy Capacitor it uses is very advanced, and the power of the Pulse Cannon it fires is much stronger than ordinary rifle bullets.
"It seems that the intelligent defense system here has activated; we’ve been identified as intruders," Ding Junyi said as he looked at the drone.
"Phew, that was close! This thing is so fast, I almost got caught off guard!" Luo Yang exclaimed, stepping forward, his gaze revealing amazement: "This drone is so precise, it can actually use a Plasma Arc Pulse Cannon. The energy storage system must not be ordinary merchandise, appearing to be much more advanced than the interstellar army’s Thunder Falcons."
"Thanks to Captain Lin’s mechanical superpower," Ning Jing said with a serious expression, "It looks like the people here are already onto us."
"The defensive measures might not just stop here."
Lin Xian raised his hand with a wave, directly controlling two reconnaissance drones to fly into the passage behind the automatic door. Suddenly, the sensing system inside detected motion, the lights along the passage began to illuminate layer by layer, and Lin Xian pushed the Force Field Shield to peer inside while the drone transmitted back scan information without finding any traces of life.
The design of the whole passage is very peculiar, translucent on all sides, completely unlike a regular passage.
"This passage is so deep," Kiki remarked as she craned her neck to peer inside, "I think there must be an ambush."
At this moment, Lin Xian suddenly sensed an energy surge and immediately pushed Kiki behind him.
As soon as he finished speaking, the translucent passage suddenly emitted high-frequency flashes, and from the end of the passage, tens of blue Super High Temperature Plasma Beam Wire Cutting Arrays appeared, slicing through the passage at very high speed. In an instant, Lin Xian’s two reconnaissance drones were cut into fragments, falling to the ground, sparking continuously, and the cuts were still glowing and melting!
Upon witnessing this scene, everyone’s expressions changed immediately. The attack occurred so swiftly, not even offering a second to react. If Lin Xian hadn’t sent the drones to scout first, people might have been sliced apart.
"This is definitely not a regular passage," Lin Xian stated grimly.
His mechanical superpower began scanning the passage, and as the scan unfolded, Lin Xian’s eyebrows furrowed, his face showing disbelief.
In a short time, his mechanical superpower scanned the passage to reveal Gait Scanners, infrared heat detectors, vibration sensors, and thousands of various surveillance nodes. At the top of the passage, Lin Xian also discovered 26 Thunder Falcon drones lurking, all activated and in attack mode. Most critically, the passage contained a Super High Temperature Plasma Beam Wire Cutting Array, with explosives arranged outside the passage, and beneath the passage lay an abyssal region...
"Good grief..." Lin Xian couldn’t help but say in a grave tone, "There are at least five types of deadly traps and self-destruct mechanisms inside this passage, not including the drones. Combined with the various scanners here, the defense level is akin to the highest military rank."
"Huh?" Luo Yang widened his eyes upon hearing this, "Why would a research facility need such a high level of defense?"
"Where there’s a fuss, there’s a reason," Lu Xingchen crossed his arms over his chest with a composed expression, "Given such elaborate measures, there must be something incredible inside."
Ning Jing nodded, "This defense probably isn’t meant to deal with zombies or Abnormal Bodies, is it?"
"No," Ding Junyi replied, "The purpose of such scanning levels is generally to verify identity, strictly barring illegal personnel from entry. If there’s a self-destruct mechanism, it must be prepared to safeguard something extremely important."
As they discussed, Kiki and Lin Xian had already begun cooperating seamlessly. Lin Xian utilized his mechanical superpower to locate hidden data pipelines within the passage, covering and scanning the remaining 16 drones one by one, forcibly controlling them to fly out of the passage, where they were then connected to a mobile terminal by Kiki for program rewriting.
At the same time, Lin Xian’s Mechanical Heart persistently covered the passage, starting to shut down sensors and scanners, taking the explosives offline, and directly shutting down the rear Super High Temperature Plasma Beam Wire Cutting Array.
Though the passage was packed with advanced technology and lethal weapons, equipped with self-destruct protocols, in front of Lin Xian, none of it posed much trouble. His mechanical superpower was the bane of all mechanical devices. In just over twenty minutes, every defense program within the passage was offline, and weapons were directly short-circuited by Lin Xian, rendering this costly and nearly foolproof defense and detection passage completely powerless.
Nevertheless, Lin Xian remained cautious; after everything was thoroughly managed, he created two new reconnaissance drones to fly in and, after ensuring no issues, he finally led the group quickly through the passage.
Once the automatic door at the end opened under Lin Xian’s control, what lay before them was a large surveillance hall, stocked with various high-tech instruments. Most notably, the inner side of the hall featured a dome the size of half a soccer field, with the entire laboratory built around this hemisphere.
At this moment, everyone’s gaze was glued to the center of the hall, where a robotic female head connected to a mechanical arm high up was smiling down at them.
The robot head’s eye focus module fixed upon Lin Xian, and immediately, a holographic projection enveloped the robotic head, presenting a beautiful human female face model. The next moment, ’she’ opened her mouth and, with an ionized magnetic sound, spoke to Lin Xian:
Instantly, Lin Xian’s gaze sharpened, although the face was now holographically digitized, he immediately recognized it as the mysterious woman he had frequently seen in his dreams.