ATDIWR Chapter 130

Chapter 130 Tracking and Counter-Tracking Unidentified Flying Objects

Everyone felt Ji An’s words made sense, and the matter of public announcement was temporarily set aside.

Determining whether the unidentified objects are flying saucers piloted by aliens can be said to be one of the most important things at present.

Gu Jinsheng arranged the personnel on his side and immediately went to H Base to track and investigate.

Wan Xueying, Kong Zhongcheng, Zhou Qin, Owen, Jiang Fuzhong, and other exceptionally strong high-level power users had all gone to H Base to track, but found no anomalies.

Among them, Owen was the most diligent. She always felt that this matter seemed to be related to Du Ruanlan, but she still found no clues.

However, they were not completely without gains. These people did not find any abnormalities at the scene at the time, but by zooming in and analyzing the captured videos frame by frame, they could still see those unidentified flying objects. Although it was still impossible to tell exactly what they were, it could be confirmed and asserted that these unidentified flying objects were definitely not static recorded due to mech malfunction.

“I’ll go myself.” Gu Jinsheng decided to go personally. Almost all the elites had been to H Base and found nothing. Going again would be futile.

“Let me go with you.” Ji An said.

Gu Jinsheng frowned slightly, “Next time. Haven’t you been busy recently?”

“It won’t take that long.” Ji An pleaded, “Let me go with you. After all, I am a researcher, more sensitive to this kind of thing. Maybe I can notice some details you might miss.”

“At worst, if we really find something amiss, we’ll stay put first, discuss the strategy when we get back, and then decide.”

Wan Xueying advised, “Boss, let President Ji follow. President Ji is a mental-type power user, naturally more sensitive than other types of power users like us. Maybe he can really discover something.”

Ji An looked wronged, “You promised me before. Could it be that you’re going back on your word now?”

Gu Jinsheng looked down at Ji An, helpless, “No matter what happens, do not act rashly.”

“Okay, I promise you.” Ji An raised his hand as if to swear, but Gu Jinsheng pressed it down.

“How can you swear so casually?” Gu Jinsheng lightly chided, the tone not reproachful, but full of helpless tenderness.

Ji An smiled.

“Come up.” Gu Jinsheng said to Ji An, and Ji An quickly followed.

Watching Gu Jinsheng’s mech leave, Kong Zhongcheng stretched his neck forcefully, “Why do I feel so choked up?”

“It’s been so long, and you still haven’t gotten used to it?” Wan Xueying raised an eyebrow.

“Used to it. This dog food stuff chokes you dry, even without drinking water.”

“Then drink some water next time.”

“No, is this about drinking water?” Kong Zhongcheng yelled, but unfortunately, no one paid attention to him. Everyone still had a lot of things to be busy with and dispersed.

Gu Jinsheng piloted the mech to the sky above H Base, and as usual, first circled above the missile explosion site.

Everyone and all animals that could be evacuated from here had been evacuated. People were sent to various places by Jing Shi Base according to their individual choices. As for the animals, those that hadn’t mutated were treasures Ji An needed, and they were all found and given to Ji An.

Ji An then released them into his spatial jade pendant.

“Wait, what’s that?” Ji An pointed to a certain spot on the ground. Something was moving rapidly there.

Gu Jinsheng immediately operated the mech’s positioning system to lock onto the target. After zooming in, he found that the fellow should be a person, or rather, a mutated zombie.

It had two heads, three legs, and four arms.

“Wait a minute, fly lower. Why do I feel there’s something wrong with this guy’s three legs?” The distance was still a bit far, and some details were unclear.

Gu Jinsheng piloted the mech lower, only a few meters away from the mutated zombie.

This time, Ji An could finally clearly see the full appearance of the rapidly running zombie on the ground.

“Its third leg…” Ji An saw it, and Ji An couldn’t continue speaking.

Because regarding that third leg, it was a ‘third leg’, but also not a third leg. It had grown right from the very center.

“This isn’t a leg for running and jumping, is it? It seems to be…” At this moment, Gu Jinsheng finally saw clearly what that thing was. He covered Ji An’s eyes.

“Don’t look, it’s dirty.”

Ji An pushed away Gu Jinsheng’s hand, “You big jealous person, it’s already a zombie, and you’re still jealous… Tsk tsk tsk, but speaking of which, this must have mutated from radiation. I wonder if those short men will feel envious when they see it and want to get radiated too, to grow… Oh my god…”

Ji An’s eyes widened, as large as copper bells.

The zombie ran and ran, probably feeling its speed wasn’t fast enough. It actually used ‘that leg’ in the middle to support itself, pushing off with its two normal legs for momentum, leaping up and jumping several zhang away.

“Fuck.” Ji An, a civilized person who never swore, couldn’t help but curse at this moment. A certain area phantom-ached, and he unconsciously squeezed his legs together, “Strong, too strong. This hardness defeats 100% of men in the world.”

Ji An squinted at Gu Jinsheng, “Including you.”

Gu Jinsheng’s operating fingers paused. He turned his head to look at Ji An, his eyes dangerous.

The zombie, running at full speed, seemed to sense something. It suddenly changed direction, leapt up, and actually sprang upwards, its withered hands trying to grab the mech monitoring it above. At the same time, the zombie raised its three faces and looked at the screen together.

“Ah!” Ji An was unprepared and was startled.

The zombie’s three faces didn’t look like human faces at all. The features were twisted and crooked, noses, eyes, and mouths grew haphazardly, not in their proper positions. The noses, rather than being noses, were more like festering sores on its face, from which flowed something that could have been snot or pus.

Gu Jinsheng retracted his gaze, his expression satisfied. With a slight movement of his finger, three green lasers shot out, hitting the zombie’s three heads respectively. The zombie was headshotted and fell, and the terrifying and disgusting ghoul face disappeared from the screen.

Gu Jinsheng asked mischievously, “Are you still envious of its hardness now?”

Ji An, “…”

Was this man’s heart as small as a needle’s tip?

Gu Jinsheng glanced at Ji An from the corner of his eye, his lips slightly curved, feeling very pleased.

Suddenly, Gu Jinsheng’s slight smile froze at the corners of his mouth.

Ji An noticed the anomaly in Gu Jinsheng’s subtle expression and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Gu Jinsheng’s expression became serious and cold, “Something is following us.”

Ji An immediately leaned towards the screen to look at the view behind the mech, but couldn’t see anything.

“I don’t see it.”

Gu Jinsheng shook his head, “It’s not within the camera’s visible range. They must be attached to the mech’s outer shell.”

Ji An’s expression also became serious, “How did you find out?”

“The feel is wrong.” Gu Jinsheng had operated this mech in countless battles, his connection with it was seamless. Almost as soon as he had a thought, the mech moved. Under these circumstances, Gu Jinsheng could keenly sense even the slightest difference.

Ji An didn’t speak, quickly pulling up the mech’s various parameters. This mech was manufactured by Ji An. If Gu Jinsheng was one with the mech in operation, achieving man-machine unity, then Ji An had a complete grasp of every single data point of this mech.

Indeed, Ji An found that some of the mech’s parameters were incorrect, showing subtle differences.

The two exchanged glances. Ji An’s eyes signaled Gu Jinsheng to find a way to shake them off.

Gu Jinsheng nodded slightly, then suddenly operated the mech to perform a sharp leap. This movement was abrupt, without any warning. Logically, even if the thing was very reactive, it should have revealed a flaw. But in reality, it was as if everything was just Ji An and Gu Jinsheng’s imagination, as if it didn’t exist at all.

Gu Jinsheng said solemnly, “It must be attached to the mech’s outer shell. We can’t shake it off like this at all.”

“How about letting Thunder Dragon go out and take a look?” Gu Jinsheng said.

“No way.” Ji An flatly refused, “We still don’t know what they are, and we can’t shake them off now, which only indicates that their technology is higher than ours. If they hurt Thunder Dragon, you will also be in danger.”

Ji An’s pupils constricted slightly, “Don’t worry about them. We’ll just continue with what we’re doing. Anyway, we came here specifically to find them. If they are willing to follow us back to the Base, that would be even better. Once they’re on our territory, there will always be a way to keep them and make sure they can’t return.”

Gu Jinsheng no longer paid attention to the unidentified objects attached to the mech’s outer shell and continued piloting the mech to search for other unidentified flying objects. However, during this time, Gu Jinsheng constantly divided his attention to observe the movements behind the mech.

The unidentified object didn’t seem to have any malicious intent, as if it was just tired of flying and simply hitched a ride, not attempting to do anything.

The two didn’t communicate further. After about ten minutes, Gu Jinsheng keenly sensed that the mech’s responsiveness had been restored.

“They’re gone.”

Ji An, sitting in the mech, didn’t sense any abnormality. He quickly brought up the mech’s various data again. Indeed, all data had returned to normal.

Ji An brought up the video recorded by the mech’s rear camera from the minute before this. He observed carefully and indeed saw three black dots rapidly flying out of the rear camera’s view in the video.

Gu Jinsheng sharply turned the mech, suddenly accelerating to chase after them.

Ji An looked down at the screen. The target lock on the screen had been activated at some point and had already locked onto the target.

“Just now it was tracking us, and now it’s our turn to track them.” Ji An understood Gu Jinsheng’s meaning and smiled.

The unidentified objects flew very fast. Gu Jinsheng piloted the mech at full speed but still couldn’t keep up with the other side’s speed.

Ji An watched as the locked target suddenly disappeared, “They are too fast, we lost them.”

Gu Jinsheng didn’t say anything, continuing to silently operate the mech. After about five minutes, the target was suddenly locked onto the screen again.

“We caught up again.” Ji An was surprised and happy, “Jinsheng, how did you know their direction?”

“Intuition.” In fact, Gu Jinsheng didn’t know, it really was just intuition.

Ji An smiled, “In the field of scientific research, I always have this inexplicable intuition, and it’s quite accurate.”

This time, Gu Jinsheng didn’t lose them again, or rather, they arrived at their destination before he could lose them again.

The destination of these unidentified flying objects was none other than a volcano at R Base. This volcano was an active volcano, though it hadn’t erupted for about 300 years. But scientists still classified it as an active volcano because historical records showed it had erupted multiple times.

This volcano was currently dormant, but geological activity was still present.