The lopsided battle in the dimly lit alloy corridor had just ended.
The air still reeked of gun smoke. Shell casings and bullet dents littered the floor, while more than a dozen soldiers in regular army uniforms lay sprawled everywhere. Most had completely lost consciousness, while the rest were groaning in pain.
Hao Ren casually grabbed a soldier who looked like a squad leader. "Hey, can you hear me? What are you doing here?"
The soldier cracked his eyes open. The moment he saw Hao Ren's face, he remembered the supernatural scene from earlier and looked like he was about to pass out again. Hao Ren hurriedly shook him hard by the collar. "Hey, wait until later to pass out! Answer my question first!"
"We're from the Second Marine Corps..." the soldier said timidly, as if afraid Hao Ren would suddenly turn into some kind of alien and swallow him whole.
"The Second Marine Corps?" Hao Ren froze for a moment. He had never heard of that name. "What are you doing here?"
The soldier's teeth chattered. "We... We were ordered to eliminate the radical aerospace elements here..."
"Eliminate aerospace elements?" The more Hao Ren listened, the more confused he became. "Wait... wasn't this the Control Center of the nanomachine swarm? And it's been abandoned for more than sixty years... Hold on, what place is this?!"
The soldier looked at Hao Ren in confusion. He felt he had run into a mentally unstable superhuman, but still answered cautiously, "It's the launch site in the Cardick Mountain Range."
The launch site in the Cardick Mountain Range...
Hao Ren casually slapped the soldier unconscious, then stood up in bewilderment and surveyed the place, which had changed completely—almost mutated into something bizarre.
He found a corner and concealed himself there, then began checking