"Captain, let the security team go with you," Li Lu, the squad leader of the security team, stood up and saluted.
The security team was the only one left on Daphne.
"Captain, let me lead the team," said Zhao Ping, the only surpasser left on the warship.
"Sergeant, you should stay on the warship. This is our foundation. If anything happens to the warship, it will be useless even if we find the people. We will all die.
In addition, I will only take people to have a look. We will not go too deep. "
Ji Yanran then looked at the security team and said, "Li Lu, choose four soldiers with better warframe skills to go with me. The rest of the soldiers will stay on the warship."
"Yes, Sir." Li Lu directly named four soldiers and reported to Ji Yanran.
Ji Yanran asked them to go get the warframes. Then he looked at Han Sen and hesitated before he said, "You go get ready as well."
"Yes, Sir." Han Sen responded and went to get the warframe as well.
The seven of them soon set off from the warship and took a small MCV to the excavation site. Because it was not far from the warship, it only took them half an hour to reach the destination.
Looking out from the MCV, they found that all kinds of equipment were in good condition. There was no trace of fighting, either. The only thing that was damaged was the multi-purpose excavator.
Seeing that there was no blood, Ji Yanran and the others were slightly relieved. At least they were not attacked.
Because of the terrain, the MCV could not go further into the excavation site. Ji Yanran asked two soldiers to stay on the MCV and took Li Lu, Han Sen, and two other security team soldiers to get off the MCV and head toward the entrance.
"Maintain formation … Send scan data … Communication is open …" Various data flashed on the warframes from time to time, some from the MCV and some from the warship. Their warframes also sent the data back.
Although they kept a high level of vigilance, nothing happened. The five of them successfully reached the entrance dug by Li Mingtang and the others.
It was a black crystal door that was more than thirty meters tall. There were many strange patterns carved on it. Some were circles, some were lines, and some were triangular symbols. However, there were no obvious rules. It looked a bit like the movement of a mechanical watch. It was very complicated and difficult to understand.
At this time, the black crystal door had already been pried open. A single person's armor could pass through, but large machines couldn't enter at all.
"Captain, should we go in and take a look?" Li Lu asked Ji Yanran.
Ji Yanran didn't answer Li Lu. Looking at the black door, she was shocked. She quickly switched to a private channel and said to Han Sen, "Han Sen, I'm going down to take a look. You stay here."
"Why?" Han Sen knew that Ji Yanran must have discovered something. Otherwise, she wouldn't say that.
"This is the ruin of the Crystallizer royalty, and it's still running. It's too dangerous down there.
You know nothing about the Crystallizers. You may trigger some dangerous restrictions. It's better for you to stay here, "Ji Yanran said.
"I'll follow you," Han Sen said.
"That's an order," Ji Yanran said seriously.
"Your order doesn't apply to me," Han Sen said lightly.
Ji Yanran was about to say something, but suddenly heard a scream from the MCV. They all looked at the MCV at the same time and saw the two soldiers who had stayed in the MCV running out. They were driving warframes toward them.
"Old Liu, what happened?
What happened?
Please answer if you hear … Please answer if you hear … "Li Lu wanted to ask what had happened through the communicator, but he found that there was only static. He couldn't hear anything at all.
Han Sen quickly looked at the communicator and found that the warframe had lost contact with the battleship. The communication system was almost in a state of complete paralysis.
Ji Yanran obviously noticed this, too. She shouted to Han Sen and the others, "Stay in formation. Let's go and check it out."
They stayed in formation and ran toward the warframes of the two soldiers. Before Ji Yanran could ask what had happened to the two soldiers, Han Sen already knew the answer.
Behind the two soldiers, fist-sized crystals were floating in the air, shining with red light. They were like red light bulbs. At first glance, there were so many of them that they couldn't tell how many there were. There were at least hundreds or thousands of them.
"Simulacrum Crystal Core! Why are there so many simulacrum Crystal Cores?" Han Sen and the others were shocked.
No wonder the two soldiers had run away. There were so many simulation crystal cores that anyone would run when they saw them.
Han Sen had seen the power of simulation crystal cores before. As long as they were scanned by the simulation crystal cores, they could change into the same thing.
If hundreds or thousands of simulation crystal cores were scanned by a MCV or a warframe, hundreds or thousands of warframes and MCV would crush them. They would be smashed into pieces in the blink of an eye.
More and more simulation crystal cores were floating toward them. There were so many of them that they couldn't tell how many there were.
"Retreat … Retreat into the Crystallizer ruins …" Ji Yanran already knew where the experts had gone. Now she couldn't repeat what they had experienced.
Bang! Bang!
Bang! The first few dozen simulation crystal cores were already close to the two soldiers. The red light in the crystal cores flashed, shining on the two soldiers' warframes like flashes. Suddenly, the simulation crystal warframes fell to the ground one by one, chasing after the two soldiers.
More and more simulation crystal cores flashed red, turning into more and more warframes.
Li Lu couldn't help but pull out his laser gun and shoot at the warframes. He wanted to save his two comrades.
"Don't!" Ji Yanran wanted to stop him, but it was too late.
Li Lu's shot pierced a big hole in one of the Blood Crystal Battle Armors. But in the blink of an eye, the other Blood Crystal Battle Armors pulled out their laser guns and fired at him.
Bang!
The armors of the two soldiers closest to them exploded, turning into a pile of burning scrap metal. The blood-crystal armors were still shooting at them.
"Retreat into the ruins first." Han Sen controlled his warframe to run toward the black crystal gate.
"Retreat into the ruins now!" Ji Yanran shouted, following Han Sen.
Li Lu's eyes were red. He gritted his teeth and ordered the two soldiers to retreat into the ruins together, while he covered them from behind.
Bang!
Han Sen and Ji Yanran had just retreated into the black crystal gate when they heard a loud noise behind them. Li Lu's warframe had been destroyed.