Chapter 284 - Slipping Away (2/2)
”Alright Captain. I agree with your analysis. As we discovered, the coms don't seem to work in here as there is too much interference in the atmosphere, but regular electronic devices don't seem to be affected. With that in mind, try to use a light signaling strategy to keep in touch throughout your investigation. At least this way, the major won't have anything negative to say about us acting on our own,” Captain number one suggested before agreeing on certain light signals with Laz.
”Excellent idea. Alright squad. Get ready to move out.” Laz wasn't going to waste anymore time and immediately got his people ready to go. Although this was the agreement, Laz had no intention of signaling back after the forty five minutes were up. He didn't want them to know what he would be doing and he had no idea were the evolved bastards were anyway.
It was already an unanswered question as to what would happen if the two groups encountered each other in here since they were about the same size.
Then again, Laz had no intention of keeping the squad together.
Once out of ear shot from everyone, Laz gather everyone up together.
”Alright. Here's the drill. Everyone is to break off into smaller teams and check the place out. Explore what you can but stay as safe as you can. This is a whole new world and there is no telling what you will find. Remember this though, even the smallest thing you encounter may kill you. And what's more, right now there is no way to get back. So we need to figure out how to activate the gate on this side.” Laz wanted everyone to keep that in mind. They were stuck here just like everyone else so they needed to make sure they found a way to activate the gate on this side.
”The gate should actually be active on this side,” Ruby said, cutting in.
”What do you mean?” Laz asked.
”The gate, once activated, should be a two way street. You come in and go out the same way. If we got into the got, we should be able to go out from the gate. Looking at the gate from this side, there seems to be a barrier preventing us from going back through so just like the little robots, it must be some sort of security measure that has been put in place.”
”Why would they want us to come in... but not leave...” Remi asked the question first, before a shadow covered her face.
”It's some kind of trap.” Helen came out and said what some of the quicker members had already come up with, including Laz. At first he wasn't sure, thinking it might be a gate issue. But after Ruby's information, the wheels in his head turned out that possibility quickly. And it seemed like the most logical one as well.
”A trap? This place is a f.u.c.k.i.n.g trap?” Dwayne wasn't one of the quickest when it came to thinking, so hearing this meant he wanted someone to confirm it.
”Yeah. It's a f.u.c.k.i.n.g trap. Why the hell did I sign up for this shit...” Jennia said, looking like she wanted to cry. She had fought hard to be the leader of her squad and come to this other world, thinking it would be a chance for her. But now...
”Despite that, there is also an opportunity here,” Laz said, drawing everyone's attention back to himself.
”Even if it is a trap, that doesn't mean that there isn't anything here worth finding. This is a totally different world that seems to have long been abandoned. I have no idea what happened to the people who were here, or even if they were people. What I do know is that you will be able to find things here that don't exist on our planet. For example,” Laz pulled out the cores he had taken from the destroyed automations.
”What are those?” Damien asked, watching the crystal and metal like object glowing in Laz's hand.
”This is one of the cores from those destroyed robots. Here. See if you can see what I see,” Laz handed to core to Damien who studied it for a minute before freezing up in shock.
”Well... let Remi see,” Seeing Damien not moving, Remi grabbed the core from him and check it out herself before also freezing up in shock.
The same situation occurred over and over again as each of the leaders took turns until it got to Ruby who also checked it out.
”You're f.u.c.k.i.n.g kidding me...” She didn't freeze, having quite a bit more experience with it.
”This thing is full of liquid energy... it feels... processed, like you could drink it down without having to worry about it suddenly going unstable and causing you to blow up...” Her analysis was in line with what Laz felt.
Of course you could just use it like a snack and take it in bit by bit every chance you had and save yourself from that overly full feeling.
Either way, that wasn't something you could get on earth. No matter what treasure you came across on those rare occasions you came across a treasure, it would always be a fight to control the energy, allowing it to enter your system and then absorb it until it became you own.
This was basically cheating.
”I would have completely missed this little thing had I not taken a close look at those destroyed robots. And each one had their own core. Which means they have to have a supply of these things somewhere, either already in the automations or piled high somewhere waiting to fuel these little bastards. So imagine what would happen if you found where these things are stored? You would be clear sailing into the next great realm at the least. I don't know how effective it would be for you after that, but either way, you could sell the rest and become rich overnight. The possibilities are limitless.”
”Damn...” Had they not seen the core for themselves, they would have assumed Laz was lying. But now that they saw it and held it, they hated themselves for not finding them first. They had just been sitting on the floor until Laz came around and plundered the half dozen of them.
But this also showed them that even the tiniest of things in this world might be a treasure.
For the first time since they had left Madam Cal's place, everyone could feel their blood boiling from excitement.