Chapter 1222 - The Discovery At Mine 071 (1/2)

It was noon and the staff was resting.

A man in the Celestial Trade uniform was munching on fries with ketchup while sliding his greasy hand on the holographic screen. He turned on a famous streamer who was streaming Godly Land.

The neural-accessible VR online game took the world by storm. With miraculous intelligent real-time computation power, the game captured the minds of the players using endless plots and possibilities. The game captured over ninety-five percent of the VR MMORPG market.

Gris was no exception. Before he became a Celestial Trade employee, he was already a big fan of Godly Land. Whenever he took lunch, he would go into a select few channels to watch the streamers doing “unique missions” while he enjoyed his snacks.

The stream was getting more exciting as a streamer called Shadow Demon was about to finish the plot of a “unique mission” and enter the boss fight, but then the headset he tossed on the table suddenly flashed red.

Gris paused for a second when he saw the flashing red light.

Although he was reluctant, he turned off the holographic screen in agony and put his feet back down on the floor before he grabbed the headset.

It was the nature of his work.

Because the communication resources of the Earth and Mars were precious, even during his break, he must sit at his desk and be on standby. The real break only happened after work when shift interns would take over.

After he cleared his throat, he wiped the grease off of his mouth and skillfully pressed the button.

“This is the Space Command Center, Agent 011 is at your service.”

There was a brief period of static noise in the communication before it quickly became clear.

“…This is Project Team 071. We found something special in the ground… we don’t know how to describe our shock at the moment.”

Something special?

Gris couldn’t understand for a moment, but he did not dare to neglect what he had just heard. He immediately grabbed the pen from the table and jotted it down on a notepad.

“Okay, Project Team 071, the Space Command Center has received your message. Can you describe it more in detail? What did you find?”

“There is a wide underground space, no groundwater, no ice… It’s empty and the outer casing is metal. After scrapping about five drill bits, we have drilled through the outer casing. Inside we detected some metal objects, but they don’t seem natural and we can’t determine its source.”

Next to the Mars rover, Wang Qiang made contact with the Celestial City Space Command Center through the Mars communication base station. While looking at the screen of the instrument in his hand, he had a serious expression on his face.

Next to him were four Marines in aerospace kinetic skeletons, and they were holding the new personnel weapon – Gaussian Rifle. At this moment, the four Marines were cautiously guarding the drilling platform.

When Wang Qiang had hung up the phone, Captain Hong Zewei, who was standing next to him, immediately asked.

“What did the command center say?”

“They asked us to continue to drill down and then drop in drones.”

“Drop in drones? What if a monster comes out?” Hong Zewei smiled bitterly. “Or what if a Gundam appears…”