Trickster Hunter

Chapter 375 Inside the Building

Although the Baikal ruins are not covered by signal shielding sites, these reinforced concrete structures themselves can be regarded as a kind of barrier. If you want to maintain smooth communication with the base behind, you must use drones in the air as signals. Transfer station - first transmits communication signals to the drone, and then the drone transmits the radio signal back to the forward base at a high altitude without barriers.

In some extreme situations where radio cannot be used, drones can even use laser communication to ensure smooth signals.

However, for the 19th Reconnaissance Team that lost its drone, both radio and laser communications became empty talk.

"Perhaps we can borrow a drone from a neighboring team?" the female team member suggested.

"No... there is no team close to us..." the captain shook his head, "Originally the 20th Reconnaissance Team was following us, but just half an hour ago, their captain Levi sent me a message saying Their UAV electronic equipment malfunctioned and they needed to return to the base for repair... According to the deployment before departure, the team closest to us now should be the 16th Reconnaissance Team six kilometers northeast, assuming their advancement speed and plan consistent words.”

"Six kilometers? This is too far..." Maxim said with some frustration.

"Speaking of which, Maxim, did you notice what was going on in that building just now? Did that shadow appear again?" asked the sixth man in the team, a medical soldier with a red cross armband wrapped around his arm.

"I was just pushed to the ground by the captain. How should I see it? Do you want to see it with my asshole?" Maxim shouted.

"Didn't show up." The person who answered the question on his behalf was the sniper Glazkov. He still maintained the posture of holding the gun. Even half of the rubble hitting his helmet did not make him move at all. "I have been aiming at that There was nothing visible through the window - the thermal imaging couldn't pick up any heat sources other than the wreckage of the drone."

"Maxim, did you just...did you see it wrong?" the machine gunner asked doubtfully.

"Believe it or not! Anyway, I really saw it!" Maxim said.

"If the drone can be picked up, maybe it can be repaired, and we can still get in touch with the base, but..." the medic stopped mid-sentence.

But everyone else knew the half of what he didn't say.

The drone fell into the building and was buried under a pile of bricks and rubble. If you want to pick it up, you have to enter this dark building... If Maxim read it correctly just now , there is a high probability that there is an unknown strange thing dormant in this building.

It's too dangerous.

They originally sent drones to investigate because they discovered traces of strange objects... But now in order to recover the drones, they have to face the threat of strange objects. This can't help but put the cart before the horse. .

The leader of the team felt a little regretful. If he had called the headquarters for support as soon as possible instead of taking the risk of using a drone to explore the inside of the building, he might not have been in such a dilemma.

Several soldiers looked at each other in confusion. When everyone was hesitating, the female soldier stood up and said, "Let me go! The cave-in is too narrow. I am the petite one, so it should be the easiest to get in!"

Just when she was about to take off her backpack, Maxim rushed out first: "How could a group of big men dare to let a woman take risks?! I can't afford to lose this person! Besides, I am a breakthrough Hands, this is my mission!"

He removed the extra equipment from his body in three strokes, folded the butt of the submachine gun and hung it under his neck, then stepped on a pile of rubble in the corner with a single step, jumped up with the help of his strength, and grabbed it in one fell swoop. It reached the edge of the window sill, which was almost three and a half meters above the ground.

Maxim is thin and thin, only one centimeter taller than the female soldiers in the same team, but he is extremely agile. In military competitions in the army, he often relies on this advantage to defeat soldiers who weigh much more. An opponent who is several levels ahead of him.

The non-slip texture on the soles of military boots bit into the rough wall. Maxim's core exerted force suddenly, and his whole body instantly climbed up the wall like a gecko.

His upper body directly penetrated the interior of the building, and his freed hands directly picked up the submachine gun. The tactical flashlight hanging from the muzzle instantly scanned the entire room.

"No weird objects were found." Maxim reported immediately.

His nervousness also eased slightly, and he suddenly felt that maybe... he had really seen it wrong just now?

After all, everyone was in a state of high mental tension when we walked in... I heard the beautiful military doctor sister in the rear hospital say before that the more nervous people are, the more likely they are to have hallucinations...

Could it be that the fleeting shadow he just saw was really an hallucination caused by being too nervous?

"No matter what, it's always right to be vigilant... What's more, the sudden shaking and landslide just now are too suspicious." Maxim said to himself in his heart, "Even if there is something strange in the building, it must be He’s not a powerful guy…otherwise, he would have killed us long ago, so why bother hiding?”

Maxim adjusted his posture. He stepped directly on the slightly sloping window sill with his feet. He shrank into the window frame. He held a submachine gun in one hand and took out a spare from his pocket with the other hand. With his tactical flashlight, two high-brightness light beams shot left and right, illuminating the interior of the building.

"Maxim, have you discovered anything?" the team leader asked anxiously from outside.

"It's weird... Glazkov is right. These buildings not only look weird on the outside, but also on the inside." Maxim responded.

This window is located three meters above the ground. Logically speaking, it should be at least a window on the second floor... Of course, windows on the first floor are not impossible. The structure of a lobby with a floor height of four or five meters is generally located on the second floor. Open some high windows at this height to enhance indoor lighting...

But the problem is that this window is neither on the first floor nor on the second floor.

Inside this building, there are no obvious floor divisions at all.

It is like a one-to-one 3D printed model of a building. It looks like it has one, two, and three floors from the outside... but the inside of the building is hollow. Except for the support structures necessary during printing, Nothing!

And these supporting structures were like layers of messy spider webs, filling the interior of the building, which gave Maxim an illusion: This place did not look like the inside of a human building, but rather like some kind of monster. 's lair.

Previously, Maxim thought that the shadow he saw should be wandering on the second floor of the building, but now it seems that the situation is completely different from what he imagined.

Assuming that wasn't his hallucination.

The shadow seemed to move over these supporting structures, like a spider crawling along its threads.

Thinking of this, Maxim couldn't help but get excited, and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.

He hates spiders, especially the furry-looking ones.

Because when he was little, the class bully once threw one of these spiders into his collar.

But after he became an adult, he never mentioned this matter to anyone - he neither wanted people to know that a grown man would be afraid of spiders, nor did he want people to know that he had been bullied in his childhood. experience.

"Damn...it's so damned." Maxim kept looking at the situation inside the building. The thinnest part of these supporting structures is only one finger thick. He doesn't know how strong it is. Will it happen if he steps on it? Break off...

Many of the bricks and rubble that fell from the top of the building fell through the gaps in the supporting structure, and only a small part accumulated on the supporting structure.

The wreckage of the drone that was hit was on a relatively large "platform".

This "platform" is a place where more than a dozen support structures gather. It covers an area of ​​about one square meter, is located about one meter below the window sill, and is almost two meters above the ground. The red indicator light of the drone can be vaguely seen among the rubble. Flashing one after another.

"I found the drone and am going to recover it," Maxim said.

He tried to stretch out his hand, but the one-meter reaching distance was still very difficult for the human body. Maxim had to change his posture again - he hooked the edge of the window sill with the insteps of his feet and tried to pull himself up. The whole person hung upside down.

But he gave up this difficult move after just trying it - he was 1.67 meters tall, and when hanging upside down, there would be more than half a meter of redundancy, which made it impossible for his feet to hook The edge of the window sill can only be supported on both sides of the window frame, relying on the force of squeezing to hold the weight of the body.

This action not only requires high leg strength, but also requires Maxim to maintain balance at all times. Once one side of the body exerts too much force, his whole body will be directly thrown onto the platform.

"No, this position is too tricky. I can't perform suspended operations." Maxim finally retracted back to the window sill, turned to the five people waiting outside and said.

"I have ropes and hooks here. Can I hook the drone and lift it up?" the machine gunner asked.

"It's very difficult. There are a lot of broken bricks and rubble on the drone. Let's not talk about whether I can find a place to fix the hook... Even if I can hook it, what if the drone disintegrates when I pull it up? Isn't that right? All your efforts have been wasted?" Maxim objected.

"Then what are you going to do?" the captain asked.

"Throw me the rope and the hook!" Maxim said again.

"Didn't you say you couldn't hook it?" The machine gunner said so, but he still took out the rope and hook immediately and threw it to Maxim.

"I didn't say it was used to hook the drone... the thing to hook is me!" Maxim used the hook to hook the safety buckle on his belt, and then threw the other end of the rope back. .

"The drone fell on a platform. I planned to go down to the platform and dig out the drone with my hands. But I was not sure whether the platform could bear my weight, so once I stepped on the platform You have to find a way to pull me up, understand?" Maxim said loudly.

"Okay, then be more careful!" After fixing the end of the rope on an iron nail driven into the ground, the captain, medic, and machine gunner pulled the rope together, and the originally slack rope suddenly became straight.

"Okay, I'm going down." Feeling the power coming from his waist, Maxim took a deep breath, stepped on the inner wall of the building, and walked down carefully.

He tried his best to keep the same rhythm as his comrades - every time the three people outside released a section of rope, he took a step down, step after step, and it took him nearly half a minute to cross the short one-meter distance. past.

When his feet slowly landed on the platform, Maxim breathed a sigh of relief.

He stretched out his hand and touched a nearby support structure. It felt rough and hard, almost like cement concrete mixed with gravel... But he didn't know if there were any steel bars wrapped inside. If so, it would be twenty. I probably won’t be able to collapse this platform even if I step on it.

Maxim stepped on the platform under his feet with a little force. There was no shaking feeling and no breaking sound. This immediately made him feel relieved.

"Tsk, the platform was fine despite the violent vibration just now. It seems that this thing is much stronger than I thought... I am really... how do you say that word in Chinese? Yes, I am simply unfounded!"

Maxim bent down and began to pull up the debris that buried the drone. The debris he pulled down was thrown directly from the edge of the platform.

The "swishing" sound of the debris rubbing against the gravel and the sound of the collision falling on the ground were endless, and Maxim's movements began to gradually speed up.

The buried drone soon revealed most of its fuselage. Maxim took a closer look and found that although there were several cracks on the drone's shell, the internal electronic components did not seem to be seriously damaged. There was no chance of repair. It should be big.

"Good luck...huh?"

Maxim's expression suddenly froze, and he realized a problem - he had stopped pulling up the rubble just now, why didn't the rustling sound stop?

That sound... seemed to be something, crawling along the support structure inside the building at high speed!

"A weird thing! It's a weird thing!! There is really a weird thing in the building!!!" Maxim's heart started to beat wildly in an instant!

Maxim immediately pulled the remains of the drone out of the rubble and held it in his arms. But just when he was about to raise his head and call his teammates to pull him up, he was shocked to find that the window he had just entered through was , I don’t know when it has disappeared!

The rope was embedded directly inside the wall!