great-warnovel Chapter 282 The 7th Member of the 1st Squad
Chapter 282 The 7th Member of the 1st Squad
The two gates of the underground passage closed simultaneously.
The armored vehicle lost forward control as its tires became stuck in the guide grooves.
Lu Yan pressed the emergency disconnect button, and the red light on the roof of the car spun twice.
The underground passage is now closed.
All units remain on standby.
Inside the car, the six people remained in their original positions.
The seventh person stood up.
A silver mirror replaced facial features, and the car's interior lights slid across that face, reflecting several overlapping human faces.
Lu Yan turned around and threw a punch.
The fist passed Qin Wuyi's shoulder and struck the back seat.
The alloy backrest sank in, and the fixing bolts broke into the compartment.
The seats were completely empty.
The silver-masked man inside the car window had already left his seat, his long robe sweeping across the floor in his reflection as he walked towards the car door.
Two escorting soldiers carried rifles.
"Don't fire."
Lu Yan gripped the gun barrel and pressed the muzzle towards the ground.
"It's not in the car."
Qin Wuyi had already taken out three copper coins.
He didn't ask Lu Yan how he judged it. He pressed his palm against the carriage floor and inserted the copper coins into the three seams.
"The Qian position suppresses the light, the Kan position locks the shadow, and the Li position breaks the light."
The three copper coins spun half a circle.
Dark yellow patterns pierced through the carriage, covering the windows, instrument panel, and gun sights.
All surfaces that could reflect a human figure lost their luster.
The car windows had become several pieces of gray-black board.
The silver-masked man stopped in the middle of the formation.
It raised its hand and tapped on the glass.
thump.
All six communication devices were simultaneously turned off.
The escorting soldier patted his ear twice, but all that was left on the channel was static.
The silver-masked man struck a second time.
thump.
The roof lights are out of power.
The emergency lights did not turn on, the power module emitted a burning smell, and the numbers on the instrument panel went down to zero one by one.
The third strike came down.
thump.
All four doors were locked.
The driver's identification system restarted, and a red warning filled the screen.
[Abnormal personnel verification.]
[Number of people registered in the vehicle: seven.]
[Actual passenger capacity: seven.]
The driver stared at the two lines of text, taking his hands off the steering wheel.
"The system has classified it as a person."
"Even systems can be fooled."
Lu Yan leaned against the car door, and the Black Lotus Pure Land spread out from under his combat boots.
Dark black patterns seeped into the vehicle's structure, bypassing cables and armor layers, completely enveloping the vehicle.
"Everyone close your eyes."
Zhao Leiguang wasn't in the car, so no one joked about it.
All six people closed their eyes, and the driver also blocked his view with his arm.
Lu Yan cut off his vision.
The Black Lotus Pure Land changed its operating direction, no longer searching for life fluctuations, but instead depriving the carriage of control over the light.
The hider can fool the eyes and rewrite equipment records, but cannot circumvent the source of the light.
The sound of cracking came from the interlayer of the car window.
A silver crystal detached from the tempered glass and hung in the center of the carriage.
The crystal was only half the length of a thumb, with several hair-thick wires coiled inside.
Qin Wuyi slapped the ground with both hands.
The three copper coins bounced up and spun around the crystal.
"Lock."
The array patterns converged.
The crystal crashed several times but could not escape the area enclosed by the copper coins.
The silver-masked man inside the car window then disappeared.
The lights were restored, but the communicator remained silent.
Lu Yan opened his eyes and brought the tactical terminal close to the crystal.
The Void Disk completed its analysis, and a series of coordinates appeared on the screen.
Longwei Base, underground interrogation area, third isolation room.
After checking the coordinates, the driver rubbed the back of his hand against his forehead.
"The end of the original route."
Qin Wuyi leaned against the carriage wall, blood trickling from under her nose again.
Su Yunqing wasn't there, so he could only pull out a tissue and stuff it into his nostrils.
"The mechanical moths on the street, the attack on the noodle shop, and the pursuit outside the base are all whips that keep us moving forward."
"It wants us to go into the interrogation area."
Lu Yan removed the crystal and placed it, along with the three copper coins, into the shielding box.
"Change course, head to the weapons repair depot."
The driver pointed to the malfunctioning control panel.
"The car is locked, and access to the gate has been blocked."
Lu Yan kicked open the side door.
The lock cylinder and half of the door frame flew into the passage.
"It's open now."
The two escorting soldiers exchanged a glance and silently put away their demolition tools.
Qin Wuyi climbed out of the car door and looked down at the deformed lock groove.
"Does the first squad usually open the door like this?"
"Saves time."
The weapons repair depot is located six underground levels, occupying half of the mountainside.
Rows of repair benches are filled with gun parts, and a rail crane is parked under the ceiling, with a bulletproof glass panel at the end.
Lu Yan mobilized the first squad.
Zhao Leiguang arrived first and blocked the main entrance of the maintenance depot with two shields.
"Whoever comes in, I'll bump into them first."
Shen Xinglin unfolded his lance, the shaft engaging the mechanical structure of the external passage.
The gears stopped turning, and the spare door was welded shut.
Wen Yue climbed up the second-floor suspension bridge of the maintenance depot, and placed the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow in a gap in the railing.
Scatter grenades were laid out in sections along ventilation openings, freight elevators, and maintenance shafts.
Xiao Qianyu released spatial beacons to inspect the wall cavities and underground pipelines.
Su Yunqing pressed Qin Wuyi down onto the repair chair.
Yao Guang bestowed a halo of light, repairing his overdrawn magical energy channels.
Qin Wuyi tried to get up, but was pressed back into the chair by the staff.
"Sit still."
"I'm not hurt."
Su Yunqing took out the record board.
"My nose is bleeding into my collar."
Qin Wuyi glanced down and shut up.
The review began on the spot.
Lu Yan sat on the other side of the repair station and switched the recording device to offline mode.
"Let's start from the beginning about the Qin family's affairs."
Qin Wuyi took off her denim jacket and draped it over the back of the chair.
"The Qin family lived in Sichuan. Going back a few generations, they worked in geomancy, city construction, surveying, and also compiled military books for the old army."
"Our tribe doesn't practice with swords and spears; what we learn is terrain, battle formations, and ingenious strategies."
"After the Star Gate descended, the ancestral home was renovated."
"More than 200 boxes of documents were unearthed from the foundation of the old house. They were damaged by insects, water, and missing pages, and less than 30% of them were readable."
"The family handed over the formation diagram to the Dragon Guard, leaving behind a batch of unrecognizable fragments."
Lu Yan tapped on the table.
Where does your profession come from?
"Ancestral hall".
Qin Wuyi took the water that Su Yunqing handed her and drank two sips.
"On the day I awakened, nine stone slabs on the ground of the ancestral hall were moved."
"Nine stone slabs were pieced together to form a broken array. I followed the array's pattern to complete my first-tier job advancement."
"After the fourth line of defense was attacked, I was promoted at the heart of the formation, and my profession changed to Qiankun Evangelist."
Lu Yan pulled up the structural diagram of the Western Sichuan battlefield.
"What is Qin Zheng responsible for?"
"Defend the position."
Qin Wuyi stared at the fourth line of defense on the map.
"She can hold the position in place, and as long as there is still one piece of the base, the defense line will not collapse."
"My job is to trap the monsters, block their paths, suppress their movement, and cut through the monster hordes."
"On the day the Holy Temple attacked the fourth line of defense, she handed over control of the formation to me and led an independent platoon to guard the outer passage."
His hand landed on the inside pocket of his denim jacket.
After pausing for a moment, he unraveled the seam of the interlayer and pulled out an old piece of paper.
The paper was yellowed, the edges were worn, and only sixteen ink marks remained.
The central government left one sentence unsaid.
"Heaven and earth are the board, and all living beings are the pieces. The one who holds the military manual can use mountains and rivers to set up the battle formation."
Lu Yan took the old paper.
The Void Disc rotates on its own, splitting and rearranging the sixteen directions within the field of vision.
[Remnants of Chinese divinity have been detected.]
[Related Objective: Military Strategy]
Completeness: 7%.
The information stopped at 7%, without specifying a particular affiliation.
Lu Yan returned the old paper.
"The Mobile Sanctuary has contacted you."
Qin Wuyi raised her head.
The only sound in the maintenance depot was the low rumble of the boom motor.
"I received a message half an hour before the fourth line of defense was attacked."
"It said it could revive my sister."
"The condition is the Qin family's battle formation diagram."
Zhao Leiguang cursed from the doorway.
"They're using the dead to negotiate deals, and these guys are shamelessly asking for prices."
Qin Wuyi folded the old paper neatly.
I refused.
"Twelve minutes later, the coordinates of the array's core were erased."
"Qin Zheng and the Independent Platoon stayed outside the formation, while I was thrown into the evacuation tunnel by the formation."
"So it's chasing you not just to kill you."
Lu Yan placed the silver crystal in the center of the repair table.
"It wants the array diagram, and it also wants your profession."
Qin Wuyi wiped the blood from under her nose with her sleeve.
"My debt has already been recorded."
Neat footsteps could be heard outside the maintenance depot.
After identity verification was completed layer by layer, the entire first team entered the warehouse.
Lu Yan projected Qin Wuyi's file, secret realm records, and Xichuan report onto the tactical screen.
"Qin Wuyi, the preacher of the universe."
"From today onwards, you will be assigned to the first squad."
"Their duties include formation control, battlefield division, and area blockade."
"If you have any objections, raise them now."
Zhao Leiguang threw over a spare combat uniform.
The clothes were patted into Qin Wuyi's arms; they were two sizes too big.
"Put it on first."
"Our team has a lot of funding, and aesthetics are the responsibility of the logistics department, so we have to put up with the ugliness."
Xiao Qianyu sent the communication key to Qin Wuyi's terminal.
"Memorize the channel rules within fifteen minutes."
Su Yunqing recorded the maximum amount of magic power and performed another healing.
Shen Xinglin put away his lance, making room for the new team member.
Wen Yue lay prone on the second-floor suspension bridge, the crossbow still pointed at the entrance to the maintenance depot.
Stand ten meters in front of me.
"Don't block the trajectory."
Qin Wuyi lowered her head to complete the team entry verification.
The terminal issues a short notification.
[Identity entry complete.]
[The first squad has gained a seventh member.]
The next second, the base system issued an alarm.
[A seventh member has been detected.]
[The first squad currently has eight members.]
Everyone turned towards the end of the repair bay.
The explosion-proof glass reflects the maintenance platform, the suspension bridge, and the seven team members.
In the center of the reflection, an extra chair appears.
A person wearing a silver mask sat in a chair with his hands folded and the First Squad's insignia hanging on his chest.
It raised its head.
A voice came from beneath the silver mask.
"I want the position of the seventh sword too."