Long Ming walked over to the table. His gaze fell on the wireless communication device. It would probably be useful to a team, but it was of little use to him, and it was so bulky it must be extremely heavy, so he gave it up outright.
Long Ming checked the water cup and other things on the table, then immediately pulled open the drawer.
Inside lay a wrench, a flashlight, and other miscellaneous items.
Long Ming glanced at them but did not take anything. He needed to reserve his carrying capacity for more valuable things.
Soon Long Ming finished searching the watchtower, then walked to the observation slit and looked down over the entire base from above.
Within the military base, some worms were scattered here and there, but none were very large.
However, at the entrance of the huge circular base in the center, Long Ming saw two giant insects. Their bodies were covered in hard carapaces, with sharp insect spikes protruding, and beneath their red eyes was a circular mouthpart full of backward-pointing barbs. They looked hideous.
One was five meters in size, the other slightly smaller at just over four meters.
Long Ming sucked in a deep breath of cool air. Even though he knew this was a game, he still couldn't help but feel afraid.
But the next second, his gaze turned sharp.
Long Ming took out the Baka rifle with the best durability and loaded it fully with bullets. As for the Koge pistol and the M24 sniper rifle, he had already loaded them before coming.
After everything was ready, Long Ming set the Baka rifle aside, then carefully extended the M24 sniper rifle out the window, aiming at the two rot-brown insects.
However, Long Ming did not fire immediately. Both insects were carapace-type, and he didn't know if his gun could penetrate them.
At that moment, the smaller rot-brown insect curled up into a ball, raised its tail, and the tip of its tail secreted a red liquid. Under the sunlight, it looked very tempting.
Soon a red moth swooped down from the sky and kept licking the red liquid.
Then the rot-brown insect slowly revealed its hideous head, looking at the red moth that was feeding.
But the red moth seemed not to realize danger had arrived, and continued feeding.
If observed closely, one could see that the red moth's mouth, while licking the liquid, had become sluggish, and its body was falling into uncontrollable paralysis.
The next second, the rot-brown insect suddenly opened its bloody maw and bit the red moth, succeeding.
But just as the rot-brown insect was preparing to happily enjoy its meal,
the strong rot-brown insect charged over dominantly, knocked the other flying, and directly snatched the red moth's corpse to chew on.
The small rot-brown insect, seeing its prey taken, also let out an unwilling insect cry, but dared not go over to snatch it.
Seeing this scene, Long Ming's eyes suddenly lit up, and he began to fine-tune the gun barrel, locking onto the strong rot-brown insect.
Because it was his first long-range sniper shot, Long Ming didn't have much confidence in hitting, but fortunately its head was large, so even if he didn't hit the eye, he could hit nearby parts.
Gentle breezes blew by.
Long Ming aimed with all his might, holding his breath and waiting for the opportunity.
At that moment, the rot-brown insect's body paused, and it stopped to swallow.
Long Ming's gaze turned cold, and he decisively pulled the trigger.
Whoosh!
The bullet instantly sliced through the air and hit the rot-brown insect right in the eye.
Bang~
Sticky liquid splattered, and one of the rot-brown insect's eyes was directly blown out, and it let out a pained insect cry.
However, it did not fall down. Instead, it turned around wildly searching for the enemy everywhere.
But around it was only the smaller rot-brown insect, so it thought this one had attacked it, and angrily charged over, directly knocking it flying.
The smaller rot-brown insect, after being inexplicably hit, was also angered.
It angrily rushed toward the larger rot-brown insect.
The two became entangled, both opening their insect mouths and biting each other, rolling and fighting nonstop.
Long Ming kept trying to aim at its other eye, but simply couldn't aim accurately.
He then gave up aiming at the eye, tried to aim and lock onto the abdomen of the large rot-brown insect, and pulled the trigger.
Bang!
The large rot-brown insect's abdomen was hit, and sticky liquid splattered. Then it let out a mournful cry of pain, and life and strength kept ebbing away.
The smaller rot-brown insect seized this opportunity and fiercely bit down on its neck.
Crack!
The larger rot-brown insect was directly bitten to death.
The victorious small rot-brown insect, though covered in wounds, kept letting out excited insect cries.
At this moment, Long Ming pulled the trigger again.
Bang~
The bullet instantly hit its head.
Sticky liquid splattered.
Before it could react, the second shot and third shot came in succession.
Finally, the smaller rot-brown insect also fell unwillingly. Although it didn't die immediately, it looked like it couldn't survive either; death was only a matter of time.
After finishing off these two rot-brown insects, Long Ming used the scope to carefully check all corners of the entrance. After confirming there was no danger,
he refilled the M24 sniper rifle with bullets, then picked up the Baka rifle beside him and slung it over his back.
A moment later, Long Ming climbed down from the watchtower and continued searching forward.
On the way to the center base there was a guard room and a square building.
Soon Long Ming arrived at the guard room. He went in to search, and inside were two skeletons, but nothing valuable. So he took a few looks and came out.
Immediately after, Long Ming came to the door of the square building, carefully peered inside, and found it was a maintenance area.
He then walked in. The entire maintenance area was a mess, with wreckage everywhere, scattered parts, and damaged military weapons and equipment.
Long Ming crouched down to search, and a look of hesitation appeared on his face.
These weapon parts and such were actually quite valuable. If he carried them out, he could probably sell them for twenty or thirty thousand.
Adding the things he had scavenged before, this instance run could be considered to have some profit.
But this bit of profit was far from enough for Long Ming. What he needed now wasn't a little money, but to eat until stuffed in one go, and stuffed to bursting at that.
Thinking this, Long Ming hesitated for a moment, then walked out of the maintenance area, his gaze falling on the huge center base building.
He knew for sure there were good things there, but the danger index was also doubled.
The choices left to him now were either to quit while ahead, or to gamble everything: the bold get stuffed to bursting, while the timid starve to death.
Long Ming took a deep breath, then hardened his heart and walked toward the center base.
Soon Long Ming arrived at the entrance of the center base.
The main entrance of this center base building was a gate passage, now standing open. The interior passage was dim, as if a man-eating giant beast had opened its mouth.
Long Ming took a deep breath and carefully walked in. Inside, it was pitch black. All lighting equipment had stopped working.
He then stopped, turned around, and went back to get the flashlight.
(End of chapter)
Chapter 31