Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1426 - 707: Swipe the Card! (Part 3)

She turned her head to look at Xu Ying.

"Yingying, can you teleport us out of here? Is this place also isolated from space?"

She couldn’t help but ask.

Xu Ying sensed for a moment, then shook her head: "No, I can take you up, don’t worry about getting stuck."

"That’s good." Li Wenxi breathed a sigh of relief.

"Since that’s the case, let’s not worry about the entrance. Aside from this entrance, there shouldn’t be any changes around here, right?" Xu Xin said.

"Probably not... uh... there is." Li Wenxi suddenly changed her tone.

Xu Xin and Xu Ying looked at her.

Li Wenxi earnestly pointed at the metal monoliths around them, each having various protrusions: "These things seem to have undergone some changes."

"Some changes?"

Xu Xin looked at the nearest metal monolith.

"I don’t know what exactly, probably something changed internally, but my abilities just now started to detect it."

The three exchanged glances and immediately walked to the nearest one.

Beside this metal monolith, there was also the corpse of an alien invader.

Actually, there was a corpse beside every metal monolith.

In this way, they really look like tombstones.

However...

"Look, the scarlet spikes on the metal monolith have retracted!"

Li Wenxi exclaimed in surprise.

Originally, those scarlet spikes on the monolith protruded much more than the normal metal-colored spikes.

But now, these red spikes had retracted, and...

It seemed they were gradually fading...?

"The pattern’s color is about to become the same as other areas," Xu Ying remarked with interest, "Once they become the same, what happens... Will these spikes shoot out?"

"Hiss—"

The three suddenly felt it might be possible!

"Hide behind that console!"

Xu Xin immediately instructed.

The three quickly moved and hid behind the console within two seconds.

This area only had the console as cover.

"Ying?" Keke, in Xu Xin’s arms, tilted its little head and called out in confusion.

Xu Ying’s conjecture didn’t come to pass.

The three waited for about half a minute, and there was no sign of spikes protruding.

"Just a scare..."

Xu Ying couldn’t help but want to peer out, but was held back by Xu Xin.

"Wenxi, what’s happening now?"

Xu Xin held Xu Ying and turned to ask Li Wenxi.

"No changes... Ah! There are changes now!"

Li Wenxi’s eyes brightened, then showing a sliver of astonishment, she said: "Those monoliths... have opened?"

Opened?

"Ying!" Keke called out, struggling twice in Xu Xin’s arms.

It seemed to say there was no danger; don’t stay here any longer, quickly go check it out!

"There should be no more danger now."

Xu Xin stood up and approached the nearest metal monolith.

The metal monolith... had indeed opened.

Like the shell of a macadamia nut, a gap had split down the middle.

And this gap was widening before Xu Xin and the others’ eyes.

The interior of this metal monolith turned out to be hollow!

The monolith was over two meters tall, half a meter wide, and thirty to forty centimeters thick.

But the spiked metal monolith’s outer shell was only five centimeters thick.

Thus, the monolith’s internal space was actually large.

Perhaps they shouldn’t call it a monolith, but... a cabinet?

The three glanced towards the interior.

The inside was different from the outside, incredibly smooth, akin to the slide that led them down.

And hanging on this smooth inner wall were some objects.

Some of these objects appeared cold and sharp, some were small prototypes, and some visibly had black gun barrels!

"Ah!"

Xu Ying exclaimed upon seeing these items.

"This is... the alien invaders’ weapons!"

She attempted to pick up an alien invader’s gun.

This gun was elongated without the familiar stocks humans had since alien invaders didn’t need them.

They just needed to attach these guns to themselves to use them, so the gun seemed to be nothing but a barrel.

"It’s true!" Xu Ying held the weapon, her eyes lighting up, "Alien invaders’ light weapons!"

"Does this weapon work against scarlet crystals?" Li Wenxi asked.

"Probably not..."

Xu Ying examined it thoroughly, finally finding a press-button trigger on one end, then grinned: "But this weapon differs from ours. These weapons can kill alien invaders!"

Can kill alien invaders!

Suddenly, Xu Xin and Li Wenxi sensed the weight of these weapons!

Their current handguns, machine guns, and others caused minimal harm to alien invaders; they could almost recover themselves.

But these weapons could!

Since weapons were originally designed to combat one’s own kind in wars.

Alien invaders’ weapons naturally would cause immense harm to alien invaders!

"Good stuff!"

Xu Xin looked around.

All the metal monoliths had opened.

Each was filled with various alien invaders’ weapons!

"Let’s seize all of these!"

Without delay, the three began moving quickly.

Xu Xin approached a metal monolith, kicked aside the alien invader’s corpse on the ground, and took everything inside.

But then, he looked at the alien invader’s corpse he had kicked aside.

"Ah... I know what these metal monoliths are for now."

Xu Xin declared knowingly.

"Hmm? What are they for?"

Li Wenxi was organizing weapons in the monolith beside him and turned to him upon hearing this.

"Isn’t it an arsenal?"

"Of course not." Xu Xin pointed at the internal space, "If it’s purely an arsenal, why are weapons only hung on the inner wall, with a large empty area?"

Saying this, he gazed at the deceased alien invader on the ground.

"Ah... you mean..."

Li Wenxi also looked at the corpse at the base of her monolith.

"This alien invader originally was inside the monolith?" Xu Ying realized.

She looked inside the monolith: "These spiky metal monoliths are actually alien invaders’... soldier hibernation pods?"

The three again looked at the large number of dead alien invaders on the ground.

"How did they die?"