This was just now, during his "frantic escape", he deliberately pretended to make a maneuvering mistake, slightly blocking between the leech and the mineral source rock, prompting the opponent’s thick tail to strike here.
The leech’s strike was extremely precise, and he didn’t evade at all.
The excavator can withstand the fierce attack of a Level Four Ruined Beast, but the leech is Level Five, and with just one hit, it deformed the cylindrical cabin.
In the midst of the violent tremors, Ren Zhong did something.
He hit the SOS button hard, activating the Ghost Communication Device’s overloaded signal distress function, and sent out a precisely located message that lasted about 5 seconds.
This is the "normal operation" of a person on the brink of death, although it seemed a bit foolish.
After all, everyone is working in a mining area, and most people know his general location. It’s not like dozens of people are scattered around the globe for planetary development, making the overloaded signal completely unnecessary.
The most critical thing is that once the Ghost Communication Device activates the overloaded signal, there is at least a ten-minute cooldown and recovery time, only operating at lower power.
This is the reason why Ren Zhong gradually "lost connection."
But then, in a state of extreme panic, making a few foolish mistakes is perfectly understandable.
Even more "unfortunate" is that the spot hit by the leech happened to house the smart cabin with core functions like the black box and the Intelligent Brain Core.
The smart cabin itself has reliable alien technology level defense, but the main lines linking the smart cabin to other cabins, having to be exposed outside the module, have high chances of being impacted and need repairs from time to time. These lines use materials independently produced by the Source Star, whose material science performance is much weaker.
These lines were crushed by the deformed metal structure.
From then on, all smart devices requiring high computing power failed, and Ren Zhong’s Screw Rock Excavator turned into an "ancient tractor," only basic equipment with built-in low-power chips, like the geomagnetic sensor, planetary gravitational differential device, and gyroscope, could still operate.
Incidentally, the monitoring scanners spread throughout the interior and exterior of the Screw Rock Excavator were also cut off by this hit.
The scan modeling monitor video turned into a sea of snowflakes.
Moreover, after the leech’s strike just stopped the monitoring from operating, Ren Zhong also took advantage of the violent rocking during the collision to do something.
Under the camera, he pretended to fall backward, his hands flailing wildly on the console, and quietly, his armored right foot was stabbing around the bottom of the console.
Very coincidentally, his fingers pressed onto the communication system’s maintenance switch.
The box carrying the Ghost Communication Device popped open with a snap.
His right foot then precisely stabbed inward, just so "coincidentally" stepping down the connection line.
This time, everything’s alright, the basic communication is gone too.
Thus he completely turned into a disconnected subterranean "ghost."
Two and a half hours later, in the underground cylindrical hall, Lin Wang looked grimly at the pile of slurry and leech corpse like mud amassed here.
Standing to the side with his arms crossed, Yu Junren also had a face dark as water.
The other professional teams happily accepted the reward given by Lin Wang and went back into the mine.
In the hall now, only Yu Junren, the bodyguard team from Chenhui Company, and five others, including Lin Wang, were being interrogated as if they were criminals.
At this moment, the condition of these five was not good, all dirty and covered in marks of various injuries.
Lin Wang spent money, killed a Level Five Ruined Beast, dismantled the crystal chip, and dissected the corpse, but inside, there was no Screw Rock Excavator.
"Lin Wang, tell me, where’s the machine?"
Lin Wang turned his head stiffly, "I... I don’t know."
Yu Junren flipped his hand and slapped Lin Wang across the face, "Your team members, you were the closest to those guys when the incident happened, and now you’re telling me you don’t know? It’s not on the command system, the communication is completely disconnected, and before the disconnection, there’s a final alert that the intelligent central control system went completely offline. This means the core equipment inside also had issues! Look at the idiotic performance of your team members, what are they doing flailing their hands and feet? Performing a play?"
The opponent was not a professional, the slap wasn’t heavy, Lin Wang’s face didn’t hurt, but it still burned.
Just then, a thumping sound came from the alloy wall of the No. 3 maintenance station, as if something was gently striking from outside.
That was the maintenance station of the Demolition Master from the top-ranked professional team in the examination.
Everyone was shocked.
Yu Junren quickly ordered the logistics department to open the alloy door in front of the No. 3 maintenance station.
A drill head covered in dirt spun its way in, burying most of itself into the cylindrical hall, and then slowly stopped spinning.