77: Chapter 73: The Truth What is Star Creation Company really doing?_2 77: Chapter 73: The Truth What is Star Creation Company really doing?_2 Chen Songnan’s complexion changed slightly as he looked up, “What’s going on?
These Silver Grey Beasts seem to have targeted us.
Something’s not right.”
Suddenly, his gloomy eyes swept across the crowd, passing over the city guard and finally landing on his own accompanying staff.
“You, have any of you had contact with outsiders recently?” he asked sternly.
Among the five or six people he had brought with him, most appeared bewildered, only one person trembled.
Chen Songnan instantly fixed his gaze on him and demanded sternly, “Manager Nian, what’s going on?”
Manager Nian’s face turned pale, and his knees buckled, causing him to kneel down in panic, “Director Chen, I…
I called for a home service yesterday…”
“Home service…” Chen Songnan’s expression was ice-cold, “Don’t you know the company’s rules?
During work periods, contact with outsiders is forbidden!”
“I… I…” he stuttered, unable to speak.
Although he didn’t know the specifics, the problem definitely lay with this person.
Normally, they would have just killed him and been done with it, but with so many people watching, he hesitated.
“Keep running!” Chen Songnan urged everyone while pulling up Manager Nian from the ground.
With a loud bang, the narrow stone path collapsed and a large number of Silver Grey Beasts fell from above.
The crowd could not care about anything else and continued fleeing until, after about ten more minutes, Wang Zhiheng looked back and his expression changed slightly.
The Manager Nian, who had been in Chen Songnan’s hand, had disappeared at some point.
But the group of Silver Grey Beasts behind them were still relentlessly pursuing them, seeming even more agitated.
Finally, they arrived at a suddenly clear and flat area, quite spacious with a somewhat high temperature.
Various equipment lay scattered around, along with items like gloves.
Compared to the previous platform with its somewhat decayed metal perforated panels, this area looked quite new.
Not far away was a large warehouse embedded in the stone wall, its alloy doors firmly shut.
Xu Wei furrowed her brow, “What exactly is Star Creation Company doing in secret?
Chen Songnan seemed hesitant too, but as the vibrating sounds behind them drew closer, he finally said, “Go!”
Arriving at the alloy doors, after going through fingerprint, facial scanning, and blood comparison—
“Star Creation Company Silver Grey Star Branch, Executive Director—Chen Songnan, access granted.”
The alloy doors slowly opened, revealing a large space with several rows of metal boxes lined up against the walls.
Chen Songnan urged urgently, and everyone hurried inside without a second thought.
A buzzing sound as the alloy doors began to close gradually.
“Chen Songnan, why aren’t you coming in?” Wang Zhiheng’s expression suddenly changed, and the others realized that the alloy doors were about to close, but Chen Songnan remained outside.
With an expressionless face, Wang Zhiheng felt a bad premonition unconsciously emerging as he rushed towards him.
“Blame it on, these suddenly appearing Silver Grey Beasts.”
Chen Songnan stood in place, simply raising his hand as intense flames erupted, forcing Wang Zhiheng to stop, helplessly watching as the alloy doors closed.
what is he trying to do!?” Wang Zhiheng kicked at the alloy doors, unable to comprehend.
“The signal is also being blocked; the problem is likely in these boxes.” Xu Wei walked over to try and open them; the boxes had a password lock, and it took several people working together to barely manage to open one.
Brilliant golden light streamed out from the crevices of the box, illuminating the faces of the crowd, their expressions turning from perplexed to shocked.
“Some kind of refined ore?” Sandra exclaimed, as what presented before them were blocks of ore that had been refined, intermixed with silver and gold, quite magnificent.
“This isn’t Silver Grey Ore; there’s another kind of mineral on this planet!” Xu Wei realized immediately, “They discovered this mineral on Silver Grey Star but didn’t report it.
They’ve been mining and refining it secretly, and after refining, the volume significantly reduces, directly exported from Silver Grey Star.”
“They’re refining this ore underground?
Where do they get the energy?” Sandra puzzled.
“Geothermal.” Xu Wei spat out two words, gritting her teeth, “Draining the pond to get all the fish, damn Star Creation Company.”
“What does your boss intend to do!” Wang Zhiheng pulled an assistant and asked harshly.
The person trembled, “Kill…
to silence us, these underground passages connect everywhere, without us leading the way, you wouldn’t have found this place.”
“How could he dare?” Zuo Ling was astonished.
“There’s nothing he wouldn’t dare, as long as he cleans up the traces completely.” The accompanying assistant collapsed on the ground and muttered:
“I guess, the next step is to inject anesthetic gas and then throw us in the middle of the Silver Grey Beasts, claiming we died during a Silver Grey Beast surge.
Even if the rescue team arrives, they won’t find out anything.”
“He’s making it out alive by himself?
Even a fool would know there’s a problem!” Wang Zhiheng raged.
“Director Chen won’t make it out alive either, at least not publicly.
He’ll simply change his appearance and leave this place to continue his mission elsewhere.”
The moment these words fell, a hissing noise emitted from the four corners of the room, and everyone’s face changed.
Xu Wei huddled in the corner, Sandra’s face changed colors, and she muttered, “Such a remote planet, yet harboring so much cowardice.”
“What is he doing, not entering himself?” Li Ming, carefully concealing his figure, hid at the edge, holding the recently found telescope, observing Chen Songnan.
He had followed the Silver Grey Beast here because, due to an unknown liquid, he was also ignored by the Silver Grey Beast.
Upon arrival, he saw Chen Songnan hanging by a steel rod, thrust into the rock face.
The Silver Grey Beasts below continually jumped, even stacking atop each other, trying to reach Chen Songnan.
Li Ming guessed that the group had used a special method to disperse pink liquid on a few of them, which led these Silver Grey Beasts to relentlessly pursue them.
“In that case…” Li Ming’s heart stirred, took out the pink liquid, carefully opened it, and then applied it to the barrel of his sniper rifle.
“Even if it evaporates, it should be somewhat effective…” he muttered.
“Roar!” A roaring echoed in the spacious cave, a Silver Grey Beast about thirty meters long turned back in front of the storehouse.
The thick alloy doors it couldn’t break, its eyes fixated on Chen Songnan, its powerful limbs gathered strength, and then it leaped, opening its huge mouth.
“Trouble…” Chen Songnan frowned, feeling an indescribable irritation in his heart.
The uprising of the Silver Grey Beast was completely unexpected.
With his capabilities, escaping from here initially was not difficult.
The reason he had returned was because he realized that the continuing escape of the inspection team might lead them here.
Having any survivors would be a tremendous problem.
He could only ensure that all of these people were disposed of under his lead with minimal impact.
But he also could not stay here after the event.
Thinking this, he suddenly exerted force in his hands, propelling himself upward again for a distance, and his other hand forcefully thrust the steel rod into the rock face.
The beast, over thirty meters long, with an energy level around 30D, posed little threat to him, but he did not want to battle these wild creatures.
He believed the mysterious effect on his body wouldn’t last forever.
But just then, amidst the roaring of the Silver Grey Beasts, a barely noticeable gunshot sounded.
Next moment, his face suddenly changed, the steel rod in his hand was shot and broke, shortened, he quickly reacted, and his other hand connected reflexively.
But immediately, another dazzling sparkler occurred, the other steel rod also broke, left without any support in mid-air, he plummeted straight down.
Below, right into the gaping mouth of a Silver Grey Beast!
The gaping mouth closed, and the enormous Silver Grey Beast fell to the ground and shook its head.
Then, coughing and spewing black smoke, it opened its mouth, and from it burst forth a figure wrapped in flames, looking extremely distressed.
He turned his head toward the direction from which the bullet had come.
He immediately locked onto Qin Xiao, who else had the skill and ability to cause this beast tide?
Was he still not satisfied?
No, that’s not right, wasn’t he afraid of accidentally killing the members of the inspection team?
Chen Songnan’s mind raced, but he had no time to think further, surrounded by Silver Grey Beasts ready to tear him apart.
Being outmaneuvered time and again, Chen Songnan’s fury surged, whipping up a tornado of flames several meters high, tossing the approaching Silver Grey Beasts!
The sound of wind whistled, a thick tail smashed through the flame tornado, directly flinging Chen Songnan out.
Before he could adjust his posture, his shoulder suddenly shifted, a bullet lodged into his skin, mostly exposed, he somersaulted several times on the ground before leaping up.