Chapter 36 Food Factory

“It is a bit abnormal, but this is not the time to consider these things. Let's speed up. If we miss this opportunity, we may face even greater risks later.”

Su Mo tried his best to persuade her.

“Okay, speed up!”

Jialan was not one to dawdle. After thinking for a few seconds, she immediately agreed with Su Mo.

So the group began to hurry towards the food factory.

Due to their accelerated pace, in just over half an hour, Jialan led Su Mo and the others to the designated area. A giant abandoned food processing plant was located ahead, with about a third of it collapsed.

Jialan waved her hand and said to a woman behind her,

“Xiao Li, take a team and go around to the left to scout out the situation over there!”

“Understood!”

Xiao Li nodded in response, and then led a small team around to the left.

Jialan then took a team and went around to the right.

She skillfully searched every blind spot, making sure there were no hidden enemies.

At this time, a holographic scan image of the entire food processing plant appeared in Su Mo’s mind. There were no red dots inside, so normally, there should be no danger.

It seemed that the area selected by Jialan and the others was reliable. They had been able to survive in such a dangerous environment for so many years, not entirely by luck.

After confirming that there was no danger, Jialan waved to Su Mo and the others behind her, signaling them to follow.

Su Mo and the others followed with their weapons.

Soon they entered the food processing plant. The huge factory was full of paralyzed mechanical equipment. Although the equipment was very old and covered in dust, it looked very advanced in terms of design.

Jialan said, “Xiao Li, you are responsible for guarding. Everyone else starts searching, and be careful to prevent security guards from hiding in corners and ambushing us.”

“Understood!”

Everyone responded.

Su Mo turned to Qian Chengxue and the others and said, “Let’s start searching too!”

“Okay!”

Qian Chengxue and the others also dispersed to search.

The supplies they were looking for were simple, whether it was raw materials for producing food or finished products.

In fact, a normal search mission didn't require so many people. The more people there were, the easier it was to be exposed. But to transport rations for so many people, this many people were needed.

Su Mo looked around and found a storage room that was ajar. He subconsciously walked over and carefully pushed the door open.

Although Artificial Intelligence Devourer had told him that there was no danger, Su Mo still maintained a vigilant mind. It was better to be safe than sorry.

When the door was pushed open, an empty warehouse came into Su Mo’s view, cleaner than after a visit from mice.

Seeing this extremely clean warehouse, Su Mo had a bad feeling.

Sure enough, several minutes later, Su Mo and the others who had been searching in the factory regrouped with Jialan’s people.

Jialan’s companions had only found half a box of synthetic high-energy compressed food.

Xiao Li said to Jialan with some worry, “Jialan, what should we do now? There’s no food in storage at this factory. This little bit is not enough at all. This food storage point is completely useless.”

Jialan’s expression changed for a while, and finally she said, “I didn’t expect the situation to deteriorate to this extent, but we must collect enough food.”

“But where do we collect it from?”

“Go to Factory No. 103. It’s an unused backup food factory. The defensive strength shouldn’t be too strong.”

Jialan said after thinking for a while.

“This…”

Xiao Li and the others were speechless for a moment.

“Is it dangerous?”

Su Mo asked curiously when he saw this.

“Of course it’s dangerous. It’s an unused backup food factory. Although the defensive strength isn’t very strong, if we can’t take out the security guards immediately, or if we make a mistake and let a security guard slip through the net, allowing them to transmit information, we will face a large-scale cleanup by the enemy.”

Xiao Li said through gritted teeth.

Jialan turned to Su Mo and his group and said, “We’re going to take a gamble over there. The level of danger has greatly increased, so you shouldn’t come with us.”

“We are companions, how can we retreat when there is danger? We are not so delicate, and we are not afraid of death.”

Lin Ming and the others said nonchalantly.

Su Mo also said, “Don’t worry about that.”

“Then let’s go.”

Jialan finalized the matter.

Then they immediately left the food processing plant and headed into the distance.

Before they had gone far, red dots immediately appeared on the holographic image in Su Mo’s mind.

Su Mo patiently continued to follow Jialan, if the red dots were not too close, he would pretend not to know. If they were too close, then he could only solve them as soon as possible.

But it seemed that the road ahead would not be easy.

…

A giant mecha factory in the underground city.

At the entrance, a group of federal personnel wearing mechanical armor were rapidly firing at the attacking security guards.

The captain at the head anxiously shouted to those behind him,

“Lord Xiao Jie, Lord Ye Wuhen, we can’t hold on anymore!”

“Hold on a little longer!”

Inside the mecha factory, Xiao Jie and Ye Wuhen looked at the brand-new third-generation standard mecha—Lie Lie, their eyes full of greed.

At this time, mecha technicians were cracking the encryption devices of these standard mechas.

But unfortunately, they didn't have enough time, and the level of these mechanics was limited, so they couldn't break it at all.

“Hurry up!”

Xiao Jie urged irritably.

At this time, a subordinate ran in in a panic.

“It’s not good, we can’t hold on, the other side has dispatched a Type II War Guardian!”

As soon as he finished speaking, a shell flew in and landed beside him.

Rumble~

A violent explosion suddenly rang out.

Xiao Jie and the others instinctively squatted down, holding their heads to avoid the attack.

Outside the mecha factory, Type II War Guardians, twelve meters tall, with a heavy tracked design for the lower body and a humanoid upper body, but without mechanical arms, replaced by two black gun barrels, were driving over.

A row of hidden missile launch ports on the chest of the Type II War Guardians opened.

Then shells and missiles were fired.

Rumble!

The defending personnel were blasted into渣伴伴ied by screams!

…

Ye Wuhen also showed a trace of fear when he saw this situation. The shadow of death overwhelmed his greed. He said to Xiao Jie in a panic,

“No, we must retreat, or we are doomed.”

Xiao Jie’s expression was uncertain. This was like the fat meat reaching his mouth and about to fly away. You must know that there were all third-generation standard mechas parked here. And they were the most advanced models, using energy drives.

Just then, Xiao Jie suddenly turned his head to look at the end of the production line.

Without saying a word, he rushed forward, drew an alloy blade from his waist, and stabbed it into the terminal computer.

Ka!

Xiao Jie dismantled the terminal computer in a few strokes, and then stretched out his hand to pull out a black data black box from it. He looked at the black box with an abnormally excited smile on his face.

“Let’s go!”

Then Xiao Jie and the others began to retreat in a panic.

…

On the other side, Su Mo and the others were shooting and killing the encountered security guards all the way, advancing with difficulty.

Su Mo intentionally or unintentionally reminded Jialan.

“The road ahead seems to be a bit difficult to walk, it’s a bit narrow, there are too many blind spots, it’s easy to hide security guards.”

Jialan stopped, carefully observed it, and then said, “Go to the right.”

“The right side is pretty good.”

Su Mo echoed with a smile, feeling a little tired in his heart. But being a little tired was better than being treated as a monster, right?

Just as Su Mo and the others were walking to the right, Jialan inadvertently glanced at Su Mo.

She had more or less noticed a problem.

Su Mo was intentionally or unintentionally influencing her route selection, and she couldn’t refute it. Although they still encountered attacks along the way, the degree of the attacks was not significant, all within the scope of what they could bear.

Throughout the entire process, only one team member was accidentally hit by a beam attack and suffered a minor injury to his arm.

Jialan then pulled up the virtual map in her helmet. They were now very close to the backup food factory.

As long as they crossed this street, they should be able to see it.

“What are you thinking about? Why don’t we speed up a bit?”

Su Mo suggested a little nervously.

It wasn’t that Su Mo was being nosy, but the road was safe now, but it might not be later.

“Let’s go!”

After sorting out her thoughts, Jialan replied without a word of nonsense.

So they accelerated forward. Not surprisingly, after half an hour, Su Mo and the others reached the outer perimeter of the backup factory. Everyone hid behind different ruined buildings, observing the huge food factory.

Jialan observed the outside of the factory and reported the situation to everyone in a low voice on the communication channel.

“There are twenty security guards at the main gate, two on the right side behind the collapsed landmark, and a UES-03 oval floating reconnaissance buoy in the sky…”

Su Mo, Qian Chengxue, Lin Ming and the others listened to Jialan’s forecast with respect.

The reconnaissance was very experienced and accurate.

After reporting, Jialan continued, “Xiao Li, take a team to the area around the factory and install GY-02 interference devices, and also find the underground optical cable extension area and install GY-01 jammers on it, so be sure to temporarily block communication between this area and the Artificial Intelligence.”

“No problem.”

Xiao Li then took a team and touched to the side.

Jialan turned to Su Mo and the others and instructed, “After Xiao Li installs it, activate the interference device, and we will get an hour of action time. During this period, we must kill all the enemies, and we must not let the internal enemies escape, and take enough food.”

“That’s no problem, but can Xiao Li handle it?”

Su Mo asked with some worry.

“You don’t have to worry about that, Xiao Li is my most capable sister.”

“I’m not doubting her ability, it’s just that the underground optical cable is not easy to find.”

“You don’t have to worry about that either, we have facility structure diagrams of all areas.”

Jialan said after a moment of silence.

Su Mo suddenly realized that he seemed to have asked a question he shouldn’t have asked. This was her home, how could she not know?

“Okay.”

After a while, Xiao Li’s slightly excited voice sounded on the mechanical armor’s unlimited communication channel.

“Done! The time has been set, it will be activated in ten minutes.”

Jialan waved her hand and ordered everyone to disperse and surround the entire factory.

When the countdown ended, Jialan took the lead and jumped out of the hidden area, rushing towards the food factory head-on. She raised the beam gun in her hand and accurately shot at the UES-03 floating reconnaissance device.

Bang bang~

Floating oval reconnaissance devices were shot down one by one.

At the same time, Lin Ming, Qian Chengxue and the others also rushed towards the food factory, suppressing the security guards that rushed out with firepower!

Swish swish~

The enemies defending the food reserve factory were blown up one by one.

Su Mo quickly moved to the left. His vision penetrated the front factory wall, and a very fast crawling security guard was about to escape.

Having learned his lesson from Lin Ming being followed, how could Su Mo make the same mistake again? He accurately chased after it and pulled the trigger on the security guard.

Swish!

The beam gun shot out a red beam, accurately hitting the guard’s head.

Peng~

The security guard fell straight to the ground, its head constantly sparking.

The communication channel kept ringing with reports.

“The southwest area of ​​the food factory has been cleared!”

“The north area of ​​the food factory has been cleared!”

…

Su Mo listened to the constantly ringing reports, full of confidence. Although it was the first time the two sides cooperated, they cooperated very well.

From the holographic scan image presented by the light brain, red dots were rapidly being annihilated.

Apart from the one he killed, there were basically no fish that slipped through the net.

“Prepare to break into the factory. After entering the factory, don’t worry about anything else, first investigate each area, and don’t leave any dead spots.”

Jialan gave orders while shooting.

“Understood!”

Everyone responded.

Soon Su Mo and the others all broke into the food factory. Compared with the previous half-destroyed factory, the interior of this reserve food factory was extremely clean, and brand-new equipment was in a standby state.

Everyone dispersed and began to search every corner.

From time to time, gunshots could be heard.

Seven or eight minutes later, the entire food factory was cleared.

“Basically confirmed safe, everyone be alert!”

Jialan gave the order when it was almost time.

At this time, Lin Ming came over and asked with some worry, “There doesn’t seem to be any food here. We didn’t see any food when we were searching just now?”

“It doesn’t matter, it’s normal not to have food. This factory hasn’t been put into use yet. But the raw materials are full. We can produce as much as we want. Our people have already gone to start the power supply.”

Jialan explained.

“I see.”

Su Mo and the others suddenly realized.

Just then, with a snap!

The lights in the entire factory lit up, and a cylindrical machine hundreds of meters high appeared in front of everyone. Then all the surrounding equipment started to operate, and the control台system at the innermost part also started to boot up.

Jialan walked towards the control台, and Su Mo curiously approached to take a look.

Jialan picked up a special USB flash drive and inserted it into the external interface of the operating台.

Then code boxes popped up on the operating台, and soon the system was cracked.

The complete operating interface popped up.

Jialan reached out and clicked on production!

The internal production machine of the factory also started to operate, and the assembly line conveyor belt started to rotate. At this time, the square pillars on the conveyor belt fell vertically, and when it rose again, there were high-energy compressed square iron boxes on the conveyor belt.

The production efficiency stunned Su Mo and the others.

“This is too awesome.”

Jialan said proudly to Su Mo, “Our food factory can produce more than thirty different specifications of food, among which this kind of compressed food has the highest nutrition. Just a small piece can be mixed into a ton of nutrient solution, but there are also corresponding shortcomings, that is, it has no taste. In addition, if this kind of factory is in full production, it can easily supply more than several million people with a year’s worth of rations if the raw materials are sufficient.”

“It is indeed powerful. As for the taste, I don’t think it is necessary to care about it. In this situation, not being starved to death is a kind of happiness.”

Su Mo replied with some emotion.

“Yes, that’s right.”

Jialan looked at the produced pieces of food, and an imperceptible smile appeared on her tense face. She couldn’t remember when she had last seen so much food.

More than half an hour later, Jialan took the initiative to shut down the production line. Enough supplies had been produced, and she didn’t plan to waste it.

“Leave some people as guard combat personnel, and the others move as much as possible, as much as they can.”

Jialan gave the order efficiently.

Everyone happily started to move supplies. Since they basically wore mechanical armor and injected genetic medicine, everyone had extremely strong load-bearing capacity, and it was easy to carry two or three hundred kilograms.

Soon everything was ready.

Jialan glanced at the time, and the effect of the jammer was about to reach its limit.

“Let’s go!”

Everyone followed Jialan and started to evacuate.

They quickly withdrew from the mecha factory and returned the same way.

…

Inside the underground city, Xiao Jie and the others were fleeing desperately like bereaved dogs!

Behind them, security guards were chasing after them like mad dogs.

Type II War Guardians were rushing over like bulldozers, and then grenade launchers extended from their backs!

Bang bang!

Grenades fell like raindrops.

Rumble~

Ah!

Screams rang out.

“Save me~”

“Run!”

Xiao Jie roared in horror and anger, ignoring the injured personnel.

At this time, Ye Wei ran to Ye Wuhen and Xiao Jie, with a trace of fear on her face and said, “We can’t run past those robots. If this continues, we may be wiped out.”

“We have to run even if we can’t run past them. We only have these one hundred people left. How can we be the opponents of those guys? Xiao Jie, quickly think of a way!”

Ye Wuhen also felt extremely regretful. He knew that he shouldn’t have been so greedy and attacked the mecha factory, but it was useless to regret it now.

“Aren’t I thinking about it?”

Xiao Jie’s eyes kept rolling.

At this time, a prompt suddenly popped up in Xiao Jie’s helmet.

“Scanning signal source!”

Then green dots popped up one by one.

Xiao Jie was overjoyed and said excitedly, “Lin Ming and the others have been scanned. We are saved, go and join them.”

“Is this appropriate?”

Ye Wuhen was slightly stagnant.

“Life is almost gone, why do you care so much!”

“Damn it, run that way!”

…

On a street in the distance, Su Mo and the others were evacuating quickly. At this time, they heard intensive explosions, and black smoke billowed into the sky in the distance.

“Leave here quickly, there is a battle not far from us.”

Jialan said with a slightly changed expression.

“The sound of the explosion is approaching us, it seems to be coming for us.”

Xiao Li said nervously.

“Go!”

Jialan gave the order immediately, leading everyone to escape faster.

But even so, the sound of the explosion not only did not move away from them, but became closer and closer.

Suddenly, the image auxiliary screen of Su Mo’s helmet showed green dots approaching them, and behind them, there were dark red dots.

Lin Ming frowned slightly and said, looking at the identification signal source code.

“It’s Xiao Jie and Ye Wuhen.”

“What are they doing?”

Qian Chengxue replied with a slightly sinking heart.

Lin Ming’s expression changed for a while, and then he tried to establish a wireless communication request with Xiao Jie, and the communication was successfully established very smoothly.

Before Lin Ming could speak, Ye Wuhen immediately shouted anxiously.

“Is that Brother Lin Ming? Please save us, we are being chased by those robots and can’t hold on anymore.”

Lin Ming calmed down and said, “Ye Wuhen, hold on. We are transporting food with friends from the Hongji Empire and cannot support you immediately. Change your direction of escape first. After we unload the food, we will leave the team and support you as soon as possible.”

“But…”

Before Ye Wuhen could finish speaking, Xiao Jie interrupted directly and shouted anxiously.

“No, it’s too late, we can’t hold on, there’s really no way to escape.”

“Xiao Jie, listen to me, we can’t bring them over directly now, we are not prepared for battle here at all,”

Lin Ming comforted as soon as possible.

“We really can’t hold on, escaping in other directions is a dead end. Brother Lin Ming, do you want to die without saving us? We are companions! I’m really sorry…”

Lin Ming didn’t expect Xiao Jie to say that, and he was a little annoyed. They were almost carrying a pile of compressed food on their backs, and there were no shelters nearby at all. Wasn’t this killing people? What’s more, Jialan and the others were still with him. Wasn’t this坑themselves?

“Xiao Jie, I order you in the capacity of the chief, immediately change direction, we will support you immediately!”

However, before Lin Ming could finish speaking, the communication was actively cut off by Xiao Jie.

Su Mo also realized that the situation was serious, his expression changed drastically and he shouted, “Everyone be careful, prepare for battle!”

Jialan and others drew out their daggers at the first time, cut the ropes tied to their bodies, unloaded the food, and drew their weapons.

In the next second, Xiao Jie and others rushed out from the street next to them, and they rushed towards Su Mo and the others without saying a word.

Jialan and others looked at Xiao Jie and others who rushed out, and raised their guns at them at the first time. It should be these guys who led the enemy over.

Lin Ming immediately shouted, “Don’t attack them, they are our own people.”

Although Jialan was very annoyed, she still gave the order.

“Attack the security guards behind.”

Su Mo also cursed annoyedly.

“Idiot!”

They hastily fired at the security guards behind Xiao Jie and the others!

Swish swish~

The security guards exploded one by one.

Suddenly, Xiao Jie and others were under much less pressure, but they did not turn around to counterattack at the first time, but continued to rush towards Su Mo and the others.

“What the hell are you doing, still escaping to us, counterattack!”

Su Mo also felt extremely annoyed.

At this time, a roar sounded, and Type II War Guardians chased up.

“Not good, scatter!”

Jialan shouted anxiously when she saw the War Guardians.

The twelve War Guardians opened the launch ports in their abdomens at the same time.

Bang bang~

Short-range missiles were fired in unison, a total of more than one hundred missiles.

When Su Mo saw this, he was shocked and jumped into the nearby ruins.

Rumble~

A fierce explosion swept over.

Suddenly, debris flew, and blood splattered~~

Su Mo shook his head, got up, turned his head and looked around, and at least a dozen corpses of Hongji Empire people were lying on the ground.

There were also many people injured and lying on the ground, groaning in pain.

Su Mo’s face suddenly became very ugly.

At this time, Jialan was completely angered, she rushed towards a War Guardian with red eyes.

“Bastard!”

PS: Sorry, the control and investigation these two days may be more difficult, and there may be more things to do. I will add updates when I have time, please understand.