Chapter 148 The Stone Statue

Li Tianran didn't continue, nor was it necessary. He turned and walked away. Ten seconds later, he heard a gunshot behind him.

Carlos had committed suicide with his own pistol.

This era was simply too harsh for those who came from small countries.

"Quickly move everything onto the ship... We're preparing to return."

Li Tianran gave the order, then checked his system inventory.

The system inventory had a total of 190 item slots, and each slot could hold a maximum of 999 of the same type of item. For example, 100 adult-grade Mengshi vehicles of the same model could be stored in the same item slot without taking up one hundred slots, just like "medicine" in online games, which could be stacked.

As for the various kinds of steel and other raw materials, which numbered in the tens of thousands, such as "large amounts of steel," "large amounts of rare earth," and "large amounts of coal," if he wanted to get them all into the system inventory, he had to organize them into a container, such as a freighter. After placing hundreds of different quantities of items on the freighter, they would automatically integrate into a single entity, a "fully loaded freighter," occupying only one inventory slot.

Li Tianran roughly estimated that there were about a hundred large freighters docked near the warehouse, and the resource reserves in the warehouse had originally been carried by these freighters. About thirty to forty percent had been used in the construction of the beast tide city. Adding in some weapons seized from the beast tide city, a hundred freighters were more than enough to hold them all.

There was specialized large-scale equipment for loading and unloading goods in the warehouse. It had to be said that the construction of this beast tide city was quite good.

During the previous attack, Li Tianran had deliberately avoided the warehouse area, for fear of making a mess and making it difficult to clean up. Under Li Tianran's command, the large freighters docked in the distance were sailed over, and the resources in the warehouse were quickly loaded onto the ships.

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With the cooperation of a large number of human deserters and mechanical warriors, as well as loading equipment, the resources in these warehouses were quickly emptied.

Li Tianran also put the fully loaded freighters into his inventory slots one after another.

He calculated his losses. In this war, he had lost a large amount of ammunition, four Typhoon-class bombers and six armed helicopters, and the loss of adult-grade Mengshi vehicles was over a hundred. Even about ten Tank-grade Mengshi vehicles were destroyed in the enemy's counterattack.

Seven Pathfinder warriors died, and Lu Chi was seriously injured and on the verge of death…

Adding in other miscellaneous consumption, this battle was Li Tianran's most devastating battle to date. Even the bombing by the Russian White Swan fleet was not as severe as this time. However, his gains were also enormous.

These resources plundered from various places, even just thirty to forty percent, were enough to build the beast nest from a ruin into a powerful city, which was enough to illustrate its rich use. Moreover, after eliminating this beast nest, the transportation route between Mofila and Kuangxi Island would be unimpeded. It wouldn't be long before the strength of Kuangxi Island would advance by leaps and bounds.

"Boss, we found something strange in a small warehouse in the port."

Just as most of the resources had been loaded onto the ship and everyone was preparing to evacuate, a Pathfinder warrior came over and said to Li Tianran with a solemn expression, "You should go and see it yourself!"

Li Tianran raised his eyebrows. He followed the Pathfinder warrior to a simple warehouse of about two hundred square meters near the port where the freighters were docked. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe it as a "shed." It was just a shed built with color steel tiles and some steel columns, with air leaking from all sides. Its sturdiness was even inferior to the vegetable greenhouse that Li Tianran had built on Kuangxi Island.

Several Pathfinder warriors were standing in front of the warehouse, and Li Tianran noticed that their faces were a little solemn, so he walked straight over and looked in through the already open door of the "warehouse."

The interior of the warehouse was very empty, and the light shining in from all directions made it clear that there was nothing miscellaneous inside. Only a huge object several meters high stood in the center.

Li Tianran had thought it was a Beast King, but after getting closer, he realized that it was a huge stone statue.

The stone statue was a ferocious ancient beast, somewhat similar to an ancient mammoth, but with slight differences in some limbs. The tail was not as small as that of an elephant, but rather close to that of a crocodile, very thick, and the back was also covered with back armor similar to bone spurs.

This kind of creature had never appeared in human biology textbooks.

Li Tianran was very sure that he had never seen such a thing.

"This thing looks a bit like a mutated beast or a Beast King..." Li Tianran stroked his chin. The biological characteristics of this stone statue could not be matched by any known creature. Only monsters or Beast Kings after mutation could resemble it. However, judging from the cracks and decay of this stone statue, it was obviously very old and could not have been cast now.

Li Tianran looked up at the stone statue and suddenly saw its eyes.

"These eyes... are too strange!" Li Tianran had also seen many stone statues, including the works of some art masters and restoration masters, but no stone statue could be as oppressive as the one in front of him!

Whether it was an illusion or not, Li Tianran could even see a kind of emotion called "condescension, indifference" in its stone eyes, like humans looking at ants under their feet!

"..." Li Tianran took a deep breath and turned to walk out of the warehouse. He keenly noticed that his heart rate had increased by a tenth in a short period of time, which showed that what he had just felt was not an illusion. This stone statue actually made him feel nervous.

Li Tianran raised his head and looked at the other Pathfinder warriors standing beside him. At this time, he realized where the solemn expressions on their faces came from.

"This thing is strange." Li Tianran was silent for a moment, then said to a Pathfinder warrior, "Go and find two knowledgeable people from those prisoners and ask them what's going on?"

Soon, two human deserters were brought to Li Tianran. They were the managers of this port.

"Where did this stone statue come from?" Li Tianran asked in the other party's language, with his back to the warehouse door.

The two human deserters looked at each other, and one of the middle-aged men stood up and stammered, "Ten days ago, a raiding team left the beast nest and sank the other party's freighter while attacking a convoy. Later, we salvaged the resources sunk in that area, and this stone statue was salvaged from the seabed silt at that time..." The middle-aged man's voice trembled: "When it was first salvaged, it also had a base, and some unknown characters were carved on the base, but it was broken during transportation. The base was thrown back into the sea by us, leaving only this stone statue."