Chapter 25 Rescue Signal

A dozen minutes later.

Lu Chi came to the wall of the shelter. Looking inside through the collapsed gap, he saw that the shelter was also a mess. Human corpses and mutant beast carcasses were everywhere, along with a large number of building remains after the explosion and fire. One could imagine how tragic the battle that had taken place here was.

Standing in this position, the signal band instrument in Lu Chi's hand showed that the distress signal transmitted from the shelter had reached its peak, exceeding the point of "only being able to receive it faintly" and reaching the level of "normal communication possible."

Lu Chi finally saw what the information constantly transmitted from this shelter was on the signal receiving interface.

"Please save us! We are the survivors of this city, hiding in the deepest underground part of the shelter. There are a total of one hundred and twenty-seven of us, including two EU citizens and one Yan Huang citizen! We hope that the EU and Yan Huang can send rescue teams to save their nationals! We need food, water, medicine; our companions are constantly dying..."

"Everyone has abandoned us. We know that we may not be able to continue living, but as long as there is a glimmer of hope, we will not give up on saving ourselves..."

"If anyone receives this message, please save us. Even if you can't save all of us, please at least take the children away from this hell..."

The real-time translation software translated the distress messages from the shelter into Yan Huang script and displayed them on the screen. Looking at these words, Lu Chi was finally certain that these signals were being sent out by someone.

He was silent for a moment, then entered two characters into the signal band instrument.

Two very simple words.

"Location!"

After Lu Chi's message was sent, it didn't take long for the other party to transmit a reply.

"Are you here to save us? Thank God, we've finally waited for rescue! We can finally leave this hell alive. Our location is..."

In the reply message, Lu Chi looked at the location given by the other party, pulled up the electronic map, and searched for the coordinates they reported in the shelter.

The location was in the central area of the shelter, and Lu Chi needed to go very deep.

But Lu Chi saw some mutated beasts wandering in the ruins of the shelter, and he suddenly narrowed his eyes, thinking of something.

Was the person replying to him really a survivor in the shelter?

Beast Kings possessed extremely high intelligence and also had the ability to use human technology and machinery. If the other end of the signal source was not a survivor, but a Beast King was manipulating the signal instrument, constantly sending signals to the outside world, luring rescue teams to come, and then ambushing and strangling them...

This was not impossible!

Lu Chi was silent for a long time. This signal band instrument could not turn on the video mode. He couldn't determine the identity of the other party. If he rashly went deep into the shelter and a large number of Beast Kings and mutated beasts surged up, even he might not be able to get out of here.

He had to think of a way.

Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration.

He was very fast, typing into the communication system: "Let the Yan Huang person talk to me."

Soon, the other party sent a reply: "Okay."

Perhaps because they had been trapped here for too long, there was a kind of excitement about being rescued. The other party's reply was unusually excited: "Are you the Yan Huang rescue team? That's great, I can finally return to my motherland..."

Lu Chi was expressionless, typing into the dialogue box: "I need to confirm your identity now. You need to pay attention and think carefully about answering my questions. You only have this one chance. If you answer incorrectly, I will leave immediately!"

"Are you going to ask about my ancestral home? Or some highly professional questions? I'm just a businessman..." The other party's reply seemed very panicked.

Lu Chi replied: "The question won't be too difficult."

The other party was silent.

Just when the other party's silence was long enough for Lu Chi to think that he had tested out the Beast King's plan, and the other party was about to become angry and turn hostile, the other party's reply came again: "Please ask."

The corners of Lu Chi's mouth curled up slightly, his ten fingers tapping on the screen, quickly typing out a neat row of characters.

To be precise, this row of words Lu Chi entered could not be considered a question.

But he dared to guarantee that as long as the other party was a Yan Huang person, they would definitely know how to reply to him!

Lu Chi's row of words was very simple.

Only five characters.

Gong!

Ting!

Yu!

Ye!

Jiu! (Pinyin for palace, courtyard, jade, liquid, wine)

This sentence originated from a national gala in Yan Huang more than ten years ago and quickly became popular throughout the country. It was almost a household meme. What was even funnier was that just before the world changed, some netizens used this sentence online to identify a foreign spy posing as a Yan Huang person...

Lu Chi knew that Beast Kings had a very deep understanding of human civilization, technology, and weapons, and even remembered the regional names of each country very clearly, but they would hardly pay attention to this kind of "meme" culture, because in the eyes of the Beast Kings, this was the spiritual joy of lower creatures and would be filtered into the "no need to understand" category!

Because it was very simple, humans would understand the habits of ants, the way ants build nests, and the hunting rules of ant colonies, but they would definitely not be interested in understanding the aesthetic views of ants.

Lu Chi was very sure that no Beast King could answer his question.

The other party fell into a long silence.

Just as Lu Chi was preparing to flee this place, the other party's reply came.

"O...one hundred and eighty a cup?"

Lu Chi's tightly knitted brows gradually relaxed.

But he did not step in immediately, and typed again:

"Excavator..."

The other party replied: "Lanxiang..."

"Is this melon guaranteed to be ripe?"

"I run a fruit stand; would I sell you unripe melons..."

Lu Chi suddenly felt a little ridiculous. He showed a self-deprecating smile. These "memes" that once seemed to have no nutritional value could now become an important factor in identifying human identity.

When "memes" and "human lives" were linked together, it was like something completely unrelated, and this kind of thing had a kind of absurd taste no matter how you looked at it...

But it just happened, and it worked wonders.

After some communication, Lu Chi determined that there were really humans inside the shelter. If the other party was a Beast King, then a Beast King who could play memes was really damn rare, and must be caught and taken back as a mascot...

Just as Lu Chi was preparing to step into the shelter, he suddenly saw several helicopters flying from the distant horizon, and there was a huge sound of breaking wind.

Soon, he saw the logo on the other party's helicopter clearly, it was a colored Stars and Stripes and a silver shield.

"Isn't this the mark of the EU Evolver squad?" Lu Chi frowned, looking at the EU Evolvers who were constantly rappelling to the ground in the distance: "It seems my luck is a bit bad... Is the other party preparing to use this Sea City as a training ground for their own Evolvers, and start a massacre?"