The Way Back to Civilization - Chapter 29

Chapter 29 First Base

At this moment, a grand hunt was taking place in the rainforest of Kata. The prey they were going to capture were those blindly arrogant invaders.

Listening to the screams coming from the surroundings, Camil knew that it was the family guards who were supposed to protect her safety. At this moment, they were being slaughtered. It was no exaggeration to say that every tree and stone in this forest seemed to want their lives.

In the panic, an agile beast suddenly darted out from the bushes at the side. Fortunately, the guard Murat quickly fired and a few red laser beams melted through the beast’s vital points, barely knocking it down.

Seeing that the danger around him was temporarily resolved, Camil, who was already exhausted, slowly slowed down. He propped up his knees with both hands and couldn’t help but curse.

“This place is hell!”

Currently, there were only five guards and three short Kasim slaves left in the team of nearly 20 people. Even the technician with the external communication equipment was nowhere to be seen.

This meant that unless they could return to the spaceship, they would sooner or later become food for a certain wild beast and eventually become fertilizer to be left on this planet forever.

“Murat, give me water.”

Upon hearing the order, the guard Murat placed his hand on his waist and looked a little hesitant. However, looking at the other party’s increasingly unhappy gaze, he could only helplessly take down the kettle and hand it to the other party.

Before she could say anything, Camil snatched the water bottle and poured a few mouthfuls of water into her mouth. Then, she poured the rest of the water into her handkerchief.

“Miss Camil… That’s…”

“Don’t you know how uncomfortable it is to sweat?! I can’t take it!”

Under Camil’s willfulness, she finally managed to use up the last of their water reserves. Then, she threw the empty water bottle at Murat’s feet.

At this moment, the two guards at the side suddenly shouted.

“Hey! Come and see this!”

They were standing beside the beast that Murat had killed. They had an incredulous expression on their faces, as if they had discovered something shocking.

As the others leaned over to take a look, they realized that inside the wound of the beast that was burned by the laser, there were dense blood vessels-like cables and a large number of precise mechanical devices.

In an instant, everyone present could not help but feel a chill in their hearts.

This ferocious creature was actually a complete mechanical life form. If that was the case, how many similar existences would there be in the vicinity…

Perhaps this abnormally dangerous forest was actually created by an ancient civilization? Was it to carry out their twisted and crazy experiments?

They did not dare to think about it. At this moment, everyone only hoped to leave this terrifying place as soon as possible.

However, at this moment, there was another rustling sound not far away, as if something was quickly shuttling through the forest. Camil was obviously a little frightened. She ordered a slave beside her.

“You! Go and see what that thing is!”

The Kasim people, who were implanted with the voice of obedience, did not dare to disobey the orders of a noble. In the end, a slightly younger slave could only clench the short stick in his hand and slowly walk towards the forest where the commotion was coming from.

However, just a moment later…

As the ground trembled, a huge figure slowly poked its head out from behind the bushes in front of the slave.

At this moment, everyone could not help but hold their breaths.

It was a terrifying mechanical worm. Its pale ring-shaped body made it look like a twisting spine. At this moment, it was using the sensor at its head to carefully examine everyone in front of it.

As for the slave closest to it, he was so frightened that he almost lost consciousness. He trembled for a long time and did not move.

Soon, the giant worm discovered the mechanical gray wolf that had lost its vitality on the ground.

Such behavior clearly angered the giant insect.

It extended its body and let out an ear-piercing scream that sounded like an alarm from its mouth. Realizing that something was wrong, the Amarian guards fired again, but the laser that was still effective just now seemed to have lost its effect on the giant worm.

The consecutive volleys of attacks did not even damage the outer armor of the other party. In fact, they did not even scratch it. This ridiculous attack naturally infuriated the other party even more.

As a stream of gray-white smoke was blasted from the giant worm’s mouth, the two slaves standing in the front row were exposed to the mist at the moment of contact, first through their clothes, then through their skin and muscles, and finally through their bones. It was as if they had been disintegrated layer by layer. Not even a drop of blood could be spilled.

The two slaves, who had been alive and kicking just now, were instantly evaporated into air. Seeing this scene, the Amarian woman named Camil finally couldn’t hold it in anymore. While the guards were still fighting, she ran alone without any explanation and crawled towards the dense forest not far away.

No matter what, she only wanted to hurry up and leave this damned place, listening to the gradually weakening gunshots behind her. What bullsh*t queen? What bullsh*t benefits?

How could these things be more important than her own life!

However, before she could run a few steps, Camil felt as if he had tripped over something and fell heavily to the soft ground. Looking back, it was actually Kasim, the slave from the beginning. At this moment, the dwarf was looking at Camil in horror, one hand tightly pinching her calf.

“Help me…”

The slave still wanted to call for help, but Camil couldn’t care less. In a fit of anger, she raised her foot and kicked the dwarf in the face.

“Let me go! Idiot!”

However, the other party did not let go.

Instead, he tightened his grip. Just as she was about to raise the stone by her hand and smash it at the slave, ‘Ow!’ Camil heard an angry growl behind her… In an instant, she felt that half of her blood had turned cold.

When she turned around with a terrified expression, a bloody mouth full of sharp teeth was already hanging above her head.

“No…”

In the spaceship in planetary orbit, Gu Fan watched everything these Amarians experienced through the ship’s sensors. At this moment, as the last guard was torn to pieces by the robotic worms, the planet finally regained its peace. According to the information he found not long ago, this planet called Kata was indeed a little special because as a colonial planet located at the border, its greatest use was actually not to develop the habitat of humans.

Simply put, this place was more like a planet-level nature reserve. There was no lack of precious aberrations. At the same time, many extinct creatures had been artificially replicated on this rainforest planet. As for the mechanical worms, they were actually just the guardians and recorders of this protected area, and this group of unlucky Amarians were clearly treated as thieves who came to poach animals.

Among them, the most unlucky one was the arrogant Amarian woman. Unfortunately, she was treated as lunch by a four-armed bear, and her beautiful head was torn off her body. However, what surprised Gu Fan was that after many confirmations, the human colonies here seemed to be better preserved than expected. At the same time, there was actually a rather complete research base under this planet. Relatively remote locations, abundant available resources and a complete set of colonial facilities.

Thinking of this, Gu Fan immediately gave an order to Xue Feng.

“Let’s see if we can contact the AI in this colony.”

As he spoke, he cast his gaze at the emerald green planet in front of him again. “If possible, we will take over this planet next.”