Chapter 16 Moving Away

Box, radiation, launch silos.

Putting these three elements together, Chen Jian simply couldn't come up with anything else that might be inside.

At this moment, the other members of the Holy Blood Team also gathered around, and upon discovering this huge metal box, their faces were filled with surprise and delight.

"There must be something inside here."

Xu Lie leaned close to the box, sniffed, and said:

"I smell a familiar metal scent, it's exactly the same as the shells used by the Mechanical God Sect."

"...The ones used by the Mechanical God Sect wouldn't be lead bullets, would they..."

Chen Jian shook his head speechlessly and said:

"There is a high probability that there is something inside, but the level of danger is far beyond your imagination."

"It's not a matter of whether to open it, but after opening it, the question is whether we can survive if there is danger."

"What's inside? A trap?"

Xie Liu, who was standing by, folded her arms and said with a hint of tension in her voice.

"To survive or not."

Those words were indeed too heavy, especially after witnessing a four-person team forcibly take down a Level 4 Monster without finding its weak point, relying solely on their strong skills and firepower.

In all fairness, even the elite of the Mechanical God Sect would need at least a hundred elite members, along with their prideful giant cannon, to achieve such an effect, right?

But they were just four ordinary people, carrying equipment that was beyond understanding, and managed to pull it off...

And now, their leader is saying that opening the box could lead to death.

That might really mean death.

She glanced at Xu Lie, and before he could speak, she said again:

"Don't you dare mess around!"

"Last time, your itchy hands opened a box, and we nearly died in Jiang City!"

"...But didn't I also find this pistol? In the end, it was worth it..."

Xu Lie's voice lowered; at this point, he didn't dare to make a decision and could only helplessly look at Chen Jian.

This feeling was actually quite unfamiliar to him, as a Holy Blood member, he was always untouchable in the presence of ordinary people.

But now?

Even opening a box required cautious deliberation.

No choice, the other's strength was undeniable, any disobedience had to be swallowed.

But the problem was, he really wanted to know what was inside...

While Xu Lie was itching with curiosity, Zeng Yi and Li Shi remained calm.

They had their own combat systems and didn't overly rely on equipment or weapons, so their desire for new things wasn't as strong.

What they cared about more was one thing: whether the contents inside were valuable.

For a moment, the power of decision rested solely on Chen Jian.

Open it, the risk was too great.

Don't open it...

In a world where top-tier weapons were in front of you, could you resist not opening?

He looked at his team members and asked:

"What's your opinion?"

Lei Jie was the first to express his stance:

"The box is too heavy, if we take it, we have to open it to just take the contents — but I don't suggest opening it."

"If there happens to be a nuclear fuel rod inside, it'll be an instant GG."

"Even if there's a tactical nuclear warhead inside, we have no way to deliver it, bringing it back at most serves as a deterrent, it's not very significant."

"We might as well leave it here, and dig it up when needed."

"However, we must bury it carefully to avoid someone else finding and accidentally detonating it, which would be a huge problem..."

"Indeed."

"I agree as well."

Shen Yue and He Shuo nodded in succession, their opinions quickly aligning.

Chen Jian didn't hesitate any longer and decisively ordered:

"Then let's do it; let's first get this thing up and onto flat ground."

"Understood."

The four of them moved together, each grabbing a corner of the box, desperately trying to lift it.

However, the lead box was too heavy, and with all their equipment, they couldn't find a suitable leverage point for a moment.

Li Shi, watching nearby, hesitated for a moment and asked:

"Want some help?"

Chen Jian immediately nodded, and the latter immediately walked over to the lead box, wrapped his arms around it, and lifted it effortlessly.

Chen Jian was dumbfounded.

After a pause, he said:

"No need to bury it."

"We'll... just take this thing to Jinling! I'll cover the shipping cost!"

....

An hour later, the two teams of eight people left with plenty of loot.

The Holy Blood Team collected mainly items they considered valuable equivalents, such as small pieces of gold and silver, well-preserved metal tools, batteries or things that looked like batteries, and miscellaneous cables and items.

According to them, such items could fetch a good price in a settlement area, especially batteries, which if functional, could be worth dozens of grams of gold.

This matched Chen Jian's expectations, as these were items that could no longer be produced in this world, making them naturally expensive.

However, Xu Lie collected a lot of plastics, which Chen Jian found hard to understand.

He didn't mention what the use was, just that the Mechanical God Sect would buy them for a good price.

Chen Jian could only assume they planned to recycle and reuse, but the question was: did they have the technology?

He couldn't figure it out.

Comparatively, the items collected by Chen Jian's team seemed relatively normal.

Besides the necessary magnet and coils for subsequent power generation, they also found a damaged engine, with bearings that were a bit rusty but still within usable range.

Indeed, Xu Lie wasn't wrong; the monster's lair was the richest resource area in the region.

Those killed by the monster, along with the resources they carried, were mostly transferred here.

It's the post-apocalyptic world, most people carry important things with them.

The logic was perfectly coherent...

Unfortunately, they hadn't found any usable weapons or ammunition.

According to Chen Jian's estimation, even if there were weapons, they would be buried at the bottommost layer.

Because the earlier someone is killed, the more weapons they would typically have. It was an inevitability.

To acquire these weapons, they would have to wait until they had large machinery or enough manpower to come back for excavational archaeology.

Leaving the graveyard, the eight of them smoothly exited the tunnels.

Upon seeing the daylight again, the sun was already high in the sky.

The sunlight at this moment was no different from that Chen Jian had seen in his world, a star with nearly 5 billion years of life left silently gazing down at humans on the ground like ants, whose lives and deaths, in comparison to its history, were just fleeting moments.

Chen Jian looked down, regretting not bringing the solar panels just issued.

But now wasn't the time to consider this issue.

With no power for their equipment and their food depleted, he needed energy more than his gear.

So, he patted the shoulder of the staggering Xu Lie and asked:

"Got anything to eat?"

Xu Lie nodded toward the monster's corpse not far away, replying:

"Yeah, sure."

"Isn't that it?"