I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 701 - 599 Giant Monster

The helicopter arrived at the target area, and Old Li looked out the window. It was pitch black outside, with only the occasional flash of light from distant shellings illuminating the scene below momentarily. He muttered, "You can't see anything out here."

Although he said he couldn't see anything and the sound of the helicopter's rotor filled his ears, Old Li knew clearly that the darkness below the helicopter was teeming with countless alien creatures.

"Old Wang, should we turn on the lights?" Old Li asked Wang Jiang beside him.

They were on a reconnaissance mission, tasked with figuring out what mutations had occurred among the alien creatures in this area, why their offensive seemed to intensify, and where the newly appeared passage was located...

Simply relying on the flashes produced by shell fire was no way to see all this clearly.

However, turning on the searchlight was still too risky. Even though the alien creatures hadn't shown flying units so far, humans had indeed suffered aerial losses.

Previously, a helicopter on a reconnaissance mission was shot down by alien creatures' bubbles after penetrating enemy territory to analyze their situation.

Luckily, they were operating a military helicopter, which meant reconnaissance equipment was not limited to just searchlights.

Radar, infrared, low-light night vision... Various devices could detect the presence of alien creatures in dark environments.

Old Li suggested turning on the searchlight only to see things more clearly.

However, Wang Jiang shook his head, "Better safe than sorry. Don't turn on the light yet; if there's a pile of bubbles below us, we'll be shot down. Draping the flag over our graves is a small issue, but not completing the mission would be a major mistake."

Hearing Wang Jiang's words, Old Li didn't object. He simply activated the instruments beside him to observe the situation of the alien creatures through these devices.

Infrared still showed pitch-black; the chitinous shells of these alien creatures insulated heat loss, essentially rendering them invisible to infrared sight.

But this wasn't a big deal because they still had low-light night vision and bio radar.

"How's the new bio radar scan going?" Wang Jiang asked Old Li, while cautiously keeping the helicopter at a safe altitude, circling as he searched for the new passage mentioned in their mission briefing.

"They're everywhere, doesn't seem particularly special." Old Li took a glance at the radar display and reported to Wang Jiang, not forgetting to comment, "This new radar is much more useful, unlike the old one, which couldn't show alien creatures at all."

The issue of the previous bio radar failing to detect alien creatures had been known ever since Chen Xin first encountered them, but the reason wasn't clear.

Back then, the military was troubled by this, urgently requesting the scientific departments in the rear to address the problem. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

After capturing several live samples and dissecting them with biologists, they discovered that the surface of the chitinous skeleton of the alien creatures was covered by a special structure capable of absorbing emitted radar waves, thus forming no reflection; that's why nothing showed up on the radar.

It was later Chen Xin who conducted an upgrade on the existing military radar, making adjustments so they could detect alien creatures through radar scans.

"What does the low-light show? Can you see anything?" Wang Jiang asked Old Li, targeting the detection of the newly formed passage: "Any sign of the new passage mentioned in the mission brief?"

"Not visible for now, but judging by the direction these alien creatures are moving, they seem to be coming from the 9 o'clock direction. Let's check over there." Old Li quickly analyzed the results shown on the screen and said to Wang Jiang.

Wang Jiang nodded, pulled the control stick, and directed the aircraft towards the direction indicated by Old Li.

Their reconnaissance area was not large, and now flying in the air, they quickly found the anomaly.

"What is that?" Wang Jiang looked at the screen displaying low-light imaging, where a massive object like a small mountain was climbing out from the newly formed passage, standing out on the monitor.

"No idea, but whatever it is, I feel we ought to take it down!" At this moment, Old Li felt a chill run down his spine, not out of fear, but a primal instinct of dread when a creature encounters its natural enemy.

Hearing Old Li suggest taking it down, Wang Jiang felt the same and opened the communication channel to call the base behind them: "Falcon calling Eagle Nest, Falcon calling Eagle Nest, we've identified an anomaly in Area 14! Over 30 meters tall extra-terrestrial creature is emerging from underground, requesting fire support!"

"Falcon, Falcon, Eagle Nest here, what did you discover? Please elaborate!" The communications channel blared, Mobile Base received Wang Jiang's call and promptly responded, meanwhile preparing for missile launch urgently.

"Eagle Nest, Eagle Nest, Falcon calling, while executing reconnaissance in Area 14, we discovered an alien creature over 30 meters tall and massive emerging from the new passage, requesting immediate attack! Our onboard missiles cannot adequately combat such a large target!" Wang Jiang repeated and transmitted the footage captured over to Mobile Base for them to view.

Inside the Mobile Base command room, after viewing footage sent back by Wang Jiang's team, everyone showed the same shocked expression.

The officer in charge of command immediately grabbed the communicator and spoke to Wang Jiang: "Falcon! Provide exact coordinates immediately for missile guidance!"

"Falcon received!" Wang Jiang heard the instruction to provide coordinates for missile guidance and quickly sent over precise coordinates calculated by Old Li, simultaneously adding: "The creature has emerged from the underground passage, at least 70 meters long, currently approaching Defense Line 9 at a speed of 20km/h!"

"Eagle Nest received, missile is en route, need your terminal guidance!" The officer instructed Wang Jiang, while an operator pressed the missile launch button.

At this time, a missile launch port on the top deck of the Mobile Base had been opened, and a cruise missile spewed flames as it flew out from the launch port towards Wang Jiang's position.

As Wang Jiang heard the missile had been launched, he relaxed a bit and said to Old Li beside him, "Old Li, prepare for laser guidance, we can't let that creature near the defense line!"

"Understood!" Old Li responded, activating the laser guidance system for terminal guidance prep, simultaneously unlocking all weapon launch safeties onboard the helicopter, ready for a follow-up strike if the missile failed to eliminate the creature.