I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 643 - 541 Junshan Island

Following the tracks left by the unidentified creature, Chen Xin and the Titan combat team finally sighed with relief. The worst-case scenario had not occurred; this unidentified creature did not come from the urban area but from a more lateral direction.

"It approached the urban area but bypassed it." Standing on the edge of the city, the reconnaissance soldier of the combat team carefully identified the tracks on the ground and reported to Chen Xin.

"Strange, logically it should have entered the city. What made it detour?" Chen Xin looked at the footprints on the ground, somewhat perplexed.

This creature has extremely strong combat capability. In Blue Star's natural environment, theoretically, there should be no animal that could threaten its survival. Even an elephant would struggle to withstand its attack. It should have no natural enemies, besides humans and natural disasters, nothing else could threaten it.

From the footprints on the ground, it was evident that this unidentified creature paused here and wandered for a while, then adjusted its originally straight route towards the city, and veered towards the Research Center's direction, eventually encountering Chen Xin.

This behavior does not seem like that of a low-intelligence animal acting on instinct, or is there something in the city causing it fear?

Chen Xin did not dwell on this issue, simply noting it on the task board, and continued the pursuit with the combat team.

"This direction leads to the lake area; did the monster come out of the lake area?" Continuing to track the traces left by the unidentified creature and relying on the map displayed on Zhu Luan's radar, Qin Lan quickly determined the direction from which the unidentified creature came.

Chen Xin could also judge the same thing from White Dragon's map, but this did not surprise him: "Not surprising; if it is the lake area, it is quite normal that we hadn't discovered its traces; otherwise, such a large creature would have been discovered long ago."

Hearing Chen Xin say this, Qin Lan did not say anything further but only increasingly wanted to find the origin of this unidentified creature to find out what was going on.

Meanwhile, Chen Xin was pondering over what exactly was the nature of this unidentified creature and why it appeared in front of him.

Chen Xin did not think that the unidentified creature was just an ordinary wild animal, because in the wild, animals often do not actively attack humans.

The instinct of creatures is survival and seeking advantages while avoiding harm. Under normal circumstances, humans are not on the menu of wild predators. When they see humans, they may at most be curious about what kind of creature this is, and even less will they proactively provoke humans, let alone launch an attack.

Typically, when large predatory animals attack humans in the wild, it is most likely because humans have invaded their territory and frightened these animals, causing them to launch self-defensive attacks on humans.

However, the unidentified creature Chen Xin encountered did not display this behavior; it almost immediately lunged an attack upon seeing Chen Xin's piloted White Dragon.

This does not accord with animal behavior, as no animal would normally attack an opponent larger than itself, unless it is provoked, perceives its life is threatened, and cannot escape, then it might strike back desperately.

However, at the time, Chen Xin was merely testing Mo Qingyan's new mecha Lu Shu and did not pose a threat to the unidentified creature's appearance. It had no reason to attack White Dragon.

Moreover, another peculiar point is that White Dragon, Zhu Luan, and the new mecha Lu Shu are all equipped with radar and other detection devices, yet none of them detected this unidentified creature on radar, which is utterly illogical.

It is important to note that the unidentified creature is enormous, and its body heat is a notably clear heat source. Even the biological radar and infrared sensing equipment equipped on ordinary Titans should have detected it beyond visual range, yet none of the three Special Equipment Titans reacted when it launched its attack, making it exceptionally bizarre.

So, is it simply an alien species, or a more dangerous alien invasion?

The former is easier to deal with; at worst, humanity could just add another alien species to the list of extinct creatures. However, with the latter...

Chen Xin could only hope the country is prepared for a war with alien life forms.

The limited livable space on Blue Star cannot accommodate another intelligent life species besides human civilization.

Just as Chen Xin thought this, they gradually tracked the traces left by the unidentified creature and reached the lake area.

This used to be one of the largest freshwater lakes in Flame Country, but during the sea level rise caused by meteorite impacts, seawater backflowed here, expanding the area of the original eight-hundred-li Dongting Lake to the ancient Yunmeng Grand Marsh level, and the lake area's range increased significantly.

As for the original Junshan Island in Dongting Lake, it has now mostly lost contact with land. When Chen Xin visited the farm to inspect the construction of ecological greenhouses last time, he noticed that the mudflats originally connected to Junshan Island have been submerged by the rising water level and are now frozen over.

The entire lake area is extremely vast. Historically dubbed as the eight-hundred-li Dongting Pond with a water surface area exceeding two thousand square kilometers, and after the water level rose and froze, it has transformed into a vast ice field.

All this nearly reduced human control over the region to zero, as no one would want to live in such an environment now.

But now, things have evidently changed, and where humans cannot live, unidentified creatures have managed to survive.

The group followed the tracks left by the unidentified creature and gradually approached the once Junshan Island.

"Professor, ahead is Junshan Island. Based on the tracks we've followed, the unidentified creature should have come from the island!" The reconnaissance soldier in the team reported to Chen Xin.

"It looks like some unknown changes have occurred on the island..." Hearing the recon soldier say this, Chen Xin pondered for a moment before saying on the communication channel, "Call the Air Force and have them send a helicopter to conduct an aerial reconnaissance of the entire Junshan Island. I need to know what's going on on the island!"

Chen Xin did not rashly lead the combat team onto the island. Given the unclear situation there, it was the most prudent to have a helicopter perform aerial reconnaissance first to ascertain the general state of affairs.

Rushing onto the island—if there were dangers there they could not handle would only put the entire combat team at risk, which would be the stupidest action.

Of course, if the helicopter's aerial reconnaissance also fails to detect any anomalies, then they must unreservedly go ashore to find out what happened there.