"What?!"
Meng Chao's spirit energy magnetic field nearly went out of control again. When he remembered the feeling he had when he parted with Lu Siya, he became anxious and frustrated. He lost his composure and shouted, "What's going on? What mission did Captain Lu go on?"
Ye Xiaoxing did not answer him directly. He only said, "Captain Lu and Group 9 aren't the only search and rescue teams that went missing. In truth, the research department, the military, and the Hunter's Association sent three search and rescue teams at the same time. There are more than one hundred experienced superhumans, but they all disappeared without a trace at the same time."
"Search and rescue teams?"
Meng Chao keenly grasped the main point. "Search and rescue for what?"
"Search and rescue for the other two scout teams that went missing."
Ye Xiaoxing looked at Meng Chao and said, "In total, three batches of five elite squads have gone missing in the depths of Monster Mountain Range. Meng Chao, do you want to know the details?"
Meng Chao understood what Ye Xiaoxing meant.
The disappearance of the five elite squads was a top secret.
With his achievements and experience, he naturally had the right to come into contact with them.
But once he came into contact with them, he would definitely join them.
Meng Chao nodded without hesitation.
Regardless of whether this "top secret" was related to the end of the Monster War, just for Lu Siya alone, he had to figure out the truth and save Big Sis Ya at all costs.
After all, when he was lost in the depths of the lair and was framed as a traitor, Lu Siya had entered the lair without hesitation and trusted him unreservedly.
"I'm willing to carry out all the missions related to the disappearance."
Meng Chao looked around and said with an intense gaze, "Vice Director Ye, please tell us the details!"
"Why don't I tell you about the cause and effect?"
Railway Cannon Long Feijun, the representative of the younger generation of the military and a superhuman at the peak of Heaven Realm, stood up swiftly and said gravely, "All of you are the backbone of the military, research department, and Battle God Palace. You are also the main executors of the next stage of search and rescue as well as investigation, but many of you don't know just what sort of strange situation we're facing. I'll start from the beginning."
As he spoke, Long Feijun dimmed the lights and used the 3D screen to project a realistic 3D map of Dragon City and the area around it on the conference table.
From this magnificent and detailed 3D map, one could clearly see that Dragon City was located in a basin. The bottom of the basin was flat and fertile, and surrounding the basin was a ring-shaped mountain range that reached into the clouds. On the east and west sides of the mountain range was a small path that led into and out of the basin.
Although it was called a 'road', it was still winding and uneven. It was extremely difficult for the torrents of steel to pass through.
If Dragon City's mechanized army wanted to surge out of the basin like a tidal wave, they would need to be decisive and fight against the heavens.
However, for the time being, they did not need to think about rushing out of the basin. If they just needed to control Monster Mountain Range, Dragon City had already completed 90% of its progress.
Long Feijun pointed at the virtual 3D sand table in front of him.
Small models of soldiers, tanks, and bases were instantly activated, and a series of detailed parameters and even clearer real-time images appeared on them.
It could be seen that after more than half a year of sweeping away all enemies and developing their territory by horse racing, Dragon Citizens had already occupied the highest mountains in the north, east, and west of Monster Mountain Range. They had also built fully mechanized, semi-permanent fortifications at more than one hundred strategic points and stationed a large number of soldiers with enough ammunition. They also used railroads and aerial communication lines to connect the bases together.
There were dense minefields underground, railway guns, main battle tanks, runic symbol mechanical fighting vehicles, and superhumans in motorized armor on the ground, and unmanned aerial vehicles and armored airships that covered the sky in the air. The monster civilization could not handle this three-in-one encirclement.
It could be said that the monster civilization in the east, north, and west of Dragon City had already collapsed.
In the face of the humans' rumbling steel army, there was no longer an organized monster horde that could fight against them.
Even if they still had Hell Beasts and even Apocalyptic Beasts as their commanders, they only had the madness and brutality of cornered beasts. They had lost the intelligence, organization, and unified command that was indispensable to a civilization.
In these regions, the monster civilization devolved into monsters once more.
They were just a group of beasts with sharper claws and greater strength. They could not pose a fundamental threat to Dragon City's civilization.
"We've already won 90% of the Monster War that has lasted for decades, but the remaining 10% is the most arduous and filled with uncertainties."
Long Feijun placed his focus on the southwest corner of the 3D sand table.
The terrain there was torn to pieces by dozens of towering mountains. The ground looked as if it was covered in hundreds of scars and twisted. There were also two large rivers crashing into each other there, creating countless tributaries, lakes, swamps, and flooded areas. Even elementary school students who did not have any military knowledge could tell that this was not a place for the steel army to fight.
The 3D sand table also used sound and visual effects to vividly simulate the local environment. Fog surrounded the area, dark clouds shrouded it, lightning flashed, thunder rumbled, and all sorts of extreme weather. It was as if an invisible force had simply and crudely pushed it to this place.
Long Feijun tapped the tallest mountain in the 3D sand table gently.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
More than one hundred pictures and videos of the mountain were instantly projected in front of the people.
They did not know whether it was because the spirit energy magnetic field interference was too strong or because the fog was too thick, but the entire mountain was surrounded by white fog.
The fog did not stop moving, but neither did it circle the mountain slowly. Instead, it gushed out from the depths of the mountain and spread out like a tidal wave.
This scene looked like a volcano eruption.
Even though it was not as intense as magma gushing out, it was just as bizarre.
In fact, the people could not help but wonder whether the fog that had shrouded Dragon City for decades and isolated it from the Other World had gushed out from the depths of the mountain.
Of course, that was not the truth.
Meteorologists and space physicists had long since proved that the fog was not real fog. Instead, it was the ripples and folds caused by the overlapping of space.
It was just like how Dragon City, which was a pebble, stirred up waves when it was thrown into the Other World, which was a huge pond.
However, this also meant that this mountain range that was constantly spewing fog must be a place where the space folds were especially dense and the space was extremely unstable.
"What you're seeing right now is God Fog Mountain. It's the main mountain range and the tallest mountain in Monster Mountain Range. Up until now, we humans have yet to conquer it. In fact, we don't even understand its true appearance," Long Feijun explained in detail.
"The area where God Fog Mountain is located is a circular area of hundreds of kilometers, and it's known as Hidden Fog Region. It's filled with fog all year round, and it's covered in space folds. Forget about humans, even monsters often get lost in there.
"The mountains around it also contain a lot of spirit energy ley lines and crystals. In fact, more than 50% of the mountain is made up of minerals.
"This might be a treasure that has an endless supply of resources, but it also releases powerful spirit energy magnetic field interference, which makes the local spirit energy magnetic field very unstable. Not only does it create all sorts of extreme weather, it also severely affects superhumans' vitality magnetic fields and the stability of runic symbol machines. Besides, all sorts of high-tech products that use microcrystal chips will be destroyed at any moment once they enter Hidden Fog Region.
"What's worse is that God Fog Mountain is also the birthplace of the largest river in Monster Mountain Range, Tiger's Rage.
"You must understand that more than half a century ago, Dragon City tore through space and occupied a large amount of space in Monster Mountain Range. At that time, the greatest threat our ancestors faced was not the zombie virus, the lack of resources, or the monster civilization. Instead, it was Red Dragon River, which flowed through Dragon City, and it overlapped with Tiger's Rage, a river native to the Other World.
"Tiger's Rage got its name because the water was rapid, and when it crashed into reefs, it let out tiger roars day and night.
"The two rivers had a lot of water flow, and when they crashed into each other, it immediately caused the river to change its course and flood. The area around Dragon City was reduced to a swamp.
"At that time, the army sacrificed horribly to control the flood, but they couldn't get rid of the plague that appeared after the flood subsided and the zombies born from the plague."
Half of the people in the area were young officers from the Red Dragon Army.
The Red Dragon Army had always remembered the heroic sacrifices their ancestors had made when they first transmigrated so that their civilization could continue.
Hence, the memories of Red Dragon River and Tiger's Rage clashing against each other when they crossed the galaxy were still fresh in their minds.
"After decades of continuous conflict and fusion, the current Red Dragon River and Tiger's Rage have their own stable drainage basins. At the very least, the middle and lower reaches of the river have long since parted ways.
Long Feijun continued. "But upstream of Hidden Fog Desolate Region, the two rivers are still entangled with each other. They often change their course and flood. They repeatedly attack the mountains around them, forming swamps, mudslides, and Ghost Lakes that appear and disappear occasionally. The environment is really complicated.
"The area around Hidden Fog Desolate Region is not suitable for the Red Dragon Army's mechanized squads to deploy their forces.
"Superhumans can't charge into the fog alone without heavy firepower to support them. It's impossible for them to just die.
"And the fortresses and bases we built at the perimeter with all sorts of super construction machines are easily destroyed by the mudslides caused by the flood.
"Hence, while Dragon City's vanguard is advancing madly in the east, north, and west, it's only Hidden Fog Desolate Region and Fog God Mountain in the southwest that can't move forward.
"We originally set our main attack direction to the east and were prepared to clear the lifeline to get out of Monster Mountain Range from the east.
"As for the southwest, even though it has a lot of resources, Dragon City doesn't lack resources for the time being, so we're not in a hurry to occupy and develop it. Even if there are still some monster remnants hiding there, at most, we can use the strategy of encirclement to kill their living space. Then, when Dragon City's scale and development level increase by ten times, the remnants will fall on their own.
"But now, the situation has changed against our expectations.
"Over the past half a year, we've obtained a lot of evidence that Hidden Fog Desolate Region and Fog God Mountain might be the birthplace and final nest of the monster civilization!"
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