Fortunately, this reconnaissance unit had strong logistical and communication support.
The Red Dragon Army's engineering team built a lot of communication relay stations behind them.
They even sent communication airships to risk their lives and barge into the lightning storm zone above the Hidden Fog Desolate Domain.
Before these relay stations were destroyed by the mudslide and the communication airships were shot down by lightning, the Piranha Squad was still intermittently maintaining contact with the rear.
The images and data they sent back could allow people to see bits and pieces of the monster nest's true appearance.
"Now, I'll play a few clips of the Piranha Squad sending back from the Hidden Fog Desolate Domain."
As Long Feijun spoke, he clicked on a few videos above the 3D sand table.
As the lights and shadows of the dozens of projectors around the conference room intertwined, the Fog God Mountain in the southwest corner of the sand table was magnified infinitely, making people feel that they were in the depths of the Hidden Fog Desolate Domain.
It was even to the extent that a dense fog surged out, causing one to feel as if they were there, and their hairs stood on end.
However, since the spirit energy magnetic field environment was too chaotic, the images sent back by the Piranhas were severely disrupted. The images were blurry and distorted, and there was a long period of darkness between the images that could be read.
Some of the images turned black and white, while others were extremely gorgeous, as if they were in a dream.
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Meng Chao saw that at the start of the video, the fully-armed Piranhas were lowered to the edge of Hidden Fog Last Region through an armored airship.
The mist was like a raging white fiend, and the clouds were like a city in the sky that had collapsed. When the thick and dazzling lightning bolts flashed, pale wounds seemed to have been torn apart between the sky and the earth. The storm was not 'pouring' but like a flood that had broken a dam, it surged out of the void crazily and added fuel to the mudslides in the valley, raising deafening, incessant noises.
Just by watching the video, Meng Chao could sense a primitive, barbaric, and vast power crashing into him.
This was a power that was even more terrifying than an Apocalyptic Beast.
Even though he had been cultivating with the Martial God for half a year, he still felt goosebumps all over his body.
The members of the Piranha Squad turned a blind eye to it.
A few veterans whose faces were covered in smoke and scars were still in the mood to joke around, telling a few vulgar jokes to each other.
Their mouths did not stop moving, and their hands were not idle either. They put on the nano combat suits and mobile armors with ease, took inventory of all the combat resources, and adjusted the combat parameters of the thinking tank and the six-legged runic machinery.
More than twenty Piranha Elite Special Forces members and more than fifty Thinking Tanks loaded with guns, ammunition, and communication equipment plunged into the thick fog.
The screen went black and switched to the second video.
They were not too far away from the edge of Hidden Fog Desolate Region, and the spirit energy magnetic field interference was not too strong. With the mobile signal amplifiers and portable relay stations, the pictures they sent back were relatively stable and clear.
However, the environment in the depths of the fog was vastly different from the outside world.
It must be known that although the Other World and Earth were separated by the sea of stars, there was not much difference in their ecosystems.
Aside from being wilder and more dangerous, at first glance, it was very difficult to tell just what was the difference between the forest in the Other World and the Amazon rainforest on Earth.
Many scientists suspected that the Other World and Earth must have been artificially designed by the ancient civilization. Otherwise, it was impossible for them to be so similar.
But that was not the case in Hidden Fog Desolate Region.
Aside from the relatively "normal" forest, Meng Chao also saw countless strange-looking plants through the footage from the Piranha Squad's perspective. Or rather, he saw "things" that he could not be certain were plants.
Some of the "plants" didn't have branches or leaves. They were like black electric poles that pierced straight into the sky.
They grew in clusters, and each cluster had dozens of electric poles. If it were not for the unique patterns and materials that towered into the sky, it would be difficult for him to imagine that they were living creatures.
Some of the "plants" had round fruits that were perfectly shaped on their branches. They were crimson red, dark purple, blue, and green. They were the purest colors that were difficult to create in a natural environment. Their skin was also covered in runic symbols, and some of them even showed signs of crystallization.
It was as if the "plants" could extract the spirit energy from the spirit energy ley lines underground and use it in their bodies to create things that were similar to crystals.
They were "living" crystals!
Some of the "plants" looked like monsters that were crouching in the forest and ready to pounce on their prey at any moment.
When they first saw them, the Piranha Squad was shocked. All the elite soldiers looked as if they were facing a great enemy and were prepared to shoot the monsters full of holes.
When they got closer to observe them, they noticed that they were not monsters. Instead, they were shrubs, vines, mushrooms, and moss that were naturally grown in the shape of monsters.
It was strange. All sorts of plants had fused together, but they managed to imitate the characteristics of monsters. They even had "eyes", "claws", and they looked real.
Meng Chao knew that many monsters had "mimicry" abilities and could imitate the characteristics of plants.
But aside from the memories from his previous life, this was the first time he saw a plant that could imitate a monster.
Next, the Piranha Squad saw a lot of strange and unbelievable "plants".
It made the mysterious Other World look like an alien planet with a completely different ecological environment compared to Earth.
Of course, it had always been like that.
Perhaps this was the true face of the Other World.
What Dragon Citizens had seen in the past was just a "habitable environment" that had been modified by the ancient civilization.
The Piranha Squad was also affected by the strange environment around them.
Even though they were not ambushed, the atmosphere became increasingly stifling.
The screen started to shake, and they could hear the team members panting heavily and gulping nonstop.
Even the most boorish and unscrupulous veteran kept his mouth shut.
Suddenly, a roar came from the sky, and without any warning, a storm fell on their heads.
Then, everyone sank into darkness.
When the screen lit up again, due to the spirit energy magnetic field interference becoming much stronger, the signal transmission became intermittent. The Piranha Squad's first-person view also shook, twisted, and became blurry, as if they had fallen into a nightmare.
When they looked into the distance, the fog in the valley and the dark clouds at the top of the mountain seemed to have fused together and turned into gray, chaotic clouds.
The strange "plants" that looked like alien creatures also seemed to have woken up from hibernation under the nourishment of the storm.
The Piranha Squad struggled to move forward in the storm and the forest.
Even if they had the motorized armor and the thinking tank, it was still difficult for them to clear a path in the wild and twisted forest.
Occasionally, the thinking tank would be hit by a boulder that had fallen off a cliff and fall into the depths of the valley. It would fall into a muddy and rapid stream that had been formed due to the storm.
"Damn it!"
The voice outside the screen suddenly cursed clearly. "Look, we've been here before!"
A scout pointed at the trunk of a towering tree in front of them.
It was a mark they had left behind with their sabers half an hour ago.
Even though the moss quickly covered the mark at a visible speed, it was still slightly sunken.
It was a special paint mixed with monster bone powder that was smeared on the mark, so the scouts who had gone through special training could immediately recognize it.
"It's a dimensional fold," the commander said gravely.
"This area is filled with fine space-time rifts. It's like an invisible maze, or maybe it's the legendary Ghost Hits the Wall. With the fog and storm disturbing us, it'll be very easy for us to crawl into the space-time rifts and return to our old path.
"Don't be surprised by this. If it's strange, it'll vanish on its own. We'll make a mark and use spirit energy to push our senses to the max. We'll sense the spatial disturbances around us, and we'll be able to map out the entire terrain. Then, we'll summon the railway guns and armored airships to blow this place up!"
The Piranha Squad lived up to its name as one of the most elite scouting squads in the Red Dragon Army.
In the next video clip, they did indeed rush out of the dimensional fold and arrived in a barren land between hills.
The lightning and storm seemed to have gradually calmed down.
But the mysterious and oppressive atmosphere only grew stronger.
"Look! What's that?!"
One of the squad members cried out in surprise.
The camera turned and aimed at the center of the barren land.
There were dozens of green giants that were hundreds of meters tall and covered in tentacles standing alone there.
More than ten of the giants' tentacles were even wrapped around each other, as if they were performing some strange ritual.
The camera shook violently. Even the battle-hardened Piranha Squad was shocked by the visual impact of the scene.
When they held their breaths and cautiously approached, they noticed the giants' true colors.
They were all Earthlings' UHV power transmission towers.
As an important industrial and military city on Earth, Dragon City was surrounded by a large energy network.
When Dragon City transmigrated, a large number of power stations and power transmission towers transmigrated as well.
Due to the collisions and overlaps between dimensions, the folds spread out like waves, and quite a number of Dragon City's satellite cities and affiliated facilities were "tossed" further away.
The UHV power transmission towers had been standing there since more than half a century ago. They were like huge metal skeletons.
A lot of moss, vines, and grapevine-like plants treated the towers and cables as the best habitat.
Over the long half a century, they continued growing, climbing, splitting, multiplying, and entangling with each other. Gradually, organs were added to the "skeletons".
The towers turned into giants, the cables turned into tentacles, and the human creations were invaded by the Other World. They turned into brand new life forms.
It was another false alarm.
The Piranha Squad members heaved a sigh of relief.
But in the next second, an astonishing change happened.
As if they sensed the presence of the invaders, all the green giants "moved".
The vines that filled the iron tower, which looked like internal organs, were even wriggling noises, as if they were moaning in hunger.
The cables that were originally scattered around the towers started dancing madly like the tentacles of an octopus under the control of the creeper. They also slithered toward the Piranha Squad like pythons.
The moss that covered the surface of the towers changed color, and as if mold had grown on them, they turned from dark green to a blood-red!
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