"Inside that place, other than the withered tree that we walked out from, there was nothing but a patch of black, decaying soil."
Xue Ba thought back to the withered and dead silence. Even though he had gotten used to abnormal energy, he was still shocked. "The withered tree was the central point. No matter which direction we walked, as long as we walked a straight line of 1037 meters, we would reach the wall. There are high stone walls on all sides, and we are trapped inside. "
"How tall was the wall?" Gu Jun could not help but ask.
"I have no idea." Xue Ba sighed. "We used the drone that we brought in to fly up to take a look. The highest we could reach was over 1500 meters, but we still could not fly out. Any higher, and the drone would have lost control and fallen. The image we captured was blurry. "
The circular stone wall was more than 1500 meters in length, and this circle had a diameter of 2074 meters. How majestic and majestic it was ….
Gu Jun frowned silently. Could that be a human creation?
"The wall made it impossible for us to escape," Xue Ba explained.
The Demon Hunters conducted a carpet search in the wasteland, and it took them half a month to do so. The higher-ups did not allow them to do anything too extreme, like using explosives to blow up the wall. They were worried that it would destabilize the abnormal space and cause the banyan tree hole to collapse.
However, the team did not find anything after the exploration. The higher-ups gave them a few days off to participate in recreational activities to calm their nerves.
That was until yesterday, when they had a new breakthrough — they found a foreign language at Lai Sheng Company's base, and Gu Jun confirmed that it was a type of language.
The team had once seen a line of foreign language on one of the walls. At the time, the emergency team paid attention to it, but they could not take pictures, and the team members' mental state was affected. When they tried to recall what they saw, they only had an indescribable blurry memory, and they could not write down the foreign language. The strangest thing was, they tried copying and copying, but what they wrote was still distorted. The language contained abnormal energy.
Later, more than one linguist joined the team, but none of them had a clue.
"But when I saw the words that Lai Sheng Company wrote on the tree, I remembered that it was this language! Uncle Dan and the rest were sure of it. But we still can't write that line of foreign text. " After Xue Ba finished speaking, he patted Gu Jun on the shoulder. "So, the mission this time is to bring you inside to see what it means."
Gu Jun understood the situation, and a thought came to him. Could that abnormal space be the world of the foreign civilization?
The Afterlife Cult's experiment … connected the two worlds?
He suddenly had a lot of questions to ask. "Captain Xue, is this the only place like this? What about the other banyan trees at the source of the illness? "
"Only here, but we suspect that Lai Sheng Company is in control of other passageways." Xue Ba's square face was serious. "Yesterday, the Action Department did not manage to capture anyone at that hideout. They saw a few people, but we don't know where they went."
"Has Phecda ever encountered an alternate dimension before?" Gu Jun asked again.
"There have been similar cases before, but this … should be the first time. This matter is actually under the direct command of the headquarters. "
"Captain Xue, what is the origin of the abnormal creature with the lamellar bones?" Gu Jun looked serious because this was a very important question. "I believe they are related to Lai Sheng Company. That is a definite feeling."
"Oh?" Xue Ba was instantly confused. "The Investigation Department concluded that the abnormal creature and the Malformed Banyan Disease are two different incidents."
Gu Jun quickly said, "No, I am sure they are related! That is one thing. And I suspect they came here from another world through these banyan tree holes. " The Afterlife Cult probably did not have the power to control the abnormal creature that destroyed their old world, but they had the power to lure the disaster over …
"Okay, I will go and report this to the higher-ups." Xue Ba naturally understood the severity of this possibility, and he turned to leave.
Gu Jun looked at the decaying tree, and a scary thought suddenly appeared in his mind. Sixteen handprints, sixteen people.
The Demon Hunter team, including him, did that not make sixteen people?
"Captain Xue, wait!" Gu Jun hurriedly called after Xue Ba. "Have you compared our handprints?" His handprints had already been entered into Phecda's database during the physical examination.
"Haha, kid, you sure have thought this through." Xue Ba laughed heartily. "Everything has been compared, so it's fine. Otherwise, why would they send us in? But every time we go in, there is no guarantee that we can come out alive. You'd better hurry up and write a will. "
Watching Xue Ba walk away, Gu Jun shook his head self-deprecatingly. He thought the foreign power would give him safety, but it pushed him into danger instead.
Immediately, he went to find Uncle Dan for a pen and paper. He wrote a short will, mainly to thank Prof Gu, Brother Qiang, and Surgeon Zhu for taking care of him, and to comfort Cai Zixuan and Wang Ruoxiang. If he died, he hoped that they would continue to work hard after the sadness.
Then, he pretended to have a splitting headache from the stimulation of the banyan tree. After a series of loud yells, he gasped for breath at the nervous crowd that had gathered around him. "I suddenly remembered a lot of foreign languages …" Then, he wrote down the five hundred foreign languages that he currently knew to the organization.
In the wee hours of the morning, he was hiding his knowledge to protect himself, but now it was for … the people mentioned in his will.
Gu Jun had no idea whether anyone had seen through his little trick or not. In any case, no one said anything.
However, when Xue Ba and the rest saw the new foreign words that he had written, they still could not tell whether there was any trace of the foreign words on the high wall or not. Even though they might be able to decipher it with these blueprints, the higher-ups decided to bring Gu Jun with them this time. Perhaps he would find something new inside?
"Your information has attracted the attention of the headquarters," Xue Ba told Gu Jun. "The situation is urgent. We have to complete this mission as soon as possible."
Before this, the Demon Hunters had completed a series of tests on the space inside the high wall.
For example, the air composition test. Other than the low oxygen content, which was only thirteen to fifteen percent, there was no harmful substance to the human body. Virus and microbiological tests were also done, and they were all fine. Theoretically, humans could move around and even live inside without protective gear.
But the group still had to put on the yellow protective gear, covering themselves from head to toe. This was because their skin could not come into direct contact with the banyan tree, and for the sake of safety, they could not take off the protective gear unless absolutely necessary.
The space inside the high wall was limited by the 'capacity' of foreign objects. As long as it did not belong to the space, be it living things or inanimate objects, it had a capacity limit.
This capacity was not a limitation when entering and exiting the space. Things that were placed inside could be counted. Just like a cup, once it was full, it could not be filled with water. It was not like they could move the parts of a tank into the high wall and reassemble them inside.
Therefore, the emergency team had to consider what they should bring with them into the high wall. It was either these things or those things that they should bring with them.
This time, their mission plan was to enter the high wall to take a look at the foreign language.
The first consideration was safety. How were they going to deal with the possible appearance of abnormal creatures?
Therefore, weapons were the first priority, and they had to come up with a comprehensive plan. For example, if a subterrain giant worm appeared and bit a person, then when they shot it, they had to deal damage but not let the bullet penetrate the worm and hurt the person being bitten. Other abnormal creatures that had been active recently had to be taken into consideration as well.
Therefore, the members of the team were equipped with several types of guns. They had different bullet calibers and shooting ranges to deal with different situations.
The second priority was survival, which was enough food and water to last them for a week.
The third priority was rescue. They had various medical tools, medicine, and frozen blood bags because if necessary, the heavily injured members could be abandoned.
In the history of Phecda, the number of Special Mobile Force members had always been the highest.
Then there were some equipment and miscellaneous items. They had to bring all of these, but they could not bring the more powerful but also heavier firearms and anti-tank missiles. Mobility was the priority. Everyone had a gun, which was better than having only a twin-barrel anti-aircraft machine gun.
Some of the items had been placed in the abnormal space, and the rest had been distributed to each member's backpack. The total weight of the two was an accurate number.
"This is a .05 submachine gun for you. Take it and hang it on your body."
Before they departed, Xue Ba grabbed a mini submachine gun from the equipment truck and tossed it to Gu Jun. "Shooting is easy. Pull off the safety here, load it, and shoot. This gun is fully loaded. I'm giving it to you just in case. Do not pull the safety unless necessary, and do not point the gun at your own people! If I see it, I'll assume your S value is too low and shoot you first. "
"Understood …" Gu Jun could tell that Xue Ba was not joking. If he was mentally deranged and pointed a submachine gun at his own people …
The submachine gun was not that heavy, but it felt heavy in Gu Jun's hands. This was the first time he had held a real gun, at least in his memory.
It had been three hours since they arrived at Gu Rong Village. Finally, everything was ready.
With the people at the command central sending them off, the fully-equipped Demon Hunters and Gu Jun walked toward the big banyan tree.
The rotting stench of the banyan tree was blocked out by the protective suit. Gu Jun breathed in the oxygen provided by the small oxygen tank on his back. He watched as Captain Xue, who was at the front of the team, squeezed into the tree hole and disappeared into the darkness. Then the next team member, and the next …
"Ah Jun, keep up." Then Uncle Dan joined them. His voice came through the walkie-talkie. "Don't be afraid, Uncle Dan will protect you."
"Okay." After Gu Jun saw Uncle Dan disappear into the tree hole, he took the first step toward the decaying, grayish-black hole.
One step, two steps, three steps …
He could vaguely see a strange and dazzling blur in front of him.
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