The six-man assault team arrived at the two sides of the red door. There were team members on the left and right sides of the door.
Lou Xiaoning was on the left. She raised her head to study the two lamps and said suspiciously, "I don't see any foreign characters. These are kerosene lamps. The oil inside is two-thirds full, and the wick is very long. They look like they were changed less than an hour ago."
The group's mood was heavy when they heard that. Who changed the lamps?
The stone path had ten thousand steps, and there was only one way to go up and down. Along the way, they did not encounter anything other than the gust of wind.
If someone or something was changing the wick of the lamp, it could only be behind the red door.
"There are no foreign characters on the red door, and there is no gap. The door appears to be embedded inside the stone wall." Lou Xiaoning observed. She was wearing gloves. Her right hand held the gun while her left hand signaled to the team. Three, two, one. Her left hand pushed the edge of the red door.
The members on both sides held their breath and focused their attention. Once the red door was pushed open, they would rush in.
But the red door did not budge.
"No, there's no resistance," Lou Xiaoning reported. "The red door is very thick, or it's connected to the surrounding walls." Xue Ba, who was on the other side, gave his orders. "The three of us should give it a try." Zhou Yi and Gao Mingpeng came out from the sides and pushed the door together with Lou Xiaoning, but there was no resistance either.
At the same time, Gu Jun tried to sense the red door, but he only felt sick and twisted, like a ball of chaos …
"Try the hole," Xue Ba said. "Don't look at it directly. Be careful, it might be a trap! The black wind should have come out from that hole. "
This was the most logical deduction they had. If the black wind did not appear out of thin air, then it could only have come out from the hole.
How could such a strong gust of wind come out from such a small hole?
"That sure is creepy." Uncle Dan joked, but no one agreed with this double entendre. Everyone's heart was in their throat.
Lou Xiaoning used the gun to poke at the hole and shone the flashlight at it. She used other tools to poke at it, but there was no reaction. This time, the team did not bring any tools like a flexible endoscope. Even if they did, they did not dare look into it. Then, she used a wire cut from the instrument to poke it into the hole. Little by little, she stuffed the one-meter-long wire into the hole.
"The area behind the door is empty, at least one meter in diameter." She pulled the wire out again and looked at it. There was no change to the wire, not even a speck of dust.
Until now, Lou Xiaoning hadn't rashly leaned over to look inside the door, nor did she expose herself in front of the door.
The Demon Hunters were not rookies. They understood how dangerous their actions were.
No one could say for sure what was behind the doorway.
"Ah Jun, is it still not working?" Xue Ba asked Gu Jun again. However, when he saw that Gu Jun was sweating profusely, he knew that there was still no result.
"I think … it should be opened with a spell," Gu Jun said hoarsely. "But I don't know what the spell is."
"Assault team, retreat for now." Xue Ba first waved his hand, then said to Gu Jun, "Try that Mad Arab poem and see what you think."
"Okay." Gu Jun shared the same thought. After Lou Xiaoning and the rest retreated, he looked at the red door and recited slowly in the foreign language, "That which sleeps forever is not the dead. In the strange eternity, even death will vanish."
When the team heard this strange and cryptic language again, the hair on their skin stood on end.
However, they also looked at the red door, and there was still no reaction …
"It's not this one." Gu Jun took a deep breath. Even though he did not succeed, there was a sense of tension in his mind. If he was just using this language normally, he would not have felt this way, but now that he was trying to sense the red door and the possible spell, the words that came out of his mouth were different.
He shook his head and tried again. "Open the door!" "Son of Steel, Freud Lenton!" He repeated the same sentence. "The fruit of darkness grows from the abyss of eternity. The worm of death will live with the world forever."
By then, Gu Jun was losing his balance. His face was so white that he looked like he was going to faint at any moment. His surroundings were spinning and blurring …
"Ah Jun, stop trying! Enough, do you hear me? Do you want to die? "
Xue Ba immediately called for him to stop, but Gu Jun appeared to be mumbling something. Xue Ba reached out with a muscular hand to pull Gu Jun up. That stopped him. Then he handed him over to Uncle Dan and Zhang Huohuo to carry him to the side to rest.
Everyone could see that Gu Jun had given it his all … They looked at each other silently and started to discuss softly. Now they only had a few choices.
One was to turn around and leave, two was to try blowing up the door with explosives, and three was to have someone look through the hole to trigger the possible mechanism.
There was no turning back for the second choice. If the red door was similar to the big banyan tree, there would be a tunnel behind the door that led to another space. If they blew up the door, they would be done for. In a situation where they lacked information, blowing up the door was always the worst option.
The third option was very dangerous, but it was the most flexible because it was only one member who was going to take the risk.
Of course, they believed that having Gu Jun take a look might change something. But Gu Jun was too important. Only he knew the foreign language and the trigger spell, so they could not let him take this risk. No matter who died in the team, it could not be Gu Jun who died first.
Someone had to go scout ahead. Even if they knew it was a trap, they had to step into it to see what kind of trap it was — that was also a form of information.
The team needed more information.
On the first day of their survival training, the instructor kept reminding them, "You have to be ready to sacrifice yourself. Not for the people, but for your teammates! You die for your teammates, and your teammates die for you. This is the Special Mobile Force. "
"F * ck, we still have to go take a look." Without waiting for anyone to say anything, Lou Xiaoning sighed and placed her rifle against the wall. She had already put down the mini missile backpack. She said casually to everyone, "If I go crazy, shoot me. Remember to shoot my head."
Lou Xiaoning had always been the number one suicide squad member in the team. She had suspected Gu Jun not because she was afraid of death but because it was her duty.
"We know." Xue Ba nodded. He did not stop her. His square face was expressionless. "It's a large caliber. I promise it will only hurt a little."
At that moment, everyone was silent. This was something that they had to do. They could not argue with Lou Xiaoning …
"Miss Lou, you're a good girl." Uncle Dan sighed. He turned around to have Zhang Huohuo prepare for first aid.
Gu Jun was still resting against the wall. His brain was still a mess. He did not know whether the team should give this a try or not …
After the sniper and the medical team were ready, Lou Xiaoning walked down the stairs and once again stood before the red door.
This time, she didn't avoid the doorway. Instead, she moved closer. It wasn't that there wasn't any nervousness and depression on her face, but there was even more courage.
The door was very small. It was about the size of an adult's thumb. There was a faint white glow coming from inside.
With the eyes of the group behind her, Lou Xiaoning aimed her right eye at the door and looked through it.
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