"Sir, we're in the center of an underground academy …"
It was dark and quiet. Only the lights on their helmets could illuminate their vision. They were very deep underground.
Virtual academies were almost all built underground. The fledglings could fully enjoy the filtered air and the beautiful environment here. They could enjoy their academy life.
This place was supposed to be transparent, but that was a thing of the past. Now, whether it was the ground or the walls, they were all covered in a thick layer of fungus. The various items here were the same. It was impossible to tell what the original facility was. It was more like a fungus nest.
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A team of Blazing Army received orders from the general that fungus creatures had appeared in this underground academy. They had no choice but to come here and look for their target …
Now, this team of ten stopped because they had arrived in front of a large door. This door had the words' Simulated Battle Area 'written on it.
The door was covered in fungus, but the switch by the door was still flashing red. This meant that the door was still powered.
"There might be something inside …" The captain turned to one of the team members and said, "You, open the door and see."
"Yes!" The team member immediately walked up and poked the switch a few times. The door suddenly made a "ka …" sound and slowly rose up.
Boom … The door took about five seconds to rise to the top. A large amount of fungus dust drifted with the door. For a moment, the team members couldn't see the environment inside.
However, after the drifting bacterial dust, Su Hao's expression changed. They could see the flickering light.
They were confused. The team slowly walked through the door …
"These things … are still running?" The captain walked through the dust. The first thing he saw was the operating machines in the control room.
On these machines, a three-dimensional image kept flashing. These were all used to operate the simulated battle area.
The simulated battle area was a place for students to practice combat. They would fight in an empty combat area with three-dimensional simulated opponents. The control room the team members were in now was the place where they were responsible for operating the various things in the combat area.
"The city's power system was turned off long ago …" The captain looked at the screen and said, "Why is it still running?"
Beep beep beep! Another member poked at the 3D screen and said, "You can see the record here … The backup power source was activated, and it was activated when … the general gave the order to burn down the whole city."
"Maybe some civilians are hiding here …" The captain looked at the screen and said, "But why is it that after activating the backup power, only the 'simulated combat' facility is activated?"
"I don't know …" The team member said, "The windows here and the surveillance cameras in the combat area are covered by the mycelium. We can't see the situation inside now … But according to the report. It seems like those fungi have intelligence. Perhaps they … did this. "
"I find it hard to believe that this thing has intelligence, but …" The captain said, "We should go to the combat zone to take a look … The two of you stay here to continue the investigation."
"Got it!"
After leaving two members behind, the captain and the other members walked to the center of the operation room. There was a cylindrical elevator that led to the combat zone.
The elevator was the same as the other machines in the control room. There was nothing wrong with it. Therefore, these Voidfolk walked into the elevator. Following the sound of the elevator starting up, they slowly approached the battle zone …
"We're here. Be careful …"
The elevator stopped. Because the elevator door was completely closed, they could not see the situation outside. The captain glanced at the alert members. He reached out his hand to press the 'open door' button.
"Crack —"
The elevator door opened. What appeared before them was a white area. This place … was also covered by a large carpet of fungi.
There were many different kinds of obstacles and bunkers in the combat zone. Now, all of them were covered in mycelium. There were even some mushrooms more than three meters tall that stood between the obstacles.
"These things don't grow in the control room, but there are a lot of them here …" The captain said. "We need to investigate this carefully …"
Looking at this strange environment, the captain led the team members out of the elevator.
"Woo!"
The moment they stepped out of the elevator, a huge creature with sharp teeth pounced on them. The team members were shocked. Just as they were about to raise their weapons, the creature passed through them.
"That's a 3D image!" The captain immediately said into the communicator in his helmet. "What are they doing up there? Why would there be this kind of image here? "
"I don't know!" The voice of the Virtual People who stayed in the control room came from the communicator. "We didn't touch anything!"
"… Forget it. Be careful … Ah!"
As soon as the captain finished speaking, another creature appeared in front of him and lunged at them. However, because of the previous experience, the team members were much calmer this time.
However, the frequency of the appearance this time seemed to be much higher. After the creature disappeared for a few seconds, a few more 3D creatures appeared in the distance.
These creatures did not immediately pounce on them. Instead, they fought on the spot. These 3D images would pass through real objects when they touched them. However, when they touched each other, they would collide with each other like real creatures.
"These things … are the recently popular 'Ancient Beast Showdown'?" One of the team members looked at the fighting creatures and said, "This is more like a game than a simulated battle."
"I've heard of it too. It's said to let students experience the environment where there were other creatures in the past, but in fact, it's just shooting those creatures for fun."
"This is good either way," the captain said. "What I'm concerned about is why this Big Showdown program has been activated here."
As they spoke, the team moved forward slowly. More and more creatures appeared around them. Most of them were fighting each other, and some of them would pounce on the team. Most of them were carnivorous creatures that had gone extinct before, and some of them were large creatures. However, these images were still quite different from the real thing. After getting used to it, they would not be affected at all.
After a while, the team almost finished inspecting the entire battlefield. They found that other than the strange fact that the program was still running, there was nothing special about it. This was just an ordinary battlefield covered in fungi.
"Captain!" Suddenly, a team member in the control room said, "We just found out that this Big Showdown program has been running for a long time … and it's now preparing to change the battlefield!"
"What?" The captain was shocked. "Hurry up and get to the safety platform!"
The team members immediately ran to the center of the battlefield. The safety platform was a platform in the central area where they could safely watch the battlefield change. As soon as they ran up, the entire battlefield rumbled.
The images around them disappeared, and the obstacles and bunkers slowly retreated into the ground. Then, the entire battlefield suddenly split into two and slowly retreated to both sides.
When the old battlefield retreated, a new one would rise from below. This was how the battlefield changed.
"This is …"
After the old battlefield retreated to both sides, the captain and his team members saw the new battlefield below. There were no obstacles in this battlefield, but there were a lot of fungi, and …
Fungal creatures that were in the process of being constructed.
"They …"
The captain and the others saw many creatures lying on the mycelium carpet on the ground. These creatures … there were many Voidfolk among them.
A large number of Voidfolk corpses lay on the mycelium carpet. Many of their bodies had been cut in half, and among these Voidfolk corpses, there were some other creatures.
These creatures … were the animals in the previous video battle. Their bodies were almost half or incomplete. The surrounding Voidfolk corpses had a large number of mycelium connected to these animals. These mycelium were still trembling, as if they were transporting something …
These animals were very large, but the largest one was an animal in the east of the battlefield.
Its body was close to thirty meters long. This was a creature called 'Mons Beast'. Because of its large size, it occupied a large area. It was also one of the incomplete products. A large number of ribs could be seen protruding from its open chest. These ribs were connected to a large number of mycelium, and the other side of the mycelium extended to the surrounding Voidfolk corpses …
"They … could it be …"
The captain looked at this scene and said something that even he himself could not believe. "They used our corpses … to create these animals? The previous videos … could it be that they were activated to understand these animals? "
"That's not possible … Captain, how could they do this?" A member said in disbelief.
"Then what do you think is going on with these animals? Could it be that they dug them out from the ground? They are restoring extinct creatures! Using our corpses! " The captain said. "Hurry up and set up the bombs. We need to blow this place up. Nothing here can … Ah!"
The captain was shocked and stopped talking because the 'Mons Beast' on the ground in front of them suddenly shook and moved.
A semi-finished body with a large number of strangely colored fungal structures. The eye sockets under the huge head were staring ahead. This creature looked like a sewn up corpse, but it stood shakily in front of these Voidfolk. (To be continued …)
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