Chapter 156
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"So this is the South Pole base …" Xia Pingan exited the submarine and looked up at the giant dome above his head. He could not help but exclaim in his heart. So big.
This base was built in the belly of a mountain somewhere in the South Pole.
The two nuclear submarines that had brought Xia Pingan and the others here were parked quietly at the submarine dock in the belly of the mountain. Only submarines could dive up from the sea at the dock. There were no entrances or exits at all. The submarine berths at the dock were more than 500 meters long. A simple count would show that eight nuclear submarines could be docked here at once.
There was a giant dome above the dock. Gentle artificial sunlight shone down from the dome, making the entire dock look like it was daytime.
Directly opposite the dock were the words "Skymender Base" cast in steel.
Two rows of armed soldiers in snow camouflage stood at the edge of the dock.
A soldier in his sixties wearing a general's uniform stood at the dock like a javelin, welcoming the arrival of Xia Pingan and the others.
Fifty-four summoners from the Fire Country participating in the "Skymender Project" came down from the submarines one after another and stood in front of the general.
"Welcome everyone to Skymender Base. I am the person in charge of Skymender Base, Zhang Yuzhong!" The general spoke calmly and cut straight to the point, "Let me explain the following arrangements. I will take you on a tour of Skymender Base later. After the tour, each of you will be given a room. Tonight, Skymender Base will hold a welcome banquet for all of you. You can relax and rest in the base today. From tomorrow onwards, you will need to study in the base for two days before entering the Otherworld to understand the relevant information about the Otherworld. Three days later, the fifty-four of you will be divided into two groups and enter the Otherworld through a spatial rift to officially begin your mission. Does anyone have any questions?"
Jiang Duo'er spoke up, "Won't the other fifty-four people from the East enter the Otherworld with us?"
"They will arrive at Skymender Base in ten days and enter after you in batches!"
"If we enter in batches, how will we differentiate between our comrades and the people who entered before us?" another summoner asked.
"Everyone who participates in Operation Mend the Heavens will be given a set of communication methods and secret signals after entering the Other World. You will learn these in the course in two days!"
Hearing this, Xia Pingan nodded inwardly. The heaven-mending plan was indeed thorough, just as he had expected. They were the fifth batch of participants in the heaven-mending plan. After entering the other side, if they met the previous participants, there would definitely be a way to identify them.
"General, can I ask you a question? How was the spatial rift leading to the other world discovered?" Someone else asked.
"It's information provided by the Oracle!"
Oracle?
Xia Pingan and Xia Pingan looked at each other. Xia Pingan thought to himself, Just as I thought.
After the three questions, no one spoke again.
"Any other questions?" General Zhang Yuzhong's gaze swept across everyone. Seeing that no one had any more questions, he nodded. "If you have any more questions, you can ask your teachers in the next two days of class. If there are no more questions, I'll take you on a tour of Skymender Base!"
… …
Skymender Base was huge. It was built according to the standards of Doomsday Bunker in the South Pole.
The entire base was built in the belly of the mountain under the glacier. Outside was the ice and snow of the Antarctic continent. The wind and snow howled all year round. In a year, half of the year was polar night and the other half was polar day. The surrounding thousands of miles was basically a no-man's land. On the ground, there were almost no other animals except penguins, seals, and a small number of Antarctic wolves.
The base could accommodate more than five thousand people. The core area of the base was the teleportation zone where the spatial rift was located. The teleportation zone was heavily guarded and was not open to the public. It was only opened during Operation Mend the Heavens.
Other than the teleportation zone, there were three large areas in the base: the research area, the living area, and the cultivation area. These three areas were located in different underground levels.
The research area was used to study all kinds of information about the Other World.
The living area was where everyone in the base lived. Apart from more than a thousand elite soldiers, the rest were the base's researchers, production staff, and summoners.
The cultivation area was mainly the base's underground farm. The underground farm of the base was filled with greenhouses that used soilless cultivation techniques. There were also some chickens, ducks, pigs, and cows in the other greenhouses to provide meat for the base.
After touring the base, Xia Pingan could roughly guess what Doomsday Bunker was like.
This base was filled with humanity's cutting-edge technological achievements in energy, biology, security, and many other aspects. It was no exaggeration to say that if the surface was completely occupied by magical creatures, the humans living in Doomsday Bunker would be completely self-sufficient. It wouldn't be much of a problem for them to survive for a few hundred years.
After touring the base, everyone was assigned a room. They could finally take a break from the bumpy ride on ships and submarines along the way.
The welcome banquet in the evening was grand and lively, but it wasn't extravagant. The food and drinks at the banquet were all produced by Doomsday Base. Other than Xia Pingan and the others, there were also summoners, officers, and many researchers from the base who attended the banquet.
At this banquet, the female summoners who came with Xia Pingan and the others naturally became the main characters of the banquet. Jiang Duo 'er was especially dazzling. She became the center of everyone's attention as soon as she entered the banquet hall.
However, it was strange. Among the female summoners, there was actually a woman called Ming Ruolan. She was also a stunning beauty, comparable to Jiang Duo 'er in terms of looks. However, Ming Ruolan had always been more low-key. She always felt cold and unapproachable. Xia Pingan had never seen that woman take the initiative to talk to anyone. She basically stayed in her room on the ship and rarely came out. She was even absent from tonight's banquet.
…
The next morning, the fifty-four people who came to the base greeted their first class with curiosity in a classroom in the base.
No one knew what the world on the other side of the spatial rift was like.
Everyone wanted to know because this was not only related to the success or failure of the mission, but also everyone's life and death.
The person who taught everyone was the base's chief researcher, Xue Gang. He was in his sixties and had personally participated in the Doomsday Plan. He had wandered around that world twice and returned alive. He was also a senior expert who had stayed at the base for more than 20 years.
There was probably no other living person on this planet who knew more about the world on the other side of the spatial rift than he did.
"There might be gods in that world on the other side …"
In the class, the first sentence of the base's chief researcher made the entire classroom fall silent.
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