The vegetation outside the ancient city was abnormally lush. The willow trees by the moat's banks grew more than ten meters tall. Even the ordinary grass by the roadside grew to half a person's height.
The surface of the river was covered in lotus leaves the size of small boats. The lotus flowers bloomed larger than basins, revealing a demonic red color as though they were dyed with blood.
Affected by the dimensional zone, the nearby flora and fauna experienced varying degrees of mutation. However, the mutation wasn't as serious as the one in the dimensional zone.
There were armed troops stationed outside the ancient city. There were also tanks patrolling the vicinity. Without a pass, no one was allowed to enter the ancient city.
There were even surface-to-air missiles deployed in the vicinity, but Zhou Wen had never seen them launch.
In fact, the threat that firearms posed to dimensional creatures was very limited. Even if a nuclear bomb exploded in a dimensional zone, it would hardly cause too much damage. Many dimensional creatures could even absorb the energy produced by the nuclear bomb to evolve, becoming even more terrifying.
Ordinary bullets were even more useless. They would be devoured and fused with dimensional creatures when they hit them.
Only bullets made of special materials could deal damage to dimensional creatures. However, those materials were very rare to begin with. It was too wasteful to make single-use bullets, so they were typically used to make cold weapons like sabers and swords.
Firearms and explosives weren't very effective against dimensional creatures, but they were still very lethal against humans. Therefore, the main purpose of firearms and explosives was to maintain human social order.
Zhou Wen didn't have a pass, but the pass he had was a pass in disguise. During the combat test, he had a chance to team up and enter Guide Ancient City through the north gate.
Guide Ancient City had four gates — east, west, south, and north. It was originally a small city, with a circumference of less than five kilometers.
However, after the dimensional storms, Guide Ancient City had become a dimensional zone. The space inside was many times larger than before. Humans had yet to fully explore the entire Guide Ancient City.
The dimensional creatures one encountered from the four gates were somewhat different. The dimensional creatures at the north gate were the weakest. As long as one didn't venture too deep, there typically wouldn't be too much danger.
As the pass only allowed four people to enter together, Li Xuan and the other two team members Zhou Wen had never met hadn't arrived. Furthermore, it wasn't time to enter, so all Zhou Wen could do was stand outside the ancient city's gates and wait.
The northern gate of the ancient city was ancient and mysterious. The green bricks on the gate tower were mottled and worn, and many places had already decayed.
However, Zhou Wen had heard that the army had once bombarded Guide Ancient City with a large number of missiles. The missiles had bombarded the city for more than ten minutes, but not a single tile had shattered from the seemingly decaying ancient city tower.
The plaque above the city gate was engraved with the words "Guide City." It was ancient and bold, as though it had a thousand-year-old history lingering in it.
Zhou Wen's gaze finally landed on a strange pattern behind the signboard.
The pattern looked like a small hand-shaped dent left by a baby's palm on a brick, but within the dent, there was a carving that looked like a garlic or onion.
Guide Ancient City naturally didn't have such a pattern in the past. It was said that after the dimensional storms, the strange pattern appeared behind the door plaque. However, no one knew what it meant, nor did they know who had carved it.
As Zhou Wen was sizing up the pattern, he suddenly felt his phone vibrate in his pocket.
Zhou Wen imagined that it was Yu Qiubai or Li Xuan looking for him, but when he reached out to grab the phone in his pocket, he was taken aback.
This was because the phone in his pocket wasn't the ordinary phone he usually used, but the mysterious phone. The mysterious phone didn't have the function to accept calls, nor had it ever vibrated. Why was it suddenly like this?
Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Zhou Wen took out his phone from his pocket and saw that the screen had automatically lit up. A camera icon was flashing.
Why haven't I seen this camera program before? What's the use of this? Is it for me to take a selfie? Zhou Wen was puzzled as he tapped on the camera icon.
Just like an ordinary phone, the phone entered camera mode. However, it wasn't Zhou Wen who was taking pictures, but the rear camera.
Thankfully, photography wasn't prohibited in the ancient city. The soldiers on guard didn't stop Zhou Wen when they saw him take a picture with his phone.
Zhou Wen raised his phone and aimed it at the plants beside him, hoping to see what the camera function was for.
However, Zhou Wen soon realized that the camera function seemed to be broken. There was no way to press the shutter to take pictures.
Zhou Wen tapped the phone screen with his finger, but the phone continued taking pictures without any reaction.
What the hell is this? Zhou Wen raised his phone and waved it around. When the tiny palm symbol on the city gate appeared on the camera, he heard a beep as the phone reacted.
Zhou Wen was alarmed as he took a careful look and realized that a tiny green frame had appeared on the screen. It had locked onto the strange palm symbol on the city gate.
After three consecutive beeps, the tiny palm symbol enlarged on the screen. The ancient city behind it gradually turned blurry as a line of words appeared beneath it: "Loading …"
Could it be … Zhou Wen looked at the screen that maintained the loading mode as a thought flashed through his mind. This thought gave him a fright as he found it unbelievable.
However, it didn't take long for the phone to prove his guess. After the loading was completed, the tiny palm symbol turned into an icon that appeared on the phone's home screen. It stopped beside the Ant Nest icon and beneath it were the words "Ancient Imperial City."
It really became a game dungeon? Zhou Wen was pleasantly surprised as he held back his excitement and tapped on the Ancient Imperial City icon.
Indeed, the phone screen turned into the game loading screen that Zhou Wen was familiar with. Moments later, the game screen changed to Guide Ancient City's north gate. Unlike reality, the north gate's door was already open.
Zhou Wen secretly dripped a drop of blood on the phone's screen and transformed into the blood-colored avatar in-game before walking straight into the city.
There were ancient stone streets and ancient wooden buildings that exuded an ancient charm. Although Zhou Wen had never entered Guide Ancient City before, he had seen videos of the ancient city on the Internet. It was identical to what he was seeing now.
Before Zhou Wen could continue comparing, a skeleton with a bone club in hand and tattered clothes on its body appeared on the stone street. It ran towards the blood-colored avatar.
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