Night fell, and the forest was silent.
A team of more than a thousand people was scattered around in an orderly manner, forming an iron bucket-like defensive formation.
"Squeak squeak …"
Intermittent static came from the walkie-talkie.
"Officer Giles, we lost contact with the sixth squad."
The member in charge of communications reported to Giles who was right in front of him.
"Determined dead, the numbers of the other squads remain unchanged."
Giles stared at a dark place in the forest, his tone cold. His words determined the fact that the missing sixth squad was all dead.
The reporter's eyes trembled. He didn't even ask the usual questions and just made a judgment without hesitation?
So, even if there were survivors in the sixth squad, according to the judgment of the person in charge, the team wouldn't specifically send people to search for reinforcements.
Was this a disguised form of abandonment?
"Understood."
The reporter's thoughts paused for a moment, then he quickly adjusted his mentality and carried out his duty.
Giles turned back to look at the correspondent, and then walked towards a team not far away.
Everyone in the team stayed in their designated positions without moving. No light sources were lit, and no whispers were heard.
They weren't here to camp, and they knew the dangers of the forest very well.
Tonight, they had already heard the screams no less than fifty times.
However, in the few days since they entered the sea of trees, the number of missing teammates who had been left behind had exceeded a hundred.
Under a giant tree, the naked Jim Carrey sat cross-legged at the bottom of the tree, holding a pen and writing in a book.
Five relatively strong telekinesis ability users surrounded him, responsible for his safety.
"Rolling sharp grass balls? Even a telekinesis ability user's' Firm 'can't defend against them. Due to the limitations of the terrain, if we use firearms carelessly, the noise it causes may attract more troublesome existences. "
"A butterfly life form with bat wings. Basically can't be seen during the day, and it only appears at night. No doubt it's a nocturnal creature. Its attack method is a slender tail up to three meters long, with a blood-sucking effect. Once stabbed, all the blood will be sucked away in five seconds."
"It's a strange tree that can split open the trunk and extend twenty vines full of hooks. What's strange is that when the vines attack, they'll act like man-eating plants. They'll use different vines to form a seamless net and seal their prey."
"What's more troublesome is that the appearance of these strange trees is not uniform. Based on the current information, it is very likely that they have the same characteristics as the parasitic crabs."
"If we can't find a way to determine the identity of the strange trees in a short period of time, we have to be careful of every tree before we cross this sea of trees."
Jin Kairui's pen suddenly stopped and he let out a long sigh.
"If something hadn't happened to the 'guides', we wouldn't have deviated so far from our planned itinerary, and we probably wouldn't have lost so many people. Right now, intelligence is too scarce. Almost every piece of intelligence we collect is paid with blood."
"Although it's very uncomfortable, we still have to rely on the ability of the 'guide' when we return, so we don't even have the right to criticize or be angry."
Beside him, the five bodyguards kept their eyes fixed on the direction they were in charge of. They were already used to Jin Kairui's mumbling when he was taking notes.
At this moment, they noticed that the person in charge, Giles, was walking in their direction. All of them turned their gazes toward him.
When Giles was not far away from them, they all saluted him.
As one of the people in charge of the Ferry Bureau, one of the survivors of the Darkness Continent, the head captain of this operation, and the strongest expert in the team, his subordinates would salute him from the bottom of their hearts no matter where he went.
This was an action that Giles felt was meaningless. Even though he had verbally said that there was no need to do this, the salutes still existed.
Giles came before Jin Kairui.
Due to his tall and burly build, his footsteps sounded a little heavy when he wasn't deliberately suppressing them. This attracted Jin Kairui's attention.
Jim Carrey raised his head to look at Giles, who had come before him, and asked, "Is it time?"
Giles shook his head. "There are only five minutes left. You're not a telekinesis user, so your body is limited. So, let me remind you that you should rest well during this rare time."
"Understood, I'll adjust as soon as possible," Jin Kairui said seriously.
"I hope so."
Giles turned and left.
Jin Kairui looked at Giles's back and then lowered his head to look at his notebook.
"He specially came here just for such a small matter? No, maybe in his eyes, this isn't a small matter. "
That was true. Although they hadn't interacted for a long time, he could somewhat see Captain Giles's style of doing things — to take care of all aspects and not allow any omissions …
"Maybe it's a little extreme, but it's also because of this that the team this time is so comprehensive."
Five minutes passed, and the Ferry Bureau's team continued forward.
Danger was everywhere in the forest, especially at night. It could be said that it was the most dangerous time of the day.
Because of this, after the change in route, the Ferry Bureau's team decided to travel at night and rest during the day.
After all, this place wasn't the edge of the coastline, and the Ferry Bureau's team didn't have an absolutely safe place to rest like the fourth-dimensional apartments.
Originally, after the Ferry Bureau's team landed on the coastline, they only needed to travel 400 kilometers to reach the ancient maze city.
However, due to the change in route, the team's landing point changed, so the original 400 kilometers became more than 1,000 kilometers.
Because of this, the team had to spend twice as much time on the journey.
Not only that, but the change in route also increased the danger by several times, which was why the team was losing members.
After 20 days, the Ferry Bureau's team lost 150 combat members and 68 logistics members, but they finally reached the outer circle of the ancient maze city.
"Finally … I'm here again."
Giles looked up at the high wall outside the maze city, his eyes shining.
"This time, I must get Vanilla, definitely!"
A silent scream sounded in his mind, but it wasn't heard by his teammates.
Everyone in the Ferry Bureau's team looked at the unknown metal wall in front of them with a grave expression.
"The height should be more than 60 meters, right?" someone muttered softly.
"This is unbelievable. Was this building really built by ancient humans?"
Once they thought of the tens of thousands of such high walls in the ancient maze city, they couldn't help but feel shocked.
What method did ancient humans use to build such a majestic maze city in the dangerous environment of the Darkness Continent?
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