The concentration of arms workshops in the south of Mexico City is a large area of overcrowded shantytowns with intertwined lanes. At its peak, every household had privately dug basements with automated lathes and precision casting equipment installed inside.
From industrial design, raw material supply to modular production to global distribution, the entire industrial chain is extremely mature. Hundreds of local gangs are entrenched here, forming an arms chamber of commerce to coordinate with the outside world. The number of cargo ships they control was once comparable to that of SoftBank.
However, at this moment, the prosperity of the past was gone, leaving only continuous ruins and countless corpses buried among the ruins.
Somewhere in the center of the shanty town, a low two-story building was torn down, and the first floor floor was also lifted, exposing a mysterious hole in the basement. A ramp was temporarily repaired from the hole, and an open space was cleared around the ramp. Large lighting equipment illuminates the entrance of the cave as bright as day.
Agents from the Bureau of Order and densely packed armed drones blocked the surrounding area. Patrol boats' warning lights flashed, several heavy-duty towing machinery had not yet been turned off, and their engines were rumbling.
"right here."
Standing on the top of the slope, Li Liang stared solemnly at the dark and deep entrance of the cave below.
In Ling's field of vision, the thin Ling roughly outlines the outline of the cave. It is a straight passage sloping downward, unfathomable and without traces of magic or Taoism.
Under K's previous questioning, Tao Chong revealed that the Creator of the Natural Sect's faith created a sanctuary in an invisible and intangible place called the Eternal Place, and that there are Eternal Places in both Beijing and Mexico City.
After hearing such a description, Li Liang originally thought that the Eternal Land was a space that was independent of the current timeline like the abyss, weapons base, and maintenance drone base in Zhongjing, but now it seems that the two are completely different.
After repelling the goblin, he went to the drone maintenance base. In Ling's vision, the space where the base was located was as hazy as a shadow, overlapping with the solid foundation and the pipes passing through it, and the passage in front of him was But nothing special.
Thinking of this, Li Liang glanced at K and House and found that they were staring at the entrance of the cave with nervous expressions.
One is a ruthless gang boss, and the other is a "world-renowned" "ghoul". They are both characters who are pessimistic about life and death. What can make them show such expressions...
Looking around, he also noticed that there were tow ropes, metal pipes, a large number of bullet casings scattered everywhere, and a dozen large barrels standing on one side. It was obvious that K and House had made many attempts before he arrived.
At this time, Cain raised his chin towards the entrance of the cave: "Why is this place so evil?"
K’s eyes were lowered as he recounted the strange experience in the morning.
"According to the clues we have received in the past few days, we found this place yesterday morning. The first person who entered was an enhanced semi-bionic commando team. They lost contact just ten minutes after entering. We waited for an hour, but there was still no news. , and another commando team was sent in."
"Same as the first commando team, contact was suddenly lost after more than ten minutes."
"Then came the third, fourth, and fifth teams, with nearly two hundred people in front and behind them, fully armed and experienced. As a result... they seemed to... disappear out of thin air."
"I mobilized the robots again, but the result was still the same, all of them lost contact."
"We tied the wire rope to an armed robot. It went more than a thousand meters in, and the wire rope suddenly straightened and started wrestling with the airship. Finally..."
"Broken?" Li Liang frowned.
"No," House said. "The winch retracted a complete wire rope and the robot disappeared."
Cain hesitated and said: "Did you not tie them tightly? Or did the robot unbuckle it by itself?"
"We thought so at the beginning, so the second time we found a longer, stronger alloy cable and welded it directly to the internal body of an armed robot. The result... was the same as the first time. More than a thousand meters, and then the winch easily retrieved an intact alloy rope."
House's emphasis fell on "intact", and Li Liang reacted instantly.
"Intact? You mean, the welding marks are also..."
"There are no welding marks, no drag deformation," K sighed. "The alloy cable looks like it was just produced."
"Where's the rope?"
moment.
Next to a heavy towing machine, Li Liang saw a dozen coils of metal rope piled up haphazardly. Some were thicker than the forearm, and some were glowing with jet black and light gold. This showed that K and House had tried it more than twice.
Looking through the ends of each roll of rope one by one, he found that most of them had heavy hooks, and they were all shiny with no traces of use. They looked like new.
"The commando team and the robot should have sent back action footage before they lost contact, right?"
"Um."
House was well prepared, holding up a tablet device with one hand and projecting a light curtain.
The first picture that appeared was the back of a reinforced semi-bionic commando, showing people equipped with video equipment in a queue, with a dark hole directly in front of them.
It was daytime and the surroundings were noisy.
The team began to move, gradually entering the darkness, until the figures in front disappeared.
The next moment, the screen went black and all the noise disappeared.
Li Liang's first reaction was that the photographer's equipment was broken. After listening carefully, he heard a slight breathing sound, indicating that the recording had not been interrupted.
The moment he stepped into the cave, the photographer seemed to have entered another world.
After a few seconds, the picture switched to night vision mode. It was very blurry at first, but with rapid refresh, it became as bright and clear as before in the blink of an eye.
The commandos had changed formation and were moving forward in groups of three.
The shaking picture showed a passage about four meters wide and two meters high. The walls and floor were uneven and looked like manual excavation.
The next ten minutes seemed extremely long. The passage remained unchanged. The commandos paused at a fixed frequency, observed, and continued to move forward.
When the duration in the upper right corner of the screen reached 00:10:00, Li Liang held his breath.
At 00:10:25, the entire commando team suddenly stopped.
At 00:10:35, all team members raised their guns and aimed in the air at the same time.
00:10:36, time freezes and the image is interrupted.
"Gone?" Cain couldn't believe it.
House nodded and opened the second video.
The second commando team stayed near the cave entrance for nearly three minutes, moving more cautiously.
However, at nineteen minutes and twenty-seven seconds, they once again raised their guns at the same time and aimed them in the air. The video was interrupted after one second.
Li Liang said softly: "It seems to be in the same position."
House said nothing and continued playing.
The images transmitted back by the third commando team were similar, except that the speed was slower, and the time of loss of contact was postponed. The fourth commando team obviously received some kind of order and advanced at a charge-like speed, and lost contact after five and a half minutes. .
It wasn't until the fifth commando team entered that things changed.
When the screen lit up, an extremely frightened voice came out: "How is that possible!"
Then, all the commandos ran forward, and after a second, the video was interrupted.
"What happened?" Cain looked confused.
Before losing contact, the passage in the picture was clearly the same as before, with no abnormalities.
House said in a low voice: "My order to this commando team is to exit immediately after entering."
"Then why are they still moving forward..." Cain was suddenly stunned.
"They are not moving forward, but running back," Li Liang stared at the frozen scene and murmured: "The entrance has disappeared."
