Gaias Stoll Underground City, human advance army camp, codenamed "Laser".
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At the entrance of the fortress, the outer hatch of the positive pressure airlock slowly opened. The air in the cabin quickly condensed at a low temperature of minus 170 degrees Celsius, turning into white mist flowing close to the ground.
A tactical team hurriedly entered the airlock. They were fully armed, a group of seven people, wearing dark red tactical armor, with a skull pattern spray-painted on the face of the honeycomb helmet.
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The outer cabin door is closed and the decontamination system starts to work. As the water mist rises, the temperature and air pressure inside the cabin gradually rise.
Flashing holographic text floated in mid-air:
"Authentication in progress"
"Verification passed"
"The Tactical Control Detachment of the 4th Company of the Gaius Stoli Advance Force Reconnaissance Battalion"
"Welcome back to the nest."
The inner cabin door quietly opened, and the lights in the passage were bright. Chuck, the leader of the "Forward Observation Team", had been waiting for a long time. He quickly came up to greet us and said anxiously: "Eagle Team, how are you?"
Wu Ying, the squad leader nicknamed "Eagle", took off his helmet stained with water drops and exhaled a breath of cold air.
"The tunnel has been cleared, and the company commander is testing the elevator there. It should be fine."
"Great," Chuck's expression relaxed, "I just received news from the base camp. Ship No. 1 will arrive at the Rift Camp in fifteen minutes at most."
Wu Ying was stunned for a moment: "So fast?"
"The anti-gravity engine carried by that landing ship is much more advanced than our ship," Chuck shrugged, turning to greet the other team members, "I've prepared hot chocolate for you, come in and warm up."
"Damn it, this is a hell of a place." A team member took off his armor and rubbed his hands. "I heard that the new armor developed by the temple has an improved temperature control system. When can we change it?"
The teammate on the side snorted: "The Outland Army has changed it a long time ago. Not only the temperature control, but the anti-gravity system is also more sensitive."
Noticing Wu Ying's frown, the two quickly shut their mouths.
After changing into cabin clothes, the group entered the command hall.
The hall covers an area of less than 100 square meters, but dozens of communications, technical and logistics personnel are crowded here to work. Materials and equipment are piled everywhere on the ground, and holographic images of large and small sizes are intertwined.
Looking around, Wu Ying wondered: "Chuck, didn't the company commander ask you to tidy up?"
"The base camp said that Father God might have to stay in the camp for a few days, so we moved everything here and freed up the storage cabin."
After passing through the crowded work area, the two came to the console in the corner of the hall.
A three-dimensional holographic sand table is displayed on the table. In wireframe mode, the topographic structure of the Gaias Stoll Underground City is clearly visible. The upper part is rugged, and a building complex of amazing scale can be vaguely seen, while the lower part is dense. The tunnel network, several of which are still extending rapidly, like wriggling earthworms, continues to drill deeper.
Taking the hot drink from Chuck, Wu Ying asked casually: "Have they made any progress, Big B?"
"Not yet, but..." Chuck reached out and touched the bottom of the sand table, and the end of a certain tunnel immediately zoomed in, showing more than a dozen slowly moving humanoid silhouettes. "Team B still feels that this tunnel is most likely to lead to 'eternity. "The Great Jar', in addition to the various traces left by the goblins, this tunnel has the most larval jars."
"I hope they can find the jar before Father God arrives," Wu Ying shook his head.
"Who would have thought that Father God would come to the Spiritual Core Mine in person..." Chuck suddenly lowered his voice, "Guess who is the commander of the voyage fleet?"
"Is it Li Sen?"
"Yes, hum, the company commander is right, Robben sent his most obedient dog," Chuck said with disdain.
"Okay, just say a few words," Wu Ying glanced at the work area, "Has the base camp said who is accompanying Father God?"
"Well, there is General Cain, the seventh princess of the Zhuos family, and Jin Ji."
"Golden Edition?"
"Li Anqiao's confidant serves as the commander of the Guards Reorganization Division."
"It was him... I remember he also showed up at the pep rally at the end of last year."
"Yes, that's him. This guy is a bit interesting..."
Chakra took a chair and sat down, preparing to reveal some "secrets" to his old friend.
Suddenly, Wu Ying straightened up and said hurriedly: "There is a situation."
On the console, the end of the tunnel that Chuck had just enlarged was flashing. At the same time, a correspondent's voice came from the work area: "Second Team Communications!"
The two looked at each other and said in unison: "Come in!"
The sand table then switched from wireframe mode to holographic reality. More than a dozen fully armed commandos stood in front of a dark hole, and team leader BQ was adjusting the scanner on his shoulder.
The communication channel seemed to be subject to some kind of interference, and the voice was a little noisy: "Old Nest... we... found... a geological cavity."
Chuck's face was full of excitement, he held the console with both hands and shouted: "I am the lair..."
Before he finished speaking, another sound appeared in the communication channel, like rolling thunder in the distance, or like a person's voice that had been slowed down countless times, dull and muffled.
"Who, who accessed the channel?" Chuck turned around and asked.
There was silence in the work area. The correspondents looked at each other. Someone said blankly: "The system does not show that other people are connected."
At this time, bq's voice sounded again on the communication channel: "Confirm the order, our team is ready to enter."
"No," Wu Ying's expression changed, "Big B, stay where you are!"
However, bq in the holographic scene showed no reaction. He gestured to the team members behind him, raised his gun, and stepped into the cave entrance.
The next moment, all the equipment inside the fortress shut down at the same time, and the command hall instantly fell into darkness.
What's even more strange is that there is no sound in the darkness. Everyone, including Chuck and Wu Ying, seems to have evaporated on the spot, or has never existed.
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Rift Camp.
The sudden earthquake and magnetic field fluctuations lasted for ten minutes and then died down. The camp never encountered any attack. Except for Jung and Cain who were a little disappointed, everyone else breathed a sigh of relief.
However, the "old nest" of the underground city camp is still out of contact. Not only that, the fourth company stationed two kilometers below the rift and responsible for the response can't be contacted.
Li Liang vaguely felt something was wrong. Judging from Tlipoca's reaction to brewing magic in advance, what happened just now was definitely not a natural phenomenon.
After changing into his extravehicular suit, he came to the back of the fortress and found that the entrance to the dungeon had been changed beyond recognition.
The crack that was originally two meters wide and four to five meters long has now turned into a canyon hundreds of meters wide and incalculable in length. The bottom of the valley is unfathomable, as if it goes straight to the center of the earth. The gantry equipped with lifting equipment fell into darkness, completely disappear.
For a moment, Tripoka slowly floated down, its body like a giant starfish lingering with the magical light that had not yet dissipated.
Inside the fully enclosed helmet, Li Liang heard the voice of the Chaos Holy Priest vibrating the air:
"I detected a powerful psychic weapon..."
