Outside the Crescent Federal Mountain City, the temporary command center.
Ellie's temper has been very bad recently. Even the analysts who have been with her for several years have been scolded and cried for the smallest things.
Now everyone in the temporary command center knows that there is a big shot from the 502 headquarters who has a very weird temper. As long as you don't deal with it at all, she can tell you why the flowers are so red.
Ellie, who had just lost her temper, was sitting at a table. Her face was a little flushed. It was obvious that her anger had not subsided. Several analysts in the distance were immersed in their computers and did not even have the courage to look at Ellie.
In fact, everyone knows that Team Leader Ai is under great pressure because of the disappearance of the King of War.
She has received several calls from the 502 headquarters in a row, mostly asking her why she sent the War King alone to carry out such a dangerous mission.
Now Ellie is also mute and eats Coptis chinensis, unable to express her suffering.
She just arranged for Zhan Jingyi and Zhulong to carry out an ordinary reinforcement mission, and did not assign him any tasks that must be completed, but the plan never changed quickly.
She never imagined how a simple reinforcement mission would turn into such a result.
It has been almost ten days since Zhan Jingyi disappeared, and up to now, there is still no one alive or dead body.
Suppose he is dead but his body cannot be found.
If he was still alive, why hadn't he contacted her after almost ten days?
Or is he trapped somewhere?
Now Ellie felt like a bug caught in a spider's web, unable to move.
"Jingle Bell"……
A call came from the satellite phone on the table, but Ellie didn't even look at it. It was probably another call from someone from the 502 Research Group.
In the past few days, she had answered Li Wanting's consultation phone calls three times.
From the beginning you were reassured, but now you don't dare to answer the phone because she doesn't know how to reply after picking up the phone.
It can be seen that as Zhan Jingyi's disappearance lasted longer, she became less confident in the assumption that Zhan Jingyi was still alive.
"Clang"......
The door to the conference room was knocked open, and Zhulong staggered in.
Ai Li was distracted and was startled by Zhulong's move. Her brows jumped, and the suppressed anger surged into her heart. It was a good choice to find someone to vent her anger to.
Seeing that Aili's eyes seemed to be sparking, Zhulong shrank his head subconsciously, quickly raised the phone in his hand, and shouted loudly: "War King's Phone."
"coax"……
Zhulong's words made everyone in the conference room feel like they were exploding. For a moment, the entire conference room seemed to have turned into a vegetable market, and the endless chatter made the entire conference room noisy and uneasy.
"Quiet!"……
At this time, a loud roar was like a thunderous thunder, making everyone's ears buzz, but the noisy and chaotic scene became surprisingly quiet.
After grabbing the phone from Zhulong, Ai Li took the phone in her hand, calmed down her emotions, and said in her always cold voice: "King of War, is it you? I am Ai Ai, reporting on your situation."
…
Zhan Jingyi stood at the bar on the first floor. Because the town is located deep in the mountains, there is almost no mobile phone signal, so external communication basically relies on landline phones.
Picking up the phone, Zhan Jingyi's first call was of course the leader's. But the strange thing was that the call was successful, but there was only a blind tone on the phone. The other party didn't seem to be near the satellite phone, and no one answered the phone.
Although it feels a bit strange, thinking that the leader is responsible for so much work, there must be a lot of things, and he is probably in a meeting.
After picking up the unanswered calls, Zhan Jingyi stood at the bar and thought for a moment, then dialed Zhulong's satellite phone.
"Hey, who's there?"
"Zhulong, I am the King of War..."
"Boom!"
"Ouch..."
"War King, don't answer the phone, wait a moment..."
As soon as the call was connected, Zhan Jingyi had just said a word when he heard a loud noise from the other side, as if Zhulong fell from somewhere, and screamed, but he quickly said something to him, and then A sound of running was heard.
"Bangdang..."
Zhan Jingyi took the phone slightly away from his ear. Why is this Zhulong so irritable?
Why is there another sound of the door being knocked open over the phone? What is this unreliable Zhulong doing?
Soon, the other end of the phone seemed to be at a vegetable market. There were noisy and uneasy sounds inside, which made Zhan Jingyi deeply doubt whether Zhulong was playing tricks on him.
Just as Zhan Jingyi was considering whether to hang up the phone, he suddenly heard what seemed to be an angry roar from Ellie on the other end of the phone.
Zhan Jingyi quickly put his ear close to the phone and listened carefully to the voice on the other side, fearing that he would miss any information.
Sure enough, the next moment, a cold voice came from the phone: "War King, is it you? I am Ellie, reporting on your situation."
Zhan Jingyi breathed a sigh of relief. It was the voice of Team Leader Ai, who finally contacted the organization. As expected, the leader was more reliable than Zhulong.
"Team Leader Ai, it's me, I'm the King of War, everything is fine with me!"
"Where are you now? I'll send someone to pick you up right away."
Hearing the voice of the War King, Ellie breathed a huge sigh of relief. It was really great. She finally knew that he was okay and asked quickly.
Then, Ali seemed to hear Zhan Jingyi and another male voice asking something on the other end of the phone.
Soon, Zhan Jingyi's voice came again: "I'm in a small town called Misty Ridge in Daoning City in the northwest of the Federation."
After finishing speaking, Zhan Jingyi suddenly noticed that there was silence on the other side. He put the phone farther away in confusion, then moved closer to himself, listening carefully to the voice on the phone, and he was a little suspicious of whether the phone was disconnected.
After a while, he vaguely heard what seemed to be discussed on the other side. Because he seemed to be covering the microphone, he could only vaguely hear, "Misty Ridge", "Curse", "Abandoned", "Paper Man", "Queen" "Words like that.
Hearing these words, Zhan Jingyi, who pricked up his ears to eavesdrop, was confused and didn't know what was going on.
Why did he just mention this place name? Ellie seemed to be facing a formidable enemy. What was there that he didn't know?
…
"War King..."
"Do you still remember that I told you about the top ten Jedi of the Crescent Federation?"
Ellie's voice came over the phone, and when she heard her mention the top ten Jedi in the Federation, Zhan Jingyi immediately thought of the words Ellie had said to him.
"In the past fifteen years, due to the advent of the different-dimensional world, some of the ferocious beasts and strange things that came from the different-dimensional world are very powerful. They have entrenched themselves in some places in the federation, resulting in some regional strange events. This kind of The area is called the Ten Jedi.”
"The Misty Ridge you are currently in is one of them. People from the 502 Institute once sent people to investigate. It was found that the harm here is not great, and they will not take the initiative to pollute or harm the humans in it. Instead, humans and the weird things in it will We can get along peacefully, but in order not to trigger more serious consequences, the federal government has not carried out a clean-up."
"The Ten Jedi are also known as the Abandoned Cursed Place in Federation records."
"And the weirdness in the Misty Ridge is a very strange creature, somewhat similar to the paper man made by the Federation for deceased relatives. The Misty Ridge area where this weird paper man is located is called the paper man world."
"According to the early investigation report, after entering the paperman world in Misty Ridge, the flesh and blood will turn into paper after more than 20 days, and eventually become a member of the paperman world."
"The strangest thing is that although the town of Misty Ridge is located on the edge of the Paperman World, the residents of the town have not been homogenized. The federation suspects that the paperman world did this intentionally, perhaps because of some people released by the Crescent Federation. Kindness.”
"According to previous investigations, the first thing that followed the world of another dimension was a black sedan chair."
"No one knows what is inside the black sedan. The first three waves of investigators were sent into the world of Paperman, but only one person from the third wave came out alive. He mentioned the words "Paperman Queen", but that person will Shortly after the investigation report was handed in..."
"This investigator turned into a paper man in the hospital without any signs. Even though Mr. Li and many professors of the research team conducted in-depth research, there was no result. They only said that this is a thing that does not exist in the Crescent Federation. A strange energy."
"I doubt that this kind of power, even in a different dimension world, is a very strange and powerful force."
"It is recommended that you don't delay too much, leave Misty Ridge as soon as possible, and walk toward the southwest. I will arrange for someone to wait for you there."
"Misty Ridge is very dangerous, don't delay!"
Aili's series of words gave him too much information in one breath. In the words, Zhan Jingyi felt Ai's care and love for him.
He knew that everything Ellie said was for his own good, lest he get involved in his excitement and affect his own life.
But what Ellie didn't know was that Zhan Jingyi had a feeling that his arrival was not accidental.
It was as if there was an invisible force guiding him to come here, to Misty Ridge.
For him, since fate has chosen him, how can he live up to fate's choice?
Let him see whether fate controls him or he controls destiny!
