Chapter 138 Survey

"In which scenario do you think the search team from the Salt Lake refugee camp will enter?"

After resting enough, Yun Zhao got up and tugged at Xie Tu's backpack strap, signaling the man to follow her.

Xie Tu was always particularly obedient to her.

In the two previous contaminated areas, he was the one holding onto her backpack strap.

Now it's the other way around.

He didn't feel uncomfortable at all.

It seems that as long as two people are together, any situation is acceptable.

Yun Zhao randomly chose a direction and headed west.

That's the area that Tao Haohao is in charge of.

Upon closer inspection, the boundary between the clear Jing River and the muddy Wei River can be clearly seen at one's feet.

The light and shadow scenes outside the dark zone, whether bright or dim.

The still world before my eyes is like a four-dimensional painting; one only needs to take a step to enter it.

There are five different scenes on the west side.

An empty living room, a dilapidated street in the early morning, and a lakeside park with blue skies and white clouds.

The other two scenes include a large office filled with people.

Those people had their backs to them, their phantom images frozen in time, their raised hands suspended in mid-air.

The other scene is very small.

It looked like a classroom window, through which you could clearly see figures in school uniforms frozen in mid-run on the playground outside.

The more Tao Haohao looked, the more horrified he felt.

His brain wasn't working properly, so he simply sat cross-legged in the dark and took out a pen and notebook from his backpack to record everything.

Xie Tu's gaze swept over these scenes one by one. "The search team from Subei has never entered the No. 249 contaminated area. According to common sense, to be on the safe side, they might choose to enter an uninhabited area."

Yun Zhao pointed to the empty living room: "How can you prove that there is no one in an empty scene?"

The image is still.

Based on Zero Team's experience, it can be inferred that once a person enters, the world within the scene will be immediately activated.

In areas not visible on screen, who can be sure there are no people or monsters inside?

For example, if you choose to enter the living room, the world will be activated, and an unknown creature might immediately emerge from the bedroom.

"I don't know. When people are in a state of extreme panic, their brains become confused, making it impossible for them to think and analyze problems clearly."

Xie Tu slowed his pace and followed her, arriving at the scene in the lakeside park. "We cannot simulate their thinking to arrive at the correct answer."

Team Zero had no idea who the search team at the Salt Lake refugee camp was.

It's unclear what choice they will make.

The search team might risk entering inhabited areas in order to get the key and get out.

It's also possible that, to be on the safe side, one would choose a deserted world.

There are too many uncertainties involved.

Xie Tu knew she had agreed to help the two children find their father, but this couldn't be rushed; whether they survived depended on themselves.

The four team members quickly recorded all the scenes, and then everyone gathered in the center of the field.

The supplies they brought up are all there, including ammunition, plenty of food, and daily necessities.

In the dark void, dense dark matter permeated the air.

These dark substances will invade the sentinel's mental realm. Anyone else would not be able to stay here for long and would choose a scene to enter as soon as possible.

But what can you do when there's an S-rank guide in Team Zero?

For them, this dark void was actually very safe.

With ample food, they had enough time to investigate all the scenarios before making a final decision.

The bluish-green fluorescence danced wildly in the darkness.

In the pitch-black arena, the small blue bird emitted a glow, making the guide's location immediately apparent.

She was pulling the captain along as they walked this way.

Everyone turned on their flashlights, placed them on the ammunition boxes as lights, and sat together.

As a logistics staff member, Song Liang quickly organized the notes that his teammates had recorded.

"There are a total of 24 scenes in all four directions, including two fragmented and chaotic areas, six uninhabited areas, and sixteen areas with the phantom of 'people'..."

Song Liang spread out the scenes that everyone had recorded on the ground.

He continued, "In addition, apart from the two places where the debris piled up, the other fourteen places were in the daytime, five places were at night, and two places are uncertain."

The only uncertainty is the hospital corridor behind me.

The road stretched as far as the eye could see, with wards on both sides. The LED panel lights overhead were so bright that it was impossible to tell whether it was day or night.

"Twenty-four scenes?"

Yun Zhao picked up her military overcoat and placed it on the ground; the ground felt like a lawn when she stepped on it.

It was pitch black.

Thin strands of black thread floated up from the ground, but were blocked outside the barrier.

She sat on her military overcoat and spoke softly, "When you think of this number, what comes to mind?"

"time!"

The rabbit and Duan Xi spoke in unison.

There are twenty-four hours in a day.

Rabbit didn't have time to argue with Duan Xi right now. As if discovering a new continent, she excitedly said, "Could those twenty-four scenes represent different time periods?"

Xie Tu picked up Duan Xi's record sheet and flipped through it. "Very likely."

"But what does time represent?" Yun Zhao also stepped forward to examine it.

Seeing her approach, Xie Tu held up the notebook in front of her. "I don't know. Before the scene is activated, these are all our guesses."

The two were now extremely close together.

The light was poor in the darkness, and the beam of the flashlight was blocked by half of the man's body.

Yun Zhao had to be very close to see him clearly, almost leaning half his body against him.

This wasn't the first time the two had been this close.

But this time, Xie Tu's heart suddenly raced.

Once the barrier was removed, those damned heightened senses returned.

He could clearly hear her breathing and smell the fresh, tranquil scent emanating from her, like the first snow.

An answer was about to emerge from the depths of my heart.

"Captain, shall we go and check again to confirm the time?" Rabbit asked impatiently, pulling out his notebook.

Xie Tu forced himself to pull his thoughts back and try to ignore the person who was getting closer.

"No rush. The time it gets dark varies with the seasons, so it's hard to guess the exact time based on a still image."

The senses of reality pull one back into the task.

Xie Tu pondered, "To figure out the order of the twenty-four scenes, perhaps the only way is to choose one scene to enter."

If the scenes are indeed sorted by time, there must be some kind of pattern between them.

The question is, where is the goalkeeper?

Duan Xi was puzzled. "Since the time periods are all separate, then in which scene will it stay?"

No one can answer this question.

After all, they haven't actually entered the contaminated area yet.

Yun Zhao stared at the six scenes recorded by Duan Xi, pondered for a moment, and said, "Is it possible that the flow of time is different in all 24 scenes?"

24 hours.

There is a time difference between each hour, once the scene is activated.

Perhaps in a static world, time flies by, and a few minutes feel like several hours.

In another scenario, time stretches out indefinitely, making each second feel exceptionally long.