Chapter 586, Polluted Zone 6 (Part 10)

There was a pile of overturned medical kits on the left side of the tent entrance.

The bandages scattered from the corners of the box resembled white paths, winding their way in the same direction, pointing precisely towards the rest area.

Jiang Mu squatted down and gently pried open an overturned medicine box with his fingers, revealing the sand underneath.

The marks underneath form a clear drag path.

“The box has been moved by someone,” Jiang Mu said.

"Is Xie Tu implying that they went to the rest area?"

Xia Mingang walked over and looked at it, and said strangely, "We came from the rest area and didn't see any trace of people along the way."

Reflecting on their own experience, they realized they might have been dragged into something else entirely.

Jiang Mu stood up, packed some external injury medication into his backpack, and turned to look at Yun Zhao, "Should we find someone first or go to the outskirts to confirm the coordinates?"

It is certain that the person went missing near the camp, but how to open the passage is currently unknown.

You should first find out the location, otherwise you won't know where to go next.

Yun Zhao naturally understood this. After a few seconds of silence, he said, "Let's go to the edge of the area first and see if we can find a way to other areas from there."

Xie Tu is very strong in combat and also very intelligent; she should trust him.

Fu Mo was the same; she also received psychological counseling before setting off.

The only thing to worry about are the fourteen sentries.

Are they alone? Have they encountered any danger?

Yun Zhao pondered this, but couldn't help asking the little bluebird in his heart: "Can you sense the location of the fire and wind?"

She and Xie Tu were spiritually connected, establishing a spiritual link between them.

But once you enter here, that connection becomes extremely weak.

The red-eyed creature had the ability to suppress her mental power, and Yun Zhao suspected that it was the creature responsible.

The little bluebird replied to her with some confusion: "I can't sense it."

The spiritual thread stretched out, but nothing could be captured.

The entire Gobi Desert became deathly silent, devoid of any sign of life.

After Jiang Mu and Xia Mingang finished looting the supplies in the tent, they marked the scattered boxes, indicating that they had gone to the edge of the area.

After doing all this, the three of them walked outside.

"Luckily, the car is still here."

Xia Mingang violently kicked open the fence surrounding the vehicle, walked to the parking area, opened the driver's door of the armored vehicle, and confirmed that the key was still in the car.

Which way do we go?

"Whatever." Jiang Mu got into the back seat, leaned against the weapon rack, and closed his eyes to rest.

Yun Zhao sat opposite him.

She took out her notebook from her bag and, using the Gobi Desert as an anchor point, drew the initial outline of the map.

Hmm, it looks a bit abstract.

She didn't care much, turned the page, and wrote another six on it, representing the six gatekeepers.

Although it's just her personal guess, it's probably pretty close to the truth.

My impression of Zone 6 is that it was very large, and her former living area only occupied a very small part of it.

Yun Zhao thought for a moment, then spoke up, "If there really are six gatekeepers, I probably already know two of them."

The words fell.

Jiang Mu suddenly opened her eyes, and Xia Mingang abruptly turned his head, both of them staring at her.

The subtext is: How did you know there were two when everyone was together?

Yun Zhao understood.

She organized her thoughts and described the eye she had seen.

"This isn't the first time I've seen it..."

Yun Zhao paused for a moment, "I also saw it once when I was a child. I was too young then, so my memory is a bit vague. It seemed to have the ability to suppress mental power..."

"etc!"

Xia Mingang realized what she meant and interrupted her, "You said you saw the gatekeeper when you were a child? But this is a contaminated area, how could you have seen it?"

Yun Zhao glanced at him casually and replied, "I lived here for six years when I was a child."

These words exploded like a bomb in the train carriage.

Jiang Mu accidentally knocked over the snack box next to his seat, scattering the snacks all over the floor.

He casually bent down to pick it up.

With a clatter, the car keys in Xia Mingang's hand fell into the gap of the dashboard, and he quickly pulled out a dagger to retrieve them.

They were not on the same base, and neither of them knew anything about Yun Zhao's past.

Especially Xia Mingang.

He had only seen publicly available information and knew that Yun Zhao had moved to the Dawn Base last year and was then tested as an S-level, but he knew nothing else.

Living in a contaminated area?

She spoke of something that was clearly terrifying in a nonchalant tone.

It was as if the odd ones weren't her, but the two of them!

"Do you know how to get out?" Jiang Mu asked.

He straightened up, carrying two bags of potato chips, and met the little bluebird's gaze again.

The little guy stared at them with a look of disdain.

The meaning is obvious.

If they dare to look at the main body with strange eyes, it won't hesitate to teach them a lesson.

Yun Zhao put away her notebook, placed her backpack on her lap, and hugged it. "I don't remember."

"So you feel like it's that eye staring at you?" Jiang Mu threw the potato chips back into the box and asked again.

Yun Zhao hummed in agreement. “But it shouldn’t be the master of this Gobi Desert. I’m more inclined to think that this place is like a no-man’s-land, where anyone can come in. Otherwise, there’s no way to explain the anomalies that Xia Mingang encountered.”

Xia Mingang finally dug out the key.

He hadn't recovered from the shock when Jiang Mu urged him to start the vehicle.

“Merging contaminated areas means either annexation or a clear separation,” Yun Zhao explained. “It’s impossible for it to allow other gatekeepers to open up passageways in its territory.”

Xia Mingang did not encounter Fu Yu and Xie Tu, or any other Sentinels, in the Dark Illusion.

This shows that everyone encountered different situations.

Otherwise, with the shadowy figure present, the others should have returned here much sooner.

"But there's one thing I don't understand."

As Xia Mingang drove, he asked, "How do they manage to live together peacefully?"

Six goalkeepers? That's unheard of.

The vehicle slowly drove away from the camp and headed into the distance.

Yun Zhao gazed at the flowing Gobi Desert scenery outside the car window, his fingertips unconsciously reaching for the box in his backpack. "Perhaps it's not about peaceful coexistence."

She paused for a second, then continued, "Instead, it is constrained by some higher being..."

It's practically unspoken that the source is here.

Jiang Mu instantly understood, and his expression changed immediately.

"Damn it! Look at the camp!" Xia Mingang seemed to have seen a horrifying scene through the rearview mirror and suddenly shouted.

Yun Zhao immediately opened the observation window and stuck his head out to look.

Suddenly, the campsite behind them disappeared.

It was neither buried by sandstorms nor swallowed by darkness.

Instead, it was as if it had been completely erased from the Gobi Desert by some invisible eraser.

The ground that was once covered with tents and fences is now just a flat expanse of sand, without even a tire track.

Xia Mingang slammed on the brakes, the tires screeching as they scraped across the gravel.

The three of them jumped out of the car and looked at the empty desert, their breathing unconsciously becoming softer.

“The camp is gone, and the other vehicles and markings are gone too. What if they come back?” Xia Mingang’s voice was unusually devoid of its usual flippancy.

Jiang Mu sighed, "He won't be coming back."

The camp appears to have been waiting for them to leave ever since it was discovered.

Xia Mingang was lucky to encounter the shadowy figure and escaped a disaster. This also made Jiang Mu realize that the reason why the love interest hadn't attacked him was because they hadn't found an opportunity.

They were just incidental; the person the gatekeeper really wanted to keep was... Yun Zhao!

Jiang Mu turned to look at the figure gazing at the Gobi Desert. "You still haven't told me who the other gatekeeper is?"