Jiang Cheng looked at the small, house-shaped eyeball with great care. He even reached out to feel it and felt that it was wet when he touched it, probably some kind of sticky substance that keeps it moist.
One very strange thing is that the eyes of inanimate objects are different from those of living objects; they are not only limited to expression and activity, but also to sensation.
A fish that dies of thirst on the shore has eyes that are indistinguishable from its lifeless scales. As the window to the emotions of all living things, the eyes have always been the most mysterious thing.
Now, Jiangcheng feels devoid of any mystery; instead, it seems mundane and ordinary, like a piece of floating ice that can be seen everywhere, losing any sense of being worth exploring.
He looked at it for a while longer, and just as he was about to look away, he frowned the moment he turned his head away. A scene flashed through his mind, and he suddenly turned his head back to stare intently into the eyes of the axe-wielding man.
Where is the other half of the head?
"Boss, it's to the right of the dimension, quite far from here."
"Take me there."
"What, did you find something?" Just as Jiang Cheng was walking in another direction, Tali asked.
"I have a question, which may be a coincidence, but it can only be answered by finding the other half of the axe's head. Commander, please wait for me."
“Okay,” Tali nodded, then waved his hand and beckoned to the team leader beside him, “Take a team and go with Commander Jiang to ensure his safety!”
Jiang Cheng glanced at the dozens of soldiers who immediately followed behind him, said nothing, and quickly walked to the other side.
Before long, the small team arrived at the other side after the explosion, where half of a head, severed by phoenix feathers, lay across the ground. Jiang Cheng used both hands and feet to climb up with great effort, his goal clear: to walk straight to the axe-head's eye.
He was stunned for a moment, as if a huge rock had been thrown into the calm lake of his heart, causing ripples to spread.
From the start of the war, the invading creature, Axehead, was extremely eager to return to its lair. Even during the intense battles, it never forgot to gaze at the ice, with the same affection it would have for its homeland. Now, even in death, its eyes are fixed in that direction...
Jiang Cheng followed its gaze and looked down at the bottomless pit.
“There’s definitely something wrong there.” He said this as if to Gu Qingwan beside him, but also as if to himself.
In the final moments of life, a creature's instincts far outweigh its reason; the place where its gaze rests must be of great importance to it.
"Call for more reinforcements, prepare the robotic arm suspension, and notify Commander Tali to come over here. I want to see what's down there." Jiang Cheng's sharp eyes peered into the bottomless pit. It was pitch black below; nothing could be seen, and stones were thrown without a sound. It was like an abyss leading to hell, instilling indescribable fear.
After a while, Tali also came over. Jiang Cheng communicated with him about the situation, and at the same time, hundreds of soldiers came to reinforce, and some people were also sent from outside the dimension.
They immediately began setting up a mechanical cantilever next to the pit, using alloy ropes to lower the mech down, connecting it to the screen above, and probing what was below.
Meanwhile, researchers were operating drones, which flew downwards.
The drone was very fast, but it took a long time to reach the bottom. It was too dark, and the searchlights on top were too dim to see anything clearly.
Just as the drone was about to hit rock bottom, a group of high-ranking officials gathered around the screen, their eyes wide as they stared at the screen that had suddenly brightened, the blue light almost obscuring the drone's entire field of vision.
Then, for a moment, I couldn't see anything at all.
"Commander Jiang, we've lost signal and there's no response."
"Okay, at least we know there's something down there." Jiang Cheng's judgment was indeed correct, and it was almost exactly as he had expected. Trying to explore what was down there with a drone was a bit of wishful thinking.
He walked to the other side, taking Gu Qingwan with him to arrange for the mechs to go down and explore. With his back to the pit, he looked extremely serious, mingling with the busy soldiers.
Something no one could have predicted happened...
The drone seemed to have activated some button underneath, or perhaps it had awakened a monster. More and more blue lights appeared in the crater... It looked like controlled nuclear fusion energy surging upwards like a tide in a mech's cockpit. In the dim dimension, these lights were so conspicuous.
The first soldier to discover the pit stared in astonishment, speechless. His hands trembled as he tried to shout, but strangely, he lost the ability to speak. He pointed downwards and turned his head, his face filled with unimaginable anxiety.
"What's wrong with you? Why are you like this?"
The companion was puzzled and looked in the direction it was pointing.
By the time the light illuminated the entire dimension as if it were daytime, shooting straight into the sky like a thick ray, it was too late.
Pure white, like sunlight, shines on everyone, yet it cannot bring warmth.
Tali, Wan Xingyan, the leader of the defense team, Yu Zhou, the main gunner, and the captain of the heavy armor unit. They were all bathed in this holy light. Then, their flesh began to peel away, their hair turned to ashes, and the expressions on their faces, whether in surprise or fear, completely disappeared, revealing stark white bones. Finally, even the hard white bones were burned to ashes.
A gust of wind swept across the land, and all the humans vanished without a trace.
Death comes so suddenly.
When humanity thought it had won, and could triumphantly return to its homeland with a magnificent lament, bringing the colossal axe-headed body out of the dimension to proclaim it to the world.
These people who were on the front lines, became heroes, and did countless things, have thus vanished into the dimension of death.
Their deaths were painless, without sorrow, and even fear lasted only a second or two. A living person was shattered into countless tiny molecules, their broken souls wandering in this space that did not belong to Earth, never to return, suffering endless torment from the vast emptiness.
Unimaginable.
Absurd and bizarre.
Whether living beings or inanimate objects, flesh and blood or mechs... along with the axe-wielding body cleaved in two, everything on this battlefield has been baptized and is no longer visible.
Jiang Cheng felt a bit disoriented for a moment. His mind went blank, and he stared dumbfounded at his disappearing companions. His pupils trembled as if an earthquake struck, and he opened his mouth but couldn't speak. In an instant, his eyes reddened.
What's going on... what happened?! Is this a dream?!
Or perhaps I'm just dizzy, and it's all an illusion.
He couldn't feel the light shining on him, and turned his head blankly, only to find a figure blocking his way. She was like a giant, with countless mechanical arms emerging from behind her, tightly interlocking to form an impenetrable shield.
"Robot... Qingwan, so you're not human after all..."
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