Chapter 96 Spanning Hemispheres! This Teleportation Talisman is incredibly powerful!
[Estimated upgrade time...unknown. Some functions will be limited during the upgrade...]
The system's voice carried a satisfied burp before falling silent.
"It's a success!"
Zhou Jue relaxed, and his whole body went limp.
"Walk!"
Cheng Gan, who had been protecting her all along, acted decisively the moment the core disappeared!
She scooped up the swaying Zhou Jue with one arm, and with a backhand slap, shoved the "teleportation talisman" into her own chest!
"Hold me tight!" Cheng Gan roared!
Zhou Jue instinctively wrapped his arms tightly around Cheng Gan's waist.
In that very instant!
"boom--!!!"
The only alloy door in the observation room was blasted into pieces by the violent energy!
Countless bullets rained down like a dense storm, instantly covering every corner of the room! The metal walls clanged and rattled as the bullets struck each other!
The sounds of hurried footsteps, roars, and gunfire outside the door created a symphony of death!
"Fire! Fire! Turn this stuff into powder!" A hoarse roar echoed down the corridor.
However, just 0.1 seconds before the door was blown open, Cheng Gan and Zhou Jue were enveloped in a distorted light and vanished without a trace.
The furious firepower poured down for a good ten seconds, until the entire observation room was riddled with holes, before the sound gradually subsided.
A commander dressed in a black special operations uniform, with an eagle badge on his shoulder, walked in cautiously, gun in hand.
The special forces soldiers behind him quickly spread out into combat formation, their guns pointed at every corner of the room.
However, the room was empty.
Apart from the marks of bullets, there was nothing there.
There were no corpses, no bloodstains, and not even a trace of biological tissue belonging to the invaders.
"Sir! No target detected!"
"Life detector not responding!"
"No response from thermal imaging!"
The commander's face was ashen. He strode to the observation wall, which had been bombed and was in ruins, and looked into the core module.
With just one glance, his pupils suddenly shrank.
It's empty inside!
That box that holds the future of the United States, that top-secret "Pandora's Box," that "core technology of a previous civilization"...
It's gone!
"No...impossible!" The commander's voice trembled as he rushed to the control panel, his fingers frantically pounding the keyboard.
However, on the screen, only a blood-red warning light was flashing frantically.
[Core missing!]
[Core missing!]
[Core missing!]
"Aaaaaah!" The commander let out a beast-like roar, punching the hard control panel and leaving a deep dent!
The commander whirled around, his blood-red eyes sweeping over everyone present.
"They can't have gone far!" he said through gritted teeth, emphasizing each word. "They must still be in the base! They couldn't have broken through the base's spatial blockade in such a short time!"
This was his judgment, and his only hope.
He couldn't bear the responsibility of admitting that the target had escaped the base!
"Immediately activate the 'hellish' level lockdown procedure!"
"Close all exits! Not a single fly is allowed to escape!"
"All combat units, all combat robots, move out! Search every layer! Search every inch!"
"Even if we have to turn the entire base upside down, we'll dig them out for me!"
"They must still be here! They must be!" The commander's voice, tinged with hysterical madness, echoed throughout the base.
...
On the other side.
The birds in the forest were startled by the noise and flew out of the branches.
"vomit……"
Zhou Jue felt as if he had been stuffed into a washing machine, spun around at high speed for 180 seconds, and then thrown down from a height of 10,000 meters.
The world spun around me, and all my internal organs were out of place.
"Bang!"
She and Cheng Gan fell heavily onto a soft, damp ground, where the thick layer of fallen leaves provided good cushioning.
"Cough...cough cough..."
Zhou Jue lay on the ground, dry heaving for a long time, but couldn't vomit anything. He just felt like he was seeing stars.
Cheng Gan's face was also deathly pale, but he immediately got up after landing, looked around warily, and protected Zhou Jue behind him.
Where is this place...?
The towering ancient trees blocked out the sun, allowing only dappled sunlight to filter through the leaves. A damp scent, a mixture of decaying leaves and earth, filled the air. The chirping of countless insects and birds echoed from all directions, creating a vibrant and lively symphony.
"Xiao Jue, how are you?" Cheng Gan made sure there was no immediate danger around before bending down to check on Zhou Jue.
"I'm...I'm still alive." Zhou Jue shook his dizzy head and sat up, propping himself up on the ground. "I'm just a little carsick...no, I'm carsick."
How come this teleportation had such a strong aftereffect?
Could it be because that teleportation talisman is an upgraded version?
Once Zhou Jue caught his breath, he immediately called out to the system in his mind: "System Bro? System Bro? Are you alive? Report your coordinates!"
The sea of consciousness was quiet, with only a stream of silver-blue data slowly rotating, seemingly undergoing some kind of complex digestion and reorganization.
After a full half minute, the system's voice, tinged with a slight electrical buzzing, finally sounded.
[System... Upgrading... Please do not... Disturb... Buzz...]
External environment scan... Safe. No signs of human activity detected...
[Signal...buzz...no signal...unable to connect to any known network...]
[Currently...calling...the star map...to perform...passive positioning...]
Another long silence followed.
Zhou Jue's heart was in his throat.
No signal? Unable to locate? This is not good news.
Finally, the system's voice sounded again, though still intermittent, it finally gave a result.
Location...successfully located.
Based on a comprehensive analysis of current celestial phenomena, geomagnetism, and atmospheric composition...
[Host, congratulations.]
You are currently located in the Amazon River basin in South America, within the world's largest tropical rainforest.
Zhou Jue: "..."
After hearing the retelling, Cheng Gan fell silent: "..."
The two looked at each other, both seeing a hint of confusion in each other's eyes.
Amazon?
This teleportation talisman... isn't it a bit too powerful?
They took them directly from Canada in North America to the Amazon rainforest in South America.
That's an absurd leap!
However... Zhou Jue took out the ultra-thin tablet computer from the Starry Secret Box.
"Sister Cheng Gan, look, this is one of the largest energy areas detected by the system before we set off!"
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