Su Wanqing's voice echoed in the hall, and the few words on the report carried a chilling aura.
Lin Feng's pupils contracted slightly for a moment.
Missing?
Since he came to power over this land, those two words have never been mentioned again.
His scouts, equipped with the best gear in the shelter and possessing the strongest will to survive, are nightmares in themselves on the wasteland.
The simultaneous loss of contact with all three teams can only be explained by one thing—they encountered an incomprehensible and irresistible force.
"A wall... seemingly endless, made of steel..."
Lin Feng repeated the sentence in a low voice, and for the first time, a crack appeared in his eternally unchanging, lazy, and indifferent expression.
He was stunned, not by fear, but by a provocative and offensive anger.
On this wasteland that he had already regarded as his private backyard, there was actually a "wall" that even his scouts could not cross, and might even lose their lives as a result.
"A wall?" He chuckled, a chilling laugh escaping his lips. "In this wasteland, is there anything that can stop me? Truly... courting death."
He rose from the throne, his black robes billowing without wind, and an invisible pressure instantly enveloped the entire Chengtian Palace.
"Issue my decree!" His voice boomed like thunder from the heavens. "Assemble the first and second combat battalions of the Ironblood Legion and prepare the 'Land Walker' assault convoy! Su Wanqing, Qin Lan, come with me."
"I want to see what this so-called wall is made of!"
Half a day later, a torrent of steel surged out of the shelter.
Twenty "Landwalker" assault vehicles, heavily modified by Wang Dachui's Ministry of Industry and equipped with heavy armor and machine guns, rolled across the barren land like a group of roaring steel behemoths.
In the center of the convoy was a more luxurious and spacious command vehicle, in which Lin Feng sat upright.
The convoy headed east, and the deeper they went, the harsher the surrounding environment became.
The land turned from grayish-brown to a lifeless grayish-white, vegetation disappeared completely, and the air became increasingly cold and thin. Finally, even fine snowflakes mixed with black dust began to fall from the sky.
This place is like a death zone abandoned by the gods.
"Leader, according to the last coordinates sent back by the missing team, they are about 30 kilometers ahead," Qin Lan reported in a deep voice, looking at the electronic map in her hand.
Lin Feng didn't speak, but simply looked out the window.
Finally, a line appeared at the edge of the horizon.
A straight, gray-black line that separates the sky from the earth.
As the convoy continued to move forward, the line stretched infinitely higher and wider in everyone's view.
When the convoy finally stopped a kilometer away from it, everyone was speechless with awe at the unimaginable sight before them.
That was a wall.
A truly solid wall, reaching to the sky and standing tall!
It soared into the clouds, its height estimated to be at least 500 meters, so much so that its upper part was completely submerged in the leaden-gray clouds, and its top was not visible at all.
It is cast entirely from a dark, metallic material with a smooth, mirror-like surface, without any visible seams, as if it were a creation formed from chaos.
It extends infinitely to the left and right, until the end of sight, to encircle the entire planet.
Before this magnificent and despair-inducing steel barrier, humanity's proud chariots are as insignificant as grains of sand; humanity itself is so humble that it is not even worthy of being called dust.
A sense of awe and fear of the grandeur, stemming from an instinct for life, gripped the heart of every soldier.
For the first time, the fervent faith on their faces was replaced by an emotion called "bewilderment".
Even someone as passionate as Qin Lan was shocked, her mouth agape, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief.
Lin Feng stepped out of the command vehicle, stood on the cold snow, and looked up at the giant wall.
His usually calm face finally showed a slight change in expression.
Not because of fear, but because of...confusion.
His telekinetic power surged forth like a tidal wave, attempting to probe the wall's internal structure and materials. However, the moment his power touched the wall, it vanished without a trace, like a stone sinking into the sea.
This was the first time since he gained his power that he had encountered something completely incomprehensible.
Why?
Why would such a terrifying high wall, which defies any physical or civilized logic, appear on this planet that has long since become a wasteland?
“Interesting…” he murmured to himself.
The next second, he leaped into the air without any aid, his entire being like a black arrow, defying the law of universal gravitation, shooting straight into the sky.
The gale made his robes flutter wildly, and he transformed into a black streak of light, instantly rising hundreds of meters into the air and landing directly on the high wall.
He landed steadily on the top of the wall, which was wide enough for several chariots to drive side by side.
However, when he stood atop the high wall and glanced in another direction, his expression changed drastically!
On this side of the wall, in the direction they had come from, lay endless snow and ice, howling gray blizzards, and a deathly silent, gray-white world.
On the other side of the wall, separated by just one wall, lies a completely different world!
Warm sunlight pierced through the thin clouds and shone on a vast plain covered with lush green grass.
The boundless, emerald-green grassland stretches as far as the eye can see, like the finest carpet covering the earth. In the distance, azure lakes lie like sapphires set in the landscape. One can even spot some enormous, strangely shaped yet vibrant plants, never before seen, swaying gently in the breeze.
The air is filled with the fragrance of grass and the freshness of earth.
On one side is hell, on the other is heaven.
This wall is not a wall.
It is a dividing line.
A divine boundary that separates life from death, destruction from rebirth!
Lin Feng stood there, stunned, feeling the different air currents from two different worlds brushing against his cheeks—one side was biting cold, and the other was warm and full of life.
After a long while, he suddenly let out a low, manic laugh.
"Hahaha...hahahaha..."
"I see... I see..."
"So that's why the ecosystem of this planet collapsed so completely. It turns out... all life was trapped here!"
The light in his eyes grew brighter and brighter, the excitement of a chess player who had finally discovered a larger chessboard.
"This wall could not possibly have been built by Earth civilization. It was not formed by chance, but rather... created by aliens!"
"Fun, so very fun!"
He didn't linger, but leaped down, landing lightly on the ground like a feather.
Everyone immediately gathered around, and Qin Lan asked anxiously, "Leader, what's on the other side of the wall?"
Lin Feng's expression had returned to its usual indifferent state, as if nothing had happened.
He waved his hand, stopping the crowd from asking further questions.
“A world… that’s temporarily irrelevant to us,” he said calmly. “But now is not the time to concern ourselves with this wall. Let’s go back.”
He paused, his deep gaze returning to the high wall, and added thoughtfully, "This wall has a very specific purpose; it's definitely guarding against something."
Upon hearing this, Qin Lan, who had been standing beside him, instinctively followed his words and asked what she considered the most logical question.
"Could it be... that they're guarding against us?"
Her voice wasn't loud, but it was like a pebble thrown into a still lake, creating invisible ripples.
Are they trying to protect themselves from us? Are they trying to protect the survivors struggling to survive in this wasteland?
Lin Feng was stunned for a moment.
Looking at Qin Lan's matter-of-fact face, he thought of the vibrant paradise on the other side of the wall.
For the first time, a terrifying yet perfectly reasonable thought arose in his mind.
Is the true purpose of this wall a "prison"?
Is it a "cage"?
Or is it that some kind of "thing" that even alien civilizations find troublesome is imprisoned in this huge prison known as the "wasteland"?
And he, and all his people, are just unsuspecting prisoners in this huge cage?
Thinking of this, even with Lin Feng's temperament, he couldn't help but feel a chill.
For the first time, he realized that the power he was so proud of was perhaps... nothing at all in this world that he thought he had the power to control.
He looked at Qin Lan's inquisitive eyes, but didn't know how to answer.
Because he had no answer.
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