Chapter 267: Good Fortune
The cluster of revelers is slowly dissipating.
It wasn’t that they were completely wiped out—in fact, they were almost constantly regenerating. No matter how many were killed, new revelers could be seen emerging from the fog. They could never be wiped out—but as the number of these entities destroyed by the heavy-duty divers brought by Xu Jiali exceeded a certain “critical point,” Yu Sheng observed that they began to “fade away” at a speed visible to the naked eye.
First, the colored line figures in the edge area gradually retreated out of sight, followed by the entities close to the "battlefield" dissolving into the fog again, and finally, the entities that were destroyed on the battlefield no longer regenerated.
The fog-shrouded streets finally quieted down. The pulse rifles in the hands of the divers stopped roaring, and the beam sabers cut off the last few revelers. Confetti formed a thick layer on the streets, which was then rolled up by the wind and quickly turned into dust.
But these battle-hardened soldiers did not completely relax. They still maintained a certain combat formation, with 8 to 12 people in a group scattered around. While ensuring the monitoring of the entire block, they also made sure that each group was within the visual range of at least two other groups at the same time, in case any "mechanism" in the strange fog took effect. At the same time, some soldiers took out various small devices from the storage compartments of the power armor. They placed them nearby to collect environmental parameters, and transmitted the data back to the control center through some kind of "umbilical cord" device connected to their armor.
These details were explained by Xu Jiali.
"This is our umbilical cord," the sturdy man, who was almost two meters tall and almost two meters and a half tall after putting on the power armor, raised his hand and pointed to the chest of his armor, where a black rope extended out, floating in the air in a strange state. The rope swayed slowly with his movements, as if immersed in an invisible liquid environment. "Its other end is connected to the 'deep diving pool' in the real world. This connection maintains our humanity and rationality - and also maintains our communication with the rear."
Irene stared, "I'm a little nervous when I hear the word 'umbilical cord'. I'm telling you..."
Xu Jiali smiled helplessly: "It's normal. After the Ankaela incident, many of my colleagues became overly nervous. Some even suggested to the higher-ups that we change the name of this thing. If it doesn't work, we can call it 'traction rope', but the higher-ups didn't agree."
Yu Sheng was thoughtful: "That is to say, it is not completely impossible to communicate between the alien world and the real world... First there was the 'locator', and now there is your equipment... The Secret Service still has the technology to solve this problem."
"It's just that conventional communications will be blocked, but we have 'unconventional' ones," Xu Jiali nodded, and explained as she watched her comrades cleaning up the battlefield, "It's just that these 'unconventional' methods are more or less tainted with 'evil'... I'm sure the guys in the technical department will laugh at me for saying this when I get back, but many of us think so.
"Have you seen my umbilical cord? When we perform deep-diving missions, we essentially immerse our bodies and minds as 'humans' in the deep-diving pool and dissolve them. Then, just like diving into a nightmare, the dissolved matter 'jumps' into the foreign land with the umbilical cord. Only in this way can we bring the other end of the umbilical cord in to transmit the signal. When we return, we reverse the process. We disintegrate again in the foreign land, and then the disintegrated fragments are recovered by the umbilical cord and brought back to the 'amniotic fluid' of the deep-diving pool, and 'born' again in the pool...
"I think this process has to do with some warp sorcery - but the guys in the technical department don't agree, they insist that this is all science..."
Xu Jiali kept on talking, but she was obviously a bit boastful when she complained. Yu Sheng, who was standing by, was amazed and couldn't help but keep looking at her equipment - without saying much, this thing was really cool...
Irene subconsciously muttered, "Why does your so-called 'diving' technology sound so unreliable? It sounds like something could easily go wrong during this process."
"As for risks, there are definitely some, but they are not very high, especially compared to the risks of 'foreign operations' themselves. The probability of losing control during the 'drop' or 'diving' process is negligible," Xu Jiali seemed quite open-minded. "It's just that newcomers tend to be nervous. The first disintegration and 'birth' in the 'amniotic fluid' is the most likely to cause psychological problems. It takes veterans to help them get used to it at least a dozen times before they can stabilize."
After listening to Xu Jiali explain a lot of knowledge related to deep divers, Yu Sheng finally had a preliminary understanding of the "high-end combat power" of the Secret Service in dealing with alien domains. According to Xu Jiali, there are actually only a few alien incidents that require deep divers to take action - in most cases, a team of "conventional operators" like Li Lin can go to various known alien domains to rescue people or conduct investigations.
This time, it is obviously a "rare case".
"This place is so weird," Xu Jiali looked up at the thick fog and the street scenery that appeared and disappeared in the fog, which was a mirror image of the real world. "It's definitely not a known foreign land. This is a new one... When I go back to the bureau, someone will have to work overtime again. But it's normal. We have people working overtime every day, either in this department or that department..."
"We encountered the 'Ink Mark' before, and this time we encountered a group of revelers. They are entities that can only be generated in other foreign lands, but they appeared in this thick fog," Little Red Riding Hood also said, "We are not sure how they 'got in' yet..."
"Either this 'foreign world in the mirror' has characteristics that are common to other foreign worlds, just like the 'train', it is connected to other foreign worlds at a certain level, or this is its 'characteristic'," Xu Jiali looked careless, but when she analyzed it, she was very clear, "The characteristic is that this foreign world can generate 'special entities' in other foreign worlds."
"...If this is the case, then the danger level of this place has skyrocketed," Little Red Riding Hood's expression turned a little ugly. "The depth of this thick fog may be between L-1 and L-2, but the danger level may be level three or even higher."
"Leave the analysis to the smart people in the bureau. The key point now is that there is someone trapped here, right?" Xu Jiali said with a frown. "I'm not saying this to sound nice, but looking at the situation... I'm afraid it's more dangerous than good. Mo Hen, the carnival crowd, just these two who have shown up are already a lethal threat to ordinary people. If they meet them head-on, few will be able to escape. What's more, I heard that the person is..."
He thought for a moment and tapped his forehead. "Oh, right? He has a 'high sensitivity and low stability' physique, right? Then the probability of him encountering an entity is probably higher than yours. At this time, I'm afraid... Alas."
The tough guy sighed.
Yu Sheng's face also looked bad.
Hu Li's ears also drooped, and she fell to the ground - because she was now a nine-tailed fox as big as two vans, so this fall shook the earth.
However, just as a depressing atmosphere was about to spread, Xu Jiali's communicator suddenly heard the call of a deep diver patrolling the periphery: "Leader! A trapped citizen was found!"
Everyone was instantly alerted, and Xu Jiali's eyes widened with excitement. She shouted into the communication: "Where is he? How is he? Is he still alive?!"
A somewhat tangled voice came from the communicator: "Alive, but the situation is a bit complicated. We are trying to cut him off from... uh, the wall. This man is sealed in the wall by amber, but he should be fine."
Yu Sheng and Irene looked at each other. Little Red Riding Hood next to them seemed to be thinking about something. Hu Li... It was hard to tell the expression on Hu Li's face now. She just suddenly stuck out her tongue and licked Yu Sheng, almost licking him to the head - no one knew what this fox demon was thinking.
Xu Jiali ordered the "trapped citizens" to be sent over, and a moment later, Yu Sheng saw his "nephew" whom he had not seen for many days.
He finally understood what the communicator meant by "the situation is a bit complicated".
This young man, who always looks tired, is now quietly wrapped in a large piece of pale yellow transparent substance like amber. He still maintains the posture of running forward, with a terrified expression on his face, as if he was "captured" and sealed in this "amber" at some moment while desperately escaping.
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But other than being sealed up, he didn't have any visible injuries.
"Ah, this..." Yu Sheng was seeing this situation for the first time, and his expression seemed a little confused. "Are you sure he's still alive?"
Irene was also worried: "I hope he won't be suffocated to death."
Little Red Riding Hood, however, looked relieved after seeing the shape of the "amber" and waved her hands in a relaxed manner: "It's okay, it's okay, she's still alive - this guy is really lucky."
Yu Sheng raised his head and looked at him in confusion.
"The neutral entity, 'Tree Granny', appears in the foreign 'Autumn Forest'," Little Red Riding Hood knew that Yu Sheng lacked knowledge in this area, and explained patiently, "The entity is a human-shaped tree wandering deep in the forest, with an old woman's face on the trunk. It will actively chase living people who appear in its territory and wrap the 'intruders' with resin, but this is not fatal. The intruders wrapped in resin into 'amber' will only be thrown out of the territory by the Tree Granny. People can still breathe and think inside the 'amber', and the resin itself even has a powerful protective effect..."
Little Red Riding Hood paused at this point, and Xu Jiali at the side continued, "The Tree Granny is one of the rare entities that is both very powerful and weird, but behaves mildly and harmlessly. In the past, there were even gangs of illegal miners who specifically went to the Autumn Forest to provoke the Tree Granny and sent a member as bait to trick the Tree Granny into giving them her resin - because some people say that drinking that stuff in water can cure the three highs, and applying it on the face can even beautify the skin."
Yu Sheng was stunned when he heard this: "... How could there be a gang of illegal miners?! How was it resolved?"
"Xingchen Media found two experts with immortal spirits, one is the Taoist priest of Qianfeng Lingshan Mountain, and the other is a prophet of the Bamosas. They said on the show that the resin of the tree grandmother has radiation."
Yu Sheng: “…”
(End of this chapter)
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