Chapter 427: Silence
After returning to the surface, Yu Sheng immediately sent Engineer Sun and the sample recovery team sent by the Special Service Bureau back to Jiecheng. Then, before the entire crater area collapsed completely, he evacuated to a safe area with Hu Li and others.
Soon after that, the entire area collapsed into a staggeringly deep pit before their eyes.
The underground structure of the crater had long been completely hollowed out by the Dark Angel's parasites. After the Crystal Heart in the cave died completely, the strata that lost their support continued to collapse downwards, until a considerable area around the crater was dragged into this terrible chain collapse. The collapse process lasted for dozens of minutes, and eventually everything became unrecognizable.
The residual heat at the bottom of the pit has not yet dissipated, and lifeless gray crystals are mixed in with the rocks and soil. The hollowed-out stone "pipes" and squeezed and deformed layered rock structures are crisscrossed and collapsed, like the skeleton of some primordial giant beast that died thousands of years ago. This "giant pit" is clearly visible from space, and in the foreseeable future, it is likely to become a permanent structure on the Garrison-3 that will be difficult to erase by time.
Xu Jiali and his psychic attendant did not evacuate with the others, but stayed and witnessed this earth-shaking collapse with Yu Sheng.
"Boss, it's spectacular," Lingling stared at the huge pit with dust still rising from it, then she pressed a button on her protective suit, and a thin tube rose from the visor of her helmet, out of which gushed a concentration smoke extracted from catnip. She took a deep breath and squinted her eyes, "Awesome..."
"Does this count as witnessing another 'angel falling'?" Xu Jiali turned her head to look at Yu Sheng and said casually.
Yu Sheng shook his head: "No, this is just an empty shell of the Dark Angel's remains. I don't even know if it can be considered His corpse."
"Tsk," Xu Jiali said, then shook her head. "The video data collection is complete. I should go back to the bureau to report the situation. Captain Song and the director are waiting for news."
Yu Sheng nodded and casually opened a door leading to the Secret Service employee passage. There were two agents passing by on the opposite side of the door. They were startled and looked at this side in amazement, but they quickly reacted, bowed to Yu Sheng and hurried away.
Lingling looked up at Xu Jiali in surprise and said, "Boss, why don't you stay and help your friends fight?"
"Help for what? I help Yu Sheng? Fight the Dark Angel?" Xu Jiali immediately raised her eyebrows and raised her hand to knock on Lingling's helmet lightly, "You must have taken too much catnip. Come back with me. You haven't reported to the Secret Service for a long time. You should show up once in a while..."
"Oh, okay meow..."
The two of them walked through the gate muttering to each other, and Yu Sheng let go of the handle. Once again, he, Irene, Hu Li, and Luna were the only ones left on this desolate alien planet.
"It's time to return to Shuji." Yu Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, took out his cell phone to check the time, and prepared to open another door leading to Huixianzhou.
However, at this moment, a rapid cell phone ring interrupted his actions.
The phone was in his hand, and the screen showed the caller was "Four Thousand Evil Disciples".
An inexplicable feeling of uneasiness flashed through his heart, and Yu Sheng immediately answered the phone. However, before he could open his mouth, he heard the hurried voice of Yuan Ling Zhenren coming from the other side of the receiver -
"Where are you? Are you still at Garrison-3? Please go to Shuji and check the situation immediately. Xuan Che and the others have lost contact!"
"What?" Yu Sheng was startled for a moment, and at the same time he quickly raised his hand to the air, and an illusory door took shape in his hand. "I was just about to go over there - Xuan Che lost contact? I received a message from him more than ten minutes ago?"
"It was the contact that was lost just now, and my senior brother also lost contact at the same time," Yuan Ling Zhenren said in a hurried tone, "We don't know what happened yet, but just now a disciple sent an urgent report, I'm afraid all communications between Taixu Lingshu and Shuji have been cut off! Even several secret line calls did not respond!"
All communications between Taixu Lingshu and Shuji were cut off?! Hearing what Yuanling Zhenren said, Yu Sheng subconsciously took a breath of poisonous air, and then quickly replied: "Okay, I'll go over right away, and contact you immediately if I find anything."
Before he finished speaking, he opened the door leading to Huixianzhou's guest room and walked in with Irene, Hu Li and Luna.
The next second, the group passed through the gate and returned to their residence in Shuji.
The room in the hotel was still the same as when I left. The furnishings were in perfect order. There was still continuous rain outside the window, neon lights were flickering in the distance, and I could faintly hear music coming from somewhere.
The sound of rain and distant music mixed together, making the room especially quiet through the window.
The living room was empty.
Irene jumped off Yu Sheng’s shoulders, ran quickly to the next room, and then ran back again with a clatter: “No one is in the room!”
"There's nothing in the kitchen or bathroom either." Hu Li also looked around and came back sniffing, "But there's a lingering smell in the living room. Zheng Zhi and Yuan Hao should still be here. There's also a little moisture near the windowsill."
Yu Sheng frowned and said nothing, but just picked up his phone and took a look.
"No signal?"
He raised his eyebrows in surprise.
The next second, he felt his phone vibrate, and then the edge of the screen went dark. A red alert box suddenly popped up, with eye-catching fonts flashing in the alert box -
"Environmental monitoring is abnormal, and there may be a critical depth."
Hu Li happened to see this scene nearby, and the fox girl's ears suddenly stood up: "My benefactor, this is..."
"... a foreign land," Yu Sheng said solemnly, "and this is a special warning that is triggered only when a deep change occurs..."
Irene, who was moving around in the living room and not knowing what she was "investigating", suddenly stopped and slowly raised her head to react: "What the hell?"
“Boom!”
A loud thunder suddenly exploded in the distance, and the rumbling sound rolled over the city like the roar of a giant beast, but there was no lightning, only the wind and rain became much denser than before.
There was no signal on the cell phone, so Yuan Hao, Xuan Che and Zheng Zhi could not be contacted, and no trace of them was found in the hotel room.
The last message he received was from Xuan Che saying that he had noticed signs of cognitive abnormalities that might be common among a large number of people on this planet, including Mo City Lord Mo Ran.
Yu Sheng frowned, thinking quickly about the connection between Xuan Che's last message and the strange situation in front of him at the moment. Hu Li's voice sounded from the side: "Benefactor, what should we do now?"
"Let's check every corner of the room again," Yu Sheng pondered for a moment, and suddenly thought of something, "Master Yuan Hao is an experienced adventurer and very powerful. If something really happened, he would definitely find a way to leave some information to remind us, but this information may be hidden by the current abnormality... Let's look for it again!"
It sounded like a helpless solution, but Irene, Hu Li and Luna took action immediately and began looking for any suspicious clues in this not-so-big hotel suite. While they were searching everywhere, a jade screen ornament on the low table on one side of the living room suddenly emitted pieces of dim glow.
Yu Sheng moved closer out of curiosity, and then he saw a clear projection emerging from the hazy glow - a gorgeously decorated fairy boat was flying slowly between the city buildings, with many floating lanterns and celebratory flags floating in the air nearby. On the platform of the front deck of the fairy boat, a man in purple clothes with a long sword on his waist and an upright posture was standing at the bow. The man's face seemed to be obscured by a cloud of mist and could not be seen clearly.
Another voice-over came from the jade screen: "...The new 'Star Guardian', Elder Dao Heng, arrived in Mo City today. The celebration will last until..."
Irene came over and asked, "What is this? The local news broadcast?"
"...Then this must be 'news' from more than a hundred years ago," Yu Sheng frowned, "It was more than a hundred years ago when Zhenxing Elder Daoheng took office in Shuji."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the image projected by the jade screen suddenly flicker violently. The celebration scene that had just been played turned into a construction site under a gloomy sky. A giant building that had not yet been completed was standing in the wilderness. There were also many unknown mechanical equipments busy around the giant tower. Someone introduced the situation in a corner of the screen: "...The No. 12 refining tower was built by Yao Lan Sect...After completion, Mo City will become the largest spiritual ore refining center in Shu Ji..."
The images projected by the jade screen kept changing. Sometimes there were "news reports", sometimes entertainment programs, and sometimes it seemed to be just broadcasting pure landscape documentaries. But there was no doubt that the images projected by this thing were all things that happened a long time ago.
The time span ranges from hundreds of years ago when the mining industry was still prosperous, to the last few decades.
After switching through countless messy contents, the image projected by the jade screen suddenly dimmed, followed by a chaotic mix of noise and color blocks. The image became clear and stable again, but it was no longer any "program", but just a dark and hazy rain curtain.
The rain kept falling, and in the distance there was a blurry neon street scene.
Yu Sheng stared at the projected image in a daze for two seconds, then suddenly reacted and turned his head to look towards the window.
The jade screen projected the scenery outside the window of this room at the moment! The next second, Yu Sheng noticed that the traces of rain running down the window were bending, and the winding water flow seemed to form words. He looked at it carefully, and the twisted handwriting suddenly became neat:
“The obstruction of knowledge and perception.”
Yu Sheng frowned, but before he could think about it, the line of words was washed away by the rain, and then new words appeared on the window -
"We are in a huge dream."
(End of this chapter)
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