Chapter 16 Loading
The vegetation outside the ancient city grew extremely lush. The willow trees on the banks of the moat grew to more than ten meters high, and even the ordinary grass on the roadside grew to half a person's height.
The river surface was covered with lotus leaves the size of small boats, and the lotus flowers were larger than washbasins, appearing a strange red color, as if stained with blood.
Affected by the other-dimensional realm, the nearby animals and plants have undergone varying degrees of mutations, but they are not as severe as the mutations within the other-dimensional realm.
There are real soldiers stationed outside the ancient city to guard it, and tanks are patrolling nearby. No one is allowed to enter the ancient city without a pass.
There were even surface-to-air missiles deployed nearby, but Zhou Wen had never seen those missiles launched.
In fact, thermal weapons pose a very limited threat to extra-dimensional creatures. Even if a nuclear bomb explodes in an extra-dimensional field, it is difficult to cause too much damage. Many extra-dimensional creatures can even absorb the energy generated by the nuclear bomb to evolve and become even more terrifying.
Ordinary bullets are even more useless. If they hit creatures from other dimensions, they will be swallowed and fused.
Only bullets made of some special materials can cause harm to extra-dimensional creatures, but those materials themselves are very scarce, and it is too wasteful to make them into disposable bullets. They are generally used to make cold weapons such as swords.
Thermal weapons have little effect on extra-dimensional creatures, but they still have great lethality to humans themselves. Therefore, the main function of thermal weapons now is to maintain order in human society.
Zhou Wen did not have a pass, but the admission ticket on him was a disguised pass. During the actual combat test, he had the opportunity to form a team and enter the ancient city of Guide from the north gate.
The ancient city of Guide has four gates in the east, west, south and north. It was originally a small city with a circumference of less than ten miles.
However, after the extra-dimensional storm, the ancient city of Guide was transformed into an extra-dimensional area. The internal space was many times larger than before. Humans have not yet been able to fully explore the entire ancient city of Guide.
Entering from the four gates in the east, west, south and north, the extra-dimensional creatures you encounter are slightly different. Among them, the extra-dimensional creatures at the north gate are the weakest. As long as you don't go too deep, there will generally not be too much danger.
Because the admission ticket can only be verified after the four registered people enter together, the other two team members that Li Xuan and Zhou Wen have never met have not arrived yet, and the entry time has not yet arrived, so Zhou Wen can only stand outside the ancient city gate and wait.
The north gate of the ancient city is ancient and mysterious. The blue bricks of the gate tower are mottled and worn, and many parts have weathered and decayed.
However, Zhou Wen heard that the army had once used a large number of missiles to bombard the ancient city of Guide. Rows of missiles bombarded for more than ten minutes, but as a result, the seemingly decayed ancient city building did not even have a tile broken.
The plaque above the city gate is engraved with three traditional Chinese characters "Guide Prefecture", which are ancient and vigorous, as if the lingering charm of a thousand years of history is lingering in it.
Zhou Wen's gaze finally stopped at a strange pattern behind the door plaque.
The pattern looked like a small hand-shaped indentation left by a baby's palm pressing on the brick, but inside the indentation, there was an engraving similar to a garlic or onion pattern.
There was naturally no such pattern in the Guide Ancient City before. It is said that this strange pattern appeared behind the door plaque after the extra-dimensional storm, but no one knows what the pattern means, nor who carved it.
Zhou Wen was looking at the pattern when he suddenly felt the phone in his pocket vibrating.
Zhou Wen thought it was Yu Qiubai or Li Xuan looking for him, but when he reached into his pocket to grab the phone, he was stunned.
Because the phone in this pocket is not the ordinary phone he usually uses, but the mysterious phone. The mysterious phone has no function of making or receiving calls, and has never vibrated. Why would it suddenly become like this now?
Seeing that no one around was paying attention to him, Zhou Wen took out his cell phone from his pocket. He saw that the screen had automatically lit up and a camera icon was flashing.
"Why haven't I seen this camera app before? What's the use of this thing? Is it for me to take selfies?" Zhou Wen was puzzled and clicked on the camera icon.
Like an ordinary mobile phone, the phone entered the photo mode, but the photo was not of Zhou Wen himself, but of the rear camera.
Fortunately, taking photos is not prohibited in the ancient city. When the guarding soldiers saw Zhou Wen holding his mobile phone to take photos, they did not intend to stop him.
Zhou Wen raised his phone and pointed it at the trees and flowers next to him, wanting to try out the camera function.
But Zhou Wen soon discovered that the camera function seemed to be broken and there was no way to press the shutter to take a photo.
Zhou Wen tapped the phone screen with his finger, but the phone was still on the camera screen and there was no response.
"What the hell is this?" Zhou Wen raised his phone and waved it around. When the little hand pattern on the city gate appeared in the camera screen, there was a beep and the phone actually responded.
Zhou Wen was surprised. He took a closer look and found a small green frame appeared on the phone screen, locking onto the strange little hand pattern on the city gate.
After three consecutive beeps, the image of the small hand enlarged on the screen, the ancient city behind it gradually blurred, and a line of words appeared below: Loading...
"Could it be..." Zhou Wen looked at the mobile phone screen that was still loading, and a thought flashed through his mind. This thought scared him and he was a little bit unbelievable.
But not long after, the phone proved his guess. The loading was completed, and then the small hand pattern turned into an icon and appeared on the phone desktop, stopping next to the ant nest icon, with three words "Ancient Imperial City" below it.
"It actually turned into a game copy?" Zhou Wen was surprised and happy. He suppressed his excitement and clicked on the icon of the Ancient Imperial City.
Sure enough, the phone screen turned into the familiar game loading screen of Zhou Wen. After a while, the game screen turned into the north gate of Guide Ancient City. Unlike reality, the gate of the north gate was already open.
Zhou Wen secretly dripped a drop of blood on the screen of his mobile phone, transformed into the bloody little man in the game, and walked directly into the city gate.
Ancient stone streets, quaint old wooden buildings. Although Zhou Wen had never entered the Guide Ancient City, he had seen videos of the ancient city on the Internet, which were exactly the same as what he saw now.
Before Zhou Wen could continue comparing, a skeleton with a bone stick in one hand and tattered cloth hanging on its body appeared on the stone street and ran towards the bloody man.
Zhou Wen had also seen this thing in the video. It was the extra-dimensional creature, the skeleton soldier, in the ancient city of Guide.
(End of this chapter)
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