Chapter 161
"Although your abilities may be special, we won't let you go into the pit naked, don't worry."
The man in black pulled out a blueprint from his PAD and showed it to Lu Jiamu: "In order to reduce your chances of being infected, we made a multi-layer inflatable protective suit for you using a special material that can isolate abnormalities. It is sealed from head to toe, and you need to carry the breathing apparatus yourself."
The drawing shows a bulky clothing style similar to a space suit.
"This material is the same one that was used to make a raincoat for that kid last time. Although it has not been used on a large scale, it seems that its insulation performance against abnormalities is relatively stable, so it can be used with confidence."
The man in black enlarged the blueprint and showed it to him, and continued to introduce: "There is an optical cable on the waist for communication. We will keep in touch with you outside. In view of the characteristics of this abnormal attack, a dynamic sensing device is installed on the back of the suit. Attacks from different directions will light up different colored warning lights to make up for your blind spots."
"In addition, we have designed a device similar to an umbrella for you to prevent abnormalities from sticking to clothes as much as possible. Do you have any problems with these designs?"
Lu Jiamu shook his head to indicate no.
"Then let's start the action tomorrow." The man in black sent him two videos. "This is the footage they captured last time. Take a look. If you have any questions, just ask."
Lu Jiamu clicked on it and took a look. It was just a fleeting clip of footage taken by the drone after it entered the unusual forest.
It can only give people a rough idea of what the scene over there looks like, but it can't provide much help in terms of details.
Lu Jiamu returned to the temporary accommodation in the village and rested for one last night. He went to look for them at dawn the next day.
The people at the temporary command site were busy checking whether there were any security loopholes in the temporary experimental site, repeatedly testing whether each device was operating as expected, and rehearsing today's actions.
They all looked like they hadn't slept all night.
By noon, everything was ready.
Before setting off, the man in black called Lu Jiamu and said after a moment's silence: "Although there are some safeguards, it is not a panacea. Even with the entire base as a backup, we still dare not take the initiative to send people to explore. You should know the reason."
The man in black patted him on the back and said, "If you feel that something is wrong, turn back as soon as possible and don't make unnecessary sacrifices."
Lu Jiamu may know more about what he is about to face than the other party imagines.
"Don't worry, I know my limits." Lu Jiamu thanked the other party for his kindness. "If the situation is not right, I will come out immediately."
The man in black nodded: "Okay."
Two helicopters quickly took off with equipment and field personnel.
Although Coleman and the team member's exploration was not successful last time, they did conduct a rough survey of the mountain. Now the field personnel have some understanding of the overall terrain, and the helicopter accurately arrived at a flat ground next to the anomaly.
After throwing the equipment out, Lu Jiamu followed the field team members and quickly descended to the ground via the cable.
As soon as they landed, the team members quickly patrolled the area and seeing nothing unusual, they went to pick up the equipment that had been dropped.
The headset made a slight piercing sound, and a human voice came through: "Beware of wild animals."
Several team members responded with "Got it".
After finding the dropped equipment, they opened the box and took out the protective clothing inside. After putting them on, they began to move in the designated direction and soon arrived near the target area.
What appeared in front of us was a nearly vertical cliff.
Looking from a high place, there were green treetops below. It was calm and nothing unusual could be seen, but everyone held their breath silently.
They all knew that beneath this natural barrier was the high-risk valley. If they were accidentally infected by the slightest movement, several people would die.
The field team members fastened the cables and helped Lu Jiamu put on special protective clothing.
After connecting the external optical fiber of several dozen meters to the protective suit, various indicator lights lit up, the clothes began to inflate automatically, and soon became swollen.
The field team member handed him a transparent briefcase and stretched out his hand to compare the size: "Just take these many samples, thank you for your hard work."
After the inflation was completed, the sounds from outside were blocked out and became indistinct.
The voice in the headset became clearer, and someone reminded him: "Be sure not to tear your protective suit when you go down."
"Got it." Lu Jiamu gestured to the team members, "Let's get started."
He began to descend to the bottom of the cliff little by little using the cable.
At the beginning, the view is green, just like when you are at a high altitude. But as you get closer to the ground, the layering of colors becomes apparent.
When he was near the bottom of the cliff, Lu Jiamu clearly saw the surging strange forest.
This forest seemed to be in a different dimension from the outside world. The blood-red mucus kept surging like waves, and the tree trunks covered in red were also moving with the waves, as if the whole world was shaking in the mucus.
This time, we are not using a turbulent drone, so the field of vision is more stable, making the area appear even more bizarre.
Lu Jiamu hesitated for a moment and chose to land on a protruding rock near the bottom of the cliff.
With his arrival, the shaking slime suddenly became eerily quiet, leaving only slight ups and downs, as if it was breathing.
They found him.
Lu Jiamu had a vague feeling that he was being watched. It was as if the entire forest was staring at him intently at this moment.
A soft "hissing" sound of cold air came from the headset, and I didn't know who made it.
Lu Jiamu didn't waste much time observing it. While it was still, he squatted down and pulled out a large piece of flesh and mucus from the sea of blood at his feet. He stuffed it into a transparent suitcase, then tied it to another cable and pulled it to signal the people above to pull it up.
The movements were performed smoothly, with only the piece of tissue that was pulled off jumping and screaming in the suitcase, constantly changing into spiked shapes and bumping around.
The person above responded: "Received."
The suitcase had been pulled into the air, and the sea of blood in the forest seemed to realize that someone had dared to invade it so boldly, and it screamed in anger.
The scream exceeded the frequency limit of the human voice. It came from all directions, echoing continuously in the trough area, and made people's ears buzz in an instant.
The entire forest shook more violently, and the surging blood waves rose high like tentacles and pressed towards him fiercely.
The next second, Lu Jiamu's entire vision went black.
Someone in the headset immediately asked anxiously: "What happened?"
The moment he saw the blood wave coming, Lu Jiamu had already changed his state and dodged the attack. But his vision was still dark.
Lu Jiamu paused for a moment, analyzed the situation, and then said, "I was overwhelmed by the anomaly."
It's like being in the deep sea where the vision is pitch black due to lack of lighting.
Lu Jiamu turned on the searchlight above his head. As expected, colors appeared in front of him.
In the blood-red illuminated by the light, a strange large face with melted skin suddenly appeared in front of him, almost sticking to his protective suit, with empty eye sockets facing his eyes.
There was a little noisy sound coming from the headset.
Someone seemed to whisper something unpleasant, and someone asked, "Are you going to pull him up?"
The noisy voices were soon silenced, and the steady voice of the man in black came from the headset: "Don't panic. Panic will make you consume oxygen faster."
Pushed by the slime, the owner of the strange face stretched out his equally muscular arms, as if wanting to hug him, but ended up hugging nothing.
"I'm not panicking." Lu Jiamu took two steps back and asked, "I can't see clearly from here, is it climbing up?"
The field team member's voice soon came back: "We have successfully obtained the sample, and no abnormal spread has been observed. 05 will be returning with the sample soon, please pay attention to receive it, and the rest of you continue to assist in the exploration."
Hearing that nothing happened up there, Lu Jiamu guessed that the ghost thing might have just wrapped him up, but the cliff was too high and it couldn't swing up directly.
This protective suit and the respiratory system were very heavy, and it was very tiring for him to hide in the abnormal state with them.
And if these ghost things kept submerging him, it would be difficult for him to explore effectively.
Lu Jiamu carefully got out of the abnormal state.
Then he felt that the blood and mucus around him began to surge undercurrents, constantly crushing the protective suit.
The bloody humanoid monster came up again, and this time its arms finally managed to wrap around Lu Jiamu's waist, constantly tightening its arms, as if it wanted to strangle him in half.
But they didn't have that much strength, especially the sea of blood, which was viscous but still liquid in nature. Lu Jiamu only felt a little squeeze.
"The anomaly is squeezing me."
The person in the headset said in a steady tone: "Don't worry, the protective suit has a certain ability to withstand pressure, it won't burst. Try not to let your mind wander."
As soon as Lu Jiamu came out of his abnormal state, he was swept away from his original stop by the undercurrent, and no one knew where he was being swept to.
He felt like a cockroach sucked into a toilet bowl, his head spinning.
Apart from the bloody corpse that had been pestering him, Lu Jiamu could see nothing but blood and red.
Not knowing how many times he had been swept around or how far he had been swept away, and having lost his reference points, Lu Jiamu began to become disoriented in space.
The sense of direction, vision, hearing, and senses were gradually taken away by the blood, as if thrown into the deep sea. There was a dead silence all around, not even the screams of ghosts.
He could no longer tell up from down, left from right, and could not tell whether he was lying sideways, standing upright, or upside down.
The people in the temporary command point also realized that he had been taken to an unknown location, and they could not analyze anything from the monotonous influences transmitted back from the previous ones.
The equipment they originally designed to deal with attacks from different directions is now useless because this anomaly is far larger than they imagined.
The drone had never touched the ground, so the depth of the anomaly could not be seen from the aerial angle. In addition, the area itself was in a valley under a cliff, so they could not see where the ground was.
They had originally thought that exploring this anomaly would be like walking through mud. Now they knew that was a gross misjudgment, and it was more like wading through the sea.
After the atmosphere was stagnant for a moment, someone began to persuade Lu Jiamu: "It can't penetrate your protective suit for the time being, and it won't threaten your life. Please stay calm as much as possible. Being too excited will cause your oxygen consumption to increase, which is not good for you."
"I am calm."
This bulky space suit-like equipment feels extremely heavy when walking on the ground, but after being wrapped in mucus, there is no such heavy feeling.
The most urgent thing is to regain the sense of direction. Otherwise, if you keep moving in the wrong direction, you will easily die here.
Fortunately, he had a compass on his wrist to prevent himself from losing his way after entering the forest.
Lu Jiamu raised his hand and aimed it towards the light of the searchlight. In the sea of blood with extremely low visibility, he could barely see the direction of the pointer.
By the different degrees of rotation of the pointer, he could roughly distinguish the vertical up and down.
Lu Jiamu stretched out his hand to push aside the sticky sea of blood, made swimming movements, and tried to swim upwards.
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