Chapter 210 discusses clues
The two groups of people evaded the patrolling sentries and finally returned to the guesthouse.
In the pitch-black environment, they relied solely on faint breathing and heartbeats to determine each other's location.
Stepping into the lobby, Tao Haohao, who was at the back, closed the door.
The others took out flashlights, checked the curtains, and only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that everything was fine. They then sat down wherever they could find a spot.
Especially the group of B-level sentries in Dongcha Town.
The contaminated area was filled with an eeriness and danger, and the sentries were on edge, not daring to speak.
Jiang Mu strode in and threw the bag he was carrying onto the table.
The bag was heavy, filled with thick documents, and it landed on the table with a dull thud.
"Captain, what is this?"
Orange and the others returned first, and seeing that everyone had come back, they all got up and surrounded them.
Jiang Mu turned around and sat down on the sofa. "Population records for Shelter No. 16."
Zhou Tianqi: "..."
The captain and the others haven't come out yet; are they working on this thing?
"Will there be any clues in the information?"
Qi Jun opened the bag, revealing a thick stack of documents inside. He pulled out a sheet and held up his flashlight to examine it. "Wasn't the initial plan to go in and destroy the power supply system and the database?"
"Yes, that was originally the case, but the plan changed at the last minute."
Jiang Mu pulled a piece of chocolate from his backpack, and only after tearing off the wrapper did he look up at Xie Tu and Yun Zhao, "Can we trust what those guides say?"
At the power station, Jiang Mu also encountered a group of guides who maintained their self-awareness.
He was informed of the entire process by which the contaminated area came into being.
There are subtle differences between the guides' accounts and those of the twin sisters.
Both sentry teams must make their own judgments.
Those guides are no longer human, but rather mutants living in the contaminated area.
It's possible that in order to gain the trust of the two S-class Sentinels, they deliberately misled everyone, causing them to abandon the plan to destroy the system and instead wander around the contaminated area like headless flies.
Over time, they will gradually be affected by the contaminated area.
They will be assimilated sooner or later.
No wonder Jiang Mu was so wary.
This might all be a conspiracy by the gatekeeper.
It has a high IQ.
Shelter 16 is a large-scale facility that brings together a wealth of talent, including numerous top-tier combatants such as sentinels and guides.
But the gatekeeper can trap everyone to death.
Jiang Mu had to be on guard.
"I think what they said is true."
Yun Zhao sat down on the sofa opposite him and said in a low mood, "You can only fool us for a while. When we can't find any other clues, we'll still try to destroy the database."
That makes sense.
Xie Tu walked over and placed the bag he was carrying on the table; it contained all the documents they had brought back.
"This is the information we received."
Xie Tu said, "According to the guide, cutting off the energy supply would cause the two dimensions to merge completely, making the situation worse."
Xie Tu and Yun Zhao stayed in the server room and chatted with the six guides for a long time.
The gatekeeper has the ability to control dark matter.
If digital life arrives, they will have nowhere to hide.
They are human beings and need rest.
With the keys unavailable and supplies scarce, the teams likely won't last long.
Jiang Mu received the same information, and in front of everyone, he broke the final barrier, "Stop thinking about the key. The facts are clear: only by finding the gatekeeper and killing him can we all get out."
After he finished speaking, the room fell silent.
Apart from Yun Zhao and Xie Tu, almost everyone had a different expression on their face.
The members of the two S-class teams had a premonition in their hearts, and they wore heavy expressions of 'I knew it'.
Li Guo, Xu Pengcheng, and the others looked extremely dazed.
The meaning behind the words is already quite clear.
S-class sentinels confirmed this themselves.
This is a five-star pollution zone.
Who could have imagined that their first entry into the contaminated zone would be met with a hellish challenge, far exceeding their expectations and preparations?
If it weren't for the two S-class sentinels leading the team in, they would almost certainly have died.
Seeing this, Liu Hong took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention and kicked them twice in the dark.
The group of people quickly and obediently lowered their heads and stood in a proper manner.
Yun Zhao was in a low mood when she came out of the database. She was always quiet and didn't talk much. In the darkness, with only a few beams of light from the flashlights, few people noticed her.
"But now the clues have gone cold. If the gatekeeper has no connection to digital life forms, then what kind of existence is it?"
Song Liang walked over to Qi Jun's side and also picked up the documents on the table to examine them. It was impossible for the two team leaders to have memorized these population files for no reason.
"The guides said that the digital life world is related to the gatekeeper, but is not the gatekeeper itself."
Jiang Mu raised an eyebrow. "That's intriguing."
Xie Tu glanced at Yun Zhao; her mood had become off after Guide Rong mentioned her parents.
We are currently discussing the clues.
Xie Tu had no choice but to focus his thoughts on the important matter at hand.
"The guides said that the last group of survivors turned the base upside down, but still couldn't find the gatekeeper."
He picked up where Jiang Mu left off, his voice calm and clear, and said, "They are blinded by a leaf. They are too focused on finding an 'external' enemy because they are in the middle of the situation, and they are likely to overlook the most obvious clues around them."
When people are in dire straits and anxiously searching for a way out, they are often misled by appearances, always looking towards that distant and elusive hope, while ignoring what is right in front of them.
When people are in a state of extreme despair and panic, they fall into a cognitive trap.
"Does the captain mean that the goalkeeper might be among them?" Rabbit gasped.
Xie Tu did not deny it: "It could also be items that they were carrying with them."
Xie Tu finally asked them if they knew that the polluted area was located in Gulang County, Wuwei City, Gansu Province.
The group of people seemed very surprised.
The organisms in the polluted area are unaware that they have been moved to a different place.
The people in the shelter are not like intruders from the outside. Outsiders have a God's-eye view and are more like outsiders, so their perspective on problems is naturally different from theirs.
They may have been heading in the wrong direction from the very beginning.
Tao Haohao and Zhou Tianqi didn't understand. Pointing to the pile of documents on the table, they asked, "But what's the relationship between these two?"
Xie Tu said calmly, "The contaminated zone is related to obsession. Something must have happened during the proposal to develop the digital life world, which led to the birth of a huge obsession. In the end, the contaminated zone was formed, and the gatekeeper facilitated this achievement."
"The digital life world is a reflection of human consciousness, forming another monstrous self."
The gatekeeper may have created these monsters to protect himself or to maintain his own existence.
It constantly emits a special kind of seductive signal.
It makes people in the contaminated area yearn to enter it, and makes them unafraid of death.
Some even commit mad suicide in an attempt to gain access to this virtual world.
While alive, you cannot see another version of yourself.
Only death can.
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