Chapter 567 Contaminated Zone 4 (Part 8)
"No."
Xie Tu's gaze deepened. From the beginning, he knew that she was different from others, able to hear the sounds made by the gatekeeper.
Yun Zhao turned on the flashlight and turned to look at the others.
The three of them stood separately in the bamboo grove diagonally behind her, and when they met her gaze, their expressions were surprisingly identical.
Even with the S-class sentinels' keen perception, they didn't hear it either.
"It sounds like a human sigh, very soft, but I'm not sure what it is."
Too much noise drowned out the faint sigh from the sound of the wind in the bamboo forest.
Having had previous experience, Yun Zhao tried to avoid giving specific definitions to prevent her relaying information from misleading others.
This was the first time Fu Yan had encountered this situation. She was reloading her magazine when she asked, "Is it a humanoid gatekeeper?"
"Possibly."
Jiang Mu turned to look at the earthen house not far away. He saw a dim yellow light shining from the lonely window, which looked particularly out of place in the deepening night.
"Shall we go over there and take a look?"
Besides the fields and this bamboo grove, there is only one house nearby, which is only two or three hundred meters away from the bamboo grove.
With such a loud commotion, it's impossible that the people in the earthen house didn't notice.
If it's a sigh, excluding controlled alien mutants, the sound is most likely coming from the earthen house.
Yun Zhao thought the same thing. The light from his flashlight flickered in the bamboo forest, the surroundings were eerily empty.
She suddenly remembered something, "What about the mutants in the forest?"
"It's all cleaned up."
Xia Mingang gestured for her to look at the ground, where there were puddles of black slime buried under withered leaves. "Otherwise, with my strength, how could it have taken so long?"
Fu Mo said expressionlessly, "Your chuunibyou is quite severe. Didn't the doctors at Hope Base diagnose it?"
"You're just jealous of the genius Sentinel!"
Xia Mingang exaggeratedly clutched his chest, "The base doctor said I have 'excessive charisma.' After all, S-class Sentinels like me are rare."
Fu Yan glanced at him coldly, her fingertips twitching slightly, and a glint of cold light flashed—"Swish!" A dagger grazed Xia Mingang's ear and embedded itself in the bamboo pole behind him, the hilt vibrating with a hum.
Xia Mingang: "Wow, murdering a teammate! Captain, are you going to do anything about it?"
Once they got to know each other better, Xia Mingang's immature and childish nature was fully revealed.
The next second.
The stone tablet appeared out of thin air above his head, and without the slightest hesitation, he struck with lightning speed.
With a "bang," the person who had been talking trash was knocked to the ground.
Fu Yu's expression softened slightly. She walked over to retrieve the dagger, turned to Xie Tu and Yun Zhao, and asked, "Any clues about the things in the cellar?"
Xie Tu was urging the fire phoenix to check the earthen house when he heard the question. He paused, glanced at the person beside him, and remained silent.
"The wreckage of the aircraft should be my father's car."
Yun Zhao made no attempt to hide anything and stated directly, "The crystal that Wei Xu found is the key to the hull."
These words were spoken.
Xia Mingang, who had just gotten up from the ground, stumbled and almost fell back to the ground.
Fu Mo suddenly looked up, her pupils contracted slightly, and her breath hitched almost imperceptibly.
Jiang Mu raised an eyebrow in surprise.
It seems they didn't expect her to be so candid, without considering the consequences at all.
"My genes are capable of powering aircraft."
Yun Zhao touched the iron box and said slowly, "As for that hexagonal badge, we don't know its purpose yet."
She was completely open and honest, without any guile or burden.
Jiang Mu already knew what was going on inside, so there was no need to hide it from the other two anymore.
Based on all the clues we have obtained so far, the enemy is exceptionally powerful in both technology and strength.
Only by working together and trusting each other can the 5S team reach the end.
She didn't want to create an information asymmetry and cause mutual suspicion.
"Genes? Your father's spacecraft?"
Fu Mo frowned slightly, then suddenly turned to look at the cellar entrance, her expression changing.
Since the arrival of the Dark Apocalypse, the sky has long been a forbidden land untouched by anyone, and the so-called genetic key was something that Fu Heng, who was well-read, had never even heard of.
Clearly, Fuyu had realized something.
When she turned back, her eyes were covered with a layer of frost.
Xie Tu took a half step forward without making a sound, assuming a defensive stance.
His slender figure cast a silhouette in the moonlight, like a drawn sword, protecting Yun Zhao within a safe range.
Three steps away, Jiang Mu's position was subtly positioned at the exit of the bamboo forest path.
Only Xia Mingang, with a hint of hesitation in his eyes, simply pretended to be stupid.
In the dark bamboo forest, the atmosphere suddenly became somewhat subtle.
Yun Zhao seemed oblivious.
She paused, then continued calmly, "As you might think, the spacecraft is not technology from the old era; it... most likely comes from a higher civilization."
These remarks, while shocking and unconventional, also confirmed Fu Yu and Xia Mingang's suspicions.
Xia Mingang, unusually abandoning his nonchalant expression, asked, "So... the enemy might not even be an Earth creature?"
Yun Zhao did not answer.
She still doesn't know where Yun Jue is, let alone the identity of "He" from the sky.
Fu Mo remained expressionless. Upon hearing the words "higher civilization," she unconsciously crushed a small pebble on the ground with the tip of her shoe.
The pebbles made a soft, crackling sound, which was particularly jarring in the deathly silent bamboo forest.
Do you know what this means?
Before Yun Zhao could answer.
Xie Tu calmly continued, "This means that all our strategic deployments so far have been based on flawed understanding."
His voice was like a blade chilled by ice, piercing the stagnant air with each word, yet subtly shifting the topic from Yun Zhao's father to disaster preparedness.
Jiang Mu twirled the two swords in his hands and suddenly said, "It also means that the polluted area may not be a naturally formed ecological disaster."
Humanity originally thought that as long as the contaminated areas were eliminated, this disaster could be ended.
Thus, generation after generation of people from the four bases devoted themselves to the resistance and research of dark matter and contaminated areas.
All strategic deployments made by humankind are preparations made around this.
If it weren't for the ecological disaster...
Then wouldn't humanity's struggles and sacrifices over the past century have become a laughable one-man show?
Fu Yu's fingertips dug deeply into her palms, but her expression remained unusually calm.
Having traveled to various contaminated areas on missions, she had already witnessed far too many bizarre and fantastical things, almost beyond human comprehension and inexplicable by common sense and science.
If it was done by an advanced civilization, then everything makes sense.
Now that we have the answer, it can be considered that we have gotten what we asked for.
However, even just the tip of the iceberg reveals the enormous gap between humanity and its technology.
As for Yun Zhao's identity...
Those present understood perfectly well that Xie Tu was deliberately shifting the topic, drawing the focus away from Yun Jue and towards the disaster itself.
The three of them tacitly agreed not to ask any further questions.
Everyone can see clearly that regardless of whether Yun Jue comes from an extraterrestrial civilization, the fact that Yun Zhao is willing to reveal it proves that it has nothing to do with her.
The sentries trusted their instincts more.
There was no misunderstanding at all.
"The enemy hasn't appeared yet, so any further discussion now is just empty talk."
Xie Tu felt they couldn't delay any longer and said, "Let's get back to the mission itself, find the gatekeeper first, and we can talk about the rest after we get out."
Zone 4 is a high-risk area.
We're getting very close to number six, and because the time flow in the contaminated area is different from that in the outside world, it might be dawn very soon.
The most urgent task is to complete the mission and leave as soon as possible.
After a moment of silence, no one objected.
Jiang Mu was the first to emerge from the woods, casually saying, "Let's go check out the earthen house; I suspect the gatekeeper is nearby."
The most important thing is to investigate that sigh-like sound.
Yun Zhao nodded, glanced one last time in the direction of the cellar, and turned to leave.
She thought she would wait until she found the gatekeeper before coming back to move the wreckage out.
The group left the bamboo forest, preparing to investigate the earthen house.
The five people were completely unaware of this at the time.
An hour was almost up, and their mission time was running out...
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