Chapter 637 The Guardian of the Collection (Part 1)
After the meal.
Everyone started packing their things.
Before leaving, Yun Zhao called Keli upstairs to say goodbye, instructing it to take good care of the house and that she would return after she finished dealing with the red-eyed creature.
Kerry, oblivious to everything, replied, "Okay, little master, you're so kind of you to care about Kerry now."
Yun Zhao felt a pang of sadness and reached out to stroke the bow on its head. "Keri is great, wait for me to come back..."
When she returns, Kerry will temporarily disappear until her father appears and retrieves its spare chip.
When it wakes up again, it will not remember what happened here.
They will not remember that it once guarded itself for a century in a dangerous, polluted area.
...
This time, the 5S team unanimously decided not to use armored vehicles.
While vehicles can help transport supplies, they also have significant limitations.
In many narrow and rugged terrains, areas with dense mutated vegetation, or scenarios requiring covert operations, the massive size and roaring engine of an armored vehicle can become a hindrance and a sitting duck.
When Yun Zhao came downstairs, he was holding the simple diagram that his uncle had given him earlier.
“I checked the map with Kerry. It hasn’t been to any other places; it can only sense the general direction.”
Yun Zhao spread out the map and passed it to everyone. "It's pretty much as Uncle described. The red eyes almost cover the entire south. If we're going to the big city where the collection is located, we'll go out from the east, and Kerry will take us into the city."
The sixth contaminated zone is spreading frequently, and almost every gatekeeper's territory is constantly expanding, except for Kerry.
—It's possible that, in order to find her, Red Eyes didn't choose to absorb the other gatekeepers, but instead spread out together until they found Yun Zhao.
This also led to each goalkeeper's strength constantly increasing.
Taken individually, each of them might already meet a five-star standard.
“Looking at the map, that woman’s territory borders Red Eyes’ territory, which is clearly separated from Red-crowned Crane’s territory, with the castle sandwiched in between.”
Jiang Mu handed the map to Fu Heng, saying, "The red-eyed creatures can't move the castle, which gives them a space to live."
"Isn't there still an unclaimed public area?" Fu Yan studied the map carefully. "Do you think the gatekeepers might communicate with each other? Reach some kind of agreement in private?"
Xia Mingang: "How can the collection be exchanged? I even doubt its intelligence."
Jiang Mu looked up. "You'd better hope it has some intelligence."
Having intelligence at least means acting with some logic.
It's not the strength of the enemy that's scary, it's their occasional erratic outbursts.
Fu Yan returned the map to Yun Zhao and said, "We'll only know once we go inside. This time, our goal is very clear: we must take it."
Xie Tu handed her the packed backpack and said, "Let's go."
Yun Zhao put away the map, nodded, and said, "Let's go."
The group of five shouldered their backpacks and headed towards the amusement park.
Kerry, along with the nine sentries and He Guanghai, saw them off all the way.
He Guanghai did not go with them.
He is a mutant. If he enters the gatekeeper's territory and gets separated and controlled, he could very well become a bargaining chip for the gatekeeper to threaten Yun Zhao.
Although He Guanghai was worried about Yun Zhao's safety, after knowing that Red Eyes wouldn't dare to hurt her, he struggled with the decision all night and finally decided to stay.
He cannot become a burden to Zhaozhao.
He has already told Xie Tu everything he needed to say. With He Jun and the others there, they will be able to persuade Zhao Zhao to stay...
The group arrived at the back of the amusement park, where a boundary was obscured by green plants.
I could vaguely see a gray mist rolling silently behind the trees, creating an eerie disconnect with the music emanating from the amusement park.
It was as if an invisible wall separated two completely different worlds.
Kerry glided to the front.
With its will, the tangled greenery seemed to be parted by an invisible hand, and the churning gray mist was forcibly torn open, revealing a pitch-black passage where even light could not penetrate.
Kerry turned to face Yun Zhao: "Little master, come back soon."
Yun Zhao nodded and reached out again to touch the bow on its head. "Okay..."
He Guanghai took a piece of candy out of his pocket, put it in Yun Zhao's hand, and instructed, "Be careful, remember you're the captain now, don't be reckless..."
Yun Zhao didn't understand the implied meaning and assumed that his uncle was worried about him. "Uncle, don't worry, I will."
The nine sentries looked even more solemn, as if they were rushing to their deaths.
The nine of them came from Dawn Base and Dawn Base respectively.
Seeing that Xie Tu was explaining something to them, Jiang Mu went over and offered a few words of encouragement.
It's simply a matter of not neglecting training, asking Kerry for more supplies, and also searching around the castle for any other high-tech gadgets.
—They completely treated this place as a resource point.
"Let's go," Fu Yu urged, carrying the Gatling gun.
Yun Zhao didn't delay any longer and called everyone over.
Five people stood in front of the passageway.
She glanced back at Kerry, He Guanghai, and the nine solemn-looking sentries one last time, waved to the crowd, and followed them into the dark passage.
*
As darkness receded, the scene before us gradually came into view.
The five people stepped onto the solid, cool stone floor, and were greeted by a complex aroma that mixed with the smells of old wood, cheap fried food, and some indescribable sweetness.
What comes into view is a vermilion-lacquered pavilion with flying eaves and brackets, coexisting with brand-new modern billboards.
"Ancient town?"
Yun Zhao quickly erected the barrier before looking up to survey his surroundings.
They were standing in the middle of an extremely wide street in an ancient town, surrounded by a dense crowd of deformed beings with stiff faces and tattered clothes, all wearing the same exaggerated and bizarrely bright smiles.
The sky was overcast.
The surrounding light sources were complex, including dim yellow red lanterns, dazzling neon lights, and stark white spotlights that seemed to come from nowhere.
It stretched all the shadows into bizarre and fantastical shapes.
At the same time, a cacophony of noises reached my ears.
The clamor of gongs and cymbals, the sharp suona horns, the out-of-tune string and wind instruments, the boisterous voices, the roar of machinery, the distorted pop music clips... all sounds were amplified.
Mixed together, losing the sense of distance.
Like a tsunami, it continuously pounded against the eardrums, making people dizzy and almost unable to think.
If she's in this state, imagine what the four S-class Sentinels beside her must be like.
Yun Zhao dodged the mutated creatures approaching from the front, using a barrier to block out the sentinels' five senses.
A tense voice came from behind, "Try removing the barrier first?"
Yun Zhao didn't understand, but he did as instructed.
In an instant, a cacophony of noise once again filled my ears.
The deafening noise, the bizarre colors, and the mixed, pungent smells surged in like a burst dam, assaulting everyone's senses.
Xie Tu raised his head, his gaze quickly meeting that of Jiang Mu, Fu Yu, and Xia Mingang.
The expressions on everyone's faces were intriguing.
A strange, unbelievable, and even slightly bewildered expression.
Yun Zhao immediately noticed the strange silence and his companions' unusual expressions: "What's wrong?"
Xie Tu withdrew his gaze and said, "It seems like our five senses are being blocked by something."
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