The Informal Tomb Raiding Diary: She is the occupant of the tomb!-Chapter 445 - 330: Not an Illusion (Part 3)
The higher-ups sent us here because the Death Desert has something that interests them. Modern people can use satellites to clearly see people and vehicles on the ground, and it’s possible they have long seen the glowing object at the center of the Ancient City via satellite.
They just need someone to come in and verify it since satellites can see but cannot touch.
This thing needs to be approached to know what it is, to further study it, but unfortunately, until now, no one who has approached it has successfully left.
"Could there be radiation?" Wang Le asked.
"Well... at least not any known radiation," Mike said. He had a mechanical box in his backpack with lots of numeric symbols and small buttons on it.
Whenever he walked a bit, he would take it out and fiddle with it for a while. I only know that this device is for checking something, but I’m not sure exactly what it measures.
His most recent check was during the last break. He took out the box and looked at it for a while, then went to the door and pointed the box towards the city center for two minutes.
The front of the box had a protruding, antenna-like probe, and the device resembled a large radio.
Since he said there was no conventional radiation, it means he tested it, but what we are approaching is unknown. The absence of conventional radiation doesn’t mean there is no deadly danger.
Everyone present was aware of this, so their expressions did not relax.
After chatting in the yard for a while, the fog in the city slightly dispersed, and Chen Qinghan signaled us to continue on our way.
After walking for about ten minutes, a roadblock-like obstacle appeared ahead, which blocked the road completely.
The height reached up to my neck. To call it a roadblock would be because it blocked the road, but it was actually a row of stone slabs, or rather a stone wall, with metal plates and geometric figures hanging on it.
We had seen ’station signs’ on the underground transit line, and now seeing this sign and thinking about the purpose of the roadblock, even if we couldn’t read or understand the figures, we could guess its meaning, much like a prohibition sign.
This Ancient City has a ten-thousand-year history, with several thousand years identified to be spent underground, as Wuyong can testify.
Yet, many things are very well preserved, such as the stone houses on the outskirts of the city, with only the paint peeling, or doors deteriorated, but the main structures are well preserved. The rails and station signs of the transit line are in such a condition that I’d believe the Ancient City was abandoned just a year ago.
Gu, Wuyong, Cowboy Hat want us to go to the city center, and they are unlikely to set up this obstacle to stop us.
Besides, this level of roadblock couldn’t stop us, so for once our team was in unanimous agreement that the roadblock was set by the original inhabitants of the Ancient City.
That is to say, the initial ’leak’ incident might have been centered at the city center, with the center as the origin, spreading to the whole city.
Chen Qinghan was the first to climb over to inspect, and only called us over once he found nothing unusual.
I was the last in the team; after they all climbed over, I followed, but when I got over, there was no one inside.
Hey?? What’s going on?
"Chen Qinghan? Doctor Du—Mike!" Unable to see anyone, I quickly looked at the ground, certain they would’ve left footprints when they climbed over.
However, the ground was clean; no, the dirt on the ground was leveled without any stepping marks, leaving only my own footprints.
Don’t panic! I told myself, isn’t this scene somewhat familiar?
In the island jungle, we also encountered the same situation where two teams ran one after the other, and the first team suddenly disappeared.
But that’s impossible, they climbed over at almost the same time, and there were only a few seconds between my climb and Wang Le’s, could time conversion be that fast?
This feels like I was deliberately left out. I turned around and noticed something like a manhole cover on the ground where we landed, just where Chen Qinghan and his team landed.
It was metal, very clean on the surface, without dust or footprints.
I extended a foot to step on it, checking if it was a covering that got flipped over, perhaps it accidentally flipped and they fell down.
But I know the chances of that are slim, and all of them falling in succession wouldn’t have happened silently.
After stepping on it several times, confirming that the cover had no loose edges, it’s strange, could they really have flipped into the Different Space?
Now I envy my senior brother a bit; at least he has his second and third junior brothers, who can tell him his master was captured by a monster.
"Miss Leng..."
Just when I was contemplating whether to open the cover to check below, a suppressed voice called from beside a nearby building.
The voice sounded somewhat familiar; I turned and saw Gu squatting at the corner of a stone building, body hidden in the shadow, gesturing for me to come over.
