CIATB Chapter 181 Forbidden Zone Warning!
Chapter 181 Forbidden Zone Warning!
"Push! Push hard!"
Wang Kai roared, his face flushed and his neck thick.
The four wheels spun in the snow, kicking up clouds of mud and snow.
The SUV remained completely still.
Half of the wheel was stuck in the soft snow.
"No way, Kai-ge!"
The boy wearing glasses was panting heavily, his glasses fogged up.
"The snow is so deep, the chassis has bottomed out!"
Two girls stood to the side, shivering from the cold.
The altitude here is close to two thousand meters.
The temperature plummeted to minus twenty degrees Celsius.
The wind felt like knives on my face.
The boasts I made in the car have now turned into slaps in the face.
"Damn it!"
Wang Kai kicked the tire hard.
He took out his phone to call for help.
"No signal."
He looked at the red cross in the upper left corner of the screen and felt a chill run down his spine.
This is a true no-man's-land.
Even satellite signals are intermittent.
"Then... what should we do?"
The girl with the ponytail sounded like she was about to cry.
"Are we going to die here?"
"Don't talk nonsense!"
Wang Kai forced himself to remain calm.
"We have equipment and food."
"At worst, we'll abandon the car and walk in."
"Anyway, we're not far from our destination."
He pointed to the hilltop in front of him.
"The geothermal valley is just over there."
"Once we get there, the geothermal heat will raise the temperature, and it won't be cold anymore."
The group of people looked at each other in bewilderment.
Going back now would take at least four hours on foot.
And it's all uphill.
Moving forward seems to be the only hope.
"Walk!"
Wang Kai carried the huge hiking backpack on his back.
"Keep your distance!"
"No one should be left behind!"
The group trudged through the deep snow, moving forward with difficulty.
……
at the same time.
Five kilometers away.
On a precipice.
Zhang Yan stopped Chengying under an old pine tree.
He stood on the edge of the cliff, looking down.
There, in a huge, sunken valley, lies.
Even in the dead of winter.
The valley floor remains lush and green, covered with vegetation.
White steam rose from the cracks in the ground and condensed into fog in mid-air.
It's like a fairyland.
In the center of the valley.
A huge bronze pillar stands there.
A huge creature was coiled up on top.
Even from this distance, you can feel that suffocating sense of oppression.
The Four Spirits of the Mohist School: The Soaring Serpent.
It appears to be asleep.
A thin layer of frost covered the bronze scales.
But those ruby-like eyes were faintly visible in the mist, emitting a faint red glow.
"Old friend, I'm back again."
Zhang Yan said softly.
He didn't go down immediately.
Instead, he turned around and looked back at the road he had come from.
The gaze travels through layers of forest.
It landed on those few small black dots struggling in the snow.
"They're really persistent."
Zhang Yan shook his head.
That road is the only way to the Geothermal Valley.
But it's also the most dangerous road.
The area was filled with outer security mechanisms left by the Mohists.
Although most of them are no longer valid.
But what's left is enough to give ordinary people a hard time.
"drop--"
The tactical watch on Zhang Yan's wrist beeped.
The holographic projection popped open.
Several red dots are visible approaching the warning line.
[WARNING: Unauthorized life form detected approaching.]
[Defense System: Level 1 Alert.]
[Activate eviction mode?]
Zhang Yan's finger hovered over the "Yes" button.
I hesitated for a moment.
In the past, he might have activated the mechanism directly to scare these people away.
But now.
He needs to move the Tengshe away.
Making too much noise will only attract attention from the outside world.
and……
Those people were a bit stupid, but they didn't deserve to die.
"Disarm the deadly mechanism."
Zhang Yan issued the order.
"Retain non-lethal barriers."
"Activate fog of war mode."
[Command confirmed.]
The fog generator has been activated.
In the valley.
The originally thin fog suddenly became thicker.
It was as if an invisible giant hand had enveloped the entire valley in a white mist.
Visibility dropped to less than five meters in an instant.
……
"Why is it foggy?"
Wang Kai stopped and looked around in a flustered manner.
Just now, I could still see the mountain peaks in front of me.
Now I can't even see a tree ten meters away.
"GPS signal is gone too!"
The bespectacled man cried out in terror.
"The compass is spinning wildly!"
"This is magnetic field interference!"
Fear began to spread through the ranks.
Unknown environment, harsh weather, malfunctioning equipment.
All of this is impacting their psychological defenses.
"ah--!"
Suddenly, the short-haired girl at the back screamed.
"Snake! There's a snake!"
Everyone was startled and quickly turned around.
All that could be seen was the snow.
A mechanical snake, as thick as a wrist, is emerging from the snow.
Its body is composed of intricate gears and connecting rods.
His eyes gleamed with a deep blue light.
It made a "click-clack" metallic clanging sound.
"What...what the hell is this?!"
Wang Kai was so frightened that he sat down on the ground with a thud.
The entrenching tool in his hand was shaking.
The mechanical snakes did not attack them.
He simply looked up, and the cold, electronic eyes scanned his surroundings.
Then open your mouth.
It emitted a piercing, synthesized electronic sound.
"Restricted area ahead."
"Leave immediately."
The voice was cold and devoid of any emotion.
In this silent, snow-capped mountain, it felt particularly eerie.
"A ghost...there's a ghost!"
The two girls were completely devastated.
He turned and ran.
Regardless of whether the direction was right or wrong, all I wanted was to escape this terrifying place.
"Don't run! Don't run around!"
Wang Kai tried to stop them.
But at that moment...
More mechanical snakes emerged from the surrounding snow.
Densely packed.
There are dozens of them.
They formed a circle, surrounding everyone in the middle.
"Leave immediately."
"Leave immediately."
"Leave immediately."
Dozens of voices overlapped, creating a huge wave of sound.
Wang Kai was in despair.
He finally understood that the legend was more than just a legend.
Here.
There really are things that transcend our understanding.
Just when they thought they were going to die here.
A dark figure appeared silently in the mist.
The man had his hands in his pockets.
They strolled leisurely through the encirclement of mechanical snakes.
Those originally ferocious mechanical snakes all lowered their heads as he passed by.
It looked like they were bowing.
It's like surrendering.
Wang Kai's eyes widened.
Looking at that familiar figure.
That young man whom he mocked that morning as "amateurish" and "will freeze to death."
She was standing right in front of him at that moment.
Looking down from a high vantage point.
His eyes remained as calm as a stagnant pool.
"I told you."
Zhang Yan spoke calmly.
"I'm not looking for snakes."
He pointed to the group of docile mechanical snakes behind him.
"Because of them..."
"They were all raised by me."