Zhang Yu and Xia Yiyi met one hundred kilometers northwest of the Red Dragon Canyon.
As soon as Xia Yi received Chen Enzhi's notice, he called all the people in Aisinvar, and the formation almost made him want to fight a big battle.
In comparison, Zhang Yu's side was "much shabbier". Not only were the number of people there much different, but the weapons and equipment were not of the same level.
So when Xia Yi saw Zhang Yu, he said: "My people will handle it next, and you just need to be responsible and cooperate."
Zhang Yu wanted to say something, but he swallowed it.
After reuniting, they headed straight to the Red Dragon Canyon, covering 100 kilometers in less than ten minutes in front of the Weir-class deployment ship.
But when they arrived above the Red Dragon Canyon, they found that the geology and landforms in this area had undergone earth-shaking changes...
I saw that the Red Dragon Canyon, which was like a giant winged dragon on the red earth, had been completely destroyed by more cracks, and the interior of the canyon was littered with corpses!
A large number of crashed battleships, burning chariots, and the corpses of many giant alien species were scattered among them...
It seems that there was an earth-shattering battle here last night.
But why didn’t the observation tower notice the problem in Red Dragon Canyon?
…
On the bridge.
Xia Yiyi had a solemn look on her face, and she asked Zhang Yu: "Jin, it turns out that I really didn't tell you anything here?"
Zhang Yu also had a similar expression, but he was more concerned about whether Jin Yuan was alive or dead.
"No, he just said he had something to deal with."
Xia Yiyi chuckled: "This is not a big deal. So many people have died. If we don't find out, something big will happen."
Zhang Yu came to his senses after hearing this: "What does Sister Yiyi mean?"
Xia Yiyi still dresses like a gothic lolita, but now she rarely goes out with an umbrella.
After thinking for a while, she said: "Let me report the situation here first, and then I will take some people down to search first."
Zhang Yu was shocked when he heard this: "No, we can't report it."
Xia Yi frowned: "Why?"
Zhang Yu sighed and said: "Sister Yiyi, you may not know that Jin Yuan and I are currently suspended. According to regulations, no arbitrator can leave his or her management-level jurisdiction while the suspension is pending review, so...
…”
Xia Yi was stunned: "Suspended? Why suspended?"
Zhang Yu smiled bitterly, and then told Xia Yi the general story.
After hearing this, Xia Yiyi was silent for a while and then said with a smile: "Interesting... You two didn't have any big problems when you were still novices. Now you have been with the Arbiter for more than ten years, but you have fallen into this situation.
In a small matter?"
Zhang Yu actually had doubts after the incident happened, but the most important thing at the moment was to find Jin Yuan, so he said urgently: "Sister Yiyi, now is not the time to talk about these things. Let's find a way to rescue Jin Yuan first!"
Xia Yi curled his lips, then pointed to the overview map on the bridge and said: "Well, while we were talking, I sent worker bees to scan it. The data shows that Jin Yuan last appeared in
this place."
Zhang Yu walked over and took a look. The overview map was enlarged, and a dark hole appeared in front of him.
…
Ten minutes later, led by Xia Yiyi and assisted by Zhang Yu, Wang Kun and others, a team of seventeen people arrived at the entrance of the cave where Jin Yuan finally appeared.
This cave entrance is located at the "leading head" of the Red Dragon Canyon, which is the area with the largest ground drop in the canyon.
The height of the cave entrance is about three meters and the width is seven meters. At first glance, it looks like the mouth of a manta ray.
After dragging away several corpses lying in front of the cave entrance, Wang Kun frowned and said, "Where is this place? Why is the yin energy so strong?"
Zhang Yu frowned slightly, there was indeed something abnormal about this cave entrance. The temperature difference between the inside and outside was actually close to 30 degrees, and the cold wind was blowing like a giant blower.
The worker bees released by Xia Yiyi have been entering the hole for a minute, but none of them has successfully fed back the structural information inside the hole.
"No, the interference is too strong. We have to send people down to take a look." Xia Yiyi said as he greeted his two men.
They were a pair of twin teenagers. They were wearing mrak10 exoskeletons of the same color. They were of the same stature and only had different numbers on their shoulders.
"You two, be careful. If you find any problem, just pull back."
The two nodded silently, then took off their weapons and started heading into the cave.
Upon seeing this, Zhang Yu said, "I'll be with you." After saying that, he followed.
Xia Yiyi did not stop him, but when Wang Kun was about to follow him, Xia Yiyi stopped him: "Don't follow him to your death. Just stay here obediently."
Wang Kun knew Xia Yiyi. He had experienced Xia Yiyi's power as early as when he was a mercenary, so he didn't dare to make any mistakes now and had to retreat to the side.
…
The structure inside the mysterious/cave is much simpler than imagined. Not only are there no forked roads, but the ground is also flat.
But what is disturbing is that all detection methods here have become a burden and cannot work properly at all. Moreover, Zhang Yu saw the worker bees released one by one by Xia Yi after only going a few dozen meters into the cave.
At this time, they were flying around a female corpse in the cave like flies. This strange phenomenon is really rare.
What made Zhang Yu feel even more uncomfortable was that this female corpse seemed to have been used as a sacrifice to some unclean gods. Her corpse was naked, her body was distorted with strange symbols, and her abdomen was cut.
Open, donate blood to fill a mysterious magic circle on the ground.
This situation is very much like a bloody sacrifice performed by some heretical cult in order to obtain unclean power.
The elder brother of the twins stepped forward to check on the body and said: "Her death time should have been at nightfall last night."
At nightfall? Zhang Yu frowned and thought to himself: 'Could all this be related to this horrific sacrifice?'
Just as he was thinking about it, the twin brother raised his wrist and looked at the data, and then said: "New trajectory information has been collected, the target should be deeper."
With that said, the twin brothers bypassed the corpses on the ground and headed deeper into the cave.
Zhang Yu was extremely disgusted with this kind of behavior that desecrated the deceased, so before leaving, he covered the body with capturing gel, thinking that he would bury her properly when the matter was over.
And just when Zhang Yu finished these things, Zhang Yu vaguely heard a voice coming from behind: "Thank you..."
The voice was so ghostly and cold that it made people's scalp numb.
When Zhang Yu turned around subconsciously, he saw nothing, as if he had heard an auditory hallucination.
‘Did I hear wrongly?’ Zhang Yu thought and began to check the surrounding psionic waveform data, but after checking around, he found no abnormalities, so he hurriedly caught up with the twins.
As we continued deeper into the cave, more and more strange blood sacrifices appeared on both sides of the road.
Zhang Yu also became increasingly uneasy.
He had heard before that the "disciples" seemed to be studying some supernatural powers in recent years, but he never expected that they would reach this level.
Of course, Zhang Yu is just guessing now. Maybe he guessed wrong. Everything in front of him has nothing to do with the "disciples", but maybe the behavior of the free people themselves.
After going down for about five hundred meters, they finally arrived at a dark stone door at the bottom of the cave.
Here, Zhang Yu saw more corpses, but these corpses were no longer the corpses used as blood sacrifices before, but a group of armed men who died in miserable conditions.
Their corpses were scattered around the giant stone door in disorder. It seemed that they were not used for some kind of ritual, but were killed by some monsters that came out of the "door".
Although Zhang Yu had never seen this scene before, it felt familiar to him.
Extremists who seek unclean power summon the demons they worship, but then turn around and kill them. This clichéd plot should be familiar even if you haven't read the relevant novels.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yu still wanted to laugh.
But these are not what Zhang Yu cares about. He didn't go deep here to find the truth behind any incident. He came to find Jin Yuan.
But now we have reached the bottom of the cave. There are only some weird symbols and unintelligible words on the surrounding rock walls. There are no other intersections, but there is still no shadow of Kanehara.
Could it be...
Zhang Yu's attention shifted from the surroundings to the strange stone door in front of him.
He had noticed this thing when he first arrived here because it was so big and eye-catching.
It is ten meters high and four and a half meters wide. The appearance is not regular, but the overall structure is clear. It is a stone door made of rock.
But the stone door is tightly closed, and the detection results show that there is nothing abnormal about it. So what is so mysterious about it?
Just as he was thinking about it, the twin brother had already bypassed the corpse on the ground and came to the steps outside the stone door. He stared at the symbol on the base of the stone door and said: "This is the 'Mark of Chaos' recorded in the book, which belongs to the human rebels."
A mark of shame."
Mark of Chaos? Human rebels?
Zhang Yu looked confused. He really hadn't paid much attention to it, but it seemed that his twin brother knew a lot about it, so he stepped forward and asked: "What is the Mark of Chaos? What's going on with the human rebels?"
The twin brother leaned down and began to collect the data information of those symbols. The twin brother was responsible for answering: "It is recorded that after the end of the Final War, the Supreme Court exiled the rebellious human army to the hellish Jupiter, but the exiled rebels
They did not disappear. On the contrary, after surviving the darkest period, they relied on the resources of Jupiter to launch a counterattack against mankind again. They called themselves the "Messengers of Chaos" in an attempt to prevent the final unfolding of the truth of origin, but ultimately failed... This time
After the war, the Chaos rebels were expelled into the disordered jump space, and have been eternally cursed and tortured by time ever since!"
After listening to such a record, Zhang Yu felt like he was listening to myths and legends.
What human rebels... what chaos...
Zhang Yu has no idea what these specifically represent, but he can probably tell that the "chaos rebels" described in this story must be the enemies of all mankind. Otherwise, how could they be exiled and subject to eternal damnation?
In addition...if this door is related to the Chaos Rebels, who is trying to open it, and has this blood sacrifice been successful?
After a series of questions appeared, Zhang Yu's first reaction was not to continue investigating. He was now starting to panic.
If it is true as recorded in the book, then judging from the tragic situation in the Red Dragon Canyon, some people should have succeeded, which means that there is no way to deal with it with the power of him and Xia Yiyi alone.
So Zhang Yu said to the twin brothers: "Quick! Get back! We must report what happened here as soon as possible!"
But the twin brothers turned a deaf ear. They were already standing on the steps under the stone door, their heads raised as if they were looking at something.
Zhang Yu was anxious and immediately rushed forward to try to pull the two of them away.
But when his hand touched these two people, he missed it.
At that moment, Zhang Yu's heart trembled, and the bad premonition had never been so strong.
I tried to catch it again, but it was still empty.
The twin brothers continued to walk upwards. They seemed to be trapped by the stone door, and they had even separated from the real world and turned into a pair of shadows.
"This?! Hey! Can you hear me? Ah! Come back! Come back quickly!" After Zhang Yu tried a few more times, he could only shout helplessly.
However, the twin brothers had already arrived at the door.
They opened their masks, then looked at each other and smiled, and then were grabbed by dozens of arms protruding from the stone door.
Zhang Yu's heart trembled, and his whole body was shocked.
Those dark arms stretched out from the stone door, grabbed the twin brothers' bodies everywhere, and then slowly retracted them. The twin brothers did not struggle at all, and were just held tightly inside the stone door.
The strangeness of this situation has exceeded Zhang Yu's cognition.
Although he knew that there were indeed many supernatural phenomena in the world that could not be explained by existing science, he never expected to be the one to experience them personally.
Retreating subconsciously, Zhang Yu turned around hastily and ran away towards the way he came.
But at some point, there were no exits visible around the stone gate.
The surrounding rock walls seem to have become a cage...
Zhang Yu has no chance to escape...
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Outside the cave, Xia Yiyi, who had been waiting for half an hour, was a little out of breath. She thought that Zhang Yu and the others would come out after a while, but she didn't expect that they disappeared after going down.
There are only two possibilities for this situation.
First, the cave is very deep, but there is not much danger. They are just groping deeper, and it is not yet time to turn back.
Another possibility is that they encountered a monster that was far more powerful than them, and they were wiped out without even a chance to escape.
But judging from the data, the life signals of the three of them are all normal, and they haven't encountered any monsters before.
Wang Kun squatted aside and almost fell asleep.
He originally thought that arriving here would be nothing more than a job of robbing people, and at worst, he would let go and fight with the free people, but he didn't expect that all the free people in the canyon had been wiped out, and now they were actually playing "ancient times"
"Tomb exploration"... This was far beyond Wang Kun's ability, so he could just be a soldier who didn't think about anything and just stay there.
But as soon as he fell asleep, Liu Meng shook him awake.
Wang Kun was startled, immediately stood up, and then raised his weapon alertly.
But the surroundings were very quiet and nothing happened.
After looking at Liu Meng with some displeasure, Wang Kun asked: "What's wrong?"
Liu Meng gestured to Wang Kun and said, "Look over there..."
Wang Kun followed Liu Meng's line of sight and looked into the distance, then froze.
"Eh? Isn't that Boss Jin?"
Xia Yiyi was also stunned. She looked back and saw a person standing in the distance of the canyon. He was waving to everyone in the distance.
Wang Kun was happy: "Oh, the relationship is good. Boss Jin is not in this cave. So what are we waiting for? Let's call the boss out quickly." After saying this, Wang Kun was about to contact Zhang Yu.
But Xia Yiyi frowned and said, "Are you sure you saw Jin Yuan?"
Wang Kun was stunned. He zoomed in on the field of view module again, and then clearly saw Jin Yuan with a smile on his face.
"Yes, who else could he be if he wasn't Boss Jin?"
Xia Yiyi After hearing this, everyone in Kobe took out their weapons and switched to fighting postures.
"Then why don't you ask Liu Meng who he saw?"
Wang Kun was startled, then turned to look at Liu Meng, and then noticed Liu Meng's stunned look.
"Um...what, could it be that what you see is different from me?"
Although Liu Meng was reluctant to admit it, judging from Wang Kun's reaction just now, he was not joking...that meant...the people they saw were not the same.
So what are the facts?
When Liu Meng noticed someone coming this way, he did not notice who the other person was. He was just alert out of instinct.
But when he got up, he found that the man looked familiar.
Taking a closer look, it turned out to be Zhang Yu.
So Liu Meng became suspicious, but he didn't expect that after waking up Wang Kun, what Wang Kun saw was Jin Yuan.
Jin Yuan and Zhang Yu are very different in both body shape and appearance. Even if they don't know each other, it's impossible to confuse them...so the person waving to them must be someone with bad intentions.
In Xia Yiyi's impression, there are only two kinds of things that can have this ability.
The first is a variant that has evolved multiple camouflages. Although this kind of thing is not common on Gaia, it is not too mysterious, and their camouflage is their greatest alienation ability. As long as it is discovered early, it is basically useless.
May cause danger to people.
But the second one is different.
"Law Angel in human form? Tsk! I thought these things had completely disappeared after the Center Veil incident!" The shirtless man behind Xia Yiyi looked enthusiastic. It seemed that he was looking forward to the next battle.
Wang Kun and Liu Meng showed horrified expressions.
"What? Humanoid Law Angel?" Wang Kun's tone changed.
The shirtless man chuckled and asked, "What? Are you scared?"
The corner of Wang Kun's mouth twitched, could he not be afraid?
You must know that it was an existence that once challenged a hundred. In Wang Kun's concept, the humanoid Law Angel is a nightmare-like existence that is much more terrifying than the K-level alien species.
Xia Yiyi glanced at Wang Kun and said, "If you're afraid, just stay here and don't move, we'll handle it." After saying that, Xia Yiyi was the first to rush towards the human-shaped Law Angel.
The men she brought were also unambiguous, and the shirtless man was even faster.
"Hahaha! This thing belongs to me!!" The shirtless man rushed and laughed wildly, as if he was fighting for some treasure.