In Ping County, Xu Mingyu put down the communicator with an ugly look on his face.
"Communicator... no signal?" His face was very serious.
The communicator they gave Tan Yan was the safest and had the best signal. It could be received wherever the satellite signal was covered. Even with a jammer, it could still receive weak signals. Unless someone was locked up in an underground nuclear bomb-proof building or in the deep sea, the signal would not disappear.
But now not only is there no signal, but the signal disappears after a few seconds of being connected. Why is this
"Aren't they training in a secret base? That's the safest place. What could go wrong there?" Xu Mingyu asked puzzledly.
What Tan Yan and others saw was just the tip of the iceberg of the secret base. The real location of this base was underground, with enough troops to destroy a city. Minister Yu considered it again and again before finding such a safe and suitable place for military training near Ping County.
Minister Yu looked at the "void" fixed by the instrument and suddenly said, "Turn off the quantum force field."
"Minister?" Xu Mingyu didn't believe what he heard at all.
"Just give it a try." Minister Yu said calmly, "If we find that the 'void' continues to spread, we will reopen it."
The soldiers did not question his decision and immediately turned off the quantum force field and stopped the instrument, but the "void" did not continue to spread.
"It's fixed... Why?" Xu Mingyu murmured, "Could it be Tan Yan..."
"Um."
Before Minister Yu finished speaking, the communicator rang. It was Qiao Zhixue.
"Minister, the soldier who was in charge of guarding the 'Poppy Field' during military training suddenly disappeared, and along with him also disappeared three students, Tan Yan, Qin Li and Liang Xian." Qiao Zhixue reported.
"Why is there a 'hole' near the secret base?" Xu Mingyu's face turned pale.
If a "hole" suddenly appears in the base one day, one can imagine how great the loss would be.
Minister Yu's expression became more serious: "Look at the frequency of these 'holes' appearing."
He drew countless dots on the world map. Xu Mingyu leaned over to take a look, his pupils shrinking slightly: "This is..."
"The range where the void appeared is the area on the earth at the same longitude as City B, but now this area is expanding." Minister Yu pointed to the location of the secret base that did not exist on the map.
Although it is very subtle, when all are drawn together it can be seen that the range of the "hole" has changed from a dense line to a wide band.
"If this rate continues..." Xu Mingyu immediately calculated the speed at which the 'holes' would appear, "In 200 years, the earth will become a sieve, with 'holes' everywhere."
"We shouted about the end of the world so many times before, but it was all just empty talk. But now..." Minister Yu pointed his finger at the "void zone" on the map, "The end of the world is not far away from us."
It was so cold, even colder than rolling naked in the snow during training. His eyes felt heavy and his eyelashes seemed to be frozen, sticking his eyelids together and making it impossible for him to open his eyes.
Liang Xian felt so cold that he wanted to raise his hand to rub his arm, but as soon as he moved, the pain of his broken arm woke him up, but he couldn't open his eyes.
The air around him seemed very thin, and he had to open his mouth wide to breathe in oxygen. But it was not enough, his brain had gradually become dull due to lack of oxygen, and he felt so sleepy, it was so comfortable to just sleep for a long time without getting up...
No... Liang Xian struggled desperately. The low temperature and lack of oxygen would make people tired, but he couldn't just fall asleep like this! He moved his fingers slightly, and the razor blade hidden in his sleeve slipped into his palm. Liang Xian clenched his fist with difficulty, and the blade pierced deeply into his palm.
The severe pain made him open his eyes suddenly, and at the same time, sufficient amount of oxygen entered his lungs.
In front of him was Tan Yan's very close face and long eyelashes. He pinched Liang Xian's nose and was using artificial respiration to send oxygen into Liang Xian's lungs.
Liang Xian recovered a lot after getting oxygen. He looked at Tan Yan's face gradually moving away from him in a daze.
When Tan Yan saw Liang Xian's bloody left palm, he sighed almost imperceptibly. He pried open Liang Xian's palm, pulled out the blade that was deeply embedded in his palm, and ran his fingertips across the wound. Liang Xian then felt less painful.
When I looked down, I saw that the blood on my palm had stopped.
After quickly checking Liang Xian's body, Tan Yan performed artificial respiration on Qin Li who was lying next to him and the soldier guarding the "Poplar Field" in the same way.
They were not in military training just now. Tan Yan had just subdued his opponent and was preparing to evacuate quickly...
Liang Xian was thinking absentmindedly and subconsciously looked up at the sky. The sky was pitch black and the surroundings were unbearably cold.
Why is it so cold? The cold air seems to penetrate into the bone marrow like sharp thorns, every piece of skin and flesh is suffering from the pain of needles, and every movement makes the bones feel brittle.
Through skin feeling experience, it was preliminarily determined that the temperature was around -100 degrees Celsius. Such a temperature would not appear at their latitude...
Why is it so cold? If this continues, he will surely fall asleep and never wake up.
Seeing that Tan Yan had given artificial respiration to the other two and they had regained consciousness, Liang Xian moved with difficulty and said to the other three: "We... must... warm up... as soon as possible. Who... has... a fire?"
He spoke incoherently due to difficulty breathing. Why was the air so thin? Where were they
No one brought fire, and even if someone did, the surrounding area was desolate and there was no grass, so it was impossible to start a fire.
"Then... we can only... hug each other... to keep warm, two people... in a group." Liang Xian's eyes fell on Tan Yan.
Tan Yan: “…No need.”
The three of them looked at him with urging eyes. In this environment, they couldn't analyze the situation for the time being. They had to keep warm first, otherwise they would soon freeze to death.
On the other side, Qin Li and the unknown special forces soldier were already hugging each other, and Liang Xian also stretched out his arms to Tan Yan with difficulty.
Tan Yan: "…Really, no need. Do you still feel cold now?"
The special forces soldier immediately pushed Qin Li away. He felt it for a while and said in surprise, "Huh? It's not cold anymore, and the oxygen content seems to have increased a bit. What kind of place is this? Why is the environment changing so strangely?"
"It's not a change in the environment." Liang Xian stood up and took a few steps. He suddenly stopped two meters away from Tan Yan. He reached out and touched it, and touched a layer of membrane that was invisible to the naked eye. "What is this? Is it similar to... the protective shield in the novel?"
Qin Li and the special forces immediately looked around, and the three of them soon discovered that there was this transparent membrane in the space within a radius of two meters with Tan Yan's position as the center.
"Do you really have super powers?" Liang Xian felt that all his years of learning materialism were in vain.
"How is it possible?" Tan Yan didn't believe in the existence of superpowers even more than he did. "This should be a special phenomenon in another world. Ordinary people will become stronger when they go to another world. It's probably the survival of the fittest. I remember Darwin proposed this theory a long time ago. Is it Darwin?"
Three people: “…”
No, no, that's not how evolution explains it...
But looking at Tan Yan's expression... Never mind, he never had any expression on his face, but he seldom lied. Did Tan Yan really think that this protective shield centered on him was formed naturally
Liang Xian decided to give up the pursuit of super powers for the time being and asked, "Maybe I heard it wrong. What did you just say? Another world?"
"I know this," the nameless special forces soldier raised his hand, "When it happened, you two had your backs to the sudden phenomenon, so you didn't see it, but I saw it clearly. Behind you suddenly appeared... Sorry, I can only use the word 'black hole' to describe it. A black hole appeared and continued to expand. It only took a few seconds for the two of you to be sucked in. This classmate Tan Yan grabbed Liang Xian's hand before he was sucked in, and at that time, I was grabbed by Tan Yan, so the four of us were sucked in."
Liang Xian, Qin Li: "..."
It's a very dramatic change, the plot twist is like a novel.
Liang Xian quickly accepted this reality. After all, this place didn't look like the world he was familiar with. His training allowed Liang Xian to remain calm. He first grabbed the soil on the ground and tasted it.
"According to my body feeling, the temperature is around 100 degrees Celsius, the oxygen content in the air is less than 10% or even lower, and the soil is sandy, similar to the composition of sand on Earth." Liang Xian analyzed, "Although it is difficult, as long as we work hard, we can still survive. Let's go find out if there are any survivors nearby and determine what the intelligent creatures here look like."
"But we can only maintain basic physiological functions in the protective shield now. How can we explore?" asked the unknown special forces soldier.
"You'll have to ask him about this." Liang Xian looked at Tan Yan, "You have a secret. Can I know what it is now?"
"The black hole behind you is called a 'void', which connects the Earth to other worlds or spaces," Tan Yan repeated to the three people what he had memorized in the Technical Security Department. "Currently, human exploration of the 'void' is only in its early stages, and we don't understand why this phenomenon occurs. We only know that the 'void' usually appears between 21:00 and 0:00 at night, and will spread infinitely after it appears. All people and things within the range of the 'void' will be drawn in, but... according to analysis, if someone has entered a 'void' and returned safely, then the next time he is drawn into the 'void', the spread of the 'void' will stop, and if he can find an exit and successfully return to Earth, the 'void' he entered will disappear."
"Have you ever entered the 'void' and returned?" Liang Xian reacted immediately.
"Yeah." Tan Yan answered simply.
"You look so calm. You must have come in here many times, right?"
This issue is a top state secret, especially Tan Yan's age. Immortality is a crazy thing in itself. If it is leaked, the consequences will be unimaginable.
"I've been there a few times." Due to the confidentiality policy, Tan Yan could only give a vague answer.
"After entering here, has your physical fitness become stronger than that of ordinary people?" Liang Xian asked.
“Probably… right…” Staying 18 years old, maybe I’m better than others.
"Then we can't continue to stay in Tan Yan's protective shield," Liang Xian said seriously, "If we keep being protected, we will only become useless."