IJWTRQ Chapter 014

Ping County, Xu Mingyu put down the communicator, his face was very ugly.

“The communicator… has no signal?” His face was very grave.

The communicator they gave to Tan Yan is the safest and has the best signal. As long as the satellite signal is covered, it can be received. Even if there is a mask, it can also receive weak signals. Unless someone is locked in an underground anti-nuclear building or in the deep sea, there won’t be a situation where the signal is lost.

But now not only is there no signal, but the signal disappears after being connected for a few seconds. Why is this?

“Isn’t it training at a secret base? That is the safest place, what can happen?” Xu Mingyu asked, puzzled.

What Tan Yan and others saw was only the tip of the iceberg of the secret base. The real location of this base is underground, and it has enough troops to wipe out a city. Only after much consideration did Minister Yu find 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 try it.” Minister Yu said calmly, “If you find that the ‘void’ continues to expand, reopen it.”

The soldiers did not question his decision, and immediately turned off the quantum force field, and the instrument stopped spinning, but the ‘void’ did not continue to expand.

“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 responsible for guarding the ‘poppy field’ during the military training suddenly disappeared, along with him were three students, Tan Yan, Qin Li and Liang Xian.” Qiao Zhixuehui reported.

“Why is there a ‘void’ near the secret base?” Xu Mingyu turned pale.

If a ‘void’ suddenly appears in the base one day, you can imagine how significant the loss will be.

Minister Yu’s expression is even more solemn: “Look at the frequency of these ‘voids’ appearance.”

He drew countless dots on the world map, Xu Mingyu took a look, his pupils shrank: “This is…”

“The range where the void appears is the area on the earth with the same longitude as B City, but now this area is expanding.” Minister Yu clicked on the location of the secret base that didn’t exist on the map.

Although it is very subtle, when drawn together, it can be seen that the area where the ‘void’ appears has changed from a dense line to a wideband.

“At this rate of development…” Xu Mingyu immediately calculated the speed at which the ‘void’ appeared, “200 years, in 200 years the Earth will be like a sieve, with ‘voids’ everywhere.”

“How many times have we shouted the end of the world before, it was just empty talk. But now…” Minister Yu pointed to the ‘void zone’ on the map, “The end of the world is not far from us.”

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It was so cold, even colder than rolling naked in the snow during training, so cold that his eyes were heavy, his eyelashes seemed to be frozen, and his eyelids were stuck together, making it impossible to open them.

Liang Xian was so cold that he wanted to raise his hand and rub his arm, but when he moved, the pain of his broken arm brought him to his senses, but he couldn’t open his eyes.

The air around him seemed to be very thin, he needed to open his mouth wide to inhale oxygen. But it’s not enough, the brain has gradually become sluggish due to lack of oxygen, so sleepy, it’d be so comfortable to sleep for a long time…

No good… Liang Xian struggled desperately, the temperature was too low, and the lack of oxygen will make people tired, but he couldn’t just fall asleep like this! With a slight movement of his fingers, 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 caused him to open his eyes suddenly, and at the same time, a 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 used artificial respiration to send oxygen into Liang Xian’s lungs continuously.

After receiving oxygen, Liang Xian recovered a lot. He watched Tan Yan’s face gradually move away from him in a daze.

Seeing Liang Xian’s bloody left palm, Tan Yan sighed almost invisibly. He pried open Liang Xian’s palm, and pulled out the blade that was deeply embedded in his palm, as his fingertips brushed across the wound, Liang Xian felt less pain.

Looking down, the blood in the palm has stopped.

After quickly checking Liang Xian’s body, Tan Yan then performed artificial respiration on Qin Li, who was lying next to him and the soldiers guarding the ‘Poppy Field’ in the same manner.

Weren’t they in military training just now? Tan Yan happened to subdue his opponent and was about to evacuate quickly…

Liang Xian thought absentmindedly, subconsciously looking up at the sky. The sky was pitch black, but the surroundings were unbelievably cold.

Why is it so cold? The cold air pierced into the bone marrow like sharp thorns, every piece of flesh was suffering from the pain of needles, and every movement felt like the bones becoming brittle.

Through the skin feeling experience, it is preliminarily determined that the temperature is about minus 100°C. Such a temperature will not appear in their latitude…

Why is it so cold, if it continues, he will definitely fall asleep and never wake up again.

Seeing that Tan Yan had given the other two people artificial respiration, and they were a little more awake, Liang Xian moved with difficulty, and said to the other three: “We… must… get warm as soon as possible… who… have… fire… on them?”

Breathing difficulties made his speech intermittent, why was the air so thin, and where the hell were they?

No one brings a fire, even if one does, the surrounding area is desolate, not a single blade of grass grows, and there is no way to start a fire.

“Then… 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.”

All three looked at him with urging eyes, in this kind of environment, they couldn’t do anything to analyze for the time being. They must keep warm first, otherwise, they will freeze to death soon.

On the other side, Qin Li and the unknown special forces were already hugging each other, Liang Xian stretched out his arms to Tan Yan with difficulty.

Tan Yan: “…Really no need, do you still feel cold now?”

The special forces immediately pushed Qin Li away, he felt it, and felt strange: “Huh? It’s not cold anymore, and the oxygen level seems to have increased a little, so what kind of place is this, and why is the environment changing so strangely?”

“Not environmental changes.” Liang Xian stood up, took a few steps, and suddenly stopped two meters away from Tan Yan. He reached out to touch, and came across a layer of film invisible to the naked eye, “What is this? Something like… the protective shield in the novel?”

Qin Li and the special forces immediately turned around, and the three of them quickly discovered that there was a kind of transparent film in the space within a radius of two meters, with Tan Yan’s location as the center.

“Do you really have superpowers?” Liang Xian feels that he has studied materialism for nothing all these years.

“How is it possible?” Tan Yan doesn’t believe in the existence of superpowers even more than him, “This should be a special phenomenon in the other world. Ordinary people will become powerful when they go to the other world. It’s probably the survival of the fittest. I remember Darwin put forward this theory a long time ago. It was Darwin, right?”

Three people: “…”

No, no, that’s not how the theory of evolution is explained…

But look at Tan Yan’s expression… Forget it, he has always been expressionless, but he seldom lies. Does Tan Yan really think that this protective shield centered on him is formed naturally?

Matters have priority, Liang Xian decided to temporarily give up pursuing the matter of superpowers, and asked: “I may have misheard, what were you just said? Otherworld?”

“This, I know.” The unknown Special Forces soldier raises his hand, “When the incident 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 ‘black hole’ to describe that thing. A constantly expanding black hole, it took only a few seconds for the two of you to be swept in. This Tan Yan student grabbed Liang Xian’s hand before he was swept in, and I was still held by Tan Yan at the time, so all four of us were sucked in.”

Liang Xian and Qin Li: “…”

What a very dramatic change, the plot reversal is like a novel.

Liang Xian quickly accepted this reality. After all, this place does not look like the world he is familiar with. Liang Xian has been trained to keep himself calm. First, he grabbed the soil on the ground and tasted it.

“According to the physical sensation, the temperature is around minus 100℃, the oxygen content in the air is less than 10% or even lower, the soil is sandy, similar to the composition of sandy soil on earth.” Liang Xian analyzed, “Although it is very difficult, but as long as you work hard, you can still survive. Let’s first find out if there are any survivors nearby, and determine what kind of intelligent creatures are here.”

“But now we can only maintain basic physiological functions in the protective cover, how do we explore?” The unknown Special Forces soldier raised a question.

“That’s a question for him.” Liang Xian looked at Tan Yan, “You have a secret, can I know what is it now?”

“The black hole that appears behind you is called the ‘void’, which connects the earth to other worlds or spaces,” Tan Yan recounted the content he had memorized in the Ministry of State Security to the three of them, “At present, human exploration of the ‘void’ is only in the initial stage, and it is not clear why this phenomenon occurs. Only know that the ‘void’ will usually appear at 21-0 o’clock at night, and it will spread infinitely after it appears. All people and things within the range of the ‘void’ will be swept in, but… according to the analysis, if someone has entered the ‘void’ and returned safely, then the next time he is swept into the ‘void’, the expansion of the ‘void’ will stop, and if he can find the exit and successfully return to Earth, the ‘void’ he entered will disappear.”

“You have entered the ‘void’ and returned?” Liang Xian immediately reacted.

“Um.” Tan Yan replied simply.

“Seeing your calm appearance, you have been in many times, right?”

This issue is a state-level secret, especially Tan Yan’s age. Immortality is a crazy thing. If it is leaked, the consequences will be unimaginable.

“Been there several times.” When it comes to confidentiality policy, Tan Yan can only answer vaguely.

“After entering here, the physical fitness become stronger than ordinary people?” Liang Xian asked.

“Probably… right…” Stay 18 years old, perhaps stronger than others.

“Then we can’t continue to stay in Tan Yan’s protective cover,” Liang Xian said with a straight face, “Blindly being protected will only make you a waste.”

This chapter is quite short, I’ll post another chapter later.

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