IJWTRQ Chapter 106

“Where’s your body? Where are the hostages?” Liang Xian asked while looking at the rows of containers in front of him.

The world in front of them is completely different from the world they are familiar with, it is a very large room, and all the equipment looks extremely sophisticated, but they have never seen it before. Liang Xian is considered an elite in the military industry, in order to be able to create familiar weapons anytime and anywhere, he studied like crazy and instilled countless professional knowledge in his mind.

But he had never seen such a container before, he touched the outer shell, it was also an alloy he had never touched before.

‘Wei Chenxi’ had an extremely weird expression, she didn’t answer Liang Xian’s questions, but looked at the container in front of her, stretching her neck and trying to look at their faces through the window of the container one by one.

A suspicion rose in both Liang Xian and Tan Yan’s hearts at the same time, Liang Xian said: “Your connection to the main body shouldn’t be cut off, right?”

‘Wei Chenxi’ was silent, she was still looking at the container.

Tan Yan asked: “Can’t you use your consciousness to check the condition of the container? Do you still need to use your eyes to confirm it with difficulty?”

‘Wei Chenxi’: “…”

The two of them came to the conclusion at the same time: “These containers are capable of blocking the power of consciousness, and your main body is locked in the container along with the body you’re using?”

‘Wei Chenxi’: “…”

What was called trying to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it¹偷雞不成蝕把米 tōu jī bù chéng shí bǎ mǐ: lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it; fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off; to go for wool and come back shorn., retribution in this world always comes so quickly.

Liang Xian is very happy: “This kind of metal is good, but it’s a pity I can’t take it back. I’ll analyze the ingredients and go back to see if I can develop it, so that we won’t be afraid of the consciousness entities in the future.”

“Don’t move yet,” Tan Yan grabbed Liang Xian, “The strength of ‘Wei Chenxi’s’ main part itself isn’t weak, it can also be considered as a world-class power, able to predict the location of the ‘void’ in advance, but now is locked in these containers, it means that this world is not simple.”

Liang Xian silently calculated, from the time the ‘void’ stopped spreading to the time they came here, only ten minutes had passed, they were imprisoned in such a short period of time, obviously, the danger level of this world is not low.

“Hurry up and save people!” ‘Wei Chenxi’ suddenly said, “It’s not only my body that was locked in the container, but also the people I brought into the ‘void’ from Yunnan, a total of 154, it’s impossible for the soldiers of your country to let the ordinary people stay in another world, right?”

“You actually only brought 154 people into the ‘void’?” Liang Xian was very surprised, it stands to reason that in order to obtain supernatural beings, the Evil Consciousness should require more people to enter the ‘void’.

“I only brought in people who have the potential to awaken abilities, why should I bring in the rest of the burden?” ‘Wei Chenxi’ replied as a matter of course.

It makes sense, but it always feels like she’s hiding something.

However, ‘Wei Chenxi’ and them are on the opposite side, of course, what she said cannot be taken seriously.

Liang Xian looked at Tan Yan and said in a low voice: “I think this place is very dangerous, we should leave first, and come back to save people after we understand the reason for the end of the world.”

Tan Yan also felt his hair stand on end at his back, he rarely felt this way, this world is really unusual.

However, before they could find the exit, they saw the alarm lights on the ceiling flashing.

A piercing siren sounded——

“Level one alert, level one alert, trespassers in the protected area three, trespassers in the protected area three.”

This alarm kept repeating, the two knew that they would be caught if they stayed any longer, Tan Yan said to Liang Xian: “You destroy the surveillance equipment and weapons system, and I’ll ambush the door.”

After saying that, he threw ‘Wei Chenxi’ on the open space in the middle of the room, and use the protective cover to control her.

“What are you going to do!” ‘Wei Chenxi’ shouted.

Tan Yan tied her up, didn’t let her consciousness escape, and left her there, what was he going to do?

She was lying on the ground, couldn’t see where Tan Yan and Liang Xian had gone, only knew that they might still be in the room.

In less than three minutes, the door of the protected area opened. Tan Yan hid behind the container and saw that the originally seamless door opened a gap and turned into a door, a team of people in white protective clothing ran in, they were fully armed, with helmets on their heads, and transparent weapons in their hands, Tan Yan couldn’t recognize what kind of weapon it was.

When those people saw ‘Wei Chenxi’, they raised the transparent weapons in their hands, and a ray of light from the weapon enveloped the body of ‘Wei Chenxi’, Tan Yan calculated the timing, and retracted the protective cover the moment they switched their weapons, ‘Wei Chenxi’ was controlled by their weapons.

As soon as the light shone on ‘Wei Chenxi’, she stopped shouting and struggling, and stared blankly at the ceiling.

Tan Yan was secretly vigilant in his heart, he absolutely couldn’t be exposed to this kind of weapon.

The team immediately picked ‘Wei Chenxi’ up, opened a transparent container, and locked her in.

One of the leaders turned on the communicator and said: “A protected animal was found and placed in the safety chamber.”

“There are two more,” The voice from the communicator said, “One of them destroys the surveillance equipment of the protected area, I will close the gate, and pump out the air in the protected area, protected animals can’t live without air, they will automatically appear in a minute or two.”

After this sound disappears, the door slowly closes.

Tan Yan thought, not good, can’t let the door close like this. Even if they want to save people, he and Liang Xian can’t be trapped here.

He decided to take a gamble, betting that the protective cover could resist the light of the weapon.

Tan Yan protected his whole body with a protective cover, quickly flew up to the ceiling, and ran backward from the sky towards the door.

His speed was very fast, the team of people found Tan Yan’s existence when they heard the sound, raised their weapons and shot at Tan Yan, but they couldn’t keep up with Tan Yan’s speed at all.

In less than a second, Tan Yan arrived at the door, took a deep breath, and punched the door.

The door didn’t move at all, still closed steadily.

Tan Yan was stunned.

In all his years in the other world, he had never encountered such a situation before. With his strength, a light punch can break the entire wall, but now he can’t even block a door.

The pain in his fist told him that it wasn’t that his strength was weakened, but that his consciousness couldn’t act on the wall.

Their abilities do not enhance the strength of the body, when punching the wall, the strength of the fist remains unchanged, still the physical strength of ordinary people. The reason why the wall will collapse is that the consciousness that wants to destroy the wall acts on it, and the quantum force of the particles condensed in the surrounding environment will break the wall.

But now, only physical strength can be used, not consciousness.

He’s back to being a normal person.

Then, for the same reason, his protective cover shouldn’t be able to resist the light of the weapon.

At this moment, the group of people raised their weapons at the same time and shot at Tan Yan who was standing in front of the door.

In the blink of an eye, a figure jumped forward, hugged Tan Yan and rolled out of the gap in the door, as soon as the two of them went out, the door was closed, and all attacks hit the door.

This does not seem to be a destructive weapon, the light shining on the door didn’t cause any damage to the door.

Seeing that Tan Yan and Liang Xian escaped, the team didn’t rush to chase after them, but turned on the communicator to report: “Report, 2 wild protected animals escaped.”

“They destroyed the surveillance system outside of protection zone three, I can’t find them through the surveillance equipment, check the sealing of the safety chamber. After confirming that the seal is intact, I will release the ‘Mesmerizing Light’ to the entire protected area.” The voice said without emotion.

The leader of the team walked to the wall and pressed somewhere, a button popped out and he pressed it lightly.

Several air tubes are exposed on the ceiling and emit some gas into the safety chamber.

After checking the data in the safety chamber one by one, they said to the communicator: “The safety chamber of the protected area three is well sealed.”

Responses such as ‘The safety chamber of the protected area one is well sealed’ and ‘The safety chamber of the protected area two is well sealed’ came from the communicator, after about five minutes, the voice in the communicator said: “All safety chamber in the protected area are well sealed, now releasing ‘Mesmerizing Light’.”

Meanwhile, Liang Xian and Tan Yan were blindly searching for an exit in the corridor.

The building is white everywhere, and all the passages are identical, the door will appear in the wall from thin air, without any cracks. The building is well sealed, and it’s impossible to find the exit through the wind direction.

“Five minutes at the latest, they’re sure to take action.” Liang Xian looked at his watch and said, “It’s been four minutes now, if they’re using extreme methods, we don’t have a chance. We should get out of here as soon as possible, the consciousness entity has been put into the safety chamber, I don’t think she has a chance to escape, our mission is completed.”

However, there are 154 innocent people who are also locked up in the safety chamber, they used to live in the Yunnan-Guizhou plateau, leading an ordinary and common life, but now they have to suffer this kind of unwarranted disaster.

Tan Yan can’t leave them here, and neither can Liang Xian.

And most importantly, they can’t go back.

In the same world, no matter where the little deer is, they can rush to the little deer at any time through quantum transmission. But for the other world transmission, if they want to return to the real world, they must find the connection point between the two worlds, that is, the location of the tombstone or the location of the little deer. For example, if the little deer is in the Science and Technology Building of Normal University, then they must also go to the same coordinate point in this world as the Science and Technology Building of Normal University or the tombstone of Ping County in order to transmit there.

But in order to find the body of the consciousness entity, they came here through quantum entanglement…

It should be Yunnan, thousands of kilometers away from B City.

The power of consciousness is also sealed, can’t even leave this building.

Don’t talk about saving people, they can’t protect themselves now.

“Without consciousness, why does my protective cover work?” Tan Yan asked.

“It’s not that it can’t be used, but the force field of this building can cover the consciousness.” Liang Xian said, “As long as we don’t touch the facilities in the building, it can still be used.”

Therefore, Tan Yan’s protective cover can be used on himself and ‘Wei Chenxi’, but he can’t use his consciousness to destroy the wall.

“Their technology is far beyond the real world,” Liang Xian’s complexion is not very good, “I’ve tried to analyze the composition of the safety chambers, but our equipment doesn’t work at all. Fortunately, I just found the controller of the surveillance equipment and destroyed the power switch with a dagger to avoid the surveillance.”

But it’s just luck.

When they were at a loss, the alarm light on the wall next to them suddenly flashed——

“Special level alert, special level alert. There are two wild protected animals destroying the surveillance equipment and running around in the protected area, the main system decided to release the ‘Mesmerizing Light’, please check the tightness of the protective clothing to avoid being affected by the ‘Mesmerizing Light’. Repeat, special level alert…”

Tan Yan and Liang Xian looked at each other, their expressions became ugly.

I was agonizing over how best to translate 幻光 huàn guāng, 幻 means fantasy, 光 means light, but somehow, it was translated as ‘Phantom Light’, but since ‘Phantom’ means something like ‘Mirage’ or ‘Ghost’, I don’t think the translation fits, in the end I translate it as ‘Mesmerizing Light’.

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  偷雞不成蝕把米 tōu jī bù chéng shí bǎ mǐ: lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it; fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off; to go for wool and come back shorn.