This Electronic Curtain has extremely strong soundproofing effects, and there is also a layer of strong magnetic field outside, which can not only isolate the exploration of foreign satellites in space, but also prevent the magnetic field changes in the Electronic Curtain from causing uncontrollable effects on the outside world.
The timer counting down made a clicking sound, becoming the only sound here.
Everyone held their breath, waiting for the return of their comrades.
Ten minutes later, the countdown timer made its final sound.
The next second, a team member wearing a fifteen-meter-high Mecha jumped out of the rotating black vortex with a whoosh.
Outside the iron-black Mecha, there was a faint layer of dark light, which looked different from ordinary conventional Mechas.
The team member stood still in mid-air and immediately activated all the weapons and equipment on the Mecha, entering a state of full alert.
The automatic machine guns and sniper rifles mounted on the Mecha's arms were all activated in aiming mode.
He flew near the vortex in mid-air, vigilantly looking around, obviously on guard for the people behind him.
Soon, one after another tall Mecha flew out of the vortex.
They didn't just find a place to hide, but stood beside the vortex, waiting for their teammates to come out.
After the ninth team member came out, no more Mecha warriors came out of the vortex.
The nine team members waited for a full ten minutes until the black vortex disappeared in front of them, and then they shouted one by one.
"Team Leader Meng! Where's Team Leader Meng?!"
"Why did the Wormhole disappear?!"
"Team Leader Meng didn't come back?!"
At this time, they had determined their coordinates and knew that they had returned to their destination according to the original plan.
So they weren't so nervous.
But their weapons were still on alert until the local person in charge fired three red flares in their direction as agreed.
They then put away their weapons.
Then, military vehicles drove over and stopped at the foot of the mountain.
In mid-air, nine towering Mecha warriors slowly descended.
The fifteen-meter-high Mecha giants stood on the grass, like nine mountains.
The hatches on the chests of the tall Mechas opened, and elite Special Security Bureau team members carrying special bags jumped out one by one.
They were all Rank S or higher Gene Evolvers, so this height was nothing to them.
At this moment, the person in charge of this base had already stepped out of the military vehicle and saluted them, saying, "Ge Jiang'an, the general commander of the Special Security Bureau's Beichen Star Southern Hemisphere, welcomes everyone back."
Then he looked at their numbers and frowned, "When you left, there were fifty of you, but now only nine have returned. Where are the other forty-one?"
The team member standing at the front saluted and said, "Hong Group 01 Team of the Special Security Bureau reports! Hong Group 01 Team dispatched fifty people this time, forty members died in action, one is missing, and nine have returned."
As he spoke, he handed the identity badges of the sacrificed team members to Ge Jiang'an.
Ge Jiang'an frowned even tighter: "...The attrition rate is too high. Where's your team leader? Why isn't he standing up to speak?"
The nine team members lowered their heads in unison.
The person standing at the front still said, "...He's the one who's missing."
"Missing? He stayed there and didn't come back?" Ge Jiang'an didn't understand.
The team member said, "Reporting to the general commander, Team Leader Meng was supposed to leave with us. He stayed behind to cover us, and we thought he would make it in time..."
"Stayed behind? Was the situation very urgent at the time?"
The team member said, "The situation there has always been very urgent, but at the last moment, the entire planet was in turmoil. We don't know what happened."
"So Team Leader Meng most likely didn't come back from there?"
The nine team members nodded together.
Ge Jiang'an immediately said, "Then what about the Small Wormhole Opener? Can you locate that side again and bring him over?"
One team member said, "The Small Wormhole Opener is with Team Leader Meng. We don't have it."
Ge Jiang'an frowned, "…In the entire Empire, there are only two Small Wormhole Openers. One is already broken and is being repaired. The only one that works was taken away by you…"
However, he quickly recovered and said optimistically, "Since the Small Wormhole Opener is with Team Leader Meng, he can open it himself, so he should be back soon. You don't need to worry."
The nine team members thought about it and felt it made sense.
After all, that instrument had been repaired and upgraded…
Meng Guanghui's Gene Evolution level was even higher than theirs, so it should be fine, right?
That's what they thought.
But Meng Guanghui's level was too high, and his disappearance still had a significant impact on the Special Security Bureau.
Ge Jiang'an sent the news to Huo Yushen as soon as possible.
Huo Yushen was on his way.
On the same planet, he couldn't let the Bat-style Fighter Jet perform a space jump, so it took him twenty minutes to get from the Northern Hemisphere to the Southern Hemisphere.
When his Bat-style Fighter Jet stopped in the sky above the foot of the mountain, he found that the Electronic Curtain there had not been closed.
Huo Yushen stood up and said to Kang Shanxing, "Go down and take a look."
Kang Shanxing hurriedly contacted Ge Jiang'an on the ground and asked him to open the Electronic Curtain.
Kang Shanxing and he took a Small Combat Aircraft and entered the Electronic Curtain.
As soon as they entered, they saw the nine advanced Mecha still standing on the grass at the foot of the mountain.
Huo Yushen's face turned even colder, "Fifty people went, and only nine came back. Meng Guanghui is getting more and more promising."
But when he stood in front of the nine who had returned, he realized that Meng Guanghui was not among them.
"What happened? Where's your Team Leader Meng?" Kang Shanxing asked first.
The nine team members stood in front of Huo Yushen, unable to bear his gaze.
They lowered their heads and began to speak.
"We all knew in advance that the natural environment there was very bad and dangerous, but we didn't know that there were many monsters related to the Remnant Species, which were very powerful. Even Rank S Mental Strength experts couldn't compete with them."
"Therefore, those team members below Rank S were quickly sacrificed after their Mecha were damaged."
Huo Yushen raised his head and said in surprise, "There are Remnant Species there? What kind?"
The team members recalled and described them to him one by one.
"There is a Black Goat head as high as a mountain, hidden in thick tentacles."
"There are reptiles covered in Scale, hidden in the abyss. The Scale seem to be all eyes."
"There are also large birds with wings covered in Scale, and Brain Mountains that look like brains."
"The most powerful is the silhouette behind a door in the sky. It looks like a human, but it must not be a human!"
…
Everyone spoke at once. When they talked about the door in the sky and the human silhouette behind the door, his pupils suddenly shrank.
But his expression didn't change, and he didn't ask any further questions. Instead, he waited patiently for everyone to finish speaking before calmly asking, "That's it? You can't beat them, so you don't run? You're all old team members. Do I have to teach you such simple things?"
The nine team members who had survived the disaster lowered their heads in shame.
Huo Yushen looked at them with his hands behind his back and said, "Get to the point. Where's your Team Leader Meng?"
The team members looked at each other and asked the previous team member to speak.
The team member had no choice but to repeat, "The situation suddenly deteriorated at that time. Team Leader Meng opened the Wormhole, but he asked us to go first, and he stayed behind. As a result, we all came out, and the Wormhole disappeared, but he didn't appear…"
Huo Yushen quickly asked, "That is to say, the Small Wormhole Opener is still with your Team Leader Meng?"
Fortunately, the situation wasn't particularly bad.
As long as Meng Guanghui still had that instrument, it wouldn't be a big problem.
Meng Guanghui had taken on more dangerous missions than this before, so he shouldn't have failed on this mission.
Just as this thought flashed through his mind, he felt the magnetic field here change.
His perception was even ahead of the instruments.
Five minutes later, Ge Jiang'an excitedly ran over and said, "Inspector Huo! There are signs of a Small Wormhole Opener opening over there again! Team Leader Meng is coming back!"
Huo Yushen didn't say a word, but looked up into the air.
Before long, a dark vortex appeared again, and the black and white intertwined rotation appeared before everyone's eyes.
The nine team members cheered together: "Team Leader Meng! It's Team Leader Meng!"
"Team Leader Meng is coming back!"
Only Huo Yushen noticed a detail.
He asked, "Why is the vortex of the Wormhole pitch black? It used to be silvery white."
The nine team members then remembered that they had forgotten to tell Huo Yushen about their rescue by the Mechanical Intelligence from five hundred years in the future.
But at this time, the dark vortex opened faster and faster, much faster than when they appeared.
Therefore, when they wanted to speak, Huo Yushen raised his hand to stop them.
He stared intently at the vortex, which was black on the outside and silver-white on the inside, like two fish, one black and one white, chasing each other's tails. He vaguely felt that something was wrong.
Soon, the black and white were broken by a red light, as if it were the fire of the creation of the world, or a star falling from the sky. A glittering, fiery red object flew out of the dark vortex with a snap.
It was very small, but its whole body was surrounded by crackling blue-purple electric light, as if a miniature lightning bolt had traveled through the Wormhole and been teleported over.
Kang Shanxing jumped up suddenly, flew into the air, and reached out to grab the thing.
But the thing seemed to suddenly lose all power and fell straight down.
Kang Shanxing changed the direction of his flight again, and finally caught it before it landed.
But as soon as the thing was in his hand, the blue-purple electric light immediately burst out, enveloping Kang Shanxing completely.
Standing on the ground and looking up, they only saw Kang Shanxing become a human-shaped lightning bolt, struggling desperately in mid-air.
Huo Yushen immediately soared into the air and flew towards Kang Shanxing.
He grabbed Kang Shanxing and took the red object from his hand.
The lightning on Kang Shanxing's body disappeared immediately, but his head and face were black, and his clothes were full of holes.
His eyes darkened and he passed out.
Huo Yushen held him in one hand and landed on the ground with the red object in the other.
As soon as the blue-purple electric light of the red object darted out, it was extinguished by Huo Yushen with a slap.
Then, a special knapsack fell out of the dark vortex in mid-air.
Finally, a dark cylindrical object fell out.
This is the second update. There will be a new update at 0:05 tonight.
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