Dream Travel

Chapter 252: Colleagues are enemies

Not long after Bai Mu left the base, someone found this place. They tried to break through the main gate but failed, so they tried to find an entrance from another place.

Sure enough, they found a gap; judging from the marks, it had only been opened recently.

This did not give the exploration team any reason to be complacent; on the contrary, it made them realize that things were not going well. After they quickly entered the area, they found the base's main control computer and saw that only the logbook records remained. Their hearts sank.

If it were them doing this, they wouldn't even keep a logbook.

They would only clean up the data here after obtaining the relevant research materials, and then jokingly discuss the feelings of those who came after them.

But after this happened to them, they were in a terrible mood.

"Sigh, let's go look elsewhere, maybe we can find some other information."

The exploration team was in a difficult situation, but they did not give up and tried to find other electronic devices to scavenge some useful information from them.

The white curtain left without lingering and immediately went to the next location. It spotted familiar faces through scanning, but they were stopped at the entrance of another base.

However, they planned to repeat their old tricks. Instead of disturbing the busy exploration teams, White Curtain moved on to another area.

To his surprise, the base had been breached, and it appeared that someone had entered directly through the main gate, suggesting that the access control at the main gate was still functioning.

"..." Bai Mu followed them inside and was attacked.

It wasn't an attack by the exploration team, but by automated defense weapons within the base.

This base is better preserved and appears to have ample energy reserves, making its defenses stronger, even fully operational.

The box blocked the incoming barrage of fire, and the bullets struck the weapon box with a loud clanging sound.

After blocking these attacks, Bai Mu retaliated. Ling Shu, which switched to shotgun mode, had a larger attack range, and the defensive weapons were covered inside and quickly cleared away.

Feeling the power of these automated defense weapons, Bai Mu felt that he was being targeted.

Or rather, everyone who entered the base afterward was targeted.

Those who entered first must have reset the defense mechanisms here.

He fought his way all the way to the main control computer area of ​​the base, and the result did not disappoint.

The White Curtain was already quite generous by only deleting some data, but the people here destroyed everything that could be destroyed.

"Fine... everyone's a villain."

Bai Mu clicked his tongue and left the base. Sure enough, in this kind of environment, it was impossible to expect others to be good people.

Everyone came with a mission, and their respective roles were not clearly defined. Unless they cooperated from the beginning, who would leave a lot of good stuff for later visitors in the area they were exploring?
This is not a tacit understanding between seniors and juniors, but rather fierce competition between different companies.

White Curtain decided to go to the upper levels to take a look. The things produced in the upper areas are obviously more important. As for the problem of not being able to gather all the data for the war machines...

Let Nightow Corporation handle that. Since they're in the mining business, they probably won't be too interested in weapons like that... just kidding.

"Wow, it's so tall." Bai Mu looked at the huge pillar in front of him. There was an elevator on the pillar, but it was broken.

I don't know if it was done by another exploration team or because it had been in disrepair for years.

However, the elevator is completely out of place with this pillar of the city, like an ancient ladder mounted on a modern high-rise building.

Everyone knows what this ladder is for, but it looks really strange.

Do you need something like this to go upstairs? Just take the stairs, or use the elevator if you get tired.

"It must be due to years of disrepair, right?" Bai Mu tugged at the steel cable of the elevator. Although the elevator was broken, the steel cable was still very sturdy.

This thing is enough to get him up there.

As for the other entrances to the pillar, he couldn't find them. If the people who built the elevator had other ways to get up, then there was no need to build this extra thing.

"Should we take this opportunity to make a move?" Cortes' teammates suggested, looking at the white curtain of the tower.

After their last test, they hid behind the white curtain, but they didn't neglect to keep a close watch on this guy.

Considering that the other party, Zhang, was hungry, was the 'Demon Queen,' they did not get too close to the White Curtain.

They even used some methods to counter mental probing.

Since Bai Mu seems to have mastered some of the Banshee Queen's powers, it's possible that she might use methods like mental probing.

Getting too close would easily expose him, so Ryder's probing was a pleasant surprise; the other party turned out to be a superhuman possessed by a demon.

Facing Ryder is like fighting against a real demon, not just those from the demon factory or the offspring of humans and demons, but the genuine demon.

However, Ryder was still killed by the White Curtain.

This also gave Cortes new information about the White Curtain: this guy really wasn't hiding in the Otherworld. Thinking he was weak would be a huge mistake.

More importantly, White Curtain doesn't rely on the 'Banshee Queen' much.

Judging from the traces, Bai Mu did indeed summon certain creatures through the power of the Banshee Queen, but he did not use that power during the battle.

"Let's finish this commission first, then we need to find someone." Cortes looked away. Since the White Curtain couldn't be taken down immediately, there was no need to act right away.

The intelligence we've gathered is already very useful.

"Captain, who is that person...?" someone asked curiously.

"artisan."

"..." The team member who asked the question was speechless. How could anyone know who a craftsman was? He didn't continue asking. Cortes had already answered, and asking again would be tactless.

The fact that they didn't have to cause trouble for Bai Mu was a relief. Bai Mu was able to kill a pure-blooded demon with his own power without using the power of the Banshee Queen.

Even if they fought together, they could win, but it would be a Pyrrhic victory.

Moreover, the White Curtain had been searching for their whereabouts, so its purpose was self-evident.

The white curtain followed the city's pillars to the upper city.

"Phew~ There seem to be even fewer people on this floor."

Bai Mu looked at the marked areas on the map recorder. There were relatively few marked points here, so he scanned the area with the scope.

Four exploration teams were discovered, and two of them directly discovered the white curtain.

"Who is that guy?" In one of the exploration teams, someone looked through binoculars at the white screen: "There's only one person."

"Give him a warning," the exploration team leader said. Bai Mu used his mental scan to sweep over them. It might have been unintentional, but for those with perception, it was too much of a commotion, almost like a provocation.

Even if it's unintentional, they should still give a proper 'response'.

"Okay." The female explorer in the team took off the weapon she was carrying.

It was a sniper rifle, a weapon from another dream world.

Unlike living things, inanimate objects can escape the effects of dream erosion as long as they can successfully bring out the strange dream.

In the future, when distinguishing different dreams, as long as they are not lost, you can freely bring them back.

boom--

A bullet hit the area next to where Bai Mu was standing, creating a crater in the concrete.

That's the warning.

"Sigh~" Bai Mu waved to the exploration team that fired the shot and left. He was just scouting, and if he encountered people who discovered his scouting, then there was really nothing he could do.

The team's response was direct and their meaning was very clear: don't let him look at things randomly.

The other team responded more simply: they extended an invitation to the white curtain.

Bai Mu planned to go and take a look.

“You’re being very rude,” said the exploration team leader who had invited Bai Mu over. She had a scar on her face that looked like it had been scratched by some kind of creature.

Her team consisted of four people, and they had set up camp here.

“Then I’ll apologize in advance.” Bai Mu sat down. “I’m not good at this kind of investigation; I only use tools.”

"Of course I know it's a tool, otherwise I wouldn't have invited you here."

The female exploration team leader said that Bai Mu's mental probing was too rigid. If she really was a mental ability user, she wouldn't have been exposed so easily.

“My name is Talic,” the exploration team leader said.

"My name is Bai Mu. Did you invite me here to discuss a collaboration?"

“Cooperation? No, we have better goals, we don’t need cooperation.” Talic said very bluntly, “I’m just curious about what kind of person you are when you act alone.”

This dead city is not safe. Although there are not many dangers on this level, actively searching for those sealed-off war facilities will still lead to many perils.

As for those bases that weren't sealed off, they were completely looted long ago.

"That's not important, is it? After all, I'm just a person." Bai Mu wanted to appear as harmless as possible.

"Heh, it's only more dangerous for someone to be alone," Talic sneered.

"There's nothing I can do. For many reasons, I don't have a companion," Bai Mu said helplessly. He could be a necromancer, though.

But this was his little secret. Maintaining the illusion wasn't without its costs. Although he recovered quickly, it couldn't last long.

Unless the area is rich in resources, allowing Lucyella, who was summoned, to eat first.

But what is there in this world? And she can't bite into those metals.

“Go over there and keep walking, you’ll find other living people,” Talic pointed in a direction.

"A living person? A local?" Bai Mu looked surprised. Was this the real reason that Talich had invited him over?

"Correct."

"Then why don't you go?"

“The facility we’re eyeing has competitors, so we can’t do without it,” Talic gave a reason, which was somewhat perfunctory, but Bai Mu decided to take a look.

"Okay, I'll go take a look."

Bai Mu stood up and headed in the direction Talich was pointing.

"Can we trust the captain?" A young man in the group asked hesitantly. Talic was very authoritative in the group, so no one said anything when she was talking to Bai Mu.

“I don’t know, but he has residual demonic energy and a ‘holy seal’ on him.” Talic looked thoughtful.

The demonic aura lingers, indicating that the White Curtain had recently come into contact with a demon.

(End of this chapter)