Mysterious Resurrection: What If

Chapter 271 The Future (2)

On the mountaintop outside Okawa City, the wind whispered softly.

A cluster of silver-gray tents had been erected on the mountainside, housing a temporary command center. Several portable satellite dishes were pointed towards the center of the basin, capturing images of the entire city.

Several team leaders stood side by side, looking down.

At this moment, under the impact of several supernatural events that would surely lead to certain death, Da Chuan City became very strange, as if it had completely disappeared from the map, but saying that it disappeared was not entirely accurate.

This city appears and disappears intermittently, requiring someone to keep an eye on it constantly, otherwise, one might easily forget that Da Chuan City even exists.

"Let's go."

Wang Xiaoming spoke first, his voice calm, "The matter has come to a temporary end, but there are more follow-up problems than we imagined. We need to discuss a solution."

The group followed him into the command tent.

After leaving 301, Meng Xiaodong disappeared, and no one knows what Zhang Dong wrote in his diary.

But she had already left the area of ​​Dachuan City, and the diary's properties began to take effect. Wang Xiaoming guessed that Meng Xiaodong must have gone to the near future, and he only needed to wait quietly to find her again.

They have more important things to do now. Zhang Xianguang has been staying on the fourth basement floor of the headquarters where the three ghosts are imprisoned, but there has been no news of him yet. It seems that he has encountered Qin Lao's obstruction.

Inside the makeshift tent, a worn-out CD sat on a table, and a group of staff members were scanning it with instruments.

"Professor Wang!"

A staff member in his early twenties ran in.

"The results are in, but we still can't confirm if it's a paranormal item. The disc was manufactured using a process from a factory called Leica. They've already contacted us, and the disc was likely produced within the last few months, but..."

"They checked the production line records for the past year but couldn't find the production batch number for this disc, meaning it's an impossible item..."

Ye Zhen stood aside and asked, "Is it possible that it was copied by some small workshop?"

"impossible."

The staff member immediately explained, "The Leica factory is a world-class super-enterprise. Don't underestimate the small size of this disc; the production technology required is something that even they cannot accomplish on their own. Even if it breaks in two, it can still play the contents."

"An item that doesn't exist in this world?... "

Yang Jian suddenly thought of the world where the black fire was generated, a world filled with countless timelines, and a certain possibility surfaced in his mind.

If he could bring something out of those timelines…

"Yes, Captain Yang, you could say that. But this disc is indeed something that only the Leica factory could manufacture. We've already asked them to review the production line for the past ten years, but we won't get the results until tomorrow."

At that moment, several people carried in a set of electronic equipment.

Wang Xiaoming casually found a seat and sat down.

"Play it."

"Play it?"

The staff member was startled and quickly advised, "Professor Wang, the origin of this substance is still unclear. If it's used carelessly... I'm afraid..."

"What are you afraid of?"

Zhao Lei grabbed the disc and inserted it into the playback device.

Yang Jian saw this but did not stop it. Even if there was something unusual about the disc, there were so many captains present. If they couldn't even handle a supernatural object, they might as well commit suicide.

The screen flickered, and snowflakes appeared densely.

"Let me do it." Wang Xiaoming walked over and started adjusting the playback device.

After a short while, the noise began to gradually disappear, and the screen lit up. The video began to play.

...

On the other side, in Okawa City.

The timeline is no longer consistent here.

In the chaotic outer area, this was the street Li Jun had just led his men through when they retreated. A faint, damp mist, tinged with a dark green, lingered on the road, slowly dissipating. This was the remnant of Li Jun's presence, gradually fading away over time.

There were no buildings on either side of the road, and it was a chaotic mess at first glance. Scenes of what had happened in Dachuan City flashed by quickly.

Suddenly, several figures appeared on the road.

Without warning, it was as if it had barged in from some unknown point in time.

"Success!"

A young man exclaimed excitedly, "The forgotten history is real! We've really found this place!"

"Calm down, Deng Jiang. According to the intelligence files, the mortality rate here is as high as 90%. You could die here if you're not careful."

The speaker was a woman, but her figure was extremely strange, with a swollen head that was severely disproportionately large on top of her slender body.

The entire head was swollen to an abnormally large size, as if it had been soaked in corpse water for too long.

There were three people in total, and their clothes and appearance were very similar and strange.

He was dressed entirely in a black bodysuit, with a long black coat over it, and an icon embroidered in gold thread on his right arm.

—Two clusters of olive branches surround a star-shaped logo, below which is the English abbreviation 【GAM】.

The leader had a cold expression, with several cracks on his face like shattered glass.

I raised my wrist, and there was a transparent watch on it, with a stream of information constantly scrolling through it.

"We've lost contact and can't receive any information from the outside world. From now on, we'll have to rely entirely on ourselves."

The young man named Deng Jiang shrugged indifferently.

"Captain, we've been at odds with those FBI agents anyway, so it's good to shake them off."

"Let's go, the stability here won't last long."

The man in the lead surveyed his surroundings.

"We must go to the place described in the historical records and find clues about Yang Yuan. We absolutely cannot let her take that eye to the right time. The Tiangong Project cannot afford any deviations."

As he spoke, the man led the two men forward, toward the direction of 301. They moved quickly, and the man seemed to sense that the surrounding medium was dissipating, and he wanted to rush across before the road could still barely exist.

"Li Ya! Keep an eye on your surroundings! Tell me immediately if anything seems amiss!"

The woman, whose head was swollen, nodded heavily and immediately became alert, her swollen eyes scanning the chaotic scene on both sides of the road.

Led by the man, their speed began to change strangely. The road beneath their feet seemed to be compressed, and what was originally a long distance was shortened to a few dozen meters.

"It's very close...we can already see it..."

With his eyes fixed ahead, he vaguely saw a door.

Suddenly, a faint stench of decay wafted through the air, and something eerie happened.

It was a memory that didn't belong to them—bizarre and strange. It was forcibly inserted into the minds of the three of them.

In my memory, they seemed to have been here before, running on this road just like today.

But in my memory, the city had not yet fallen. The sun was shining brightly, traffic was heavy, and there were many passersby playing in the nearby square.

The only difference was that there was one more person among them—a corpse in uniform, running alongside them.

It looked as if it had been dead for too long; the body was completely stiff, and the joints could not bend at all. However, its two feet kept lifting and falling, making a terrifying clattering sound on the floor.

It swayed precariously, as if it might collapse at any moment, yet it closely followed the steps of the three.

"Zhang Wu is gone! Something's wrong!"

Li Ya cried out in alarm.

suddenly.

The man in the lead looked in that direction, and there, beside the once deserted street, a corpse was running frantically toward them!
(End of this chapter)