Mobile Shelter

Chapter 157 Exploring the Mysterious Realm

Since they hadn't left the caravan and had chosen to follow Lu Ziye to the secret realm, most people weren't afraid of facing the unknown after hearing Lu Ziye's suggestion, and someone got off almost every car.

The convoy, which had been slowly circling around the area, sped up and left immediately after these people got out of their vehicles.

After they got out of the car, looking at the small mounds gradually appearing on the ground, everyone knew that even though the battlefield was just ahead, the mutated insects lurking underground seemed endless.

If anyone stays in one place without moving, it won't be long before mutated insects emerge from the ground.

So, right now, just like the information in my mind, apart from the safe zone created by the original will of Earth and the secret realm created by the visitors from other worlds, the rest of the world has indeed been occupied by endless mutants.

After getting out of the car, Dong Qi observed the situation of the other people around him and found that, apart from a few people who got out of the car in civilian clothes, everyone else was fully armed and carrying a lot of weapons.

Most importantly, in addition to the combat drones launched by Dong Qi, there were also several larger drones hovering above them.

Even without careful observation, just a cursory glance reveals that the weapons mounted beneath the drone are not light weapons, but rather specially modified heavy firepower.

Dong Qi simply glanced at them and could roughly guess what they were like based on their attire.

Although the convoy members who got off the bus at this time were all Awakened, there were not many Awakened with strong combat abilities.

Even after the other awakened individuals disembarked, they still relied on firearms for combat because they lacked practical combat abilities.

However, as everyone's physical abilities improved after becoming Awakened, even though firearms were the primary means of combat, each person still carried melee weapons for self-defense.

The cold weapons chosen by the group were not the swords used by the main and supporting characters in movies and TV dramas.

To be honest, while swords may look cool, for most people who don't know swordsmanship, a long saber is more practical.

However, because everyone was physically strong, and because when the long sword was forged, the enemy it was designed to target was not the mutated insects that have appeared now, but those mutated marine creatures.

Therefore, when they order custom knives, they mostly choose the thickened and longer type of horse-chopping knife.

Using this thing doesn't require any superb swordsmanship. As long as you have enough strength, even an ordinary person can chop off a horse's head with a single blow, even if they only use the simplest "Splitting Mount Hua" technique.

This is also the origin of the name "Zhanmadao" (literally "horse-slaying sword").

Compared to the number of weapons carried by others, Dong Qi did not carry any melee weapons.

It wasn't that Dong Qi didn't want to; it was just that he hadn't anticipated encountering this situation, so he hadn't specifically collected or ordered any cold weapons.

However, for Dong Qi, obtaining top-tier cold weapons might be difficult, but if he only wanted to obtain practical cold weapons, he could directly use the Hundred Refinement Furnace to forge them.

Although Dong Qi is currently using the Hundred Refinement Furnace as a raw material for refining metal alloys, it should be noted that the Hundred Refinement Furnace's primary function is as a weapon forging furnace.

Although Dong Qi did not know the art of weapon forging, he could still easily create a suitable weapon shape using the Hundred Refinement Furnace.

In addition, there are the metal alloys stored on the vehicle. As long as Dong Qi uses high-grade metal alloys for forging, even if the forging technique is relatively rough, it will be fine.

However, because of the high-quality materials used, even if they couldn't forge divine weapons, they could easily make several durable weapons.

After getting out of the car, the other members of the team, like Dong Qi, first looked around at the others.

The convoy members, dressed in simple clothes, did not become nervous when they saw the various weapons carried by the other convoy members; instead, they became somewhat arrogant.

In just a few seconds, the team members split into two camps in perfect unison.

Seeing this situation, Lu Ziye, the team leader, sighed helplessly. In order to break the awkward atmosphere, he immediately started to arrange the next tactics: "Right now, we are all relatively unfamiliar with the fighting styles of other people."

Furthermore, this battle was to find a suitable place to stop and rest, not to hone their skills in combat.

Therefore, during the battle, everyone will temporarily separate and each be responsible for clearing a portion of the area.

Of course, if your own combat skills are not strong, you can also form teams with each other.

Our goal is to eliminate the mutated insects that appear around us, as well as the humanoid creatures that come out of the secret realm buildings, while ensuring our own safety.

The situation is quite urgent, so I won't say any more. Everyone, please proceed with your own actions.

There was no time for Lu Ziye to give a long speech, so when Lu Ziye explained the battle plan, he was not only concise and to the point, but also very quick.

However, in the short time it took Lu Ziye to say those few words, several mutated insects broke out of the ground and attacked in the direction where everyone was.

Fortunately, there were several vines protecting them around. Before the mutated insects could get close, the vines moving on the ground quickly and efficiently eliminated those mutated insects that tried to approach them.

Perhaps because of the lesson learned from Old Li, although everyone had full confidence in their abilities, when it came to the start of the battle, everyone became extremely vigilant.

Under Lu Ziye's arrangement, everyone dispersed and advanced simultaneously in a long, single-line formation.

As the group drew closer, the mutated insects that had initially offered no resistance to the earthen-yellow figure suddenly went berserk, as if they had activated a bloodthirsty rampage in a game.

With bloodshot eyes, ignoring the tan figures attacking them from behind, he charged madly toward the convoy members.

It would be a lie to say that you weren't nervous at all in this situation.

But the group was not frightened by the mutated insect's current frenzied behavior.

Before the mutated insects could even get close, Dong Qi's heavy machine gun, along with the other people's weapons, opened fire.

Although Dong Qi was holding a heavy machine gun with one hand, he actually chose to fire in bursts, unlike in movies and TV shows where he would just hold down the trigger and fire indiscriminately.

The others who were armed also basically chose a similar fighting style to Dong Qi, all of them using burst fire.

After all, everyone had already seen the situation in the city through drones.

Therefore, everyone now understands that firearms and bullets are becoming increasingly scarce at this time.

While it's not entirely impossible to supplement it, the cost would be unknown.

Therefore, at this time, we should conserve weapons and ammunition as much as possible.

The mutated insects that were wandering around here had already been killed by the earthen-yellow figure, and then Old Li's ultimate move cleared out most of them.

So even though there are still a continuous stream of mutated insects emerging from the ground, the number of mutated insects still alive on the ground is really not that many.

Furthermore, even though everyone had intentionally reduced the rate of fire, the efficiency of firearms in reaping life forms still far exceeded that of various melee weapons.

So before those mutated insects could even get close to the crowd, they were almost all wiped out by the guns in the hands of the convoy members.

If it weren't for the continuous emergence of mutated insects replenishing the area, Dong Qi and his fellow gunmen would have already wiped out the surrounding mutated insects with their weapons.

Before Dong Qi and his group could even rejoice, the earthen-yellow figures emerging from the secret realm building shifted their attack targets from the mutated insects to the convoy members as they drew closer.

The round shield that they had used as a frisbee to hit Old Li had somehow returned to their hands.

Before Lu Ziye could speak, Dong Qi's heavy machine gun had already opened fire.

Before the khaki-colored figure could even get close, countless bullets had already struck the opponent one after another.

Even if he was shot twice in the chest and once in the head, even a god would shake his head at the sight.

However, when faced with the bullets fired from Dong Qi's heavy machine gun, it is unclear whether they were simply unable to react or overconfident in their own defensive capabilities, as they did not attempt to dodge or resist at all.

Even when the bullets fired from the heavy machine gun are only in bursts, their power is not diminished in the slightest.

But when it hits the opponent, it's like shooting into the yellow sand of the desert.

Although it can create a huge hole in the opponent when it hits, the hole will gradually heal and disappear after a short time.

Upon seeing this scene, everyone immediately understood that although these earthen-yellow figures had an almost human-like appearance, the reality was that these things were not only not human, but perhaps not even living beings.

Since the guns in the hands of the crowd had no effect on him, the other awakened individuals used their awakened abilities to attack him.

Just when everyone thought that the vines that were crawling on the ground would still be the first to attack.

Suddenly, someone shouted in a panicked tone, "Those guys in front aren't alive at all! They didn't show any hostility when they attacked, and my vines couldn't lock onto their targets at all!"

Just from that slightly flustered remark, Dong Qi didn't know what others thought, but he learned from the other party that the vines on the ground locked onto their targets in two ways: one was a living being, and the other was killing intent.

However, these two locking methods are basically only produced by living beings, so although they are called two methods of enemy detection, they are actually the same in essence.

Just as that person spoke, before anyone else could react, the awakened one with a spatial ability said directly, "Don't get entangled with those guys, our goal is the secret realm."

He then tore open a spatial passage once again in front of everyone.

However, compared to the previous ultra-long-distance spatial passage, this time the other end of the spatial passage is right in front of that building within the secret realm.

It was at this moment that Dong Qi saw the entire spatial passage. In addition to the spatial passage entrance next to them, there was also a spatial passage exit in front of that building.

After everyone steps into the spatial passage, they will immediately appear on the other side.

Although Dong Qi felt it would be better to proceed step by step, first dealing with the things coming out of the building, and then getting closer to that building.

Seeing that the others had already entered the spatial passage and left, Dong Qi decided not to linger there any longer.

After all, at this time, it's not a good thing to be separated from the main force.

However, when everyone approached the building through the spatial passage, no one expected that the scene before them would change in an instant.

From the perspective of the high-altitude drone, as the group approached the building in the secret realm, they all simultaneously entered the building through its gate.

When Dong Qi finally realized what was happening, he found himself in a cage without even knowing when he had entered.

Looking around, he found that the other team members were all like him, each in their own separate cage.

Once everyone had regained their senses and calmly observed their surroundings, they realized their predicament.

At this moment, Dong Qi watched the others' excited actions, but he didn't hear a sound. Their gesticulating behavior gave Dong Qi the feeling of watching a silent film.

After venting their frustrations, the others also noticed the strange situation and then some of them tried to communicate with each other through gestures.

However, only two people in the convoy had a basic understanding of sign language. The others watched as the two people frantically changed various hand gestures, like waving their hands in a flowery manner, and for a moment, no one knew what to say.

At this moment, someone, as if venting their anger, picked up a cold weapon and began hacking at the fence in front of them.

He had only intended to vent his emotions, but he froze instantly after the cold weapon struck the fence.

Although the others couldn't hear the sound of the weapons clashing against the fence, the man's bold and unrestrained actions still attracted their attention.

Before anyone else could even start to think, the man froze for a moment, then began frantically hacking at the fence in front of him with his weapon.

In just a few minutes, the fence in front of that person had been smashed to pieces.

Upon seeing the gap in the fence, the person first cautiously looked around to make sure there were no other dangers before carefully stepping out of the gap.

But as soon as he left the cage, he stood there stunned again.

Just as everyone was wondering what had happened to the other party this time.

The man's face lit up with joy, but before he could speak, he vanished from everyone's sight.

Upon seeing this somewhat strange situation, some people who had initially intended to imitate the man's actions of breaking the cage immediately stopped.

At this moment, Dong Qi also calmed down from the scene just now. However, after calming down, Dong Qi found that his physical strength was inexplicably gradually being lost.

Although this loss occurs very slowly, it is difficult for most people to notice.

But don't forget that when Dong Qi strengthened his body, it was a comprehensive and thorough strengthening process, which also improved Dong Qi's control over himself.

At this moment, Dong Qi seemed to have mastered the ability of internal vision. He could not only understand his own physical condition in detail, but also know exactly what changes occurred in his body.

After realizing that his physical strength was constantly being depleted, Dong Qi roughly guessed the rules of this secret realm.

However, before Dong Qi could make a move, others in the convoy couldn't resist taking the initiative.

Unfortunately, before he could break through the fence in front of him, a burly figure appeared outside the fence without his noticing.

Just as the man broke through the fence in front of him, before a look of joy could even appear on his face...

A gigantic hand pierced through the gap he had just created in the fence and pulled him directly out of the cage.

Before he could react, the owner of that hand did not kill the man.

Instead, he simply lifted the person up and, like throwing clothes, waved them around in the air for more than ten minutes.

Only then did they throw the convoy member, who had been completely bewildered, back into the cage where he had previously been held.

As soon as that person entered the cage where he was originally imprisoned, the gap in the fence that he had just created instantly returned to its original state.

Furthermore, Dong Qi had observed carefully that after the fence was restored, its color gradually changed.

Seeing the person lying on the ground, completely exhausted and motionless, Dong Qi instantly realized what was happening.

He then immediately turned his attention to the bars that imprisoned him, while at the same time carefully sensing the changes in his body.

It was only then that Dong Qi realized that as his strength waned, the bars that imprisoned him were actually getting stronger.

If Dong Qi doesn't react and continues to stay here, it's likely that it won't be long before he'll be unable to break through the fence and escape on his own.

Staying in the cage without resisting, although it seems there is no danger in the short term.

However, the longer you stay in the cage, the more energy the fence will absorb, and the more energy you lose, the stronger the fence's defense becomes.

This is a vicious cycle: the longer the time drags on, the lower their chances of breaking through the fence and escaping the cage become, unless they break through the fence in time.

The imposing figure disappeared from everyone's sight without anyone noticing.

Perhaps because of the miserable state of that person, even though the others still had the idea of ​​breaking the fence and escaping, none of them took any action.

At this moment, Dong Qi suddenly got up and walked to the fence, and grabbed the two iron pillars in front of him with both hands.

Although the other cells couldn't hear Dong Qi's voice, his actions still attracted their attention.